The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-13
WALL PANS MERRIAM
FOR HIS UNFA|RNESS
BY s. w. WALL
(Secretary Justice to Mountain
| COmmittee.)

COmmittee.)
| (This Is the third install
ment of review of the
statement of g. Hart Mer-
RAM before the U. =. geo.
graphic board May IL" en-
titled "Shall the Name of
Mount Rainier Be Chang
| ed?")
Preparatory to carrying the
campaign for changing the Off
cial name of the mountain to- the
legislature at Olympia a memorial
the first one-was drawn up in
accordance with the sentiments so
we'll expressed by Mr.. Marshall on
the one hand and the Indians here
on the other.
1t cited the inappropriateness of
dedicating the mountain to one
who had fought against us in the
Revolutionary war.
Before 1t came up Tor passage
! went over to Seattle and called
on Scott G.. Bone, editor of the
Post Intelligencer, and urged him
to support it in his newspaper.
He said he had no objection to
doing so-no objection to advo-
eating a change of name for the
mountain nor of the substitution
of an aboriginal name, a Taco
maesque name, but he pointed out
| that, since our campaign was
started, the war in Europe had de-
veloped to such a tragic stage |;
| that those countries engaged in
the awful struggle were now be-
come supersensitive-o we had
a right to expect them to be
and he deprecated anything in the
nature of a reflection upon the
English admiralty. He believed
this reference in the memorial
was not necessary to secure its
passage. At any rate If we left it
out he would advocate it, he said.
Passes House.
| ! told him to prepare draft of
such a memorial as he could sup
port intellectually. He did so
and it was a part of the editorial
which appeared in the P.-1. the
next morning under the title
"Hark, Sweet Sister"-the sweet
sister being the city of Tacoma.
/ went back to Olympia next
day in the hope of having this
form of the memorial substituted
for the original, but inasmuch as
the joint committee of house and
senate had unanimously approved
the other and it was on the calen-
dar of the house for action, Mr..
Elliott, in charge of 1T there
deemed 1t unwise to again check
its course-it having once already
reached and been withdrawn from
the calendar.
That memorial passed the house
by a vote of SO to 90. 1t was a
memorial but had been given
the title of a resolution" and
altho this technical defect had not
been noticed or needed in the
house, Lieut.. Gov. Hart of Ia
coma, presiding, called immediate
attention to it in the senate and
refused to permit it to be consid-
cred before that body.
New One Drawn.
1t was never presented Tor con-
sideration in the senate.
Mr.. Elliott was appealed to to
withdraw it and have the techni-
cal flaw corrected in the house,
but he declined to do so. There
upon Senator Jesse Jones intro
duced as new measure in the
senate a memorial drawn to the
form suggested by Mr.. Bone in
the P.-I. and the committee on
memorials to which it was refer
red-three membership tit to
still further trim its verbiage, re-
porting it back in the terse form
of it's final adoption.
1t passed the senate by vote OF
26 to 11-being opposed only by
members of the King county del
legation, no other voice raised
against it so far as | remember.
1t went over to the house and
passed that body by vote of 63
to 22-four more favorable votes
than the other.
War Changes Conditions.
| All reference to the British ad-
miral. you understand, was now
eliminated. However, in the very
excellent, dignified, informing,
fair and comprehensive brief OF
our case prepared and printed by
the data committee of the Justice
Ito-the-Mountain committee after
lDr. Dyer and | left for the east
the history is made complete by
the inclusion of all these various
, forms of the memorial.
, The European war had now de-
yeloped to the point where the
| United States was a party to 1t.
When we arrived in Washing
. ton the British commission-Mr
: Balfour and others-compatriot'
of one people in the bloody bust
mess, were there.
We saw the wisdom OF Mr.
q Bones suggestion and of the sen
ate committee on memorials ant
we were glad that the memoria
: had no word in it that could give
. Ioffense to any one, especially al
. ally of ours. That is to say, you
; understand, in any point wher'
/, the government might function