White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-02-09
MANY SCRAPS
ARE ANNOYING
State Legislative Program Grow.
ing Into Worse Tangle
Than Ever.
FRIENDS and FOES MIXED
People United on Ono Question Are
Divided on others-Road Problem
Is Perplexing.

Programs are becoming common IN
the Washington state legislature. The
farmers have one, labor has one, and
so do the special interests, or BUSH
ness organizations, whichever way
the visitor turns he encounters a
program. It Is puzzling to know how
they can all be completed prior to
March without sighting some or
ganization >or group or individual.
The lumbermen want reforestra-
ton and better fire protection laws;
labor wants amended compensation;
the dairymen want butter substitutes
and substitutes for condensed milk
suppressed; the women legislation
beneficial to their sex: motorists
want large sums Of money for roads:
the state educational institutions are
demanding their usual appropria-
tons: real estate men want an income
tax that will reduce property taxes.
and the railroads and other corpora
lions want tax reductions through
reduced expenditures in state, county
and municipal government. No one
wants what the other fellow desires.
Miniature wars Of aggressions are
being waged openly and secretly by
the diverse interests through lobby
lists. House and senate members are
attacked daily with pleas, statistics.
cigars, promises and threats. Every
program has its champion and it's an
tagonist as well.
Take the state road program as an
instance. The state highway com.
mittee, composed of the governor, the
state treasurer and the state auditor,
recently recommended that certain
highways be eliminated from the
state road program and that others
be added. The recommendations did
not please eastern Washington farm
ers in the legislature and they at
tackled it. Now the farmers are quar-
reling with the good roads associa-
lions dominated by the motorists and
the agreement reached between the
agriculture interests and the automo-
bile men prior to the opening Of the
legislative session has been Junked.
The farmers want marketing roads
given preference over paving and the
motorists can not agree.
suzzaIIo's Pay ana Hollands.
Dissatisfaction among house and
senate members from rural districts,
and especially from the agriculture
districts of eastern Washington, re-
fuse to believe that President Henry
Suzzallo of the State university
should be paid salary Of $4,000 a
year and they are going to introduce
legislation limiting his pay to $4,000
a year. At the same time they Will
introduce legislation increasing the
salary of e. o. Holland, president Of
the Washington State college, to $12,-
900 year. He now Is paid $4,000
year. And that brings on another
division Of opinion over programs be
cause friends Of the state university
do not want appropriations desired by
the institution reduced.
The fight being waged by farmers
Of western Washington in the inter-
est Of legislation which would restrain
makers Of butter substitutes and sub
stitutes for condensed milk from
either manufacturing or selling their
products in the state continues to
grow warmer. This desired legisla.
ton is the centerpiece of their legis.
lative program. The lower house ap-
proves of the protection being sought
by the dairymen, but the senate is
less friendly. The senators insist
that 1t would be unfair to laboring
men to enact legislation which would
compel people to pay q high price for
butter. The farmers claim enough
votes in both houses to pass the bill