The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-10-14

is that he will persist In MS oe
mands.
But there is sure to be fight !
in the board, quietly or loudly, for
control of the budget. If it comes
to a showdown, the best bet is /,
that Mr.. Potts and Mr.. Clausen
will stick together, line up the
budget and say what recommen-
dations shall be made to the legis-
lature. The plan in a nutshell is
to keep the highway program out
of the hands of Mr.. Hartley.
This fight keeps Mr.. Hoover in
hot water, as it were. He is an
appointee of Mr.. Hartley, but is
also responsible to Mr.. Potts and
Mr.. Clausen as majority OF the
board. Besides, Mr.. Hoover has no
choice other than to prepare the
tentative budget on the basis OF
the money in sight. In other words
Mr.. Hoover is the nut in the
cracker. He stands to be uncom-
Portable, if not squeezed out, no
matter what happens.
It looks as if Mr.. Hoover, judg-
ing from his speeches and articles,
will urge substantial increases for
the Pacific and Sunset highways.
Two years ago, the Pacific high
way was given $2,S40,000, but it
would not be surprising to find
Mr.. Hoover recommending around
81, 900, 900 for the coming biennl-
UNI. He is strongly in favor OF
immediate completion of super
highway from Tacoma to Everett,
two 2O-foot pavements, which,
with utilization of some of the old
| pavement would cost somewhere
near $3,OOO,OOO. Besides, he wants
the Pacific highway improved,
either with new pavement or wild
ening. near Vancouver, Toledo,
Chehalis. Centralia, Marysville,
Mount Vernon, Ferndale and
Blaine.
The Sunset highway was given
s1,17O,OOO by the 1925 legislature
Mr.. Hoover wants more in the
coming biennium, perhaps more
than $2,OOO,OOO. He favors a big
start on paving the Sunset high.
way from Spokane to Seattle.
| 1t is possible that the 1927 leg.
islature will have woman as
speaker of the house of represen
tatives. Mrs. Belle Reeves, Wenat
chez, wants the honor and job
She is democrat and must, Of
course, be reelected, but she j.
a candidate for the speakership
She figures, or hopes, that thu
several other candidates = JOIN
Hanks, Pliny Allen, Charles Hall
Ralph Knapp, ct al-will fint
themselves in such an uncertain
fight that there will be harmon,
compromise for a woman. Be
sides, she is confident of the back
ing of what democrats there will
be elected. Mrs. Reeves idea ma.
not pan out, but it is interesting
She is the first woman to be /,
candidate in this part of the coun
try, and would be, if elected, tn,
: first woman speaker in the Unitet
States, if not in the world.
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But, with all respect to Mrs
Reeves, this writer sees the card
favoring Mr.. Hall, the gentleman
from Vancouver, for the speaker
ship. He is keen, logical and popu
lar with the members of the Mari
Reed majority. The politics of i
indicate that the next speaker viii
not be Seattle man, which leave
Mr.. Hall and Mr.. Hanks as tn
candidates at this time, so far a
the Reed majority is concerned
If it should turn out to be
contest between Mr.. Hanks an,
Mr.. Hall, the best guess is tina
Mr.. Hanks would run about third
Land Commissioner Savidge an,
Auditor Clausen, angry becaus
Gov. Hartley protested bids fo
furniture for the new capitol
when the governor talked of $47.5
cuspidors, have served notice tina
, they disregard Mr., Hartley an
assume full responsibility for com
pleting the new building. They al
so charged that Mr.. Hartley wa
misleading" in talking of $47.5
cuspidors, announcing that tn
highest priced cuspidors for tn
most elaborate of the monumental
rooms would cost $40. Mr.. Savidg
declared Mr.. Hartley's statemen
was political squawk." Mr.. Saw
, idge and Mr.. Clausen, as the ma
jority of the capitol commission
say they are willing to complet,
the building and slet the peopl
, judge, not Hartley"
Roughly, the new capitol will