White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09
Legislative
Session Passes
HALFWAY Mark
POLITICAL WRITER GOssIPs
ENTERTAINMENT OF LAW
MAKERS ACTIVITIES
by NJ. NJ. MattIson

by NJ. NJ. MattIson
They say Lieut. Gov. Vie Meyers
really warns up to his work as par
humanitarian and presiding of11cer
when the doors are closed to the rules
room and the party program is lined
up.
Amy Albright still signs the eXecu-
tive communications to. the legislature.
Gossip has it that Gov. Clarence y.
Martin will continue to use Coy.
Hartleys old secretary until the session
ends.
The legislature is passing a bill for
the dissolution of towns too tired to
live so Tulswila, which wraps itself
around the old route of the Pacific
Highway in King county, can cease to
be- When speed traps were common
'rllkwila paid expenses out of motorists
fines.
Stunt. 2. N. Hicks, of the Anti
Saloon. League, who lobbied with the
rest of the lobbyists in the corridor
outside the legislative halls while the
House was passing memorial asking
Congress to submit the 18th amend
ment repeal, said he wouldn't raise a
finger to prevent wet" victory The
memorial was "full of misstatements
. and will fall of it's own weight" said
Hicks and he was satisfied" and the
vets were joyous. Only Democratic
leaders grieved; they failed to find
way to discipline unruly Fred Schade,
author of the memorial, and dared not
ieOpardize the memorial by going fur
ther.
Senator William Bishop of China
cum, whose illness forced him to seek
rest, is a .dairyman and one of the
organizers of the Cow Counties De-
tense League twenty years afsn.
ManAgers for the Showalfer school
bill got tip from Martin leaders to
eliminate provision which would per-
NIT the school superintendent to create
deficiencies and another tip to cut
county school taxes as prescribed by
the bill.
Irritation over the formation OF
many legislative districts created by
grouping handful of precincts of one
county with one or more adjoining
counties is taking the form of special
bills restoring these expatriated peo-
pie to their old political homes. There
is question about the constitution
atty of such special bills but solons
take chances.
The underground story is that when
the initiative bill setting up the new
apportionment was drafted the job OF
creating districts on strict basis OF
population was given George F. Cot
terill, Seattle port commissioner and
civil engineer. He drew his lines with
an engineers stubbornness just where
the census returns said they should
go and now is discovering what makes
grief for the war lords who divide UP
territory won by conquest.
Unofficially it is declared lot Of
the states which had been tentatively
set up for dividing state patronage
has been thrown away while the new
administration works out the jig saw
puzzle of creating politically har.
monio,ls family. Some Of the men who
were rated almost a part of the Olym.
pia scenery six weeks ago have passed
out of the picture and new figure!
have been added to the landscape.
lot of legislators now loom as strong
probabilities in various kinds of state
jobs whereas they were not even known
to the organization few weeks ago
Tt now is generally understood thai
jobs will have to wait until Legislative
problems are solved Once the distribu.
ton of pie was deemed the an-import
ant thing.
This legislature is making biggel
and better Hobbies if it does not &C
complish anything else. Not in tn,
memory of the oldest legislative ha
bitue have SO many people flocked tt
Olympia during session to fight bill
or promote others and then look TO
the new jobs created. On big days tn,
hotels cannot accommodate all but i
is a short run to Tacoma or Seattle
The lobby is bigger and maybe bette
but it is not as well paid as were thu
old workers.
Publicly-owned utilities are closer tt
the state tax rolls than they have eve
been. The Gray Hetfron bill is bacl
from Senate committee with re
port showing that a 1923 per cent gros
earnings tax closely approximates tn
amount of state tax they would pay
assessed like other property The bill
Will be held to see whether the ad
illustrations professional and occupa
tionai excise bill imposing 2 per cen
excise Is going through; If so, tn
Gray-Heffron tax will be cut to IL
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