Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-01-26
SENATORS LEAVE ON
SHORT VACATIONS
(By w. W. Gillies)


OLYMPIA (SpeciaD-The state
senate adjourned Friday at p. m.
until Monday morning at II O'Clock,
and many Of the members living on
the west side of the state spent the
week end at home. Even Senators ].
P. Keller of the eighth district and
Gordon Klemgard of Whitman county
made hasty trips to their homes but
this does not mean that they left any
cares behind them. Many of the gall
eryites express disappointment over
the short sessions each day, not realiz-
ing the immense amount of work be.
ing done behind the scenes in com
mlttee rooms and conferences with
this and that group of lobbyists who
are seeking something that is more or
less selfish, These people must be
seen and heard-that lis one of the
principles Of American democracy
but they cannot always be given what
they want. Nevertheless, they do take
up a lot Of senator's time and the
mental strain lis terrific Any number
of solons have told me that their two
months spent over here results IN q
state of near-exhaustion, and they are
| always glad when the session is over
and they can devote themselves again
tc problems that at least affect few
er people.
Nobody, for instance, envies the
members of the social security COM
mittee in either house. The Is mem
bers of the committee in the senate
are long ways apart in their ideas
just now; the director of the depart
memt, Chas Ernst, is not in accord
with some of the ideas presented, and
even if, later on, they do agree in the
main things, there remains the even
larger committee in the house, and
what Of the thousands of pensioners
in the state, and other thousands de-
handing public assistance Of one kind
or anothere They are far from salts
fled with the present law, and prob
ably won't be satisfied with any new
one. Nobody other than group Of
Solomons could hope to have all these
minds in agreement.
Governor Martin told committee
the other day in emphatic terms that
he thought it vastly more important
to take care of the aged, the blind
and crippled--to see that they got
enough to eat-than 1t was to jump
some college professor salary from
$4,000 to $4,000 year, or clerk g
from 1925. to $40 month, and most
of the legislators agree with him.
Representative Carl Deventsh Of
Lincoln county has introduced bill
in the house designed to straighten
cut the road situation in the Long
lake area in the northern part Of his
county. At the boundary of Stevens
county, from whence the road pro-
ceeds through Ford to Springdale, it
is secondary highway, while por-
ton of the road on the Lincoln coun-
ty side is still unimproved and has
remained under county supervision
Mr.. Devenish g idea is to add his por-
ton of the road to the state second
dairy system The road offers consid-
cradle short cut to motorists from the
west on their way to the Colville
valley.
Senators George Lovejoy of King
county and Harold Troy Of Thurston
county have introduced a bill that is
not going to set well with the thou
sands of people who sell tobacco, Gig
arettes, ETC., the terms Of the bill re-
curing SIS license fee annually of
such retailers. The bill sets up new
commission to supervise the tobacco
dealers, and see to it that one dealer
does not undersell another by Gun
fair PRACTICES.
Then there is H. B. No. 81, intro
duced by o. R. Schumann of Yokima,
a republican at that; who wants the
law dealing with "guest riders" in
automobiles repealed. The law was the
work of former Senator W. p Gray
of Wilbur several years ago. Nobody
around here knows just why he wants
the law repealed. Most folks think it