Year: 1864

OLYMPIA, W. T., Dec. 20, 1863


EDS. STATESMAN AS the stereotyped
telegrams say of the army of the Potomac,
''every thing is quiet" here at present; the
printing hobby is finally settled for the
present and acquiesced in by every person
except DR.. Henry and his satellites of the
"Stdnddrd" Office who have been the heav-
lest losers in the game This week that de-
lectable sheet comes out with garbled ex-
tracts Of speech made in the House few
days since by "Mr Dugan from Walla Wal
la" on the duty Of loyal citizens to support
the Administration, but they purposely fail
to show the application that gentleman
made of his arguments McGill, the cham
pion of DR.. Henry, in the course of a very
laboriOus effort (to make which had re-
quired his absense from the House the
whole of the previous day. attempted to
show, that while the head Of the Adminis-
tration was as pure and bright Gas a dia-
mond of the first aoathe1;" the subordinate
officers many of them "were very corrupt
indade," and that the first Comptroller was
no exception to the rule-that as a mass,
they were all corrupt. The gentleman pro





printer was a power which was vested in the
Legislative Assembly, and that any attempt
at the exercise of this power on the part of
the Federal Government was an usurpation
Of power which ought to be resisted by the
aforesaid assembly. The Democratic or
rather, the true Union men of the House
regarded such sentiments as these as "trea-
sonabe," and concluded to give the gentle
men signal rebuke for their utterances,
which they did by voting unanimously for
sustaining the officers of the Government in
the Legitimate exercise of their functions
After receiving the rebuke the Honorable
gentleman from Thurston took next day the
other tack. Mr.. Perrin, chairman of the
committee on printing, made majority re-
port on the subject of the printing of the
rules and orders of the House, setting forth
that in accordance with the express wish of
the House as expressed by the passage of a
resolution acknowledging McElroy as Terri
tOrial Printer, they had given him the print
ing of the rules and orders McGill brought
in a minority report setting forth that the
House had no power to recognize L. f.
McElroy cor any other man" except George
A Barnes, proprietor of the Washington
Standard, he having been elected and re-
cognized by the Secretary as the said print
er The House bad digested what the gentle
man had said the day previous, on the right
of the House to select whom it pleased as
Territorial printer and come to the conclu-
sion that SO far as it was applicable to the
gentleman's minority report, that he was
right, and that as they had acted in accord
ance with his theory in recognizing McEl-
roy, they would not stultify themselves by
adopting his minority report, which repudi-
ated his own professions The report of the
gentleman from Thurstonp was rejected by
heavy majority; since which time he has
retired from public life in disgust, or to pre-
pare another speech on the printing ques-
ton. vrr,


The Council have not yet organized
Saint Clair, Republican, has just arrived as
Joint Councilman from King and Kitsap,
making the Council stand three Republican
to four Democrat; so that neither party, if
party lines are strictly drawn, can elect un-
less one of the Democratic members vote
for himself, which | hardly think will be
done, though they have an illustrious pre-
cedent in the present Republican speaker of
the Housewife elected himself by his own
vote on the eleventh ballot. At the last
meeting of the Council there were seven
members, and each of them received vote
for President. e1i deudi-a .sus5s gaasr


Mr. Gilbert, United States Deputy Pro
vost Marshal, has arrived and is keeping a
sharp lookout for 'copperheadsp with a view
of sending them to winter at Alcatras He
is, however, very liberal in his views, and
very much of gentleman, and endorses
some men as EgoOd Union men" who, if in
your region of country would, and have
been, denounced as copperheads, by those
who think a man must swallow every dose
presented by the Administration, however
nauseous it may be. He, nevertheless, is
willing to swallow any thing and every thing
presented by ethe powers that be-" But as
said before, he very literally comedies the
right of others-who may perhaps be as
wise as he-to differ with him. SO long as
their difference of opinion does not work
material injury to the government. io@


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