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When tha eyes become tired from reading or sewinjr o If the letters look blurred and run toeether It is a sure indication that glasses are needed The lenses ld In the cheap goods are of unl equal density and have Imperfectly formed sir faces. Continued use of these poorer lenses will result in a positive injury from the con. slant strain upon the muscles of accommoda tion to supply the defects in the glass." rEED St JftRliGOIiTK Oculist Opticians Oregonian Building AND 191 FIRST STREET TROUBLE." BUY IN THE END. OREGON'S EIGHTEENTH The State Legislature Again in Biennial Session. PREST SIMON, SPEAKER M00RES Tlic Caucus Vote for Speaker of the House Satinfactorj- in Every War to Dolph's Supporters. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 14. One of Secretary of State' KIncald's first official acts was the swearing in of the members of the house. This he did in a quiet and unpre tentious way, standing on the floor of the house, directly in front of the clerk's desk. He subsequently ascended the speaker's platform and administered the oath of office to Speaker Moores. It is easy to see that the house is to be a very talkative body. There is an un usual number of young members, very bright, brainy-appearing fellows, -who evi dently Jiave an unlimited supply of ora tory bottled up ready for instant un corking. They talk very steadily on their feet and make a good showing. There must be 20 men of 30 years cr less, native sons and energet jc young fellows, who evi dence a disposition to stand on their own footing and resist efforts to influence them. The house has decidedly a busi ness air, and if the conflicting elements can be harmonized at all, some practical legislation ought to be evolved. Moores is making a very good Impres sion. He is a little nervous today, as all -speakers aro their first day, but he Is very quick to see a point and prompt in asserting it. One of his noticeable pecu liarities is a decided disposition to help things along by making suggestions in the way of reconciling differences. One can see, however, that he can be deter mined, and If a member gets in his way he would little rather, than anything else, have an appeal go at once to the house. On roll call, Moores voted for Stewart, the populist school teacher of Curry county. His speech on taking the chair was short and in good taste, extending his thanks and pointing out that results and not his own promises would show the wisdom or the error of the choice of the house. Templeton, of Brownsvflle, distinguished himself by getting through, against some opposition, his reform amendment for the general appropriation bill being re ported from the ways and means com mittee two weeks before the close of the session. It will probably cause some awkardness about subsequent insertion of amounts appropriated, but the precedent of having the measure before public at tention will be of great' value. The spirit of the star-eyed goddess per meates the galleries in the house, and everything savoring of economy is ap plauded to the echo. The great demon stration of the day was on the defeat of the customary resolution calling for five copies otrTiewsnapers for each- member. ... ...in., lu Luuivimiuai; ui iiue copies was swept off Its feet in a wave of econ omy, and the galleries- tumultously tes tified to their approval. Finally, on mo tion of Paxton, the whole subject was in definitely postponed. The house was unable to do anything at all about clerkships, having got itself into deep water, parliamentary, and got out of the mess by laying the question on the table and adjourning. The senate committee on revision of rules, consisting of Simon, Cogswell and Steiwer, will report in the morning in favor of 26 standing committees, to con sist of three members each, except the committee on judiciary, ways and means, public lands, roads and highways, rail roads, astessment and taxation, revision of laws and counties, which shall consist of five members, to be appointed by the president at the commencement of the session. These committees will be: Agriculture and forestry, assessment and taxation, claims, commerce and navi gation, counties, education, elections and privileges, engrossed bills, enrolled bill3, federal relations, fishing Industries, horti culture, insurance and banking, irrigation, judiciary, revision of the laws, medicine, pharmacy and dentistry, military affairs, mining, municipal corporations, printing, public buildings and institutions, public lands, railroads, roads and highways, and ways and means. Senator Huston voted against the reso lution inviting clergymen to open ses sions with prayer. As was expected, an effort will be made to supplant the state board of horticul ture by a state horticultural inspector. This was the scheme fathered by Repre sentative Upton last session, and whose advocates succeeded in defeating the bill of the practical fruitmen like Coon, Ton er, x. x ueer ana Ormsby. The bill pro vides that fruit of any kind infested by any insect of disease, injurious to fruit or fruit trees, and liable to spread con tagion, shall be prohibited from sale, or distribution, until disinfected in such man ner as may be required by the state hor ticultural inspector. Any person shipping fruit must affix to each box, package or parcel containing the same a distinct mark, showing the name of the producer and shipper of the same and the locality where grown. Any person having in his possession any fruit or plants Infested with any injurious insects or disease, or who shall sell or offer for sale such fruit or trees, or who shall neclect to .ittnoii n distinct mark thereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined not for his services is fixed at 51300 per year horticultural inspector must, biennially, in January, report to the legislature a statement of his official acts and present the actual condition and progress of hor ticulture in the state. The compensation for his services is fixed at $500 per year and his actual traveling expenses when engaged in the duties of his office, which must not exceed J500. The act Is effectual from date of approval. Senator Huston is at work on a bill to reform the code with reference to the transfer of the property of a man or woman whose wife or husband is in the insane asylum. According to the law- many transfers are prevented. Persons of property are desirous of conveying or Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Food Report. t Xjmzm rowder ABSOLUTE! PURE - : mortgaging real estate, and as their wives or husbands are in the insane asylum nothing can be done. The. method pro posed is for the county court to be au- thorized to make an order for such sale or mortgage, this order operating as a release of the dower or husband's in terest. The Bar Association has appoint ed a committee to draw up such a bill. Senator Huston will wait to see whether it has one ready, and if not, will intro duce his. Senator Huston also has a bill regulat ing the manufacture and S3le of oleomar garine. The dairymen have a meeting here "Wednesday and he will submit his bill to them. The bill contemplates in effect, with a few amendments, the Mas sachusetts law, which has just stood the test of the United States supreme court, and has been sustained. Senator Gbwan, who represents a dis trict 250 miles long, and is much interested in Irrigation, says that the bill emanat ing from the irrigation committee, and printed in The Oregonian the other day, is good enough for him. He is satisfied with its provisions and thinks that the legislature will pass a bill substantially in that form. Selection, of George T. Meyers, as tem porary speaker of the house, was accepted by him aa a graceful compliment to his popularity. During WsKJfle administra tion he made an able and impartial pre siding officer. t THE ROUTISE..WOnK:. Fall Proceedings of flketFirst Day of the SeloHi SALEM, Jan. 14. The-Wnate was called to order at 11:30 A. J&py Judge O. N. Denny, of Multnomah. -In doing so, the senator said: J "As one of the holdover-senators I have been requested to call the senate to order." Nominations for temporary officers were requested. Senator O. N. Denny nominated "W. W. Steiwer, republican, representing Gilliam, Harney and Mor row counties, for temporary president of the senate. Senator Raley, of Umatilla, nominated N. L. Butler, democrat, of Polk county, fcr the position. Senator Will R. King placed in nomination S. H. Holt, populist, of Jackson.' Senator Ban croft moved that the vote be by ballot, and Senators J. H. Raley, democrat, and J. H. McClung, republican, were appoint ed tellers. The vote resulted as follows: Steiwer TTlButlec o Holt 4! The following committee on creden tials was appointed in the senate: A. W. Gowan, republican, Harney; S. A. Daw son, republican, Linn; A. J. Johnson, re publican, Linn; J. A. Smith, democrat, Clatsop; S. B. Huston, democrat, Wash ington. The senate then adjourned until after noon, and upon reassembling the report of the committee on credentials was read and adopted without comment Patter son. Raley and Gowan were appointed a committee to wait upon Chief Justice Bean and Invite him to administer the oath of office to the newly-elected sena tors, which duty was performed and the oath administered. Then McGinn intro duced senate resolut'on No. J, providing for the election of a permanent officer. The resolution wns nrlnntArt nnd Rnnnlnr ?Ienny jjlaced Joseph- Slift-m of'TMult .nomahj&i&iomlaatfon ICfsldentSof the senate, itaiey, on behalf Of the minority, nominated Huston, andiKing placed Van derburg in nomination, on behalf of the populists. 'The ballot had the following result: ?imon lSHuston 7 vanderburg Cj Brownell and Cogswell escorted Simon to the chair. Briefly, the last named thanked the senators for the token of their confidence and esteem in elevating him for a third time to the high office. Chief Bean idministered the oath of of fice. The organization of the senate was then completed by the election of the re publican caucus nominees as follows: Chief clerk, Walter St Clair, of Coos county; assistant to the chief clerk, A. W. Severance, of Tillamook; calendar clerk, J. M. Stott, of Multnomah; read ing clerk, J. B. Huntington, of Harney: sergeant-at-arms, J. B. Crosno, of -Lincoln; doorke-aper, J. D. Irvine, of Linn, and mailing clerk, L. H. Arneson, of Mult nomah. President Simon next appointed Thomas Dunn and Newman Kellaway pages, after which the oath of office was ad ministered to the officers of the senate. These resolutions wore then adopted: By Cogswell, that the rules of the last senate be adopted as the rules of the present one. with the president of the senate and Cogswell and Steiwer as a committee on revision; by McClung, that the senators be provided with Hill's code and tho house and senate journals; by McGinn, that the morning session be opened with prayer. The senate was then adjourned until 10 A. M. tomorrow. The House Proceedings. ' SALEM, Jan. 14. The house was called to order this morning by Major D. C. Sherman, chief clerk of the session of 1S93, at 11 o'clock. On "motion of O. F. Paxton, of Multnomah, seconded by S. L. Moorhead, of Lane. George T. Myers of Multnomah was elected temporary speak er. Mr. Myers took the chair, and on mo tion of Colonel John McCraken, of Mult nomah, seconded by E. Hofer, of Marion, Major D. C. Sherman was elected tempo rary chief clerk. Mr. Paxton, of Multnomah, moved the appointment of a committee of five on credentials, which carried, and the tem porary speaker named O. F. Paxton (rep.) of Multnomah, S. L. Moorhead (rep.) of Lane, S. M. Nealon (pop.) of Jackson, C. J. Curtis (rep.) of Clatsop, and J. E. Blundell (rep.) of Douglas. The house then adjourned until 2:30 P. M., after the speaker had announced a caucus of re publican members at the Armory at noon. Upon reassembling, Paxton, as chair man of the committee on credentials, presented the committee's report. It was read by Clerk Sherman. Paxton then moved that a committee of three be ap pointed to Invite the secretary of state, and, in case of his inability, one of the justices of the supreme court, to adminis ter the oath to the members. This car ried, and Paxton, Moorhead and Coon were so appointed. In response to the invitation, the new secretary of state, the Hon. Harrison R. Kincald, appeared and administered the prescribed oath to all members standing. On motion of Mc Craken the house then proceeded to the election of permanent officers. Paxton, who was chairman of the republican cau- (Concluded on sixth page.) GORMAN,ALLISON,HiLL They Monopolized the Attention " ' of the Senate. R PERSONAL fiND SPIGY DEBATE The Maryland and Xctp York Senior Senators Indulged In Much Keen. Criticism and Satire. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. Stirring inter est was given to the senate proceedings today by the speeches of Gorman and Hill on various phases of the tariff and finan cial situation. At times the debate be tween the two senators took on an added Interest from the keen personal criticism and satire directed at each other. Gor man spoke for two hours. The speech was mainly remarkable in its arrayal of facts to show that the tariff law, which Morgan took sop large a part in framing, was wholly insufficient in raising the rev enue absolutely requisite to carry on the government. In presenting this view Gor man dwelt on the personal features of the contest over the Wilson bill, and arraigned Hill for his attitude then, and since on the tariff question. The speech of Hill was equally personal &nd equally vigorous, and was received with the same close at tention from his associates. Intense in terest by the galleries has been shown 'in the Maryland senator. Hill directed his remarks mainly at Gorman, who sat only a few feet away. Allison also con tributed to the features of the day by a short, but effective presentation of the need of immediate legislation on the tar iff to raise revenue, instead of further agitation on the currency question. After the routine business, Senator Stewart resumed his speech begun Satur day. Stewart spoke of the extent to which the banks controlled congress, political conventions, telegraph companies and the press. The banks always maintained a lobby in congress. They dominated the national conventions, republican, demo cratic and populist, and secured the nomi nation of their friends. There had been bank rule in the administration for 20 years. Stewart closed at 1 o'clock, and then Gorman of Maryland rose for the speech which had been expected for some days. At the outset he gave his at tention to the proposition to cripple the income tax by cutting off its appropria tion. He declared himself opposed to that line of attack. He then proceeded to take up the tariff legislation, as bearing on ex isting conditions. The tariff bill whih first came to the senate had brought forth an era of demagoguery such as the country has seldom seen." It overlooked the greatest essential of legislation to realize sufficient revenue to carry on the government. The senator said that he, for one, would never have voted for the tariff bill if he had not believed It had been shaped so as to raise ample revenue ior expenses of the government. The sen that' the revenues under the law vere in sufficient for the ordinary expenses of '.lie government. "According to your estimates," inter rupted Vest, "do you claim that the rev enues for the present year will not meet the expenses?" "I do." "Do you include in your estimates the 40 per cent tax on sugar and the increased whisky tax, which will not be available for this year? I desire to call the sen ator's attention to the fact that the rev enues of the government have been stead ily increasing for three months, and that it is reasonable to presume that by April 10 the revenues will meet the expendi tures." "I will allow another to answer that question." replied Gorman. "I will allow the foremost man of finance in the dem ocratic party to answer the secretary of the treasury who amid all this turmoil has stood for a tax sufficient to meet the demands on the treasury. He stood ther? while slander was rampant, and the vipers of the press were spitting at him, and he stands there now. The Wilson bill, cr the Gorman bill, or the Brice bill, or the Smith bill, or by whatever name you desire to call it, was a compromise bill. The senator from New York, Mr. Hill, was not a party to it. There is something about democrats from the section whence he comes that prevents them from ever compromising. The senator fcught the bill manfully. I admire his manliness, but in addition to opposing the income tax, which, as I have shown, is necessary, the senator from New York joined with all the extreme tariff reformers to cut down duties on imports. I will never follow one who will in time of peace Increase the national debt to pay the current expenses of the government. Before the election of 1892 it had already been demonstrated that the McKinley law did not include sufficient revenue to meet the demands of the government. The estimates on which that law had been made were erroneous, just as the estimates on which this last tariff law was fraired were erroneous. It had been clearly pointed out, prior to the election of 1892, that the McKinley bill reduced revenues to the point of threat ening the treasury with bankruptcy." Gorman reviewed the circumstances un der which the Wilson bill was taken up in the senate, and declared that the ex penses of the government could not be reduced. He quoted from a report of the condition of the treasury January 12, showing that the deficit since July 1, 1S34, or the excess of expenditures, as Mr. Car lisle called it, was J34.000.0C0. Mr. Carlisle, while the tariff bill was pending, had es timated the receipts under the senate bill for the ensuing fiscal year at $363,000,000, and the expenditures at $378,000,000, or a deficit of $15,000,000. The deficit was al ready double that sum, and the year was but half over. Gorman spoke of the dif ficulty in makirg accurate prognostica tions, and declared that in his opinion the secretary ought not to be held to his fig ures. Addressing the democratic side, he said: "But you cannot afford to trifle with the situation. You must maintain, with out party divisions, the honor and integ rity of the government. We are raising more taxes from our people than from customs duties. Not enough revenue is being raised from customs to pay the pen sions. The bulk of taxation is now being levied within our own borders. The cus toms revenue will be many millions short of the $140,000,000 required for pensions. Can we reduce the expenditures? I an swer no. In 1392 the pension budget reached $180,000,000, its highest point. It is now down to $140,000,000, and will dimin ish as the old soldiers die. It will aver age $123,000,000 for the next 10 years. The expenditures for postal service, the navy, rivers and harbors must go on. The sen ator from Pennsylvania (Quay) has said the democratic party had been rebuked and turned out of power. I think the senator from Colorado (Teller) stated the case Saturday last, when, addressing his republican colleagues, he warned them that the republicans were swept into I power last fall, not because the people 1 ever had confidence in that party, but because, in their present distress, they would have removed from power any p?xty. You will come into power 4fearch 4 next, under circumstances more favor able than we did. We have removed many of the obstructions from your path. You will have in the house as big a majority as we have now. and in the senate a majority as big as ours for ours hangs but by a thread. I say now to the sen ator from Pennsylvania, when he and his colleagues meet the question that con fronts us now, I will treat him and his friends in a spirit different from that which he has manifested toward us. I will say to him, when any question affecting the finances of the government arises, any proposition to prevent the bankruptcy of the government, or to give the country a sound currency, 'I will help you through in the hour of peril, although you refused to aid us.' " Aldrlch said: "As the senator from Maryland says the responsibility will be on the republican side of the chamber after March 4. let me ask him If we will have the president with us after that date?" Gorman paused for a moment, and then in eloquent terms declared the president of the United States could be depended upon to meet any emergency presented to him with a patriotism uninfluenced by party feeling, causing Hale to remark: "Let me suggest that while the senator from Maryland places the responsiblllty on this side of the chamber after March 4. yet the administrative branch of the government remains with the democrats. Now, when the senator says the president will patriotically join us in preparing a remedy, does he mean to say the presi dent will approve such-a bill for raising revenue as this side of the chamber may prepare? We have our owr ideas as to how this revenue should be raised. It is part of the republican policy of protection. Now, is the senator authorized to say the president will help us in defeating this measure?" Gorman disclaimed any authority to speak for the president or to indicate his course, but said that if the republican congress, after March 4, meets this grave responsibility with patriotism, unswerved by party feeling, he felt confident that every man, from the president down to the humblest man in the democratic party, would, help in securing that end. Aldrich then suggested that Gorman had pointed out that the government needed more revenue, asking: "And now, what remedy does the sena tor propose?" "The first thing to do is to pass the ap propriation for collecting the income tax," said Gorman. "For one, I am convinced the masses of the people who comprise the brawn and sinew of the land; who love justice and honest dealings; the peo ple whom Mr.. Lincoln said could not be fooled all the time, will come back and render a verdict in favor of those who knew when their party was in the minor ity that there was a deficiency, and who had the courage, when in the majority, to Insist on trying to make the receipts meet the expenditures. They will give duo credit and to the great statesmen whom they had treated unjustly." "Why not pass some bill now to in creaso the revenue?" asked Aldrich. "We have no power to do so." "There are some mjisifro's nn tvio i Uendar(aUudtngt33he.bilJs-ta.placeirori uuu coax on tne tree list and to abolish the differential on refined sugar.) "But they decrease the revenue," re plied Gorman. "We could alter their character," said Aldrich. Vest Will you aid us to take them up? Aldrich If you will change their char acter, yes. "Certainly," observed Vest, with a smile, "if we will substitute the McKin ley act." In concluding Gorman said: "It would be good policy and good politics for the republicans to join us; sink party differ ences, meet the emergency and not let this question be made a football any longer." Hill and Allison were instantly on their feet, asking recognition. The latter was recognized. He complimented the Mary land senator for clearly and for the first time making it clear, from the demo cratic standpoint, that tho country was now face to face with a great deficit. Continuing, Allison said: "The senator has not mentioned the currency question. He has gone to the really great emergency, the government's grave emergency; it is lackingrevenuenow and threatened with a still greater lack of revenue. And yet, with the situation before us, in two months congress sep arates not to convene again for nearly a year from the present time. But there Is a remedy at hand. There are bills here, sent from the house, to further reduce the revenues on coal and iron. The duty of the hour is to take these bills and in stead of passing them to further reduce revenues, to so frame them as to yield $30,002,000 additional to our revenues." Allison expressed amusement that the president and secretary of the treasury should remain passive with no suggestion to congress as to the imperative neces sity of increasing the revenues of the government. With a tremendous major ity in congress It was a plain duty that they should be reminded In unmistakable language, from the executive branch of the government, that the revenues must be increased to a point sufficient to susr tain the credit of the government. This was the presant pressing duty, instead of vain conferences over a currency bill, or the reform of greenbacks, or the many financial plans under discussion. He urged that the statistics he presented showed that the McKinley law would have yielded ample revenue. But from the outset the normal action of that law was interrupted by the threat of revising and nullifying it. Allison closed with a vig orous appeal to those in authority, the president, the secretary of the treasury, the administration and contrress. tn mpot the emergency here and now instead of waiting for a full year. Hill said: "If the senator from Mary land desires to vindicate himself, I see no reason why he should not .have thfe op portunity, but in urging this vindication the senator from Maryland should not seek to impeach those who supported the wnson Diu. unat senator (Gorman) was among those who voted for that bill. I was not among those who voted for it. It is a peculiar situation to find senators who had voted against a law criticised for its existence oy those who voted for it. As to the income tax, I understood the senator from Maryland to be opposed to It, but after a time, presto, change, the senator is found to favor that tax for a period of five years." Hill defined his position, which was to repeal the tax. If it is to stand, he would offer no opposition to the appropriation for carrying it into effect. "If the commission of internal revenue should be enjoined from collecting the tax by one party in the District of Columbia, pending the determination of its constitu tionality," asked Vilas, "would that not prevent the collection of the tax any where until the case was decided?" "It would not," replied Hill, who pro ceeded to argue that the injunction would only bo for the benefit of any person bringing the action. "Why cannot a class have the benefit of (Concluded on sixth pagcO THE FOURTH SESSION Formal Opening of the Washing ton Legislature. BOTH HOUSES FULLY ORGANIZED The Senatorial Fight Takes On In terest and the Results of the Day Show Gains for Ankcny. OLYMPIA. Jan. 14. The fourth session of the Washington state legislature con vened today at noon, and after the organ isation of both upper and lower house an adjournment was taken until tomorrow. With the exception ot three or four mem bers, all the legislators were present and the lobbies of both houses were crowded with spectators. Morrison of King was elected speaker of the house, and the other more important officers were chosen in both branches. All were elected In a formal manner, the contests having been decided in caucus early in the morning. The petty officers and clerks are yet to be decided upon in the house. The most Important features of the day were the adopting of a resolution in the house to reduce the salaries of em ployes 20 per cent, and the adoption of a concurrent resolution by the senate, which provides for the appointment of a committee to investigate the affairs of the land commissioners. The latter says that it appears from the report of the board of land commissioners, and from other sources, that there is good reason for a thorough examination of and investigation into the present methods of conducting the state's land business, and asks that a committee of five be ap pointed, to consist of three members tjC the house and two from the senate, which shall at once proceed to examine into and report upon the method of transacting business and operation of the respective offices of the board of land commissioners, the commissioner of public lands and the several county boards of tide-land ap praisers, and it shall be the special duty of said committee to report to the legis lature as to whether the methods of con ducting the business in each of the sev eral offices referred to is the best ob tainable or not; whether the service of the officers of the state employed in the several offices referred fo has been efficient and satisfactory or nor; Whether or noc any or all of the several offices should be consolidated, abolished or continued. The committee is given authority to send for persons and papers and to administer oaths. The resolution was adopted unani mously. There has been much talk during the past several months about the land com mission, and the fact that the resolution to investigate the matter was one ot the first acts of the senate is being dls- OUSSed freelv tonight. Tho invnstti-lnn promises to be one of the most absorbing xcu.njrea 01 inesessionT-anofwin oe await ed with Interest by all people of the state. At the caucus of republican members of the house tonight, to select petty offi cers and clerks, the following candidates were chosen to be elected tomorrow: Reading clerk, Harry W. Carroll; docket clerk, Miss Dorr; journal clerk, Lynch Garrett; assistant, C. T. Hall; enrolling clerk, Dan K. Proud; assistant, Margaret Chisholm; engrossing clerk. Flora Bacon; assistant, E. W. Porter; assistant sergeant-at-arms. Joe Holder; doorkeeper, Seigfred; postmaster, A. J. Bingham. Governor McGraw will deliver his mes sage to the legislature some time tomor row. IX THE TWO HOUSES. Story of the Jtontinc Proceeding's o the Day. OLYMPIA, Jan. 14. The organization of the senate occurred at noon. Lieutenant-Governor Luce presided and Secre tary of State Price read the certificate of election of the new members. Ex-Secretary of State Weir, as secretary of the last senate, called the roll. It showed two populist members, Crow and Fish, to be absent. When Chief Justice Hoyt was Invited to administer the oath they were still missing. They came in later, how ever, and had a special oath given. Campbell of Pierce nominated Senator Van Houten of Spokane as president pro tern. Foss, Lesh, Lewis and others sec onded the nomination, and it was made unanimous. The senator received the honor gracefully and in a most modest manner thanked the senate for hj se lection. It came entirely unsolicited and was a surprise to him. Senator Brown submitted the report of a non-partisan caucus on the election of officers, and it was adopted. Those elected are: Secretary. T. G. Nicklin of Whatcom; assistant secretary, A. B. Cowies of Pierce; sergeant-at-arms, Joe T. Mitchell of Pierce; assistantsergeant-at-arms, John Inkster, jr., of Spokane; minute clerk, Mrs. Ella B. Sparks of Pierce; bill clerk. Miss Minnie Personeus of King; 'journal clerk, Wiley of Yakima: engrossing clerk, P. II. Helm of Kittitas: postmaster, Car roll Hendron of Columbia; pages, Willie Skinner and Ernest Range; janitor, Jer ry Flowers of Spokane; watchman, Isaac Carson of Pierce; enrolling clerk. Miss Minnie Tannatt of Whitman. A committee wa3 appointed to inform the house that the senate was fully or ganized and ready for business, after which the rules of the last senate were adopted for the fourth session. Sergeant and Megler were appointed a committee to act jointly with a house committee to wait on Governor McGraw and inform him the legislature was ready to receive his message, after which a recess was then taken until 2 o'clock. The only business of importance in the afternoon was the Introduction of a con current resolution by Dcrr, relative to the " granted tide and other lands. In the Honte. OLYMPIA, Jan. 14. At 12 o'clock, sharp. T. G. Nicklin, chief clerk of the house at the last session, rapped for order. He announced that the session would be opened by prayer and the Rev. J. H. Shlvely, member from Whatcom, re sponded. The reading of the certificates of election followed, and on roll-call all but four members were found present. Chief Justice Dunbar then administered the oath of office to the members. The election of speaker being In order, Morri son (rep.) of King, Biggs (dem.) of What com, and Cline (pop.) of Whatcom, were placed in nomination. Morrison was elected, the vote standing: Morrison 5t Cline 19 Bigg3 3 Morrison then took the chair and was greeted with hearty applause. E. C. Finch, of Chehalis, was then nominated for chief clerk. He was elected, the demo crats and republicans voting for him and the populists refusing to vote. Cline, populist, of Whatcom, endeavored to in troduce a resolution protesting against k U