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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1891.
VOL. 1.
NUMBER 10.
WE'RE NOT IN IT.
.The Senate Defeats the $50,000 lodebt
cdnesa Proposition and Don't Give
hs Even a Railroad Commissioner.
Congress Kills the Free Coinage Bill'
: Almost an Accident to the Sher
man Funeral Train.
TBB LAST DAT.
Tne World' Fair and Tha Dallas SO,
OOO Indebt.dn.ss Bill. Killed.
Salbx, Feb. 20. The House this
.morning paused the following Senate
. bills:': ; - ' i
Fulton's bill for the sale of tide and
swamp lands; bill allowing justices to
, commit persona to the insane asylum in
the absence of county judges; bill
against boycotts Fulton's bill exempt
- ing railroads to be built within two
years from taxation.
In the Senate the World's fair bill
failed.
. The bill authorizing The Dalles to
incur an indebtedness of o0,000 failed
qn motion of third reading. A motion
to indefinitely postpone the bill was also
lost.
- A joint resolution, that public build
ing commissioners be constituted a com
, mittee of arbitration and be instructed
to contract and enter into negotiations
for purchase of electric light plants, etc.,
used in lighting the capitol and peniten
tiary was adopted.
Thomas' military bill carrying $16,
000 was passed. . .
-' At the caucus last night the following
nominees were chosen to be voted on in
joint session" late this afternoon : For
railroad commissioners, George W.
Colvig, of Roseburg ; Robert Clow, Junc
tion Citv: A. N. Hamilton. Union. For
fish commissioners, F. C. Reed, It. C.
Campbell, Geo. T. Myers.'' For pilot
commissioners, J. F. Halloran, and B.
F. Packard, Astoria ; J. A. Brown, Port
land. .For .librarian, J. B. Putnam.
For . boatman at Astoria, Adolph
V Johnson. - : ;
Nomination Ratified.
v Salem, Or., Feb. 20.-3 p. in. Legis
lature met in joint session at 2 :30 and
ratified republican caucus nominations.
Bad Accident to a Sheep Train.
;, Nw Yokk, Feb. 20. A sheep train
consisting of twenty cars while standing
in the fourth avenne railroad tunnel was
run into by the Norfolk local this morn
ing, wrecking the cars of both trains.
The wreck was then run into by a third
engine and several of the cars were con
sumed bv fire. Five trainmen were
Killed and seven seriously injured
None of the passengers were hurt. .
Four more bodies have been removed
from the wreck and these are thought
to be all the dead. AH are burned beyond
recognition. A number of the injured
i will probably die.
The police have announced today that
the total number of dead is six. '
THE FCNIRAL TRAIN.
JasnaC an
Aaeid.nl - at Pittsburg-.
Marks of Respect.
Pittsburg, Feb. 20. The Sherman
funeral train arrived here this morning.
It met with an ovation all along the
line.' The train ' ran into an open switch
at Mansfield but was only delayed five
' minutes. But for the Tact that the train
was running slowly a collision would
have occurred.
. When the train arrived at this city the
bells lolled and minute guns were fired,
flags were dropped in the rain at half
mast. At the depot there was a large
crowd.'
THE BEAUTIFUL.
Tha Heaviest Snow of the Season Prevail
ing tha Northwest.
Chicago, Feb. 20. Reports . from all
over the northwest- indicate that the
heaviest snow of the season prevailed
- last night; j Railway traffic is not inter
. rupted much yet. ' JTrains through Wis
consin are dalayed somewhat by sleet.
Telegraphic communication with all
points in the nortlrwest is badly de
moralized but as a large force of men
. are repairing the damage, everything', is
expected to be in good shape soon.
Free Coinage Killed.
- WASHiNeTON, Feb. 20. The;; house
coinage committee' today, by a vote of
eight to four decided to report the senate
free coinage bill adversely with .the
recommendation that it do not pass.
. Congressional Proceedings.
Washisqtov- D. C.t Feb. 20. The
senate today passed 145 pension bills
and then proceeded to a consideration of
the Nicaragua canal bill, f . ,
The special committee on post office
and post roads today authorized a favor
able report on the bill introduced to
establish, postal savings banks, r - .
Cancelled His Western Engagements.
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 18. Powderly
has left for Scran ton, Pa. having can
celled his Western engagements.
BOSTON ENTERPRISE.
Samples of Our Wares Will be Pot on
Exhibition la South America,
Boston, Feb. 18. Reciprocity with
Brazil is soon to be put to a practical
test. The plan is to send three Ameri
can eteamships to Brazil, loaded with
sample of almost every known product
of this .country. '. It Is distinctively a
Boston idea, and no less than a score, of
capitalists in that city are interested in
- the- scheme to -increase the American
trade in the southern republic New
Yorkers, and those jn other cities, who
wish to take part in the enterprise, will
be permitted to do so, but the promoters
expect to have the ground-floor profits,
and to push their own special- lines.
The scheme has assumed vast propor
tions, and all plans are expected .to be
perfected "so tHat the expedition .can
tart during the latter part of : April or
Jthe first week in May for Rio Janeiro.
Arrangements are being made to rent
isome large buildings in Rio Janeiro for
exhibition purposes, and samples will be
shown there first. The plan is after
visiting Rio Janeiro, to take the samples
. to the other coast cities of Brazil, and it
may be .that Buenos Ayres and other
cities in South America will also have
an opportunity to view the exhibit,
Large sales and vastly increased com
merce between this country and Brazil
are expected to result from this move
ment, especially in products which are
admitted tree by both countries accord
ing to tne reciprocity treaty.
CONGRESS AKIKB.HATH.
Matters of Interest Not Mentioned In the
Regular Proceedings.
Washington, Feb. 19. The house
committee on foreign affairs has decided
to recommend concurrence in all the
senate amendments to the diplomatic
and consular bill, except the Hawaiian
cable project. The committee has
already reported a separate bill for the
charter of that company with a govern
ment guarantee, which was prepared
with srreat care and caution, which
regarded as a more practical proposition
than that ot the senate.
A bill was introduced in the senate to
day granting a pension of $2500 a year to
tne widow 01 Admiral rorier.
Buchanan reported to the house a .bill
from the judiciary committee with an
amendment to the senate bill for the
creatiou of the Fourth judicial district of
Utah.
Senator Davis Dresented the Drouosed
amendment for Senator Far well, to the
sundry civil bill, appropriating f ,000,
to be used in propagating and distribut
ing reindeer in Alaska for the use of the
natives.
senator Stewart has ,. introduced an
amendment to the Indian appropriation
bill, increasing the salary of thesuperin
tendent of the Indian, school at Carson.
Nev., from' $1500 to $1800 per annum
and increasing the appropriation for the
support and maintenance of the school
from $25,000 to $00,000. The amend
ment is recommended by the commis
sioner of Indian affairs, and therefore
will undoubtedly lie adopted.
KAILS FROM CALIFORNIA.
A Compound Rail Claim To
Be Better
Than That Now In Use.
Chicago. Feb. 10. The current num
ber of the Railway Age gives considera
ble space to a description ot the tfargion
compound rail, a California invention, of
which many advantagts over the steel
rail now in use are claimed. It is an
nounced that J. E. Morris, of San Fran
cisco, secretary of theBargiou Company
who "has been in this city a couple of
weeks, has closed a contract with the
Chicago A Northwestern Railway Co., for
a large lot of the rails. They will be
laid on the Northwestern lines and sub
jected to a severe test. They will be
shipped from San Francisco as soon a
possible. To railroad men the idea of
steel rails from California is an unique
one. As one of them said today : "It is
a good exemplification of the old saying
about carrying coals to Newcastle. Mr.
Morris is negotiating with other compan
ies. The result of the test is awaited
with .much interest. - If satisfactory.
Eastern rolling mills will probably find
a vigorous competitor on the r acihe coast.
WORLD'S FAIR NEWS.
American Labor Only to be Employed
Lake Front Abandoned.
Chicago, eb. 19. A squad of car
penters resumed work this morning on
the world's fair building at Jackson
park, and were not molested. The labor
unions, it is reported, are not,, howevfer,
entirely satisfied, with the-clause pro
hibiting alien labor. They want a de
finite statement that union labor will
be employed and the eight-hour rule en
forcedon all work connected with the
fair. : To this end a committee from
various unions will labor with the di
rectory at the next meeting.
A local paper says tins evening : it is
understood that it has practically been
decided to abandon the idea of placing
any part 01 the exposition on lake tront.
The difficulties in the way were numer
ous, and, it is feared, would be unsur
mountable in the -brief time that re
mains to form Drelimmarv arrangements.
This statement is not yet officially con
firmed.,.
Somebody Ought to Stop This
Richmond. Va.. Feb. 19.-John L.
UU1I1 Mil , T, tlJ HUD ISWM (JIU & U b
tne Acaaemy tne last two mgms, created
a sensation this morning. He became
indignant in the ladies' .dinning room at
Murphy's hotel because he was not prop
erly served with eggs. Becoming dem
onstrative, a colored waiter named Mil
ler remonstrated with him. bullivan
assumed a somewhat threatening atti
tude and said, "Yon don't know who I
am, do you?" Miller threw a pot of coffee
at Sullivan and then picked up a chair
to defend himself in case of an attack.
To escape the vengeance of the big man,
Miller finally fled up to the observatory
of the hotel and Sullivan left this morn
ing for Norfolk, where his company- has
an engagement tor tonight. He had
beeu drinking.
SHIP-OWNERS REBEL. ' . mj
They Will Endeavor to Escape Exorblt-
. ant Towing Charges.
San Fbancisco, Feb. 18. The com
bination existing between tow-boat own
ers on Puget sound is causing consider
able growling among the ship-owners of
this port having vessels that ply to lum
ber ports. ' it appears that the schedule
eminating from the combination places
towage at rates that are higher than
those charged by the old monopoly at
this port, with a view to cheaper tow
age ship-owners are now negotiating
with the owners of the tugs Relief ana
Vigilant. They promise to give " con
tracts for towing to these boats if the
owners will dispatch them north. The
tug Sea Lion, owned . here is on the
sound and is not in the combine. ' It is
thought that the owners of the Relief
will send her north and build another
tug for use at this port.
" ' i
Royalty Severely Criticised. '
London. Feb. 19. The London Star,
referring to the baccarat scandal in
which the Prince of Wales is involved,
says that England is no longer the slave
of royalty and will only except as its
monarch the person whose habits are
creditable to himself and the' people to
whom the soverign ought to be an ex
ample of good behavior. The Star goes
on to say that the soverign of England
does not rale, but only reigns, and that
the gilding of the figurehead ought not
to be tarnished by royal follv and blun
ders. The extreme radicafs generally
applaud these utterances, but British
public opinion, even among the working
classes, is showing signs of sympathy
with the prince, who is regarded as hav
ing been subjected to more abuse than
he deserves., Gladstone especially is
said to disapprove the attacks. -
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The Card-Playing Scandal.
London, Feb. 18. The announcement
is made that Prince Albert .Victor of
Wales will pay a visit to Mr. and : Mrs.
Arthur Wilson's residence at Doncaster,
where the recent card scandal is said to
have occurred. .
The Pall Hall Gazette publishes a two
column account of the affair, with dia
grams, showing the positions at the
table of the Prince of Wales, Sir William
Gordon Camming, Lord Somerset and
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wilson during the
progress of the game of baccarat. . -
THE DEAD HERO.
Ceneral Sherman Being Buried with
Appropriate Honors-Today-
St. Louis, Feb. 21. The train convey
ing the remains of General Sherman
reached East St. Louis at 8:15 this
morning.
St. Louis, Feb. 21. Flags all over the
city are at half mast. Many of the build
ings and stores are draped in mourning
and black framed portraits of the dead
general could be seen in numerous win
dows. Business in the city is entirely sus
pended and the streets ore filled with
people.
The day is cool and clear but the
streets are very muddy from the recent
rain storms.
The funeral train arrived at 8 :30. A
salute from a battery announced its ap
proach. When the train reached the platform
it was met by Governor Francis who
was there with his staff and members of
the reception committee.
After an exchange of greetings the
cassion on- which the body was to ne
borne was drawn up by six bay horses,
the riders of which were the men who
worked the Hotchiss guns at the battle
of Wounded Knee in the recent Indian
ar.
The bearers were sergeants, four from
the seventh cavalry and four from bat
tery E, artillery.
In front of the caisson was the Twelfth
infantry from Fort Levenworth, drawn
up in line facing the depot. On the op
posite side of the street was Ransom
Post, G. A. R. which acted as guard of
honor.
The horse that was led behind the
caisson, was equipped witn tne oead
general's saddle, bridle, boots and spurs.
He was a black one belonging to troops
D. Seventh cavalry.
The windows of nearly all the build
ings are filled with spectators and the
walks crowded with a struggling mass of
humanity.
As the casket was removed from the
car and placed on the caisson, weeping
could be seen on all sides. The proces.
sion then formed and the march to the
grave was begun.
The route of the procession is from the
depot to Calvary cemetery, a distance of
nearly eight miles, through some prin
cipal streets and avenues of St. Louis
The procession was divided into six
divisions. It was composed of the regular
military as escort. Grand Army posts,
the Loyal Legion, Sons of Veterans,
Civic Societies, State Militia of Missouri
and the members of the legislature of
Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas, Govern
ors of states and their staff and unorgan
ized bodies, citizens in carriages and on
foot.
The services at the gra te were 01 a
military character the only exception
being a reading of prayers by the Rev.
Thoa. Sherman, ' son of the deceased
general. '
THE "MARINE" WHIPPED.
Young-
Mltehell Does Him tip In
Twelfth Round.
the
San Fbancisco, Feb. 21. At the Cal
ifornia Athletic Club rooms last night
Jonny Herget better known as "Young
Mitchell" knocked out George La-
Blanche the "Marine" in the twelfth
round.
TO SUCCEED WINDOM.
The
President Nominates Oov. Foster
for the Position.
Washington, Feb. 19. The president
today nominated Charles Foster of Ohio
to be secretary of the treasury.
Martin A. Knapp of New York has
been nominated as interstate commerce
comissioner.
Press Comments.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 21. The
nomination of Ex-Governor Foster, "of
Ohio, to be secretary of treasury is favora
bly received about the capitol. He is, it
is said, thoroughly in accord with the
president's financial policy and conserva
tive man Those opinions are all favora
ble to sound and stable currency. Rep
resentative McKinley said : "Foster will
demonstrate the wisdom of the presi
dent's selection. He is sound on finance
and an able man."
A TERRIFIC BATTLE.
Two Thousand Soldiers Killed in a
Hand to Hand Fight.
Afofhitk, Egypt, Feb 12. A severe en
gagement was fought at Tokoe February
19th between the Egyptain troops and
Osman Digma's forces. Nearly two
thousand lives were lost. It was a des
perate hand to hand fight and lasted for
over one hour. : The Egyptian cavalry
charged dervishers who retired in dis
order suffering a crushing defeat. The
dervishes numbered at least 2000 fighting
men and there was about an equal force
of the Egyptians.
THE FLOODS.
High Water All Over
the East and
South.
Cincinnati, Feb. The White 'river is
receding at Parkersburg, it has been ris
ing at points below. Here it has risen
six feet and four inches since yesterday
morning.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 21.: Heavy
rains prevail in most of the districts east
of the Mississippi river, being specially
severe over the lakes.
Pittsburg, Feb, 21. Another flood in
the Ohio valley is expected, as rain has
been falling all day with no indications
of clearing weather.
The - Monongahela and " Alleghany
rivers are again rising. The damage
done by the flood in this section will
reach many hundred thousand dollars..
A SSO.OOO Fire at Colfax,
Colfax, Wash., Feb. 21. A fire
occurred this morning in the dry goods
house of Wheeler, Matlar & Co., in Fra
ternity block destroying the block and
damaging the entire stock, r Loss is es
timated at $20,000, covered by insurance
of $10,000. Fire is supposed to have
been caused by crossing electric light
wires. . - - .. - .
EXTRAVAGANCE IN RAILROAD
MANAGEMENT.
It is a poor compliment to the manage
ment of the Union Pacific Railway Co,
that 120 cars of wheat, on an average
are daily shipped from the Walla Walla
country to eastern markets and the
shippers of that wheat are able to pay
three cents per bushel more for it than
can the buyers for the Portland market.
In other words, the Union Pacific exact
three cents per bushel more for carrying
wheat from Walla Walla to Portland,
distance of about two hundred miles, than
does the Northern Pacific for carrying it
nearly ten times that distance. Is
possible that the Northern Pacific are
doing this business for the pleasure of
taking it from the hands of the Union
Pacific, or is the Union Pacific simply
choking its own throat in an attempt to
swallow all the profits of wheat raising?
With a country, naturally tributary to
this road which, with the least encourage
ment in the world, can give it all the
freight business it can handle with
double its present rolling stock, with a
people to deal with who are not leas in
telligent, enterprising and fair than the
inhabitants of other states, it makes no
effort to encourage settlement within its
natural territory, and is regarded by its
patrons as their most powerful enemy
and unmerciful master. The entire
population along the portions of its road
in Oregon and Washington are today
aroused as never before to resist what
seems to them the efforts of this corpo
ration to drive them from their farms
and their homes. Their apprehensions
may be and perhaps are overdrawn in a
measure, but the plain, indisputable fact
nevertheless remains that its rates are
disproportionate to those of other roads
and that little or no profit is left to the
producers when their products are
marketed. So strong has become the
feeling against the company that when
it appears as a litigant before the courts
the average jury of farmers can not be
led to see any merit in its claim, and it
is notorious that all that is necessary for
the opposing party is to make a case
sufficiently strong to go to the jury in
order to prevail. So strong is the feeling
that the company are capable of injustice
alone, that most men deem it entirely
legitimate to avail themselves of any and
every opportunity to get even ; to Bteal
from the company and to aid others in
stealing from it, are deemed proper
means of revenge with men otherwise
honest ; in fact it has about as few friends
among its patrons as had the secession
ists in New England when Sumpter fell.
This condition of affairs may be a necess
ary result of operating a railroad but we
do not understand why it should be so
any more than in the carrying on of any
other large enterprise. Under the
present exactions upon producers of this
country there is nothing to encourage
the further settlement of the country and
in the absence of such settlement the
business Of the road can not increase;
the bitter, prejudice and enmity will
grow until a union among the producers
is cemented strong enough to enable
them to open the Columbia to naviga
tion and thus break the bonds in which
this company now holds the commerce
of the country.
HOW TO RUN A NEWSPAPER.
Chicago, Feb. 11. Judge Blodgett
has on hearing in the United States Dis
trict Court a litigation to determine
what part of the capital stock of .the
Chicago Timet is fraudulent. The case
is a relic of the time when James J. West
ran a brief but brilliant course as editor
of the paper.
. Among the evidence introduced today
was an interesting letter written by
West to one of the stockholders during
West's incumbency. From this letter
the following extract is taken as show
ing the policy of the editor : ,
''It is the province of a newspaper to
make them fear rather than to make
them love.- A goody-good v paper won't
pay and never has paid. What I would
like to do here is to raise hell from one
end pf this city to the other, and that is
the best way to win friends and make
them useful to us. My wife says I have
no friends except those who are afraid
to be my enemies.".
Oregon has a few contemptible repre
sentatives of this same red-eyed style of
newspaper pirates, but they only flour
ish where they can draw sustenance
from the lower levels of humanity.
5!!!!!
Our friends at Hood River send up a
bitter wail over the death of the Cas
cade county bill, and take occasion to
censure .Representative Johnston and
some of our citizens most severely be
cause of- their opposition. We plead
guilty to the charge that the people of
the eastern portion of the county op
posed the bill, and we presume a consid
erable portion of the inhabitants of the
territory of the proposed new county
would do the same. It was the opposi
tion of the people of Cascade Locks com
bined with the general feeling in the
legislature against the creation of new
counties that defeated the bill. Had we
of The Dalles maintained an armed neu
trality, the opposition of the people (of
Cascade Locks would have killed the
bill ; and had not the sentiment of the
people of The Dalles been grossly mis
represented by the Hood River advo-
catosjof the bill it is probable that no
direct opposition would have been made
here. We think the people of what
would have been Cascade county have
themselves . and . not Representatives
Johnston and Welch, or our citizens, to
thank that Cascade county is not a
county.
Ia selecting ex-Governor Chaa. Foster
of Ohio for the treasury portfolio, Presi
dent Harrison has reaffirmed his belief '
in the general principles of the Republic
can party, Foster in a strong advocate
of a protective tariff and is a representai
tive republican In all other respects.
He is a firm,' conservative financier and
his appointment . gives assurance that
the policy of his predecessor will be
closely followed.. - -
This is the
last week of the" present
congress.
HELP YOURSELVES.
The joint committee of the legislatures
of Oregon and Washington met and de
termined to do nothing to open the Col
umbia. The legislature of Oregon has
yielded to the subtle influences of the
opponents of an open river and will ad
journ without doing more than to appro
priate $60,000, for a portage road at the
cascades ; the influence of the large cities
on Puget sound will prevent any legisla
tive action in Washington, and the gov
ernment will make no temporary im
provements. The increased acreage and
lack of increased transportation facili
ties will add greatly to the past burdens
and embarassments of the producers of
Idaho, Eastern Oregon and Washington,
and no relief can be had for at least two
years, unless the people of the three
states join hands and independently of
legislative or congressional aid make the
necessary improvements to open the
Columbia. The present is the time to
do this ; the people are enthusiastic and
wonderfully in earnest. Should a pri
vate corporation be formed at once and
a live, well , informed man, who is
thoroughly acquainted with the needs of
the people' and who could present the
matter to the people in its right light,
be placed in the field no difficulty would
be found in placing a million dollars of
stock in these three states. To Astoria,
Portland, Vancoover and The Dalles, an
open nver is Infinitely more valuable
than the Hunt, or any other system of
railroads ; it turns the commerce of an
empire down the channel of this great
river to our markets. It would create
a transportation line beyond the control
of any single corporation or individual ;
so far as the river itself is concerned it is
open to any and all, and the portage
roads should and could be so managed
as that they too would . be practically
open to all. With this vast volume of
commerce wrenched from the hands of
the railway companies who now control
it much of the strong influence always
exerted upon congress and the other de
partments of government would be re
moved and the time would be hastened
when pot tage railways would no longer
be required. Let us take hold of this
matter after the manner of business
men and open our great Columbia by
our own efforts and with our own means.
Portland is most deeply interested ; we
look to her to set the ball rolling.
ANOTHER
SENATORIAL
TERFUGE.
SUB-
Portland Oregonian: The house did
well to reject the senate substitute for
the ttaley portage railway bill. The
substitute promises no relief of the pres
ent situation. It appropriates $125,000
to build a transfer boat, to run between
The Dalles and the Cascades, in case
congress builds portage railways about
those two obstructions. This amounts
to nothing. Congress will not build por
tage railways. If the building of t
transfer boat is made contingent upon
this action by congress, it will not be
built. The result of the passage of this
bill would be that nothing will be done,
The transfer boat idea is a good one,
as it would save breaking bulk twice be
tween Celilo and the Cascades, and it
ought perhaps to be made part of the
portage railway scheme ; but a transfer
boat is of no use without a railway, and
if there is to be a railway, the state must
build it. To spend $125,000 for a trans
fer boat in the expectation that congress
will build a railway is to throw it away
To appropriate $125,000 for that pur
pose, conditioned upon the building of a
railway by congress, is to do nothing at
all. The condition is an impossible one.
- Nothing will ever be accomplished . in
this work, until all reliance upon the
federal government ia abandoned. What
congress will do and what it will not do
in improvement of waterways is made
perfectly clear by precedent and practice.
It will complete the canal . around the
Cascade, but it may be ten years about
it. .. It may some time dig a canal about
the dalles, but it will be at least fifty
years about that. ' But congress will
make no improvements that are not per
manent. It will do nothing to afford
present relief. If there is to be a port
age' railway, the state must ; build it.
The alternatives are, a portage railway
built by the state, or endurance of the
present embargo upon Columbia river
traffic for a generation.
This ought to be clearly understood by
the ' friends of the portage railway
scheme. - It is understood well enough
by those who are urging . the transfer
boat plan, as . a substitute for portage
railway. As well propose a wheel aa a
substitute for a cart. The transfer boat
is simply a useful accessory to the rail
way. Time enough to build it after the
railway is built. At the present junct
ure, the transfer boat substitute is made
to serve the same purpose the city hall
commission amendment was intended to
serve, To. speak the plain truth about
it, it is another senatorial subterfuge,
intended to defeat the portage railway.
This will be the practical effect, if it is
adopted. The same result may follow if
it is rejected. The senate may refuse to
pass the original bill, if the house per
sist in rejecting the transfer boat sub
stitute. In this event, the people of
Eastern Oregon will know just who is
the jailor who turns the key on them for
a new term of commercial imprisonment.
HAIL, AND FAREWELL!
If that is the course to be persisted in
by the senate, if all reasonable measures
are to be thrown overboard just because
the corporations now resist them, Ore
gon will be turned over in 1892 to the
alliance, labor and grange party, aa sure
as the sun is to rise tomorrow morning.
Without turning over his hand, without
even enacting bis theories in either
house, the governor will be made the
political autocrat of Oregon, so far as he
is capable of being such. The logical
result will be to force him into the posi
tion of leader of the labor and farmer
Governor Pennoyer will be made United
States senator from Oregon by a legisla-1
ture of the most radical kind a legisla
ture that will storm the ramparts of
corporation power, and drive it forever
from its position of political power in
Oregon. Does the senate wish to pre
cipitate this course? Salem Capitol
journal.
The Chronicle would like to know
who will be the alliance candidate for
the United States senate to succeed
Allen. Washington, too, will bid the
old parties farewell if its legislature suc
cumbs as the Oregon legislature has
done.
WHO DID ITt
The report circulated upon our streets
yesterday that Representative McCoy of
Sherman had openly opposed the Raley
portage bill was corroborated by some
of our citizens who returned from Salem
and who heard his speech against the
bill.. We know not what may have
been his motives, nor what influence led
him to desire the defeat of a measure so
urgently desired by all Eastern Oregon ;
but we do know that he entirely disre
garded the wish of the men who placed
him in office and utterly betrayed the
trust imposed upon him by the people
of Sherman and Wasco counties. It was
not because he was ignorant of the river
bank from Celilo to The Dalles that he
erred in stating that it would be impos
sible to construct a portage road on this
side of the river ; it was not because he
believed the portage would be useless
when constructed without a transfer
boat, or that he had any hopes of the
government constructing a portage road,
that he urged the amendment ; nor did
he urge the amendment because he be
lieved it was made in good faith. His
ablest effort of the session was in opposi
tion to the wishes of his constituents,
and we believe his action, more than
that of any other representative defeated
the bill.
It has been stated that Senator Wat-
kins delayed the report of the joint com
mittee of the legislatures of Oregon and
Washington, and thereby caused the de
feat. In justice to Senator Wtakins we
are glad to say that the statement that the
report of that committee was delayed by
him is wholly fake and the person who
made the statement before the legists-1
ture retracted it and apologized for his
error. That report was ready at the
time it was due and the fact that it was
not presented when expected was not
the fault of Wasco's senator.
With a representative from the two
counties in which the road would have
been constructed standing in the ranks
of the bitterest enemies of the bill and
advocating the amendment which they
had suggested, the southern portion of
the state could not be expected to lend
its aid. We think the Union ' Pacific
railroad is under greater obligations to
Representative McCoy than to anyone
else for the greatest victory it won in the
session just closed. "': -
It is an easy matter to see after dis
aster has come how it could have been
avoided and it is always easier to ex
plain how a thing can be done than to
do it. The press of the state will be
filled with lectures to the legislators dur
ing the coming days upon what they
have done . that ought not to have been
done and what has been left undone
that ought to Lave been done. We do
not desire to take part in this scolding
campaign, but we offer generally to those
who have been disappointed, this ad
vice: Whatever legislation of a local
nature may be desired let it be prepared
long enough before the next session to
enable all interested to be heard. Our
charter bill was perhaps not without
objection, although we felt' that it was
very . important that most of its pro-
is visions should be adopted. The water
bill as introduced by Senator Watklns
was of very great importance to the city
and our taxpayers and its defeat will be
more deeply felt in the future than at
present. Both the measures were de
feated bv the misrepresentations of a
few, notwithstanding the very geneial
and positive expression in. their favor.
Had the bills been prepared two or three
months before the meeting of the legis
lature, we believe they would today be
laws. ' The- misrepresentations ' which
were made at Salem concerning the sen
timent of the people here, and which
defeated these measures would have
been disarmed and helpless. : Exper
ience is a dear teacher but it teaches.
The people of Wasco County ' were
disappointed again yesterday by the news
from Salem, this time on account of the
vetoing of the wagon road bills. For the
first time in many years we had asked
state aid for the construction of a road
and the senators and representatives
had granted our request. The proposed
road over Tygh hill would have been of
great service, not alone to the people of
this county, but to all who pass through
our county on the way to the Willamette
Valley by the way of the Barlow road.
It is sorely needed and was an entirely
proper object for state aid. We believe
that stinginess in the matter of good
and permanent wagon roads in a state
like Oregon is the opposite of true econ
omy. We sincerely hope these ' bills
will pass over the governor's veto.
We opine the defeat of so many very
important measures in the legislature
which is just ending, in which the people
are so directly interested, and especially
so far as the transportation problem is
concerned will result in downing the
republican and democratic parties by
the farmers' alliance at the next bien
nial election and elect a legislature from
the producers instead of from the hord
of politicians who want office at the ex
pense of justicej
From Pendleton and Walla Walla to
Astoria the proposition to open the river
by a private corporation results with
strong encouragement. This is the only
sure method of getting the work done
within the next decade. . As long as the
railway companies can 'obstruct legisla-
n. ey now seem to be able to do,
the river will remain obstructed.
GOOD LORD DELIVER US.
Portland Oregonian.
The legislature ought to have author
ized the construction of a portage rail
way at rme ualles. Had it enacted
proper assessment law, this railway
could have been built and the state
would not have felt the outlay. The
next legislature could have ordered the
construction of a transfer boat, which
could be built in ninety days, and the
problem would have been solved. But
where one member was ready to urge
immediate action, two or three were
always at hand to fill every proposition
full of obstacles. No spur to action was
sharp enough to overcome the stolid re
sistance of inertia and hesitation, the
customary disposition and inclination to
postponement and delay. Hut the de
mand for this measure is not to be
silenced. It will increase to a storm
will rise to whirlwind, and will sweep ali
before it. A beginning of this work a
work that the people will surely instst
on till they get it ought to have been
made now. Postponement of it has only
thrown forward a most disturbing factor
into coming elections. . ...
' Tlcttm of Accidental Shooting.
Hood Rivkb, Or., Feb. 21. Newton
aged 13 years, the son of Dr. E. J.
Thomas, was shot in the head accident
ally this afternoon at 4 o'clock, dying at
. several boys playing on the railroad
bridge had a 22-calibre gun. In scuffling
lor its possession the gun was discharged,
the bullet striking the Thomas boy in
tne leit tempie.
To Oregon belongs the honor of being
the flrsUstate or territory on the Pacific
coast to have a Masonic lodge establish
ed within its borders. To Olympia the
honor of establishing the first lodge of
Odd Fellows, and Walla Walla comes
next. '
Mr. Anderson shipped two cars of
mutton sheep from the stock yards yes
terday to the Sound markets.
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