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Show AN EASTERN VIEW OF A j WESTERN WAY. 1 That the governor of a state should undertake to appoint a member of the legislature strikes the people f the older states as wonderful. And yet that is what the governor of Oregon has done A vacancy occurred in the state senate, and Governor West forthwith appointed Miss Kathryn Glarke to the position. It is true that the attorney general of the state has advised the governor that he is exceeding ex-ceeding his constitutional, powers But we suppose that question will have to be decided by tbe senate Itself, and If the young lady is attractive and agreeable she may be seated by the senate just to make things In the senate more pleasant Tt Is not to be supposed that a new and progressive pro-gressive state will permit itself to be shackled bj a constitution. The constitution con-stitution of Oregon may be and we believe is, several years old and as such out of date and archaic. The ancient bill of rights written by George Mason, the first written summary of the rights of a citizen, declares that the executive the Judicial Judi-cial and the legislative should be forever for-ever kept separate. But George Mason Ma-son went out of date when the new thought arose. Baltimore Sun oo |