CHAPTER XL

POLITICS AND PROGRESS. 1853.

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS JUDICIAL DISTRICTS PUBLIC BUILDINGS TENOR or LEGISLATION INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE HAR BORS AND SHIPPING LANE S CONGRESSIONAL LABORS CHARGES AGAINST GOVERNOR GAINES OCEAN MAIL SERVICE PROTECTION OF OVERLAND IMMIGRANTS MILITARY ROADS DIVISION OF THE TERRITORY FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS NEW JUDGES AND THEIR DISTRICTS WHIGS AND DEM OCRATS LANE AS GOVERNOR AND DELEGATE ALONZO A. SKINNER AN ABLE AND HUMANE MAN SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES.

I HAVE said nothing about the legislative and po litical doings of the territory since the summer of 1852, when the assembly met in obedience to a call from Governor Gaines, only to show its contempt by adjourning without entering upon any business. 1 At the regular term in December there were present five whigs, three from Clackamas county and two from Yamhill. Only one other county, Umpqua, ran a whig ticket, and that elected a democrat, which promised little comfort for the adherents of Gaines

^ J The council was composed of Deady, Garrison, Lovejoy, Hall, and Way- mire of the former legislature, and A. L. Humphry of Benton and Lane counties, Lucius W. Phelps of Linn, and Levi Scott of Umpqua, Douglas, and Jackson. Lancaster, from the north side of the Columbia, was not present. The members of the lower house were J. C. Avery and George E. Cole of Benton; W. T. Matlock, A. E. Wait, and Lot Whitcomb of Clackamas; John A. Anderson of Clatsop and Pacific; F. A. Chenoweth of Clarice and Lewis; Curtis of Douglas; John K. Hardin of Jackson; Thomas 1ST. Aubrey of Lane; James Curl and Royal Cottle of Linn; B. F. Harding, Benjamin Simpson, and Jacob Conser of Marion; H. N. V. Holmes and J. M. Fulker- son of Polk; A. C. Gibbs of Umpqua; John Richardson, F. B. Martin, and John Carey of Yamhill; Benjamin Stark, Milton Tuttle, and Israel Mitchell of Washington. Or. Statesman, July 31, 1852. The officers elected in July held over.

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