[11] Bausman delivered the principal address for Governor Lister at the memorial service held by The King County Democratic Club at Good Eats Cafeteria on Saturday, July 5th, 1919.
[15] Seattle artist Jeanie Walter Walkinshaw (1885-1976) painted a portrait of Frederick Bausman available at the Washington State Supreme Court Temple of Justice.
[16] Bausman volunteered to and defended Seattle Mayor Hiram Gill against charges brought by the U.S. District Attorney for conspiracy to aid the Logan Billinglsey bootlegging syndicate.
Bausman also defended Seattle Police Chief Beckingham and four Detectives Peyser, Poolman, McLennan and Doom[17] in the same case.
[18][19] Bausman closed his plea to the grand jury on behalf of acquittal for Mayor Gill with the words: "There are two people who await your verdict most anxiously.
[21][22] Bausman had never held public office or been a candidate with the exception of serving as the private secretary to Eugene Semple - the last territorial governor of Washington -- from 1887 to 1889.
"I have urged and it has been my hope that Judge Bausman would see his way clear not only to remain on the bench until the end of the term for which he was appointed, as he will do, but also that he would become a candidate to succeed himself.
[27] On December 10, 1915, the Washington Supreme Court affirmed the state-wide prohibition law, however Bausman was not included in the opinion as he had not yet been a justice at the time of the cases' argument.
Bausman wrote in regards to fishing rights detailed in tribal treaties: “These arrangements were but the announcement of our benevolence which, notwithstanding our frequent frailties, has been continuously displayed.
Neither Rome nor sagacious Britain ever dealt more liberally with their subject races than we with these savage tribes, whom it was generally tempting and always easy to destroy and whom we have so often permitted to squander vast areas of fertile land before our eyes.” A descendant of Mr. Towessnute, Yakama Nation member Johnson Meninick, spent years working to have the fishing convictions of his family reversed.
After Mr. Meninick’s death, attorney Jack Fiander contacted the state Supreme Court with a request to reverse the 1916 ruling and to vacate any conviction of Mr.
[30] The Washington Supreme Court took up the petition by Mr. Fiander in 2020, unanimously agreeing that the 1916 ruling was unjust and worse, reflected racist attitudes towards Native people.