In one memorable occasion in 1938, the colorful Lt. Governor Victor A. Meyers (1898-1991) had been threatening to call a special session Legislature if Governor Martin ever left the state. Anxious to pass a pension bill that Martin said he wouldn't address until the 1939 regular session, state pension proponents saw their chance when Martin was in Washington D.C., to argue for the Olympic National Park. Unfortunately, Meyers was also out of the state.

In a political farce that fascinated and amused the entire nation, the left-wing legislators frantically found Meyers in California on a fishing trip, and the nation watched as he raced toward the state on a variety of types of transportation, train, boat, a chartered plane, he even commandeered a State Patrol car to Olympia, so Secretary of State Reeves could attest his proclamation of a special session of the Legislature. Arriving at the capitol after her office had closed for the day, Meyers went back to Seattle and announced his intentions on the radio.

Thus alerted, Martin hopped a flight as far as Chicago. As there were no direct flights to Olympia, he chartered a plane to Spokane. At 8 a.m. next morning, Meyers was at Reeves's office demanding an official stamp be affixed to his proclamation. Reeves refused. Meyers was no longer the acting governor. The Secretary of State had gotten word that Martin had landed in Spokane just 10 minutes earlier.