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MAKE IT EFFECTIVE BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE TO EN FORCE PROVISIONS Of Initiative and Referendum Amendment People of Oregon Will Have ' an Op portunity to Say Something Regarding General Legislation. The direct legislation league of Or. has drawn up a bill to make effective the Initiative and Referendum Amend ment to the Constitution of Oregon. The amendment became a law at the general election lust June. The bill will be introduedby Howe in the sen ate and Representative G. M. Orton, who is a member of the executive com mittee of the direct legislation league, will .introduce the measure in the bouse. The bill follows : A BILL. For an Act making effective the Ini tiative and Referendum provisions of section one of article four of the Con stitution of the State of Oregon, and regulating elections thereunder, and providing penalties for violations of provisions of this Act. BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEO PLE OF THE STATE OF OREGON : Section 1. The following shall be substantially the form of petition for the Referendum to the people on an Act passed by tho Legislative Assem bly of the State of Oregon. PETITION FOR THE REFEREN DUM. To the Honorable , Sec retary of State for the State of Ore gon : We, the undersignod citizens and legal voters of the State of Oregon, respectfully demand that House (Sen ate) Bill number , entitled (Title ol Act,) passed by the Legislative Assembly of tho State of Oregon at the regular session of said Legislative Assembly, shall bo refered to the legal electors of the State for their approval or rejection at tho regular general election to be held on the day of , 19 , and each for himself says , I have personally signed this petition ; I am a legal voter of the State of Oregon, and my residence, jxistoffice and voting precincts are correctly written after my name. Name, residence, if in city, post office, voting street, precinct. (Here follow twenty numbered lines for signatures. ) Section 2. The following shall be substantially tho form of petition fcr. any law or amendment to tho Con stitution of tho Stato of Oregon, pro posed by the Initiative INITIATIVE PETITION. To the Honorable , Secretary of State for the State of Oregon : We, tho undersigned citizens and legal voters of Oregon, respectfully demand that tho following Bill tr Amendment tho constitution shall be submitted to tho legal electors of the State of Oregon for thoir approval or rejection at the regular general election to be held on the day of , 19 , and each for himself says : I have personally signed this peti tion, and my residence, postoffice and voting precinct are correctly written after my name. Name, residence, if in a city, post office, Jvoting precinct, strout and num ber. (Ni id' ered lines for twenty names on each sheet. ) Every such sheet for petitioner's sig natures shall be attached to a full and corroct copy of the title and text of the measure so proposed by Initiative petition, but such petition may be filed with tho Secretary of State in numbered sections for convenience in handling, and Referendum petitions may be filed in sections in like manner. Section 8. An affidavit substan tially in the following form shall be executed on each sheet of every peti tion for the Referendum and on each sheet of every petition for the Initia tive before the Secretary of State' shall be required to file the same, and such affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of the genuineness of the signatures and the qualifications of the signers on that sheet. State of Oregon, County of ss. I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a resident of the State of Oregon, residing at , thai; I am over the age of eighteen years, and that every one of the (number of signers) persons whose names are hereinbefore written as petitioner signed his own name in p :rsou thereto, and that he declared himself to be, and I verily believe be is, a legal voter of the State of Oregon, and that his statements of his residence, voting precinct and post office are true and correct. (Signature of affiant). Subscribed and gworu to by tho said before me, this day of 10 ." Name and titlo of officer. Tho forms herein given are not mandatory and if substantially follow ed in any petition it shall be suffici ent, disregarding clerical and merely technical errors. Section 4. When any petition for the Initiative or the Referendum shall be filed with the secretary of state, lie shall decide in tho first instance whether or not the petition entitles the parties to have the measure referred to the people under tho provisions of Section ono of Article four of the Constitution of Oregon and either the petitioners or the remonstrants, if any, may appeal to tho , supreme court of the state from the decision of the secretary of state, and the decision of the supreme court shall be final and conclusive upon tho parties. The appealing party shall serve upon the secretary of state a written notice of the appeal from his decision and the sercetary shall there upon transmit to the clerk of tho su premo court a copy of his decision together with tho original pajiers and documents upon which the decision was made. Section 5. Immediately upon the filing of any such petition for the Ref erendum or the Initiativo with the Secretary of State, signed by the num ber of voters and filled within the time required by the constitution, he shall notify the governor in writing of the filing of Buch petition, and the governor shall forthwith issue his proclamation that such petition has been, filed, with a brief statement of its tenor and effect. Said proclama tion shall pe published four times in four consecutive weeks in one daily or weekly newspaper in each judicial district of tho State of Oregon. Section 6. The Secretary of State, at tho same time that ho furnishes to the county clerks of tho several coun ties certified copies of the name of candidates for state and district offices shall furnish to said county clerks his certified copy of the titles and numbers of the various measures to bo voted upon at the ensuing general doction and he shall use for each neasnro the title designated for that purpose by the legislative assembly, committee or organization presenting and filing with hini the Act, constitu tional amendment, or petition for the Initiative or the Referendum, provid ed, that such title shall in no enso ex ceed twenty words, which shall be descriptive of said measure, 'and he shall number such measures and they shall be printed on the official ballot in the order in which tho Acts re ferred by the legislative assembly, and petitions by the jiooj lo shall be tiled in his office, the first measure shall bo numbered 200 in numorals, and the succeeding measures shall be numbered consecutively 201, 202, 203, and so on at each election. It shall bo the duty of tho several county ;lurks to print said titles and numbers upon the notices of election now re quired by law as well as upon the official ballot in the order presented to them by the secretary of state and in tho relative position now re quired by law upon tho official ballot. On such election notices and upon the official balllot measures proposed by the Initiative shall be designated and distinguished from measures pro- loosed ' by the legislative assembly by tho heading "Proposed by Initiative Petition." Section 7. The manner pf voting upon measures submitted to tho peo ple shall be the same as is now re quired and provided by law. If two conflicting measures upon the same subject shall be submitted to tho same election, such measures shall bo bracketed together and numbered thus : ( Number ) ( Number ) and within tho bracket in addition to the titles, shall be the explanatory words, "Vote for one and against the other, or vote against both, but do not vote for both becauso if you vote in favor of both your vote will not be counted for or against either". If any ballot shall be marked in favor of such measures it shall not be counted for or against either. Neither of said measures shall be adopted un less it shall receive an affirmative majority of the total number of ef fective votes cast on both .measures and entitled to be counted under the provisions of this act : That is to say, supposing seventy thousand ballots to be properly marked, neither measure shall be adopted unless it shall re ceive mere than thirty five thousand affirmative votes. Section 8. The secretary cf state shall, not later than the first Monday of the third mouth. next before any general election at which any pro posed law or amendment to the con stitution is to be submitted to the people, cause to be printed a true copy of the title and text of each measure to be submitted, with the number and form in which the question will to printed on the official ballot. The paper to be used for the covers shall be twenty by twenty-five inches and fifty pounds to the ream. The jiersous, committee or organization filing any petition for the Referendum or the Initiative, but no person or organiza tion shall have the right to place with the secretary of state for distri bution any pumphlctH advocating such measure, licit later than the first Mon day of tho fifth month before the reg ular general election ak, which the measnro is to lie voted on. Any per son, committee or organization ojijios ing any measure may place with the secretary for distribution any pamphlets they may desire not later than the. first Monday of tho fourth mouth immediately preceding such election ; as to pamphlets advocating or opposing any measure- referred to the people by tho legislative assembly, they shall be governed by the siftue rules of time, but they may be placed with the secretary of state by any person, committee or organization, provided, that all such pamphlets shall be furnished to the sercetary of state in sheets of uniform size as fol lows: size of pamphots to bo six inches wide by niuo inches long ; size of type page to be twenty-six ems pica wide by forty ems pica long, set in long primer or ten point' type, and printed on sized and super-calendered paper twenty-five by thirty eight inches weighing fifty pounds to the ream. All such pamphlets shall bo furnished to the seucrutary of state at the solo expense of the persons in terested and without cost to the state. In no case shall the secretary of state be obliged to receive any such pamphlets unless a sufficient number is furnished to supply one to every legal voter in the state. Tho secretary of state shall cause ono copy of each ' of said pamphlets to bo bound in witli his copy of the measures to bo submitted as herein provided. The title jingo of every such jiamphlet shall show the official number and title of the measure to which it refers and whether it is in tended to favor or opjiose such meas ure and by whom it is issued. Tho secretary of state shall distribute to each county clerk before the second Monday in the third month next jre ceding such regular general election, a , sufficient number of said bound pamphlets to furnish ono cojiy to every voter in his county. Every reg istration officer after the receipt by tho county clerk of such jiimijihlets shall deliver to every voter thereafter as lie is registered ono copy of tho same, and said registration and de livery shall be a jiart of tho official duty of every officer who rogisters voters and bis registration fee or wages shall bo full compensation for this additional service. The secre tary of stato shall not bo obliged to receive or distribute any pamjihlcts advocating or ojijiosing any moasrue unless the same -shall be filed with him within tho time heroin jirovided. Section 0. The votes on measures and questions shall bo counted, can vassed and returned by the regular boards of judges, clerks and officers as votes for candidates are counted, canvassed and retnrnod within thirty days after any. election at which any measure) or question shall be voted upon tho governor sha'l issue his jiroclamatiou which . shall bo published in like manner as other jiroclamations heroin jiroVided for, giving tho whole number of votes cast in tho stato for and against each measure and question and declaring such measures as are ajiproved by a majority of those voting thereon to be in full force and effect as the law of the state of Oregon from the date of said jiroclamatiou. Section 10. TJvery person who is a qualified elector of the state of Ore gon may sigu a petition for the Ref erendum or for the Initiative on any measure, and any resident of the state over 18 years of age may circu late such petition and make the affi davit required Jiorein. Any jierson signing any name other than his own to any such jietition, or any jierson signing any such petition who is not at the time of signing the same a legal voter of this state, or any officer 'or any jierson wilfully violating any Irovision,of this statute, shalMujxm conviction thoroof be pnuiHluiff'VyXa fine not excooding five hundred dol lars, or by imj risonnient in the jien itentiary not exceeding two years, or by both such fino and iiiijii-ifviimeigj: in tho discretion of tho coufVbe. foW which such conviction shall be had. COMPROMISED THE CASE. Jim Attachment Case Settled (Bui jtffi.Cduri and Suit Against Shaver 'itfidfawn. The suit of Julina Pollock vs. J. R. Shaver, sheriff, was withdrawn Saturday after having been set fcr trial by jury. The suit grew out of an attachment made in the suit brought by Joe Wallace against Fred Madison and Jack Wallace to recover $040. On the day that the attachment was filed against the sawmill owned by the de fendants, the jirojierty was sold to Julina Pollock and she bronght suit against tne sheriff for the recoveiy of the jirojierty. The original suit was satisfactorily nettled out of court and by tho .terms of the settlement the suit against Sherjtf-fR$ei?...vnuf! dropped. The suit of Fred Madison vs. Fred Bent, to recover $127 for lumber, was settled out of court for $108 25. This suit was commenced in the circuit court last December. io; ,0 Reduction On Our Entire Stock of SHOES Our Annual Clearance Sale still continues. Our already low prices have been further reduced to move the stock quickly before taking our annual inventory. Toilet Articles 25c Bottle Violet Ammonia .....14c 25c Bottle Lyon's Tooth Powder ; 18c 25c Bottle Rubifoam 18c 4711 White Rose Soap 12c Cashmero Boqnot SoajJ. . . . 14c Cologne Boquet Soap 8c Williams Shaving Soap... 4o Castile Soap 8c Pears' Soap 12o Carnation Soap lOo Swan Down Powder 12c Talcum Powder 7c Sozodont 18o Pure Borax, lb. yikg 8c Hind's Almond Cream. , . .87c Soap Boxes 22c Eastman & Lundberg Perfumes at reduced jiricos. CHESTER KEADY ARRESTED. Bsoke From the Corvallis Jail and Came to Oregon City Chester Keady, who eseapod from tho Corvallis jail on the night of Jan uary 14, was arrested at 1 Park Place Wednesday evening by Chief of Police Charles Bums. His two companions, Thomas Cameron and a boy named Stuart, wero also arrested. The latter are believed to have holjwd Keady es capo from tho Corvallis jail. Last Friday evening George Fiske, a student at the O. A. C. , while re turning homo" from collego, was as siailted by two boys, Chester Keady and Harry Lyons, who were after wards arrested and sentenced to 40 diiys in jail. Wednesday night with the assistance of friends they securod a crowbar and made their escajie. Keady came direct to Oregon City, and was arrested Wednesday night for vagrancy. He was released the follow ing rooming and told to leave town. When Chief of Police Burns received word that the boys were wanted ho went to Park Place where he thought the boys wire, and had no trouble in locating thorn. They were taken back to Corvallis Saturday by a deputy sheriff. TEACHERS AT NEW ERA. Meet Saturday, January 31, at 10:30 o'clock. Km A local teachers meeting of Clack hJuiW County teachers will bo held "tSatuiday, Januarxy 31, at New Era. TiieMiroKrara follows: ction of officers. "Elementary Science", Harold Rands, recently of Cornell University. "Rojiort of the Committooe on Pre miums, indunstrial work." Intermission. "Basket Making," Miss Tessa Lark ins, Marquam. "School room Decoration," Miss Mary S. Barlow, Barlow. "Attention," A. T. Winches, prin cipal Canby school. "The Recitation," a. "Faults to be Avoided," Chan. Hansen, Hood View school. b. "The Art of Questioning," J. O. N;o, Dryland school. .TJSoniS-lrirhi&ts of a Good Recita tion," Mrs. Elizabeth Buck, Park pl;;ce. Lunchoen will be provided ty the ladies. of New Era. The north-bound and the south-bound trains pass each ot hor it Oregon City at 0:20 o'clock. Adams Bros.' Golden Rule Bazaar Oregon City's Big Cash Stores Specials Flanolottes, 12c, 15c and 18c values, latest patterns ... 9c 50 doz. Ladies' Hose, regular 25c. Regent Brand, Fast Black Seamless 1 7c Eider Down Dressing Sacques. , Blue, Pink, Rod. ' regular $1.85 .... G9c Mou's Ribbed Underwear, med ium heavy, white with s neat stripe 29c Odd pieces Crockery. Cups and Saucers, Pitchers, Bowls, Etc 9C DOC TMsIsYourChancc U io auy ixoods at jrrices fi To Stilt Yout Purse We have just finished stock-taking and must reduce stock to make room for spring and summer goods. fwM Sell EveytnmPi I j I At a Big Reduction I i IIIIMI Shirt Waists and Skirts, Latest Styles; Dry Goods, Underwear, Hosiery, Shoes, Etc., of the best make and quality. a Men's and JJoys' Clothing, Hats, Gloves, Mackiu- i toshes, Etc., at prices overlooks. j Come and See tot Yotitself . THE RED FRONT GEO. T. HOWARD, Prop. Court House Block, Oi Oregon City Planing Mill -gaa all kinds of Building Material, Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Turning and Scroll-Sawing. Orders for all kinds of Mill Work solicited. Promptness and quality of work guaranteed. Before placing your orders write and inquire for prices. Shop Job-work ol all kinds. 10 Reduction On Our Entire Stock of Men's and Boys' CLOTHING if 1 Stationery Box of Pajier with en- velojios to match 8o Box EnvolojxiS, 500 XX fine 30c Steamboat Playing Cards 7c Bicycle Playing Cards . . lfio Princess Note Pajier, per quire 8c Linen Paper, jiound, CO sheets, CO euvclojies. . 25c Rocoijit Books 4c Pencil and Ink Tablets . . 4o Pocket Diaries 20o Toilet Paper, extra qual ity, 1000 shoots, roll or package 9c Crepe Paj)or, per roll .... Co Decorated Crepo Pajier . . 18o Shelf Paper. . 4c Cabinet Letter Files. , . , . 29c Lincoln Fountain Pens. 1.15 Japanese Pajier Najikius per 100....;.........;. 15c S 8 V. DO that no prudent buyer ever Oregon City. Oregon DO C3G Ti ft