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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY JtVENINO. DECEMBER M 1901: if mm Mfim 1 ( MM HBi .. m BBS I PROFIT TOO BIG, IS HOWELL'S BELIEF Executive Board Member Re ports on the Morrison Street Bridge Contract. WHAT CHARTER SAYS VS. WHAT BOARD DID City Attorney McNary Recom mends Action to Secure Im provements Contracted. WAR BEGUN Mil. di Pieto and Her Baby. She Was Acquitted of the Murder of Her Brother-in-law, Who Attempted to Force His Attentions Upon lis. -r ; ; ' i r r- OREGON WILL TAKE CENSUS NEXT YEAR Count of Noses to Be Made With Assistance of Fsderal Government. GOVERNOR PROPOSES IMPORTANT CHANGES Large Increase in Population Has Been Made Since Statistics Were Last Gathered. A census of Oregon la to be taken next year In conjunction with the cenaua department of the federal government. If recommendations to be made by Gov ernor Chamberlain are carried Into ef fect by the stage legislature. The fed eral census of Oregon In 1900 showed a population of .113.636. Of this number 180.561 were females. An enormous gain will be seen by the figures of next year's census. pregon has a census every five years, snd the federal government every 10 veers. There has been no count In this state since 10. at which time the work was done by the machinery of the gen eral government. The elaborate com pilation then made ahowed Oregon to have 19.000 Chinese. Japanese and In dians, and l.leo negroes. The tabu lated statement In the census report gives the number of persons of every age. from one month to 100 years. There were three males and four females In the state who were more than 100 years Old. All were natives of Oregon. There were 7l males snd 106 females whose ages were unknown, or who refused to tell. The work of the enumerators will long be remembered for the difficulties they encountered In securing exact ages, although 1M women claimed that they were unable to atate the year of their nativity The Oregon census law was passed In 'The law la crude and antiquated," said Governor Chamberlain today, "and does not meet present-day needs. I will recommend In my message that the law be made to conform to the federal cen sus law. under which the general gov e merit offers to assist states In gather ing aulnquenntal statistics Shortly af ter the federal census bureau waa es tablished, congress pai i a law by which that bureau was enabled to as sist In state census work to the extent of gathering the data on manufacturing illiteracy, military and certain industrial elements In the make up of the state. I'nder this law It asalMcd Michigan very materially In Its last census and bore a part of the expense, t believe it will be a good thins; Tor Oregon and' will smve a large sum of money to the taxpayers There la no speclsl season of the year favored by law In which the census should be taken. It Is suggested that the moat advantageous time next year would be late In the season, after home seekers have come and settled upon their locations In the various counties of the state. From tbe Railway Age. The totsl coal production of the Hefted States la now at the rate of 1 000.ee tone per day. and the consump tion of seal by railroads Is equal to 40 per oeat of this, or 40,000 tone per day. The feel Mil of a railroad con tributes about 10 per eent. of the total expense of operation and 10 to 40 .per cent of the total cost of running the locomotives. A locomotive will consume est aa average 11.000 worth of coal per at, num. and for a road having an equip twit . r 1,000 looses stives the coal bill to approximately l6.ooo.ooo MAYOR WILLIAMS' CHRISTMAS GIFT Members of the Council Present Handsome Japanese Um to City's Executive. SEASON'S COMPLIMENTS FLY THICK AND FAST His Honor Points With Pride to What Has Been Accomplished by the Administration. Members of the city council presented Mayor Will lama with a handsome Jap anese urn this morning aa a Christmas gift.. It Is of bronze, stands 27 Inches high, and is decorated with symbolic Japanese characters. ! When the mayor arrived at the city nail at 0:30 o clock the council men met him and he was greatly surprised when Councilman Zimmerman, on behalf of his fellow members, presented him with the gift. Mr. Zimmerman recited the fact that their term of office- would soon ex pire and said the members desired to show their high appreciation of his services as the city executive and the esteem In which they held him, offering him the token with best wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Mayor Williams, in reply, expressed his appreciation of the friendship and cordiality of the councllmen and said: "It Is impossible for the officers of a city government to agree in every thing. Each has his personal opinions regarding the way affairs are to be run. It la Impossible to always get along without discord, but In matters where the welfare of the city has been affected. I believe we acted in a manner which we thought best. "I am sure that when we got out of office It will be with the feeling that we have accomplished all within our power. The funds have been judiciously expended and the work has been care fully watched. Although you have made mistakes you are to be commended for your work. "I reciprocate the kindly feelings you have expressed la presenting this token. I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Tear." TID BTjCBXTAKT BOOT. Prom the Philadelphia Record. William H. Tuft, secretary of war. weighs 320 pounds. Ills predecessor In office. KUhu Root, tips the scales at only, half that figure. When Secretary Tuft was civil gov ernor of the Philippines his health waa sudly undermined. He was laboring under great responsibility In governing the archipelago, where conditions were yet so disturbed as to give Secretary Root and President Roosevelt much con cern. Mr. Root therefore requested Judge Taft to keep him advised by the new Pacific cable aa to the state of his health. One day this message came to Root from Governor Taft at Benguet, In the mountains nenr Manila: "Rode 10 miles on a mule today, Am feeling much better. TAFT." Mr. Root chuckled and doubled with mirth In the chair which Secretary Taft has since discarded as too small. He dictated thla reply: Taft, Benguet: Glad to hear It: but how is the mule? ROOT." "Do you mean to tell me that you never drink water?" "Tee," answered Broncho Bob. "I come from a part of the west where water is too much needed for irrigation to be wasted." Washington Star. George H. Howell, at the meeting of tne city executive board yesteraay arter noon, filed a report of a personal Inves tlgation of the Morrison-street bridge nd introduced a resolution that the mayor appoint a competent expert who has heretofore not had anything to do with the bridge, to make a careful exam ination of the entire structure for the benefit of the executive board. His report was far from satisfactory and severely arraigned the contractors and the city engineer. He made the statement that out of $62,000 worth of extras which the board allowed the Pa clflc Construction company on the bridge the contractors cleared about 630,000. He substantiated his statements by going into details regarding costs or ma terlal and work. On the extra steel alone, moat of which was for stringers which were Sub stituted for the wooden stringers, he said, the company made fiS.IIt. On the wooden block flooring and on angle-bars, he says, the company charged 16.S60 In excess of the sum which should have been allowed. A largo profit was also realised by the contractors, he says, on the tender-houses and waiting-rooms. He stated that many of these extras had been called to the attention of Mr. Elli ott prior to the awarding of the contract, and that he had ample opportunity to In corporate them In the original contract What the Charter Says. In allowing all these extras, he says, the executive board erred, because the charter explicitly states that no contract for material- in excess of 1260 shall be let without advertising for bids. Be cause the board entered into the con tracts for the extras without .first ad vertising for bids, he says all the con tracts for such extras are Illegal and void. , A stigma rests upon us," he said In his report, "over the recent disclosures conoernlng the bridge. Direct charges have been made against the members of the hoard of collusion In awarding the contracts for the extras on the Morrison sfreet bridge and awarding the contract for the Front-street bridge. Transac tions of this sort reflect on every mem ber of tha board, and for that reaaon I have made this investigation. "I dislike to be Investigated by the council." said he in explanation of his report after it had been read. "The ex ecutive board was empowered by the legislature to construct this bridge. It will soon be finished, and every member of this committee should be perfectly familiar with ths work in every detail before It is accepted." "We had-better find out our own mis takes rather than have others find them out for us," said Rodney Gllsan. "I In favor of Mr. Howell's plan to have the bridge inspected." H. W. Goddard was of ths opinion that as the bridge was being constructed under a special act of the legislature, the board has a right to let contracts for the extras without advertising for bids, providing the prices paid for the material la reasonable. Mayor ravers the Method. The mayor stated that he did not see how they could have done otherwise than let the contract for tha extras to the Pacific Construction company. "Ths moot Important point mentioned in the report is The excessive price paid for tha material. City Engineer Elliott stated thai the prices allowed were on the same basis aa the prices paid for-the other material In the bridge. Whitney L Boise went Into detail re garding the awarding of the contract for the bridge. He stated that before the contract was ' awarded, the matter had been placed in the hands of Charles S Blbler, a well-known civil engineer, who Waa acceptable to the Taxpayers' league: Howard C. Holmes of Ban Francisco, a bridge expert, who was chosen by the Taxpayers' league, and City Engineer Elliott All three concurred In award ing the contract for the bridge to the Pacific Construction company. Mayor Williams was of the opinion that action on the resolution should be deferred until the board learned the re sult of the Investigation of the council. The matter will be taken up at the first meeting of the board next year. Wants aoompoaso. City Attorney McNary recommended that some action be taken against the Oregon Real Estate company for not filling its contract for the improvement of Twelfth street He stated that the city could have somebody finish the work and receive relmbusement from the bondsmen: that demurrage could be collected because they had not complet ed their contract according to agree ment, or that the board could reject all proceedings and readvertlse for new bids on the work. There are four blocks which remain unimproved. The street committee and the city attorney will formulate the best method of procedure to, complete the Improvement Rodney L. Gllsan presented a resolu tion providing for the deposit of a lump sum to pay for the repair of holes cut in pavements. This will arre t the gas company especially, and Instead of com ing to the city engineer s ornce and de positing 12 every time It desires to make an excavation it - will deposit a lump sum to Insure the coet of repairs for a stated time. There has been some question regard ing the legality of action taken by the committees of the board, and Mayor Wil liams introduced a resolution ratify ing all tbe acts of the committees In accepting work. Hereafter contractors will be required to furnish maintenance bonds with their bids for hard surface Improvements. On all contracts costing not to exceed 110, 000, bonds amounting to to per cent of the contract price will be required On contracts exceeding 110,000. bonds amounting to $.'.000. plus 26 per cent of whatever sum the contract exceeds S io.iioo. will hie demanded. Joseph weber suggested that sewer and street Inspectors be required to fur nish 11.000 bonds ss a guarantee of the faithful performanoe of . their duties. The mayor raised the question whether or not the board could force an Inspec tor, under the civil service rules, to fur nish a bond If he desired not to do eo. 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