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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1889)
THE WE8T 8nOUE. 20 THE OREGON STATE GOVERNMENT. bestowed the present session upon Uon. Joseph 8i moD, of Portland. The speaker of tho houso is also AN Monday, the Hth of January, the legislative as- a member of that body, selected for tho position by J sembly of, Oregon met in its fifteenth regular his associates, the choico of the present session hav- biennial session, at Salem, the state capital. On an- icg fallen upon lion. E L Smith, of Hood Hirer, other page in this number, under the title of " The Wasco county. The president and speaker receive Genealogy of Oregon," are related the historical in- $o 00 a day each, and tho members $.1.00, and tho sos. cidents connected with the acquisition of Oregon by sion is practically limited to forty days by a provision the United States and the formation of the first pro- that cuts off tho salary at tho expiration of that peri- visional government, of which the present govern- od. Besides much important legislation expected, ment is the lineal descendent. Oregon possesses a the present session is charged with tho duty of elect- most economical form of government, thanks to the ing a United 8tates senator to succeed Hon. Joseph primitive ideas of the men who framed the state con- N. Dolph, the gentleman now holding that position. stitution in 1857. They were men who had livod hero Politically, tho legislature is composed of twenty ono in the pioneer days, when industry and frugality were republicans and nino democrats it the senate and fifty. the watch-words, and prodigality and luxury unknown, one republicans and nino democrats in tho house, and the ideas which they had imbibed during that making a toUl of seventy-two and eighteen respect- period were naturally impressed strongly upon the ively on joint ballot document they framed. That they made the mistake Accompanying this number of The Wemt Shoiik of fixing salaries and settling permanently other ques- is a largo supplement containing tho portraits of tions that might better have been left to the legisla- prominent members of tho legislature, grouped atwut ture to regulate as changing conditions rendered nee- an excellent engraving of tho state capitol, whilo on esaary, is now Generally admitted. They then littlo another pago aro given portraits of tho governor ami realized how radical a change from pioneer conditions other officials. The imjwrtanco of tho offices held by thirty years of statehood would make, and tho indus- theso gentlemen, and of tho work douo by tho mem. i. ...... ... ... trial and commercial revolution since wrought by tho bers of the legislature, as well as tho prominent xi. railroads was little dreamed of then. It was their tions taken by many or tuem to puwio aiuirs, reu. aim to establish a simple and economical government, ders the following brief biographical notes of special and this they accomplished. interest The executive branch of the covernment, as at htatk mn:n. 6Yi.vmr.it Pen soy Eu, governor, is a well known business man of Portland, and ono of Oregon's oldest citizens. Ho was Urn in Tompkius county, New present constituted, consists of Sylvester Pennoyer, governor; George V. McBride, secretary of state; George W. Webb, treasurer; E. 13. McElroy, super intendpnt of nnblic instruction: and Frank 0. Daker, state printer; and these various officials, singly or in York, in tho year 1831. His early youth was sjt AnmWtinn. miuiiuft all the affairs of state, a con- upon a farm. In 1855, after bating recited ku law nnntroi; am- M.l nnwtfi unknown in tho cov- diploma from Harvard University, ho enrao to Oregon, .n w Wa in tho union. The iudi- where ho has remained ever unc, having tn en. cial branch consists of a supreme court, of three gsKed, f"r the most part, in tho lumWr bu.b In ;,i00 Af nnf .Tmw. v p Lord. W. W. Thaver 18S6 he was nominated fur governor by thodrmocratio ..i d u . .nnrom bench. A lee- party, and received a plurality of threo thomnud sev. i.lative assembly, divided into two how., con.titote. en bondre.1 and two rote., .UhooKh Mr. 1 la m had tu. ' i .1. n,nmPnL Ben.tor.. of receitcd, to vent, lfr, plurality ol two thou. which there .re thirty, hold office for . term of foor m! t-o hundred and rote., . cUap of Ijr year,, or two .esaion., one-h.lf the number Wing tboo..nd rote. In two yean Hi. term ol oflicnl. chosen .t each biennial election. The bona of rep. for foor ye.,., and be therefor, b two year, more a..: i.: Tnmlrii. nil chosen at toswe. 'h Bo,h KSffSS - ssrtriss tats: sss tha oneof &JSZ KS? tX th another conn y. Owing JJ, aiaaM lto lo t 1W,1;,, ,,U ,,..t home.
