Hallie Rae Stuckev highway bills. The good roads ad vocates won three victories In the s Senate, the most Important being the TEACHER OF PIANO. bill creating n State Highway Com mission, and the bill permitting the S tu d io at th e J. T . R e a m ’ a i - use of all convlcta on the roads when d e n ce , F irs t stre e t, S ta ytou . Half of Session Over and Both not needed at the state penitentiary. A third bill makes operative the pro Houses Scarcely Started at visions of the constitutional amend ment passed at the last general elec Any Important Legislation tion and ^eermlttlng counties to bond for the construction of good roads. ■fclem, Or«.— Although the leglsls- It Is freely predicted that these tur« h<u been In session three weeks good toads measures will meet with th« Important legislation has mad* strong opposition In the House, as llttie progress. Much time has been sentiment In that body is decidedly And other His of the Body wasted, rerjr little accomplished, and adverse to their passage. the big legislation scarcely started. Few "Salary Grab” Bills. at the The session Is more than half over A notable feature of the session Is with both houses behind In their the small number of "salary grab” work. bills proposed this session. Thus far With the Senate staving off action measures affecting the salaries of os Its own bills, It has displayed even county officers In not more than half smaller concern for House bills which a dozen counties have been Intro (The houie of Efficiency) •re In the Senate, and not one House duced. The scarcity of this class of hill has been placed on third reading, bills may be traced largely to the HOT LAKE, OREGON although several have been on the record of the 1909 session when desk for several days. It haa reached more than a score of such measures, the point where the House suspects after passing both houses, were ve THE the Senate Is bolding up Its bills and toed by Governor Chamberlain. The House members have about decided present legislature declined to give to Ignore Senate bills until the Senate these rejected bills further consldra- Indicates some degree of Interest In tlon, holding that if any of them had House legislation. merit they should be reintroduced Relatively Pew Bills Passed. and take their chances. Sells round-trip tickets, good for three months, allowing $6.00 worth of ac House Upholds Initiative. The Senate has passed 31 bills out commodation at the Sanatorium, at of 191 Introduced. It has Indefinitely Legislation amendatory of or sup Portland and all O.-W. R. & N. Sta postponed 19 others, and 3 have failed plemental to any of the laws adopted tions. to paea when put to a vote. Even by the people under the Initiative with this slim record, and with most stands but little chance of receiving of tbs Important measures unacted the Indorsement of the present leg For further information and illustrated booklet, address Dr. W. T. Phy, upon the Senate Is much In advance islature. Medical Supt. and Manager, Hot Lake of the House, for the number of bills This was demonstrated when the Oregon, any O.-W. R. & N. Agent, passed by the more numerous branch House, for the second time since con or write to Is eight leas, and these are of less vening, rejected a bill having for its general Importance. purpose the creation of a law board W m . M cM u rra y The public service legislation, the which should prepare all of the laws General Passenger Agent compensation act, which was talked to be submitted to the people under PORTLAND, OK. and the reapportionment—the moat the Initiative. Consideration of this Important legislation which the ses measure following tnt unfavorable re ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦«••♦••♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A sion Is expected to handle— have been port of the committee on revision of sidetracked. Only the highway bills laws, was postponed Indefinitely by a have been under discussion. The two-to-one vote. compensatoan act, which was talked Abolish Whipping Post. of for months did not appear until With only ten dissenting votes the Friday. The bill for a new judicial House passed Buchanan's bill abol system on which a committee of law ishing the whipping pest. By the pro yers was supposed to be laboring visions of the bill, wife beating is since last November, has not been pre made punishable in tbe same manner sented. as other aggravated cases of a-sault Mueh Jockeying in Atylum Scandal. and battery. The debate on the bill, The complications over the asylum which was defeated In the legislature Investigation promises to develop a two years ago, was brief. Revision c1 Irrigation Code. merry row. Already there are sev Extensive revision ol the frirgaticn eral resolutions for an investigation. The Senate has adopted the concur-! code of the state is provided in a bill rent reaolutlon of Senator Locke, but Introduced by Representative Brooke. the House has not considered It. The The proposed amendments, if adopt House has several Investigation reso ed, embody the best features of the lutions of Its own. The selection of irrigation enterprises in the state. Principal among the changes is one an unbiased, open-minded committee should be s simple matter, and the enlarging the powers of the board oi Investigation can be made with dis directors of Irrigation associations, There are some sensible dairy farmers who buy $1, $5 and $10 patch, but there are innumerable ob- enabling them to treat with all com watches, because they serve the srtuctionlsts and general jockeying to plications arising. Another amend purpose of a watch and waste ment defines more especially who are stave off the probe. nothing while they last. Only one side of the asylum situa legal voters within the meaning of But would any o f these sensible tion haa been told thus far, but Stein the act, giving to any man or woman dairy farmers put their money into and carry a $1, $o or $10 er and his friends have been promis who owns land or has a homestead watch if it cost them from 25 ing some disclosures which, they as or desert claim a right to vote. Pro cents to $1 that they might other vision is also made whereby assess sert, will completely dispose of the wise save every day to do so ? charges which have been levelled ments may be levied at any time in Most assuredly they would not. against the Institution If half of the the year. It further confers on ex Then why should any dairy farmer buy a cream separator of rumors have foundation in fact, the lsting associations the right to lease the $1, $5 or $1» watch kind hottest stuff on the asylum situation Irrigation works already constructed. where its use does mean a waste and also on the selection of the Provision Is also made for the con o f from 25 cents to $1 every day, in quantity and quality of pro branch asylum at PeDdleton by Bow- solidation of two or more irrigation duct, that a De Laval cream sep associations. erman has not been uncovered. arator would save ? Would Give A’s No Advantage. Many State Commlseione Proposed. That’s the all-important differ Names of candidates of the same ence between poor separators and No less than thirteen new state poor watches,—one’s good enough party for the same office on the pri commissions and boards are proposed while it lasts but the other wastes mary ballot are to be rotated, if a twice a day from the time its use in bills now pending before the legis bill approved by the Senate becomes begins. lature. Several of these are to be a law. It was passed without a dis A De Laval catalogue is a sep without salary. If established, and arator education to be had for senting vote. others consist of present state officers the asking. The system as worked out calls Invested with new duties or extended for printing of ballots in such man authority ner that the name of every candidate For Instance, the public service where several are in the field for the DISTRIBUTOR commission, one of the most import same office CT' appear at the head ant, merely extends the jurisdiction SUBLIMITY OREGON of the hallo« an equal number of of the state railway commission. An times with ‘-■»■ery other candidate. K ;... . ♦♦♦♦♦o other example Is the proposed state The candidate» whose names begin purchasing board, which would center with A will V* deprived in this way In the present state board the pur of any advaatvte they may possess. chase of supplies for all departments Text Boo-. Substitute Passed. and Institutions. Representative Clyde introduced a Other state commissions and boards named In pending bills are: A civil substitute for his free text-book bill. / obtained In all eoantrl-* C«. FBI DI-MARKS and Coprv^n?- »ire service commission to formulate rules In the substitute It is provided that [ S*nd Sketch. Model or n o l o , I or R PORT on patentability. Patert y . .v..; for examination of all employes of a petition of one-fourth of the quali cla»irely. DANK RKPCRCNCCC- fied school voters In a district may Send 2 cent* In «am p» for iTvrtvl ••*«'> book the state government; a highway on HOW TO OBTAIN and SK ’- k t*AT CRTS, [ Which one* will pay. How to i r - f v :> tner, board; a naval militia board; a pa be placed before the board and an iwter.t lr.v» and other raluabk in: . -on. role board, to pass on all applica election called to determine whether tions for pardon; a state printing free text-books should be furnished : nt law yers , board; a board tor the examination the school children. The bill passed i.h S t., WashT't?n. C. R. L30o , and registry of graduate nurses; a the House. Propose Eastern Oregon Normal. state board of accountancy; a game Hopes that the state normal school commission; a commission to revise OVER 68 YEARS’ the judicial system of the state; a question had been settled finally and IE N C E definitely at the last general election text-book commission. Besides these, there are bills for were shattered when Senator Oliver the creation of several new state of Introduced a bill providing for the ficers, including bills for an assistant establishment of an Eastern Oregon secretary of state, a state hotel in lorm.il school at La Grande. Under T r ad ì M arks spector, a Arc marshal and a state the bill an appropr ation of 9100,000 D is i o n s auditor or examiner of accounts An Is made for the use of the proposed .... - C o p y r ig h t s A c . leacrintlon ma* A n n «« «undln» » «ketch uiddMsrl; other new office Is proposed by an school. re« whether an quickly Mi-orialn our opinion freuw i When the bill was read a gasp of In r o n tW 1 « probkhlvp.t• " - 'i.’L -lû “tommnnlen- j1 amendment to the constitution creat llona.trlcl.lvoonddenMiu. HANDBOOK on Patema jf patent*. .on t fro«. t lM c t « c n " r T í.>r .ecuting ing the position of litoutenant gover surprise went around the Senate receive IVitent* taken tfir.iu«h Mutin A Co. ( Iftcial notte», without churxe. In the nor. A resolution submitting the laat chamber, followed by expressions of named proposal to the people has al ratrth on the part of some of the members, which would indicate that A ban *----^ efr- ready been adopted ty both houses. ä nnwio*o lici/ lltnntreted -- — weekly. -- . cnlnllon o f . n r uotentlUo h .iim » . Term - • t, $3 .- renr: fourm o.ilbu.9l. SolJ b j ult nen,. Good Roads Boosters Invade Senate. possibly the bill would not proceed Good roads boosters Invaded the | far before reaching an indefinite post. 38 8 Senate during the discussion of the | ponement. LEGISLATIVE DOINGS AT OREGON’S CAPITAL Cure your Rheumatism HOT LAKE SANATORIUM Oregon - Wa s h i n g t o n Railroad & Navigation Co. ALL KINDS OF PIANOS FOR ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE The Baldwin line embraces the world’s finest and most expensive pi anos, which are in constant use in the studios o f many o f the most famous musicians o f Europe and America. 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