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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1919)
0 RESUME OF WORK OF | OREGON LEGISLATURE Last Week of Session begins With Work in Both Houses Badly Congested. Anti-Paving Trust Bill Causes Oissen. alon— Inheritance Tax Bill Passed— People to Vote on County Salary Increases— Longer Legislative Ses sion Proposed— Ballot for Absent Voters—Tax on Motor Fuel Passes — Persistent Office Seekers Hit. Salem.—The present legislature In one respect at least has followed pre cedent for it started out on the clos ing week of the session with the legts- lattre hopper clogged with undisposed o f business. Both houses are badly congested with work and the elostng days will witness the usual confusion, heated arguments and strenuous ef forts to save pet bills. It seem s to be the habit of legislatures to fritter away much valuable time during the early days of the sesalon with useless dlscusston on unimportant bills, while the money sad other important meas ures are held back for committee tink ering and then rushed through during the closing hours when there Is little time for consideration. Practically the only Important piece of legislation to Its credit when the legislature started out on Monday was the appropriation of 1100,000 for the soldiers. No roM bills had been passed and all the big appropriation bills had Dot been presented. On the Old Glauser place now owned by H . C. Von Beheren on East side of S. P . track at Shaft "Station between Aumsville and West Stayton, Oregon. Come by the Way of West Stayton or Aumsville and you will find good roads. All of the following was bid in at foreclosure sale and will be sold to highest bidder on • ( « \ N Anti-Trusi Paving Bill Passed. Stormy times are expected over road legislation this week. The hoi^se and senate started the week at logger- heads over th e anti tru st paving bill which passed the senate last week a f te r an extrem ely b itter debate. By a vote of 21 t o ' ^ thq senate passed bill 67. the chief of the four anti-patented pavem ent bills. The bill as passed is Identical as reported by the m ajority of the roads an^ highw ays com m ittee and favored by those seeking to curb th e (feving tru st, with th e exception of the Moser am endm ent to section 7, w hich now- say s: “All contracts w hich may be aw arded for laying any pavem ent ?>r for the purchase of any m aterial, mix ture or process entering therein, shall be aw arded to the responsible bidder subm itting th e low est aggregate bid under the specifications in the class of pavem ent which th e public auth o ri ties m entioned in section 2 of th is ac t shall determ ine to accept.” Those who bave been strafing the p aten t paving com pany fought the m inority report of th e road com m it tee. which recommended th e adoption of th e words, "considering quality and durability," which gave this discretion to the sta te highway com mission in aw arding contracts. O ver these four w ords th e battle was waged in the senate. MoSer’s am endm ent is construed as tying the hands of- the sta te highway com mission, by those who vougl no. T he o th ers say not. The addition of th e four w ords would have given the com mission th e power to use its judgm ent in select ing pavem ents and aw arding bids. S trong opposition developed again st th e senate anti-trust paving bill when it reached the house and the ire of house m em bers w as aroused by th rea ts of certain senators to defeat / th e $10,000,000 road bonding bill un- 1 les3 the house enacted the senate bill. The Following Described Personal Property * Two brood sows to farrow soon. Six shoats. One Poland China sow, eligible to register, One Poland China boar, eligible to register, Consisting of 10 head of Milch cows giving milk, all good grade cows. Four head of cows coming fresh soon, 13 head cf short yearlings to two-year-olds. One Registered Durham bull. oTVTiscellaneous F our Horses Tax on E states Proposed. E sta tes in Oregon will contribute an e x tra $100,000 annually to the sta te trea su ry under the provisions of Rep resen tativ e Bcbaebel’a Inheritance tax bill which : as-ed the house. J> is a com prom ise m easure over house bill 1, which would have produced an annual revenue of approxim ately S350.OO0 from inheritance »axes. This bill, it is said, will produce a revenue of approxim ately $100,000 annually. Exem ption is provided on estates up to $10,000, but above th a t am ount the tax is assessed against the estate and uot again st the distributed sh are- as under th e present law. Additional tax, over and above th a t assessed against th e e s 'a te , is Imposed against share* which go to others than the d irect heirs of the decedent. 9 One gray horse, One bay mare, One bay mare to foal soon, One two-year-old black colt! Household Goods Two bed steads, Two mattresses, Two springs, One range, One sanitary couch, One heatingstove, One chiffonier, One commode, One Singer sewing machine, One kitchen cabinet, 150 jars canned fruit, 100 empty glass jars, other numerous ar ticles: Local Autonomy for Counties Favered. By adopting senate joint resolution 14. introduced by S enator Farrell, the senat« w ent on record in favor of tak lng from the legislature authority to Increase the salary of any sta te of flcle! during his term of office and of referring all county salary Increases to a vote ofT'he people of the / oun’y. T he resolution em bodies a consti tutional am endm ent, which will be re ferred to the*people for approval If m e action as the house takes th e sam if! am n r endm ent t h e senate. T he proposed provides th a t t M a t u r e shall not ' h av e autliOTity to Increase tin s >la-y of any sta te official ,<lHring th e pres- t Jf. e n t ’ terra of th a t official, and th a t no - I t Incriar.e in salaries of county officials sh all be valid unless approved by th e Ten Head of Hogs 28 Head of Cattle r . - . ’ -x ■ ■ ' " l One Champion Mower, One 2-horse rake. One 2-horse disc. One 3-section harrow. One 2-sec tion harrow, Two Oliver chilled walking plows. One iron wheeled wagon, One new 3 1-4 Rush- ford wagon. One 2-horse hack. One single open Studebaker buggy. One saddle and blanket with bridle, One single harness, One cream separator, in good condition. One new grindstone, Three garden plows. One hack harness, Two sacks of fertilizer. One walking cultivator, One 2-horse cultivator. Two Shepherd pups. One Shepherd female dog. Two set of double harness. Other farming implements too numerous to mention. s ums under $20 cash. at eight per cent interest. Bankable notes accepted to run six months George Keech, Auctioneer J. W. Mayo, Clerk *■— r