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If you want to buy, sell or trade, try
a small ad in The Courier the best ad
vertizing medium in Clackamas County
and you will get. the desired results.
31st YEAR
OREGON CITY, ORE., THURSDAY, FEB. 12 1914.
No. 41
Orec -Histoi iaJ.
207 Second St.
Portland, Or
01
CITY
COURIER
TS.
AND WE PULL 'EIW
A LITTLE INTERESTING "IN
SIDE" OF A COUNCIL DEAL
WAS IT THE "DOUBLE-GROSS"
Or Just Yellow Streaks in Places
Where Spines Should Be?
Here's a line of dope and things
mostly things. It may not vitally in
terest you, but it certainly is going to
make us feel a heap better to get
rid of it .So here goes: (
Last night the city' recorder open
ed bids for publishing the city ordi
nances. Or rather it opened A BID.
For the Courier did not bid.
.. And thereby hangs a tale an4 A
tail. Here's" THE tale:
For over six weeks, at every ses
sion, the council has been consider
ing a matter that should have been
settled in just six anti meridian min
utes at the first session of that body
in the new 1914.
But they (or rather SOME of
them) have side-stepped and raced
around the ring until we have consid
ered it an act of mercy to end the
farce, y-
You see we are members of the
Humane Society and we have a deep
sympathy for anything in distress.
But before we reveal the deep laid,
clot: before we drag in sinister lob
bies working and unseen influences
striving to prevent open competition
and the distribution patronage be
' fore we get strung out on the revela
tions of the dead inside work of a
city council, we want to adopt a plat-
form and make a declaration or two.
Please pardon this introductory
short stuff, but this spread-eagle do
ings has been caught from nine or
fourteen gubernatorial candidates.
We did jnot have our fingers crossed.
Frost and Brown, big chiefs of the
the Oregon City Courier Co. (Inc.)
don't usually set up the moan.
They play the cards as they come,
if they are dealt according to Hoyle,
and they don't squ"eal when the
other fellow rakes off the Jack pot.
(If you ladies don't just get this
declaration, ask your husbands.). .
But when the game isn't on the
square; when the other fellow holds
eut a cold ace and slides it in wnen
we have four kings; when the game
is croSked and we find it out, , then,
as the. Texas cowboy says "I bawl
them out and feel better."
We can win and not gloat over it
or rub salt in the other fellow's cut.
We can take defeat and be good
losers even keep a society smile on.
But we are NOT sports enough to
get a double cross and say we like
it.
We are NOT game enough to let
any man preface a Judas kiss with a
smile of friendship, throw the hook
in and then kiss him back.
But this is straying a long way
from the text.
Like John Manning we'll get back
to the soil.
In the first place the Courier
has never asked to be made the city
official paper, and we challenge any
councilman to deny this. We have
never asked any councilman to sup
port us, or any man, woman- or kid
to lobby for us.
You see we were much in the po
sition i Booth is for Unit
ed States senator if his friends in
sist on nominating him, he can't
help it.
We figured it out that the En
terprise had been the official paper
for three years, and when the coun
cil wanted a change they would prob
ably make it.
Alas! What thought did!
In October Councilman Tooze
came to the Cou:ier office and talk
ed with us about being made the of
ficial paper for 1914. He said he did
not think the Enterprise had given
impartial reports ' of the council
meetings, nor at all 'full reports of
the meetings; that there was a dis
position to give it to the Courier
next year, and he asked if we would
consider it a part of the designation
to have a representative at each ses
sion and report them correctly
without bouquets or clubs.
We assured him we would be a
ready Johnnie, and an anxious pub
lic would have all there was to coun
cil doings just as they were done.
We had every reason to think Mr.
Tooze was giving us the straight
goods. We knew full well he had
been given "his" all right in the En
terprise time and again (even to the
extent of having some particular
council expression put in- bold face
type on the front page) and we did
not think he was pasting a wrong
label on the preparation he was put
ting up for us.
We were young, innocent, unso
phisticated and trusting. Mr. Tooze's
package looked good to us.
Alas! again. We don't want to
over work these alasts, but they are
so handy and expressive.
And time jogged on, as it always
does in Oregon, and we nursed the
hope implanted by Mr. Tooze until it
twined up like an ivy.
Then Councilman Metzner dropped
in the office one day and frankly
stated he thought there should be a
cHange of newspapers; that the En
terprise had not given good service,
that he was for the Courier and
would stay with it. Mr. Metzner was
under no obligations to the Courier.
The editor only knew him by sight
and had never spoken to him.
Next came Councilman Albright
We met him on the street one night
and he openly said he thought the
Enterprise had been taken care of
long enough; that he thought the
Courier should have the printing next
HOT
dSIi
year, and that he would stand by.
Jack Albright doesn't owe the
Courier anything. In times past we
have bumped him proper, and he has
come back just as hard. He said he
simply thought it was unfair to let
the Enterprise have a life lease on
the job, and he would favor the Cour
ier.
And then came the first meeting
01 tne council, it was a secret "con
ference" to determine the disposition
01 tne printing, tne appointing of
recorder and city attorney.
Each member was bound by word
of honor not to divulge the secret
transactions.
(And the Courier editor and sev
eral others knew every detail of the
meeting tne next noon.)
At this secret conceive o icom-l
mittee of three was appointed. Al
bright, Tooze and Templeton, to take
up tne printing matter.
The following Tuesday Mr. Tem
pleton came to the Courier office and
joined the other four in a flat de
claration that he was for the Courier
for the official paper. He said the
Enterprise exaggerated to the noint
of untruthfulness in its reports and
that it was the disposition of the
council to maker the Courier the offi
cial paper.
At the same time he assured us
that it was his duty to eet the work
aone as low as possible, and he was
going to get Dias irom ootn papers
Mr. Templeton had all the appear
ances of sincerity. He didn't act as
11 ne would put the "badger" came
over on a fellow or frame up a double
cross. So we fell for his declaration
and swallowed his planks. We gave
mm our diq we put tne figures m
black and white.
Alas Nc3!!! (It is a printing of
fice ruTo to ad an "!" each time an
alas is used.)
Wednesday night came.
We had five councilmen. and there
were only nine. They had all volun
tarily pledged themselves, and also
gave it out that Long and Van Auken
were for us.
It was a cinch a hundred to one
pipe. It ju3t couldn t get away.
(Here we will discontinue the alas
es, and cut the story short.)
. Mr. Templeton didn't eet the En
terprise's bid he just took ours to
that meeting. Or if he did get a bid
from that office, he held it where the
fellow did the ace.
The Courier was only bidder and
the lowest bidder. Its bid was UN
DER the price the Enterprise has
been getting for three years.
WHY Mr. Templeton should have
taken our bid in, laid it on the coun
cil chamber, without presenting the
Enterprise s with it, perhaps HE can
explain. None others can.
And no action was taken on the
matter.
Before the next meeting the En
terprise had been "tipped off" as to
our bid, or had got it on a leak, and
tnen tney bid lower.
. We knew they HAD been tipped,
and we knew what their bid would
be at the next meeting.
Nice doings.
Then we went to Mayor Jones and
Councilman Tooze, laid the matter
before them, told them we quit
when a gamo wasn't straight; that
our bid was withdrawn and the coun
cil could do what it pleased with it.
We explained to them that after
the leak the matter resolved itself
into a personal fight between the
newspaper proprietors where the
price would be cut below the expense
and we would not play it.
We asked Mr. Tooze WHY the
the Enterprise's bid was not submit
ted with ours.
He said he did not know.
We asked Mr. Albright WHY our
bid was mado public all by its lone
some, and he said he did not know
why Templeton took this action; that
he was NOT the chairman of the
committee and should not have ac
cepted and made public our bid.
As a compromise measure, but
really to "smoke out" some of the
councilmen who we had reason to
think might possibly sidestep their
declarations, we suggested to Mr.
Tooze that the council fix the print
ing rata and designate a paper just
as they did a recorder or city attor
ney. But why lengthen it out? Week af-.
ter week we tried to put the council
on record as to which paper, but
nothing didding.
A resolution was passed that the
council get prices and designate the
paper, but what's a resolution when
a man has a yellow streak? It's like
the constitution between friends. It
was never carried out.
Week after week vain attempts
were made to line up the valiant who
were so profuse in their promises,
but adjournments at critical times,
investigations, etc., were driven in
and saved the sandless.
Albright and Metzner had kidney
and stayed by. And they tried to
force the others to show their hands.
Templeton openly opposed the
Courier. He was evidentally "just a
kidding" when he voluntarily said
what he did in the Courier office.
Long never promised us support,
but he stood by and wasn't afraid to
let anyone know where he stood.
Tooze side-stepped and is still at
it. He was there with a resolution or
suggestion for delay from first to
last anything but take a position.
The whole matter was but a petty
detail, but spineless councilmen let it
drag, along until it became a' scandal.
It was a CROOKED DEAL, one
that no councilman can defend.
It was a double cross, means that
most crooks despise.
And because the game was crook
ed, we refused to play it we refused
to bid and we winthdrew our former
bid.
Three of the council KNEW WE
WOULD NOT bid again when the
resolution to let it to the lowest bid
der was passed.
But the resolution saved them toe
ing a line.
The Enterprise may have the offic
ial printing have it on a life con
tract for all we care. We don't want
it in the way we would have to get
it
And if half the reports are true
the Enterprise needs it far more
than the Courier. We can get along,
thanks.
To th councilmen who backed up1
IT
D
BOTH CANDIDATES GIVE DEC
LARATIONS AND PLATFORMS
BOTH STAND FOR DRY STATE
Labor, Roads, Taxation and Other
Problems Taken Up
W S. U'Ren and George C. Brown-
ell both made public announcement
for governor in Sunday s rortianu
papers, and each gave his declaration
and platform.
Mr. U'Ren will run as an Independ
ent candidate and Mr. Brownell as
Republican.
Their platforms are similar in sev
eral planks. Both stand for state
wide prohibition; both advocate the
$(1500 tax exemption amendment and
both favor good roads.
Mr. U'Ren announces that he wants
to help make Oregon's government
effective, administrative and more eco
nomical. He would simplify it by
abolishing the duplication of depart
ments, and he cites how the state nown
has departments for sheriffs, consta
bles, police officers, and fish and game
wardens, all to keep peace and arrest
law violators, and the taxpayers are
heavily burdened to support them. He
declares one set of responsible officers
coulll get better results for half the
expense than the present system of
four departments. He points out how
the legislature has created more than
forty boards and commissions to work
at the same job; that these duplica
tions should be abolished, and that -he
will work for this end whether elected
governor or not.
He strongly advocates a system of
hard surfaced roads throughout the
state, to be operated by the state and
to be paid for by a graduated inheri
tance tax on estates of $50,000 or
more. He would have a state law
provide that any resident of Oregon
who demands work on these highways
should be given work, with wages suf
ficient to support and educate the ap
plicant's family. ;
This is Mr. U'Ren's idea to solve
the problem, of the unemployed.: He
would have the state provide the work
on the state highways and have the
fortunes left by dead men pay for
them.
Mr. U'Ren will advocate and work
for the abolition of the senate, be
lieving the legislature would be more
representative, responsive and eco
nomical with a single house.
He favors proportional represen
tation, giving to every party or or
ganization representation in propor
tion to numbers. Under the 'present
svstem a party polling 49 per cent of
the vote for a candidate would have
no voice or representation in the legis
lature. He stands for the $1500 homes' ex
emption tax, an initiative law which
he drafted exempting $1500 of per
sonal property, improvements, build
ings, live stock, etc., from taxation.
He stands for free school books for
children in all public schools in the
state, and in no other schools, and he
says he will do all in his power to
reneal the "ioker" in a law passed by
the last legislature, which provides
that when a school district votes for
free books it must also furnish free
books to all church and private schools
as well.
He holds that private schools,
church schools, etc., should not bene
fit by public taxation.
He pledges rigid' enforcement of
all state laws, by argument and rea
son if possible, by force if necessary.
He takes, a strong stand for state
abolition of the liquor traffic and for
state-wide prohibition, and makes the
declaration that the saloon interests
have been the most persistent oppon
ents of any and every reform of gov
ernment in Oregon. "Every town that
sells a saloon license," says mr.
Ren. "becomes a partner in the pro
fits of the saloon business, and no
other revenue costs the taxpayers so
much as the share they get of the
profits of the liquor traffic. The great
ness of our state is measured by its
sober citizens, because no citizen can
become intelligently patriotic when he
drunk."
fienrire C. Brownell comes out with
as strong a plank for national and
state-wide prohibition as can be drawn
and incidentally he would smoke out
the other Republican candidates by
statement that if any of them will
come out and openly advocate the
abolition of the liquor traffic and na
tional suffrage for women, he win
withdraw from the field tnd openly
declare for them.
"The liquor traffic as now in use
and in force," says Mr. Brownell, "is
a menace to civilization and is the
result largely, of crime, poverty, de
generacy and moral decay to such an
extent as to become a startling dan
ger to the human race."
"1 feel that it is wrong; l ieei tnat
their promises with actions, who had
sand to stand up and scrap for what
they said they would do we like
your. kind..
To Councilman Templeton who
talked fr us and worked against us
we have had this played so often
on us we really don t mind it.
To Councilman Tooze who declared
private and hedged in public, we
want to say if he should . ever be
drafted to "fight and bleed and die"
for his country, the mortal wound
would be in his side or back.
And while we are at it. next week
we would tell you another little story
long the same line, but from an en
tirely different situation.
Want to show you that we should
have a skin like an elephant, and a
patent right smile.
WHERE
I
B IEEE
STAN
it is foolish for the .moral societies of
the state of Oregon, to talk about
fighting vice, preach sermons against
vice, pass resolutions against vice and
hold banquets and make speeches and
congratulate each other how they are
going to fight vice, and permit the
saloon to exist in this state, because
it is in the saloon to great extent,
that the seed is sown that eventually
ripens into crime, and vice of every
character leading in the end to the
jail and penitentiary, to the insane
asylum and to degeneracy, say nothing
about want and poverty to the thous
ands and millions of women and child
ren in the land;" ...
He suggests that there should be a
means provided to pay back to th
saloon men the amount of their invest
ment, as he' does not think it right to
confiscate a business sanctioned bv
law.
He is out and out for national suf
frage to the women of the United
btates, t ,
He is opposed to the immigration
to any and all Asiatics, such as Hin
dus, which are becoming alarming to
roruana ana otner cities.
He is for consruction of good roads
to meet the demand and reauirements
of farming and business interests and
for the upholding and maintaining of
our scnooi system.
He favors the proposed U Ren S1500
tax exemption amendment, and takes
a strongt stand tor tree speech and
iree press. ..
A SCHEME THAT FAILED
City Council put up a Tough one, but
me courier met it
In an official notice published in
the Enterprise the city council asked
for sealed bids "for all the city print
ing, publishing and job work" to be
in at 4 p. m. Wednesday of this week.
Ihe Courier did not bid on the pub
lication of the ordinances, for rea
sons given at length and in detail
in this paper, but it DID bid on "all
the job work" the city might want.
We had no specifications as to what
the city would have us bid on; we
have no 1914 mind readers' license
so we had to ANTICIPATE to beat
an auto and take a chance.
The proposition is like a former
county court which let the contract
tor building a bridge to a man on a
bid, and submitted the specifications
later on. ,
It is like the proposition nf a man
asking for' sealed bids to build a
house, and after he had let the con
tract, tell - the contractor WHAT
KIND OF A- HOUSE HE WANTED.
But we were game, and we got in.
We went to the expense and
trouble of putting half a stick of
SEALING WAX on the bid envelope,
but do not wish this io be construed
by the council as reflection. In
these days one must exercise due pre
cautions against carelessness.
As we had absolutely no know
ledge of what we were bidding on,
these figures may seem a little ex
horbitant. Buying a cat in the bag
makes , safety necessary.
We assure certain councilmen that
the 13 cents on each item has abso
lutely no significance or application
them .The figures just happenja
to Hid that way..
This is the sealed bid the Courier
submitted:
Oregon City, Feb. 9-1914. .
To the Mayor and Honorable City
Council:
As per your official application
for bids, published in the Morning
Enterprise, "for all the city printing,
publishing and job work," we would
submit ths following:
For reasons which some of the
councilmen can explain, we will not
bid on the printing of the ordinances,
but for "all the job work of the city"
we submit the following, based on an
ticipation, in the absence of any spec
ifications: All the printing necessary for the
paving of Main street, from 50- postal
cards to plans and specifications of
the work, $y,3U3. ,
For printing city charter as often
as the council may direct, 300 pages,
on book paper zb x 38, sixty pound,
$3,600.13. These figures are based on
the possibility of weekly editions,
For all sewer specification blanks
$2,113.13. Not having any idea of the
work, we play it sate.
For all letter heads of the city.
engraved on Oriental parchment, or
just ordinary typewriter paper,
$1,614.13. As parchment comes high
we have to make this price subject to
paper trust prices, in the absence of
pecifications.
One hundred postal cards, printed,
$2.00, net. This we can make a pos
itive figure on.
All other printing the city may
want, and which we cannot anticipate
$8,347.13.
These prices are subject to revis
ion and reduction WHEN WE HAVE
ANY KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WE
ARE BIDDING ON.
This bid is subject to the council's
right to reject, and our right to PUT
SEALING WAX UN.,
Respectfully Submitted,
Oregon City Courier,
Democratic
Candidate
Treasurer
County
See Jhem Next Week
Several articles are crowded over
until next week for want of room.
J. O. STAATS
for
E
ENTERPRISE STORY
SHOWS THAT PAPER AND "FAR
MER"
HAZEL ARE IN WRONG
ARE FALSE AND MISLEADIN
Gives Some Tacts and Figures for
Voters to Think About
The Enterprise is mistaken when
it says that I am a resident of Dis
trict 39. 1 have not been for a number
of years. It backs up in its state
ments as to the condition of he roads
and the expenditures of road money
when it says that "Now, after the
taxpayers of the county as a whole.
have furnished Mr. Spence and his
neighbors with fairly good roads at
a rather fancy figure," etc.
It is worth a personal roast to get
this acknowledgement from the bond
booster's. Now let us quote from the
Enterprise of January 9. In an article
on the front page we find the follow
ing
"The vast sums of money that are
spent in this county every year for
road work for which nothing is gain
ed," etc, then "No one who has travel
ed to any extent over the county
highways will ever call the present
affairs roads in the true sense of the
word," and further, "IN THE. PAST
FIVE YEAKS THE COUNTY HAS
SPENT $1,000,000 ON ROADS (?)
THIS YEAR IT. WILL SPEND
$318,560. NONE OF THIS MONEY
HAS , DONE i THE KOADS AN I
GOOD."
After this slander on our past
county courts, road supervisors and
people generally, it is worth a good
deal to see the Enterprise and others
admit that we have at least about
seven miles of FAIRLY GOOD
ROAD, in one road district.
The Enterprise is looking up rec
ords that it might ascertain how
much work has been done in District
39 for which the county did not pay.
For example, quoting the Enterprise
again:
"In 1913 District 39 slowed down
a little and spent the sum of $1,723,
incidentally without special levy.
Perhaps the records do not show it,
hnf Vio fnrmpra tf DiRt.ript. do
nated about $1,500 in Work besides
its share of the county levy and in
cidentally" 'built about a mile and a
quarter of "fairly good road.
And now, Mr. Editor, while Dis
trict 39 was spending so much mon
ey, it was building a road that was
used by farmers, grist mills, saw
mills of Mulino, Meadowbrook, Col
ton, Liberal, Molalla and even as far
south as Marquam and ooda bprings.
This road is just as important to Or
egon City as it is to any of the farm
ers living near it, for upon it de
pends a large part of the trade of
that city. It was built for business
and has always been a main road
leading to the market' No one has
"knocked" this' road but those who
want a road for pleasure.
Now "Farmer" Hazel says that I
seem to be opposed to good roads.
Where did he get that idea? Is it be
cause that I do not agree with his
bonding scheme?. I AM in favor of
good roads have worked for them
and on them, and for good roads leg
islation before I ever heard his name
mentioned in connection with the
road movement.
Mr. Hazel objects to my statement
in regard to graft in New York
roads and says:
'The facts are the roads you re
fer to are macadam roads with a Tel
ford base or foundation.'
Now the FACTS are that Mr.
Hazel is wrong. These roads were
HARD SURFACED by contractors
during the expenditure of the first
$50,000,000 bond issue and if it be
true, as Mr. Hazel says,, that they
needed resurfacing, it does not speak
well for hard surfacing.. The facts
are that the contractors grafted in
both quantity and quality of material
used in the hard surfacing. District
Attorney Whiteman s John Doe in
quiry shows that $11,000 was spent
in commissions with the agents of
one paving company, while sums
varying from $200 to $2,000 were di
vided with others. The sworn testi
mony of this report shows that the
contractors grafted by putting on
less than half of the concrete and
surface called for by the specifica
tions. This matter is one of com
mon knowledge in the east and is
one reason that Ohio and Pennsyl
vania voted down a bond issue. I
used the New York case to show that
a bond issue will not necessarily el
iminate graft and waste in road
building, but on the contrary it is a
fruitful source of graft. I am
pleased to note that this writer does
not consider our county courts as
grafters and incompetents, as do
some of those who are supporting the
bond issue.
In the same number of the Enter
prise and in the same article quoted
from above, we find the following:
In the general and special levies
that have been made, this county will
spend $318,360 for roads this year.
This money will fall like a drop in a
bucket on the roads and the only ev
idence the taxpayers will have of the
work done is the receipted bills in the
office of the county clerk.
1 do not believe this is true and 1
do not think that anyone else does,
not even the writer. What is to be
gained by such statements and what
ia trie oujeci in view : is it neces
sary in any good cause to make such
misrepresentations ?
Nearly all of the macadam road in
this part of the county has a good
foundation. They were built with
"large cobble stones laid in the trench
Continued on Last Page)
SPENC
REFUTES
; A Matter of Form
Recorder Dedman has filed his
nomination petition to succeed him
self. An unwritten law of this coun
ty gives the official that makes good
two terms, and it is not thought there
will be any opposition to him.
WHY NOT DO IT?
Farmer Finds Flaws in Laws Regard
ing Collection of Just Debt
Hermann Gerhatus, who lives near
Clackamas, this., week attempted to
collect from the county some $25
which he declares is due him for
witness fees, jury service and other
public matters. The debt, he says,
nas oeen piling up lor a number of
years, and he thinks he ought to get
action on it. Failing by usual means
to get tne money, he this week an-
pliod to County Judge Anderson for
an attachment against the county
courthouse, saying he wanted to have
that building sold by the sheriff to
satisfy his judgment.
Judge Anderson couldn t see it, so
Mr. Gerhartus next went to Justice
John Sievers, and made a similar re
quest. Justice Sievers explained that
one couldn't file a lien against the
courthouse.
"I don't see why not." said Mr.
Gerhartus. "If I don't pay my taxes
the county will soon enough attach
my farm. It seems to me that if
the county won't pay me what it owes,
I ought to be able to attach the court
house." KEEP YOUR EYE ON THIS.
See whether Big Business or Pa
triotism has Greater Pull.
Periodically for many years, we are
told, some attorney has been engaged
to look up Oregon City's rights to
the falls power; all have found the
city nas power rights, and then the
matter is allowed to slumber.
Attorney Stipp made a lengthy re
port to tne uity council last week
that Oregon City had power rights;
that all the city had to do was to take
that power, and also that the Hawley
Paper Co. was ocupying valuable
property that lelongs to the city.
Now will this report go to sleep
in a pigeon hole morgue beside its
ancestors, or will the city act on it
claim and take what is theirs by
right? '
We'll wait and see.
The city has the power, and if the
new water system is installed, it will
have -the plant to run its own electric
lighting plant and have power for
city purposes.
But will we use it, or will we con
tinue to let big business steal our
power?
lhis power is valuable, mitrhtv
valuable. It is ours. Watch and see
if we take water or take either.
RAILROAD WORK IN CITY
RESUMED BY HOME LINE
Clackamas Couthern Commences Lay
ing Water Street Trackage
Following its formal acceptance of
the franchise granted it last week by
the city council, the Clackamas South
em Railroad, now known as the Wil
lamette Valley Southern, this week
commenced active operations in ex
tending its line from the present ter
minal yards at Fifteenth and Main
streets around to and along Water
street. A cut through to the river
oanK, through which the road will
curve, was excavated and ties thrown
down ready to receive the rails.
At the same time a large crew of
men were busy on the construction
of a pile-driver, which will be used in
driving the supports of the trestle
work that will follow the line of Water
street from Fourteenth to Twelfth,
This section of the thoroughfare at
present U entirely imaginary, and lies
in the Willamette river. A trestle
will be constructed by the railroad,
with heavy bulwarking on the western
side, and then rock and gravel from
cuts on the upper portion of the line
will be dumped in to make a fill. As
the road is extended east and south,
excavated material will be hauled
down to Water street and dumped
from the trestle, so that a firm fill
can be made half the width of the
street.
Under the terms of the franchise
the railroad will construct the western
part of this thoroughfare, planking
over its tracks so that vehicular traf
fic can be accomodated,' and later on.
when demand is made, the city will
construct the eastern half of the
street. The railroad tracks will be
laid at the established street grade,
so that the subsequent complete im
provement of he street will be an easy
matter.
former Graft, or Present Charity?
For three years the Enterprise has
published the city ordinances at 35
nd lb cents per inch no competi
tion.
Last night, bidding only against it
self, it agreed to publish them for 5
and 8 cents per inch.
Either it is doing sweet charity
work now, or it did raw graft before.
Perhaps the Enterprise ' can ex
plain.
The Price of Public Drinking
Justice Sievers gave John W. Keltz
fine of $25 and ten days in jail:
Herman Holbach $25 and M. F. Roys
$25 on the charge of drinking liquor
on a car of a common 'carrier. The
penalty for this offence is from $25
to $100.
WANTED from 1,500 to 5,000 cords
of wood to cut on contract. Ask at
Girls Wanted
(over 18 years of age)
To operate SEWING Machines
in garment factory'
Oregon City Woolen Mills
TWIN
CITY PRINTING ' FUSS CAUSES
UNEXPECTED EXCITEMENT
MAIN ST, SEWER UP MONDAY
Appropriation for Pipe Line Bonds
Is Passed. Hackett Objecting
It took two council meetings Wed
nesday night to settle all the business
before the city fathers, Mayor Linn
E. Jones calling a special session im
mediately after Councilman Temple
ton had moved an adjournment of the
first meeting. In taking this action
the mayor remarked:
"Gentlemen, you can adjourn as
often as you want to, but until this
thing is straightened out, I will con
tinue to call special meetings."
The second meeting was called over
the matter of awarding the city print
ing for the year beginning February
1. The matter came up first when the
sealed bids, called for by City Re
corder Loder, were opened. The bid'
of The Enterprise was read first, and
offered to print city official, notices
for eight cents the first insertion and
hve cents for subsequent insertions. .
For job work and other printing The
Enterprise bid "regular commercial
rates." When the envelope contain
ing The Courier's bid was opened, a
statement from M. J. Brown, the
editor, was read, in which The Courier
declined to bid on the printing of or
dinances "for reasons with which
some of the councilmen are doubtless
familiar," and a series of fanciful
bids submitted for the job work on
which bids had been asked. Laughter
greeted the reading of the bid.
. Lively Tilts Follow
Mayor Jones suggested that the
bids be referred to the special print
ing committee. Councilman Temple
toll declared that he thought the mat- ,
ter ought to bo settled at once. Coun
cilman Tooze moved that the matter
of city printing be left to a committee
composed of the majipr, recorder and
the chairman of the finance commit
tee, and that work be divided between
the two local papers.
Councilman Hackett moved an
amendment to this motion, requiring
the proposed special committee to give
the printing always to the lowest
bidder, and Councilman VanAuken
seconded the amendment.
Councilman Tooze took exception
to the amendment, saying that while
there would undoubtedly be times
when printing ordinances in The En
terprise would furnish greater expe
dition to the city business, he thought
that other and routine ordinances
ought to be divided between the two
papers. He declared that he would
oppose the amendment upon vote. Mr.
Hackett said that he believed his
amendment was merely a business
proposition.
"I am not here to urge the cause
of either paper," said Mr. Tooze, ris
ing again to Bpeak. "I think The
Enterprise and The Courier have both
treated me about the same, but I be
lieve the printing ought to be dis
tributed equitably between both
papers."
A vote being demanded, both the
amendment and the original motion
carried, with Mr. Tooze silent when
his name was called on the balloting
on the amendment which he had an
nounced he would oppose.
Mayor Revives Question
Some few minutes later Mayor
Jones revived the printing question,
by asking the intention of the coun
cil in passing both Mr. Tooze's motion
and Mr. Hackett's amendment. Coun
cilman Hackett declared that his
amendment killed the Tooze motion,
and Councilman Meyer acquiessed in
this, and declared it was now up to
the council to officially award the
printing to The Enterprise, as the
lowest bidder.
Mr. Tooze then questioned the lat
ter part of The Enterprise bid, and
said that he did not know what "reg
ular commercial rates" were. E. R.
Brown, business manager of The En
terprise, told the council that his
paper's bid was only supposed to
cover city ordinances published in the
newspaper, and that on job Work new
bids would have to be sought. Dis
cussion at this point was brought to
an abrupt closo by Councilman Tem-
pleton's motion to adjourn.
Council and spectators rose and
donned their hats and coats, and were
passing from the council chamber,
when Mayor Jones rapped upon his
desk and called the council to order
"in special session." The members
returned to their scats, and the sec
ond meeting of the night got under
way. Mayor Jones again insisted up
on knowing the pleasure of the coun
cil in' the printing mntter, and asked
what was the intention of the city
fathers.
New Battle Starts
"Just to tret this matter in shane '
so we can discuss it, I move that The
Enterprise be designated the city of
ficial paper for the year," said Mr.
Hackett Mr. Templeton seconded
the motion.
Mr. Tooze rose to a point of order,
but before stating it said that he
"didn't care a rap" who got the city
printing, that all he was seeking was
"justice to Oregon City and a square
deal to both my enemies and my
friends." He added that in making
his motion .for a new committee to
have charge of the printing he thought
that he had named city officials who
could be trusted to do the right thing.
He then stated his point of order,
which was to inquire if Mr. Hackett's
amendment to his first motion would
not abrogate any action that might
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