THE MORNING OREGONIAX. MOXDA1V JANUARY 20, 1913.
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ACTION ON VETOED
BILLS IS IN DOUBT
Lower House Will Be in the
Limelight During the
Present Week.
ENMITY IS NOT INDICATED
Majority Seemingly Assume Attitude
That Measures Should Be Con
sidered on Merits Disposi
tion May Come Late.
STATE CAPITOI Salem, Or., Jan.
19. (Special.) What will happen to
the Governor s vetoed bills Is a ques
tlon which will throw the House of
Representatives more or less Into tne
limelight this week. The Senate is now
up with its end on the bills and has
forwarded to he House sucn or inose
bills that received the necessary two
thirds to carry them notwithstanding
the veto of the Governor.
So far the House has passed no ve
toed bills. It still has the Senate bills
in its possession without having acted
on them, and as far as Is known the
special committee of the House on
vetoed bills has taken no action as to
what 'report It will make on the last
batch of the bills that has been sent
over from the Senate.
Personal Enmity Not Seen.
When the House turned down the re
port of the special committee on two
of the House bills that were vetoed,
and t..e committee retreated with the
balance of Its reports for further con
sideration, it added a touch which has
developed Interest as to just what the
House will do and what the committee
will do when these reports are ready
to come up again for consideration.
It has been the opinion of a number
of the members, who have been ob
serving conditions In the House, that
that body Is not concerning itself with
the Governor or his vetoes. An occa?
slonal flash from a member or two
has Indicated a slightly Inimical atti
tude, but on the whole the House seems
to be assuming the position that the
veto measures should be considered on
their merits. As a result It has not
been taken that the failure to pass the
two House bills over the head of the
Governor Is particularly indicative
that the Governor is playing a strong
hand In that body, neither is it con
sidered on the other hand that the
majority or any particularly heavy col
lection of the Representatives have
personal enmity to take out on West
or his programme.
Long Debates In Disfavor.
Consequently It Is asserted by mem
bers who have been watching affairs
in the lower House that the sustain
ing of the two bills need not be con
sidered as a criterion as to what will
happen to the balance of the bills.
Making the record that It has for its
first week of business a number of
House members are Inclined to dodge
away from any lengthy debates or dis
putes on questions which are outside
of pushing through required legisla
tion, and they hope to continue this
record for the balance of the session.
As a result there may be an effort to
squelch any long continued debates on
the vetoed bills as well as an effort
to push them through with a vote as
fast as possible.
It is probable that the Senate bills
which have been sent to the House will
be the last batch of vetoed bills to be
considered by that body, as there
seems to be a disposition to await the
action of the Senate on the vetoed bills
of the House before the House finally
acts On the vetoed bills of the Senate.
Consequently final action on ,the two
Wood bills, which proved the' feature
of last week in the Senate, may be de
ferred for several days.
MILLAGE BILL IS IX MAKIXG
Krfort Being Made to Supply In
come for State Colleges.
STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Jan. 19.
(Special.) Calling for two boards of
regents instead of one. but to provide
for a mtllage tax for the support of
the University of Oregon and the Ore
gon Agricultural College, a bill is now
in the course of preparation.
The bill which went before the peo
ple in 1913 provided that both of the
schools be placed under the control of
one Board of Regents. At present
there are two Boards of Regents, and
that portion of the bill doing away with
one of the Boards met with consider
able opposition.
It Is on this assumption that those
who are preparing the millage bill be
lieve it should go before the Legislature
in an effort to place the two schools
strictly on a millage basts. At pres
ent each of the schools has an annual
maintenance appropriation, and efforts
will be made at this session to have
this maintenance appropriation in
creased, and demands will come in as
well for further appropriations for
buildings and Improvements. These
Increases, some of the members say. are
certain to be asked for from time to
time as long as the schools are finan
cially regulated as they are now, and
for that reason efforts will be made to
push through the millage tax bill.
WOKKMEX'S ACT DRAWS MAXY
' Joint Committee to Hear Sugges
' tlons on Compensation Bill.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem. Or, Jan. 19.
(Special.) Tomorrow afternoon at 4
o'clock, in the Supreme Court rooms,
one of the liveliest committee meet
ings of the session is promised. The
Joint committee on Industries from the
House and the Senate will listen to
arguments for and against the proposed
workmen's compensation act. Numer
ous labor leaders of the state, as well
as others, will be on hand to offer
tuggestiona as to the proposed bill.
It now seems doubtful if the hearing,
which has been set for that day, can
be completed Monday, and it may be
necessary for It to go over for perhaps
i number of days.
Junket Trip Opposed.
STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or, Jan. 19.
(Special.) Senator Lester, of Clatsop
County, will probably oppose the adop
tion of a resolution Introduced by Far
rell of Multnomah, providing for a
junketing trip to Washington to dis
cuss with a similar committee of the
Washington Legislature the question of
fishing laws on the Columbia Klver,
provided that resolution Is reported out
favorably. Senator Lester states that,
while the present laws are possibly not
altogether satisfactory, he believed they
re as satisfactory as they could be
made, and that the junket would be
jseless.
Election Law May Be Changed.
STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or., Jan. 19.
(Special.) To amend the present law
regulating the time of changing elec
tion precincts is the object of & bill
which Senator Dimick, of Clackamas,
Is preparing. The bill may be intro
duced in the House. At the present
time election precincts are changed lb
July. Under the proposed bill they will
be changed in December. The reason
for this change is found in the dif
ficulties experienced by County Clerks
when time for registration arrives.
Registration books open in January,
but with election precincts changed in
July the registration as to precincts
Is disturbed and broken In tne miuaie
of the year, resulting in considerable
confusion, it is stated.
EIGHT-HOCK BILL CORRECTED
Senator Smith Prepares Duplicate
With Enacting Clause.
STATE CAPITOI Salem, Or., Jan.
19. (Special.) To correct an error
which was - made in one of the bills
passed by the people at the general
election In 1912. Senator Smith, of Coos
and Curry, has prepared an eight-hour
bill to go before the legislative body.
The bill which was passed at the
last general election providing for an
eight-hour day for all employes on
contracts on public works was given
a large majority but failed to carry
the proper enacting clause. Attorney
General Crawford held that it was
necessary for the enacting clause to
appear on initiative measures as wen
as on measures passed by the Legis
lative Assembly. and consequently
stated the act was invalid.
Senator Smith's bill Is a duplicate of
the eight-hour law, but carries the
necessary enacting clause.
BOOK BILL DUE TODAY
MEASURE TO BE INTRODUCED
BE SENATOR MILLER.
Change in Present Text Book Law Is
Favored, but Bill Offered 3iay
Be Slightly Amended.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. Jan. 19.
(Special.) Senator Miller, of Linn,
tomorrow will Introduce the bill pro
viding for a change In the state text
book law. This will probably come
with the indorsement of the State
Board of Education, or at least with
out its opposition.
The bill has been examined by the
members of that commission, and is
largely along the lines suggested by
Superintendent Alderman.
In a nutshell, the principal change
provided is to alter the present plan
of changing the entire list of tej.t
TTooks used In the schools once In six
years by providing that a change of a
certain part of the list be made every
two years. Under that plan each
group of text books would be changed
every six years, and not the entire
number of them at any one time.
It is urged In favor of this idea that
the expense of the present plan Is
extra burdensome on the students.
Making the entire change at once
sweeps away all of the student's text
books and requires him to secure an
entire new supply. In addition. It Is
stated, that when the entire change is;
made at one time that it Is practically
impossible for the books to be secured
for ready use.
Senator Miller expressed himself as
not altogether pleased with the details
of the plan as outlined In the bill, but
as to the main idea he expresses him
self as favorable. He may urge some
amendments after the bill gets Into
committee. He believes there are cer
tain classes of school books that should
not be changed as often as six years.
As an example he cites an arithmetic
and a spelling book. He believes that
books of this kind could be kept in
constant use for much longer than six
years without any detriment to the
student.
He states, however, that the present
system, in his mind, should be changed,
owing to the question of expense and
the difficulty In securing a proper dis
tribution of books.
SALMON CONSERVATION AIM
Petition to Close Sluslaw River to
Fishermen Given Little Support.
FLORENCE. Or, Jan. 19. (Special.)
Petitions which are. being circulated
asking that the Sluslaw River be closed
to commercial fishing lor a term or
five years are receiving very small
support in this section and the Lower
Siuslaw Valley.
The size of the salmon pack of re
cent years Indicates a steady Increase.
For the years 1887 to 1899 Inclusive
the total pack of salmon 'on the Slu
slaw approximated 121.3S9 cases, while
for 'the years of 1900 to iis inclusive
the pack totalled 132.268. These figures
do not include the ftsb salted or the
large numbers taken out by the fish
wagons and otherwise hauled out over
the stage road during the past seven or
eight years.
The 1911 pack was 13.5o5 cases ana
the 1912 pack 13,2o0 cases. Boats on
the upper river did not make as large
catches this year as In some seasons,
owing to the Increased number of boats
In the lower river.
SIDELIGHTS
SENATOR DIMICK had introduced a
resolution providing that no bills
be introduced after the 25th day
of the session except by a three-fourths
majority. Senator Joseph, remember
ing that there are 30 members in the
nnnr hnni fle-ured ranidlv on his
desk pad, and arose for information.
He wanted to know if tne gemieman
from Clackamas meant to exact a vote
of 22i for the introduction of a bill.
"Just so." flashed back JJimiCK, "a
men and Joseph."
SHERMAN COUNTY farmers raised
4,000.000 bushels of grain in 1912.
It required 2.000,000 sacks to take it to
market. These sacks cost the farmers
12 cents apiece, but the wicked grain
buyers allow them nothing for the
sacks. More, they deduct one pound
tare for each sack, and then keep the
sack, selling It back to the farmer for
6 cents. Ltke a certain celebrated
coon trap, this arrangement is calculat
ed to "ketch 'em comln'. ketch 'em
goin'." Two million sacks, costing 12
cents each, is no small item to the
farmers of Sherman County, or of any
of the other wheat-growing counties of
Oregon. Two million pounds of wheat
lost as tare, simply because it Is sold
In sacks, is no small Item either.. For
reasons such as these Representative
Anderson, of Hood River and Wasco,
will advocate the passage of Senate
bill 36, when it appears in the House.
This bill is a sort of legislative lost
sheep. It was introduced in the Sen
ate toward the end of the last session
by Senator now Congressman Slnnott,
but was lost In the shuffle in the com
mittee to which it was assigned. This
year Senator Butler made new bill in
the same image, stood it upright on the
floor of the Senate, galvanized it with
oratorical lightning and sent It on its
wav with his most eloquent blessing.
If the bill passes there will be no de
duction for the weight of the sack
when grain or fruit is sold.
IF ALL the resolutions in the Legisla
ture providing for junketing trips
are adopted, along with a few more
that are generating in the minds of
LOGROLLING IS HIT!
Aim of Bills Is Automatic
Government.
GOVERNOR'S HAND IS SEEN
Millage Tax for County Fairs and
Snpport of Colleges, and Regu
Iation of County Salaries,
to Cut Political Traffic. '
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan.
19. (Sneclal.) Bills which have been
Introduced in the present session of
the Legislature, and others that are
promised during the next week or two
offer an indication tnat eirorts are db
ing made to take out of politics many
questions that have caused logrolling
and confusion in past Legislatures.
The Governor's plan to place all of
the district fairs on a millage basis
is considered as typical of one of these
moves. This will cover every county
in the state and make a certain millage
provision for each county upon whlcn
to sustain a fair. It is also arranged
under the bill that two or more coun
ties may unite to hold a district fair,
or in event any county does not de
sire to maintain a fair the- money so
raised may be diverted into the road
f und.
There has been no effort so far to
introduce any bills having for their
object an appropriation for a county
or district fair, due probably to a ae-
sire to await disposition of the admin
istration measure.
v. The plan, also credited to the Gov
ernor, to place all county officers on
uniform salaries, according to classifi
cation of counties, is indicative of an
other move to take the question of
salaries for county offices out of pol
itics. Under this bill such salaries
would adjust themselves automatically
and would obviate the introduction of
bills of this class: .
Should the bill now in preparation
to rlace the University of Oregon and
Oregon Agricultural College on a mill
age basis be introduced, as planned, it
is declared by supporters tnat it wouia
take the schools out of pontics.
It Is nossible that the present Leg
islature may establish a new record
along this line to add to the numerous
records wnicn it nas aireauy eoi.au
Ushed. LINE IMY BE ADJUSTED
LIXX AXD MARION LEGISLATORS
TO HOLD COXFEREXCE.
Effort Will Be Made to Agree on
Boundary and Hare Legisla
ture Ratify Measure.
ALBANY, Or., Jan. 19. (Special.)
To settle the old dispute over the
boundary line between Linn and Marlon
counties, the delegations from those
two counties In the Oregon Legislature
will meet at Salem next Tuesday night
in an effort to select a boundary sat
isfactory to the two counties and es
tablish It by an act of the Legislature
at the present session. Members of
the county courts of the two counties
and citizens of both counties also will
attend the meeting.
The present line between the two
counties is described by law as fol
lows: "Commencing in the middle of
the channel of the Willamette River,
opposite the mouth of the Santiam
River; thence Tip said river to the north
fork; thence up said fork to the Cas
cade Mountains; thence due east to the
summit of the Cascade Mountains."
The disputed point Is where the
North Santiam River leaves the Cas
cade Mountains, or, in other words,
where the mountains begin In follow
ing the boundary line up the river.
This boundary was"established in 1847.
When the country began to be settled
the river was by common consent con
sidered the boundary line as long as
it kept Its general easterly and west
erly course. But from the point where
the river, considering It from the view
point of following upstream with the
boundary line, turns southward, there
has always been doubt about the line.
As a result of this condition land has
been assessed in both counties very
often.
The county courts of the two coun
ties met a few years ago and without
difficulty adjusted a boundary line sat
isfactory to both counties. The bill
was introduced in the Legislature, and,
supported by the Representatives of
both counties, was promptly passed,
but for some reason, never discovered.
Governor Chamberlain vetoed It.
Agitation for the final determina
tion of the boundary line has been
OF OREGON
some of the members, the time may
come when there will be so many of
the members absent that a quorum will
be Impossible.
SENATOR DAY proposes to'lntroduce
a resolution calling for an investi
gation to determine whether or no the
Bheets at his boarding-house are full
nine feet long. The Senator is built
a la Jeffries, and be claims that the
sheets on his bed are not only not long
enough to clinch at the bottom, but
that he Is unable to tuck them under
at both sides at once.. Senator Kella
her, the author of the nine-foot sheet
law. has agreed to "stand at Armaged
don" with Senator Day until the de
sired investigation is authorized.
ONLY a few of the faithful have been
in the legislative halls during the
adjournment. Some of the Eastern and
Southern Oregon members have re
mained vigilantly at their desks dur
ing the day and part of the evening.
The majority of the members have been
lured to Portland.
SPEAKER M"ARTHTJTt asked the
members of the House if they
wanted their desks placed in semi
circles, as at . former sessions, or
left in straight rows across the
chamber, as they had been placed
for the opening of the session.
The outer desks of the front row are
occupied by Westerlund, of Jackson,
and Bonebrake. of Benton. Both were
candidates for the Speakership before
the McArthur candidacy became an
avalanche. Both wanted the change
made. They wished, as they put it,
"a better view of the Speaker's desk."
N
ONE of the farmer members of the
House smoke cigarettes.
WITHOUT telegraphic or telephonic
communication with he outside
world, the members of the legislative
body who have remained here during
adjournment have found themselves
going forward recently, and Senator
Carson, of Marion County, introduced
a bill in the State Senate on the open
ing day of the session to establisn tne
boundary. The Carson bill is not sat
isfactory to Linn County, as it would
take about 90,000 acres of land, which,
under . the common-consent arrange
ment, under which the two . counties
have been working, is now in Linn
County.
According to the boundary proposed
In the Carson bill, the line would fol
low the river to within-about three
miles of the summit and then run due
eastward. Linn County people assert
that by following the present boundary
literally and establishing the boundary
definitely, as it was Intended by the
original act. it would throw Mill City,
Gates. Niagara and Detroit, four towns
along the North Santiam River, into
Linn County, as, it is asserted, the
mountains begin at Mill City.
But Linn County has never claimed
this boundary and Its Representatives
in the Legislature do not intend to
claim it now. C. H. Stewart, manager
of the Albany Commercial Club, has
framed a bill which establishes tne
boundary where it has generally been
fixed by common consent, and this will
be introduced by the Linn County Rep
resentatlves.
LIQUOR ISSUE MAY RISE
PROBABILITY OF LEGISLATIVE
FIGHT IS SEEX.
Governor's Moral Crusade Measures
Carry Many' Restrictions to
"Wet" Interests.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 19.
(Special.) The possibility of a lobby
from among the liquor dealers of th
state has developed at this session for
the first time in several years. Since
the "wet" and "dry" fights have been
practically all thrown before the people
through the initiative, they have not
been a disturbing factor In legislative
halls.
However, this year the Governor's
moral-crusade bills carry with them
many references to the liquor interests,
and many restrictions on the liquor
trade. The "wet" and "dry" element
thus will come up to confront the mem
bers of an Oregon-Legislature after it
has been quiescent In that body fox a
number of sessions.
Bills prohibiting shipment of liquor
Into "dry" territory, prohibiting the
location of a saloon within or near a
district or state fair, prohibiting the
location of a saloon within a certain
distance, of any railroad depot, and a
number of other bills dealing with the
liquor traffic have bobbed up.
Those who are backing the Governor
In his legislative programme consider
that the executive stands in a strongly
entrenched position as far as any fight
that may be made on his programme as
a whole is concerned.
With the Governor offering practical
assurance that he will not be a candi
date to .succeed himself, and with the
peculiar nature of the programme of
reform which he is advocating, the
Governor's backers declare that the
members will find difficulty in organ
izing any concerted effort to down the
Governor's bills.
They say it will simmer down to a
question of where each man will be
compelled to cast his own vote in -his
own manner on the various bills of the
programme without resort to a lineup
or combination merely to defeat the
bills because they emanate from the
Governor's office.
The Governor's plan of distributing
the measures broadcast among the
members is another move to which they
are pinning their faith in the eventual
outcome of the bills. And they are also
sanguine of still one other proposition.
That if any of these bills pass both
houses they will not be vetoed.
On the other hand, there now seems
to be np question but a lineup has been
made against the executive, and that a
factional disposition will creep out in
both bodies of the Legislature long
before the session closes. In event it
Is decided to hold the legislative In
vestigation of the various institutions
as proposed in the Lewelllng resolu
tion, this factional difference may
creep Into decided bitterness if any
disclosures are made by the Investi
gating committee.
RAINIER MEASURE PASSED
Senate Provides for Jurisdiction
Over Lands in Park.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (Special.)
The Senate today passed Senator Jones'
bill providing for the acceptance by the
Federal Government from the State of
Washington of exclusive Jurisdiction
over all lands within Mount Rainier Na
tional Park.
The Senate also passed the following
bills: Av-thorizing the state of Idaho
to select Government lands containing
phosphate on condition that the phos
phate deposits are retained by the
United States; House bill authorizing
the sale of burned timber on public do
main killed by the forest fires of 1910;
bill restoring to the public domain the
lands segregated under the Carey act
where the construction of irrigation
works Is not begun within 10 years
from the date of segregation.
LEGISLATURE
practically isolated from Importunities
of their constituents. Some of them
have already discovered this condition
to be more or less pleasant.
SAM HILL, who is known from Dan
to Beersheba and even unto the
islands of the sea as a good roads
evangelist, extended an invitation
Friday to the members of both
houses . to be his guests on
a visit to MaryhlU, Wash., there to
behold some of the finest highways
that have been built since the Applan
Way. The roads and highways com
mittees of the two houses will decide
whether or no the invitation will be
accepted. Saturday and Sunday, Feb
ruary 8 and 9, are the dates named in
the invitation.
THE stenographers' rooms provided
for the speed writers of the Sen
ators and Representatives hold a rather
startling array of beauty this session.
The "Sage of Lebanon," who has been
here for 12 years, says the stenographic
delegation is the prettiest in his mem
ory. This much for the effect of
woman's suffrage.
SOME of the wives of the members
are beginning to arrive. It Is
thought the disruption of outside tele
phone and telegraph service may have
something to do with their appear
ance. IMMEDIATELY after .adjournment,
which always follows a motion by
Upton, of Multnomah, the House's ex
pert adjourner, large cob pipes are lit
by Chapman, of Washington, and
Pierce, of Coos and Curry.
REPRESENTATIVE ANDERSON, of
Wasco, is an osteopath. Speaker
McArthur was worried on which com
mittee to place himi
. 5,
REPRESENTATIVE MITCHELL, of
Baker, Is an orator with a well
modulated vocal equipment.
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If voar own continuous-performance, tongue-blistering experience hasn t
made you pipe-sore, then you've got more patience than most people have.
Why, man, think what it means to suffer the tortures of the lost, just because you like that sweet
old jimmy pipe of yours. Get wise to the best bet ever in jimmy pipe tobacco. It s
Smoke it all day go to it as hard as you like you'll feel better when you get through ,
than before you started because it can't bite your tongue. The bite's cut out by a
patented process.
Prince Albert makes a cigarette that's a wonder. Just you roll one tip and get that
cool smoke and fragrance and flavor into your mouth. Say, you'll take a new lease
on cigarette joy.
P. A. it mold in th tbppyS cent rmd bat. tidy 10 cmnt red tin
and handtom poand and half-pound humidor mvmrywhT.
R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winston-Salem, N. C
KIDDLE HAS PLAN
Revision of All Projected Bills
Suggested.
ECONOMY IS POINTED OUT
Eastern Senator Would Have Com
mittee or Attorneys Dress Vp
Proposed Measures and Do
Away With Duplication.
ctattt! CAPITOL. Salem. Or., Jan. 19.
(Special.) To establish a business
like system in the Legislature as w
legal phraseology and construction of
bills, Senator Kiddle, of Union and
Wallowa counties, advocates a novel
procedure. '
tr J nraoant RVRtPTTl DlllS are
uuuer jj.o..- -.
drawn and. introduced promiscuously
by Senators ana nepreseiiuiwM
frequently have little or no technical
i ...i ,i law nnri B.rA Often UTl-
nnun n vin"
able to couch their bills in terms to
make them legally noie-prooi.
i.-(iio aitcro-poto that a. nrot)-
OCIiaLUl iviuuiv ouon-""" -
er method of rectifying this condition
would be to create a joint committee
between the iriouse ana me oenttio .
receive and revise all bills before their
Thin ?nmmttfpp. he sug
gests, should be made up of lawyers.
or as a substitute lie recommends em
ployment of outside attorneys to go
oil hills nnd dress them up in
legal form before Introduction.
Kiddle Clvea Reason.
"We now find the code and statute
i i-- ijAn with hilln (yirrvine clauses
relating to the repeal of all acts or
parts of acts wnicn may oe in con
flict with some particular measure,"
i j o - u-Ia trtrlnv. "Thin con-
ccuftiui - -
dition should be remedied. When an
act repeals any other act ii snouio. oe
so stated specifically in the body of
n .AnAaliTio- mpasure. We would
thus wipe out a great amount of dead
wood which is now on me state uuwa
and furnish a much more clear and
comprehensive system of laws than
we now have.
- "The special revision committee
would by no means stand in the way
th i-oiriilar work of the usual
standing committees.
"The bills would merely oe reviseu
as to legal form. After they had been
so revised they would be introduced,
take their usual course and be re
ferred to the usual committee.
"JolteTS" Not Feared.
"It may be argued that a revision
committee would be given altogether
too mucii power under the arrange
ment that I suggest. But the bills
would all have to go through the
House and Senate, through the regu
lar committees as well, and there would
be small chance of the revision com
mittee, or of its members, putting
jokers' into the bills without their
being detected.
"Looking through the bill book, so
I fi - (.11 1 r c o " . M. .
exact duplications of bills, not only
duplicated in one house, but bills are
introduced In tne fiouse ana ine oen-.
ate at the same time that are practi
cally counterparts.
"Here the question oi expenses en
ters. It costs money to print bills and
there is a large unnecessary expense
in printing a quota of exactly identi
cal bills. These duplications could be
done away with through the work of
, v. ravidnn rammtttea and a material
amount of expense cut down."
Experiment Farm Proposed.
STATE CAPITOI. .Salem, Or, Jan. 19.
"Slide, Kelly
"slide one dime, ten cents, over the plate
unhook the password to a better smoke than
could be."
A good many people have been handing
tobacco line.
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(Special.) Senator Stewart is pre
paring to introduce, early next week,
two bills providing for additional agri
cultural experiment stations one In
Malheur County and the other In Grant
County. The bills provide appropria
tions of $4000 annually for each of the
experiment stations, the stations to be
under the control of the Board of
Regents of the Oregon Agricurtural
College.
ROGUE RIVER ACT DISCUSSED
Jackson County Delegation Agrees
on Measure to Be Introduced.
STATE CAPITOI Salem. Or.. Jan.
19. (Special.) In an effort to settle
u unrrna T?)vr pnntroversv which
arose following the passage by the
people In 1910 of an act closing that
river to commercial iisning, ocuami
Von der Hellen and Representatives
f ir nti .Two nnri Westerlund. com
prising' the Jackson County delegation,
have held a conierence anu piiiw
settled on the provisions of a bill
which will be introduced by Reames.
The bill, in substance, will provide
that the river be closed to commercial
fishing between August 10 and Septem
ber 1 and between November 20 and
April 15, and every Saturday from 6
P. M. until Monday at 6 A. M.
It will further provide that gill nets
have a mesh of at least eight and one
half Inches, and seine nets of at least
four and one-half Inches.
The river will be open, otherwise, to
commercial fishing from the mouth to
the confluence of the Illinois River,
this distance being practically all tide
ter. It is understood that no effor will
be made to pass the bill which was ve
toed by the Governor two years ago.
It is said that many interests have
reached an agreement on the present
bill, and while undoubtedly a fight will
develop, efforts will be made to push
the bill through.
BIMi INDIRECTLY . WOUIiD EN
LARGE OREGON CITY.
Dimick Measnre Would Enable
Town to Annex Mills Located on
Opposite Side of Willamette.
rt & TP! nAPTTOL. Salem. Or.. Jan.
19. (Special.) "In addition to the
methods now provided by law for
change of boundaries and annexation
of adjoining territory by incorporated
cities and towns, every such incorpo
rated city and town Is hereby granted
power to change its boundaries and
annex and include within said city or
town limits, as a part thereof, any
adjoining territory not exceeding 200
acres at "one time, and which said
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erty therein shall be shown by the as
sessment rolls or the county to nave
been of an average assessed value of
not less than 3000 per acre for the
three years next preceding the pro
posed annexation."
This provision in the opening par
agraph of a bill introduced in the Sen
ate by Dimick, of Clackamas County,
amending the law relating to the
change of boundaries of incorporated
cities and towns, while apparently gen
eral in its effect, is taken to be a di
rect effort leading up to the eventual
annexation by Oregon City of the mills
and mill properties lying directly
across the river from Oregon City.
None of the mills or mill properties
which are across the Willamette from
Oregon City are now In the limits, the
limits going to the thread of the
stream.
These properties are valued at sev
eral millions of dollars and would vast
ly increase the assessed valuation of
Oregon City. It Is estimated that the
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mills. If brought into the limits of
Oregon City would probably Increase
the assessed valuation by one-half.
Dimick also has a bill providing for
regulating of hours of labor, requiring
that an eight-hour day be" established
in those mills that operate 22 hours or
more in a day.
Smith Proposes to right.
STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Jan. 19.
(Special.) Regardless ef the heavy
opposition which he expects from the
attorneys In the Senate, Senator Smith,
of Coos and Curry, declares he intends
to make a decided fight on his bill to
place the question of compensation for
fees for attorneys In personal injury
cases in the. discretion of the court.
The bill was one of the early ones in
troduced, and, although an adverse re
port is expected, the bill may develop
some fireworks.
Maby advantages are claimed by the New
Tork inventor of .an automobile tire hav
ing a vacuum chamber running through It
Instead of being pneumatic.
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