Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1915)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1913. tl COMPENSATION ACT HAS MANY CHANGES but this was eliminated or the employers them- All Employers Not Declining to Operate Under Law Are Included. RATES ARE RECLASSIFIED JuIy Ins; peril 'd. on request selves. Representative Schuebel introduced his bill in the House on January 25. It was passed by the House on Feb ruary 2 with ai vote of 55 to 2. The tienato passed the bill February 17 with an amendment providing that the commission which administers the compensation law be reduced from three members to. one member. An emergency clause also was attached. The House unanimously refused to concur In thu amendments. A con ference committee was named, but It failed to reach an agreement It was not until after midnipht on Saturday that the Senate yielded and passed the bill in substantially the same form as Representative Schuebel Introduced It. The new rates will become. effective NEW LAWS EFFECT TAXES PUZZLES lue I Mot-t Serious Objections to Present Act Ttcmovcd by Arranging That Charges May Bo Fixed -in Accord With Hazards. Several important changes to the workmen's compensation act are pro vided by the Schuebel bill, which caused the deadlock between the House and Senate before it was passed in the closing days of the Legislature and which was signed yesterday by Gov ernor VVlthycombe. Employers who are operating- under the law now and who propose , to operate under it in its amended form are studying the measure so that they can adjust their affairs to meet its various provisions. Under the Schuebel amendment all employers, unless they notify the com mission, will bo considered to be oper ating; under the law and will be as ."CFsed accordingly. One of the moFt Important changes Is that providing for a reclassification of industries and fixing the rates on a basis proportionate with the hazards. Prevention Principle Recognized The accident prevention principle Is recognised by two reparate provisions one a reward for absence of acc dents and the other a punishment for failure to install safety appliances. Whenever, in a period of 12 months, the total amount paid out of the in dustrial accident fund to the workman of any one employer shall not exceed 50 per cent of the amount paid in by that particular employer, the rate of assessment against that employer will b reduced 10 per cent. A similarre Auction Is provided If the amount paid out in the next succeeding: year does not exceed 50 per cent of the amount paid In. But the regular rates are to be restored as soon as the total mount paid out to the employes of any one plant in one year exceeds 60 per cent of the monfy paid In Section 15 of the present law is eliminated. This section grives injured workmen the privilege of brinslng civil action against . the employer whenever it is shown, by official i vestlgation, that accident was due to the failure of the employer to in- j f stall or maintain such snfetv aODll- I ances as the statutes require. Proecti.lOB la Ordered. A new section 25 has been inserted by the Schuebel bill. It reads as fol lows: "It shall be the duty of the In dustrial Accident Commission to vestisrate all cases where they have I reason to believe that the employers have failed to install or maintain any safety appliances required by statjjte. and in si) cusea of failure on the part of any employer to comply with such safety t,Latuto to report the facts to the Prosecuting Attorney for the dis trict and request the prosecution of the offending employer." The new rate schedules, however, were the subject of close scrutiny by every member of the Legislature and attracted statewide attention from employers and employes alike. The rates are applied on the total monthly payroll and are fixed In the following percentages: Subaqueous work. Itre escapes, house moving, house wrecking, con struction of steeples, metal smoke stacks, structural iron and steel work, -operation of powder plants and fire works factories, .080. Construction of tunnels, trestles, bridges, pile driving. Jetties, break waters. .065. Sewers. shaft sinking;. ditches. canals, freight and passenger ele valors. .060. Many Rated at 5 Per Cent. Construction of electric light power plants, telegraph or telephon systems, steam or electric railroads, water'works svBtems. concrete build lugs, tralvanizcd Iron or tinwork. with scaffold, marble, stone or brick work with scaffold, gas works and ship building: operation 'of logging rail road.-, wood tans, stevedoring, long shoring, tin or metal stamping ma chines. .050. Construction of steam " heating plants, advertising signs, ornamental metal work or metal ceilings in build ings. carpenter work not otherwise specified, ship rigging or grain ele vators, or operation of electric light or power plants, interurban electric railroads, stono quaries and mines other than coal, 040. Construction of street railways without blasting, installation of steam boilers or engines, installation of dy namos, automatic sprinklers and other machinery, operation of logging camps with or without machinery, operation of coal mines, saw mills, shingle mills and lath mills, .035. Construction of street or other grad tng. road making, concrete founda tions.- asphalt laying, operation of docks. steamboats. tugs, ferries, dredges, smelters, crediting and woor" treating plants. .030. Furniture factories and all other wooden ware ulants. .275. Operation of telegraph and telephone systems. boolcr works, paper or pulp mills, .02a. Foundries. .0223. Street Railway Rale 2 Per Cent. Operating packing houses and stock yards, street railways, garbage works. gun works., water works, steam heat mg or power plants, grain elevators or grain warehouses. Hour mills, gravel, sand or coal bunkers, canneries of all kinds, soap factories, briquette factories, machine shops, mar.ble shops and factories not otherwise specified .020. Operating terra eotta. brick and other earthenware factories, bottling works, breweries, paint factories. .015 Wording in foodstuffs. In wool, cloth, leather, brooms brushes, paper, cord age, jewelry, laundries ami In textiles not otherwise specified. .010. Working In condensing factories and creameries. .0075. Printing, electrotyping. photo en graving and lithographing, .0030. Under the present law there .are only two classifications one raying 8 Ter cent and the other ono and one half per cent. This has been one of th principle sources of dissatisfac tion. Coat la One Cent a Kay. Under the present law the employe is taxed In proportion to his salary. The amendment taxes the employe one cent per day for each day ho works and the employer is authorized to withhold this sum from the employe. Jlany of those employers who collect hospital fees from their employes absorb the employe's share of the fees from the hospital fund, so the work- ins; men actually bear no additional cost. Originally the bill provided a wait- CASE HANGS ON BOY'S AGE Convicted Burglar to Off to Juvenile Court If He Is Less Than 18. Stephen Spitulskv. who is hiM in the County Jail because there is no state institution to which he can be committed legally, will be turned over to the Juvenile Court when a showing Is made that he Is under IS years of age, according to an announcement hv Circuit Judge Davis yesterday. Hear ing or a petition for a writ of habeas Officials Announce They Have No Authority Except to Pro ceed Under Old Act. ONE STATEMENT MISLEADS Point of Issue Is Whether Legisla Hon Not In Effect Yet Can Applied to Collections Which Are Being- Made 5ow. How will the Legislature's action on tax laws affect the present collection of taxes? tnis ig & question which is puz VAUDEVILLE DEBUT OF PORTLAND DANCERS REMARKABLE 1 SUCCESS. -' -tats 1. " A HARRIETT 12 HARLOW AND HAROLD GRADY, For an act making Its first appearance in the professional calci um to "stop the show," the object point of- all performers' desires, is a thing that happens but about once In the average lifetime. N Yet this Is just what Harold Grady and Harriette Harlow. Port land's young society dancers, did at Pantages when they made their debut Monday afternoon. Men and women steeled to disappointments and Joys that come with the theatrical life looked on with wonder from the crevices behind the scenes, while a house filled to the doors hammered forth an approval that fairy rent the building. Both the young performers are Portland folk and this week marks their first appearanco on any stage. Manager Johnson 'was attracted by their work at a private performance and booked them for a week. Ho successful have they been that Manager Johnson will send them, over the Pantages circuit as one of the feature attractions. Charge Purchases Made today and remain der of month will go on March bill payable April 1. Olds, Wortman & King The Store of Superior Service Double Stamps TODAY With Cash Purchases All Over J)W3LE e Store With the showing: of new Spring goods in all departments this generous Double Stamo SPfTnriC. offer will be a powerful incentive to thrifty jyPt fi irj buyers to supply their Spring needs at this store touay. Aia aon t lorgei to see the rich and beautiful articles on display in the Premhim Parlors on the Fourth Floor. Cffi00 I") 7II Grocery Department, Fourth Floor No deliveries aLytlc except; th other purchases in Grocery Dept. rp r A V" 40c OWK Imperial Roast Coffee a lb. 290 1 " 50c Uncolored Japan or Ceylon Teas at lb. 390 1 OWNE -Glove Si You are not particularly in terested in the kind of gloves your great-grandfather wore. You are interested in getting your money's worth in glovewear now. V But if John Fownes had not satis fied your great-grandfather and other particular- persons, vc might not be able to make you such good gloves today. John Fownes, founder, set the standard which we have followed and improved, since 1777. PACIFIC COAST HEADQUARTERS BANKERS INVESTMENT BUILDING. SAN KRANC1SC0 corpus will be postponed until th Juvenile Court decides on his case. bpitul.sky was convicted in Clreu Court of burglary and was sentenced to one to two and one-half years the penitentiary. Eighteen years the age limit for prisoners in the peni tentiary, and 16 years Is the maxlmu limit for the State Industrial School Authorities have been in a quandry wnore to send spitulsky. STEAM IS CHECK TO FIRE Dye AVorks .Employes Use Boiler to Keep Flames From Explosives Through the quick wit of employes of the Model Dry Cleaning- & Dyeing Works at 929-931 Union avenue -North, serious damage was averted in a fire which swept the front part of the es tablishment at 2:30 yesterday. The gauge was broken from the boiler when the fire was discovered creeping into the room where benzine and other highly inflammable and explosive liquids were being used. The fire was smothered by the live steam. When the firemen arrived all that was nec essary was to extinguish the blaze i a portion of the building- inougn the machinery-room was saved by a fireproof door and the gal Ions of benzine stored in tanks in the basement were not reached by the names, the remainder of the buildln was gutted. Two 10-horsepower dy namos and 20 suits of clothes were ruined, the total damage being estl mated at $2000, fully covered by in surance. SUSSEX HAS ONE PRISONER Judgo Pavis Finds Xative County's Captive Is Lonesome. Circuit Judge Davis, who has charsre of the criminal department, did not get ins criminal experience in his home town. Yesterday he exhibited to court ttaches the following article, from the State Register, published at Laurel. unaware, his native city: llwood Armstrong, the onlv prls oner confined in fh. Suao-- rmmtv r3ail, has served notice on Sheriff West that unless another prisoner ia found to keep him company, he is going to leave. Armstrong complains that be is afraid to spend the nights alonn in his cell and that he becomes lonely auring tne long v inter evenings with no one for a companion. This Is the first time In several years that onlv one prisoner has been confined In the Jan. Sussex County, Delaware, has population of 65,000. TO BEAT BOY COSTS $15 Beaer Pitolior Fined but Witnesses Arc Censured by Judge. Found guilty of beating the small son of Mrs. jL. Murphy, Frank Uastley, Beaver pitcher, who was on the eve of leaving for his training camp in the south, was fined 15 by .Municipal Judge Stevenson yesterday. Before levying the fine, however, the court censured the witnesses in the case, all of whom showed a factional spirit which led to continual neighborhood wars. 'If mothers had better control over their children they would find things much more peaceful among the boys of the neighborhood." said Judge Steven son. , zling Tax Collector Huckabay, County Treasurer Lewis and all the otb.er local omeiais who are interested in the matter. Publication in a local evening paper of an article to the effect that the second payment of taxes is not iue until October & has inconven lenced the tax department greatly, re sulting in a flood of Inquiry about the maKing ot half payments. "Officially we have not been advised vinai me legislature has done, nor nave we any advice that will cause us in any way to change our present metnoa or collections," said. Mr. Huck- aoay yesterday. we are ao vised mat a bill was passed providing for half-payments. and changing the dates on which taxes become delinquent, but this bill cannot become a law for nearly 90 days. We are collecting taxes on the 1914 tax roll now, and I don't see how any fu ture law can affect our present col lections." Announcement Declared Misleading;. "The evening paper's story was mis leading,"" said County Treasurer Lewie. "It has resulted in no end. of telephone calls and. inquiries, and we can give the sublic no advice on the subject, for we ourselves have not been advised." Cashier McCoy said, there had been few half-payments of taxes so far in the collecting season, and that no large taxpayer had tried to make half-pay- mente as yet. Until advised differently. Mr. Huck abay said, the department will make all collections under the provisions of me present law, which Is printed con cisely on the back of the statements. All taxes unpaid after March 31 will be penalized 1 per cent, and 1 per cent will be added for each month that tne taxes remain unpaid, until they be come delinquent September 1. The Legislature s action changes the oate or delinquency to October 1. and tnis probably will affect this year's taxes In this way. One measure passed oy tne Legislature forbids the charg ing of any penalty on second-payment taxes lor 1914 and 1915 before October 1. This is the bill which at present puzzles the tax officials, and on which they will seek the advice of District Attorney Evans. s Retroactive Feature Faszles. There is declared to be some ques tion whether a retroactive measure of this sort Is constitutional. Under the present law the tax collectors must col lect a penalty on all taxes unpaid after March 31. The new laws will not be come effective untril'some time in May When thev do become effective, their provisions will render void sosie of the past actions of the tax collectors unaer the old law. One other bill serves to complicate the situation further. When the new aws tak,e effect, 90 days after the ad ournment of the late legislative ses- ion. the Sheriff will become tax col- ector instead of the County Treasurer. This will necessitate a complete turn- ne over of all the tax books and rolls. Troubles that may result from the new ules of collections will fall thereafter on the Sheriff's shoulders. We are seeking legal light on tne ubject," said Mr. Huckabay. "By the last of the week we may be able to eive satisfactory answers'" to the nu merous questions that are coming In. Until we are advised, though, we are completely up in the air as far as the ew laws go. Collections are slower this year man last, and requests for statements are not as early as they snouid be. Yes terday was the 18th day of the collect- ng season. At the close or Dusiness, 322.401.23 had been coiiectea. as against $506,346.95 In the same period last year. Receipts Issued this year were 6560, against 7842 last year. We are anxious that people come In and get their statements 'as early as possible, even If they do not pay their taxes right away," said Mr. Huckabay. This will save us from a great deal or rush during the month of March. A dispatch from Salem last night said that in accordance with the act correcting the present law, there will be no penalty on second half taxes if the first half are paid promptly. The State Tax Commission suggests, ac cording to the dispatch, that the first half payments be made before April 1, the curative law becoming effective in time to preclude penalties on the sec ond half. FESTIVAL POSTER SEEN GOVERNORS FOR 1915 FETE VIEW PUBLICITY FILM. Audience at National Is Loud la Ap plause for Unannounced Feature. Display Cards Are Ready. the Washburn Peabody, the oldest man in Dlxmont, Me., hud the honor of being the first at the polls to cast his ballot elec tion day. Mr. Peabody is now past 91 and has cast his ballot at every Septem ber and November election since ha came of age, his first vote for Governor being for Hastings, and for a President, James K. Polk. Governors of the 1915 Rose Festival last night saw this year's poster, the work of Fred G. Cooper, in motion pic tures. At the conclusion of the regular weekly meeting the directors went to the National Theater, where Melvin G. Winstock attached the film showing the poster to one of the regular fea tures. Its appearance on the screen was unannounced, but brought ap plause from the theater patrons. Miriam Schiller, a Portland girl. 6 years of age, stands by the poster, and first pointing to the slogan "The Whole World Knows the Portland Rose," she drops her hand to the festival dates, and, turning, smiles directly Into the lens of the camera, which produces the effect Of looking directly at the theater audience. This is one of the methods to be used in getting the festival dates before the people of the city and state. Copies of the film will be presented to the managers of Portland motion picture and vaudeville theaters by the public ity department of the Rose Festival Association instead of the usual colored slide. The Motion Picture Exhibitors' League is working in co-operation with the festival directors and Edwin F. James, manager of the Majestic The ater and president of the league, has named a special committee on city beautiful and Rose Festival publicity. A positive print from the negative will be forwarded to the Oregon build ing at San Francisco, where it will be attached to the 1914 Rose Festival pa rade pictures now being displayed- to attract attention to this year's car nival. More than 25 copies of the negative will be used in this special line of pub licity work. Window cards in three colors, showing the poster design, as well as streetcar cards, are off the press and will be distributed at once. This Bank Pays 4 Per Cent Interest on Savings Accounts Ample capital, conservative methods and Government supervision guarantee security. Our convenient location and courteous service will make your banking: relations pleasant and profitable. MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK THE BANK OF PERSONAL SKRVICK Founded in 1886 Washington and Fourth Streets ELECTRIC CODE TIED UP MR. BIGELOW BLOCKS Kl.NAL PAS SAGE WITH EHEIUiEJiCY CLAUSE. Opposition to Rnahlas; Heaaore Is Based on Its Importance to Owners of Property. pnmmitainnPT Bieelow blocked the final passage yesterday of the proposed new electrical code with an emergency claiiRp mukinc: it effective immediately. Mr. Bigelow declared that such a meas ure should not be enacted in such a manner as to preclude tho invocation of the referendum. He declared that, as it is of much Importance to home owners of the city, ho Is opprtsM to It being rushed through. Enactment of the measure Its hccn urged by Coiiiiiiislon'r Pi'k In hiif of the fact that t'lty Allrnry l.n I!... h has written an opinion In the ff'Vl that certain pares of II may he lllrssl. Mr. La Roche says there Is h. qtuutlnn about the legality of a provision requir ing the registration of all workmen and permitting the Issiiuiicp of wlrluK permits only when Mm work Is tu be done under tho control of a person registered as a supervising electrician. Tho measure would f nuire all wir ing, except that iluiie by n property owner personally on bin n pienil" . to be under the direction of a super vising electrician. It would prohibit a property, owner from enensmg any per son to assist hi in. AH contractors, whether individuals or I Inn, would h required under the ordinance to psy n snnunl HeenK fee of $?,. COR EYOUR COLD A FEW HOURS FEEL FINE i Tape's Cold Compound" opens cioggea nose ana head and ends grippe. Relief comes Instantly. X dose taken every two hours until three doses are taken will end grippe misery and break up a severe cold uner in tne neaa, chest, body or limbs. It promptly opens clogged-up nostrils ana air passages in the head, stops nasty discharge or nose running, re lieves sick headache, dullness, fever lshnees, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness, : Don't stay stuffed-up. Quit blowing ana snurrung: n-ase your throbbing head! Nothing else in the world gives such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold Compound." which costs only 25 cents at any drug- store. It acts without assistance, tastes nice, causes no in convenience. Be sure you get the gen- ulna. Adv. This Special Price Gives Choice of Any Bern amin Suit in our entire stock. Reg ular prices as high as $35 Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits Alone Excepted. Buffum Sc Pendleton C Morrison Street Opposite Postoffice r Real birds sing to you on the Victrola The niehtineale has been famed far and wide for his beautiful but few people have ever heard this lovliest of warblen. Now everybody can enjoy it, for after year ef ra'i''"' effort the Victor has succeeded in makinc a number of actual bird records. There are not only individual records cf the sonc of the nightingale, thrush and sprosser, but even a duet by a canary and thrush. . , . I Come ia and hear these record.. YouH enjoy the novelty and find them interesting. Victrola. $15 to J2S0, Victor. $10 tm $100. . Term, to tuit your convenience. I - n.treciiai acriAarfcioiond Droadwsr t AW.C.X. 1 0 Days' Stop at San Francisco and Los Angeles on one-way tickets to F.astrrn points rou(r4 Mu Ik EI Paso Route (S, i e. r. Jt . w.. n. i. p.) will enable you to visit the Panama Tai'lflr International Exposition at San 1-Yanclsro and the Panama California Exposition, fan Plcajo, The Golden State Limited Do Luxe Train no Kxlra Fare Flrit CIhh throughout. Dally from Ios Angflcs to Chi cago, with through Pullman romipctlon from Pan Francisco on tho "Owl." leaving San Fran cisco at :00 T. M. Copy of folder, "Golden Stte Limited. " and literature on the Im positions at City Ticket Office, SO Sixth Strcft. Cor. Oak. Union He pot or Last .Morrison Street. Southern Pacific John M. Scott, General Passenr ABcnt, Tprtlsnd, Or.