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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1922)
THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, FRIDAy, APRIL 21, 1923 SPOKANE POLITICAL , MEETING OPPOSED ation of other-changes, especially such as require constitutional amendment, should follow and not precede this fundamental requirement. Let us set ourselves right first, and then go ahead with such further improve ments as 'experience shows to be necessary." Reapportionment Conference Expected to Be Futile.- SOLON FAVORS OWN PLAN Senator Palmer Says legislators First Should Enforce Consti tution of State. PUGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle, Wash., April 20. "Nothing can come of such a meeting. It will be attend ed, if it is held, only by members of former legislatures who ignored their oaths and the solemn mandate oi tne state constitution." This is State Senator Palmer's opin ion of the conference called to meet in Spokane April 26 to discuss legislative reapportionment with the hope of reaching some plan "more satisfac tory" than the Palmer reapportion ment bill, which is now before the People as an initiative measure. The call for the conference, as reported In The Oregonian of April 18, was issued by Senator Westfall and Rep resentative Danskin of Spokane coun ty. Senator Myers of Lincoln county, and Representative "Wolf of Pend d'Oreilie county. It suggests various lines of discussion, including substi tution of the county unit for the pres ent district unit of representation, the unicameral legislative body, longer legislative sessions, and other possible changes from the existing system, Reapportionment Bill Up. Senator Palmer's reapportionment bill, introduced as an initiative meas lire and petitions for which are now being signed, is based simply on the constitutional requirement of legisla tive apportionment, according to pop ulation after the taking of each fed era! census. There has been no reap portionment since 1901. Senator Palmer has been invited to the Spokane conference. He isn't yet lure whether he will attend or not. "To do anything along the lines dicated in the Spokane invitation would require an amendment to the state constitution; yet the state con stitution has been deliberately ig' nored by every legislator and legisla ture since 1901," said Senator Palmer today "The Oregonian's story from Spo kane shows that Senator Westfall and others who join in the invitation are not opposed to reapportionment. Why, then, should they refuse to support initiative No. 45, which complies with the mandate of the state constitution, and is as nearly perfect, according to the distribution of population, as it can possibly be drawn? Conference Thought Farce. "This Spokane meeting, in my judg ment, is called only to distract atten tion from the real issue, by offering hope of something else possibly to be attained in the dim and distant fu ture, and to avoid compliance with the constitution at this time. "All opponents to the initiative pe tition are ex-members of the legis lature. They found no fault with one senator's representing several coun ties, as is the case in several instances throughout the state, but they insist that each county must have', a repre sentative. , .i I defy any person to point out a single instance wherein the three largest cities of the state have ever obtained passage of a law or ever at tempted to pass one to work injury to any section of the state. "If these legislators are in favor of reapportionment; if they recognize, as they sem to, and as every fair-minded man must recognize, the injustice and Iniquity of the present plan of repre sentation, let them join in support of initiative No. 45, which complies with the present state constitution, now more than 30 years old. Amendment la Favored. - "I will join with them, now or at any time in the future, in the plan to amend the constitution. L&t us first respect the constitution as it stands today, and when we do this, others may have some respect for the laws we have passed. "Violations of the Volstead act, the speed laws, game laws and other laws are common. It is considered smart to violate some of these laws. How can legislators demand of the people a higher degree of respect for law than the legislators themselves show? Respect for the state constitution, the state's organic law, is fundamental to respect for any and all other state laws. Members of the legislature must first set themselves right in ths matter of law observance. "The invitation to the Spokane con ference gives ample recognition to the fact that the changes from the exist ing system are desirable. The first change must be in accord with the constitutional mandate, and constder- COXVICT MUST SERVE AGAIN McNeil Island Prisoner to Be Sent to Walla Walla to Complete Term. TACOMA, Wash., April 20. (Spe cial.) Arrested as he stepped from the McNeil's island penitentiary launch at Steilacoom yesterday after serving a year for counterfeiting in Tacoma, Hugh C. Hamilton, 27, an electrician, is in jail here awaiting the arrival of a traveling guard who will return him to Walla Walla to complete a one-to-15-year sentence for grand larceny committed in Se attle, and for which he was on parole. Hamilton was sentenced from Se attle for grand larceny. At the end of one year he was - paroled and as he left the penitentiary he smuggled out a set of dies for making counter feit ?20 notes which he had made while a prisoner. He was caught in the act of making notes in a Tacoma hotel a year ago by city detectives and a United States secret service agent. He was sentenced to serve one year for this offense and im mediately upon the expiration of his sentence he was rearrested as a pa role violator and will be returned to Walla Walla to complete his sen tence. It's Good Business to wear clothes such as these RAIL BONDS IN TANGLE TACOMA FEARS GOVERNMENT WILIi TjNIiOAD HOLDINGS. Municipal Line Built During War for Emergency Fleet Body Saddles City AVith Debt. TACOMA, Wash.. April 20. (Spe cial.) City officials, convinced that the government is attempting to un load $223,000 of Tacoma municipal railway bonds which are held by the emergency fleet corporation on spec ulators, spent today in conference with City Attorney Dennis. Letters have been arriving in the last few days from New York bond houses at the offices of the mayor, city con troller and commissioner of finance. nquiring about the Tacoma municipal railway bonds. This sudden inquiry has alarmed the council, as no word recently has been received from the government' regarding the status of the bonds. The railway was built for the ac commodation of the government ship building activities during war times and has been operated at a loss of more than J500.000 to Tacoma, in ad dition to what the government paid. In the face of the fact that the gov- I eriment compelled the city to build the railway, city officials feel that Tacoma has no moral obligation to pay the bonds and express, the be lief that this was a war debt and that the government should cancel it. Many overtures have been made by Tacoma officials to settle the debt, but the emergency fleet corporation thus far has refused to do so, in spite of the fact that this branch of the government furnished the funds for the railway's construction. City Attorney Dennis advised that all inquirers should be told immedi- tely that the city will contest the bonds and resist payment. It is con ceded, however, that if the bonds are the hands of speculators much trouble for the city might result if the matter were taken into the local courts to secure payment. SUITS for MEN with two pairs of pants $ t - - The models for men and young men are handsomely tailored, consistent in high quality throughout and offer you a choice assortment of finished and unfin ished worsteds to select from. The extra pants feature provides an estimable convenience in addition to the increased length of service you will get. These and other values in my store, will convince you that they are unequaled elsewhere! 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