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
$
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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
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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
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BEN SELLING
Morrison
at Fourth
Portland's Leading Clothier for Over Half a Century
bile mechanic, residing at 1000 West
First street, was in a serious con
dition tonight at the Aberdeen Gen
eral hospital and John Zieman, 20,
was in the city jail on an open charge
following alleged accidental' dis
charge of Zieman's automatic pistol
from his room on the upper floor of
the Zieman home at 103 North Wash
ington street at about 6 o'clock last
night.
Hills, who was shot in the lung,
today was reported to have an even
chance for recovery.
Zieman told police that he was try
ing to remove the load from his
automatic when the shell in the firing
chamber was discharged. Hills, he
said, was drawing up to the curb on
a i bicycle to enter a grocery store
at Market and Washington streets,
and was struck when about 125 feet
from Zieman's room.
S. & H. green stamps for cash. Hol
man Fuel Co., coal and wood. Broad
way 6353, 560-21. Adv.
MECHANIC SHOT
Young Man Jailed Following Dis
charge of Pistol. -
ABERDEEN, Wash., April 20.
(Special.) Vance Hills 23, automo
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-29.50
the majority sell regularly at 55.00
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their regtdar price is 12.50 and more
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Grouped for disposal at a greatly lowered price,
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many of which were originally priced 59.00
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Modern dress, hair dressers, facial
experts and cosmetics all combine to
keep women of all ages young: and at
tractive in appearance. Not until the
telltale wrinkles become so deep, the
figure stoops or some ailment or
-weakness develops to drag a woman
down does she really look her age.
Every woman owes it to herself and
her family to keep herself young: in
appearance, and happy. When head
aches, backache or "the blues" de
velop or when a woman reaches the
trying age from forty-five to fifty,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound may be depended upon to keep
her in health as it has so many other
women whose letters we are continu
ally publishing in this paper. Adv.
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Aek any druggist for a 35c or II
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troubles will disappear.
Zemo, the penetrating, mtlsfylnir
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Adv.
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