S DLY-CLEA OF BEN SELLING LEADING CLOTHIER THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAJT, PORTLAND, JULY 29, 1906. SA -Men's $35 Suits; Sale Price Men's $30 Suits; Sale Price Men's $25 Suits; Sale Price Men's $20 Suits; Sale Price Men's $15 Suits; Sale Price MEN'S PANAMA and $15.00 PANAMA $10.00 PANAMA $ 7.50 PANAMA $ 5.00 PANAMA SPECIAL REDUCTIONS IN MEN'S FANCY VESTS We have not reduced everything in our stock but the cut, or really gashes, we have made will prove the greatest money-savers of the season. ALL WASH SUITS ONE-HALF PRICE BIG REDUCTIONS IN BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING FOR EQUITABLE TAX State Commisison Proposes Revision of the Law. METHOD IS INCONSISTENT A'ew Measure Would Govern the Equalization of the Assess ments as Made Out by the County Boards. SALELM. Or., July 28. (Special.) With a View to securing: a more equitable assess ment of property in this state, the Oregon Tax Commission has recommended a re vision of the law governing the equaliza tion of assessments by the County Board. In this connection, the Commission gives its fiat disapproval to the plan often agi tated of having the assessment rolls pub lished in newspapers in the locality in which the property assessed Is situated. The plan of publishing the assessment list is disapproved because it does not insure a better assessment, because such publi cation would be practically impossible, and because it would be expensive. The Commission estimates that to publish the assessment list In Multnomah County would cost trfc.OuO a year. The proposed revision of the law relat ing to equalisation of the assessment Is largely based upon Inconsistencies in the present law. but also upon a laxity In the law by which wealthy property-owners have been able to coerce County Courts Into allowing an Inequitable as sessment to end. The Commission pro poses a law which seems to have "teeth in It." and which will be effective If county . ofneers are disposed to do their duty. Present Law Inconsistent. The Inconsistency in the present law lies In the fact that the County Board of Equalization is required to meet on the last Monday in August, while the Asses sor Is given until the first Monday tn Beptember to file his roll, or until the first Monday In October if the County ,ouxt makes an order to Uut effect. At DONT BUY A THING in Men's Wear until you have read this list from beginning to end it will save you more money than you have ever been able to save before on MEN'S CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS and HATS. EVERY ONE 'of our high-class SUMMER SUITS and OUTING SUITS is included in this money-saving list $25.00 20.00 17.50 13.50 10.00 HATS HATS HATS HATS $7.50 5.00 3.75 2.50 the same time, there is no authority of law for an extension of the time of meet. Ing of the County Board of Equalization. Assessors usually take the full time to prepare their rolls, and very frequently ask for and are granted the extension of time. Commenting upon this condition of the laws, the Commission says that "the Board of Equalization is thus re quired to meet perhaps six weeks be fore the assessment roll is completed, and as its functions lapse when It has been in session a week. It' must have passed out of legal existence at a date before the Assessor is required to have the assessment roll ready to equalize." To remedy this defect, the Commission rec ommends the enactment of a law which shall give the Assessor until the first Monday in October to file the roll, and requires him to file it then, and also re quires the County Board of Equalization to meet on that date. "Under the present system we practical ly have two Boards of Equalization," says the Commission, "one meeting after the other, and having full power to undo the work of its predecessor. The County Board of Equalization consists of- the County Judge, County Clerk and Assessor. This board continues in session one week, and if it does not complete its work with in the week, the County Court, at its next regular session, completes the examina tion and correction of the roll. But the County Court has a different membership than the Board of Equaliza tion, and does not have the advantage of the advice of the Assessor, whose work Is being equalized and corrected. The County Court has no power to assess omitted property, or to increase on its own initiative the assessment of any tax payer. Its functions are solely to complete the work which has been commenced and been left uncompleted by the County Board of Equalization. "Neither the Board of Equalization nor the County Court has the full powers of a board of equalization. Results have been that in many cases the County Court has entirely undone the work of the board, and Instances are not lacking where the County Board of Equalization has adjourned with its work nominally completed, but In reality Incomplete, in order to divest the County Court of Juris diction to perform some threatened act of radical revision." What Commission Proposes. To overcome this flaw In the system of equalization, the Commission recommends that the Board of Equalization consist of the County Judge, Commissioners, Clerk and Assessor. Ave tn all; that they have power to adjourn from day to day, but not exceeding one month, until their work is completed. Petitions for the reduction of an assessment must be received only when the board is in session, and must be in writing and be verified by the oath of Ui petluoper, Aa appeal (nay, bt Men's $25 Outing Suits; Sale Price $15.00 Men's $20 Outing Suits; Sale Price 12.50 Men's $15 Outing Suits; Sale Price 10.00 STRAW HATS Vz PRICE MEN'S $3.00 STRAW HATS . MEN'S 1.90 STRAW HATS . MEN'S 1.00 STRAW HATS . taken to the Circuit Court from a decis ion of the Board of Equalization. The reason for this provision for anap peal is set forth in the Commission's re port. The Commission says that in some counties injunction suits have been brought to prevent the collection of taxes, and in other counties injunction suits have been threatened until the county courts, in order to avoid litigation and prevent the holding up of funds, have compro mised with the wealthy property-owners at considerable loss to the county. The Injunction suits will lie because the property-owner aneges that he "has no adequate remedy at law.' By providing for an appeal, the property-owner will have an adequate remedy at law for any arbitrary act of the County Board, and hence will have no ground for an injunc tion suit. The Circuit Court, under the proposed law, will have nower not only to reduce the assessment but also to raise it if the trial upon the petition shows that a raise is warranted. The appeal does not operate as a stay of proceedings, but the assessment, levy and collection of taxes go on as though there had been no appeal, and if the ap pellant wins, the excessive tax may be refunded to him, and if the assessment should be Increased the county may col lect the additional tax. This proposed law contains several pro visions that seem to be an improvement upon the existing law. In the first place, a taxpayer will not go before the County Board of Equalization with a written pe tition unless he has a real grievance, for the court has power to raise his assess ment, and his formal petition will serve to call the attention of his neighbors and the public generally to the representations he is making governing the value of his property. Placing the matter of equali sation entlrely.ln the hands of one board Instead of two will centralize the respon sibility and give time and opportunity for careful and well-advised work. No Publication of Assessments. Several persons having suggested to the Commission that the new law for the as sessment of property and the equalization of assessments should, contain a require ment that the assessment roll be pub lished in newspapers, the report of the Commission discusses this subject at some length. The idea was that the publica tion of the roll would lead to the discov ery of considerable property that has not been assessed In the past, and that per sons acquainted with property that has been undervalued will make complaint to the Board of Equalization and secure an Increase. Commenting upon this, the Commission says that it would be a physical impossi bility for the Clerk to make a copy of the roll for the newspapers after the roll has been completed ana before the board meets. The Commission also expresses its oginioa .that an assessment system LEADING CLOTHIER based upon the supposition that one property-owner will complain of his neighbor's assessment is based upon error, for ex perience shows that they will not do so. It Is In this connection that the Commis sion makes the estimate that the publi cation of the assessment roll In Multno mah County would cost $65,000 a year. WEIGHT SCALE IS CHANGED Salmon Canneries Announce a New Schedule at Astoria. ASTORIA. Or.. July 28. (Special.) At a meeting this evening, attended by rep resentatives of all the companies operat ing canneries on the' Lower Columbia River, the weight limit between large and small fish was Increased from 26 to 28 pounds. The new ruling will go into ef feot at 6 P. M. on July 29, and the prices will be 7 cents per pound for fish weigh ing 28 pounds or over, and 5 cents for those under that weight.' Tules are to be 10 cents each. The price 4iuce the opening of the season has been T cents per pound for fish weigh ing 25 pounds or over. No trouble Is an ticipated over this new ruling, as at the opening of the season the Fishermen's Union fixed, the -price for large fish at 6 cents and the limit at 23 pounds. IIOQTJIAM FRANCHISE DOWNED Canses Personalities to Plow Be tween the Councilmen. HOQUIAM, Wash., July 28. (Special.) At a meeting of the Council in this city tonight, the Finch telephone franchise, which has been playing an important part in the city affairs, was brought up. Whep the ordnance granting the franchise was read, the Council was addressed by Mr. Sands, of the Sunset Telephone Company. F. C. Finch then spoke in favor of the franchise and said that he knew of four Councilmen who had been approached with a consideration to down his Iran-ch-sfc This statement was not denied, although several of the Councilmen who voted against him became engaged in a heated controversy. The ordinance was defeated by a vote of 4 to 8. Guards for Clipper Knot Saws. OLTMPIA, Wash., July 28. (Special.) State Labor Commissioner C. F. Hubbard announces that he has Instructed his dep uties to require all mills operating the so called "Clipper knot saw" to have the same provided with substantial safe guards or -their use discontinued from now on: otherwise certificates of inspec tion will be withheld from shingle mills using them. - $1.50 .95 .50 OIL CAN EXPLODES Clark County Bride Is Envel oped in Flames. CONSCIOUS UNTIL DEATH Mrs. Pearl Ayres Was Attempting to Kindle a Fire at Her Home East, of Vancouver, With Disastrous Result. VANCOUVER, Wash.. July 28. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Pear! Ayres, a bride of a few weeks, of Ellsworth, a few miles east of Vancouver, died at 11 o'clock last evening from the result of burns received from the explosioifof a can of oil with which she was attempting to start a fire. The accident occurred at 6:30 last evening at the Ayres home. When the oil can exploded the oil sat urated the woman's clothing, causing her to be almost instantly enveloped in flames. She ran from the house and fell writhing in the front of the house, where she was found by neighbors shortly afterward. Mrs. Ayres was at once taken to the home of one of her neighbors, E. L. French, where she was attended by a physician. Though she was, perfectly conscious up to the time she" died, yet she seemed not to feel . any great pain, it appearing that she was burned too badly to feel the pain. Mrs. Ayres was the wife of Edward Ayres. They were married July 4. 8he was formerly of Spokane, Wash., her maiden name being Clausen, and she was about 19 years of age. The house was completely destroyed, with all its contents. HARRIMAN WILL EXTEND LINE New Road May Connect With the Canadian Pacific. SEATTLE, Wash., July 28. (Special.) The statement made yesterday before the Council committee en .corporations that 4 l;i"4t k -tM 1 r$f -f yi'f'H,f - i A s,' ; M f a, v - l I - W. t ; I fern . ftttef v?dl ,?V -V yvJruX xiiPl ;: - ydprnjh. is V ' ' JT tiw c. iotb j.,., ,u s0' ymenir I the Harrlman system will build north of Seattle was confirmed ' today. The line will construct a road into British Columbia.- The towns to be tapped en route are not definitely determined, for the road has not been surveyed. In a general way, though, it will tap the same country the Bill systems reach. 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