The Sunday Oregonian., October 18, 1914, Section One, Page 13, Image 13

ATTORNEYS OPPOSE
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Bar Association Takes Stand
For or Against Measures
to Be on Ballot.
WATERFRONT ACT SCORED
Sur-Tax Provision, Dentistry Bill,
Eight-Hour Law and Others Are
Condemned in Committee
Reports Adopted.
Following: close scrutiny of many of
the constitutional amendments and
measures to be voted upon at the No
vember election, the Multnomah Coun
ty Bar Association has made recom
mendations on a number and will take
further action on a few remaining: at
an adjourned meeting- Tuesday night.
J. F. Boothe. president of the Bar
Association, recently named a commit
tee of 100 attorneys, Ralph R. Duniway,
chairman, which was ' broken up into
sub-committees of three, each of which
was to scrutinize one measure or
amendment and report to the associa
tion. At two recent meetings the
association members heard these re
ports and adopted resolutions recom
mending support of or oposition to the
various amendments.
Waterfront Act Condemned,
Unanimous condemnation was voted
upon the proposed constitutional
amendment to reinvest the state with
all tide and shorelands on navigable
streams of the state up to bank-full
stage, and the corresponding amend
ment providing for the leasing of
waterfront property by the state in
tho event the former amendment
passes. The report of the committee
says:
"What the measure strikes at is the
millions of dollars worth of shore-
lands and waterfront property on the
Willamette in Portland, and between
that city and the mouth of the Wil
lamette. This shore-land, with its
riparian rights incident thereto, has
oeen in private ownersnip ror 40 years
under legislative grant, recently con
firmed by our Supreme Court.
Dishonesty Is Charged.
"To attempt to confiscate this vast
property is dishonest, unlawful and
un-American."
The specific personal graduated
extra tax amendment, generally re
ferred to as the "sur-tax' amendment.
conies in for hard knocks. The report
on tnis measure, as adopted, says:
"It is pernicious in that it violates
the legal principle of Just and equal
taxation;
"In that the tax provided for is not
uniform ;
'In that the amounts so to be
assessed operate in the nature of
penalty upon the person owning prop
erty aDove z,tiuu in amount.
Measure Held Impractical.
"It is ill-digested and impractical
legislation in this, to wit:
"The whole act as proposed is not in
the legal form required.
"In that It provides no way or lndl
cates any method whereby natural re
sources are to be known and ascer
tained.
"In that it would subject the several
counties to inordinate expense and
waste of time to ascertain natural re
sources in the manner proposed."
The association protests strongly
against the repeal of the act of 1913
regulating the practice of dentistry in
the state.
Elector Being Citizen Is Favored.
Recommendations favorinsr the adon
tion of the amendment to the state con
stitution to require an elector of this
state to be a citizen of the United
States, rather than to have been simply
a resident of the United States for a
period of one year and to have declared
his intention to become a citizen of the
United States, were made.
An adverse report was made on the
proposed amendment to the constitu
tion providing for the creation of the
office of Lieutenant-Governor for the
reasons that the office is held to be un
necessary and useless.
Favorable action is recommended
upon the proposed amendment permit
ting the enactment of a general law
whereby an incorporated city or town
may surrender its charter and be
merged into an adjoining city or town.
Other Measures Opposed.
T ne bar association recommends a
negative vote on ballot measure No. 308,
providing for incurring state indebt
edness not exceeding 4 per cent of as
sessed valuations for roads and irriga
tion. A negative vote also is suggested
as proper oiv No. 807 as well.
Constitutional amendments providing
for the establishment of normal schools
at Ashland and Weston were debated.
It was determined finally to make no
recommendations on these measures.
Believing the amendment to the con
stitution of the state providing that
when any county contains a city of
more than 100,000 population, the
boundaries of city and county may be
made identical Is too loosely drawn and
in its present form is not sufficiently
comprehensive to cover all require
ments of such cases, the association
recommended a negative vote in this
case.
An adverse report was submitted on
No. 356 on the ballot, which reaffirms
the existing constitutional requirement
that taxes shall be equal and uniform,
and provides further that the section
so amended shall not be amended fur
ther except by a two-thirds vote.
Taxation measures 303 and 310 also
were opposed.
K-Hour Low Opposed.
Thumbs wore turned down when the
universal civlil-hour law was discussed.
A -resolution was adopted favoring
the theory of a non-partisan judiciary,
but tlii- association decided adversely
on tttc measure on the ballot.
.'.-hlanil Methodists Plan TLeunion.
ASHLAND, Or., Oct. 17. (Speoial.)
Local Methodists are planning a big
reunion In November for the golden
anniversary of the establishment of
the church here in 1S64. The celebra
tion will begin Sunday. October 8. and
continue for a week in the nature of
a, home-coming. Committees now are
arranging the programmes and full
details.
Elma Registration Is 041.
KLMA. Wash., Oct. 17. (Special.)
The registration for the four precincts
of thi3 city for this year Is 941, or 73
more than last year. At that time this
precinct included several camps and
mills which now are shut down. One
hundred and fifty more would be added
easily were these running.
Early Lewis Settler Dies.
CHEHAL1S. Wash.. Oct. 17, (Special.)
Fernando Sonny Ford, 72 years old,
an early resident of Lewis County died
this week at Gilmore, near Tenino. He
came to what is still known as Ford's
Prairie, west of Centralis, 40 years ago.
A son and four daughters survive.
AMENDMENTS
GOUNTY FINANCE SHOWN
AUDITOR'S RECORD BOOK TELLS
FUND BALANCES AT GLANCE.
Handy Summary of Monetary Con
dition Balanced Monthly la Open
to Poblle Inspection.
Multnomah County's financial con
dition is shown at a glance In a record
book that County Auditor Martin has
installed in connection with the budget
for county expenditures, introduced by
the last Legislature. This book, al
though devised for the information of
the County Commissioners and other
officials, is accessible to the public
Each department of the county gov
ernment, headed either by an elective
or appointive officer, has a- column of
its own. At the left are placed the
months of the year and at the top
the amount apportioned by the budget
to each department for the year. Ex
penditures for each month are set
down in red ink and the balance re
maining to the credit of the depart
ment is entered in black ink.
Charges against the general fund
are assembled under one head and the
same system of aggregate monthly
expense and balances and comparison
with similar expendltur.es for 1913 is
applied as In the case of the several
county departments. The road fund,
which has large operations, is handled
in the same way as the general fund.
Auditor Martin also keeps track of
the money coming into the county
treasury in the same way, showing
the source whence It Is received and
the officer collecting it. Each depart
ment that collects money has a column
TnE .SUNDAY OIIEGOXIAN, PORTLAND,
The Most Extraordinary Furniture
Announcement Ever Made in Portland
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At noon yesterday we signed a fifteen-year lease for the ten-story Holtz building at Fifth and
Washington streets. It is the first move in our plan for the establishment of the greatest furniture
institution in the Northwest.
We must vacate our present building on November 15. Think what that means the moving of a
giant furniture store in less time than was ever attempted in Portland's history!
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Fred O. Jenning leaves tomorrow morning for Grand Rapids and the Eastern market to purchase
the finest and most complete new stock of furniture ever brought to Oregon. The present stock
will be sold out at marvelously low prices.
This is the first sale in our thirty-seven years of furniture business. We have never believed in
sales unless for a legitimate reason. Here is the greatest opportunity you have ever known.
Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
of Fine Furniture, Carpets, Stoves
and Housefurnishings Slaughtered
Price on hundreds of articles will be cut right in half many staple lines actually reduced 33l& and
25 per cent. This advertisement was prepared hurriedly. We did not have time or space to men
tion prices. Come when the store opens tomorrow morning, prepared for the greatest savings you have ever witnessed.
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Corner of Second a.oet IMorrisoo Streets
where this is set down, showing re
ceipts from all sources, month by
month.
"This little book." said Mr. Martin
vesterday, "is a handy summary of all
the financial books of the county. 1
put it in so as to be able to furnish
information quickly about the county's
business. A noticeable demand for
just this information has arisen in the
past year or two."
REGISTRATION SAVING DUE
Permanent Enrollment Will Xet
$75.O00 $100,000 Estimated.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Seattle, Oct. 17. (Special.) Permanent
electoral registration will save the
State of Washington between $75,000
and $100,000 a year according to Her
man A. Brauer, of the University of
Washington extension division.
- In Seattle during 1910, registration
cost the voters 19,260 or more than
39 cents a voter.
. The plan of permanent electoral
registration will be placed before the
Washington - State Legislature at its
next session. - It Is being prepared
through the department of political
science under the supervision of Dr.
Brauer.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank our friends for the
kindness shown us in our bereavement
in the death of our mother, Mrs. Honorah
Maher. (Signed)
MRS. J AS. J. DRISCOLL.
Adv. PATRICK AND JOHN MAKER.
Smart Set Comparisons.
(Washington Star.)
"Why should you regard yourself as
her social superior? Her family is as
distinguished as yours?"
"Yes, but my alimony is much larger."
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CAMPAIGN IS BELATED
JUDGE HARRIS HELD AT POST BY
UNUSUALLY HEAVY DOCKET.
Lane Candidate for Supreme Bench
Haa Indorsement of Every Lawyer .
In Hla Home County.
EUGENE, Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.)
TieM to his bench with the heaviest
Circuit Court docket in the history of
the county until within two weeks of
election. L. T. Harris, Republican can
didate for the Supreme bench of Ore
gon, has completed ararngements for
a hurried trip about the state to meet
his friends once before November 3. He
arranged yesterday with Judge Ham
ilton, of Roseburg, -to open the Jury
docket in Lane County next Monday.
Judge Harris, however, must go to
Dallas Tuesday, where he will hear an
important will case appealed from the
Lincoln County Court, in which attor
neys from several parts of the state
are concerned. After this is settled he
will devote himself to a campaign that
has been neglected all through a busy
Summer.
Judge Harris first was appointed to
the Circuit bench and in 1906 he was
nominated by both Republican and
Democratic parties. This occurred
again In 1912. He enters the cam
paign with his candidacy indorsed by
every lawyer in Lane County. Assur
ances of the lawyers in Eugene have
encouraged Judge Harris, aa he was
obliged to remain at hla post because
of the heavy grist of lagal busi
ness while others were campaigning
throughout the state..
Judge Harris' election pledge Is: "If
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elected I will, during my term of of
fice, to the best of my ability, con
tinue impartially to uphold the law
and Justice without fear or favor."
STREET TRACKS WILL GO
Union Terminal for Railroads Is
Suggested by Agreement.
By the terms of an agreement which
has been entered into by the Northern
Pacific Terminal Company and the
North Bank Road, switching tracks on
North Front street are to be removed
in the near future from the- street to
a private right of way. The removal
was asked by City Commissioner Daly
for . the betterment of traffic condi
tions and the agreement to use the
private right of way was signed after
several months of negotiations.
In railroad circles the move is
thought to be the first step in a general
plan for the establishment of a pinion
terminal for all railroad companies en
tering the city. This project, which has
been talked of for several years, in
volves a comprehensive system of
tracks and the abolition of the present
depot used by the North Bank Road.
The, Terminal Company, which now
switches for the railroad companies,
has its feed tracks, and all its switch
ing leads along Front street, from
Nortbrup street to a point about 3000
feet to the north. The switching inter
feres with street traffic, which is heavy
along North Front street, because of
the freight depots and docks for which
Front street is the principal artery.
Several months ago City Commission
er Daly asked the companies to devise
a means of removing the tracks from
the street to a strip of private prop
erty. Promise was made at that time
and negotiaions have been under way
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since. Notice that the desired arrange
ment had been made and that the work
of moving the tracks would be started
as soon as possible was sent to Com
missioner Daly yesterday by officials
of the Terminal Company and the
North Bank Company.
CORVALLIS CLUB ELECTS
AH Commercial Bodies Officers Ex
cepting One Are New.
CORVALLIS. Or., Oct. 17. (Special.)
The new officers of the Corvallls
Commercial Club, elected Tuesday night
of this week, are W. M. Ball, president;
W. E. Kyler, vice-president; Harold
Woodcock, treasurer; R. A. W. Barfoot,
secretary; J. H. Karris, R- M. Johnston,
A. J. Moore and M- L. Walker, trustees.
None of the officers elected except
R. M. Johnston ever served as an of
ficer in the Corvallls Commercial Club
before.
The date of the annual meeting and
election of officers of the club was set
forward from January to October. It
was argued that with annual election
coming in October the new board of
governors could formulate and carry out
pluns for an entire year, and that with
officers being changed in January,
plans were sidetracked.
CEMETERY TO BE FRETTY
Vancouver- Women Will Plant
Dahlias in Spring.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 17 (Spe
cial.) The roadways and paths on the
east side of the city cemetery will be
outlined with rows of dahlias. The
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dahlias will begin to blossom at the
close of the rose season and the cem
etery committee has been desirous f
having flowers in bloom in the ceme
tery aa long aa possible each year.
A committee, comprising Mrs. M. L.
Coovert. Mrs. W. J. Knapp. Miss Ida
Sohns and Mrs. A. J. Cook, yesterday
bought 96 varieties, and these will be
planted next Spring.
Send today
for this sale catalogue free,'
If you are Interested In buy
ing registered stock.
At this first annual fall sale, to
be held Wednesday. November 11,
1914. we will sell one of the finest
strings of 71 Holsteln - Freialan
Registered Cattle, Including milch
cows, heifers. bulls and bull
calves to be found in the Paclflo
Northwest. All are pure bred, reg
istered HoTsteins.
Write today for descriptive cata
logue, terms, transportation, etc.,
to CARNATION STOCK FARM,
Seattle. Wash-, $36 Henry Bldg.
r&rm Xrocated at carnation, Wash.
(on C.. M. & St. P. R. R.) in fno
oualmle Valley, 16 mi1 from
Seattle bv auto via Kirkland.
Pale starts promptly at l;:3f
Wednesday. November 11th. 1S14.
Auftionoers: Que & l.-.nlarfcrr.
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