The Corvallis gazette., January 23, 1891, Image 2

THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JAN. 23, 1891.
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er Year (wnea not ii.i in advance;
THE Xtnr CITY CHARTER.
The new city charter prepared
by the special committee was read
at the meeting of the council last
Monday and Tuesday evenings and
after being discussed by the coun
cil and citizens present was adopt
ed. It is broad and progressive in
its provisions, and, as tar as we are
able to asertain, it meets with the
general approval of the taxpayers
of this city. Almost every pro
vision contained in it has been
thoroughly tested by other pro
gressive cities, that have lived and
prospered under them. It is clear
of many objectionable features
contained in the old charter and
is certainly a great improvement
over it. Hence we see no reason
why it should not pass the legisla
ture without opposition. Under
its provisions the city will be en
abled to make many of the much
needed improvements so necces
eary to the future progress and
growth, if the people so will it,
which were hindered by the
penurious provisions of the old
eharter. If Corvallis is to be a
live progressive and prosperous
city, which she has every oppor
tunity to be, then let us have the
new charter. II we are to con
tinue in the same old ruts and let
the weeds and moss grow on the
roofs of our houses, (it is a notable
fact that some three years ago a
good crop of weeds and moss could
be seen growing on some of the
business houses on Main street)
then go down to Salem and defeat
it.-
The new city charter changes
the system of city government by
doing away with the office of mar
shal and recorder and creates the
offices of police judge, chief of
police, street supervisor, and city
surveyor, who shall be elected by
the council. It provides for the
issuing of bonds by a vote of the
people, for the purpose of pur
chasing and operating a system of
water works, electric light plant,
the building of a bridge across the
Willamette, constructing sewers,
and public buildings for the city.
It gives the city power to improve
the streets and sidewalks and as
sesses the cost for the same to the
abutting property; also numerous
other minor changes relative to
the city's government.
The constitution of the state of
Oregon was the recipient of an
airing in the national congress re
cently in which the old absolute
color line clause was brought up
and discussed. The dead arid
long ago buried out of sight idea
of excluding colored men from
citizenship in this stale, seems to
be the live idea with Senator
George, of Mississippi. Oregon
has progressed far enough not to
observe the old obsolete clause al
though no repeal of it has been
made, and leaves it to less pro
gressive states to haggle over such
points of disagreement. Herald.
The death of Senator E. L
Easlham last Saturday at Oregon
City, removes from the stage ac
tion one of Oregon's most enter
prising citizens. -There will be no
election to fill the vacancy in the
senate until the general election
one year from next Jan. as the
present legislature will be ready to
adjourn before an electioncould be
held.
The distinction is Representa
tive MeussdorfTer's of raising the
biggest sensation so far over a bill
introduced. It is his bill to pun
ish a fellow who buys goods on
the installment plan and makes
small payments, and then sells or
tnns away with the goods. Statesman.
AS EFFECTIVE CRITIC.
The Farmers' Alliance has
grown strong numerically by con
iining its purposes to glittering
generalities. It is against hard
times and oppression upon the
part of transportation companies,
and in favor of cood times and
just control of the railroads.
That is a creed broad and pliable
enough to take in any fair-minded
man
The object of all physicians is
to banish disease and restore
health. That far all ' might be-
long to a single school, but when
it comes to ways and means we
find an irreconcilable conflict of
oDinion which has resulted in the
formation of rival schools of med
icine. The alliance has now arrived at
that stage of its existence where
something more tangible is de
manded than mere promises. It
now devolves upon it to accom
plish its object, to bring about
tliose reforms which, for more
than a century, have resisted the
st itesmanship of the old parlies.
This is the critical point in the life
of the order. Demagogues and
selfish tricksters who have long
ago been kicked out of the old
parties will elbow their way to the
front seats and attempt to run the
new party in the interest of their
own selfish ends, and to further the
objects of men who want to go to
the senate, to be elected governor,
etc.
The alliance will find that in or
der to achieve the promised re
forms it will have to confront pre
cisely the same problems that are
confronted by the old parties.
Then the democrats will demand
democratic remedies, while the re
publicans will naturally favor re
publican curatives. It is vain to
say that a homogeneous platform
can be devised out of the best
clauses of both old plal forms.
The democratic and republican
parties are already in harmony
upon everything excepting the tar
iff, the treatment of the Southern
ballot box outrages, and one or
two other points of contention.
Political platforms nowadays are
largely made up of statements of
well accepted political truths, com
batted only by cranks and imprac
ticables. After all the alliance will prob
ably find itself marching in a cir
cle', and ultimately will arrive at
the starting point. And yet it
serves a useful purpose. It
startles the old parties, and has a
tendency to send them back to the
higher ground of correct princi
ples, from which there is always
danger of their wavering. It
serves as a rebuke to those bosses
who grow to believe that the peo
ple are incapable of entering an
effective protest against their mis
deeds. In brief, the Farmers' Alliance
may aptly be compared to a liter
ary critic, who is himself incapable
of writing a great book, but who
can detect the errors and weak
nesses of the author and sting
him into better effort. Spokane
Falls Review.
A sensation was caused in the
Washington legislature last Tues
day by Representative Me teal f, a
Squire man, who. just before the
time to ballot for U. S. Senator,
handed $500 to the speaker of t he
house and in the presence of the
assembly announced that he had
been paid that sum to vote for W.
II. Calkins for the United States
senate.
The agricultural implement
trust has been broken. The Mc
Cormick works and J. E. Deering
& Co. having withdrawn the trust
could no longer exist.
The bill introduced by Hon. C.
E. Moor, of this county, to levy a
one-half mill, tax for Oregon's ex
hibit at the world's fair is a good
one, and should be passed.
The amount appropriated for
improving the Cascade locks and
the mouth of the Columbia river
is $2,6S8,000.
DEATH OF BANCROFT.
George Bancroft, the illustrious
scholar and historian of the United
States, died at his home in Wash
ington last Saturday. His demise
had been expected lor several
months past, and when announce
ment came it occasioned no great
surprise. For more than fifty
vears the name of Bancroft has
j been familiar to the people of the
I United States, as an author and
' publicist, but his reputation will
j rest upon the solid monument that
' Ie has raised in the composition
! of his incomparable history of the
United States. This great work
i will torever hold, rank with the
' best of English classics, occupying
in style a place midway between
the luminous conciseness of Gib
bon and the wearisome diffuseness
of Maeauly. Statesman.
The following are some of the
things Governor Pennoyer favors in
his message to the legislature last
Wednesday: A state poll tax of
$2 and a state income tax; pur
chase by I lie state of the locks at
Oregon City and the lair grounds
at Salem; Australian ballot sys
tem; taxation of all debts due Na
tional Banks; a state portage rail
road around The Dalles rapids of
the Columbia river; the building
of two state steam tugs for the
Columbia river; a law regulating
freights on railroads; the reduction . f .. ' , . .
. . , , , , ., . .the people believe that he is stand-
of interest. And the following are 1 . ... .. .
, ... , ing like a guarding angel over
some of the tilings he opposes: , ' , " . , ,
, , . . i Benton county s exchequer Iook-
Ihe fisn and railroad commission- . . , . .... , ,
'ing lor leaks as fie calls it, and de
ers; the tax to maintain the State t . .
'. , , , , 'clanng that any contract the
Agricultural College and the State ; . , , .
tt :.. i l-
uiwveisiisy uuu iieo scuumrsuips
to these colleges; any appropria
tion for the World's Fair at Chi-
cago; Federal interference with
.
state aftairs.
A naturalization bill is now pend-
ing in congress that has attracted
nota little attention throughout
the country. It provides that an
applicant for citizenship must
prove by two witnesses that he
has. resided in tha country five
years, must ba able to read and
write English, and must be able to
answer sixty per cent of the ques-
tions asked him about the consti-j"'u'" . l"G "w
e a, tt..u,i cii jiihouse and furniture warrants have
examination to be conducted in
the English language without the
aid of an interpreter. Comment
upon such a measure is wholly
uncalled for as it would meet with
the approval of the people solely
upon its merits.
The Salem correspondent of the
Oregonian in referring to the per
sonnel of the Oregon legislature
says: ' Two members of the last
house performed their duties so
satisfactorily that their constit
uents elected them to the senate;
Crosno, of Benton, and Myers, of
Linn; the former a most energetic
republican, the latter an ardent
democrat. The former has the
good of the Agricultural college
most at. heart, the latter the inter
est of the farmers, of the lady
clerks and of a bill to appropriate
$3000 for the improvement of a
public spring at Sodaville, Linn
count v.
The refusal of the U. S. con
gress to pas.s a copyright bill in the
p.ist ha3 resulted in our being
dubbed pirates by the English.
Now that congress is about to pass
such a bill our English cousins set
up a howl against such, claiming
that the passage of the bill would
result in the transfer of English
i printing and publishing to this
country. It is pretty hard to
please a Briton anyway.
The death of King Kalakaua. in
San Francisco last Tuesday, is a
matter of note in the history of
our nation. He being the first
king whose death has occurred in
the United States.
Judge Deady has allowed Re
ceiver Simon to expend four and
one-half million of the consolida!
ed bonds to lift the floating indebt
edness of the Oregon Improve
ment Co.
REPLY TO TAXPAYER.
Ed. Gazette: I wish to say a
few words in answer to the article
in the Corvallis Times of July 13,
1891, by some person signing his
name as Taxpa3'er:
I wish to say that this present
County Court did not make the
contract for correcting the tax-roll
as therein mentioned. Bat it was
made by Judge Holgate and Com
missioner Williams and Logan at
a special term of court called by
Judge Holgate on July 3rd, 1890,
four days before he retired from
office and four days before the reg
ular July term.
When I took the office on July
7th, 1890, I found the said con
tract with Markley &-Dunstan on
the journal and those gentlemen
at work preparing the description
of lands. I don't doubt but what
the work could lufve been done
cheaper but that is neither here
nor there for this present Court
found the contract already on the
books and the men to work under
it. And now was it this Court's
duly to say that, the former Court
were a set of dunces and block
heads and that this Court knows
it all? We think not It was only
our duty to see that the work was
done according to contract.
It may be asked why flu's ma.i
wiio calls himself "Tax Paver1' is
rami Til ;i ill i ni' Mini lA'itici- lt m:il:
J ...
recting the tax-roll is illegal and
void. I will tell you where the
c!mp ninr-lifva Rv virtito rf t Iim irl
... . .... ,
illegal contract it was found that
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this same man (lax layer) had
about $1070 sVoxlh ot' P"lty
tl,at he ,u,d not Sive in to the as"
sessor and ;vas ll(,t upon the tax-
roll of 1S90. And again he says
that all the new court house war
rants are paid when in fact there
are about $20,000 yet unpaid.
He tries to make the people be
lieve that all this indebtedness is
just the current, expenses of the
i.. 1 !.... !. 4.
been paid. But this statement is
in in keeping with all of his article.
He has two objects in view, one is
he wants a little cheap notoriety;
he wants the people to believe
that he is the watch dog of their
exchequer, and the other is he
don't like to pay this extra tax o n
the property found by virtue of
said contract.
The greatest leak that I know of
out of the county treasury is the
one that this said illegal contract
was made for the express purpose
of stopping. That is to require
every man in the county to pay
taxes on all the property he had
and not leave about half unassess
ed and offset the balance by in
debtedness. And every man you
hear complaining about that con
tract being of no benefit to the
county, nine times out of ten, by
examining the present tax roll in
I he sheriffs hands, you will find
that he has land that he has not
paid any taxes on for several years.
W. S. IIlfford.
General Miles has demonstrat
ed his value as an Indian fighter
by not fighting. The recei.t
trouble with the Sioux which
threateue 1 to dewlop into a
bloo ly warfare has been settled
with but little bloodshed. Gen
eral Miles- was prepared to even
exterminate the hostiles if it be-i
came necessary, but lie adopted1
pacific measures and has bsen
gralifyingly succesful.
The democrats are trying to
bluff the republicans by claiming
I hat they have no objections to an
extra session of congress, when the
truth is that it is the one outcome
of the present session that they
fear most, and this fear will prob
ably prove a powerful factor in re
training tha natural obstructive
tendencies ot that party.
33 "EX 3EtL
ME WILL CLOSE
L Stock of Men's Winter
Goods and Rubber Gaods, at
In order to make room for
mer Stock, of wliicli we will
assortment.
Greatly
Oigr,
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Din oi rare aune
The Old Cm!!; S m Mif.i Go.
The old credit system m i' j. T : poop!.' are nvake Ui the fact
I hat credit and long lini m an; Img Price. At the end of the year
tlie merchant that sells on ti n n. i ovei hi books-and draws off alS
worthless accounts, loots tlieui n; im 1 adds tin m to ih loss account.
Now thoe acceunis ni i-ii m y. 1 and those that pay for their
own must help oay for those wortdens accounts. Again, it a merchant
sells on time he must buy on lime thus making liim pay big prices for
his goods; then he adds his enormous prolits to cover the losses'
of I hose worthless aecounls. Now.
TMK IMF
Neither sells on ere lit nor buys on time, so aie able to offer Match
less Bargains in nil classes of goods they carry. The following are at
few of their sledge-hammer prices:
Ladies' and Misses' Gossamers, $1.00. $1.17, $1-50T and $2.25, worth
25 per cent inorev
Rubber Overcoat-. $3.70', wortT) $5.00
Ladies' Overshoes, 8 So, 42c. 48c. and 55c. wort h 25 per cent more.
Man's Overshoes. 57c. worth 75; (J7c, worth 85. tfcc, fcc,
Overalls. 45, 50. 5", (! and 75c. worth 20 per cent more any other
place in town.
Men's Hats. 30. 80. 85. and 0-. $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, &c.
Towels. 5, S. 10, 12, 18. 23. 25. 35. and 42c.
Ladies' Shawls, from 25 to 50 per cent below regular prices.
Ribbo'ns. Dices, Embroideries 50 to 100 pr ct, below regular prices.
Corsets, 2G 48, 85 and 88c each.
Gents' collars and cuffs at 100 per cent, below regular prices.
Mouldings. Must close out this slock to make room for Large Stock
of other goods to arrive from- the East in February.
Come and get prices we can't enumerate them in this space. N
trouble to show goods. All goods purchased at t he -New Era," war
ranted. Give us a cnlT. WILKINS, BOND & CO.
poaijiTiiiiij HeadqhahtebsIIi
Furniture Store.
Ol - Tv 1
This is the great Emporium for .Modern Furniture at reasonable pri
ces. His stock is large, and selected with special care with an eye to
Comfort, Beauty, Style and Durability. A glance at his elegant wick
er, plush and fancy chairs, convenient folding wardrobe beds, stylish,
center tables of antique oak and walnut, will convince those in quest
of Furniture that his store is the place for bargains in anything of ihe
hsusehold furniture line.
k mr tail ad s an
Corvallis,
With
Fire-Backs Wan-anted for 15 Years,
Argfand Stoves and Ranges,
Ventilated Ovens.
PLUMBXIO, E00FJHG, EEP AIRING
V. li. rosSOIT c; BON.
We carry a full
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BesfSEEDS, TREEG.E3ULES,
FERTILIZERS, ETC., BEE
KEEPERS' SCI-FXIES. Give ns a
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our New Sprinjr and Sum'
have a Jarjre and elegant
Corvallis,
Oregoir,
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Wirc-wiuize Doors.
stock of the Very
2nd Street, Portland, Oregon.
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