APPROPEIATION BILL
Total Amount In 81,39(1,374.14 Full
Fay for Member of rlit? ilnu.-tu
That Failed to Organize. i
CUT DOWN IN THE SENATE.
The passage of the general appropri
ation bill by the house was the feature
of the legislative proceedings Thurs
day, though it did not come up in that
branch till the middle of the afternoon.
It was considered more than an hour
in committee of the whole, where
$7,540.70 was added to it. the chief ad
dition being $7,000 to give full pay to
the members of the house that failed
to organize in 1897. The committee
had allowed only the pay for five days,
as provided by the constitution. The
epeoiflc appropriation of $45,000 for in
terest was eliminated by the committee
before the matter came before the
bouse. The total sum of the bill as
passed is $1,206,274.14.
In the Senate.
A resolution by Brownell that the
senate appoint a committee of two to
work with the ohief clerk and assistant
clerk in correcting and compiling a
journal of the session was adopted.
The committee on ways and means
reported on the per diem of senators,
Benate officers, attaches and committee
clerks, allowing chief clerks of com
mittees .$6.50, assistant chief clerks
$4, stenographers 5, expert nlnrkw
$6.50, all other clerks $3.
The committee of Multnomah sena
tors reported back the house bill to
provide for a separate , board on the
county affaiis for Multnomah county,
and it was passed.
Fordney's house bill, fixing terms of
court in the eighth judicial district, was
passed.
A concurrent resolution of sympathy
on the death of Mrs. T. T. Geer, offered
by Senator Brownell, was adopted.
The house bill amending the code,
prescribing the terms of court in the
sixth -judicial district, passed.
A house bill establishing the boun
daries of Washington county passed
without opposition.
Driver introduced a bill to protoct
honest citizens from scurrilous and de
famatory attacks of the press, making
it a misdemeanor for a publisher to
refuse to print a retraction or counter
statement in vindication, punishable
by a fine not to exceed $50 or impris
onment from 10 to 20 days. No pen
alty is prescribed for publication of the
defamatory article.
At noon the senate adjourned until 3
P. M., as a mark of respect to tho
memory of Mrs. T. T. Geer.
At the afternoou session of the sen
ate the house bill to amend the code in
relation to the establishment of state
normal schools was read a second time
and referred to the commitfoe on revi
sion ol laws to report at the regular
session.
Young's house bill for the protection
Of elk was called up by Fulton, and
slightly amended, and passed.
Ross' house bill to establish in Now
York city a fiscal agency for Oregon
was indefinitely postponed.
The house bill authorizing Benton
county officers to sell certain county
propei ty at Empire City was passed.
The house bill authorizing the coun
ty court of Multnomah county to leaso
the upper deck of the steel bridge was
repotted back by the committee on
counties with slight amendments, and
passed.
Curtis' fish bill was reported back
with amendments, and passed.
Dufur's bill for the better protection
of grouso and prairie chickens in Ore
gon was passed.
The comtnitteo on revision of laws
reported back Maxwell's house bill re
vising the feos to bo charged in Tilla
mook county, with amendments, which
were adopted and the bill was passed.
Iu the Ilouae.
The lower house of the legislature
contented itself Thursday forenoon
with the passage of Sherwin's bill to
foster tho beot sugar industry in the
state. The bill was passed by a vote
of 32 to 24.
Speaker Cartor having announced tho
doath of Mrs. T. T. Geer, wifo of the
governor-elect, at 11:80, tho house ad
journed till 3 o'clock aa a mark of re
speot. Upon tho reassembling of tho house,
Young of Clatsop, called for a recon
sideration of tho vote by which Senator
Kuykcinlall's bill fixing tho qualifica
tion of school electois was lost Wednes
day v lie said a majority of members
had oomo to a better understanding as
to the merits of the bill. Upon an
other vote being taken tho bill was
passed; ayes 53, noes 4, absent 3.
Flagg's Salom charter bill was passed
by a unanimous vote.
After a discussion of tho general ap
propriation bill in committeo of the
whole, the hoiiBe adjourned till 7:30.
Upon reconvening at 7:30, a number
of bills sent back fioiu the senate with
amendments attached, were taken up.
Tho amendments to Curtis' fish bill,
Young's bill for tho protection of elk,
Maxwell's bill regulating tho fees of
county ofllceis in Tillamook county and
the bill authorizing the county court of
Multnomah county to lease tho upper
dock of tho steel bridge across the Wil
lamette were concurred In. Tho
anitfiidiuont to tho HhIi bill gives tho
power of appointing a fish commissioner
to the governor instead of leaving it
with the legislature This means tho
continuance in ofllco of II. D. MoGuiro,
the vroBuut incumbent,
General Appropriation Hill Reduced
843, OOO Important Amendments.
The senate spent most of the day Fri
day in committee of the whole consid
ering the general appropriation bill,
which was transmitted from the house
the first thing in the morning. The
committee did not finish its work until
late in the evening, and its report was
ratified in a hurry, by the senate and
the bill passed on so that the bouse
could consider the senate amendments,
which cut the total bill down by about
$45,000.
The bill was agreed to as it came
from the committee, allowing pay for
only five days for the members of the
housejthatjf ailed to organize. The house
had amended the bill so as to allow pay
for the full 40 days, raising the appro
priation from $31,000 to $38,000.
The expense claim of the board of
equalization was reduced from $7,750
to $4,450, and the Ashland normal
school appropriation of $15,000 and the
item of $1,0S0 for repair of the capitol
building wera stricken out.
Proceeding in Detail.
Brownell offered, an amendment to
the resolution offered by him yesterday
in reference to Secretary of State Kin-
caid's biennial report and providing for
the printing of 500 copies of the same
for himself, after eliminating all but
the history contained therein. It was
adopted
The committee on revision of laws
reported upon the message of the gov
ernor on his appointments for the past
two years, ratifying all except that of
J. P. Robertson as trustee of the Oregon
Soldiers' Home. The report was
adopted.
By consent Brownell called up Wil
liamson's bill facilitating the settle
ment of estates, which was passed.
The special committee on state print
ing reported on an exhaustive investiga
tion of the conditon of the department.
The report was adopted.
The house concurrent resolution ap
propriating $500 to George T. Meyers
for services rendered on the Oregon
commission at the world's fair was
tabled.
Courtesies of the senate were extend
ed to Hon. N. L. Butler, of Polk
county.
The senate spent the entire night
session in the consideration of the gen
eral appropriation bill.
In the afternoon the claim of Captain
John Mullan and Indian war claims
for the state, was knocked out. The
claim of F. V. Drake for $340.93 for
legal services for the secretary of state
was also stricken out, and the claim of
John Hall for $0,096.09 for legal ser
vices in recovering taxes was reduced
to $500. Senator Simon was the prin
cipal objector to these claims. W. T.
Wright's claim for $25,000 went
through, but not without a struggle,
Fulton, Smith and Taylor advocating
the justice of the olaim, and Haynes,
Kelley, Driver and Selling leading the
opposition.
In the House.
The feature of the proceedings in
the house Friday morning was the
indefinited postponement of Senator
Maokay's pilotage bill. The bill had
been made a rpecial order of business
for 10:30, and when tho hour arrived a
flood of oratory was turned loose in op
position to its passage. A motion to
indefinitely postpone was carried by a
vote of 27 to 24; absentees, 9.
Curtis offered a resolution, which
was adopted, authorizing the secretary
of state to draw a warrant in the sum
of $500 in favor of George T. Myers, as
a testimonial for his services as world's
fair commissioner. The testimonial
was authorized by the legislature of
1895.
The committee on elections, having
under investigation tho contested seats
from Clackamas and Polk counties,
was given until next session to report.
The committee on investigating tho
affaiis of tho insane asylum also asked
for and was granted an extension of
time to report until the next regular
session.
The senate bill fixing tho time of
holding court in tho sixth judicial dis
trict was passed.
A joint senate memorial petitioning
congress to grant ponsions to survivors
of tho Cayuso wars was concurred in.
A message was received from the
governor announcing tho signing of tho
bill amending tho charter of Sodaville,
and Whalloy's bill regulating loan so
cieties. The house held but a short session
in the afternoon, and although several
bills came up, only one was passed.
Senator Mnlkoy's bill incorporating
the town of Monmouth, having been
reported back favorably by tho Polk
oonnty delegation, was passed without
opposition.
Senator Michell'a bill to protect ho
tel and boarding-house keepers, after
being buffeted about for a time with
motions to place it on final passage,
postpone indefinitely, etc, was finally
referred to tho oomniittoo on penal, re-
lonnatory and charitable institutions.
Resolutions weie adopted favorins
tho drawing of a warrant in favor of
LUn K. Hays, widow of R. K. Hays,
deoeased, clerk of the Benson house,
for services, and providing for the pay
of oomniittoo cleiks who served before
they wero sworn in.
A resolution was introduced requir
ing members, when the locislaturo aJ.
journs, to leavo the desks and chairs
for tho uso of the next session, but a
vote waa not insisted uoon.
THE SESSION ENDED.
The Appropriation Kill raed, But a
Conference Wan Necessary to
Settle Diflereuces.
WORK ACCOMPLISHED.
The special session of the Oregon leg
islature came to an end Saturday even
ing at 6:80 o'clock.
The general appropriation bill was
the subject of sharp contention, and
for a time the prospect seemed good for
a deadlock upon it.
At this stage a conference committee
was agieed upon, and it took up the
matter of harmonizing the differences
so as to be acceptable to the two
houses. After more than an hour of
hard work the committee, reported and
the report was adopted in both houses
without debate or question.
By the amendments of the conference
committee, $3,810 were added to tho
appropriations in sundry small items,
concerning which there was no dispute,
and $32,237.75 was stricken out, leav
ing the total of the bill about $1,222,
000. This is about $100,000 less than
the appropriation bill passed in 1895,
and there is included in it a large i
amount of interest and all the expenses i
of the attempted session of 1897, in
cluding full pay for the members.
One section was added to the bill di- j
recting that the state printer should
not hereafter print for the agricultural
orioiotips, etc., tn an extent that would
cost more than the appropriations
should previously have been made for
the purpose.
In the Senate.
After the senate had concurred in the
house resolution to publish and dis
tribute 1,000 copies of the fish and
game laws of the state, President
Joseph Simon tendered his formal
resignation as presiding officer, which
was accepted.
T. C. Taylor was elected to 11 the
vacancy.
A resolution was offered to make the
present staff of tho senate permanent,
but it was defeated.
The house bill providing for a sugar
beet bounty in the state was called up
by Senator Smith, read the first time
by title, and upon motion of Reed in
definitely postponed.
The house bill relating to the boun
daries of Wallowa and Union counties
passed. '
House concurrent resolution No. 22,
providing for an extension of time for
the joint committee to expert the peni
tentiary books and accounts to the regu
lar session, was next taken up. A sub
stitute was offered by Fulton, barring
any work or expense between sessions
on the part of this or any committee
unless authorized ; carried.
The Curtis sturgeon protection bill
was next taken up and passed.
The senate concurrent resolution by
Mulkey, providing that a committee be
appointed to examine the books of the
state secretary, state treasurer and in
sane asylum, be continued to the regu
lar session, without expense between
sessions, was adopted.
The Salem charter bill was taken up,
and, after some discussion, passed.
The committee on municipal corpo
rations reported back the house bill
regulating the manner of constructing
openings of publio buildings, with a
penal amendment. The amendment
was adopted, the bill read a third time
and passed.
The committee on education reported
Topping's house bill, providing for dis
position of teachers' examinations, with
amendments, and the same was adopt
ed. The bill then passed.
A resolution was passed extending
the thanks of the senate to Senator
Taylor for his efficient service as chair
man of the ways and means committee.
The senate took a recess till 6:15,
awaiting the return of the governor to
sign the general appropriation bill, and
at 6:20 adjourned sine die.
The House.
The house, after passing a number
of resolutions, put in two hours Satur
day morning in consideration of senate
amendments to the appropriation bill.
Resolutions were adopted authorizing
the secretary of state to have published
1,000 copies of the state fish laws for
tho benefit of fishormen, and recom
mending the continuance in office at
the next session of all tho officers of the
house.
The senate amendment to Stanley's
bill providing for reimbursement of
contributors to the Omaha exposition
fund reducing the appropriation from
$18,000 to $15,000 was adopted.
After the noon recess another reoess
of two hours was taken to give the con
ference committee on the appropriation
bill time to report.
The appropriation for tho cost of the
last legislature caused over an hour's
discussion in the conference oommittee.
The amendment reducing tho claim
for salaries and expenses of the board
of railroad commissioners from $21
052.87 to $18,000 was concurred in, af
ter amending by adding $900. The
amendment striking out the $15,000
appropriation for the Ashland normal
school was not concurred in nor the
amendment reducing the claim of John
Hall to $500.
The amendment striking out the
claim of Captain John Mullan of $10,
540.86 for tho purpose of giving tho
special committeo an opportunity to in
vestigate and report at tho next session
was concurred in.
When recoivod the report was adopt
ed without discussion.
ililla l'assed by the LeRUlatnre, In
Special Session.
The main objects of the session woro
accomplished the election of a United
States senator, the passage of the gen
eral appropriation bill, and the aboli
tion of expensive commissions and
boards. The board of railroad commis
sioners, the equalization board, and the
dairy and food commissioner, wero
dropped, all of the laws carrying the
emergency clause. That clause was
omitted at first in tho case of the two
boards, but the omission was speodily
rectified.
The following measures have passed
both branches of the legislature and
have been signed by the governor:
Moody of Multnomah To amend
section 1037 of tho code so as to per
mit to practice in Oregon courts attor
neys from other states that grant a like
privilege to Oregon attorneys.
Young of Clatsop To prohibit the
taking or killing of elk for a period of
11 years. '
Whitney of Linn To abolish tho
offices of railroad commissioners, with
an emergency clause.
Toping of Coos To authorize Coos
county to con rey certain county prop
erty. Freeland of Morrow To change the
time of holding circuit court in Mor
v vr and Umatilla counties.
boundary between Washington and Co
lumbia counties, transferring 11 sec
tions from the latter to the former.
Davis of Lincoln To reimburse Lin
coln county for overpaid taxes.
Maxwell of Tillamook To amend
the code so as to provide semi-annual
terms of circuit court in Tillamook
county.
Whalley of Multnomah To provide
for a separate board for the transac
tion of county business in Multnomah.
Fordney of Wallowa To fix the
terms of court in the eight judicial dis
trict. Myers of Multnomah To permit ex
press companies to bring as many as
four sheep at a time into the state
without official inspection.
Whalley of Multnomah To change
the terms of circuit court in Multno
mah county.
Maxwell of Tillamook To regulate
the fees to be collected by the clerk of
Tillamook county.
Nichols of Benton To appropriate
$25,000 for rebuilding mechanical hall
of the Oregon agricultural college.
Whalley of Multnomah To author
ize Multnomah county court to lease
the upper deck of the steel bridge in
Portland.
Dufur of Wasco To change the time
of holding circuit court in the seventh
judicial district.
Daly of Benton To authorize the
county court of Benton county to estab
lish and maintain a free ferry across
the Willamette river at Corvallis.
Daly of Lake To repeal the act pro
viding for a board of railroad commis
sioners. Smith of Baker To amend the act
relating to Eastern Oregon district
fairs.
Dufur of Wasco To amend section
1786 of chapter II of title II of the
criminal code, so as to add telephone
poles, etc., to the list forbidden to be
destroyed.
Taylor of Umatilla To repeal the
law for the state board of equalization.
Dufur of Wasco To protect grouse
and prairie chickens.
Adams of Marion To authorize
school districts to incur indebtedness
for buildings or land for school pur
poses. Morrow of Morrow To change times
for holding circuit court in Morrow
and Umatilla counties.
Reed of Douglas To amend the
salmon law so as to extend the open
season on all but the Columbia river
and tributaries.
Porter of Clackamas To amend the
code in relation to publication of sum
mons. Selling of Multnomah Fixing sal
aries of tho Maltnomah county district
attorney and othor officers.
Kuykendall of Lane Prescribing
the qualifications of voters at school
elections.
Brownell of Clackamas To exempt
from attachment 30 days' wages of la
borers. Fulton of Clatsop To Provide for
paying rejected volunteers who enlisted
under the president's call for the Span
ish war.
1U1U Pngged by itoth nouNos.
The following bills were passed bv
both houses:
Bayer of Multnomah-To regulate
the doing of public works.
Grace of Baker-To amend the char
ter of Baker City.
Hill of MultnomahTo create the
office of clerk in justice courts.
Thompson of Washington To fix
salaries of Washington county officers
Young of Clatsop-To grant exemp
tion certificates to members of tho As
toria volunteer fire department
Flagg of Marion-To incorporate the
city of Salem.
Gray of Lane-To make- the doors of
public buildings open outward
Stanley of Union To provide for a
display at the Omaha exposition.
Sherwin of Jackson-To amend the
charter of Ashland.
Hawson of Gilliam-To amend the
charter of Condon. .
Wade of Union-To amend the char
ter of the town of Elein.
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Mary Stuart made a fad of collecting
timepieces. Among those 0wne i
her was a coffin-shaped watch in I :'
of crystal. Probably thetS
ab e one in her nrilio..;,... .... mttl
v.vi.iuii was thu
bequeathed to Marv s.,t.,..
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of honor. It was in the form
skull. On tho forehead of thu lV
was the symbol of death, the sCy
and tho hour glass. At the barfi
the skull was time, and at the to., I
the head the garden of Eden and th
crucifixion. The watch was opened I
reversing the skull. Inside wa a m
resentation of tho Holy Familv
vuv.i,... uy uiiKcia, wiine too sliopher,!;
uu luuii iiuuks were worsiiiiniilllit
new-born Christ. The works fJL
the brains, while tho dial-plate wag th
palate. She also possessed anotl
skull-shaped watch, but it is not know,
what became of it.
Dewey' Kxpeiun.
Admiral Dewey's exiumnit
powder and shell to sink the Sp5nj(;
oinciai report, was about $45,000. Ti.
uuel iur mo came uem in disposing eff
aumiriu vjeivera's ueet off Santiago jJ
ueiween $uu,uuu and $100,000. Ex
perts regard tho figures in both capes
surprisingly low.
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Astronomers say that in our Ml;
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comets of all sizes.
It costs over eight hundred dollars
fully equip an ordinary cavalry sofc
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