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10 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 28. 1909 17. WITH APPROVAL Taxpayers' League Scans Amendments Coming Vp at June Election and Dis approves of Fifteen )Ieas- ures Put on the Ballot. The Taxpayers' iPRKUf- has completed Its work of examining and oonslderlug the amendments to came before, the peo ple at tlie June election and at a meet ing yesterday afternoon the league In dorsed the report of the special commu tes appointed to consider the amend ments. . , Report are made on 32 amendments, of which. 17 are recommended and 15 are rejected. The findings of the com mittee will be published In pamphlet form at once and a cpy will be sent to very voter, about 35,090 having been ordered printed. Out of the entire list of amendments " taken before the league there were but three which called forth much discus sion and any great diversity of opin ion from the members. These were the amendment providing for the expendi ture of 12,000,000 for a bridge at Lar rabee street, the proposed new charter and the provision that the city shall own the soil In the streets. The last was discussed because "Tif Its curious feature but there was considerable dif ference of opinion as to the Larrabee Street bridge. Opposed by Henry. ; C. K. Henry led the opposition to the approval of this project on thej ground that later on two tubes could be S laced under the river at Stark street, ut It was the general opinion of those at the meeting that the crying necessity for more bridges over the river Is so great that the Larrabee street bridge should be built now and the tubes would still be necessary as soon as the city could afford them. The majority opinion as to the new charter was that the present one should be given more of a show and that a change would be unwise at this time. League Keoommendatlons. The recommendations of the league as to the various amendments are: Tne, ' "w charter proposed by the committee of 16 is in substance very much like the old charter, except In the radical change of the institution of a small and well paid council and the merging of all legislative and executive functions In the mayor and council. It seems to this committee almost too radical and sudden a change. The com mission plan, as It is called, has worked well In some small cities, but no city of the first class has so far adopted ij&. n Washington,' D. C, which has (Under COnffreSl a lllrhlv nntrlllrri administration, the same principle has not, so rar, worked very well. The old charter with such amendments as can be made to it at . this election should be given a longer trial In new hands before It Is condemned and thrown into the Junk pile. Vote no. The charter amendment sugegsted by the committee of seven is to trifling for serious consideration. It only pro vides that newspapers to obtain the city printing must be at least one year old. Vote no. The charter amendment to regulate wiring, etc., has for its ultimate pur pose the creation of the offices of elec trical inspector. Inspector of stationary enplnes. purchasing agent, etc. T.i'e league does not connlder It wis to cre ate thepe offices. Vote no. The amendment requiring franchise holders to keep accessible accounts com mends Itself as a just and proper one. v in r y e. i ne amendment authorizing a wo men s auxiliary to the police department seem necessary. vole ves. The amendment authorizing the city treasurer to purchase bonded warrants Is or trifling Importance and a treas ury full of bonded warrants would be or little use In a canlc. Vote no. The amendment authorizing banks of a capital of $5(1,000 to receive city de posits on giving proper security seems a proper one The security hwing suf ficient, tiie capitalization of the bank is comparatively unimportant. Vote yes. Purchasing of Warrants. The amendment authorizing the city treasurer to loan city funds on the se curity of surety bonds does not com mend itself. Surety bonds In a panic, mo uniy ume iney would be needed would be about as useful a. wt inm. powder, and the surety company would naturally consider Itself as liable only mid me ucum nau ituiea. vote no. I lie amendment modifying the civil service regulations is good as far as It goes. vote yes. I he amendment to the civil service regulations referred to under this nurr ber in the foregoing recommendations Is also a very proper one and would doubtless tend to Increase efficiency of employes. vote yes. The amendment authorizing a demit v clerk for the municipal court seems necessary, vote yes. The amendment authorizing the city auditor to act as the clerk of street viewers Is a proper one, as its onlv purpose Is to Insure the good form of viewers reports, vote yes. Liens on Streets. The amendment requiring the auditor to ascertain If any liens exist before I ... . making payments for appropriated filiate the liquor traffic is also a rad Horstoveool f Kitchen How do you expect-to en dure the broiling days of summer if you prepare all the food over a glowing coal fire ? You need a "New Per fection" Oil Stove that will do the cooking with out cooking the cook. It concentrates plenty of heat under the pot and diffuses little or none through the room. PERFECTION 'Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove besides being the perfect stove for summer use is just as efficient for year 'round use. Does anything any other stove will do. It is built just like the modern steel coal range, with a CABINET TOP that makes it possible to keep food warm after it is cooked, i Made in three sizes. Sold either with or with out Cabinet Top. If not at your dealer's write our nearest agency. sssw jnd handsome lamp. Burnt for hours with strong, mellow light. Juit what you need for evening reading or to light the dining-room. If not with yoot dealer, write our nearest agency. STANDARD ODL COMPANY (Iaeerporaced) streets has become necessary as cases have occurred where mortgagees, by suc4i proceedings, have lost tnelr security. Vote yes. The amendment requiring a rededlca tion of streets where a vacation of streets is sought for the purpose of re modeling a plat 14 a Just and proper one. "Vote yes. The amendment providing that the city shall own the soli in streets ordered to be improved presents many curious questions. The right of the owner to use the land in front of his lot Is un questioned until the Improvement Is ordered and the courts have held that he now owns It afterward. If so, what is the city to do for sari to fill the low places and what must the street con tractor do with the soil when he re moves it? This amendment attempts to cut the knit In the only reasonable way that seems possible. Vote yes. The amendment for the bonding of assessments differ from the old In al lowing the bonding for all small amounts. This Is only just and proper. Vote yes. The amendment increasing the Inter est on delinquent assessments from 6 to 10 per cent is reasonable and In tended to facilitate their collection; As it Is now. 6 per cent being a low rate, has no quickening effect upon the debtor. Vote yes. Cost Is Increased. The amendment providing that the ac ceptance by the city officers of an im provement shall be final is aimed at an abuse that has grown to large propor tions. A contractor on city work hav ing finished tils contract and had it ac cepted In good faith by the proper city officers is still under our present sys tem liable to be held up in his pay for years at the suit of private owners. This Is an outrage, and has resulted in increasing the cost of city Improve ments In Portland from 10 to 20 -per cent. Contractors lave boon kept 'out. of their honestly earned pay for years and can have no assurance of receiving their pay at any fixed time. Vote yes. The amendment abolishing certain boards and relating to water bonds Is defective and Insufficient. Vote no. The amendment providing for the issuance of bonds to construct water mains of 10 inches and over In diame ter hardly goes far enough, but is an improvement on present conditions. Vote yea This amendment allowing the coun cil to fix the salary of the city engi neer at any reasonable figure, not less than $2400 a year. The present pay is entirely Inadequate. The council has lately paid Mr. Modjeska. an emi nent engineer, $5008 for a few weeks service and would do well to pay a city engineer of first class ability a good salary for a longer time, and if It needs authority for that purpose It should be given it. Vote yes. This amendment allowing the coun cil to increase the city treasurer's sal ary Is not recommended. The salary or the city treasurer is sufficiently provided for already. Vote no. This amendment allowing the coun cil to Increase the salary, of the city attorney Is wrong in principle. The amount should be fixed in the charter. Vote no. Crematory Bonds. This amendment providing for the is suance of $150,000 of crematory bonds meets an immediate necessity. Some thing in this regard must be done, and as these bonds are payable In 10 annual Installments it amounts to but a small anticipation of the city's revenues. Vote yes. This amendment providing for bonds for the construction of the Broadway and Larrabee street bridge calls for a $2,000,000 bond Issue and only the most urgent necessity would- Justify it, still in the view of this committee the nec essity exists at this point, and the bridge must be built. Portland is growing very rapidly, with nearly all of its wholesale and retail business. Union depot, places of amusement, etc.. on the west side of the river and three-fourths at least of its residences on the east side. This bridge Is there fore an absolute necessity if prosper ing conditions are to continue as they are. Vote yes. The amendment relating to electrical wiring is. in the Judgment of this com mittee, correct in principle, hut should not pass at the present time, because the electrical companies are at present working under a recently passed ordi nance making the space 13 inches on each side of The center of the pole, and It would be an Injustice to compel them to immediately undo all that they have done; also because the ordinance is defective in that it does not omit from the operation t hat portion of the citv where the wires are now being placed underground. Vote no4 The amendment to change Madison street bridge to Market is unjust and would entail an extra cost of about $500,000. and as business has adapted Itself to the Madison street bridge it should remain where it Is. Vote no. The amendment authorizing the con struction of the Sherman street bridge and the issuance of $1,500,000 of city bonds could only be Justified by an urgent necessity, which In the view of this committee does not exist , in re gard to this bridge. Vote no. Use of Patented Articles. The amendment prohibiting patented articles In public improvements has a flavor of the middle or dark ages in It. If the. citizens want a patented article why should they not have It? And if they have it. then why should they not pay for It at Its price? A law to abol ish patents would be more in peint, and Just about as absurd. Vote No. The amendment to grant a monopoly of the liquor business to the Gothen burg association and to provide for a partnership of the city in the profits seems dangerous and vicious to the last degree. The corruption of the dispen sary system would accompany It. Vote no. The excise board amendment to reg- ical departure, but in the other dlrec '.on, and would If enforced strike dis astrously at clubs, hotels and other business enterprises. Krom.even the standpoint of the prohibitionist it would seem unadvlsable to abandon the pres ent most effective battlefield of local option for such radical and untried measures that even If maintained for a time could only result in a final and disastrous reaction. Vote no. . Vehicle Ordinance. , The referendum demanded on Jhe Ve hicle ordinance does not meet with the approval of the league, and In Its opin ion this ordinance is just and reasonable and should pass. Vote yes. It Is proposed by Initiative petition to appoint a commission named in the act to establish and maintain a munici pal power and llghtvujant and Issue city bonds for the purpbse'to the amount of $2,000,000. The league at this time, ad vises very strongly against this pro posed plan. To issue such a large amount In bonds entailing tremendous' interest charges would necessitate heavy tax burdens that would cripple the city to the injury of every man. woman and child in It and experience has shown that municipal light and power plants are often a heavy burden upon a com munity. Vote no. As a last word the committee urges great caution in Increasing the debt of the city or in any action that migjit Im pair its commercial credit or position. Whether a citizen carries his capital in his head, his hands or tils pockets, he Is alike Interested in maintaining the supremacy of his city and the prosperity and happiness of his own household. NEW BOOKS FOE THE LIBRARY Klot ne-tenth off Laird is Leaff Laird S Here is what the leading lard packer says in a recent advertisement: "Leaf is the cream of lards. There is not enough of it to supply one-tenth of the people, and so "it goes only to those who insist upon it." Does it not stand to reason that if there is only enough of the proper fat produced to make pure leaf lard to supply one-tenth of the demand that the chances are nine to one against your getting pure lard? The only absolute protection against getting common hog fat when you buy lard is by buying Cottolene instead. Cottolene is a pure vegetable product made from cotton seed oil, refined by our exclusive process.'' It contains no hog fat and makes palatable, nourishing food which will agree with the most sensitive stomach. COTTOLENE iS Guaranteed Yonr grocer Is hereby au- mmmmmmmmm mm mm mmm thorired to refund your money in case you are not pleased, after having given Cottolene a fair test. Never Sold in Bulk Is packed in pails with an air- mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tight top to keep it Clean, fresh and Whole- ome, and prevent it from catching dust and absorbing disagreeable odors, such as fish, oil, etc. Cook Book Free For 8tm.po py ptw . yon our new 41 PURE POOD C we will mall COOK BOOK" - edited and compiled by Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln, the famous Pood Expert, and containing nearly 300 valuable recipes. Made only by THE NK. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago "Nature's Gift from tho Sunny South" The- following- books tiny be ex amined at the public library during mis week and win- be ready for cir culation Monday. May 31: BIOGRAPHY. Eliot Life of George Eliot; by Oscar Browning. 1908. Napoleon I. Kmperor of France. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte; by Sabine Baring-Gould, n. d. Scott Sir Walter Scott: by W. 8. Crockett and J. L. Caw. 1903. BOOKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Amundsen Nordvest Paosagen. Berneker Graf ,bce Tolstoi. Blelbtreu Colombey. Drachmann Poul og Vlrginle Under 'Nordlljr Bredde. Flood Fumlllon I L.yvlk. Franz Der Monti. Harkavy American Teacher for Yid dish Speaking PeODle. Heidenstam Folkungatradet. Ievien DlejBetrogenen. Lienhard Wasgau-Fahrten. Megede Qultt. Meyer Den Forate Barnepleje. Paulsen Jodindpn. Scherer- Geschlchte der Deutschen Lltteratur. Wetterbargh Traskeden. .-, DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. Elliott Sun and Shadow In Spain. 1908. Jones India, Its Life and Thought. 1908. Robinson The Twentieth Century American; being a comparative study of the peoples of the two great Anglo Saxon nations. 1908. FINE ARTS. Allen Evolution In Italian Arts. 1908. Faust A Treatise on t lie Construc tion, Repairing and Tuning of the Or gan. 190a. Freeborough & Ranken Chess Open ings, Ancient and Modern, n. d. Krohbiel Chapters of Opera; being historical and critical observations ana records concerning the lyric drama In New York, from its earliest days down to the present. 1909. Lllloy & Midgley A Book of Studies in Plant Form, with some suggestions for their application to design. 1S07. Universal Portland Cement Co. Plans hr Concrete Residences. 1909. Velazquez Velazquez; by S. L. Ben susan. 1907. Whistler "Ten o'clock." 18S8. HISTORY. Bury The Ancient Greek Histor ians. 1909. Fling Mtrabeau and the French Rev olution, v. 1. 190R. Mosby Stuart's Cavalry in the Get tysburg Campaign. 1908. LITERATURE. Rurdette Smiles Yoked With Sighs. I 1900. I Dickinson The Cathedral, and Other Poems. 1901. Meynell Poems. 1903. Shakespeare" Proverbs: collected by M C. Clarke and edited by V. J. Rolfe. 1908. Torence Comedies; ed. by S. O. more. 1908. Ward Ten Personal Studies. PHILOSOPHY. Keller The World I Live In. Wood The New Old Healing. RELIGION. BardenViewer l'atrology: the lives and works of the Fathers of the Church. 190H. . i ralmer Lesson Stories for the Kln- Ash-1908. 1908. 1908. 1908. 1 n. a New dergarten Grades of the Bible School 1908. SCIENCE. Butler A Pocket Handhook of Min erals, designed for use In field or class room. 1908. Dolmage Astronomy of Todav: a popular Introduction in non-technical j language. iv3. j SOCIOLOGY. j Carlton Education and Industrial' Evolution. 1908. Dickinson Justice and Liberty; a I Political Dialogue. 1908. j Keane The World's Peoples. USEFUL ARTS. Borchers Electric Furnaces. Hunt Home Problems from Biannpoim. isus. I Meade The Storv of Gold. 1908. I Rlchey The Building Mechanics' , Ready Reference; Cement Workers' and l Plasterers' Edition. 1908. ' Rosenthal -Practical Calculations of Transmission Lines. 1909. St. John Wireless Telegraphy for 1 Aniateuis and Students. 190S. BOOKS ADDED TO REFERENCE j DEPARTMENT. I Jones Forms In Conveyancing and General Legal Forms. Ed. 6, rev. 1899 ! PAMPHLETS. Vnttert filfltao VTrA-1m... c . . i . i fice of School Gardening and Nature Study in English Rural Schools and In London. United States Interstate Commerce Commission Honrs of Service of Rail way Employes. State Statutes and Re lated Court Decisions. February, 1909 MRS. SCOTT'S ACTION' CAUSES I). A. R. unrest; (United Prem Leased Wire.) Washington. May 28. A growing un rest over the action of Mrs. M. T. Scott, the. recently elected president of i the Daughters of the American Revolu j tlon. In appointing certain members to , places for which they were recently de feated at election, threatens an upheaval of the organization, according to some I of the dissatisfied member. Complaints 1 are becoming more pronounced against - the president's action In appointing a supervision committee with onlv one , member, the chairman, a member of the national board of the society ; ' The supervision committee. It is said, , is planned to take on new powers and j will have a voice tn the directing of the national officers. 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