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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. TUESDAY. JANUARY 14, ,1919. copittees wilt PUT DAMPER UPON IE LANGUAG SHARPS Notice is Served on Public -That Lawmakers Dof Not Intend to Listen to Long Winded, Pleas BIG SLASHING LOOMING UP Senator J. C. Smith Would Take - 1917 Appropriation for Institu- k!"Mions as Basis of Increase. ! By Win T. Kirk ' .Salem. Jan. 14. Long hearings In fiirt. hearings of any kind In connec tion with plea for appropriations are going to be taboo at this session or tne legislature. At Its first, meeting Monday after noon the senate ways and means com mittee went on record to this effect and cerved notice upon the public that the "committee will not sit and listen to hour's of argument on subject with which the members already are familiar. ' Those who want to urge certain ap propriations will be required to pre sent their claims to the regular senate committee which Is handling that eub "ject. and then the ways and means com mittee will receive the recommendation of the committee. "At past sessions we have been pes tered by delegations which held us here hour after hour listening to arguments on subjects about which we were al ready thoroughly informed," Senator Strayer told the other members of the committee. "We should take steps to eliminate all unnecessary hearings." Happy Afterthought Then , as an afterthought, but a happy one, for the occasion, he added : ' "Especially when the Influenza la so prevalent." It was Senator Patterson who made the motion to require all delegations to present their claims to some other com mittee, but if there should be no ap propriate committee which Is considering the subject for which an appropriation is 'asked then the ways and means com mittee might give the delegation a time In which to present the items which had been temporarily passed would then be taken up. When the lob is finished, if the total amount allowed does not balance with the funds available, he said the com. roltte could go over some of the items again and make further cuts, i This method of procedure will be pre sented 'when ; the house and 'senate com mittees meet in joint session tonight. - KELLAHER LOSES SEAT IN COUNCIL (Coathnwd Worn Pace thta) atter at a special hearing, While this plan represents the wish of - the senate ways and means committee, it is expected that hereafter the senate . . and house committees will meet in joint - : session and the house members will " have a voice in the final determination "as to whether this policy shall be fol lowed. Would Make Horizontal Increase - At the initial meeting of the senate ways and means committee Senator J. C. . Smith, chairman, suggested a plan v. for dealing with the various state lnsti tutlon maintenance appropriations. He suggested that the 1917 maintenance ap propriation for each institution be taken as a basis of consideration, that 12 per - cent be added, which would be equal to a ; per cent increase for each year, and an l ' effort be made to trim off the surplus.' -: If that plan is followed It will force - a big slashing In an unexpected quar- ter, as the heads of the state institu tions and the members of the board of control who approve the institution budgets did not look for any cutting in maintenance charges. They looked for the pruning, If there Is to be any, in " the items for improvement, betterments and repairs and new buildings. Slight Work Hardship But Senator Strayer pointed out that such a, rigid method In arriving at the necessary amounts for maintenance of the Institutions might work a serious hardship on some of the institutions. He jiiiKgeoiru mat uie committee lane tne entire state budget, go through it and tentatively approve all it has over which there was no controversy and pass the others for later consideration. When the budget has been gone through the term is usually dissolved, and the office becomes vacant and reverts to the peo ple, the source f rem whence it "came, again to b -filled by them. "If Kellaher's appointment ended with the next general municipal election, which occurred on November 6, 1918, and If the charter contemplates an elec tion to fill out an unexpired term, then Perkins and not Kellaher is entitled to hold the office of commissioner until Baker's unexpired term will have ended on June 80, 1919; otherwise Kellaher is the lawful incumbent, unless Perkins was legally elected, there are at least two adequate reasons for the conclusion that Kellaher Is entitled to continue in the office until July 1, 1919. Successor It Elected ' If the charter contains authority for an election-of a commis sion for an unexpired term then by electing Perkins the people did in truth elect a successor and therefore wnen Perkins Qualified Kellaher's tenure ended because his successor baa been elected and qualified. The ques tion for decision is not whether Kellaher would lawfully hold over if no person had been elected for the unexpired term but whether Kellaher can hold over in despite of the fact of Perkins :has been elected. Any conclusion which de nies the voters the right at such "next general municipal election to choose seme person ao take the place of the ap pointee does and must, as It seems to the writer, ignore the meaning or me words 'until the next general municipal election.' The Judgment should be to the effect that T. L. Perkins Is entitled to hold the office of commissioner until and Including June 30, 1919." Dissenting Opinion Given Chief Justice McBride, in summing up the dissenting opinion, said "Speaking generally the office of com mission of the city of Portland is un doubtedly an elective office and Kella her was an incumbent of that office. The fact that he bad been chosen' by the council to fill a vacancy in the office did not change the quality of the office itself. It still remained elective in char acter even though occupied by a person chosen to hold it temporarily by a body other than the whole electorate. The whole question whether Kellaher held over until July 1.. 1919, depends upon whether or not there Is authority In the charter for holding a special election to fill the remainder of Baker's unex pired term from November 6, 1918, to July 1, 1919. The writer fails to find such authority in that instrument. Section 129 of the charter of 1913 indi cates It was never in the legislative mind that under any contingency more than two commissioners-could be chosen at the same, election. ; This fact, considered with the fact thatsln another section of the charter provision was made for the election of an auditor to fill an unex pired term, has great weight as indi cating that it wbi not the intention of the committee who. framed the cht-rter or the electorate who adopted it to pro Vide for an election to fill an unex pired term in the office of commissioner. Kellaher Kefvsed to Tleld- "A judgment should be entered declar ing defendant lawfully entitled to hold the office of commissioner until July 1, 1919." ( - The decision settles a matter of argu ment In the Portland city hall. Since the election, Mr. Kellaher has refused to torn over the office to Mr. Perkins on the ground that ': he was entitled to hold office until July 1. The case was originally argued before the supreme court on November 22, 1918, ans reargued on January 9, 1919, Gus Moser and City Attorney LaRoche argu ing the case for Mr. Perkins and Wilson T. Hume for Mr. Kellaher. Other opinions handed down this morning were: Mary Doherty, administratrix of the estate of Thomas Doherty, versus Ha selwood company, appellants ; Multno mah ; ; petition - for rehearing denied ; opinion by Justice Benson. i: Damage Case Remanded ' Andrew Morgan Beaker et. nl. ap pellants, vn, Clara Knutson, executrix of the will of C C. Johnson, et at ; Multnomah,' petition for rehearing de nied : opinion by Chief Justice Mc Bride., " ' ' E. I. Ridley, appellant, vs. Port land Taxicab company, Multnomah suit for damages for personal injuries opinion by Justice Harris reversing and remanding case to lower court. Judge George N. Davis. . ' Application of the county court of Lane county for relief in connection with the appropriation of county -road No. 65 by .the Willamette Pacific Rail road company. Willamette Pacifio company, appellant; Lane county, opin ion by Justice Johns, decision of Judge Percy R. Kelly reversed. Petitions for rehearing were denied In Clifford vs. O.-W. R. & N. com pany and in the State vs. Good all. Scheubel Indicates New Bills to Tax Public Utilities Salem, Jan. 14. Chris Scheubel in dicated that there is to be legislation concerning the taxation of public serv ice and public utility corporations dur ing the coming sesesslon. He introduced two resolutions, one directing the state tax commission to prepare and furnish to the house, with in five days, a tabulated list of the as sessed values of all such corporations as found by the commission, giving the Information by counties. The other asked that the public service commission furnish the valuations for all such cor porations as found by It. This information is to be used by the committee on assessment . and taxa tion in the consideration of tax legisla tion. Camp Lewis Will Let Player Boys Come Back Again Such an unqualified success was the show presented by the Camp Lewis pro fessional vaudeville performers last weeh that arrangements for a return en gagement were quickly effected, the sol dier boys being booked to appear again at the Heilig Friday and Saturday nights, January 17 and 18, with a Satu day matinee at popular prices, that every fan may attend. There was genuine surprise over the way in wnicii tne soiaier Doys uveu up to advance notices from Seattle, Ta coraa and Aberdeen. Lieutenant Arm strong and Private Everett Hove, dl rectors of the show and both former actors, are justly proud of the com bination of talent assembled. Before returning to American Lake they an nounced that eight of the numbers pre sented last week will be retained on the return bill and that two sparkling new acts will be added. The Depot Brigade orchestra returns to add to the snappy "Jazz" of the bill. Sale of tickets is on today at the theatre ticket office. Safe Is Robbed Seattle, Jan. 14. (L N. 8.) Discovery was mads Monday that the vault in the office of the Albers. Bros. Milling company was unlocked some time Sun day night and the contents oi tu steel boxes taken. In the boxes were em ployes' money. Liberty bonds. Thrift Stamps and private papers, the value of which has not been ascertained. The thief jimmied his way into the offices and apparently had the combination of the vaults. INFLUENZA AGAIN. Physicians and druggists claim that Influenza seems more prevalent right now than ever before. The first sneeze or cough Is your warning that you may need PUROLA Influenza Tablets 4o stave off the symptoms. Fifty cents for a box oi 30 tablets complete treat ment at all drug stores. Adv. COMMITTEES ARE NAMED IH HOUSE Speaker Jones Keeps Faith With Burdick in Assigning For mer Opponents. A YOU BETTER BE GETTIN' BUSY BUZZIN' AROUND FOR NEXT NIGHT THIS 'ERE SHOW LEAVES TOWN GETTIN IN wasnt interested in a roun3etF Burton Holmes Travelogue Thomas S.jNCaT 9 IN MURTAGH on the Giant Organ Cross-Eyed Ben Turpin and a Flock of Wild, Shapely Beauties Are the Chief Ingredients in " GUPIlD'Si DAY OFF?' Salem, Jan. 14. -The standing: commit tees of the house were announced by Speaker Jones just before adjournment this- morning. The important committee of assess ment and taxation went to - Fuller of Polk. Hurd drew fisheries. McFarland is chairman of game. Brand of horticul ture, Martin of insurance, Merriman of irrigation. Bean of judiciary. Scheubel of labor and industries, Kubli of print ing, Stewart of public lands, Sheldon of resolutions, Edwards of railways and transportation. Hare of revision of laws, Dennis of roads and highways and Gordon of ways and means. The announcement clears away the cloud that hung around the possible ap pointments of Speaker Jones and shows that he has apparently redeemed prac tically all, if not all of the promises he made to Denton Burdick as to the placement of the Burdick followers at the time Burdick withdrew ' from the speakership fight. Promises Carried Out Only in two instances were the Bur dick followers not represented in the committee appointments, upon roads and highways and ways and maans. Kubli, one of the original Burdick men, is given a place on ways and means. He had been on the list of appointments prom ised to Burdick, so it is reported. But after the agreement had been signed with Burdick by Jones, he went over to the Jones camp. He got tne place that Jones had promised Burdick would be given him. The agreement Jones made with Bur dick, so it is reported, provided that A A. Smith was to be given place on re vision of laws. Other Appointments Other appointments were : Hunter on agriculture. Gallagher on irrigation and revision of laws, Merriman on irrigation and engrossed bills, Dodd on resolutions. irrigation, banking and salaries; Brow ne 11 on irrigation, agriculture and en rolled bills: Belton on horticulture and assessment and taxation ; Woodson on judiciary, Ballagh on fisheries, west- lund on iwrticulture, Sldler on judiciary and insurance, Ben Jones on revision of laws. Kubli on ways and means, Iewis on judiciary and counties. Home on la bor and industries and E. ki. bmitn on the same two and also on corporations, Hosford on commerce and navigation. McFarland, chairman of game, and Moore on medicine and pharmacy and game. Burdick was put on judiciary, the big law committee of the bouse, but was given no chairmanship. After committee appointment had been announced, Burdick went to Speaker Jones and thanked him -for the consid eration shown his followers in the per sonnel of the commlttees. Agriculture Wheeler, Crawford, Hunt er, Brownell, Westerlund. Alcoholic, Traffic Lafferty, Elmore, Idleman, Cross, Thompson. Assessment and Taxation Fuller, Bolton, Schuebel, Hosford, Stannard, Thrift. Banking Gore, Dedman, Haines, Dodd, Gordon, Elmore, Roman. Cities and Towns Richards, Coffey, A. A. Smith. Claims Ballagh, Stewart, David Graham. I . Commerce and Navigation Lofgren. Roman, Edwards, Hosford. Brownell. Corporations Haines, Sheldon, Bur dick, Hosford, Eugene Smith. Counties Cross, Lewis, McFarland, Griggs, Thomas. Education Thompson, Lafferty, Da vid Graham. Brand, Richards. Elections Crawford, Wright, Hurd, i Home, Woodson. Expositions and Fairs L. M. Graham, Looney, Hunter, Chllds, Moore. Engrossed Bills Richardson, Gordon, Merriman. Enrolled Bills Chllds, Brownell, Ful ler. Fisheries Hurd. Hughes, Stannard, Ballagh. Cross. Sidler. Roman. Food and Dairy Products Weeks, Thrift. Crawford, Griggs, Merriman. Forestry and Conservation Stannard. Lafferty, Edwards. Fuller, Elmore. Game McFarland, Griggs, Hughes, Bean, Moore. Health and Publlo Morals Elmore, Dedman, weeks, Thomas jHurnaugn. Horticulture Brana, westerlund, Weeks. Bolton. Sheldon. Immigration David Graham. Horne. Jones. Moore, Coffey. Insurance Martin. correy. Bidier. Roman, Richards. Irrigatlo n Merriman, Gallagher, Wheeler, voaa, Browneu. Judiciary Bean. Burdick, Cross. Ijewis, martin, woooson, esiaier. Labor and industry scnuebei. Horns, Eurana Smith. Husrhes. Grlrrsrs. Livestock Griggs, Hunter. Wheeler, Woodson, Bolton. Manufacturing1 Dedman. Jones, Idle man, David Graham. Gordon. Medicine, rnannacy ana Dentistry manic. Military Affairs Westerlund, Burdick, Roman, Bean, Stewart. Mining a. a. mnitn, uanagner, .Den- In view of the unhealed breach between him and the last ditch followers of Denton Burdick who. while they voted for Jones, did so with more or less obvious reservations as to their legis lative course during the coming days of the session. -L .High Expletives Fleatlfal But aside from the unexploded dyna mite that will be left In the wake of the committee appointments. there will be plenty of hgih explosives dumped Into the legislature when the road bills are introduced. It is a foregone conclusion that the road program will be the big money legislation of the session. The 1917 session, between the Bean- bonding act and the general $(,000,000 bonding bill, provided some $1,000,000 In bonds for the construction of roads and highways. Half of the six million fund has already been expended, or contracted for, leav ing about three millions from the bond ing bill to be used In the 1919 road pro gram of the state highway commission. Its plans for this year are said to con template the expenditure of all this available fund. Big Boad litis Loena It is the general Impression that the big road bill . of the session, when it is brought up from Portland, will carry bond issue of something like $10,000,000. It Is planned, so rumor has it, to take care of the principal sinking fund for the retirement ' of these bonds out of increased automobile license fees, while at the same time providing for the in terest payments. Gasoline taxes, amend ments to the statutes providing for the assessment and collection of the per sonal property tax on automobiles,' and some other means, are talked of as res ervoirs from which to draw more money to help finance the program. . On the other hand there are those In the legislature who still hold to the the- ory that the right way to build roads is by Immediate payment through' direct tax levies, mill age or otherwise. ; District AtMMsaeat Plan Then there Is - a plan to provide for the, district assessment under which cer tain road districts would tax themselves to pay for lateral county roads, the prop erty owners of the district pay m pro portion of the cost, the county a por tion and the state the remainder. There are. !n fact, nearly as many plans for road construction and financ ing as there are members of the house and senate who pose as road legisla tors, and most of them lay more or less claim to that distinction. So far, of course, the road program Is mostly composed of rumors, for the bills have not begun to come In for consideration.. : But there are iota of rumors and out of them will grow a multitude of plansi a lot of turmoil and, very probably, a lot of hard feelings. Irrigation Bonds Guaranty. Salem. Jan. 14. Guaranty of irrigation bonds by the state through the provisions of a constitutional amendment that will give the officials of the state that power. is the plan now being whipped . into shape for submission to the legislature and through it to the people by Repre sentative Gallagher of Malheur county. As the law now stands irrigation dis tricts can vote bonds and have them ratified by the secretary of state: after the project has been examined and ap proved by the irrigation securities com mittee. Mr. Gallagher would like to have au thority given the state to underwrite or guarantee bonds that had been certi fied under the provision of the present law. , H The reason for this is that bond buy ers during the past two years have been making a big margin off of Irriga tion district bonds. Practically all those sold, and the to tal runs close to two million 'dollars, have been sold at 90 cents on the dol lar, j This has resulted In a loss of some two i hundred thousand dollars to the settlers of the various Irrigation districts of the state. It is believed by Mr. Gallagher and other lrrlgatlonists that Irrigation -xnds would be sold at par or above, if they were guaranteed by the state, and this is the purpose of the proposed amendment. It will be presented to the house in a short time for consideration and submission to the people at the next general election, or at any special election that might be called, should such action be deemed necessary by the present legislature for any pur pose arising during the session. . v ' Building Fund for .. New Church Will i Be Pushed Rapidly Determined to press 'vigorously, the campaign of the Grace Memorial Episco pal church for a new church building -which will cost approximately $20,000, Campaign Manager Edward N. Strong issued a call this morning for a meeting of colonels and lieutenants at the church. East Seventeenth and Weldler, at 8 o'clock this evening. i The campaign organization - consists of Rev. Oswald Taylor, "generalissimo" ; Edward N. Strong, manager ; J. L. Ethe rldge, H. P. Dutton, Joseph T. Peters, H. P. Barnhardt, Walter E. Bliss and George F. Anderson, colonels; William McLeod, John A. Keating, W. J. Dennis, C L. Reynolds, Frank E. Smith. J. C. 1 Grady, D. L. Blodgett, A. B. Cutler, W. P. Jenkins, F. O. Miller, A. O. Findlay, W. J. Rush, L. D. Roberts, E. E. Favtlle, 3 U. Bagley, J. IL Gallagher and G. E. McLeod, lieutenants. The plan Is to construct the new church building on the lot adjoining the parish house at East Seventeenth and Weidler streets. Only One MRORfO quiniiiK" To vet -th cimin. tH for fall turn ULXJ TTVB BBOMO QUININB Tablets. Lok to iCBsrers cf K. W. OBOTX. Cans a Cold la Oae.da 0c Ad. j 'NOTHING RELIEVES HY.RHEUr.IATISI.r That's nonsense ! 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Salaries of Public Officials Wright. Dodd, Burnaugh, Edwards, Lafferty. Ways and Means Gordon. Haines. Kubli, Thompson, Chllds, Brand, Looney. BIG BERTHA ROAD BOND GUN READY (Continued Tma P On) -East Side" and the "West Side" highways. Underlying Unrest Factor The east aiders representatives from Marlon, Linn and Clackamas counties formed the nucleus of Mr, Jones' strength when he entered the speaker ship fight. Then the west slders, from Polk. Yamhill and Washington counties, swung into line for his candidacy, but not before they had exacted a promise that the west side men should be given the chairmanship of the house commit tee. . This agreement has been the cause .of an underlying unrest, which may, or may not be ironed out as tile session wears on. It is a condition that is dangerous to Mr. Jones' control of ' his organisation Vour Eyes I msitMnt Cleansing, BcfreifciBf Ml allDf Leilai Murine for Red nes Soreness, Granul. tion. 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