THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. TUESDAY. JANUARY 14, ,1919.
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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.
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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
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Economical, reliable, clean. . Don't ask
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nis. Gore. Looney.
Prlntinar Kubli. Hard, Eugene smith.
Lj. m. uranam. - jviarun.
Public Institutions Hunter, Woodson,
Hare, Brand, Wheeler.
Publio Lands Stewart. uauaKn. stan
nard. Burdick. Lewis.
Railways and Transportation Ed
wards, Idleman, Dennis, Lafferty, Lof-gren.
uesoiutions bneiaon, Kicnarason,
Hare, Dodd, Kubli.
Revision or Law uare. ucnueoei.
Lofgren, Richards, Jones, Gallagher, A.
A. Smith.
Roads and Hlghways Dennis, Gore.
Wright, L. M. Graham, Richardson,
Thorns, Thrift.
Rules and Joint Kuim Blank.
Salaries of Public Officials Wright.
Dodd, Burnaugh, Edwards, Lafferty.
Ways and Means Gordon. Haines.
Kubli, Thompson, Chllds, Brand, Looney.
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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
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