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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; PORT LAND, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1919. 5 ROADS MEASURE WINS IN HOUSE; i DEBATE IS WARM Charges of Attempted Bribery by One Representative Against Patent Trust Are Not Heeded. PROVIDES FOR $10,000,000 Near Fist Fight Also Enlivens Stormy Session That Led Up to Victory for Paving Interests Salem. Feb. 19. After an all day ses sion, filled with sensations ranging from charges of attempted bribery. Insinua tions of too close solicitude for the wel fare of the Warren Construction com pany, and down the gamut of thrilling Incidents to a barely averted fistic fight between Kepresentatives Schuebel and Bean, the house late Tuesday afternoon passed the $10,000,000 road bonding bill by a vote, of 51 for and 5 against, with three absent. Those voting no were Cross. Richards, Schuebel, Smith of Multnomah and Mrs. Thompson. Those absent were Home, Sidler and Wheeler. Cross, in explaining his vote, said that he did not believe an emergency existed, because the commission now had more - money than It could spend In the 90 day that must elapse before the act t would take effect without the emergency ' clause. Objection Are Interposed Richards objected to the emergency clause, to the payment of any sum for royalties on patented pavement, and because, he said, the bill put a irvortgage on the property of the state without giving the people an opportunity to say whether they wanted to do so. Smith said that the bill was wrong, that the' emergency clause was untrue, s.nd Mrs. Thompson said that there were things in the bill that she could not support, and that she was able to gp home and explain her position to the people1 who had sent her to the legisla ture. Just before the vote was taken Sheldon moved. that the house, which had just come out of the committee of the whole, after its day-long session for considera tion of the measure, again return to committee for the purpose of striking out the words "strength, durability and resistance to war," which were Included in section 14, and wnlch, as the bill stood, gave to the highway corrynisston the option of taking these things into consideration In the award of contracts for pavement. The motion was voted down without debate and the vote was THIN PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE ) PPHOSPHATE Nothing Like Plain Bitro-Fhosphate to Fat ob Firm, Healthy Flesh aad to Increase Strength, Vigor and Serve Force. Judging from the countless prepara tions and treatments which are contin ually being advertised for the purpose of making thin people fleshy, devel oping arms, neck and bust, and replac ing ugly hollows and angles by the soft curved lines of health and beauty, there are evidently thousands of men and women who keenly feet their excessive thinness. Thinness and weakness are usually due to starved- nerves. Our bodies need more phosphate than is contained in modern foods. , Physicians claim there is nothing that will supply this deficiency so well as the organic phos phate known among -druggists as bltro- fthosphate, which is inexpensive and s sold by most all druggists under a guarantee of satisfaction or money back. By feeding the nerves directly and by supplying the body cells with the necessary ' phosphoric food ele ments, bitro-phpsphate quickly pro duces a welcome transformation in the appearance ; the increase in weight fre quently being astonishing. This increase in weight also carries with it a general Improvement in the health. Nervousness, sleeplessness and lack of energy, which nearly always accompany excessive thinness, soon disappear, dull eyes become ' bright, and pale cheeks glow with the bloom of perfect health. CAUTION : -i Although bitro-phosr phate is unsurpassed for relieving nervousness, sleeplessness and general weakness, it should not, owing to its remarkable flesh-growing properties, be used by anyone who does not desire to put on flesh. Adv. fSSSpSrf,ff,r,,,,f,S,,,,,,,,,,,d lj A nemarkable adventure " -tV S - of a $rl twxlaxv - -j KIM .smstoRm m is CURRENT EVENTS WEEKLY Starts -Tomorrow "- vttttftfftftffifgtitgttttitiJiiitiitM then taken on the final passage of the bill. . After luncheon Scheubel Introduced an amendment providing "that the state highway commission shall not construct, contract for, or specify in any contract for the pavement of any road or high way any patented pavement specifica tions, mixture or process." Graham said he did not believe the legislature wanted to say that the com mission could not use patented pave ment. The amendment was lost by an overwhelming negative vote. Tying Commissioner's Hands Smith of Multnomah moved to amend by so changing section 14 that the com mission would be empowered to con struct highways by force account only. Smith said that he probably would be the only one in the house who would support the amendment. A peculiar con dition existed, he said. They had been contending that no restrictions should be thrown around, the highway commis sion that would tie its hands, but all the time, for weeks In the committees and for two days in the open senate, they had been trying to wrije into law all kinds, of restrictions upon the com mission. If the highway commission wanted those things which were not right the measures which have been suggested would not change' them. If the legis lature wanted to leave their hands the commissions' hands untied they could do so by leaving them to say how the work was to be done. It was unfortunate circumstances that Schuebel had made the statemet he had made during the morning session. He had been talking with Schuebel and Hare last nipf atout amendments to the bonding bill, and he had stated that he was not in a mind to support any contract system. What he was going to say was not going to cast any aspersions against any member of the legislature, or any con tractor or anyone else. Smith TelU What He Knows" "All I know is what I know," Smith Bakl. "Kach member of the house and senate are endowed with a conscience, and they know what the conditions are The fact of the matter is this, unsup ported by anything but my own word. The occurrence of last Friday morning was what unalterably fixed my position. "Last Saturday morning I was ap proached, and I feel humiliated about it. It Is no compliment that 1 was picked out as the only crook in the 60 of you. But I was approached by a man whom I had always considered as a friend. and I believe that he was Influenced by his surroundings. If I thought that his best interesu or those of his family were to be conserved I would give his name. "Those who usually try to use bribe money don't usually go before a notary and send their money up by messenger. But there was an offer made to me an offer of money, a substantial sum to a man in my financial condition with the statement that if it was not enough I could name my own terms. There were several things that I could have done. I could have taken the money and then flashed it here and made a grandstand play. Or - I could have dragged the man here into the legislature and ruined him and his fam- Contract System Is Wrong "It was sufficient to convince me that my thoughts on these things were cor rect and that the contract system was a wrong system. I did not know where the money came from; I did not have proof that would convince any court. But that money was being offered me to vote against senate bill 67. Senator Thomas or Dimlck 'did not offer me money to vote for the bill. Certainly someone must have been offering it who was expecting to get money out of this bond issue. "Put these things together and you can know where the money was coming from. I mention the circumstances to serve notice that these things cannot go on in the legislature. When men want to do business with me that all they have to do is to get down to brass tacks and do it honestly. "And I want to say as to Kubli's motion for an investigation, that the man who is concerned knows that it is up to him to speak. I have that regard for his family, and so believe that he will yet come right. No matter what your investigation is, if he does not speak, I will not." Stewart said that the question of force account problem had been threshed out before one public meeting held in the house and that it had been shown to what enormous extent the expense of the system would go if the force ac count plan was put upon the com mission. Cheapness Causes Corruption The corruption and collusion came, Stewart contended, in the employment of cheap commissioners and cheap engi geers, who could be corrupted. Withy combe never, did anything better than when he put Ben3on, Booth and Thomp son on the highway commission. They were big men. The commission had taken a half million dollar job away from the Warren company down in Columbia county be cause it was trying to pad its accounts. He believed that the state was safe in the hands of the commission. The railroads had done lots of bad things in the past. They had main tained just as bad lobbies as the Warren company had ever maintained, but -there Uacft MifflaLeB-UIMrCE THE UL had never been any agitation saying, "To h1 wtth steel rails, let us vse putty or wood." Smith Amendment Lost The Smith amendment was lost by a practically unanimous vote. Hare of Washington then moved an amendment to section 14 and in addition to the Gore amendment, reading, "Provided, further, that if the commission shall let any contract for the construction of any road under the provisions of this act, con sisting of any article or pavement upon which a patent is claimed, then, in such, event, the state highway commission may pay all royalties that may be due on account of the construction of such road so laid with such patented article or pavement, direct to the patentee, and the contractor or contractors shall only be required to bid on the construction of such road without including in their bid the cost of royalties that may be claimed on account of the construction of such road with such patented article or pavement." Hare said that this amendment met with the sanction of the highway com mittee anji of Chairman Thompson of the highway commission, who had said that if the provision was written into the law "he would do hjs damndest to squeeze the royalty out of bitulithic." C'oald Make Segregation It would give the commission the power to segregate the royalty from the cost of construction and go as far as could be gone in securing honest pavement at an honest price. "The Warren Construction company would never be driven out by cuch an amendment. They would stay," Hare contended, "but if it were found to be necessary to drive them out to protect the state from the ravishment of the past 10 years, then the ekids ought to be put under it." Dennis said that the committee had consistently contended that none of the j money from bonds should be paid for j royalties unless they had been included in the total cost of the smallest bid sub mitted. The Hare amendment did not conflict with the position of the com mittee, but was in complement of the bill passed by the house at the morn ing session providing for investigation of patents by the attorney general and subsequent refusal to pay in event of invalidity. The Hare amendment was adopted, and the section as amended by the Gore and Hare amendments was approved. The bill as amended was then ap proved and placed on its final passage. AS DIVORCE CAUSE BUMPED ONCE MORE Perpetual Bill Comes Up for Its Customary Defeat, This Time at Hands of Senate. Salem, Feb. 19. Once again the Ore gon legislature has rejected the proposi tion that incurable insanity shall be made legal grounds for a divorce. . A bill with that provision Jias been introduced at every session for irany years past, and it is as regularly killed. The bill was killed today by the senate by a vote of 10 to 13, with seven sena tors absent. The measure was senate bill 134, in troduced by Senator Jones, who said, when supporting the bill, that if he should lose his mind he would want his wife to be free to marry again and if his wife lost her mind he would want the same freedom. The vote on the bill was as follows : Yes Gill, Handley, Howell, Hurley, Jones, Moser, Norblad. Smith of Jose phine, Strayer, President Vinton. No Baldwin. Eberhard, Eddy, Far rell, Lachmund, La Foliett, Nickelsen, Fatterson. Pierce, Porter, Shanks, Smith of Coos, Wood. Absent Banks, Bell, Dimick, Huston, Orton, Ritner, Thomas. "This is the third time since I have been a member of the legislature that I have been forced to fight this pernicious bill," said Senator Smith of Coos. He said that no one knows whether a per son is permanently insane, and cited two instances coming under his personal knowledge of women who had been pro nounced incurably insane, and who had recovered. He said these bills are introduced at the instance of men who want to aban don their wives and marry younger women. Senator Moser defended the bill and argued that a man should not be forced to remain tied to a woman who has been insane for more than five years and is pronounced incurable. "If I should vote for this bill I would be immediately recalled by my constitu ents," said Senator Eberhard. Senator Farrell Insisted that if a wife should be so unfortunate as to lose her mind it was the duty of the husband to stand by her. Senator Wood said he had opposed a bill of this kind at every one of the six sessions of the legislature of which he has been a member? He pointed out that the bill is aimed at the woman whose mind becomes deranged during the critical period which comes in every woman's life and he said that a great proportion of such women recover their mental powers and become useful wives. Senator Eddy opposed the bill, while Senators Norblad and Hurley spoke in favor of it. New Owners Are To Take Over Big Grays Harbor Mill Raymond. Wash., Feb. 19. The Will apa mill "B," formerly known as the Creeclrmill, has been purchased by the Hart-Wood company of this city and of Grays Harbor, together with Eutrene France and Ben Johnson, both also of Grays Harbor. The Hart-Wood com pany is owner of the Qulnault mill in Raymond. The mill is one of the large, well-equipped mills of this harbor and has lately been leased by the Willapa Lumber company. Their lease expires soon, at which time the new owners will take it over. Mr. Johnson will have the management of the mill. Cooks and Waiter Strike Raymond, Wash.. Feb. 19. The cooks and waiters of .his city called a strike Monday, tying up for a short time the. principal restaurants and hotels of the city, excepting the Raymond hotel, where union labor is not employed. The demand for the union is for six days' la bor for the presenT weekly pay for seven days, requiring the proprietors to put on extra help to' take care of the seventh day, . i- 4 -: -.. - For persons who move Ions distances fiber packing cases into which articles of furniture fit securely have been de signed. - - x -" ' ' ' . . NCURABLE NSAN1TY 60 DAY SESSION AND WAGE LEFT TO VOTERS Legislators Would Avoid Midnight Toils by Adding 20 Days to Biennial Session at $5 Daily. SALARY COVERS EXPENSES Resolution Would Provide Recon struction Hospital in Portland; Governor Woujd Fill Vacancies Salem, Feb. 19. By a practical ly unanimous vote the house went on record this morning as favor ing submission to the people of an amendment to the constitution extend ing the time limit of legislative sessions from 40 to 60 days and increasing the pay of legislators from $3 to $5 per day. Representative Hare, who, together with Representative Lewis, introduced the resolution providing the amendment, declared that it was an effort to correct at least some of the evils to be found in the present legislative system by extending the time limit to 60 days, the last 20 of which would be devoted to a consideration of bills without the neces sity of laboring under the press of new bills. No bills, except appropriation measures and measures relating to the defense of the state or nation, would be introduced after the fortieth day of the session unless by the unanimous con sent of the house. Under the present system, he pointed out. both the hous and senate are compelled to contend with midnight sessions and cram through bills without due consideration of their merits, and "the surprising thing is that we are able to pass as many good laws as we do." Special sessions would be limited to 20 days at $5 per day, and legislators would receive 3 cents for every mile traveled to and from the state capital by the customary route. Representative Hare denied that it was the intent of the amendment to provide "princely stipend" for members of the legislature and doubted that the $5 per day would secure any better legislative material than could be se cured at $3 a day. but, he declared, that will at least cover necessary expenses while members are in attendance upon the legislature." Vacancies in the legislature due to the death of a member after his election, would be filled by appointment by the governor, according to the provisions of a house joint resolution providing an amendment to the constitution, which was passed by the house today. Coos and Curry counties are now without a representative in the house due to the death of Representative Stannard and no provision whereby the vacancy could be filled. The iouse passed joint resolution No. 20 by Gordon, providing for a recon struction hospital to be erected on land adjoining the present medical college in Portland. The move Involves an amendment to the state constitution and must be approved by the people if it passes the senate before becoming effective. FOUR YEAR TENURE COUNTY OFFICES IS NOT ENCOURAGED Resolution Defeated Is Said to Have Been Inspired by Offi cials Fearing Election. Fate. Salem, Feb. 19. An attempt to ex tend the tenure of office of county offi cials from two to four years met with slight encouragement in the house to day, but 10 members voting for the resolution. The measure had been introduced by Representative Richardson by request. "Who requested you to introduce the resolution?" queried Coffey. But Rich ardson refused to enlighten his col leagues on the subject. Coffey insisted that it was the work of some county officials who were afraid to face the people for reelection and were trying to slip Ue measure through "the back door of the legisia-. ture" in order to extend their tenure of office without running the risk of an other election. Representative Lewis suplemented Coffey's intimations by stating that a lobby of Multnomah county officials had been busy in the legislature for sev eral days past and characterized the measure as "infamous and pernicious." The people had already rejected a similar measure, it was declared, and nothing would be saved by reason of the proposed change, as it would still be necessary to hold elections every two years to name members of the house of representatives. Several members opposed the measure because it made the county recorder a constitutional office and created a new office in many counties. Of English invention is a new lubri cant for cutting screw threads in alu minum more satisfactorily than hereto fore possible. HOME MADE TEA FORCONSTIPATION Is used by entire families because it is purely vegetable, does the work and costs very little. Why pay high prices for liver and bowel remedies when none are better than Dr. Carter's K. and B. Tea, which is purely vegetable, can be brewed at home and a small package will last a long time? Thousands of old people will tell you they have been drinking It for years, and after the liver and bowels have been put in fine condition in a few days by a before bedtime cup, that only an occa sional cup is afterwards necessary to keep one feeling fit and fine. People wmothk a cup or Dr. Car- ter'a EL and B. Tea once in a while. U dom, if ever, have any bilious attacks, sick headache or sallow skin. It's good for boys and girls, especially those who are peevish and fretful. Druggists have been selling it for many years. Adv. RISE Remodeled Measure For Double Boards In Election Passes Salem, Feb. 19. Representative Craw ford's double election board measure was passed by the house today after having been remodeled to meet the ob jections of several members when it came up for consideration and met de feat two weeks ago. Principal among the objections was the provision requir ing the counting board to begin work within 30 minutes after the polls were opened and to proceed with the count as rapidly as possible. Under the amended bill the count will not begin until 25 or more ballots have been cast and no box will be opened until it contains 25 or more ballots, with the exception of the last box of the day. This change was made in order to eliminate the possibility of invading the secrecy of the ballot which, it was comenaeti, would Have been the case should the box have been opened after only one vote had been cast. The measure, It was explained, would expedite the count of ballots without increasing the er pense of elections. Start Negotiations To Postpone Strike London, Feb. 19. (I. N. S.) Premier Lloyd-George expects to . meet repre sentatives of the miners tomorrow to negotiate a postponement of the threat ened strike pending a government in vestigation into the question of nation alizing the coal mines. Accused of Killing Policeman Los Angeles, Feb. 19. (U. P.) Bert Williams, alias Fjank Burns, is in th f.itv iall today charged with the murder of Policeman P. J. Downey, who was killed Tuesday afternoon near River station", Los Angeles. Williams was found hiding under a flatcar soon after Downey was killed and partially confessed when arrested. Williams, the police investigation showed, had been arrested by Downey and then broke away from the officer. Dowxiey gave chase and Williams shot him.- v The Right Laxative For The Little Ones The natural condition of child is to be happy and carefree. When the girl mopes and is indifferent to school and study, or the boy it sullen and refuses to go out and play, the child needs laxative to empty the bowels and stir up the liver. But something should be given that will produce the result in as simple and nat ural a way as possible. Harsh cathartics and physics are neither necessary nor de sirable. Many mothers have found that the com bination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin sold by druggists under the name of Dr. PRICE AS ALWAYS la spite of greatly lacrcaa ml laboratory eoatt due to tha War, by aacrifidiic pcaata and abeertoang war tun we have maintained the price at which this family laxative has been sold by aruia far the past 6 years. Two sies 50c and (1-94. HELD OVER! JSSiSMMS. THREE DAYS IN r IwSM PERSON j We have received so many letters and phone calls been unable to get in, that little Miss Osbourne three days more.; j . ALSO Constance Talmadge and Harland Tucker in "Sauce For x the Goose' OSWEGO DISTRICT AGAIN LOSES ITS ANNEXATION HOPE NT Bill to Transfer Area to Multno mah Once More Is Voted Down in House. CROSS STAYS MEMBERS Clackamas Man Pleads That Leg islature Not Punish His County To Get Revenge on Scheubel. Salem, Feb. 19. Oswego lake and sorn 10 square miles of territory ad jacent thereto were saved -to Clackamas county today by the indefinite postpone ment of house bill 153, altering the boundary lines between Clackamas and Multnomah counties. , A favorable majority report which had been tabled several days ago after a heated debate centering around the move was removed from the table Mom day evening by a motion of Representa tive McFarland. Following immediately on the heels of the heated discussion over the $10,000,000 bond bill the move was regarded as an effort to reprimand the Clackamas county delektion, which had opposed the passage of the road measure. Sensing the temper of the house, Representative Cross arose to a de fense of Clackamas county with a. plea that the house should not strike this county in an effort to revenge, itself against his colleagues. Represen tative Scheubel and Senator Dimick, -who have been most consistent in their opposition to roads legislation. Asked Members to Wait He asked the members to let the bill rest until morning in the hope that the members would have cooled off by Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin produces a free move ment of the bowels without griping. A very . little is required, and it is pleasant to take. A few hours after its use the child wilt be ita happy self again. It is an excellent remedy for the mother herself, and for the other members of the family, in obstinate or occasional consti pation, for the relief of headaches, as an aid in colds and fevers, minor skin eruptions and all disorders where the bads of the trouble is constipation. The druggist wtH refund the money you pay for Syrup Pepsin if it fails to do as promised. Dr. Caldwell' YRUP PEPSIN The Perfect Ji Laxative FREE SAMPLES If you have aever used Dr. Caldwell's Syrap Pepsin send for a free trial battle to Dr. W. B. Caldwell. 4M Waehiaston St.. MeotieeUo, 111. If there are babies at home, ask far a copy of Dr. Caldwell's book "The Care of Babv." that time and , that the measure might be considered on its ; merits and not used as a club' against his erring col. leagues, of whose actions he- denied any responsibility. - "I have been entrusted with their care while at the legislature and I have promised to bring them both home Just alive," he said. "I have been kept pretty busy carrying out my part of (the contract. First, ' I have had to pack Mr. Scheubel's head in ice, and now I am all out of ice and I want the house to bear with me and not punish me just to get even with them." Clackamas and Multnomah counties have too much in common and there are too many big things clamoring for at tention to stoop to "little spiteful things," he declared. Cross was born in Clackamas county and had spent his entire 62 years In that county, he de clared, and was more representative of the people of that county than either of his colleagues. Measure Is Lost The plea of Cross won a postpone ment of action until this morning, when it came up for consideration immediate ly after the house convened. Cross then moved the indefinite postponement of the bill. The roll call started out with a succession of noes that boded ill, for Clackamas county. When the clerk reached' the name of Cross on the roll ha arosed to "wonder if the members knew how they were voting." Explanations of the question under consideration fol lowed and the final count showed that 29 members were opposed to, the division, with 22 favorable. Discharged Soldier, HI, Tries to End Life Roseburg, Feb. 19. William Bayless, a recently discharged soldier, who re sides with his wife on a farm 12 miles east of here, attempted to end his life Tuesday by shooting himself through the head. Ill health is blamed. No hope for his recovery is given. Taft Speaks in Roseburg Roseburg, Feb. 19. William H. Taft, former . president of the United States, made a brief address to school children Tuesday when his train stopped here. Mr. Taft was accosted by local citizens while he was taking a constitutional up and down the platform. FOR PORTLAND CHILDREN and in her latest success Dolly's Vacation from children who have has consented to stay , THE NIFTIEST GLASSES made are the new light-weight shell spectacles, either dark or crystal In color, fitted with PCSKTAL LKJfSF.S, the new lenses that are ground to give clearly defined vision to the very margin. Always Insist on Punktals. they are the beat made. We give a guarantee certifi cate with every pair. Ask for booklet, "The Eye and the Lens." . 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