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it 4 PAGE TEN The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Morula?, November 29, 1933 Method of Financing SM&e h i ! II if ; iwiilfL ; Control Body May ( Borrow On Own Resources; Big Profit Anticipated The method of financing the system of .state liquor stores for retailing of hard liquor was de cided on at a meeting of the house committee considering the liqnor control measure. The bill will make as appropriation of $500,000. to be used as the li- quor commission finds it neces sary In establishing the business, this initial investment to be re turned to the state from the "first profits of the. business. It is estimated by Frank A. Spen cer of Portland, who has been compiling statistics on the mat ter, that the annual profits will run to 13,000.000 so it was fig ured that the initial investment of the state would be returned - within' six months. This would cot disturb the finances of the state by the end of the biennium. .In addition the liquor control board will have authority to bor rowfoa its .own resources, wlth- cut pledge of the credit of the state, and to buy merchandise on .credit. In this way it is not be lieved that the full amount of .the appropriation will be requir ed. V v . The bill will also include a pro vision that pending the repay ment to the general fund 'of the state, the amounts received from license - fees and permits wit be used to help pay off the capital ! investment, and the fees- will not be distributed to the cities and counties until this investment is repaid, which would delay this distribution for a matter of six , months. - These ideas were recommend ed by Dean Walker, who served on a. sub-committee studying the subject. The suggestion that the . commission conduct its own business and pay its own bills either nnder a separate author ity or -by means of a revolving fund was rejected after Rep. Carle Abrams assured the com mittee that the secretary of state's office would handle the auditing and issuing of warrants expeditiously; and further that it would be a safeguard to the com mission to have accounts so han dled, allaying suspicion of mis use of funds. " Granting of licenses by the commission for handling of beer and wines would ' require a re commendation from the county eourt or the city council, it was voted. - A subcommittee worked last night to draft the amendments to the hill. Budgeteers Play Second Fiddle to Cupid on Tuesday C u n t y commissioners and members of the budget commit tee played second fiddle to Dan : Cupid yesterday. During the deliberations on the ; $692,000 county budget. Judge J. C. Siegmund was summoned , from the committee room to per form a marriage ceremony for ' Hoy Thomas, 41, of Hood River and Bertha-Steele, 38. of Port lend. The .license application hows the ceremony yesterday was the third for, the bride and the second for the groom. ' A second marriage license, to Roy, Dunn 28, and Clara Mills, i 19, both of Silverton, was Issued r from- the office of the county clerk. Bonneville Dam Legislation is Jiveh Hearing . ; . With Senator W. E. Burke -presiding, senate and house com tnitteea on public utilities and hy droelectric development last night night conducted an extended - hearing on various phases of pend i Ins legislation on the Bonneville project. Chief among the speakers was Charles M. Thomas, utilities com missioner. He said he was square- - ly behind Governor Julius L. Meier in ..the administration's Bonneville program. Moro than 10 speakers were presented to " an audience which , filled the senate chamber to overflowing. House Frowns on Government Defy Representative Herbert Gordon of "Multnomah county Tuesday made a motion In the- house against permitting people appear ing before the legislature at pub lic hearings to defy the president of the United States, the govern . ment and legislators. Gordon made reference to the unemployment hearing held at the capitol Mon day with 500 unemployed la at tendance, at which such remarks were made. Gordon's move met with the approval of the house. Cherriah-Dance Is Appreciated : Cherrlans of Salem wereprals ed for their friendly hospitality last Friday In sponsoring a recen. - tion and dance for the special ses- lion when both honees yesterday ' adopted a resolution of apprecia tion. Ifrch house passed the reso fTROM those subterranean chan nels where news emanates but cannot be confirmed, comes word that Oregon State and Uni versity of Oregon partisans have reached a truce on legislation af fecting higher education in this session. The agreement is that neither side will introduce any. Bulwarking this stand is the agreement in the senate that no higher education bills will be al lowed to come-up on a third read ing and a house steering commit tee understanding that no higher education bills will get out of its clutches. The moratorium has been made for reasons each school considers mutually advantageous; a legisla tive fight is considered as poten tially injurious to each institution. The Eugene group and the Cor vallis group have their minions under the dome. There is no lack of whispered conferences among each side and a surfeit of legisla tive observing posts are kept manned. On the cuff: Come3 Tuesday to the session Colonel A. E. Clark who denies be is having, anything to do with the gross earnings utility tax bill . . . Colonel Clark is understood to be a bit miffed over Warwick Han zen's failure to wield a magic po litical wand which would have made the colonel a United States senator . . . comes also the re doubtable Jefferson Meyers, six feet plus, ex-member of the ship ping board. . devout demo and somewhat in the political twilight after the Dollar, et al. investiga tions . . . Dr. W. B. Morse of Sa lem was a dome visitor Tuesday . . the doctor, long a member of the state medical board, believes in the Knox bill and although wor ried about possible bureaucracy thereunder, would prefer that de velopment to a system of private liquor interests controlling the traffic in Oregon . . . William P. Ellis, appearing for the Salem chamber, is an outstanding "gen eral' in the Oregon NrRA army, his organization having been among the first NRA groups in the state to function effectively . . . Ray W. Gill, head of the state grange, is back from Boise and in full command under the dome . . . his group supports the Knox bill although with the reservation that prohibition is best and will even tually be returned . . . Miss Alene Philips, assistant secretary of state, is a new member of the diet cult and has proof positive that the fad works . . . George Alex ander, assistant superintendent of state police, Is an excellent dancer of waltzes and an enforcement of ficer who loves nothing better than to be in the field hunting fugities. Jtty Bowmnan is the smooth est lobbyist under the dome. Intelligent, experienced in pol itics, always affable, he knows well the ropes to pall and the method to use. Bowerman Is a tillicum of Governor Meier. His capital activities thereby gain prestige. He Is lined up with the drug Interests in the liqnor fight, and with the chain stores. Leslie M. Scott, state highway chairman, was buzzing about the capitol building Tuesday. Scott has worked untiringly since he took office. Conservative by train ing and Inheritance, he has nev ertheless pushed along the two year program of work of the com mission as long as the federal Small Truck Owners Plan Initiative Against Present Law; Claim They're Ignored Initiative petitions aimed to eliminate from Oregon laws chap ter 429, known as the motor transportation act, will be in cir culation within a short period un der sponsorship of small truck owners of the state, C. T. Giffen of Roseburg, chairman of the State Council of Commercial Ve hicle Owners, -announced last night. Giffen will apply for ballot title for the petitions today, he said. This action came on the heels of a meeting of the Joint roads and highways committee yesterday af ternoon at which session Giffen declared small truck owners were not alowed to voice their opinions, while railroad and allied truck representatives were given cour tesy of the floor. All small truck organizations are joining to put over the initia tive and truckmen alone will get better than 100,000 signatures in 10 days. Giffen declared. Thov say 83,000 signatures will be nec essary. "The Joint committee ! craft ing the small truck owners minor adjustments, but the members ap parently have their minds mart a up to make ho essential changes, Giffen declared. He said, howeve Moving Storing t Larmer Transfer' & Storage PHONE Wft Also Handfo Fnl fWl wu WHI IU Ilf UC13 sum Ul&U Grade Diesel 00 for Tractor Engines and Oil Borders Qtxui usx&Ta Ccsslo ' government advanced the money. He is opposed to further issues of general obligation state bonds. Here and there: Ted Gillen waters of Klamath Falls represents all district attor neys of the state at the session . . Gillenwater Is ambitious, ener getic, and la rated as a canahle prosecutor.". . years ago he work ed for the J. C. Penney company at Eugene but forsook that for the bar. . . . Mrs. Julius L. Meier is seen occasionally at the session . . . . by hja bearing, her dress and her speech she has fittingly carried the title of "first lady of Oregon" . . . friends of the Will soft park squirrels is A. N. Bush. Salem banker, who regularly stops en route to his Institution to feed the public pets. . . . Bush Is an outstanding character among Oreeor bankers . . . . staunch, consistent democrat, he nas nevertheless taken little part in politics .... is faithfully at nis oanK each morning. . ' . sits at a desk at the front of the in stitution without anv nrinti of fice shield and follows a tradition by always wearing his hat . , . tne latter Is uniaue: a flattened creation which varies not in style irom decade to decada in shn aitnougn tne actual headgear it self may change. Stockholders and ratepayers plus not withstanding, the elec tric atillty lobbies are numer ous and well-paid at this ses sion. These lobbyists head quarter in a downtown hotel. Plentiful anti-Volstead refresh ments are on band and the press and the public, when properly vouched for, are taken rare of. What would happen if Judge Charles M. Thomas ban ned hard liquor as an improper item for public utility expendi ture conjecture. The expense ' W3Nld probably sneak into ex penditures in another guise for the hand maiden of the majority of legislative lobbies: utility or otherwise. Is strong drink. Proof positive that the session is on in earnest is given in the arrival under the dome of Judre L. H. McMahan of Marion county. A legislator of yesteryear, the Judge takes to politics like Babe Ruth to baseball. It's alwavs n temptation for the Jurist to leave the dreary halls of Justice in the Marion couty courthouse to make political medicine under the oome. His present compatriots are Messrs. Holman. Burke. Brown, et al. A few years ago he rode the Meier bandwagon and wielded a baton. An immediate aftermath of Judee McMahan'a Bull Frog adventure was the pres entation to McMahan by Meier of a fine deg; the latter still resides in the McMahan household and la reported to be termed "toternnr" but between master and donor the ties of political love have broken and McMahan, as custom ary, leads the opposition. By tem perament and experience he is a rugged individualist; he wears no man's collar, he looks, acts and speaks with McMahan-made char acteristics. When other circuit Judges were bending the knee and refunding to the state, a portion of their monthly stipend, McMa ha would have none of it State government was too rotten and corrupt, he averred, to be a bene ficiary of any refund on his part. LEG is that the group will lend every effort to push SB 2, even though losing out in the house bills on the truck and bus proposition. Small operators Wished at the committee session yesterday to be heard on classification and fees, but were agreeable to leaving regulation entirely to the commit tee, the small truck lobby leader declaredi averring that his organ izations represent nearly 10,000 trucks, while the ahied group rep resents not more than 500 trucks. "In seeking repeal of the motor transportation act we wished to substitute new and equitable leg islation which would give suffic ient .money to the highway com mission, as well as giving relief to the small truck men," Giffen declared. By a check with the state traf fic department, the bill, HB 21, which his organization proposed, would give the highway commis sion 500,000 more than it ac tually required, Giffen evowed. This bill provided gross weight aj basis. of taxation but the council la not set on its own-bill but rather on any bill that will jive the small truckmen a voice in classification and operation, he said. 3132 v . -fc-i - Crating Representative Martin Says She Will Take, Matter To Floor of House Difficulty In getting the propos ed law to ban slot machines and other gambling devices In Oregon out of the house steering commit tee was being experienced yester day in the house. Mrs. Hannah Martin, Marion county legislator who sponsored the measure, an nounced late Tuesday that unless the bill was reported out, she would take the floor to seek a majority vote of the lower house to get the bill before its proper committee. Mrs. Martin said both Ted Gil lenwater, Klamath Falls district attorney, and William H. Trindle, Marlon county district attorney, had appeared before the steering committee, urging that the mea sure be approved as emergency legislation. Since the repeal of prohibition, slot machines hare been placed In huge numbers in Oregon, she averred' yesterday. District attor neys and police officers declare the existing law is so full of loop holes that slot machines can be run almost with impunity, de frauding patrons out of tbousande of dollars. The proposed law provides fot a 50 to $500 fine of a SO to 180 days jail sentence, or both, for convicted operators of the ma chines. One group In the house Is said to propose that the gambling de vices be approved ty law but sub jected to a heavy tax. Proponents of the machines and their owners also favor this plan. Compromise on Vetoed Measure Committee Plan The joint ways and means com mittee Tuesday afternoon1 voted to sustain Governor Meier's veto of a bill approved at the 1933 legislative session providing that the unexpended balance of an ap propriation of $50,000 for the hydro - electric commission be transfered to the general fund. Another bill will be drafted. providing that $27,000 of thl3 un expended balance be transferred to the general fund. Transfer of the lesser amount- was declared necessary because of pending liti gation which must be paid for out of the hydro-electric commission funds. warn AN Only th T Center Leaves Not only from our own South landbut from Turkey from Greece from all over the world the very cream of tobacco crops is gathered for Lucky Strike. And only the center leaves are used no stem no stalk. Each Lucky Strike is fully packed firmly rolled. Even the ends of the cigarettes are filled brimful of choicest tobaccos. No loose ends that's why Luckies draw easily and burn evenly. ALWAYS tbetnest Alteays tfiejinestunrftmanship Bills Introduced at Special Session Tuesday - SENATE S, B. 53. by"roadsand highways committee Giving cities equal rights with the state aad counties ta the regulation of spe cial carriers. . . ' 8. B, O-l, hy Brown Reducing peddlers' annual license fee from $50 and f 25 to $12.60. . S. B. 55, by banking committee To regulate the garnish ment of banks and trust companies having branch banks within the state of Oregon. SV'BV 56, by Wheeler Providing that sheriffs, county clerks and county treasurers shall file their reports annually in stead of semi-annually. S. B. 57, by Brown, et al Belated to mortgage foreclosure procedure In the sale of real property. 8. B. 58, by- Woodward Diverting $50,000 from appropria tion of Oregon National Guard to unemployment relief fond. 8. B. 50, by Woodward Fixing maximum salaries of all pub lic officials and employes at $3000, 8. B. 60, by Woodward fairs. HOUSE H B. 67," by Beckman To authorize governing bodies of counties, to contract for the purpose of carrying on administrative functions at Joint expense. H. B. 68, by Hilton, Graham ami Dekh To amend code to authorize cities to provide for reinstatement of bonded assess ments for local improvements. II. B. 69, by Dickson To encourage state and national ag ricultural recovery and to foster fair competition. H. B. 70, by Winslow Creating Tillamook relief survey com. miaslon, providing for a supervisor to direct a survey of physical resources la Tillamook county; providing aa appropriation of $15,000. H. B. 71, by Multnomah delegation Authorizing Incor porated cities and towns ' which hare or attain a population of 100,000 or more inhabitants, to issue or sell bonds for the purpose of repairing municipal Buildings. H. B. 74, by McAleaiw-Relating to assessment providing for reduction in levies by county courts. H. B. 75, by A. G. Clarke- To provide for a system of old age Insurance. H. B. 76, by Scott and Snyder, Paulas, Wheeler, Hess and Zimmerman To amend section relating to and licensing intes tant vendors and providing for payment of their license fees to the common school rand. . H. B. 77, by Martin To amend code on dance halls. H. B. 78, by Representatives Snedecor, Cooter To provide for the construction of five coast bridges to be secured through P. W. A. funds. H. B. 72, by Martin To prohibit the ownership and pos session of gambling devices and paraphernalia. H. B. 78, by Belton -To authorize the county courts to charge a fee for issuing franchises and permits. ' . Speeding Up of Court Action is Asked by Hilton A resolution calling upon the legal profession and courts of Ore gon to take note, of the apparent public demand for speedy and ade quate administration of justice, as indicated by the mod outbreak at San Jose, was introduced in the house Tuesday by Representative Hilton of Multnomah county. The resolution deplored the il legal acts of mob violence but pointed out a lesson that the people would no longer tolerate evasion of punishment by gang iohaccos r m ; l"'Jl -""' '"'''M'w"""'"w'",wwliw9lf the finest iobaccor I -'- - I.v....,.,..,,,, I BILLS Repealing millage tax for county BILLS sters, kidnapers and murderers. The attorneys were urged to cleanse their profession of the un scrupulous who are ready to thwart justice. The courts were similarly urged to give less at tention to technicalities. OPPOSE REGULATION' Vigorous protest was voiced at a meeting of the Joint forestry committee Tuesday against sen ate bill No. 14, giving to the state forester authority to sus pend logging and milling opera tion at any time when he consid ers that fire conditions demand such action. Eastern Oregon operators par ticularly were hostile and asked that they be relieved from the provisions of the proposed law. : - 'V FOR THROAT PnOTECTIOPfFOR BETTEa TASTbV - CUT 1 JUA Woodward Sponsor of Bill; Prison Goods Bill is Passed Over Veto Elimination of that provision of the state constitution which pro hibits the reduction of salaries of judicial officers during the term for which they are elected, was proposed by Senator Woodward in a resolution introduced in the sen ate Tuesday. 1 Woodward declared - that this was one of a series of proposed constitutional amendments and bills through which he hoped to1 restrict the activities of public of ficials and employes and' reduce their salaries to a level in keeping wltn tne trend of the times. Other legislation proposed by Woodward would fix the maxi mum annual salary of all elective and appointive tax-paid officials at $3000 and transfer $50,000 from the unexpended appropria tion, of the Oregon national guard for. unemployment relief. The bill fixing the maximum salaries of state officials and employes would continne in operation until March 1, 1935. vetoed senate bill No. 259 of the regular 1933 session' was passed without a dissenting vote. This .bill provided that peniten tiary manufactured goods shall not be sqld on the open market. and was vetoed by Governor Meier on the ground that its op eration might interfere materially with the state flax Industry. - The senate approved unani mously a memorial offered by Senator Zimmerman urging the president to use his influence in the passage of the Frazier bill now pending in the United States con gress. This bill provides for the refinancing of farm mortgages on a low interest basis. A bill, by Representative Her man, reducing poundage fees on smelt from one-fourth to one tenth of a cent also received fa vorable consideration. Senator Franciscovich said this bill had received the indorsement of the fishermen and the state fish com mission. Under the provisions of a bill introduced by Senator Brown, trial of cases involving mortgage foreclosures could not be heard for one year, provided the defend ant filed an answer within the ctstnf AM, Aa.IaJ C?'.a 1 ! explained that this bill would of fer adequate protection for per sons who were outside of the state temporarily or for some oth er reason were unable to make a formal appearance. Two other important bills in- - T4 v - J iti.toastca, X troduced today would give cities equal rights with the state and counties in the regulation of spe cial carriers, and relieve sheriffs, county clerks and county treasur ers of filing reports semi-annually. The latter bill was introduced by Senator Wheeler and provides that these reports shall be filed annually. A bill Introduced bv Senator Brown would reduce the peddlers' license fee from $50 and $25 to $12.50 annually. Milk Control is Cause of Strife i mi . mtim ' 0 Senator Dunne's bill providing for the creation of a milk con trol commission with power to regulate the bottle and can trade, brought sharp clashes between the various factions attending a meeting of the senate agricul tural committee Tuesday. While neither the cooperatives nor the producer distributors ob jected to the principle of the bill. they demanded that they be al lowed to operate under separate provisions. Both Houses to Adjourn Early Both houses of the special ses sion are slated to adjourn today by md - afternoon, reconvening here Friday morning. Many of the legislators will remain In Salem- where a number of local homes are to be opened to their entertainment. The outlook at the capital Tuesday pointed to a min imum of senate and house debate today with Friday marking the opening of the floor discussions f various pending measures. ASK TAX MORATORIUM A hearing, has been called by the joint ways and means com mittee for Friday afternoon to consider a house bill hy Winslow providing that Tillamook county shall be relieved ot paying Its state tax for a period of three years. This exemption was de clared necessary because of the disasterous forest fire in Tilla mook county last summer and the resultant loss in property assess ments. ; ?x i 'j i -,i LZy Corporation I First National Bank BIdg. , .: 1 i 1 a r 4 lution unanimously. ues please I