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I f ATcrr-s DaHy and riuL:;y f-r Cecenilpr, 1L3 r::triluticn CC21 ::: A. C c. ' , If E. . . fi fii - ,;' ! ' toC.iy -nj r.'.tury; ?ir. Ten. "r:.: .I.iy 27.1, '.'Ix. 7.2, ilrcr O feet, c!;?ar, r -eixl Eorth-r.crt!:cait v.L-1j. PCUNCUD. 1C31 EIGUTY-tlXZTXl YLAi: Salsa, Oregon, Friday I.Icrn, ' Jaiuuuy C, Pries s; rC"ccliu:ij ts SiF(D. r i 1. ft If .i'" n I . Comi:iittc2:3ii Defer Choice Of Architects Sub-Coinraittee Unable to f Agree jcn Unanimous ? ' Recommendation - Trindle Says Bonds Out; Redaction of Road i- Funds Decried Marlon county's courthouse construction committer ru into a couple of stumbling blocks last night which resulted in the choke o an architect being post poned to a 'meeting' to - be 'held next1 Thursday filsat atldti put tie committeemen': to -kcratccinr their heads as to.iher source of the money for the new ..building. The choice of the architect ws set over when member ot the special committee reported that they were unable to make a unanimous recommendation last night. The meeting ot the gen eral committee was delayed tor more than an hour while the sub . committee attempted to reach a decision on the problem. The committee Is composed ot Cnyler Van Patten, - John Ramage and Leroy Hewlett, county commis sioner, t . y : In making the report that the eonrtttee could not agree. Van ratten said that all ot the com mittee were unable to meet un til 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon hot that he and Commissioner Hewlett had discussed the mat ter several- times , during the 'week. ' ' i ' ) - '. Ramage Dnbiooa -' : -4 r' u : ' Of Agrenient - . i "We are very much divided at the present time, Ramage de clared. I dont believe j addi tional time would be ot any help' unless are able to consider some other firm than 'nowr sug gested. i"1 ""' 4'- " ' Van Patten agreed with his statement that some other archi tects would probably hare to be considered. ! The other blow - came to the committee when William H. Trin dle. former district attorney, ad t vised the members that -the coun ty would be unable to rote a bond . Issue for the construction of the new building. " "The constitution prevents the Issuance of bonds except for road bonds and Insurrection," Trindle v declared. . He suggested that as means of providing funds for the building that the ballot at the special elec tion provide for an amendment to the present year's budget author izing the transfer of certain funds to the courthouse construction fund, to be set up, and that auth ority be granted . to the county court to make a . three-mill levy for the coming year. Trindle cited as an example that the three-mill levy would raise $118,000, that ICO.O0O could be taken from the road funds, S6S. 000 from the general fund, and $4,000 from the land grant' re ceipts to make the county's $24? 00 share of the suggested $450, 00 building. : Court Wary of rpMttlnx Road Fawds - . -This suggestion "immediately brought objection . from Commis sioner Melson that such a pro . gram would curtail the road oil ing program. Trindle explained that a levy could be made the fol lowing year to repay fund.' When Melson Insisted that the oiling would stni have to be curtailed In 1038. Trindle admitted that such would probably be the case. - "If you start bothering the road funds yon are going to turn the people out in the county against the new building, Judge Sieg muttd said. Ramage and Joseph J. Keber agreed with him. "If the people are willing to have the courthouse built I be lieve that most ot them .would be willing to have It paid for with a millage levy all In one year, Keb er suggested. "Couldn't we put a 4five-miU levy on next year?" Melson suggested making a four-mill levy and transfering the funds as suggested by Trindle. . This would, not handicap the road oiling, he said. The committee de cided to take, the matter under consideration until the next meet-" in. -... V -:. Capitol Commission, ' PWA Represented C. C Hockley, PWA administra tor for Oregon, was a guest at the meeting as was Dr. H. II. OHnger, , state capltol construction' com mittee member. -'. Hockley offered the assistance of his department In preparing applications and prlimlnary forms for a PWA grant. He told 'the committee that their two most im portant steps at the present time were the selection ot an architect and a decision on the method of N financing the county's share of 'the cost of the construction. He told the committee that no one eon Id assure them that they would get the money for the building as , (Turn to page 15, coL 81 Educator F&DmchaFged E ngineers mers . - - Maritime Negotiations , Appear Brighter as Concession Made Termination of Strikes Within Three eeks i i - Hinted 'Privately - f - iz 1 ? - " '" ' ',;T l -SAJf PTIAKCISCO. Jan. 1 i-VP-Uaritlme negotiators moved at fun speed ahead tonight amid pri vate predictions that the shipping strike would end soon perhaps tn two or three , weeks. j. Shipowners completed a. new agreement with the marine en gineers, made a "liberal? offer to the cooks and stewards, and ap parently neared an accord with two other unions, the radio tel egraphers and the masters, mates and pilots. , ; They previously had' reached tentative agreements with : the sailors and the marine firemen. The deep sea operators have yet to meet the longshoremen and the marine engineers In further con ferences before final peace can be made. j V w " "- Operators! Grant Pay Increase for Engineers - " - . ; The peace agreement concluded today brought coastwise ship op erators and the marine engineers Into accord. They-reached a ten tative agreement just before the strike was called but the anion recently asked changes. Including a $20 a m o n t h pay increase, which was granted. - Shipowner . Spokesman' .T.... CL Plant announced he had present ed to the cooks and stewards "a liberal compromise proposal tor an immediate end of the strike. He asked that it be submitted to a vote of the ; membership.' The negotiating committee took the re quest under consideration Immed iately. , ' ; ; ".. : v ' : . , Overtime and Shore Allowances Conceded ; The plan called for a reason able" pay increase, the minimum now being $82.50 monthly; an S hour day on freighters and -hour day on passenger ships, cash payment for overtime work and shore allowances. Plant said the scale embodied the highest wages In the world for work of this kind. Spokesmen indicated the em ployers and the masters, mates and pilots were approaching an accord despite the fact their neg otiations Involved what has been repeatedly called , the "toughest issue" in the strike-the Question of preferential hiring.; .' It was said the union might waive thla demand In view ot the employers off fir of Important con cessions on all other points ln volved. ' t : " Multnomah Commission ... Cancels Solon-haming Meet, Order From Snell -. .-' .-' ' " . : : ; ' - ' : PORTLAND,' Ore., Jan. 7-jP) -The Multnomah county comttls-, .loners - cancelled a contemplat ed meeting, to choose a .succes sor to Senator. Dellmore Lessard tonight on receipt ot a from Secretary ,of SUte Earl SneU that the state j Prm court had refused to act in the Ss of. three state whose eUgibOlty was queatlonea. Streamlined , TTwr!TrV. Jan. 7-PV-I' . .rdicted tonight theadminlstratlon would PPrt in congress a streamlined version of NRA. which would omit the cumbersome oeviee o thorities. - . ' " Determined to pursue the ob jectives of that outlawed agency. President Roosevelt had Pj at" work sifting scores ot legisla tive proposals and hunting way to meet the views of the supreme court in the NRA and Guffey coal decisions. TJut if no sure for muU U found, advisers expected him to go ahead anyway. .' ' Special consideration was - be ing given a plan to invest the fed eral trade com mission or a new agency with powers to regulate Interstate commerce comparable to those in the national recovery The president has outlined his Ideas broadly , to some members of congress, making plain, bow ever. that he is yet unready to commit himself on, details. -: Interstate Commerce -Slay Do Re-Defl As outlined by sources werklng on the problem and In touch with Vessel ;0 Attain Ac tSi y Schools? $ ader Ousted ) i GLENN FRANK Tallmans Open New Retail Store Johnson Location Chosen; Old Qnarters Remain Wholesale Plant ;-' 1 - - li vr ::. One mora change In the com plexion of Salem's j downtown business - map, - the addition-; of a music goods store, was fore cast Thursday when it was made known that the Tallman Piano company had ' leased the stare room at 489 State street, formely occupied by the . GL W. Johnson ft po mens clothing sore and weald utilize It as the company's retail sales : room, j ,' ! , r - p ' -" w. The Tallman company. In "insl ness . In Salem Since IS 20, has had its wholesale and retail store at 12th and Mill streets, and will Tnint" its wholesale establlsh- j (Turn to page 18, coL 8) Trio of Portland Autoists Injured Possibly Fatal Fracture I Suffered by One in Crash . Woodbnrn Thna Portland imen were ' in jured, one possibly fatally. In a head on collision ba the Pacific highway south ot Woodburn last night. : -H; ' ; i :: J. T. Newcomb, 811 Northwest Hoyt street. Portland, was the most seriously Injured of the three, all of whom were taken to the Pemberton hospital In Wood burn. Newcomb received a com pound fracture of the skull and was reported tn critical condition. Clarence E. Stad, 2102 North west , Lovejoy, Portland, a passen ger In the car Newcomb waa driv ing, received cuts and bruises. ; Charles Tedeskb, 214 South west Sixth street,! Portland, j re ceived a broken kiee cap and se ver bruises. l'' T '; r Newcomb, according" i to . state police', was driving south toward Salem and- Tedesk0 .north toward Portland when th4 two cars met head on. The collision occurred in front ot the "Hello. World" ser vice station at the junction of the Woodburn cutoff with the high way." -I ' - ' ' - Fvrecasty Rulings as Guide the White House.! the most-dls-have congress mmuI nlan would directly set certain standards for businesses in interstate commerce and perhaps re-ceCine sucn com merce. Practices such as false ad vertising and bribery of compe titors -would be designated "un fair" and banned." along with monopoly in general. ! The statute would assert feder al power to establish minimum wages and maximum hours for la bor, but only to prevent "starva tion" wages and overlong hours. Ne attempt to regulate wages and hours on all levels would be made. While the trade commission would have direct jurisdiction over "un fair trade nractices." the deter- knlnatlon of . the minimum "wage and maximum hour, standards would be left to a separate agency. This was said to be what the president had in mind In his mes sage to congress when he said of NRA: "It was unwise to expect the same agency to regulate the length-of working hours, mini mum wage, child labor and collec tlre bargaining on the one hand and the complicated questions of - (Turn to page 15, coL ff ) Glenn Frank's Ouster Voted; - Regents Split U. of .7isconsin Leader Will Leave in June; : r . -Ballot Goes 8-7 Students Howl, : Hint at Formal Protest; New Man Being Sought :'j t - v. i r i --1 i I if MADISON. Wis., Jan. t-(ff)-The University of Wisconsin board of regents voted tonight, 8 to 7, to discharge Dr. Glenn Frank, 41-year-old president of the school since September, 1828. : The Tote came after a final stormy session of the board amid scenes ot wild' disorder by stu dents who jammed the - regents small meeting room: The students hooted, howled and pounded on the doors. i Two 'days of bitter argument in the public hearing over Frank's Qualifications as an administrator failed to shake the determination of Governor La Follette's ap pointees on the board to seek a new president, the regressive bloc, headed "by Harold M. WIl kle, chairman, voted solidly against the retention of the edu cator.' ' : : - ; , Start Looking for - ' , Sncceeeor at Once The dismissal will not become effective until the end of the cur rent school year in June, but the hoard will start looking about at once for a successor, who will take charge ot the university as. soon as he Is named. - - . V! The- regents, tired and weary after a 12-hour session, with bnly a , brief ! intermission, east their votes : In the small smoke tilled room from which President Frank, a. few hours before had -displayed a big set of charts by which he attempted to disprove the charge that his administration has been Incompetent. , ; ' The motion for Frank's dismiss al was made by regent ; Clough Gates, who with Chairman Wilkie led the fight against the president. The resolution adopted pro vided that until a successor is named Dean George C. Sellery of the college of letters and science shall act as president. -It Is significant, Frank laid bitterly,; after he heard the reso lution read, "that I had been or dered to discharge George Sellery as one of my first duties when I came here 11 years ago.,. Postal Deficit Hits 88 Million WASHINGTON, Jan. James A. Farley's postoffice- de partment went $88,318,224 into the red last fiscal year, but Farley hastened to explain today; that free mail for congressmen and other "non-postal, items' " were largely responsible. ; He reported that the "net defi cit" that Is, the deficit Incurred In the "normal postal service ren dered to the pnblie f or hire" was only $18,000,000. - V ,:. Using similar bookkeepinr methods a year ago, the postmas ter general claimed a ''net sur plus" Ot $4,984,148. The net defi cit this time, : Farley said in his annual report today, was jdue to the new. additional costs of the 40-hour week law for postal em ployes which became effective on Oct. 1, 1826, and also to the ex panded program for public build ings used as postof flees with its resultant Increased ' custodial cost.4 ''' '-v,- -V c:?; v: ISvo Earthquake i ShoclaS Recorded PHILADELPHIA. Jan. T.-P)-Dr. James Stokley. in charge ot the . seismograph station . at 'is Franklin Institute, said an earth quake registered : at 8:58 a. .m. CE. S. I T.) today probably oc cur ed In the vicinity ot Guaya quil. Ecuador.' - - The earthquake registered on the Institution's Instruments .al most . three hours. The distance from Philadelphia was estimated at 2081 miles. . MOSCOW, Jan. Kft-FouT severe earthquake tremors shook Erivan, capital of Soviet -Armenia this morning. Tass f Rus sian) news agency reported. There was no damage to the city of 64,000 population. v -. The first two shocks -lasted 12 seconds, each, the others were of lesser duration. - ,- rNewLbwPoint In Cold S-311 - 1 j ; ... . Expebted Eere : .' . Plans for flaking Skating Pond on 'Willamette Field Discussed Meachem Coldest Spot in i Nation ; j Increase of ; Influenza Serious HOURLY' rKMPERATURKJ :4i lh e S:41 3 S:l ia- 7.S T:4t a.au 13 r 4:41 law-IS !- 4:41 fjms 14 S:41 pjnil :41 pja. IS T:41 pj-lS . S:41 yjk. 14 :41 pj. 14 ?10j41 p.mjlS Ili41 ja. IS S:4t Sum. IT 10:41 J. 20 11:41 ml-2S 12:41 fJL-!l j '.1:41 it S:41 pja. as Possibility ithat the;7.2-degTeB low temperature mar k set in Sa lem tor, the past year at 6:41 a.nu yesterday may be exceeded this morning loomed last night In gradually falling mercury. Where as the temperature rose from 14 to IS before- midnight Wednes day, last night It dropped with out a break to IS at 10:41 p.m. and , stayed there tor the next hourly check, - " Zk : No eessatlon 4n Oregon's cold wave was seen , In sight by the weather bureau, which forecast for: today and Saturday fair weather with icon tinned low temp eratures..' j- j OosMtrvction of Ice ' Riak May Start Serious discussion of a plan to flood Sweetland field, with a view to providing convenient and safe ice skating; it the cold spell con tinues, was Reported Thursday, with indications that the work ot banking the fides ot the field to hold water. might start early today.- A : fire department pumper may be, obtained io pump :water froiftjthii mIHrace-nto th field. BETHANY, , -Jan. ; Farmers of this . district and across the creek in the Brush Creek - com munity report that they fear con siderable damafe to the grain by the heavy frost ot this week. Be cause of the exceptionally dry (Turn to page 12, coL S) ' - HonwA Law College Dies Wallace Douglas Is Taken by Pneumonia, as 7as Father Recently i NORTH BEND, Ore., Jan. T-(A-Wallace V. Douglas, 25, North Bend attorney and a graduate of WiUamette university, died of pneumonia here today. He was the ton of Wallace U. Douglas, sr.. pioneer Coos county attorney who died last: week. - .- c - : " x Tonne Doarlas' death evoked xnrsslona of regret-among per sons connected with Willamette university college, of law He was rradnated In i June 1225 as bach elor of both law and arts and re ceived the B a n e r o f t-Whltney prise, a set of commentaries, tor highest standing in court practice work: . "Wallace Douglas was an out ' (Turn to page 15, coL y " HavAireelc Ranch rSafels PORTULND. Ore.. Jan. T-V- The Oregonlan said tonight the state's largest ranch a 77000- aere tract in central Oregon own ed by W. U. Sanderson had been purchased for -immediate posses sion by Fred W. WIchman, sugar and livestock leader of - Hawaii. The transaction also was said to have Included other thousands ot acres of -deeded land in a 7-mile-long- valley, 20.000 . head of Ramboulllet Sheep, 2000 head of purebred Herefords, as well aa an other 15,600-acre Sanderson ranch near Prinevllle, : Ore., and Mrs. Sanderson's summer home in the Ochoco mountains. . rJother Sit But Untorh Tot Saved OAKLAND. CALIF Jan. -Xi -Surgeons saved an unborn . baby today after the 19-year-old mother was fatally shot. TThe dying expectant , mother, Mrs. . Elsie Randall, was taken from her home ,to the. Alameda county hospital, where the caesar ean delivery of a seven-pound boy was accomplished. ' , , '-A few minutes after the deliv ery Mrs. Randall died from a bul let wound la. the lef temple. Repoijted Cloud Biscerned Upon Legislative Horizon; Boivin Maneuver Ir Its - . ' - ' Harmony Shies From Sunday Caucus as Speaker-elect . , Observed to Have Votes but Unenthusiastic - Support; Minority Feels Mistreated . ' r ' I . By RALPH C. CURTIS ORGANIZATION of the Oregon house of representatives at the preliminary caucus here Sunday no longer holds , promise of : being the harmonious session that was in prospect when Harry Boivin, Klamath county representative, sewed up the speakership a number of weeks ago. - Boivin may, in fact, find himself in the anomalous posi- T O Planners Told of ! 3 Ore2bil;Prospe(it .o.-, --a- Last" Frontier," Leader of "V.-." a National . Croup Tells; 250 at Conference PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. -7 iT) -Oregon will be a land "flowing with milk and honey . If It - uses its natural resources ? properly, Walter H, Blncher of Chicago, executive director of the Ameri can Society of Planning Offi cials, . told 250 delegates to the first annual '.State r Planning con ference, here tonight. I do. not know if the people of Oregon appreciate what they have here.' he said. This is the last" frontier. It is the only part ot the United States which has resources which 'will 'support 'a larger population It ' properly used and controlled.: Warns Immigrations Require Control ; Referring to aTecent report of the Oregon : Planning board con tending Bonneville power devel opment wfll. draw a million per sons .to. this state through ntr Industries, Vs the Chicago : planner said f.it4f : "I am not opposed to migra tion;. I am not opposed to heal thy growth' but it must be sub ject to some control. Before yon Invite migration;, into this area yon ought to determine what, to do with the newcomers City, county, state and federal planners met In an all-day . ses sion, compared notes,' recited ac complishments and" outlined their plans ; for the future. They will reassemble tomorrow. . - " . Marshall Dana, former chair man of the northwest regional planning commission, urged the delegates to Approach their prob lems with a wide perspective. He said the -county should coordin ate its t program, with .the state, and the state with the region un til a complete national picture Is assembled. ' : " ."We are the trustees of the wonderful resources of the state for those who come after us," said (Turn to page 12, eol 5) ; n ICO um May Be ExiEiuted PEIPINO, Jan. 7-(ff-Oh hun dred prisoners mostly coolies and beggars, . were dragged out of Peiping's opium dens tonight: M the government ' began active en forcement of Its .much advertised campaign against, users and tell ers -ot narcotics. .- - . . , 1 -. General Sung. Cheh-Tuan, chairman of the Hopel-Chahar po litical council, assumed personal charge of the campaign. :. - , Informed sources said the cap tives probably would be executed by shooting on mday," but city officials were silent., , , ' - Today's action ' was the ' first taken thus far in Peiplng to give effect to the government's edict to narcotics users, "Be cured by new year's or diet.. UDI ihsurg eMsjCldim hrSwpT Spanish fascist insurgents .re ported victories in a sweep toward Madrid last night as Germany and Italy agreed in principle to Franco-British pleat for a ban on the flow " ot foreign volunteers into Spain, and France disclosed she will concentrate 34 warships and a ' number of submarines near Spain within two weeks. - In Paris, a high leftist authority said the French Moroccan admin istration had Informed the French government Germany is conduct ing a large-scale military and commercial invasion of Spanish Morocco.' - 1 I - Berlin Brands Report Rivlculos,, - ' A government official' in Ber lin . dismissed the information -as "too ridlculcus for comment. ; In Hexieo City, rmesto Ulizl go, actlsg secretary cf state' tn-nounced-modification of the Mexi can government's policy prot.IL.tr Uon of a leader with nlentv f a MA.A a. . . . - - Tui.a Shi tew entnusiasuc backers, due to the manner in which the choice , plum - came his it -and tot developments since t the Issue wai r t asDarentlv ! aAtAA, :- apparenur ideelded . aA while his election still Seems cer , tain, there are some . aide Issues which may result in open friction. " It was generally agreed when Boivin announced he had pledges sufficient to insure his election, that a number of those votes were republican. But there are, mur murs abroad now that the session is only four days' away, that the minority party members who agreed to support him are in some eases regretful that they did not obtain some definite promises in return for that backing. . , Democrats Oppose' -' ; '. -; . -Divided Patronage v W A-' - Meanwhile the democrats, many of whom were unfriendly to Bol vin's ambitions in the beginning, but who flocked to his bandwagon when it proved to be heading the parade, are reported to be better satisfied but only externally loyal, and becoming disturbed over some questions of . patronage : which might stir up a new hornet's nest, t Certain key , employes of past sessions who are republicans, are conceded to be in line for reelec tion because of their knowledge of legislative rovtine, . am d the democrats while grudgingly ad mitting theM.logIe,t thelr.jreten uon, are - ail the. .more insistent that democrats receive the other Jehe that do not require so much experience.? -4 - l"ew Chairmanships ' - . ' -Goteff to RepabUcaas ! v' But .a fight is in prospect over the sergeant-at-arms position; a republican who has held the post before has made an independent (Torn to page 2, coU Si Raiimjym Geared Identification Ulethod Is Accepted, Says" Ad in ' - Seattle Paper ( TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 7-(ff)-Charles Mattson's kidnaper doubt less knew tonight the father of the 10-year-old victim has accepted identifying methods and swept the way clean for payment of at least 128,000 ransom. . , But whether the meeting be tween the father, Dr. W. W. Matt son of Tacoma, and the abductor would take place immediately was unknown to all except the doctor or persons directly connected with the matter. . - 1 accept your method of Identi fication' said a new "Mable Ana:claMlfed advertisement in the SeatUe Times a" method; it was understood. Dr. W. W. Matt son used in negotiating with the kidnaper.' " 1 Kidnaper Assured! ' -. J . No Messages Seized! i - The Tacoma physician and sur geon also reassured the kidnaper communications were not being intercepted by police and Mattson would do as instructed without anyone knowing. - . - Observers believed the method of identification possibly referred I. (Turn to page 15, coL 7) ' Objective las re-shipment to Spain of war materials from the United States. American Planes . -"' To Be Chippeil i He said events ot the past week had caused the . government to change Its policy,- indicating six American-made airplanes now in Vera Crus wilt be shipped to Span ish socialists. - Fascist Insurgent officials out side of Madrid declared ' their forces had a virtual atrangie-hold on the capital following a drive to three miles west ot their goal. Germany, In notes to France and Great Britain, proposed the ejection from Spain of all non Spanish fighters and Italy in simi tar notes, declared she woald sup port the proposal , - - VTLila both agreed, la principle ta Trfco-Eritiah 'proposals for Czz.lzi the flow of foreign vol ume - rs Into Spain, they both made reterts-tions. - Way Senator Vlinn . . -v . - QiaiiceFigiit For His' Seat Question of Eligibility .Not for Court, Snell v tb Decide, Ruled: Court Meetings to Choosi . Successors Are Called Off as Result Oregon's secretary of state has no Authority to . declare a seat in the: legislature vacant -and neither . has the supreme court, tha jtribunal ruled late Thursday afternoon fn reversing the i rr 1- ina Wf Tudra 'John T Wlrb. :kf" MullneniaH county on the lnjane-- iion suit brought by Dellmore Lessard, Multnomah member of the senate, against Earl Enell, secretary :of ."sUte.:Xw ,(:, ,. '., j . The effect of the opinion, writ- -ten by Justice Belt, is to-put into force the injunction - asked by Lessard, with -the result that tha county ; courts in - Multnomah, Clackamas, : Columbia 1 and Baker, counties .will not meet today to) select successors to Senators Les sard; Pearson and Strayer, Pear son j represenu the first , three counties mentioned and Strayer Is from the last named. , Ellgibilitr "Decision t Vp to Senate . : v'--V;: ;." .. All questions as to tha eligi bility of- these, senators, based upon their status of notaries pub lic, will be decided br the sen. ate under the supreme court's ruling; if any question is raised. Sinee the opinion disqualifies the secretary of state. It was eonsid- v ered doubtful whether or hot the Issue would arise at all- Monday : when the senate Is organized. - Lessard'a ault waa filflif rt certain i political leaders in Port land had. questioned t!i tUi tt serre fer the legislature la" view ef his status ss an attorney for the - world war veteran's state aid commission. - Judge Winter ruled" that service was 'employ--1 ment-and not a sUte office, bat the notary public question came up after the suit was filed and Winter, denied - the ! injunction. The constitution forbids any per son holding 'another lucrative state office from serving In the legislature.', L : ""--...,.: .(.; "At I the very threshhold of this suit we are confronted with the plain and explicit provision of Section 11 of Article- IV ef the constlutlon that 'each house when assembled, shall Judge et the elections, qualifications and returns of Its own members , " Justice : Belt wrote. . 1 i Court .Has- No . - :' '5- Jnrisdlctioa. : Says . . "In riew of this constitu tional power vested tn the legis ture it is clear that this court baa no Jurisdiction to determine the qualifications of the plain tiff as: state senator. This is a matter i which rests In the sole , and exclusive jurisdiction of the state senate. It rould,-Indeed; be a rain and Idle thing for this court to render it decree which It has no power to enforce. More Import ant, to pass upon the eligibility Of Plaintiff to the of Hem of state senator would be an encroach ment upon - the . constitutional prerogative of a r coordinate branch iot the government ' "It would be wholly foreign to our ' constitutional systsrj of' government for the execntlve or. Judicial department to detoraina a . matter - expressly reserve J to the - legislature. " It is - obvious that any de--clslon which this court, eslcht make in determining the cligl blllty of the plaintiff won!! have no force or effect tor the reason that it has ' no jurisdiction over such subject matter.. Secretary of State's Authority Qneetloned W - next " inqulr what au thority has the secretary of Ktate, -. an executive officer, to determine . such matter. With all deference to the opinion of the attorney general, pursuant " to which tbe secretary of state acted, we th'nk such administrative officer bas v (Turn to page 15, coL ) - ALL AD E r,) of TOD A V Legislators rule the roost in Lessard's case, says highest court, deciding ticki'h r-' t: the governor's prcrarel .h smiling face to declare tla times no Ionger out cf Joit. The shir Ping strike presents a rosier hue, with prcr- ? peace may. shortly la a fart; 'Gleim: Frank U out at c' 1 Vij "consla U. t- 1 politics l- " ' ;.if4 for rc ar' act. Pcarrl-' irs f!tt'f : t lu.tliT3 f 1 fcs V.i 1 t:z:tl t::-'3 s'.-rt: IT' . 3 tc;-i c..r.-: :cr flocilr , land t:cll to Ells a f:" ' i have a place to si-ats. ,