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Page Six The Capital Journal, saiem, wegun . . - -w Straight Party Ballot Measure Dies In Stormy Session of Sens Wdnesday i Senate Fails To Override Olcott'sVeto Lie Passed, Charges1 and Counter Charges Enliven Session of Tuesday Afternoon Lies were r.assed, charges and counter changes were hur'pil nnfl Just as promptly denied. The gul lerles packed with sensation seek ing humanity added their quota to the general confusion which pre vailed on the floor of the senate. And when order had heen restor ed and the casualties counted sen ate hill 53 of the special sessioti of 1820 the Justly Infamous straight party billot bill was wrltherlne In the last throes of its death agony. Seventeen senat Norblad. Mho chant on the demand of Senator Dennis ,n;,de th.it statement It was t both with respect to the bill and to Senator Moser. "This is a most Iniquitous bill aimed at the Oregon ballot system' Joseph declared. , "It Is public kmjM-tcdge that Sen ator Moser has been carrying this: measure around in his pocket eve. since the opening of this session In order to trade on It in an effort to line up enough votes to insure its passage." he charged. "That's a lie; that's a lie," Moser yelled, while Joseph continued his attack. "You lied when you promised to bring this bill out last Saturday," Joseph continued directing his re marks at Moser. "This bill Is as rotten as Moser's conduct has been," he concluded. J Hnator Norb'ad declared his dis approval of the bill, having opera ted under similar measure in Michigin and asserted his intention to vole agalnBt It. He did vote against it but was compelled to change his vote in favor of the bill when Senator Dennis demanded that he make good his promise to support the ttr'.asure. Senators QUI and Thomas poke against the bill and then Moser arose to a point of personal privi lege in refuting the charires of trad- s Including! jp. .,n,i bartering made by Joseph. 1 his vote up-1 -"'h(. senator knows when he Marion Loses One Delegate To Multnomah Reapportionment Bill As Finally Passed Cuts Valley Counties of Members district and stole a representative ing the bill and shut off the speech from Sherman, Wheeler and Gil- es which several members w.-ic llam counties and made a few other preparing to deliver. Mr. Chiuis 01 alteration.. iUnn asked that he be permitted to One of the most vigorous oppo- write an explanation to have enwr-n-nta f tht- hill was Renresenta-! ed in tile record, and he was ac- who insisted that he deliver as promised had arranged them selves in defense of the bill and been counted as enemies of the Oregon election system, nut this was three short of the two-thirds vole necessary to pass the bill over -the veto of Governor Olcott ah 1 its puny efforts at recuperation from the effects of the executive veto administered shortlv after ad journment of the special session were unavailing. Attention was first publicly di rected toward this measure last Saturday by Senator Joseph, who wanted to know the whereabouts of the bill When informed by Senator Moser that it was safe In the hands , of the Judiciary committee Joseph demanded that it be produced forth with. Moser assured the senate that the bill would be forthcoming in due time, upon which .lost ph in sisted upon immediate delivery of the measure declaring that Moser had delayed its appearing long enough already and charging that tne cnairmaii ot the judiciary com- niilt.ee had held the bill UP for Hie purpose of trading on it in ex change for support of other ineim urcs. Moser refused to comply with the demands of Joseph and the senate upheld him in his refusal. Jo.:eph renewed his demands again Monday with the same re sults. Yesterday afternoon the hydra headed monster dragged ils .usjilu ous form forth from ils hilling place in a last feeble effort to un dermine the Oregon primary s.s tem. A.llhotiKh it was reported out by the senate Judiciary committee that committee did not see fit to stand aponsor for its debut Into polite society and It carried no recom mendations either favorable or un favorable. Senator Moser, however, arose to befriend the measure which, ho de clared to he ar gootl one which "ought to pass notwithstanding the vido of the governor." This con tingency, however, Moser doubted asserting that sunn- of the senators who believed in the provisions of tin- bill would not vote for it be Muse I hey lucked the courage of their convictions. The measure lie Insisted would not deprive any person of the right of voting as they wished wlill- al the same time it would result in the saving of thousands ol lull its In election expense through simp.i fylng the ballot system. Moser also denied ttiat ho had ever asked any one to vote for I he bill excep! upon their approval of the principles contained therein. Seiator IMieiiiard, also a mem ber of the Judicial') committee, follow, d Moser in befriending the measure although he Insisted that if he had been allowed to use his Judgment in the matter the bill would not have been brought out at this time but would have been per mitted to sleep on undisturbed In the bosom of the committee. There were 1 senators who would vof. for the bill If it could be passed. Mberhard Instated, but he doubted If it had that many friends under the present adverse circumstance. It was at this stage of the argn nv nt that Senator Joseph found in op.'Oitunlti to voice his sentiments ilse," Moser declared. "I have never asked any senator to vote for this bill except to express his honest convictions on the subject." "The conduct of the senator from Multnomah county (Joseph) fully bears out the record he has made in this and other legislatures." Joseph, he Insisted had only two ambitions in life one of which was to raise ciin in the senate and he turned lo the senate for confirma tion of his opinion that Joseph had fairly succeded in realizing this ambition, Roll call idiowed the following lineup on t he bill ; Ayes --Hanks. IP-ll. Dennis. Rber hard. Rdwards, Karrell. Mall Hare, Moser, Noridad, Patterson, Robert son, fty.in Smith, Staples, Upton, nitner--17. No Eddy, Rills. CMH, Hume. Jones, Joseph, Ijuchmund, L.'tFnl lette, Nickelsen. Porter, Strayer, Thomas, Vinton 13. Bill Validating Old Contracts Is Killed In House Senator Hell's bill. 235, designed to legalize the claims of some 35 contract holders in the Tumalo ir rigation project, whose contracts were invalidated by the expiration of the time limit prescribed by law'. went down lo defeat when It fall. . I to receive the required oonatltu tlonal majority in the house Tues day afternoon. The representatives split evenly on the ballot, the roll call show ing 27 in favor and 27 opposed to the bill. Representative Kay led the op position in ils fight on the floor, declaring that the intent of the bill was simply to reimburse holders of worthless contracts which became Invalidated at the expiration of the legal time limit, July 1, 1917. The bill sought to extend this time lim it to January 1, 1921. Charging that the state entlc 1 settlers into the project which Int er proved to be a failure, Gallagher I declared that the slate owed an ob ligation to these settlers and that means for them to realize on their contracts should be provided. In theinterest of harmony, the reapportionment bill as passed by the senate was adopted by the house late Tuesday afternoon, the house receding from the amend ments which it made at midnight Monday. Here are the only changes brought about in redlatrlctina the legislature: Two new represents tives are gulped by eastern Oregon and one by Multnomah county. Ir detail they are: Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson Klamath and Lake counties, nov. having two representatives, havi three. Grant county, which was part of the above large district, Is ma le a Joint district with Harney, which was joint w ith Malheur. Now Gram and Harney have one representa tive under the new law. Malheur counts', hertofore a joint with Harney, has one representa tive of Its own. Multnomah gains one representa tive. Marion county's representation is reduced from five to four members; Linn county's representation is re duced from thro to two member; the joint district of Douglas and Jackson is abolished. Tillamook now joined with Yam hill on one representative, has the i eoresentative alone. These are very few changes, con sidering the trouble that the re apportion ment issue has caused for the last six weeks. Not a singl.' change was made in the senate, bul th e senators were like Artemus Ward, willing to ,rriflce all of their relatives In the house, and that Is why the housr- was forced finally to adopt the senate bill with out a mend men t, Senate Has Upper Ham. It had to go the way the senatt bill read or there would have beer no reapportionment, when the sen ate passed the measure it went to the house and bobbed up near the synching hour Monday. A storm broke immediately. When the hem passed the bill, it had amended it so that It combined Curry and Jose phine counties In one senatorial live Kubli, who insisted that Mult nomah was entitled to 21 repre sentatives and that the meusur.' submitted was unjust, unfair and unreasonable. He intimated that he would take the matter Into the courts. Kubli was supported in his con tention by Korell and Belknap. Mr. Pierce of Curry uttered a vehem ent protest against linking thai Bounty with Josephine in a sem torlai district and about thla time the house was full of oratory and temperament. Conferees Arc Appointed. After the house passed the bill as amended, the senate refused to ac cept the amendments. A confer ence committee was appointed, con sistinit of Senators Hare, DennD and Karrell and Representatives Burdick. Gordon and Kletcher. corded the privilege. Bill To Legalize Betting on Races Fails In Senate it under the Jurisdiction of a com mission. Eleven senators voted agalns Senator Noddy's motion to indefi nitely postpone the bill and In sup port Of the measure imhI Hall. Hate mund, Moser, Patterson, Robert sun, Ryan. L'pton and Ritner. follows. I ones, Lach- This conference committee iron 1 nut the differences to some ex 'ent and eventually brought in a larmonious recommendation. Th. dan of Representative Kay to take i representative from Washington i.nd divided this acquisition be 'ween Marion and Linn was side- racked. This would have resulted 1 tnt. members of the board h id told In afarlon losing only a hail r "sen tat! ve instead of a whole rep- Playing the ponies at the Oregon state fair is not to be a legitimate sport with the approval of the state legislature. The senate last night by a vote of 16 to 11 voien to in.i. iiintelv nostnone Representa tive Mul arland's bill which woulu have legalized betting on horse races the same to be under the con trol of a state racing commission of five members to be named by the governor. Although the bill was represent ed as having the backing of the state fair board who had requested its introduction this was disputed during the consideration of the measure last night by Senator tnnle w ho declared that three of Senate Enacts Bill Allowing Women Jurors If women of Oregon want to serve on juries surw shall be their privilege if Governor Olcott gives his nnnroval to Mrs. Kinney's bill lege and had to submit to a trial by a Jury or men. Compromise On Bill Is Enacted By a vote of 36 in the affirma tive and 16 in the negative, the house Tuesday afternoon passed house bill 396, a compromise bill on the Roosevelt highway. The bin designates it as a state highway, so that it can take the benefit of co operative federal aid when such is available. Speaker Bean took the floor of the house to lead in the suppurt of this measure, urging that under the provisions of the bill it is not m hieh passed the senate Tuesday i attt0ry on the state highway com- The 'aentative as the final bill provid "s. It would have given Linn one half senator and two half repre sentatives. Senator Hare objected, at this would have left Washing ton i more populous county, with uily one senator and two represent atives. Recommendation is Accepted. The conference comimtte reported hr recommendation that the house recede from its amendments. Mr. Kay took the floor and said that While th.- bill is willed with discrep ancies, he was willing to yield and permit the oppositio n to take a member from Marlon county grlva it to Multnomah, which latter OOUn-1 tempt to convert the state fair into ty Is entitled to more. In the in terest of harmony, he concluded ipponenta of reapportionment nlaht by a vote ol 28 to iu privilege of jury service, however, is only optional with the members of the gentler sex who may refuse to serve in this capacity if they ao choose, giving only their sex as the reason for such refusal. With Senator Lachmund declar ing himself in opposition to the hill forced to mat position through the influence of his wife w ho does not want to serve on jur ies so the senator explained and with Senator Strayer opposed to the bill as an "assinine measure" which would completely disrupt the justice court practice in Ore gon prospects for favorable action on the bill in the senate looked rather gloomy until Mrs. Kinney came over from the house to de fend her pet measure. The women's clubs of the state provmgl representing between 2U.UUU anil 35.000 women, everyone of them with a vote, too, wanted the bill, Mrs. Kinney told the members, in timating that any senator who vot ed against the bill would find him self out of luck with the women voters of his particular baliwick when next he was a candidate for the legislature. II had been re- that the law I were organ ized to defeat the bill because they could handle mere men on the jury but were not able to fathom the minds of women. She did not like him they were opposed to the bill. Staples declared bis unqualified opposition to any move on the part of the legislature which would place the slate on record gambling, especially at the state fair which wn - an educational in stitution, and should be kept free from such contaminating influ ences. The pure bred livestock as sociations of Oregon, he declared, had declared their opposition to any games of chance at the fait. Senator Biddy characterized the measure as one of the most auda-1 ported, she declared clous pieces of legislation brought i yers of the legislatu into the senate at the present ses sion. "It is a most cold blooded at- a gambling den," he charged. to believe such a report) she de- Senator Moser declared his ap-'clared, and the vote in the senate proval of the measure "regardless! did not substantiate the suspicions. wou'd accept the recommendation of what the other senators or the Women, Mrs. Kinney Insisted, of the conference committee. audience thought" of his stand, had a right to a trial by a jury of When Mr. Burdick moved that! This bill he insisted was merely an their peers when haled into court, the house adopt the report, which ' attempt to take the crookedness Under the present system she de it did. this was tantamount to pass- out of the racing game by placing clared, they were denied this privl- mission to sell any bonds for the construction of this road under i present conditidha; that the 500.000 provided for the Roosevelt highway is conditioned on federal action matching this appropriation, and that the whole effect of the act is to put the road on the highway map, making it mandutory on the commission to proceed with the making of this highway at such lime as the government provides ns part in the financial program. - motor n ... ' "-.aiat. ,. M.'eetSaMrn majority. ..omah delegatlr 7l "e '"'"'finitelyn""" """!y report w passeu, with tht 7.rlH "luting the ? ."" 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