HEYIEW OF WORK OF
CnEGOfUGISLATURE
Legislature Passes $8,000,000
Bonding Measure to Build
State Roads,
orgaaiiatloa and general VVESTON
cot w in aisirtci. ana; im principal
rban bar been mad la conaoo.
lion wlili the sections relating to
lb security anil mI or bond.
Appropriation! Within Lsoal Limit
Tea I per rant Ui limitation amend-
Ltglalatura Eaceed 40-Day Limit for
Station New irrigation Coda Pa
od Sic aor Cant Tan Limitation
Oboarvod Appointment Confirm.
dOolliHucn4 Taa Law Amtndod
To Veto on Land Grant Tan
Antl-Cloaratto Law mL
Falom Omfos to Ibe congestion of
bitslne In the senate, brought about
largely by iba fight over hat ia
known aa the paving bill, which
would bond tho atato for M.WO.OO
for highway purposes, the legisla
ture waa unable to complete I (a work
Saturday and- In order to clear up un
finished business of Importance both
house adjourned until Monday.
When tb senate adjourned Saturday
night about loo bills still remained
on the calendar, but tlio house calen
dar waa In better shape.
.Monday waa the aid day of tbo
pnnent pension, but really only tho
J3d actual vorkiug day. Members
aet no pay after the oth day of the
aeaaion.
While the f.ntt,m0 bonding meas
ro passed the house by a rota of
ti to 17 it did so only after a spectac
ular battle, during which It waa aa
, oerted that Governor tVlihrcombe
would veto the measure If It carried
aa emergency clauae.1 Thia threat of
a veto waa effective for tho emer
gency clause was eliminated, aa it
passed tho house, leaving an oppor
tunity to Invoke tho referendum.
Measure Haa Hard Time Passing.
wnen the house took tin th fain
for final action prospecta were not
bright for Its passage. Several of
the 38 members who bad aigned the
measure when it was introduced were
wavering. But after nearly two hours
ot argument and parliamentary man
euvering the bill went through sub
stantially in the same form aa orig
inally introduced.
After blocking action on tho ,00,
M road bond bill In the senate for
aeveral hours by voting down every
motion to suspend the rnleo and bring
It up for passage, senators opposing
the bill agreed to let it come before
the senate on Its merits and refer it
to the people for approval.
Features of Road Bond Bill.
Provides for a $6,000,000 bond Issue
to construct a system of highways.
Bonds to carry 4 per cent interest
and to be refunded by throwing all
automobile license taxes into a fund
for that purpose.
The highways will extend into and
through every county of the state.
giving Oregon one of the most com
prehensive road systems of any of
the states.
Administration of the funds and
construction of the highways will be
under -the supervision of the state
highway commission and atato high
way engineer, provided for In tho new
road code which has passed both
houses of the legislature.
Adjournment until Monday not only
gave plenty of time for consideration
of the road measure, but did away In
a large part with the feverish and
pell-mell rash usually Incident to tbo
( final night of tho session.
Few Important Measures Left
Of the 100 or more bills on tbo cal
endar when adjournment waa taken
Saturday night, aside from the road
landing bill, few of them were of
much importance, aa the two houses
had acted upon all the big measures.
Among the bills passed during tbo
session perhaps a doxen may bo re
garded as constructive legislation of
real Interest to the people of the state '
at large, and these affected particular
lines of business or moral issues.
The measures of benefit indirectly
to the general public and directly to
agriculture, insurance, education, lum
bering, militia, public utilities, chil
dren and morals, are:
Irrigation aided with needed code
amendments; the insurance code;
the. military code brought into con
formity with federal enactments; tho
grain standard adopted; the bill to
enforce the bone dry law; rural school
terms lengthened; streams opened to
logging; needed revision In the high
way commission law provided; cut
throat competition la public utilities
prevented by passage of the certifi
able of public convenience bill; steril
ization act paused and the antl-elg-arette
law strengthened.
Irrigation Code Enacted.
Tho Irrigation district code passed
fhe senate with a few minor amend
ments In which the house immediate
ly concurred. This new code ia one
of the big pieces of legislation which
the legislature waa ca'Ied upon to en
act, and its sponsors claim that ita
enactment will mean the Investment
of millions of dollars in Irrigation
works and the reclamation of hun
dreds of thousands of aeres of arid
lands in eastern and central Oregon.
- The code follows iu most respects
tit iUUfl law U rcleTCQCf (0 Hit
siaiutiriiuN RAiti
Tho Year II SO
meat haa beea observed by tho ways Six Month 0 75
and means committees of tho leglala- lour Month. . V 60
turo. and the paring down of budgeta AbVtNlltlKU KAIEI
and demands of various klada haa ... ,..t .... ... .
brought tbo total ,0 be appropriated tZ'
dow. t, K..-M.40M1, This la w.U J?' .J.L-Tr" 7?
within the limit, leaving a IIO.OJT.J ' ' '
balance, which will bo taken up by nBlT. ITO. . . -tho
appropriation for a.iriiaasoua
aicaaurea. There Is on hand In Ih tritnd al tha pariaffkt at ftttton, Ortjo.
slat treasury io,oo fro. unex- M Mid ilaw autl auUtr.
ected balances appropriated iw: '
year ago waira bow haa reverted to
6e
mi
the general fund. This amount, tho
committee derided, will not ho ap
propriated at thia session, aad will
be available when tho emergency
board la called upon to aaaiat la help
ing out a here shortage oecur la tho
next two years.
Senate Conflrmo Mwlit and Gere.
The senate ratified Governor WHby-
coin be
THE FINAL CHATTES
Tin? Sheldon joint resolution,
which had rtviMLsly pasd the
house, was passed by the state wit
ate Friday evening; Thia waa
done despite the fact that a major-
Oilcloth (all colors)
Cotton ball M lb.)
Whit outing flannel
Uungaluw aprons
Mkkly apron ....
tiliV gingham tlrie
Ladies' summer vrt
Ijulia union suit
ity of tlx.' committee to which it
iiv nwnaurv, nurit vtura nai imn
(lorn in it U-half, and the South
i'rn Oregon, Multnomah county
ami Polk county senators were lined
tip for it.
The Sheldon resolution submits to
the profile a hill to Iv voted ui on
nryant. of More, aa member of the Bt the next general t-krtiun provid-
iu ' -iii-niB oi inc tiregun ar'
laud, as members of tho board of re-
genta of the t'nitersity or. Orrao.
Mr, Uor siieree'la Moy Goodrich, do
ceaaed. and Mr. Mullt ucreeda Col
lector of Custom II. A. Miller.
The senate alao ratified the goer
Bor'a appointment of Misa Cornelia
Marvin, atate librarian, and W. C.
mat school. Iioth are reappointments
Delinquent Ta Bill Paaaed.
The forbeo amendmenla to lb do
Iteouent lax Hat bill were adopted,
fader the bill as amended the formal
etice of delinquency win be mailed
0 daya after the tax becoinea delin
quent, and 30 days later all unpaid
taies will be advertised In the Daoera.
intc $li.tMH) and w twenty-fifth
of mill for each of two normal
tvhools oia of them at Adilatid In
Southern Orejfon and the othT at
iinM? K)it in Eastern Oregult to
be named by the state board of
regents after the nK'ajiure rarriea.
If Wet4on whetv the state owns
In Multnomah county two papera are a normal school plant is not e
to receive Hie advertising on showing
of a circulation of at ieait 10,000, aad
in outaide count lea the county courta
are to select tha papers.
Publishers of newspapers through
out the state have been attending tho
aession and cooperating with r'orhea
and his committee In the effort to get
the law changed. Thev were as eater
leeted, then the town which ia
granted the plum must donate a
suitable site to the state.
No illusions are entertained here
as to the effect of this measure. It
is intended to eliminate am) will
eliminate Weston permanently as a
rection as dilhVult as ptiwililo.
Monmouth Is a unaller to
than Weston, yet did not suffer MAIL OKPCKS.
from tlie machine's nrafftmi.Hm. for
the reason that the "prominent edu
cators" held the omsnormni ih
m HMO and thrithil upon Mn
hMHith as its location. One of them
Uvann' its pretident at a salary
double the amount ever paid a nor Crc kituouaa
mal aehmil presitk-nt before in Ore. New atU ini.lla
iron. mihI the school lias since re
ceived many thousands of tlollars
more than were voted it by the e
pie, who were led to suo that
an annual tax of one-twenty-fifth
of a mill would ) sutlleient. Now
these fame educators want imioiiinf
U'5.000 schwils in bi: towns for
I lie reavom that lartrer stories than
were ever aid at Wetitiwill un
doubtcilly U the rule. TV Weston
school was sueeetfully niaintaimtl
for nly e!2.f00 a year. In the
ryes of the educational naehine it
was intolerably "miiuII MitHtoes."
N, Weston will never Itave tho
chance of a troutling in a carp ond
if this S)icldj n-solution carries at
the poll in IDIH. Neither will U
Cnimle, nr Itaker, nor Hood Kiver.
The town that will get tho ikIiooI
is more or less happily celebrated
fur its Happy Canyon dance and
its name begins with the sixteenth
letter of the alphabet. That's the
way the cards arc stacked.
plain" facts
Th J. C. rnnry Co. recently plcl a ainulo order for fHO.Omi
worth uf hiiiulkervliiefii. Van you inuiKmf uie i annkHUui .o.ne
of tho (Mtlera for heavier
etc.? IM you ronlit' tlr
r- the niumifutturvr: ln l i ivnHomu.ie - w...
er price than the niun l'inrf for one atore? Mujly w
n thwely and ' whero we van vo you limncy. KM t
LfADER "n ',,,,ton l''"nU "'' hbaii
CLARK hOOO. rM ln im WM M 0f rwrjr
- , thintf tmVHhle ami m xt (juntitity
f achool furniture nd rquipnHnt
it... a..u.aiiu It... Ulul.i a.f I ).
ri- s..ld to Walla Walla junk of the order rr heavier nioroiiaiiuiw ' ' '"" - -. v,,,
driers f,r a mmg. The school's c.tl..T Iki you reali.o the Inlluence hu. Ii purchiiaed must have on
enemie. wUa.l to make its rcsur- l!u. nianufitvlurvr? laVl l ro.iml.le that wo can tle.natul a mv.
our iirit'cs
iy vnnii
., 'JtV Men's woik aH'ka
tiiv Men's ilr o-k
sr-PK' Mn'a suapemlei
V Man' He
tiUe lotion feluve Ikult writ) ... h1 ,c l2'(e
V.!r tWe I'ottoil glovi'a (leather faewli ,, ..
t II 2.1 l 491 Work glv ... 4'ic 0ite-lsc (I
. . &'', C-U".e
H',el2,c2:c-IX'
..... -.'V-llte
.. !Sc . Woik shirts (Itwavy) all color
Se lo iV J Mcu'e union aJils.
, 'jac-!'c i'',.H , Ho) unji'it suite .
.... .. i . i Mcilianlc suit IMiKkl'
ZZ"T U ton ' Mechanic suit. U.hfco. .
r, .. h of all I ! Harvest i
shoe
Hi'
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AV- IW.
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It Cvi II ti
IUy'"UiMlerliiU" overulls (Indiiro) f.lk'-?.V. Menu ovt-ralU
"t'rqwn SjHHial." pin striiK'. K'lc; "Underliill" vrnIU (Imlieol
iUfc; "Uiiderhill" waist (lndiro) overalls, Kle; "L'lirmaii" and liirf
3 overalls, KU
J.C.Pennev Co. Inc.
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ATHKNA. OKKUUS
S02SETEING F01 KOTHCtG
as any member of tho legislature to normal school factor. Although Or
get enactments that would save mon- egon owns a $75,000 normal school
ey for the counties yet give due pub
licity to delinquencies.
Land Grant Tax up to People.
Every voter in Oregon will have a
chance to express an opinion on th
merits of Representative Mean's land
grant bllL which pataed both houses.
As amended by the senate the bill
ia automatically referred to tho
Realizing that he cannot pave his
own roads with good intentions and
unlimited talk. Old Man Oregon has
at last, through his legislative sen-
pie for their approval or rejection at
plant in this community, it will be
alwjidoned for all time. Weston ,n, adopted a practical ginul rtals
delegates to Uc normal school eon- program.
ferenco held in Portland last lec- a vote of 25 to 4 the senate
emU-r advised Mr. Sheldon repn Monday nlghl adopted Uie six mil
sentative fmrn Jackson county that dollar bonding; measure, which
they and Weston were opposed to iH Iw sutmiitted to the people
any such measure. Circulars were " "ccial election on June f tit of. T
Meet the Briquet Man
Now thut oti haw taken our ad via
and bought a good coal stove I want you
to get bettor Bcuainted with tho Hriipiet
Man and his excellent fuel, and I am eoni't
dent you will like it so welt that you w ill
have no cause to regret the acquaintance.
Try u load and be convinceJ.
P. T. Harbour
the general election In November next sent to every member of the legis- J'car.
year.
The biU doe not affect ia any par
ticular the sutus of the pending leg
islation between the federal govern
ment and the Southern Pacific rail
road over tbo title and ownership of
the Oregon k California grant land.
It merely assert the sovereign
right of this state of Oregon for over
to lax the lands, regardless of who
owns them.
Boy Prohibited to Us Cloartttta.
Without one dissenting vote, tbo
Sweeney-Brand anti-cigarette bill for
minor passed the senate. It waa
adopted without amendment from tb
form In which it came from the house.
The 'Sweeney-Brand law ia even
more drastic than the original Sween
ey bill In safeguarding against the
use of cigarette by minora. It makes
no attempt, however, as did tb orig
inal bill, to prohibit the use of cigar
ette by grown men.
Heavy penalties are provided lath
law against any person who sells or
give away any cigarette to minor.
Legislative Brsvltie. '
' Senator fusich bill repealing the
lature voicing Weston's opposition, The mooted effect of the provls-
and photoirrali8 were sent of every ' ''ill is that Oregon's
building embraced in the Weston roads will lie unique, in that they
Normal plant with the truthful w'" nobody anything. Roth
statement that this plant is ade- principal and interest will he cared
(juate for the normal school needs for by an increase in automobile It
of this section of the state and hat censes, and the motorists will save
one-fortieth of a mill would be am- all and more of this increase by les
ple for its maintenance. One-for- sened tire and gasoline bills. Not
tieth of a mill would, in fact, have owning an auto, the ftAer mnn is
given the Weston Normal twice as hearty accord with this delight
much maintenance money as it ever fu! I'it "f financiering,
received Itefore, although when Walter Pierce, one of the few
closed in 1909 it was the largest senators who opposed the bill,
normal school in the slate. questioned the need of haste, say.
I hid there been any id-a of re ing that the bonding measure could
opening the Weston Normal it J"1 K over until the regu
would have been named in the bill. I, election thus saving about
It should have been named in the 1100,000 election costs. He aasert
bill. Weston is as much entitled to l '8t hasty action was in line
a normal school as Ashland. It is w'tM the views of the paving trust,
surrounded by a richer farming ter- as I'itulithic patents would soon
ritory. Nearby are many rural expire.
t
Dr. S. L KENIiARD 1
Veterinary Surgeon
Hospital at corner of Main
and Broad street.
Phone - Main 253 i
HOMER I. WATTS
Attorncy-at-Law
i'rscilcea In all Htaiu and r'aucral
Court.
ATHRNA, OHIitlON
G;l i t:r Sit Fr;:::i
Before Pre sin $ "Your Suit ; ;
You'll win her if we do j;
the work.
A shave, hair-cut anil
shine would help.
H WESTON BATHS audi!
P
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schools roduirintr teachers. With As this is the first indication of
mr ? ltn.8nbfoUh C"jtmc81 frore the W of cloaely contigu.ms dis- pcl ,vcr shown by Old Man Ore-
ssdfeatertD the bous" tricts WesKrti would be able to fur- "". w "'gard it as somewhat in-
Aftor a brief akirmlsh, tho bouso ni!,, atM) grade purils, if that many considerate of Walter to try to trip
defeated th resolution proposing a were required for a training school, him up.
In the campaign of 1910. when
only the Monmouth Normal was VK (ivrmHn undersea campaign
sustained hv I !. voh.r H.,. w. Wuld be a positive success if it
Normal receiveil many more votes wcrc w,t wmparativc failure,
than the Ashland Normal. In the Thc nalwl. K"1'"" W'H
campaign of 1914 it again received 8tarvcd lnlw ""bmission, although
many more votes than thc Ashland tncy are ctl,nf BmI continue
Normal. In the face of thin nroof to rt P"" of tooi. Merchant
that the first mentioned is more In ,,PP,nK M'W pt from thc
K-pular favor, the Ieirislature w'aB HIioukI new tonnage is build-
names Ashland for rHtabiishimnt a8U'r than 01(1 u,nm' I" ''
but ignores Weston. This in itat-lf 8troy,,'' ,n faot' wry thing one
ia sufficient evidence that fl. W,w. rca,I a"ut the war would lie true
"'- if rata siamom km
S-ATBNTa auiLO POMTUNia Im
ytt. Hjf 1im bmliM I. II haw. at. a I u lu.vbt
KmxMBWf. Wrttt Inter.
D. SWIFT & CO,
riTIMT LiWttil.
1303 Sevswih 8t Washington. 0. C.
TIE
SUITS ORDERED
to your measure
R. L. Reynnudf
"Clla taxi!" l.nfo M Hrida'a i al
ways At your iIIk.bI. Phono if.'.
DR. C. H. SMITH
Physician and Surgeon
Ollko In
wtsroN
Watt huiltling
UKhllON
change to the initiative law that would
have rejuirel riuht per cent of sig
nature in a majority of the counties.
Th lioiiM? pael the Inauranr
codo with only seven negative votes.
It already bad passed the senate. It
codifies ell t ie Insurance law of th
atato.
The dramifl sterilization bill, passed
by the hot:r, and a bill putting up to
tbo people the problem of whether h
state shall mipport delinquent. Cepend-
ont and defective, children cared for
by private Institutions also psssed tho
senate.
Tb bourn passed Representative
Ka ton's bill increasing the inheritanco
tax rates.
Among the important bills passed
in Ibe senate were the house measure
doubling automobile license so as to
provide a fund to match the Shackl
ford federal road fund, and tbo Bean
Barrett bill authorizing issuance of
bonds up to $1,800,000 necessary to
match any portion of the federal fund
not otherwise provided for.
One of the bills paaaed tighten up
tne noue-ury protunition law. it re
quires peace officers having "reason
abl Information" that liquor 1 be
ing transported In any vehicle eicept
a railroad car, shall searrh It and
seize any contraband liquor found.
This bill already bat puitd tae bouts.
final
ex-
ton Normal is marked for
tinction.
Weston is out of favor with the
'prominent educators" of Oregon
if ft were only so.
The starving mkjt of New York
would have plenty to eat if they
because they are obsessed with the C0"I, on,y ''e ""Pl'lied with the. sur-
big-town normal idea. The state
educational machine is now and al
ways has been opposed to the Wes
ton Normal. It was through thc
influence of this machine Hint a
committee of educators was sent here
prior to the 11109 session of the leg
islature U make ai unfavorable re
port of the Weston Normal al
though it was then the largest norf-
mal la the state. For the came ru-
plus from
suppers.
one of Weston's lodge
An overt act? The definition is
easy. It's what Uncle Sum is wait
ing for.
. Heroism Extraordinary.
"It's a brav niuo ho always takes
bi wife' advice," soys the Allnny
Knickerbocker !'rex, but for down
right desperate heroism give us the
U4t &o refui to it, , ,
Preston-Shaffer Milling Co.
Established 1865
Athena, Oregon Waibburg, Wash.
American Beauty
and-
Pure White
Madu of Delected bluetstem in one of the
best equipped mills in the Northwest.
Sold in Weston by
Weston Aercantile Company