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The Oldest, Largest, and Most Perfect Man ufactory in the united states. 54,000 Now in use. No other Musical Instnimentsever obtain ed the same Popularity. BrSond for Price Lists. Address BUFFALO. N. Y. decllwt OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, Important Decision. THE STATE TREASTJKEB's CASE DECIDED. In the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon, December term, 1874. J. Simon, respondent, vs. A H Brown, as State Treasurer, appel rntiraal from Marion county. W. H. Effinger for appellant: E. C. Bronaugh for respondent. MoArthxh, J. The pitition alleges that on Novem ber 7, 1872,- the Secretary drew a warrant on the State Treasurer in the following form: State of Oregon, ) Secretary Department, v Salem, Nov. 7, 1872. ) $504. State Treasurer will pay out of the General Fund to the order of A. J. Dufur, the sum of five hnndred and four dollars. (Signed) S. F. ClIADWICK, No. 893. Secretary of State. " CenieDnial Commission Substi tute." That on said date tho same was presented for payment, and for want of funds was not paid, and the then Treasurer endorsed the same as fol lows: " Presented and not paid for want o; funds, Nov. 7. 1872. (Signed) L. F.ji;.sc.MAR, Treasurer." That, afterwards, D.jfiu- endorsed the same for value, and ihe plaintiff is now the owner and holder thereof. That the Legislative Assembly, at its Eighth Biennial Session, passer, an act entitled "An act to provide for tlw ordina;y expenses of the State Govern men t, and other sne'vl and specific appropriations, " by which i-he said Legislative Assembly did appropriate tlie sum of i?-lS2.157 3i5, or so innc i thereof as might be necessary for the several objects in s. iu act mentione'l for iwo years, co.amcncing from SeLembei- 14, . 871, to e paid out of any money iu the Treasury not ollieiwise a -pro -ia ted, besides i he sum of .7,'2J0 a wroprialet! out of sjecinc f.inils for specilic purposes. That by Section j 9 ol said aci, It "s provided that ' No money shnll be pai i out under this act except upon warrants drawn bv the Secretary of ;Sfa(e upon the Treasurer. And all warrants drawn by the Secretary of State apoa the Treasurer shall be paid by said Treasurer in the order in which they have been presente;. endorsed: 'Presented aud not paid for want of funds,' whether the some have been issued before or afier the passage of this act." That by Section 20 of said act it is provided that "Owing to the neces sity of maintaining the public credit, tltts act shall take eflect and beIn force from and after its approval by the Governor," and that it wrs ap proved October 24, 1S74. That there are outstanding war rants drawn by said Secretary of State p.;o.ii said Treasurer and pre sented pri ,r to November 7, 1872, iiiid endorsed: ''Presented and not paid for vant of funds," to the amount and for tho sum of twenty two hundred dollars ($2,200) ann not to exceed that sum, and that there is now in tlie General Fmid the sum of seven thousand or more dollars ($7,000) in V. S. currency, which was received otherwise than for taxes, the requisite portion of which is applicable to and should be naid out bv the Treasurer towards i the satisfaction of the warrants afore said with interest from the t.ate of its endorsement bv tlie Treasurer. That on Nov. 30, 1874, the plain I iff caused the warrant aforesaid to be duly presented and demand made for payment which was refused by the present Treasurer, A. 11!. Brown, the defendant. Then follows a prayer for a writ of mandamus commanding tho Treasur er to reduce said currency in the gen eral fund to coin and to pay said war rant with the interest due thereon. The defendant answers and says: 1. That he refuses to pay said warrant because the same belongs to and is a part of the deficient warrants drawn upon the State Treasury for which no appropriation was made by the Legislative Assembly, and that he has no authority to pay any wai' rants presented to him unless author ized by act of said Assembly and that said warrant is a part of an in debtedness for which there has been no approrriatioc 2. That the entire amount of out standing warrants presented and en dorsed " not paid for want of funds" aggregates about J?2S7,459 17, and that warrant No. 393 is of said num ber and that none of said warrants are included in. or provided for in the appropriation bill passed Oct. 24, 1874 and therefore he refuses to pay the same. 3. That the warrants upon tlie various funds appropriated to by the said act and accruing since Septem ber 14, 1874 aggregate at this time .$78,957 51 and that the same are properly collectible from the Treas urer under and by virtue of said sec tion 19, and that if he should be re quired to pay the deficient warrants he would not have any funds what ever wherewith to pay the current expenses of the State Government or any general or special expenses dur ing the two years succeeding. Then follows a prayer for dismissal, etc. A demurer was interposed and sus tained to tho 2d and 3d portions of the answer. Thereupon the plaintiff filed his reply denying the nrst allegation in the answer and averring that the Legislative Assembly did by an act app'roved Oct. 24, 1872 entitled "An act to provide for paying the expen ses of tho Commissioner and Com missioner substitute for the State of Oregon in attending the sittings of the .United States Centennial Com mission," appropriate ;the enm of 1 COURTESY OF TiKTVSRSITY four thousand dollars out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to be used for the pur- Soses expressed in the title ofthe act uring the years 1872 187G inclusive upon which fund said warrant was drawn. After trial the Court below adjudg ed the writ properly issued and or dered, that said warrant be paid by the Treasurer. From the findings of the Court it is apparent that the effect of the order was to cause pay ment to be made out of the seven thousand dollars the general fund mentioned in the plaintiff's complaint. There is no question made here upon ruling of the Court below on the de murer to the defendant's answer and we pass that matter as unimportant. It will be observed that the said answer nowhere puts in issue the fol lowing allegations of the complaint: (1) That there are outstanding war rants drawn by the Secretary of State upon the Treasurer and presented prior to November 7, 1872, and en dorsed: "Presented and not paid for waut of funds,1' to the amount of twenty-two hundred dollars (2,200) and not to exceed that amount. And, (2) That there are now in the Gen eral Fuod of ihe Treasury of the State the sum of seven thousand dol lars (.$7,000) or more in currency of the United States which was receiv ed by the Treasurer otherwise than fo taxes from which fund warrant No. 09-j anu accom routed interest is nayable. The ji-st section of the act o p-o vide for the payment of i he Centen nial Cninmissloa deeia es .hat "there siia"' be an.! is he eby set apa-1 from any none n ihe State Treasu ty not otherwise :p irop.IaJed, the snm of ou-. LiJOi'sand tio'la.s ($?4,0vJ) io be used I.i defraying the expenses of I'jg Comnisslooer," elc. a oil In the secootl sec ' j i it is p-vvided afier :he bi'K of the Canni'ssiouer ate auuii.ee ihe See.elarv of State shall draw his war an is f o he amounts andlied aud that i'te ersrue-' shall pry toe same f om the fnnd to be set apart in vi-tne ov the rirst section; "Vor.'.'ei-. Thai tlie aggregate amount paid In any one year snail not exceed one i jonsand dollars,'1 (Law 1872, p. K3.; Thas It sha-' be seen thai the war rant io 8P.'i is to 'oe paid ont of the fund to be set apa. 1 by the Treasurer f :om any moneys f?ot otherwise ap propriated. Assuming that there are io the Treasury the seven thou saiK. do'lars and odd collars belong- io I be general food as alleged in the com-j'uini, am. pot ceiieit in the a isver, p id aszc nl.ig id -tber that ;he e a-e wai'raats upon the general Td :? T. re iste : ed p io : to th's one ag- g.ega.mg in r-nouat twenty-two .laiu'.iei'. dollars it follows that there mast be so-ne fovty-e'hl hundred dollors (si.SOO) In said general fund which it i.oes not appear Lave been ''otherwise appropriated," and from v.h'ch the food may be created out oT which the law authorizes the Cen ienn:al w.'--rants to be pp?d. "We are of opinion that this cannot be legally paid out of any of the fnnds provided for by the act of Jet. 21. 1074. The very terms used in the first section o said act shows that the Legislative Assembly speci lically appropriated for the objects enumerated in subsequent sections certain r.etinite sums of aioney to be paid o.'t of any money not otherwise appropriated du.ing tho two years succeeding Sept. 14, 1G74. Section 19 provides that "qo money shall be paid out under this act except upon warrants drawn by the Secretary of State upon the SUte Treasurer. And all warrants drawn by tho Sec retary of State from the treasary shall be paid by the Treasurer in the order in which they have been pre sented and endorsed 'Pioseoted and not paid for want of funds,' whether the same have bee a issued before or after the passage of this act." It is contended that this section should be so construed as lo author ize the State Treasurer ! o pay war rants which have "jeeu issued loug prior to tjeseeoni Monday in Sept. 1874, under the other acts of the Legislative Assembly and for other xurposes than those mentioned in the other sections of that act. The question therefore is, can such an enlarged construction be ;,ivea to Section nineteen? If so, the entire character oT ihe act is changed, aid from an act providing for ihe ordin ary expenses uf tho State Govern ment accruing during the two years succeeding the second Monday in September, 1874, aud the other j ml general and specific appropriations enumerated therein, it will become an act to provide for certain extraor diorry expenses incurred prior io that date, for which payment is nei ther generally nor specifically pro vided by the act. In construing this act it is the duty of the Court io ascertain if possible the intention ox the Legislature, and iu so doing the preamble and tho general purview or body of the act are to be taken into consideration, and it is the duty of the Court to put a reasonable con struction upon all its sections and clauses, in order to accomplish its obvious purposes and in order that all of its provisions may if possible stand. "Whenever the intention of the makers of a statute can be dis covered, it ought to lie followed with reason and discretion in the con struction of the statute, although such construction seems contrary to the letter of the statute. "A thing which is within the letter of a statute is not within the statute unless it be within tho intention of the makers." Griswold vs. National Insurance Co. 3 Co wen 96. The obviou3 purpose of the act under consideration is to provide the necessary funds to de fray the expenses of the State Gov ernment for two years succeeding September 14, 1874, for it does not appear that it was passed in pursu ance of Art. 9, Sec. 6 of the State BANCROFT LIBRARY, OF CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 29, 1875. Constitution, but on the contrary it was passed in virtue of Art. 9, Sec. 3 of the Constitution and of Sec. 58, p. 700 of the General Laws. If we. look to the very words of section nineteen there is an apparant inconsistency between it and the other sections of the act, but when viewed in tlie light of the preamble and the other sections that inconsistency dis appears, and the said section may, with mnch reason be taken to mean that no money shall be paid out un der the act except upon warrants drawn by the Secretary of State upon the State Treasurer and all warrants drawn by the Secretary upon the Treasurer in virtue of this act shall be paid by said Treasurer in the or der in which they have been present ed and indorsed: "Presented and not paid for want of funds," whether the same have been issued before or after the passage of the act. It must be borne in mind that this act was approved Oct 24, 1S74. Also that sections five and nine provide,among other things, for the pryment of cer tain deficiencies in the Mute School and and Penitentiary fund. There fore the words "whether the same have been issued before the passage of this act" are intended to embrace such warrants as represent the defi ciencies in the fund just mentioned. There is no reference whatever in the act lo the Centennial Commission fund, and hence the act and no sec tion thereof can properly be held to govern the payment of the warrants drawn thereon. We therefore are of opinion that the warrant for the recovery of which this proceeding was instituted should be paid out of the fund first alluded to ($7 ,000), and IheTreasurer should set apart the fund In accordance with ihe provisions of the act approved October J4, 1872, commonly called the Centennial Commission act. u.'ilmeut affirmed. L. ' t '. STATG Ol' ORK- cox. An Act for the relief of purchasers of real estate at sales made by ad nilnistors or executors. Ee ii e.'O'-'ed bt tlte Legislative Assem o'tj of Hie Stale of Orcjoa: Section 1. When any real estate has been heretofore, or shall be here after sold by virtue of any license, or order of any County Court, in this State, and said sale shall have been approved by said County Court, and the purchaser shall have paid the purchase money for the same, and said sale shall have been made in good faith in order to provide for payment of claims against said estate and the Executor or Administrator shall have failed or neglected to make or execute any deed cauveying such real estate to such purchaser, or if from mistake or omission in sa"d deed, or defect in its execution, the same shall be inoperative, and the period of five years shall have elapsed after the making of such sale, then, in such case, all such sales shall be and are hereby approv ed and confirmed, notwithstanding any irregularities or informalities in the proceedings prior to said sale. And when such facts shall be made to appear in any suit in equity brought to quiet the title to such real property against the heirs or their assigns of the deceased person whose property shall have been thus sold, in the proper Court for such suits, that such Court shall make its decree quieting such title, and com pelling and ordering conveyances of the same to be made to such pur chaser, his heirs or assigns, as if a valid contract to convey said real propei ty had been made by snch de ceased person in his life-time, and no action shall be maintained by such heirs, or their heirs or assigns, to dispossess any such purchaser, his heirs or assigns, after the expiration of five years from any snch sale. . Sec. 2. And inasmuch as there are a number of bona fide purchasers of real estate at Administrators' or Ex ecutors' sales, in the State of Oregon whose titles are irregular and infor mal, therefore this Act shall take ef fect and be in force from and after its approval by the Governor. Approved October 2Gih, 1874. Alb.- I: 0-14I. .CK, Sc e! ti -v of State. e ile-.o Ken7 v. The West is ready, remarks the 'Jhicago Tribune, to act with the South in demanding a revenue tariff which shall relieve the people of the enormous lax upon the necessities of iife, and at the same lime shall be suicicat io support the Government and maintain its credit. The West is ready io act with the South in de nia.'idiog a sound, stable, and con vert! bio currency in sufficient quan tity for the legitimate needs of ihe couDtiy, so as to remove the damage which is now occasioned to business by the fluctuations in value and the lecessily imposed upon the mer chants and manufacturers of specu lating upon values before they can make cont'-acts, thus introducing a dangerous element or uncertainty into all kinds of business. Whas the Use? What's the use of bending every faculty to money getting, thinking of nothing else when you can't carry a single dollar with you, and have already more than enough to supply every reason able want, though you should live to be a hundred years old! There is no note-shaving, or mortgages, or stock-boards, or interest-bearing coupons where you are going. The current coin of that realm is suppos ed to consist of manly attributes of character, nobility of soul, the thoughts and inclinations that cul minate in good on earth and mako the world better for tlm i having lived in it. Itelknap's Ilaby. The V. S. Secretary ofWar as a. Fath er and Nurse. The United States War Depart ment has hail a baby, or rather the wife of the Secretary has been bless ed in this manner. Proverbial Phi losopher Tupper, says something in that maudlin series of popular say ings that ' A baby in a house is a well-spring of joy" or " words to that effect." The Washington correspondent of the Pittsburg Daily Ledger gives the following account of a rather ' ludi crous scene which occurred npon the occasion of the first public exhi-1 bition of the infant "Son of Mars:" The War Department had a baby the other night that is to say, the handsome Secretary of War became a father. The birth was attended with the usual anxieties upon the part of near friends, but it turned out all right, and Belknap is the hap piest father not to sav the proudest. It is hard to see what makes the newly-made father proud; in general he is the proud one, while the mother who has had all the sufferings, con tents herself finally with becoming THE LOVING AND HAPPY ONE. Belknap is a large, powerful-looking man of the clear blonde type. Curling sandy hair and red f flaming whiskers adorn the son of Mars. He is the perfect picture of health and good looks. Saving his pompousness and a general lesire to impress strangers with his greatness, Bel knap is a clever enough devil, and is rather a general favorite out in soci ety. But this bady business has upset him completely. He was for hanging out all the nags at tho De partment, and firing a salute, but a friend told him that would not answer now, since the election. THE OTHER NIGHT Senator Sherman, of Ohio, went up in company with several distinguish ed politicians to Belknap's house to make a little call of congratulation. THE CALLERS were shown into the parlor by a stately colored man in livery. The visitors were kept waiting but a mo ment when in came Secretary Bel knap with his hands outstretched and a great smile of welcome under his fierce red moustache. "I am glad to see you, gentleman," said he. ' How is Mrs. Belknap?" said Sen ater Sherman. " Oh, she is doing beautifully, and tho baby, and it is a bouncer." " I am glad to hear that all is com ing on so finely. Please give Mrs. Belknap my most sincere congratu lations." " I shall be pleased to do so. I am sorry, gentlemen, that Mrs. Bel knap is not now in a condition to re ceive you, but before you go away you must surely see the baby. I may be prejudiced, gentlemen, but I do think tho baby A MOST REMARK A KLE ONE. In fact, gentlemen, I am proud of the baby, and I must take you up in the nursery to see it. If you do not object we will go up at once, as we will be more apt to rind the precious little one awake, as it is near feeding time, and I want you to get the full expression of the baby's face when it is awake." " By all means." exclaimed all present. The Secretary whirled about at this, and, joking and laughing, the parties went up stairs to the nursery. Entering the brightly lighted and cheerfully furnished room now given up to the War Department's baby, A YOUNG COLORED GIRL of perhaps twelve years of age, was discovered in a low, easy chair, with a baby stretched across her lap. This youthful monstrosity (the baby) had black, bright eyes, and they were wide open. It was appar ently meditating upon the usefulness of beginning any thing so monotonous as existence. Belknap swooped down npon the baby and bore its limp form aloft, and then bending his head over the putty-faced bit of humanity, began to gurgle and coo: " Oh, you baisy, waisf , pretty little sweetsy, weetsy, tweetsy," etc. Then he called his friends around him. SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN put on his glasses and pronounced it a very fine wholesome-looking baby. " It's nose is your's Belknap," said he meditatively. " Decidedly, he has your eyes," also said another. "Bat," said one irreverent young man along with the party, " Mr. Secretary, it has decidedly a brunette complexion. The Secretary bounced at this. " All babies are that color," said he, " at the start; they are bound to bo the color of raw beef until they get their first skin. Then you will see that Ibis baby will have a complex ion as as " " As Mrs. Belknap herself," said the 3-oung man politely. " Yes," said the Secretary, as he gathered the baby close to him, and then he said impressively: "Gentle men, you are all heads of- families. Yon can sympathize with me. No father can look upon a newly-born baby of his WITHOUT A THRILL OF PRIDE. As I gaze, gentlemen, npon this dar ling little waif, this good gift of all merciful God, I must confess that I could shed tears of gratitude." Here then followed a painful si lence, during which the Secretary gazed fondly at the baby in his arms through eyes half blinded with tears. His lips moved in silent prayer, in voking blessings upon the head of the innocent little one. A SUDDEN SOUND of a suppressed chuckle broke the silence, and the group turning ' eaw NO. 14. the old colored nurse coming toward them carrying in her arms a mass of lace and ribbons out of which was kn be seen a Dink-faced. bll-lifRrlil baby, whose complexion was the rose q tint sometimes found inside a sea shell. 0 THE OLD COLORED NURSE was lauerhiner immoderatelv- " Taw Massa Belknap, yon has hold of the wrong chile this time, suah! That O baby belongs to my darter, Sally, who left . it here to-day when she went off for a visit, to the country. q Here's your babv. Poor Httl 1ar. lin and ' so its own father' didn't 1 " A a 1 i Know, it. Atih- cnucKsy, mick ey, honey chile." AN AWFUL YELL a was the only reply to this. The baby that the Secretary had been holding rolled from his relaxed arms, and if one of the visitors had not caught it as it fell itrrwould probably have been killed by the fall. As it was, it re ceived.a severe b!ow upon the head, and it set up a howl to match. The Belknap baW then set tip a shriek out of sympathy, in a moment that nursery was transformed into a reg ular pandemonium. It is needless to say that the baby insjiection was not of long duration after this. Belknap looked awfully chop-fallen. Each visitor was so FULL OF LAUGH that he could hardly keep it tucked back out of sight. The War Secre tary looked for a long while after, whenever he thought of dandling a little darkey baby for his own, as if he had swallowed an emetic the wrong .way. The friends promised Belknap solemnly not to say a word about it, but each told his intimate friend the moment he got down town and the storv was one of the leading jokes in political circles last evening. GONCKESSIOXAL NEW. G Washington, Jan. 14. A bill was introduced to-day in the Senate by Sergent, and in the House by Pago to prevent naturalization. It pro poses merely to restore the natural ization laws as they existed prior to the late codification, in which the implied discrimination against Chi namen were inadvertantly omitted. All the Pacific Coast Senators, Bep resentatives and Delegates now in Washington have united in a letter to the Chairman of the sub-committee, before whom is a somewhat sim ilar bill now' pending, earnestly urg ing its passage. It has been thought more advisable to effect the purpose, however, by mean of the present") new measure, which will simply re store the former law without express ly meaning Chinamen. Washington, Jan. 14. In tho Senate, Sprague, of Rhode Island, from the Committee on Public Land, reported favorably on the bill grant ing the Willamette Coast Bail road Company the right of way through public lands for a narrow-guage rail road . Kelly and Mitchell, of Oregon, presented resolutions from the Leg islative Assembly of the State of Oregon relating to the protection of salmon in the Columbia River; re ferred. Mitchell, from the Senate Com mittee on Claims, reported back tho bill for the relief of J. W. Drew, of Oregon, late Paymaster, with recom mendation that it pass. Washington, Jan. 15. In tho Senate, Kelly called np the Senate bill for the construction of the Port land, Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad and telegraph, and proceeded to ad dress the Senate in favor of the bill. At the expiration of the morning hour it was laid over. Cincinnati, Jan 16. A meeting of the leading citizens to-night adopted resolutions condemning the recent part played bv the militia in New Orleans Straws. The St. Lonis Di.opatcJi predicts that William Allen of Ohio will be nominated for President by the Dem ocratic National Convention in 1876 by acclamation. Exchange. There are many reasons why Gov ernor Allen should be elected the standard-bearer of the National De mocracy in 187G. The Day Book, on the news of his election as Gov ernor last year, predicted his nomi nation in 187G for President. He achieved the first victory since 18G0. He broke the backbone of the Re publican party, and rendered all sub sequent victories an easy matter. He was the first prominent Democrat of character and unsullied reputa tion that dared to go into an election upon a Democratic issue, eschewing all policy' dodges or cuddling propo sitions with " Liberal Republicans"' to help " pull through." Governor Allen placed himself upon square Jeffersonian doctrines, inferentially declaring that he would rather bo beaten, planted npon such a stand point, than win by honey-fugling with political tricksters and policy mongers; and he won handsomely, without placing himself in a position of indebtedness to any political Hes sians for the victory. To-day Gov. Allen is, by large odds, the most probable Presidential nominee of the Jeffersonian party iu 187G. There are other equally able men in tho party, but no one who has shown so great a degree of patriotic courage amid the clouds and darkness which have evelopedus for the past decade. X. Y. Day Booh. Young America is very forward. "I'll put a head on you," said a little gamin to a companion. "You try it," was the reply, "and your moth errs monkey will be a cherub in tea seconds." o O O o O O O- o o o o O O O O O O o o