less, in my judgment the whole question of
rriage snd divorce should be relegated to
the satnority of the natioal congress. At pres
ent the wide differences in the laws of the
different states on this subject result in scan
dals and abuses; and surely there is nothing
so vitally essential to the welfare o f the nation,
nothing around which the nation should so
ORBGON
bend itself to throw every safeguard, as the
SST ACADA
home life o f the average citizen. The change
would he good from every standpoint. In par
ticular it would be good because it would con
fer on the congress the power at once to
deal radically and efficiently with polygamy;
and this should be done whether or not mar
riage and divorce are dealt with. It is neither
safe nor proper to leave the question of polyg
amy to be dealt with by the several states.
Power to deal with it should be conferred on
the national government.
Let me once again call the attention o f the
congress to two subjects concerning which I
have frequently before communicated with
them.
One is the question o f developing
American shipping. I trust that a law embody
ing in substance the views, or a major part
of the views, expressed in the report on this
laid before the house at its last session
The main points brought out by the presi subject
will be passed.
I am well aware that in
dent in his annual message to congress, dcliv former years objectionable measures have been
proposed in reference to the encouragement of
•red December 4, follow:
I again recommend a law prohibiting all American shipping; but it seems to me that the
Corporations from contributing to the campaign proposed measure is as nearly unobjectionable
can be.
expenses of any party. Such a bill has al as I any
especially call your attention to the sec
ready passed one house of congress. Let in« ond subject, the condition of our currency
dividual* contribute as they desire; but let us laws. The national bank act has ably served
prohibit in effective fashion all corporations a great purpose in aiding the enormous busi
from making contributions for any political ness development o f the country, and within
purpose, directly or indirectly.
ten years there has been an increase in circu
Another bill which has just passed one house lation per capita from $21.41 to $33.08. For
of congress and which it is urgently necessary several years evidence has been accumulating
should be enacted into law is that conferring that additional legislation is needed. The re
upon the government the right of appeal in currence o f each crop season emphasizes the
criminal cases on questions o f law. This right defects s f the present laws.
exists in many of the states; it exists in the
I do not press any especial plan. Various
District of Columbia by act of the congress. plans have recently been proposed by expert
I t is of course net proposed that in any case committees o f bankers.
a verdict for the defendant on the merits
I most earnestly hope that the bill to pro
should be set aside. A failure to pass it will vide a lower tariff for or else absolute free
result in seriously hampering ihe government trade in Philippine products will become a
In its effort to obtain justice, especially against law.
No harm will come to any American
wealthy individuals or corporations who do industry; and while there will be some small
wrong; and may also prevent the government but real material benefit to the Filipinos, the
from obtaining justice for wage-workers who main benefit will come by the showing made as
are not themselves able effectively to contest to our purpose to do all in our power for their
a case where the judgment of an inferior court welfare. So far our action in the Philippines
has been against them.
has been abundantly justified, not mainly and
In connection with this matter I would like indeed not primarily because o f the added
to call attention to the very unsatisfactory dignity it has given us as a nation by proving
state of our criminal law, resulting in large that we are capable honorably and efficiently
part from the habit of setting aside the judg to bear the international burdens which a
ments of inferior courts on technicalities ab mighty people should bear, but even more
solutely unconnected with the merits of the because of the immense benefit that has come
ease, and where there is no attempt to show to the people of the Philippine Islands.
that there has been any failure of substantial
American citizenship should be conferred on
justice.
the citizens o f Porto Rico. The harbor of
In my l u t message I suggested the enact- San Tuan in Porto Rico should be dredged
ment ot s law in connection with the issuance and improved. The expense o f the federal
of injunctions, attention having been sharply court of Porto Rico should be met from the
drawn to the matter by the demand that the federal treasury. The administration o f the
right of applying injunctions in labor cases affairs o f Porto Rico, together with those of
should be wholly abolished. It is at least the Philippines, Hawaii and our other insular
doubtful whether a law abolishing altogether possessions, should all he directed under one
the use of the injunctions in such cases would executive department; by preference, the de
stand the test of the courts: in which case partment o f state or the department o f war.
of course the legislation would be ineffective.
The needs of Hawaii are peculiar; every
Moreover. I believe it would be wrong alto aid should be given the islands; and our efforts
gether to prohibit the use of injunctions. But should be unceasing to develop them along
so far as possible the abuse of the power the lines o f a community of small freeholders,
should be provided against by some such law not o f great planters with coolie-tilled estates
as I advocated last year.
Situated as this territory is, in the middle of
Lawlessness grows by what it feeds upon, the Pacific, there are duties imposed upon this
and when mobs begin to lynch for rape they small community which do not fall in like de
speedily extend the sphere of their ooerationr gree or manner upon any other American com
and lynch for many other kinds of crimes, munity.
This warrants our treating it dif
•o that two-thirds of the lynchings are not ferently from the way in which we treat ter
for rape at all; while a considerable propor ritories contiguous to or surrounded by sister
tion of the individuals lynched are innocent of territories or other states, and justifies the
all crime. In my judgment, the crime of rape setting aside of a portion o f our revenues to
should always be punished with death, as in be expended for educational and internal im
the case with murder; assault with intent to provements therein.
commit rape should be made a capital crime,
Alaska’s needs have been partially met. but
at leaat in the discretion of the court; and pro there must he a complete reorganization o f the
vision should be made by which the punish governmental system, as I have before^ indi
ment may follow immediately upon the heels cated to you. I ask your especial attention to
of the offense; while the trial should be so this. Our fellow citizens who dwell on the
conducted that the victim need not be wan shores o f Puget sound with characteristic
tonly shamed while giving testimony, and that energy are arranging to hold in Seattle the
the leaat possible publicity shall be given to the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition. Its special
aims include the upbuilding o f Alaska and the
^ I* call your attention to the need of passing development of American commerce on the Pa
the bill limiting the number of hours of em cific ocean. This exposition, in its purposes
ployment of railroad employes. The measure and scope, should appeal not only to the peo
ta a very moderate one and
I can conceive
ot of the Pacific slope, but to the people o f the
ple
no serious objection to it. Indeed, so far as United States at large. Alaska since It was
It Is In our power, it should be our aim bought has yielded to the government $11,000,-
steadily to reduce the number of hours of 000 of revenue, and has produced nearly
labor, with aa a goal the general introduc $300,000,000 in gold, furs and fish.
When
tion of an eight-hour day.
properly developed it will become in large de
The horrors incident to the employment of gree a land of homes. The countries border
young children in factories or at work any ing the Pacific ocean have a population more
where are a blot on our civilisation. It is numerous than that of all the countries of
true that each state must ultimately settle the Europe;
their
annual
foreign
commerce
uestion in its own way; but a th< ugh
amounts to over $3,000,000,000, o f which the
cial invesigation of the matter. wim the
w e ie - share of the United States is some $700,000,-
suits published
ublishcd broadcast,
Droaacasi, wouia
would greatly heip
help 000.
I f this trade were thoroughly under
toward arovsing the public conscience and se stood and pushed by our manufacturers and
curing unity of state action in the matter.
producers, the industries nut only o f the Pa
Among the excellent laws which the con cific slope, but o f all our country, and partic
gress passed at the last session was an em ularly o f our cotton-growing states, would be
ployers’ liability law. It was a marked step greatly benefited. O f course, in order to get
In advance to get the recognition of em these benefits, we must treat fairly the coun
ployers’ lisbility on the statute books; but tries with which we trade.
the law did not go far enough. In spite of f Especially do we need to remember our
gll precautions exercised by employers there duty to the stranger within our gates. It is
gre unavoidable accidents and even deaths the sure mark o f a low civilization, a low
involved in nearly every line of business con morality, to abuse or discriminate against or
nected with the mechanic arts. If the entire in any way humiliate such stranger who has
trade risk la placed upon the employer he will come here lawfully and who is conducting
promptly and properly add it to the legitimate himself properly. To remember this is incum
coot of production and aaaess it proportion bent on every American citizen, and it is of
ately upon the consumers of his commodity. course peculiarly incumbent on every govern
It It therefore clear to my mind that the law ment official, whether o f the nation or o f the
should place this entire “risk of a trade’’ upon several states.
the employer. Neither the federal law nor. as
I am prompted to say this by the attitude
far as I am Informed, the state laws dealing of hostility here and there assumed toward
with the question of employers' liability are the Japanese in this country. This hostility
sufficiently thoroughgoing.
The federal law is sporadic and is limited to a very few places.
should o* course Include employes in navy- Nevertheless, it is most discreditable to us as
yards, arsenals and the like.
a people, and it may be fraught with the
It Is not wise that the nation should gravest consequences to the nation. To no
alienate its remaining coal lands. I have tem other country has there been such an increas
porarily withdrawn from settlement all the ing number o f visitors from this land as to
lands which the geological survey has indi Tapan.
In return, Japanese have come here
cated aa containing, or in all probability con In great numbers. They are — elcome, socially
taining coal. The question, however, can be and intellectually, in all our colleges and in
rly settled only by legislation, which in stitutions o f higher learning, in all our pro
udgment should provi
provide for the wit*- fessional and social bodies. The overwhelm
judgment
drswal of these lands from sale or from ing mass o f our people cherish a lively regard
save in certain especial circumstances, and respect for the people o f Japan, and in
The ownership would tAen
then remain in the almost every quarter o f tne union the stranger
United States, which should not, however, from Japan is treated as he deserves; that is.
mmd| them,
*
Ttnit them to be he is treated as the stranger from any part
attempt to work
but * peri
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worked by private
individuals t under a royalty of civilized Europe is and deserves to be
______ _____government
system,
the government keeping
keepin such control
treated. But here and there a most unworthy
aa to permit it to see that no excessive price feeling has manifested itself toward the Jap
was charged consumers. It would, of course, anese— the feeling that has been shown in
be as necessary to supervise the rates charged shutting them out from the common schools
by the cotrmon carriers to transport the pro in San Francisco, and in mutterings against
duct as the rates charged by those who mine them in one or two other places, because of
It; and the supervision must extend to the their efficiency as workers. T o shut them out
conduct of the common carriers, so that they from the public schools is a wicked absurdity,
shall In no way favor one competitor at the when there are no first-class colleges in the
expense of another. The withdraws! of these land, including the universities and colleges
coal lands would constitute a policy analogous of California, which do not gladly welcome
to that which has been followed in withdraw Japanese students and on which Japanese stu
ing the forest lands from ordinary settle dents do not reflect credit. I ask fair treat
ment. The coal, like the forests, should be ment for the Japanese as I would ask fair
treated as the property of the public, and its treatment for Cíermans
Germans or
c Enelishment, French-
disposal shoulcf be under conditions which men, Russians, or Italians, I ask it as due to
would inure to the benefit of the public as a humanity and civilization. I ask it as due to
whole.
ourselves because we must act uprightly toward
The passage of the railway rate bill, and all men.
Last August an insurrection broke out in
only to a leas degree the passage of the pure-
food bill, and the provision for increasing and Cuba which it speedily grew evident that the
rendering more effective the national control existing Cuban government was powerless to
over the beef-packing industry, mark an im quell. This government was repeatedly asked
portant advance in the proper direction. In If boys and girls are trained merely in literary
my Judgment it will in the end be advisable accomplishments, to the total exclusion of in
In connection with the packing house inspec dustrial, manual and technical training, the
tion law to provide for putting a date on the tendency is to unfit them for industrial work
label and for charging the cost of inspection and to make them reluctan* to go into it, or
unfitted to do well if they do go into it. This
to the packers.
The question of taxation is difficult in any is a tendency which should be strenuously
country, but it is especially difficult in ours, combated. Our industrial development depends
with its Federal system of government. Some largely upon technical education, including in
taxes should on every ground be levied in s this term all industrial education, from that
•mall district for use in that district. Thus which fits a man to be a good mechanic, a good
the taxation of real estate ia peculiarly one carpenter, or blacksmith, to that which fits a
for the immediate locality in which the real man to do the greatest engineering feat. The
•state Is found. But there are many kinds of skilled mechanic, the skilled workman, can
taxes which esn only be levied by the general best become such by technical industrial edu
government so as to produce the best results, cation.
because, among other reasons, the attempt to
The department o f agriculture has broken
impose them in one particular state too often new ground in many directions, and year by
results merely ia driving the corporation or year Tt finds how it can improve its methods
Individual affected to some other locality or and develop fresh usefulness.
Its constant
other state. The national government has long by the then Cuban government to intervene,
derived its chief revenue from a tariff on im and finally was notified by the president of
ports snd from sn internal or excise tax. In Cuba that he intended to resign; that none of
addition to theee there is every reason why. the other constitutional officers would con
when next our system of taxation is revised, sent to carry on the government, and that he
die national government should impose a grad was powerless to maintain order. It was evi
uated inheritance tax, and, if possible, a grad dent that chaos was impending.
Thanks to
uated Income tax.
the preparedness of our navy. I was able im
The industrial and agricultural classes must mediately to send enough ships to Cuba to
work together, capitalists snd wageworkers prevent the situation from becoming hopeless.
must work together, if the best work of which
In accordance with the so-called Platt
die country is capable ia to be done. It is amendment, which was «..nbodied in the con
probable that a thoroughly efficient system of atitution o f Cuba. I proclaimed a provisional
education cornea next to the influence of pat government for the island, the secretary of
riotism in bringing about national success of war acting as provisional governor until he
this kind. Our federal form of government, could be replaced by Mr. Magoon; troops
ao fruitful of advantage to our people in cer were sent to support them snd to relieve tne
tain w«vs, in other ways undoubtedly limits navy, the expedition being handled with most
our national eneviiveness. It is not possible, satisfactory speed and efficiency.
The pro
for instance, for the national government to visional government has left the personnel of
taka the lead in technical industrial education, the old government and the old laws, so far
to see that the public school system of this as might he, unchanged, and will thus ad
country develops on all its technical, indus minister the island for a few months until
trial. scientific and commercial side«.
This tranquility can be restored, a new election
must be left primarily to the several states, properly held, and a new government inaugu
effort ia to give the governmental assistance rated. Peace has come in the island; and the
In the most effective way; that ia. through as harvesting o f the sugar-cane crop, the great
sociations of farmers rather than to or through crop of the island, is about to proceed.
individual farmers. It is also striving to co
The United States wishes nothing o f Cuba
ordinate its work witk the agricultural de except that It shall prosper morally and ma
pertinents of the severs! states, and so far as terially. and wishes nothing of the Cubans save
Its own work is educational, to co-ordinate it that they shall he able to preserve order
with the work of other educational authorities. among themselves and therefore to preserve
Great progress has already been made among their independence. I f the elections become a
farmers by the creation of farmers’ institutes, farce, and if the insurrectionary habit be
dairy associations, of breeders’ associations, comes confirmed in the island, it ia abso
ticumtral associations and the like.
The lutely out o f the question that the island
department can and will co-operate with all should continue Independent; and the United
such associations, and it must have their help States, which has assumed the sponsorship be
If Its own work ie to he dooe in the moet fore the civilised world for Cubans career aa a
efficient style.
nation, would again have to intervene and to
Much Is now being done for the states of see that the government was managed in such
(be Rocky mountains snd the great plains orderly fashion aa to secure the safety o f life
through
gh the development of the national policy and prop
l| RO fOV-
of irrigation and forest
In many
ma
parts
, . . .. of South
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America there has
it of our in- been much misunderstanding o f the attitude
s r s s u s t policy for the
l fruitful of *nd purposes of the United States toward the
*
1 conditions has 1
of the White other American republics. An idea h%d be
than this. The
Appalachian regions come prevalent that our assertion of the
and they can not he Monroe doctrine Implied or carried with it
of the states in which they an assumption of superiority and o f a right
representatives In the con- to exercise some kind of protectorate over
by the national the countries to whoae territory that doctrine
applies.
Nothing could he farther from the
it ie to truth. Yet that impression continued to he a
serious harrier to good understanding,
to
MESSAGEJN BRIEF
Importait hints of President’s
Cemmulcatlen te Congress
Q
friendly intercourse, to the introduction of
American capital and the extension of Ameri
can trade. The impression was ao widespread
that apparently it could not be reached by any
ordinary means.
Jt was part of Secretary Root's mission to
dispel this unfounded impression, and there
is just cause to believe that he has succeeded.
1 have just returned from a trip to Panama
rnd shall report io you at length later on
the whole subject of the Panama canal.
The destruction o f the Pribilof islands fur
seals by pelagic selling still continues. The
regulations have proved plainly inadequate to
accomplish the object of protection and prescr
vation o f the fur seals, and for a long time
this government has been trying in vain to
secure from Great Britain such revision and
modification o f the regulations as were con
templated and Drovided for*by the award of
the Tribunal o f Paris.
The process of destruction has been accel
erated during recent years by the appearance
of a number of Japanese vessels engaged in
pelagic sealing. As these vessels have not
been bound even by the inadequate limitations
prescribed by the Tribunal o f Paris, they have
paid no attention either to the close season or
to the sixty-mile limit imposed upon the Cana
dians, and have prosecuted their work up to
the very islands themselves.
We have not relaxed our efforts to secure an
agreement with Great Britain for adequate
protection o f the seal herd, and negotiations
with Japan for the same purpose are in
progress.
In case we are compelled to^ abandon the
hope of making arrangements with other gov
ernments to put an end to the hideous cruelty
now Incident to pelagic sealing, It will be a
question for your serious consideration how
far we should continue to protect and main
tain the seal herd on land with the result of
continuing such a practice, and whether it
is not better to end the practice by extermi
nating the herd ourselves in the most humane
way possible.
The United States navy is the surest guar
antor o f peace which this country possesses.
It is earnestly to be wished that we would
profit by the teachings of history in this mat
ter. A strong and wise people will study its
own failures no less than its triumphs, for
there is wisdom to be learned from tne study
o f both, o f the mistake as well as of the suc
cess.
I do not ask that we continue to increase
our navy. I ask merely that it be maintained
at its present strength; and this can be done
only it we replace the obsolete and outworn
ships by new and good <*nes, the equals of
any afloat in any navy. To ston building ships
for one year means that for that year the
navy goes back instead o f forward. The old
battleship Texas, for instance, would now be
of little service In a stand-up fight with a
powerful adversary.
The ola double-turret
monitors have outworn their usefulness, while
it was a waste of money to build the modern
single-turret monitors. All these ships should
be replaced by others; and this can be done
by a well-settled program of providing for the
building each year o f at least one first-class
battleship equal in size and speed to any that
any nation is at the same time building.
Reliigoua utrife is assured in France
Mayor Schmitz wants the time of his
trial extended.
Canada is also having trouble with
Japanese coolies.
The pope declares nothing will stop
the struggle in France except victory for
the church.
John Ilarrett is almost certain to be
chosen director of the bureau of Ameri
can republics.
Andrew Carnegie has given $32,000
towards rebuilding the college recently
burned at Kankakee, 111.
Mrs. Storer says she is the one who
brought Roosevelt to the front and he
owes everything he is to her.
Lands around the Salton sink, Cal.,
will he flooded for a year as the result
of the recent break in the dam.
OFFICIALS INDICTED
Harriman and Goold Unes Most
Answer In Coart.
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a .
A ccu sed
of
S tealing
T h o u sa n d s
A c r n g 'o f C o a l L ard in Utah
and W yom ing.
(C on tin u ed from last w eek)
railroad and coal corporations and their
officials the Federal grand jury began
the work of bringing to justice the men
who are accused of stealing thousands
of acres of coal land in Utah and
W yoming and using their connection
with the railroads to establish a monop
oly of coal mining and dealing in the
intermountain country.
Tlieae indictments are only the first
in what may prove to be a long
series
for the grand jury is to resume its
in
quisition soon after Christmas.
The grand jury’s partial report
was
made to United States District Judge
John A. Marshall.- - The indictment
against the Harriman companies em
brace the Union Pacific,
the
Oregon
Short Line, the Union Pacific Coal com
pany, Everett Buckingham, general su
perintendent of the Oregon Short Line
and a man named Moore.
The indict
ment ciiarges violation of the interstate
commerce law, alleging discrimination
against D. J. Sharp, a coal dealer in
Salt Sake City, who was forced out of
business after he had cut pricea below
the prices charged by other dealers in
coal.
The indictment against the represen
tatives of the Gould interests embraces
the Utah Fuel company, H . G . W il
liams, general manager of this company,
Robert Forrester, the company’s geolo
gist, W . R. Foster, secretary to Robert
Forester, Alexander M. Cowie, general
manager of the company’s Wasatch
store at Sunnyside, Utah, Elroy N.
Clark, the Utah Fuel company’s attor
ney at Denver, and George A. Moore,
the company’s agent at Denver.
They
are charged with defrauding and at
tempting to defraud the United States
government, the charges being based on
the methods pursued in acquiring title
to coal lands in Utah.
T o Float Philippine Bonds.
New York, Dec. 8.— An underwriting
syndicate for $15,000,000 Philippine
railway 4 per cent 30-vear bonds, to be
guaranteed by the Philippine govern
ment, has been formed with W illiam
Salmon A Co. as syndicate managers.
The thousand miles of railroad to be
built are distributed over the islands of
Panay, Negros and Cebu.
W ork has
been under way since June last, when a
party of 15 engineers arrived in the
Philippines and surveys were begun.
Construction was begun in Cebu No
vember 13, and in Panay November 17.
P srk in s S ta n d s by S ts ts .
Washington, Dec. 8 .— Senator Per
kins, who talked with the president to
day about the Japanese situation, claims
that the people of San Francisco have
not violated either 'the letter or the
spirit of the law regarding the admis
sion of Japanese to schools for white
children. He said the president will
learn that the people of the Pacific
coast are unanimous in sentiment and
will bow to those sentiments and short
ly enter negotistlons with Japan for the
exclusion of peons and cooliee from this
country.
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ponents to designate the township,
range, section, part of section, distance,
course, bearing, and direeetion, and also
the number of lots and blocks, or part
thereof.
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(Description book— Contents.)
(N o change.)
(Trust property— Representative char
acter of holder designated.)
Section 27. That section 3073 of the
Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled
and annotated by Hon. ( ha rips B. Bel
linger and William W . Cotton, be and
the same hereby is amended to read as
follows:
When any person is assessed as trus
tee, guardian, executor, or administrat
or a desingation of his representative
character shall be added to his name,
and such assessment sliall be entered in
a separate line from his individual as
sessment, and he sliall be asssesed for
the real and personal property held by
him in such representative character at
the full value thereof.
(No change, except to require that personal,
as well as real, property sliall be assessed at
full value.)
(Assessment and taxation of undivided
interest in real or personal property.)
Section 28.
An undivided interest
in lands or lots, or other real property,
may be assessed and taxed as such.
Any person desiring to pay the tax on
an undivided interest in any real prop
erty may do so by paying the tax col
lector a sum equal to sueh proportion
of the ent ire taxes charged on the entire
traet as the interest paid on bears to
the whole.
(N ew; but rompare Revenue Laws Washing-
Ion, 1906, section 91.)
V a lu e o f m a ch in ery and equ ipm en t
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Mr
N u m ber o f m i l e s ...............
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N um ber o f m i l e s ...............
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N nm ber of m i l e s ...............
V a lu e .....................................
Mr
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Mr
Shares o f s tock ..........................................
(No change, except to provide that porta and
other municipal taxing agenciea, If any, ahall
be given columns in the roll.)
(Form of assessment roll).
Section 34. That section 3077 of the
Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled
and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel
linger and William W . Cotton, be and
the same hereby is amended to read as
follows:
The assessment roll shall be made
out in tabular form, in separate col
umns, with appropriate heads, after the
manner specified below, with such ad
ditional columns as may by law be pre
scribed or as may be deemed necessary,
and for convenience may be divided in
to parts so that assessments of lands,
lots, or other real and personal estates,
appear in separate parts thereof, as
nearly as convenient in the following
form, varying the same as the circum
stances may require:
(What shall be sufficient description in
assessment.)
Section 30. That section 3075 of the
Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled
and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel
linger and William W . Cotton, be and
the same hereby is amended to read as
follows:
(To be continued next week)
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On a motor car tour of the County
Mayo, which the Earl of Altamont
made with "M alrrtln,” an Irish gos
soon, for general assistant, they pass
ed a neat little cottage, with a pretty
bit of garden.
“ Who lives there?” asked the earl.
“ Is It there?” Malrrtln said, indig
nantly. “ Sure, doesn’t onld Pat Mur
phy live there.”
"Oh, does he?” said the earl, not
knowing In the least, as he confesses
In English Country Life, who “ould
Pat Murphy” was.
“ ’Deed he does,” said Malrrtln, “ and
him a hundhred If he's a day— so he
LOTS.
It shall be sufficient to describe lands I
in all proceedings relative to the assess
ing, collecting, advertising, or selling |
the same for taxes, by initial letter, ab
breviations, figures, fractions, and ex
He
V a lu e o f m erch a n d ise and stock In
t r a d e .........................................................
V a lu e o f farm m a c h in e r y , im p le
(Division of assessment made upon
m ents, w agons, e t c ......... .’ ..................
W
whole tract— Payment of tax on part
of traet.)
H ou seh old fu rn itu re, e t c .....................
Section 32. Any person desiring to
N um ber o f horses . . . .> ..........................
pay taxes on any part or parts of any
real estate heretofore or hereafter as
M-
sessed as one parcel or tract may do so
N um ber o f ca ttle .....................................
by applying to the tax collector, who
must carefully investigate and ascer
V a lu e ...........................................................
__ 1»
tain the relative or proportionate value
N um ber o f sh eep .....................................
said part bears to the whole tract as
sessed, on which basis the assessment
must be divided and the tax collected
N um ber o f s w in e ......................................
accordingly: Provided, where the as
sessed valuation of the tract to be divid
ed exceeds $2,000, a notice stating the
division must be sent to the known
Gross valu e of all p r o p e r t y .................
.. •*
several owners interested in the tract,
by registered mail, unless they all ap
ply to the tax collector to divide the as
T otal valu e o f ta x a b le p r o p e r t y .......
sessment; and if no protest against said
division be filed with the tax collector
(Provides that the roll m a r be divided foi
within fifteen days from date of notice, convenience. The form of roll used by nearly
all
the counties is supplied by the secretary ol
the tax collector shall duly accept pay state
merely because it is railed for, and it it
ment and issue erceipt on the appor called for merely because it has here-to-fore
been
used.
basedonthesch emeofassessment
tionment as by him made.
In eases which was It in is affect
prior to tl »e act of 1901, and
where protest is filet! to said division, is better designed to the old la w than the pres
ent.
Several
counties
the state including
the matter shall be heard by the coun Multnomah have found in ch an
j'es from the com
ty court at its next regular session for mon form necessary, and pro< sure special form;
o
f
rolls
designed
to
meet
tnei
r needs and expe
transaction of county business, and the rience. The forms recomme nded
herein are
county court shall make a final division based upon the experience of such counties
compared
with
the
present
u
jual
form
of roll,
of the said assessment, and the tax col and are designed to permit a d ivision of the
bock
lector shall collect, accept, and receipt into parts, dividing the roll as to lots, lands,
and
personal
property
if
desired.)
for said taxes as determined and or
dered by the county court.
(Additional columns in r o ll— Entries to
(N ew; com p a res somewhat similar statute
be made therein.)
in Washington.)
Section 35. That section 3078 of the
( Lands of unknown owner — How des Codes and Statutes of O regon, compiled
cribed).
and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel
Section 33. That section 3076 of the linger and William W . Cotton, be and
Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled the same hereby is ame nded to read as
and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel follows:
linger and William W . Cotton, be and
In the assessment and tax rolls of the
the same hereby is amended to read several counties, in add’ition to the col
as follows:
umns elsewhere provi ded for, there
When the name of the owner of shall be added columns head respective
lands or lots liable to taxation is un ly “ Cities, ” “ School Districts, ”
known, such lands or lots shall be de “ Amount City Tax,” “ Amount School
scribed as that of unknown owner or District Tax,” and if there be a port or
unknown owners, and the value thereof other municipal taxing agency in sueh
set down in the assessment roll, in the county, additional columns for the name
same manner that lands of known own of such port or other municipal taxing
ers are required to be described, and agency, and for the amount of such port
the value thereof designated. If the or other taxes. It shall be the duty cf
property on such assessment roll shall the several county assessors in making
be arranged in the order of its loca their assessments to enter opposite each
tion, and not in alphabetical arrange item of porperty assessed, in it* appre
ment by the owner’s name, then the priate column, the name of the incor
lands or lots of such unknown owners porated city or town, and the number
shall be inserted In their proper place of the school district, and the name of
according to location.
the port or other municipal taxingagen-
(Omits «11 reference to the occupancy of land cy, if any, in which each item of prop
to avoid “ Blackburn v. Lewix" 45 Or. 432, 77 erty assessed is taxable.
Pan. 746.)
(City, village, or town in which lots
are situated to be named.)
Section 20. When lots are situated
in any city, village, or town, a plat of
which shall have been recorded,the city,
village, or town in which the same are
situated shall be specified in the assess
ment roll.
H ow
City o f ...............................................
(N ew: compare Revcuue Law« Washington,
1905, section 47.)
(Permits the assessment roll to be divided in
to parts for convenience, the (orm of roll in
present common use teing a blanket (orm, in
cluding real and personal property, on one
page, and being unnecessarily euinbersome
and unweildy. Assessor may not assess more
than 160 acres in a single traet.)
(Permits use of a number, referring to a de
scription book maintained as a permanent rec
ord in the tax collector’s office in lieu o f a
metes ami bounds description. This provision
Is borrowed from Washington.)
............
C h aracter o f business...........................
Section 3J. There shall be kept in
the office of the tax collector a book, to
be known as the description book, which
shall be arranged by order of sections
or land claims, townships, and ranges.
The assessor may enter therein, under
the proper numerical heading, any tract
of land by a metes and bounds descrip
tion thereof, situated within sueh land
claim or section, and shall give to each
traet of land so described and entered a
number, to be designated as Tax No.
------ , and the tracts in each sueh sec
tion and land claim shall be numbered
consecutively. Such number sluill be
placed on the assessment and tax rolls
to indicate that certain piece of real es
tate bearing such number in the de
scription book, and described by metes
and bounds under such number in the
description book; and in all proceed
ings for the assessment, levy, or collec
tion of taxes, or sale of property, or
other proceedings for collection of de
linquent taxes, said designation shall
be a sufficient description, and it shall
not be necessary to enter in sueh pro
ceedings a description of such tract by
metes and bounds.
(Assessment roll— What to contain.)
Section 25. That section 3071 of the
Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled
and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bel
linger and William W . Cotton, be and
the same hereby is amended to read as
follows:
The assessor shall set down in the as
sessment roll, in separate columns, and
according to the best information he
can obtain—
1. The names of all taxable persons
in his county assessable by him.
2. A description of each tract or par
cel of land to be taxed, specifying under
separate heads the township, range,
and section in which the land lies, in
trates not exceeding a quarter section
according to the government survey, or
if divided into lots and blocks, then the
number of the lot and block.
3 The number of acres and parts of
an acre, as near as the same can be as
certained, unless the same be divided
into blocks and lots.
4. The full cash value of each parcel
of land taxed.
5. The taxable personal property
owned by or to be taxed to such person
as provided by law, and the full cash
value thereof, and exemptions allowed.
6. The total valuation of all properly
taxed, real and personal.
For ocnvenience the assessment roll
may be divided so as to show separate
ly assessments of rial property or lands
and lots, and assessments of personal
property.
(Real property— How described.)
Section 29. That section 3074 of the
Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled
and annotated by Hon. diaries B. Bel
linger and William W . Cotton, lie and
the same hereby is amended to read as
follows;
If the land assessed be less or other
than a subdivision according to the
United States survey, unless the same
be divided into lots and blocks so that
it can be definitely described, it shall
be described by giving the boundaries
thereof, or by reference to a description
thereof by number as contained in the
description book as hereinafter provided
or in sueh other manner as to make the
description certain.
j
N am e o f t a x p a y e r ..................
(No change, except to amplify the nermiMive
abbreviations to correspond with those ordi
narily used.)
(B. dt C. Comp., 3156, without change.)
Salt Lake, Dec. 8. — W ith the in
dictment of the Harriman and Gould
te
si
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A .A . A - a . A A A A A . A A. A . A . A . A . A A . A A . A . A .A . A . A . A . A A . A A A A . A A . A A A A A . A A . A . A A A . A A A M
FORCED SMALL DEALERS TO QUIT
ington navy yard will receive an in
Washington, Dec. 8.— It cost $19,-
crease in wages of 10 per cent Janu 604,749 to keep the ships of Uncle
ary 1.
Sam’ s navy in commission during the
President Roosevelt has expressed the past fiscal year, according to the annual
hope that a treaty can be negotiated
report of Paymaster General H . T. B.
which will exclude Japanese coolies
Harris.
from the United States.
The building of new ships, including
There is little hope of ex-Senator
Brown, of Utah, surviving the wound harbor and material cost, during the
inflicted with a levolver in the hands last fiscal year, $31,764,566, and repairs
of a woman he had wronged.
to ships $5,550,309. The sum of $262,-
School teachers of San Francisco have 034 was expended on the naval militia
of the states.
formed a union.
As an evidence of the thrift of blue
New York bank reserves are far be jackets, the paymaster general shows
low the legal lim it.
that in the past fiscal year they deposit
Harriman plans to secure control of ed with the paymasters $636,980; they
were repaid $734,867, which, with ac
Chicago’s electrical appliances.
cumulated interest on the total savings
The St. Paul railroad has made offi on repayment, amounted to $951,652.
cial announcement of its route to the
The paymaster general says that, in
Pacific coast.
view of the past unsatisfactory experi
Bellamy Storer has written an angry ence with commutations of rations, and
letter to President Roosevelt about his particularly as the new navy ration is
considered sufficient in all respects to
dismissal as ambassador to Austria.
Many rich men of San Francisco are actually subsist the men, it would seem
coming to the front with money to that the time has surely come whon
help Mayor Schmitz out of his trou commutation should cease.
His report expresses
gratification
hies.
over the practical elimination of the
middleman and speculator in bidding
for naval supplies.
PORTLAND M ARKETS.
27%@>
Proposed Oregon Tax Law
(Assessor to give certificate of assess
went— Penalty for refusing.)
Section 24 . Any person assessed for
any year may demand of the assessor
an official certificate of that fact, and
upon the refusal of the assessor to give
the same he sliall be fined in the sum
of $700, to be collected by the person
of
demanding the same in anuction in the
name of the party injured before any
justice of ihe peace in said county.
C O S T O F M A IN T A IN IN G N A V Y .
Young Teddy Roosevelt is having
hard work these days being initiated
into one of Harvard’s secret societies.
N early S 2 0 . 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 S p en t on S h ip s
in C o m m ie sio n .
Nearly 5,000 employes ot the W ash
Butter — Fancy creamery,
32 4 c per pound.
Kggs— Oregon ranch, 3 5 ^ 3 7 4 ® per
dozen.
Poultry — Average old hens, 13(8*
1 3 4 c per pound; mixed chickens, 1 2 4
(8)13c; spring, 1 8@ 1 4 c; old roosters,
8(#i 10c; dressed chickens, 14 (8* 15c;
turkeys, live, 17 (8) 1 7 4 c 5 turkeys,
dressed, choice, 21(8 2 2 4 c ; geese, live,
10c; ducks, 15(8 16c.
Fruits — Apples, common to choice,
50(f»75c per box; choice to fancy, $1(8)
2 .5 0 ; pears. $l(8.vl.50;
cranberries,
$12(<vl3per Imrrel; persimmons, $1.50
per box.
Vegetables— Turnips, 00c(8 $1 per
sack; carrots, 00c<8 $1 per sack; beets,
$1 .25(<iil.50 per sack; horseradish, 9(X>
10c per pound; sweet potatoes, 2
per pound; cabbage, 1 q (n ilq c
per pound; cauliflower, $1 .25 per dox-
en; celery, 756490c perdo«en; lettuce,
bead, 30c per doxen; onions, 1 0 @ 1 2 q c
per dozen; hell peppers, 8c; pumpkins,
1
per pound; spinach, 4@ 5c per
pound; parsley, 10® 1 5 c; squash, 1 @
1 q c per pound.
Onions — Oregon, 75c@ $l per hun-
Ired.
Potatoes — Oregon Burbanks, fancy,
D 0 c g | l; common, 75(3|8Sc.
Wheat — Club, 656466c; hluestem,
67(«1180; valley, 666487c; red, 63c.
Oats — No. 1 white, $ 2 5 0 25.50;
gray, $24.50(325.
Barley — Feed, $21(321,50 per ton;
brewing, $22.50; rolled, $22.50(324.
Rye— $ 1 .4 0 ® 1 .45 per cwt.
Corn — W hole, $26; cracked, $27
per ton.
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $11(3
12 per ton; Hasten. Oregon timothy,
$146116; clover, $7618; cheat, $7.50(3
8 .5 0 ; grain hay, $7.50648.50; alfalfa.
$11.50; vetch hay, $7647.60.
Veal— Dressed, 5 q 0 8 q < - per ponnd.
Beef — Dressed balls, 1 64 2c per
ponnd; cows, 4 fs5 c; country steers,
6(35 q c .
Mutton — Dressed, fancy, 8648c per
ponnd; ordinary, 6<s»7c.
Pork— Dressed, 6648c per ponnd.
Hops— 1 1 0 1 4 c per pound, according
to qnality.
Wool— Kastern Oregon average beet,
136418c pet pound, according to shrink
age: valley, 20(a)21, kecording to fine
ness; mohair, choice, 2 6 0 2 8 c .
LANDS
< i
T elegraph
and tele
R ollin g
p hon e
stock
lines
The Estacada News
Is.”
“ One hundred years old !” the earl
said. In astonishment.
“ Deed and he Is,” reiterated Malrr
tln. “ He's been dead these three years,
and he was 98 when he died.”
W a r s lx g
tin .
“ Running for any office this year?”
asked the man with the bulboui nose.
“ Not yet.” answered the man with tbs
cinnamon beard. “ But I’m legging for
it.”
S core«.
Gen. French, the English officer who
Bad B re a k .
represented that country at the recent
“ Back from de east, eh?” greeted the
French maneuvers, received the fol highwayman. “ How did you make
lowing letter after his triumphant re ont ?”
turn from the Boer w ar:
“ Pretty rough.” replied the
pick
“ My Dear French: You are a great pocket. “ I got snapped up an' de judge
British general.
I want your auto waa Just about to give me six months
graph ; but. whatever you do, don't let I when I thought I’d get off by telling
your secretary write i t ”
him I was an iceman.”
Needless to say. says an exchange, j
“ Did de game work?”
the boy got the autograph, and a j
“ I should say not! When he heard
ilgned photograph of bis hero to boot
I was an iceman he gave me a year ”
Battle With Pulajannh.
Manila, Dec. 8.— A column of con
stabulary and troops encountered a
hand of Pulajanes between I.aPai and
Terragnna, on the island of I.eyte, De
cember 5.
In the battle that followed
four soldiers were killed and eight
were wounded.
Among the wounded
was Lieutenant Ralph P. Yates, Jr.
His wounds are not serious. Thirty
Pulajanes were killed and many wound
W i l l i s * ta S e tt le .
“ Do yon seriously mean, madam.” ask
ed and captured.
No details of the
ed tbs claim agent, "that yon are going
tight have been received.
to sne the company for $100.000 damages
because yon were alightly injured in an
Compromise on Ship Subsidy.
unavoidable train wreck?”
Washington, Dec. 8. — Compromise
” 1 certainly do.”
on the ship suhsidy hill seems to he in
“ That ia preposterous. I am authorised
sight.
At the meeting of the house to settle with yon. madam, for $1.000. We
committee Chairman Grosvenor sug will never pay 1 cent more.”
gested an amendment to the Oallinger
"W ell, then." abe rejoined, with a sigh
bill which will limit subsidies to the o f resignation, ” 1 suppose 1*11 have to
South American and Oriental trade. compromise on $30,000.” — Chicago Trib
The amended hill will be in harmony une.
with Secretary Root's policy for trade
The comet of 1843 was the only one
extension as outlined In recent speech during the last century viaiblo la broad
es In the W est.
« • • liv k t
S p an k er*.
Francis Scott Key had just written tbo
| “ Star Spangled Banner.”
“ In days to come,” he said, "when peo
ple hear that song they will stand on
their feet and listen to tt with uncovered
heads !”
Yet even he had no premonition that
the day would come when the playing gkf
I “ The Star Spangled Banner” by a theater
orchestra would make the people within
hearing rise to their feet as one man.
grab their wraps snd make a dive for the
exits.
______
Be
O th er r o a r s * .
The daring explorer had reached the
Mrs. Gunner— It Is queer how re
m arkably good the children have been north pole.
“ Well, which way now?” asked his ae-
since w e returned from Cairo.
I eistant.
Mr. Gunner— Oh. they are wise.
The explorer looked irresolutely around
Mrs. Gunner— W ise to w hat?
the horison.
Mr. Gunner— T o the fa ct that
I
“ Dashed if I know.” he muttered.
brought back a collection o f hard Egyp
Then his brow cleared.
tian sandals.
“ Can’t yon s e e r he said.
“ W e’ e*
! found all the north there la W e'll have
O v e rs h a d o w * « tt.
Mr. Jagway, who waa at the Sower to go sou th!”
Merely stopping long enough to cat
■how. leaned forward to get a closer view
another dog. the party started La the
o f a beautiful red rote.
"Ebeneiev.” sharply «poke Mrs. Jag general direction o f the sooth polo.
way. “ take your ooee away front It and
T he squirrel carries a chixei In bis
give the roe* a chance I"
■sooth, aod the bee the carpenter’s ola ns.