TH« CXXtVnXB VALUT MNTINTL. COGÜILLK, OUGON, THÜMD.AÏ, FEBRVABT 23, 1»3».
sine die resolution closing the session
at midnight Friday got cold feet and
refused to go through with the pro-
gram. Senator Lyman Ross, of Wash-
Although the legislative session
still has at least another week or
ten days to run, its program is now
sufficiently developed as to make it
fairly safe to predict that there will
be no new taxes imposed upon the
people of Oregon..
There are a number of tax and rev­
enue measures in the legislative hop­
per, notably a sales tax, a gross in­
come tax and a proposal to boost the
price of liquor ten per cent for the
benefit of relief. None of these pro­
posals, unless it is the liquor price in­
crease, has, attracted any apprecl-
able support.
Oregon has swatted
the sales tax so hard and so often that
the legislators do not take kindly to
any proposal to submit another meas­
ure of this kind to the electorate, at
least not just yet. Then, too, the at­
titude ¿f Governor Sprague, who has
turned thumbs down on new taxes,
has not been conducive to any en­
A sit-down strike by the legisla­
thusiastic support of any tax pro­ tors failed to materialize when mem­
gram.
bers who had agreed to support a
PAG« «LEVEN
law and any existing law that might ’ port of governmental activities is it will materially shorten the time of
conflict with the mandates of the1 meeting with much opposition. Pri- political compaigns.
commisison would be automatically I vate utilities in Oregon now pay out
repealed.
inore than 13 per cent of their gross
more
While there does not appear to be
revenue« in taxes. A smaller contri- any likelihood that the lawmakers
Public power advocates have ap­ butiop by the power districts, it is
will attempt to wipe out the milk
parently given up all hope of put Ung pointed out, will necessitate an in­
control
board, there is much senti­
crease in the levy against other prop­
over their Bonneville-inspired pro­
ment tor some changes in the milk
erty in the district.
gram at this session and are now
control act. One measure which has
concentrating on a compromise meas­
already passed the house, would con­
A bill to change the date of the
ure which will permit the issuance
fine the operation of the act,to the
of revenue bonds to finance develop­ primary election from the third Fri­ larger cities of the state. Senators
ment of people’s utility districts, day in May to the first Wednesday in Mahoney and Chaney, who are spon­
these bonds to be sold on bid and September has the backing of at least soring a bill to abolish the board,
to the highest bidder. Chief point of 20 senators and is believed to have have Announced that they will carry
controversy now appears to be the enough support in the house to in­ their fight to the people if the legis­
mattter of taxes to be paid by these sure its passage. Governor Sprague lature turns them down.
power districts. The proposal that has also endorsed the measure as one
the districts contribute six per cent of designed for the relief of office seek­
Cloverleaf Dairy, pure milk and
their gross .revenue toward the sup- ers as well as the voters, inasmuch as cream. Phone 7R42.
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Hopes of the League of Oregon
Cities for a “cut” of the highway
revenues were dashed when the
house voted 42 to 16 against the pro­
posal when it came out of the house
highways committee on a “do pass”
report.
';
It IS how proposed to dissolve the
capitol reconstruction commission as
of April 1 and turn its functions over
to the state board of control. It had
originally been planned to continue
this commission in effect until Au­
gust. It is estimated that overhead
expenses of the commission amount­
ing to approximately >1200 a month
will be saved by its early dissolution.
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