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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1941)
» PAGE TEN 110 00. As the legislative session entered its eighth week, indications were that it would go into if not through still another week before it cleared the decks for sine die adjournment. Of course, the lawmakers could take the bit in their teeth, throw the remaining bills out the window so to speak and go home at the end of this week. It is generally agreed that no great violence would be done the state through such a procedure and there was some sentiment among the weary legislators for such a course But for the most part the members of both House and Senate were for an orderly consideration of the busi Legislative reapportionment is out ness at hand, no matter how long it' for the current session and in all like might take. years; Still pending is pratically all the lihood for another » ten f v.. t ■. or -. un- a major business of the session includ- j til «iter Uncle Sam completes another ing amendments to the unemployment census. __ , _____ Two such proposals were rejected compepsation act, the workmen’s compensation act, “big truck” legis by the lawmakers this past week. lation which is back in again In a .One of these involved a slight change modified form, school fund equaliza in the senate set-up. The other in tion, extension of Vocational schools, volved a mtjor operation in the House firemen’s pension and a number of apportionment. In the senate a proposal to abolish other issues. The _ unemployment compensation the Umatilla-Union-Morrow district fight has been substantially narrowed and transfer that senator to Klamath down through House action, throwing county met with overwhelming de Senator Cornett, of Klamath out bills which sought to repeal the feat. experience rating and seasonality county, in support of his measure provisions of the act. Labor, how pointed out that the fourth northeast ever, is still insisting in an increase ern Oregon counties of Umatilla, in benefits for jobless workers while Union, Wallowa and Morrow with a employers continue their fight to combined population of only 55,000 is represented by three senators, hold down payroll taxes. Labor is also making a strenuous whereas his own district comprising fight for increased benefits for in Klamath, Deschutes, Lake, Jefferson, jured workmen and their dependents and Crook counties, with a combined through the workmen’s compensation population in excess of 70,000 has fund, a program to which the senate only one senate ceat. The proposed committee on industries has agreed shuffle had the support of the senate and which will, if enacted into law, [committee on elections and privi cost employers of Oregon in excess leges and it was thought that it had of $522,000 a year in increased contri the support of a majority of the sen ate members until the roll call re butions to this fund. vealed otherwise. i In the House Representative Kim- berling*» proposal to give each coun ty one House seat and distribute the remaining membership on a popula tion basis met with decisive defeat after that assembly had turned down a proposal by Neuberger of Multno mah county that the entire state be redistricted on a straight-out popula tion basis. Industry is faced with a number of exceedingly complex tasks in the making ol Army and Navy equip ment for the present defense pro gram. As an example, in even a piece of equipment as comparatively aim pie as a modem Army track, there are about 15,000 separate parts. 1 Calling carda. M tor S1AA The autocratic attitude of federal bureaucraties is beginning to get un der the skin of the Oregon legislators. Much of the legislation that Is being considered at this session is virtually dictated from Washington. This is especially true of legislation affect ing state activities supported by fed eral funds. When the Washington bureaucrats decide that certain leg- ilation is desirable they pass the word along through their henchmen who tell the reprensentatives of the state to pass it “or else." The latest attempt to dictate to the Oregon law makers came this week in a hearing on the proposed new state office building whan representatives of the Social Security Board told the ways and means committee that Oregon must take steps to provide mòro ade quate quarters for the Unemployment Compensation commission “or else.” The “or else” involves a threat to withhold federal funds for adminis tering the jobless insurance fund which are taken away from Oregon employers in the first instance by the Washington bureautcrats and re turned to the state only on condition that the terms of the Social Security Board be complied with. This lat est threat aroused the resentment of several committeemen members with Senator Pearson declaring himself as opposed to the proposed new building unless the unemployment compensa tion commission was barred from oc cupying space in it. Breakfast Sets Chests Mattresses Cash far Junk Metal Buy Snap Shop Front & WiUard sedan in hmericgf price f SjSÄ ® of Lowesi Portland Livestock Market News COQUILLE AUTO COMPANY COQUILLE GABAGE wjawkaiamJ Motors for Air Defense Wkeilte* tfou ßiuld, ßutff o* ßont INSIST ON ADEQUATE WIRING.7 SO, whether you build, buy or rent, be sure to see that there are plenty of outlets and switches ... not only for your immediate needs, but for the future as well. Insist, too, on wire large enough to supply full power for good lighting and maximum efficiency from appliances. SM