THE LEGISLATURE
Lawmakers Sharpening Knives
for Useless Measures Be
fore Legislature.
GOVERNOR SENDS MESSAGE
Threatens to Veto Salary Increases
for Officials During Incumbency.
Would Employ Convicts on Pub
lic Highways Under Direction of a
Convict Labor Hoard Sweeping
Measure Aimed at Trusts Five
Vetoes Overruled Scalp Bounty
Illll Favored Seaside Gets First
Law.
Salem, Feb. 2. The legislature
entered the fourth week of its work
Monday, after a rest of three days,
the house meeting at 11) a. m., while
the senate did not resume lt3 ses
sions until 2 p. ni. The business of
the senate is In better condition than
that of the house, which expects to
hold protracted sessions during ths
concluding three weeks of the 40
days' session.
Tho adjournment from Friday un
til Monday was taken by the house
over the protest of Speaker M:Ar
thur, who insisted that the members
were shirking their duties.
Committees of both houses have
settled down to steady work and the
bills are coming back to the two
houses of the legislature for third
reading and final action. Members
are getting their knives ready for a
slaughter of numerous measures for
which there Is no need, or which ap
pear to be injurious In their effect.
Many bills which have passed one
house will fall In the other. Among
the measures which are certain to
wind up In the slaughter-pen Is Bai
ley's bill to move the state fair to
Portland. !, :
If all bills carrying appropria
tions, creating new offices and in
creasing salaries become laws, the
present session will go down In his
tory as the most extravagant legis
lature Oregon ever had. There are
"bills for creation of no less than 200
new Jobs, most of them at fat sal
aries, few of which the state and its
subdivisions really need.
Governor Will Veto.
Governor . Chamberlain indicated
In a special message that he would
veto all bills to increase salaries
during the term of office of the pres
ent Incumbents.
After receiving the special mes
sage of the governor upon the sub
ject of salary bills, the senate at
, first adopted the policy of sending
such bills to the committee on coun
ty and state offices, with instructions
to insert a clause providing that the
bills shall not take effect until tho
bents.
Instead of resenting the warning
issued by the governor, at least one
third of tho combined members of
house and senate are grateful for
the attitude of the governor on the
salary grab. Most of the bills which
have been introduced to raise the
salary of incumbents of county of
fices came at the demand of the offi
cials, ana not voluntarily from the
members of the legislature. These
members have been pounded on the
back by the officials In their respect
ive districts to have the salaries in
creased. The warning message of the gov
ernor has a political effect, and
members recognize that should they
oppose the governor It would help
hlm and injure themselves. While
they do not care whether the govern
or makes capital, they don't want to
lose the opportunity to mak capital
themselves.
Convict Work on Honda.
Employment of convicts on the
public roads under the direction of
a convict labor board, consisting of
one member ot the state highway
commission from each of the two
congressional districts, a state road
engineer and the superintendent of
tho state penitentiary, Is proposod In
a bill Introduced In the house by
Representative Clemens. The bill
provides that all ouch convicts shall
be employed in this manner, with
tho exception only of those required
around the penitentiary building and
form that is conducted therewith. It
also repeals all laws which provide
for contracting labor of convicts la
nny other way. Tho bill carries an
appropriation of $S0,00O.
Kach county In tho state, under
tho bill, will be permitted to secure
such number ot convicts for labor
upon Us public roads as in the judg
ment of the board it may bo able
properly to guard and employ. The
county so employing convicts shall
pay all expenses incident to taking
and keeping the men from the time
they are taken from the penitentiary
until they are returned to that In
stitution. Optionists Are Fearful.
Senator Bailey's motion for an
amendment to the constitution per
mitting the legislature to amend a
city charter with the consent of a
majority of tha voters of a city is
looked upon by tho till-saloon peo
ple as an effort to circumvent tire lo
cal option law.
Should the amendment be adopted
any city that has becomo "dry" be
cause it 13 in a "dry" county, could
by vote of its people bo made "wet"
by an act of the legislature. This
would practically set aside the local
option, so far as cities are con
cerned. Investigate Public Institutions.
Doth houee3 have adopted a con
current resolution providing for the
appointment of a joint committee of
three members, one from the senate
and two from the house, the duty of
which shall be to visit and invest!
gate every public institution sup
ported in whole or in part by state
aid. On the information so obtains i
the committee la directed to file with
the joint committee on ways and
means a detailed report as to the
condition of the Institutions so visit
ed and their needs.
This report is to be at the dis
posal of the ways and means com
mittee in determining the appropria
tions for such institutions for the
ensuing two years. The members
of the committee have not been an
nounced. Hill Aimed at Trusts.
A most sweeping anti-trust bill
has been introduced by Senator
Bingham. The bill not only prohib
its every form and shade of trust
and combination agreement, but re
quires corporations to make an an
nual statement under oath that they
have not made any agreements in
restraint of trade or for the main
tenance of prices or rates. It pre
scribes as penalties not only fines
and Imprisonments, but forfeiture of
corporate existence and liability to
repay all moneys received In viola
tion of the anti-trust law.
Five Vetoes Ooverruled.
Five of the six senate bills of the
1907 session, vetoed by the govern
or and which were passed over his
vetd 1n the senate at this session,
have also passed the house. Four of
the bills provide for district agricul
tural societies in Eastern Oregon
and carrying appropriations of from
$1500 to $2500 per annum each.
The fifth measure permits the garn
ishment of the salaries and wages of
state and county officials.
Only one of the itx bills was de
feated In the house. It was Sena
tor Beach's bill authorizing the use
of voting machines in this state.
Substitute for History Kill.
Senator M. Ak Miller, of Linn, has
introduced a substitute for his sen
ate bill requiring that Oregon his
tory be taught in the public schools.
The original bill required the adop
tion of a textbook on Oregon history
for use in the common schools. The
substitute bill provides for the adop
tion of a textbook on Oregon history
for use in high schools after Septem
ber 1, 1911, and for the publication
of a small pamphlet on Oregon his
tory for use in tho common schools.
This pamphlet Ib to be prepared by
the state board of education.
Medical Certificates Heforo Marriage.
Senator Cole's bill requiring men
to secure medical certificates show
ing freedom from disease as a pre
requisite to securing a marriage li
cense will be passed by the senate
without much opposition. A very
strong argument by Senator Cole In
behalf ot tho bill swung into line for
its support many senators who were
Inclined to be against it or who
looked upon the bill as a Joke. The
straightforward statement of facts as
to the extent and dlro results of cer
tain diseases deeply Impressed the
members of the senate.
Scalp llounty Hill Favored.
The house committee on agricul
ture reported favorably the bill in
troduced by the Eastern Oregon del
egation, and providing for a scalp
bounty for coyotes and other wild
animals. The only change made by
the committee in the original draft
ot the bill was that the emergency
clause be eliminated.
Seaside Gets First Low,
. The first bill to become a law was
Senator Schofleld's bill to place tho
justice of the peace ot Seaside on a
salary of $400 and the constable on
a salary ot $200, these officers being
on a fee basis. The bill was filed
In the secretary's office Friday and
will go Into effect 90 days after ad
journment ot the legislature.
Many Hills May Not Puss.
The outlook Is that the state
board of control bill will fail, al
though the fact that Secretary of
State Benson will soon be governor
and will have two places on the
boards of the state Institutions, and
will, therefore, be overburdened',
with work, may have the effect of
bringing sufficient support to thla
measure to pass It.
Senator Abraham's bill creatlaj
five normal school districts la a
measure that has no chance ot es
caping the Indefinite-postponement
route to oblivion. Some kind of
normal school bill will be passed,
and It will very likely provide for
two or three normals, yet Smith of
Marlon might succeed in his effor.
to have tho number reduced to one.
Beach's bill requiring telephone
and telegraph companies to gnara
tee the time within which they wi:
deliver messages within the sta 'e,
will never pass, for many members
think it an unreasonable and Imprac
ticable measure.
The employers" liability act, be
cause of Its radical nature sod the
opposition of the manufacturing
terests of ihe Btata, baa a jwmrout
look.
SUMMONS
In the Cironit Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
Jessie B. Bennett, Plaintiff vs. r, Wil
liam A. Bennett defendant. To Wil
liam A. Bennett, above named De
fendant: Yon are hereby notified and required
to appear and answer the complaint
of the plaintiff filed against yon in
the cbeve entitled court and suit with
in six weeks from the date of the'lhst
publication of this summons which
said first publication is made on Fri
day the 29th day of January A. D.
1909. And yon will taka notioe that
if yon fail to appearjandj" answer the
said complaint or otherwise plead
thereto, within said time plaintiff for
want thereof will apply to the court
for the relief prayed'for and demand
in ber said oomplaint to-wit: for a
decree of the oonrt delating atsolntely
void the marriage oontraoted and en
tered into by plaintiff and defendant
at Lewiston, Idaho, on September
First A. D. 1908 and for other equita
ble relief.
This snmmons is published pursuant
to an order of the Honorable H. J.
Bean, Jndge of the Sixth Jndioial Dis
riot of the State of Oregon, dnly made
and entered on the 22nd day of Janu
ary A. D. 1909.
Peterson & Wilson,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
, SUMMONS.
In the Cironit Conrt of the State of
Oregon, for Umatilla County.
H. J. Fleischer, Plaintiff, vs. Ele
nora Fleischer, defendant To Elenora
Fleischer, above named:
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF
OREGON yon are hereby snmoned and
required to appear and answer the oom
plaint filed against yon in the above
entitled snit, within six weeks from
the date of the first pnolioation of
this summons, and if yon fail to ap
pear and answer the complaint or
plead within that time, plaintiff, for
want thereof, will apply to the above
entitled Cironit Conrt for the relief
demanded in his oomplaint filed in
said snit, to wit:- For the deoree di
voroing plaintiff from yon and abso
lutely canceling and annulling the
bonds of matrimony now existing be
tween you.
This summons is published pursuant
to order of the Cironit Conrt of the
State of Oregon, for Umatilla County,
in open oonrt, made on Deoember 18,
1908, and the first pnblioation of this
snmmons is made on Jannary 1st, 1909.
Watts &.NeaU
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS. '
In the Connty Conrt of the State of
Oregon, for Umatilla Connty.
In the matter of the estate of Mar
garet Bonifer, deoeased.
Notioe is hereby given to all persons
whom it may oonoern, that Byron
Hawks has been dnly appointed exe
cutor of the last will and testament of
Margaret Bonifer, deoeased, and has
qualified as snob. All persons having
claims against the said estate are here
by required to present them dnly veri
fied as required by law to the said
exeontor at the office of his attorneys,
Peterson & Wilson, at their office in
Athena, Oregon, or at their office at
Pendleton, Oregon, within six months
from the date of the first pnblioation
of this notioe, which said pnblioation
will appear in the Athena Press on
Friday Jannary 8, A. D. 1909, and
will appear onoe eaoh week there
after for four oonseontive weeks the
last pnblioation appearing on Friday
the 5th day of February A. D. 1909.
Dated at Athena, Umatilla Couuty,
Oregon, on this the 8th day of Jan
nary, A. D. 1909.
Byron HawkB, Administrator.
Poterson & Wilson, Attorneys.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
In the Connty Conrt of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla Connty.
In the matter of the estate of Joseph
A. Kainville, deoeased.
Notioe is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the above entitled estate by
the above entitled oonrt, and has qual
ified as the law directs; all persons
having claims againHt said estate are
hereby notified to present the same
with proper vonohers at the office of
Lowell and Winter, Despaln Block,
Pendleton, Oregon within six months
from the date hereof.
Dated this 26th day ot Jannary,
1909. Joseph T. Bainville,
Administrator.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
In the Connty Conrt of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the matter of the estate of James
Kainville, deoeasod.
Notioe is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the above entitlod estate by
the above entitled oonrt. and has
qualified as the law directs; all per
sons having claims against said estate
are hereby notified to present the same
with proper vouohers at the offloo of
Lowell & Winter, JDespain Block, Pen
dleton Oregon, within six months
from tbe date hereof.
Dated this 26th day of Jannary,
1909. Joseph I. Rainville,
Administrator.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE OF
FINAL ACCOUNT.
In the Connty Conrt of the State of
Oregon, for Umatilla Connty.
Ia the matter of the estate of W. B.
H. Soott, deoeased.
Notioe ia hereby given to all persons
w boo it may concern, that Joseph
N. Soott, administrator of tbe estate
ot W. H. ii. Soott. deoeased, bas filed
bis f u at account and report with the
clerk of the above eu titled Court and
that t he Connty Judge bas appointed
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In the Connty Conrt of tbe State of
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