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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1925)
■ $ i . r rarz— l ■ . i - -, -- Moi’o, Sherman County» Oregon. Friday Ol mwAR mra RYANT #M#mey-atrLaw * ■..... — * " WM. E. HUMPHREY CONSACRANTS ITSELF MORE PAY N# ya I Board Reports Airplanes Salaries of Senators and Con Would Never be Para gressmen Increased from mount on the. Sea. $7500 to $10,000 Office, tfhonr. Main 93 Qr^pn Moro . Washington, D. C — Salary Increases for members of congress and the pres ident’s cabinet were provided for, with adoption Uy the bouse of a senate amendment to the legislative appro priation bill. The house,'like the senate, avoided a roll call which^wuld have put the members on record. It passed by a rising vo>e of 237 to 93: It will in crease the salaries of senators and rep resentatives from >7500 to >10,000 a year, effective March 4, and of the speaker, vice-president and cabinet of ficers from >12.000 to >15,000. An hour of parliamentary, maneuver ing preceded the house discussion. Id- stead of sending the measure to con ference, as Is customary, Representa tive Dickinson, republican, Iowa, in charge of It, proposed that all senate amendments. Including the salary rid er, be accepted. The largest attendance of any day during this session had been marshal ed for the occasion to guard against the forcing of a roll call through lack of a quorum. Nevertheless, Represen tative Blanton, democrat, Texas, de manded a roll call but failed to receive a second from one fifth of the mem Chicago.—The La Follette plan for bers present. the organization of a new national I political party was adhered to at a meeting here of men and women who decided on the formation of the party Washington, D. C.—Divorcement of *«fter the sine die adjournment of the the big five meat packing companies conference for progressive political from their control of meat refrigerator action convention, which they attend^ Washington, D. C —An Intention to cars was recommended by the federal ed ah delegates. A name for the invite the nations of the world to join trade commission In a report sent to ikrty wiU be decided upon later.' th« senate in response to a resolution Representatives of the 16 labor or the United States in observance of the calling for Information regarding the ganizations affiliated with the con 200th anniversary óf the birth of consent decree entered into by the ference for progressive political ac George Washington in 1932 was an- packers with the department of justice tion did not participate in the meet naunced by President Coolidge on be- half of the commission recently ap 1« 1930. ing. pointed to arrange for the celebration. The commission also recommended A committee to whom the matlsz B. iting forth the purposes for which that stops be Uken either by the courts of the basis of representation in the or congress to separate the big pack new party was referred reconnu end the communion was created, the presi ers finally from their ownership of ed that the party consist of state or dent In his statement, issued on the ■tockyards through sale either to ex- ganlzations constituted on geographi eve of Washingtons birthday, declared isting agencies sueh as, th« principal cal lines in conformity -with election that *'fo? the present it is impossible more specifically to suggest the pur- connecting railroads, or to separate ' laws of th« different states. posee and character of the commemor companies, "entirely Independent both ation which it is expected to arrange. in law and in fact.” Stockyards and "The 200th anniversary of George BRIEF GENERAL NEWS railroad cars are in fact adjuncts of I Washington’s birth will te an occa transportation, the commission held, Choice hogs sold at >11.75 at the sion of sUcR significance, not only to and as such, their operation should be subjected to regulation of the inter Chicago stockyard» Saturday, a new our own country but to the entir? world, that it is manifestly fitting that peace-time record. state commerce commission. Much resentment has been caused the American nation should ap.proprl in the South because of the proposed ately observe it,” the president said. STATE HAS $14,000,009 “But beyond this, it Is felt that as legislation in western' states that the life, the career and the achieve Large Cash Balance Reported by would tax cotton oil products. The Lausanne treaty,* restoring mOut« of Washington belong, not to a Treaaurer at Olympia. diplomatic and trade relations be* single nation, but to all humanity, it Olympia, Wash.—State coffers hold tween the United States and Turkey is proper that the nation founded un >14,173’868-50 as the cash balance of wag reported favorably by the senate der his leadership should invite all oth all funds February 14, according to re cr nations and peoples to join it in foreign relations committee. port of State Treasurer Potts, with the observance cf this anniversary.” A. E. Sartain, deposed warden of business for the week of >344,055.95 in receipts and expenditures in warrant Atlanta federal penitentiary, and Law rence Riehl, Columbus, Ohio, were OFFICERS BILL PASSED payments of >166,994.80. found guilty by a federal jury at At The state general fund is holding Senate Votes Favorably on Retirement up well with a balance of >4,414,465.11. lanta of the charge of accepting v Measure. bribes from wealthy prisoners in re the motor vehicle fund has >1,490,557, A Washington, D C.—The emergency to which will be added the >2,268,382 turn for special privileges. Chairrryui Borah of the senate for officers retirement bill was passed by in the suspense fund representing re eign relations committee was directed the senste. ceipts from motor vehicle licenses. The accident fund holds >1,713,903 and by the senate foreign relations com • The measure, which now goes to the reclamation revolving fund has mittee to ask SecreUry Hughes for the house, would provide for retire the facts regarding, charges that the ment of disabled emergency world >757,002. There is an overdraft in the capl state department had "muzzled” Count war army and navy officers under the tai building fund of >551,426, which Michael Karolyl, ex president of Hun same conditions as regular service will be paid off from tax receipts on gary, during his recent visit to this officers. Introduced last session by Senator country. last fall’s levy. Bursum, republican. New Mexico, the bill was approved by a vote of 63 to Senate Gets First Farm Aid Bill. Relies of Incas Found in Peru. ■ 14. A proposal to include non commis Washington, D. C. — The Capper- Buenos Aires. — A dispatch from sioned officers was defeated 42 to 35 Limg. Peru, says that ancient cities, Haugen bill, the first measure in the and another to Include non-commis president ’ s farm relief program, ac- one of the Inca and the other pre-Inca sioned officers and privates lost 47 origin, have been discovered in the companed by a score of amendments, to 32. mountain# near Cuzco. The discover was reported out favorably by the senate agriculture committee Satur er says that he foupd remains of Ten U. S. Land Offices Abolished. stbne buildings, a temple and a foun day. Washington, D. OÌ—Secretary of the tain in the Inca city and that there Interior Work abolished ten local land 61 Thought Killed in Mine Explosion. were traces of a wide road descend offices located in various sections of Sullivan, Ind. — In an explosion of ed from the city down the mountains gas that wrought the greatest mine the country effective April 3. Among into the valley. disaster in the history of the Indiana theip were: Eureka.,Cal, consolidated coal fields, 51 men were believed to with Sacramento. Cal., Lewiston, Ida., Five Bank Robbers Captured. South Bend, Ind.—After the robbery have been killed almost Instantly in consolidated with Coeur d'Alene. of the Millburg, Mich., bank of >2900 the City Coal company mine on the Commons Refuses Increased. Suffrage. in currency and >52,000 in negotiable outskirts of this city. London.—The bill to put women on securities, sheriff’s posses and citizens a political equality with men by grant chased the five members of the bandit Ex-Govemor Davis Held to Answer. ing them the vote at the age of 21, gang more than 40 miles, engaged in Topeka, Kan. — Former Governor revolver and shotgun duels with the Jonathan M. Davis and former Bank- Instead of the present age of 30, was bandits, wounding four of them and ing Commissioner Carl J. Peterson killed in the'house of commons when capturing them at New Carlisle, Ind. were bound over to district court in the house refused It second reading >1000 bond at the conclusion of their by a vote of 220 against 153. England Awaits Arms Parley Call. preliminary hearing here on charges Lumbermen to Meet In Portland. London.—The next move concern of conspiracy and soliciting a bribe. Seattle, Wash.- HL A~-Templeton of ing the proposed limitations of arma ment conference is expected to be Senstors Approve World Filers’ Bill. Portland was elected president of the Western Retail Lumbermen’s associa taken by Washington. Word was pass Washington, D. C.—The senate ap ed around in unofficial circles that proved without debate the hou^e bill tion at the close of the organization’s Great Britain stands ready to accept awarding the distinguished service twenty-second annual Institute here. an invitation to participate in such medal to the army world fliers and Portland was awarded the 1926 meet a conference just as soon as it is advancing them In arnjy promotion ing of the organization. racuived. lilt. Klamath Indians to Get >26,000 Washington, D.. Q.—Prealdunt Cool idge added a mt chapter to U mi j U t « service controversy by making puW? the report of a special naval board /3W8 which found that the battleship re- l ] mained "the final arbiter in sea war fare,” and airplane? would npyer "as sume paramount importance.” The president also issued a formal Attorney-atLaw utatauMpt in explanation of the WO,- 000,000 supplement. naval items re Practice in All the Court« cently submitted to congress by the taf Oregon budget bureau which were founded on reoommandations of the naval board ■MM • Main 541 but sharply modified. The complete BANK OF MORO BQIUMNG building program submitted by the Oregon Moro board involved expenditure of >80,- 000,000 a year for three years. The president makes no reference to . - the board’s findings as to relativp mill- Willism E- Humphrey, former con O*^****^*^*^**********^ Ury value of aircraft, battleships and ► I submarines, the problem he assigned It gressman from the state of Washing- ’ for study last September. He adopt# i ton, who was recently named a mem ► the board’# view, however, that mod- ber of the federal trade commission. N ernlzation of old battleships (not In- DENTIST * eluding the elevation of gun«) Is the United States Dental Exam * 1 flr«> requirement and completion of iw( for. this di^rift. > aircraft carrUra and their plane# ««c- ► ond.. I li Dr J. R. Morgan Hurrah ! Coming r Fords ! Balloon Equipped for only $25 additional Oh! 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Saunders, Moro, M^ver, Wasco, Ore. fat » 1 1 1 1 l,'tt GflAq^l&ijWheeler Counties STQßii & WHEAT RANCHES FOR SALE REPON MMNST CAR CONNU W PACKERS NATIONS INVITED TO HONOR WASHINGTON Food Prices increase Two Per Cent, Meeting to Plsn Seed Wheat Relief. Washington, D. C.—Another boost of 2 per cent in the average retail prie« of food In the month ending January 15 was retorted by the do partment of labor on the basis of figurai from 61 cititi. Five Cents Febuary 2V Seattle, Wash.—Business men and bankers in this city called a confer ence Wednesday In the Seattle cham ber of commerce building to discuss financial aid for dry land farmers salt of the Cascade mountains. Washington, D. C.—Distribution of approximately >22,60(^to 1226 Indians of the Klamath J rib«’in-the state of Oregon was ordered by Secretary of Interior Work. Tha money was de- rived tram «ales of timber on the Klamath reservation. 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