THK OAZETTE-TIMES. HETPXEK. OKK. Tlf IRSI).Y, FKK. 18, 101.',.
PACK n E
RESUME OF WORK GF
STATEJLEGISLATUEE
Last Week of Session Begins
With Large Amount of Work
Remaining to Be Done.
Appropriation Bills Total $5,653,307
Primary 'Election Law Amended
Hoi.se Passes State Insurance Bill
Sheriffs Get Old Jobs Back
Cshcolhotioct for Social Centers
Senate Votes Dry on Teat Regulate
Dairy Corporation)!.
Salem. The legislature started on
the last week of the 28th session with
the usual congestion of business anil
as in past sessions confusion promises
to mark the closing hours. All the
really important measures remain to
be passed, few of them having gone
through both houses. No measures of
statewide Interest have , reached the
governor's desk.
Prohibition lcgiBi-tlon remained un
settled. Tax measures are incomplete,
Irrigation codes are not yet revised,
fish and game legislation Is In a tan
gle, and complications are threatened
on consolidation.
The workmen's compensation act
amendments are up to the senate.
Election and raud law revision, in a
few particulars, are badly needed, but
neither house has got anywhere on
those questions. Night Butssiuns will
be necessary all week and by proper
attention to business It may be possi
ble to clean up the work of the ses
sion, but t'tere Is some doubt as to
whether the "orators" can be held
down without a repressive rule in tlr'
house. The senate has already adopt
ed a rule of this kind.
The legislature has approved the
lease of Summer and Abert lakes by
the state land board to an eastern syn
dicate, headed by Jnson Moore. The
large appropriation bills are in but
have not been passed.
$5,653,307 Provided for in Live Bills.
Although the joint ways and means
committee has consigned to the legis
lative cemetery bills appropriating a
total of $1,645,190 and cut requests for
appropriations to the bone, there were
still ponding In the legislature meas
ures appropriating the huge sum of
$5,653,307, to be disposed of during the
closing week of the session.
Bills appropriating a total of $107,
935 are pending in the senate, and bills
appropriating a total of $1,127,246 are
pending in the house. Committees
have passed on appropriation meas
ures aggregating $1,643,008 and there
are pending before the committees
measures calling for appropriations in
the sum of $1,486,702.
The house has passed bills appro
priating $1,388,416, and the senate bills
appropriating $23,100. One bill mak
ing an appropriation for the partial
payment of the expenses of the legis
lators and their clerks has passed both
houses, and been signed by the gover
nor. Petition Change Passsd.
A remedial enactment was the pass
age of Representative Olson's bill pro
viding certain changes in the primary
election laws to eliminate petition
peddling and enable asplra.its for pri
mary nominations to become candi
dates by paying flat fees Instead of ob
taining the signatures of voters. The
petition system Is not eliminated en
tirely, however, as the candidal? is
given the option of the two methods.
Representative Allen's bill to enable
rural communities to form organiza
tions to obtain a low rate of interest
was passed by the house and is herald
ed by the up-state members as the
first step In the establishment of a
rural credit system for the state.
It does not attempt to place the
state In the business of extending
credit to the farmers, but empowers
the farmers, themselves, to organize
along lines similar to those that have
been followed successfully in Euro
pean countries for many years.
' State Insurance Provided.
The Hlnkle bill passed by the house
is a departure in the way of state aid
in industrial development. The meas
ure proposes a system of annuities
similar to those in effect by many
countries of Europe and by some of
the Canadian provinces. It is not un
like state life Insurance, only the pay
ments are to bo made on an anttn'Aj
basis Instead of In Jup sums. In the
event that the insured person dies be
fore the date of the first annuity he
comes due his estate Is to receive all
the money that has been paid in, with
interest at the rate of 3 per cent.
Sheriffs Win Back Tax-Collecting Job.
Sheriffs of the state won a victory
when the-house passed Representative
Kelly's bill, providing that hereafter
all taxes ahull be collected by the sher
iffs instead of the county treasurers,
and It means that all bills increasing
the salaries of the hitter officials will
be withdrawn, provided this last meas
ure passes the senate.
The lust legislature passed a law
providing that the county treasurers
should collect all taxes except those
which wore delinquent. Hecause of
the extra work, appeals were made to
this legislature by the county treasur
ers for an increase of ralaries. The
committee on assessment and taxation
found itself confronted with the prob
lem of reducing the salaries of the
sheriffs if they increased the salaries
of the county treasurers.
Social Center Bill Passes.
Senator Moser's bill, providing that
public echoolhouses may be used a3
social and civic centers, was passed
by the house.
This measure legalizes a practice
that has been in vogue in Portland and
other cities of the state for the last
few years. Under the present law the
school directors are required to give
formal permission for the use of trie
school buildings for these purposes,
and a fee must be charged to cover
the cost of light, heat and janitor serv
ice. Under the Moser bill these costs
will be paid for out of the special coun
ty Bchool district funds. The use of
the buildings, however, is not to Inter
fere with the regular school service.
Senate Test Vote is "Extra Dry."
The first test in the state senate on
the prohibition bill was a victory for
the advocates of a strict law. The
minority report of Senator Domlnick
of the committee on alcoholic traffic,
which was favorable to the bill as
passed by the house with no important
amendments, was adopted by a vote
of 15 to 13.
It retained the sentence, "It shall be
unlawful for any one person or family
within this state to receive from any
common carrier more than two quarts
of spirituous or vinous liquors or more
than 24 quarts of ma't liquors within
a period of four successive weeks."
The majority report, by Senators
Farre'll, Bishop, J. C. Smith and Stray
er, eliminated the words "or family"
making it possible for eRch adult mem
ber of a family to purchase the stipu
lated amount.
Absent Voter Wins In Bill.
The senate passed a bill providing
that persons away from home election
day may vote wherever they may be
for presidential elcc'.jrs, state officers
and constitutional amendments by
identifying themselves and producing
a certificate by the judges of election
In their home precincts that they are
qualified voters.
The bill provides that an elector
who expects to be away from home on
election day may apply to the judges
in the election district In which he
lives for a certificate as to his quali
fications. Upon the presentation of
the certificate to the judges of election
where he may be election day and
Identification by two qualified resi
dent voters, he may exercise the right
of suffrage. ' " '.
Pro-Farmer Act It Pacsed.
A measure intended to prevent big
dairy and creamery corporations from
freezing cut the small co-operative
concerns of the farmers went through
the house. All the representatives
from the rural districts voted for it
and most of the urban legislators also
were for It.
The bill was introduced by Repre
sentative Hunt, of Clackamas county.
It requires creamery-companies and
others, who purchase dairy products
from farmers, to fiie a schedule of
their races with the state authorities
and prohibits them from paying more
for the same commodity In one com
munity than they pay in others, freight
rates and other costs being consid
ered. Governor Signs Teachers' Bill,
In the presence of a large delegation
of school teachers from Portland, who
are members of the Grade Touchers'
association, other educators, Senator
Moser and others, Governor Withy
combe signed Senator Moser's bill,
which provides that there shall he no
discrimination in the payment of sal
aries between male and female teach
ers. Governor Wlthycomhe used two
pens, and one was presented to the
Portland Grade Teachers' association
and the other to Miss Galloway, of the
Albany schools, where the movement
toward the passage of the measure or
iginated. Legislative Brevities.
The house passed the Max commit
tee's bill to remit all penalties on de
linquent taxes under the 1913 tax law.
Insanity Bhall not be made a cause
for divorce in this state, according to
a decision of the senate.
By a unanimous vote the senate
passed a bill which provides a pre
torectlil cf r, per cent tor Oregon tiro
u ucts In letting contracts for public
work.
By a vote of 21 to 8 the senate voted
an appropriation of $50,000 for erect
ing a building for training work at the
Oregon state normal school in Mon
mouth. The house passed the measure pro
viding for an appropriation of $49,200
for the industrial school for girls. This
Includes $15,000 for a new cottage.
Road work for the coming biemiium
Is to bo continued on the one ffturth of
1 mill tax levy of 1913, according to
decision of the house.
A substantial saving In the expenses
of state and local elections will ho pos
sible through tho operation of Jtepre
sentative Childs' bill which the house
has passed. It provides for only two
election judges instead of three, as
under tho present law.
WHY SO MICH KISS?
It seems eilly for a steamer of the
Lusitania's size to try and disguise
her nationality, yet it is rattier hard
for an American who is not a flag
waving patriot to work himself into
a state of indignation over that ftyine
of tha Stars and Stripes by a vessel
which carried Americans among her
passengers. A sensible man will
wonder why if it was right in the
view of international law for the Em
den to steam Into the harbor of Pen-
ang and with the British flag flying
at her peak and afterward sink the
helpless Russian cruiser Jemtchug at
anchor it was wrong in the view of
international law for the Lusitania,
a merchant steamship, to break ont a
neutral flag as she coursed up the
Irish sea to "deceive" German sub
marines and land her passengers
safely at Liverpool. It is true that
the Lusitania was not a combatant
and theoretically was immune from
attack, but the fact must be taken
into consideration, as accounting for
Captain Patrick Dow's act, that more
than one British merchant ship had
been sunk by German submarines
without the preliminary of boarding
and examination of the ship's papers,
which international law requires.
The incident may not be altogether
pleasing to Americans who are sensi
tive about the misuse of their flag
even for the purpose that is pleaded
in justification, but if the Lusitania
had proceeded under her own colors
and been sent to the bottom by a
German torpedo, together with ex
Senator Lafayette Young and other
Americans, would there not now be
Incalculably more indignation in the
United States than the misuse of tho
flag by the Lusitania to reach her
pier unscathed has provoked? We
should judge from the comment in
London that the incident is not al
together agreeable to Englishmen.
They do not seem to be proud of it.
They would be better pleased if the
"meteor flag of England" had been
kept flying as the Lusitania under
forced draft sped on her way to Liv
erpool, taking her chances of being
held up or torpedoed. New York
Sun.
Minor & Company
Christian Cliurcrf Xotcs.
Next Sunday morning will see a
solid line-up of tho Reds and Blues
in the Sunday School contest. If you
are not yet enrolled, get into th'
fight.
At 11 a. m. the minister's subjec
will be: "The Good Samaritan."
Christian Endeavor 6:45 p. m.
Hear Mrs. Ellis at the evening
hour. Subject: "In His Steps."
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J. K. Starr of Fossil, county attor
ney of Wheeler county, was in Hepp
ner a couple of days this week attend
ing the sessions of Hepnper Chapter
No. 26 H. A, M. 7
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Lasts but two days longer
Friday and Saturday, Feb. 18 and 19
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