The Hermiston herald., February 25, 1921, Image 6

THE
REVIEW OF WORK OF
OREGON LEGISLATURE
Forty-Day Period Ends, But
Both Houses Decide to
Continue Session.
Few Measures of General Interest
Passed — Antl-Japanese Legislation
Defeated—Aid for Veterans Referred
to People—Free Textbooks Bill Kill­
ed—Over Six Millions In Appropria­
tions— Marriage Bill Referred -
Gasoline Test Law Repealed.
Salem.—The constitutional 40-day
period prescribed for legislative ses­
sions expired Saturday, but owing
to the fact that many bills remained
for attention, both houses deemed it
wise to extend the session over into
this week and adjournment was taken
until Monday morning.
There were 288 measures when the
two houses began proceedings Satur­
day, so it was quite evident that a
jam during the closing hours could
not be avoided. By extending the ses­
sion beyond the constitutional period
it could be brought to a close in an
orderly and business like manner with­
out the confusion and turmoil certain
to prevail if an attempt was made to
conclude within the 40-day period.
Members will receive no pay for their
labors this week.
Among the important measures
which awaited final action when the
session adjourned Saturday were the
road bills, reapportionment bill and
the appropriation bills. A total of
745 bills had been introduced in both
houses. Of this number 366 were in­
troduced In the house and 379 in the
senate.
According to the records the gover­
nor had signed 55 measures originate
ing In the senate and 74 house bills.
Few Big Measures Passed.
Aside from the road bills, the 31st
session will have little to Its credit
in the way of really big measures of
vital interest to the state at large.
The port development bills and the
teacher’s tenure bills, which caused
much friction during the session, were
of special interest to Multnomah coun­
ty.
Among the measures of general in­
terest passed may be mentioned:
The new state fish commission and
n«w state game commission and the
fish and game codes.
The budget bill which directs that
every tax levying body must have a
budget law applies to every tax levy-
zens who shall look after the budget
items and hold public hearings. This
budgt law applies to every tax levy­
ing body in Oregon.
Of more than local importance was
the decision of the legislature to abol­
ish forever the purse seines and the
trollers, who have been operating for
years along the Oregon coast.
Another general bill of general in­
terest is the one which provides for
double election boards: one board to
count tho votes while the other board
is receiving the ballots. There ara
restrictions which will prevent any
Information as to how the count Is go­
ing until a few minutes after the polls
close. The principal advantage of this
law will be that the result of elections
will ba known almost immediately
after the voting ceases.
Anti.Alien Land Law Killed.
The anti-Japanese legislation was
killed in tho senate. The senate, after
the most spirited debate that has mark­
ed the present session of the legisla-
ture, by a vote of 20 to 9 defeated the
bill. This bill had strong support in
the house, but the belief that the Jap­
anese question is something for the
federal government to handle rather
than the state prevailed in the senate.
The bill was practically a duplicate
of the California bill on the same sub­
ject enacted last year.
The bill received 34 affirmative
votes in the house, three more than
required as a constitutional majority.
Opposed to passage of the bill were
25 representatives, with one member
of the house absent
Soldiers' Bonus Referred to Voters
The senate by a vote of 28 to 2 ap­
proved house joint resolution No. 12
referring to the voters of Oregon at the
next general or state election the
question of amending the constitution
so that the state may lend Its credit
in an amount not exceeding 3 per
cent based on the assessable property
valuation to provide funds with which
to pay participants In the recent world
war a cash bonus of $15 a month for
the time they actually served or a loan
not to exceed $4000.
By the same vote the senate also
approved house bill >03, which pro­
vides for the creation of what will be
known as ths world war veterans'
state aid fund and prescribes the man­
ner in which the bonuses shall be paid
and the loans executed.
Emergency Board BUI Vetoed.
Governor Olcott vetoed the bill pro­
viding that the state emergency board
shall consist of tho chairman of the
ways and means committee of the sen-
ate, the chairman of the ways and
means committee of the house and
five other members to be elected from
the joint ways and means committee
The senate approved Governor Ol­
cott’s appointments of H. von der Hel­
len of Wellen, George W. Cornwall of
Portland and Walter L. Pierce of La
Grande, as members of the board of
regents of Oregon Agricultural college.
Free School Books Defeated.
Following a prolonged debate In
which all house rules regulating length
of oratorical display were stretched to
the limit by nearly every member, the
house voted down Senator Banks' free
school book bill. The final vote was
29 in favor, not enough to pass the
measure, and 28 votes against.
It was charged repeatedly that Ore­
gon Is in the throes of a school book
trust and that this bill offers a simple
and economical way out of the grasp
of the trust.
Appropriations Will Exceed >6,000,000.
At the completion of its labors the
joint ways and means committee an­
nounced that It had reached an agree­
ment to recommend to the legislature
appropriations for state departments
and Institutions for the biennium of
1921-1922 approximating >6,667,338.97.
This amount is $142,603.02 above the
amount of money available under the
6 per cent tax limitation of the con­
stitution, but it is believed sources to
meet the excess amount will appear.
The excess of >142,603.02 represents
special appropriations, measures ap­
proved by the committee not included
in the budget and also requests pre­
sented In person to the committee at
its hearings by the representatives of
the various departments or institu-
tions.
Marriage Teat Bill Passes.
The people are to have the oppor­
tunity to say by their ballots at the
next general election whether or not
examinations shall be required of all
applicants for marriage licenses as to
health and mental fitness of such ap­
plicants to enter Into the marriage
contract. The house passed senate bill
174 with only eight negative votes.
The act provides that It shall be un­
lawful for any official of Oregon to
issue a marriage license to any person
until after the applicants shall have
submitted to and passed an examina­
tion by a regularly licensed physician,
competent to examine such applicants,
as to their health, in regard to contag­
ious or communicable venereal dis­
eases, and mentality, as shown by the
physician's certificate.
Provision Is made In the bill for it
being referred to the voters of the
state at the next general election.
Bille Passed Over Veto.
The senate, by almost unanimous
vote, passed house bills 38 and 66 over
the veto of Governor Olcott. These
bills were passed during the special
session of the legislature In January,
1920, but were later rejected by the
executive for the reason that they
were not considered emergency legis
latlon.
One of the bills gave to the highway
commission power to fix the salary
of the state highway engineer, while
the other measure provided for an in­
crease in the emergency fund of the
state highway commission from $50,
000 to >70,000.
Passage by the house of a bill pre­
viously passed by the senate repealing
the gasoline test law, wipes off the
statute books a measure enacted In
1907, enforcement of which contrib­
uted largely to a gasoline famine in
the state last year. Companies re­
fused to bring supplies Into the state
until the law, which required gasoline
to be of fifty-six gravity test, was sue
pended by Governor OlcotL
Legislative Brevities.
The house passed a senate bill which
places bond houses under the control
of the state corporation commissioner.
The senate passed a house bill,
which gives the governor control of
the tolls of the interstate bridge.
Senator Lachmund introduced a bill
providing for an Increase In the salary
of the governor from >5000 to >7500
annually.
A resolution providing for an In
crease In the pay of members of the
state legislature to >5 a day, and not
In excess of >300 for one session, was
laid on the table by the house.
The legislature has adopted a joint
resolution calling for the display of
the American flag on school houses,
churches and other public places on
Mothers' Day.
The legislature enacted a bill mak­
ing It a misdemeanor to fall to support
an Indigent parent and providing a
fine to be used for such support.
After considerable discussion the
house approved a bill giving women
of the state of Oregon the right to
serve on juries, subject to the approval
of the bill by the voters at the next
special or general election.
All motion pictures shown In the
state must be approved by a state
board of three motion picture censors
under the terms of a substitute cen­
sorship bill Introduced by the house
committee on health and public morals
and passed by the house.
A bill introduced by the committee
on agriculture and forestry, providing
for the organisation of co-operative
associations, passed the senate by a
vote of 26 to A
HERMISTON
HERALD, HERMISTON,
OREGON.
RAY, VETERAN OF TWO WARS
Commander of South Dakota Depart­
ment of the Legion Has Had
Much Experience.
F. B. Ray, commander of the South
Dakota department of the American
Legion, is a vet­
eran of both the
Spanish • Ameri­
can and World
wars. During the
days of ‘98 and
‘99,
Mr.
Ray
served Ln 16 bat­
tles and scrim-
mages.
After being
mustered out of
the service, Mr.
Ray enlisted in
the South Dako­
ta National Guard and was a mem­
ber of that organization when the
United States entered the World war.
During the latter war he served as
commanding officer of the One Hun­
dred and Thirty-fifth and later the
Three Hundred and Fiftieth Infantry.
He Is now cashier of a bank at Yank­
ton, S. D.
Mr. Ray Is a charter member of Roy
Anderson post, No. 12, of the Legion,
and served as Its commander. He was
elected commander of the South Da­
kota department In 1919.
HAS RENDERED GOOD SERVICE
Commander of Oregon Department of
Legion, Has Deserved Title of
"Fighting Parson."
Rev. William S. Gilbert, commander
of the Oregon department of the
American Legion,
is
a
fighting
chaplain who has
administered
to
the spiritual
wants of Oregon
troops
in
the
Spanish - Ameri­
can war, the Phil­
ippine
insurrec­
tion, during their
service on the
Mexican border,
and for 17 months
in France with the A. E. F.
His military career started 26 years
ago, when he became chaplain In the
Oregon National Guard. During the
World war he was chaplain of the
One Hundred and Sixty-second infan-
try. Forty-first division and First
army corps. He received the Croix de
Guerre.
The “fighting parson” has held a
number of pastorates In the state of
Oregon, and was for three years pres­
ident of Philomath college. He was
recently appointed regent of Oregon
State university by the governor of
that state.
CHOOSE AIR MAN COMMANDER
Former Balloon Pilot, Lawyer, Heads
Nebraska Department of tho
American Legion.
of the aftermaths of the late war is the
wave of crime which has swept the country
O NE
and which no amount of police vigilance seems able
to suppress. For four years men were engaged in
the work of destruction. All the values so care­
fully built up through the centuries were demol­
ished, all the moral restraints broken down. In
short, all the rules by which civilization protects
itself were thrown into the discard and an entirely
new set, the fundamental purpose of which was to
destroy, rather than to construct, were set up in
their place. Weak minds could not stand that test.
They warped in the heat of the trial. Nor were
they the only ones to suffer. All mankind suf­
fered from the sudden lowering of standards.
This ground cannot be regained at once. Retrac­
ing our steps, rebuilding our shattered ideals, resur­
recting respect for law and order will take time.
Meanwhile it seems rather foolish for some state
legislatures to be considering the question of insti­
tuting capital punishment as a means of checking
crime. There is considerable doubt, in the first
place, as to whether capital punishment lessens
crime and there is more doubt over the advisibility
of destroying our whole system of penology, built
upon so painstakingly during the last few gener­
ations.
If we are on the right track in our efforts to re-
form as well as to punish the criminal, if we are
correct in our belief that society profits most in
the long run when those who break its laws are
treated humanely, then it is foolish indeed to allow
an exceptional and temporary condition to upset all
this for the sole purpose of a brief revenge.
LUCKY STRIKE
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Tt may get dangerous.
Get rid of it before it de­
velops a serious aspect.
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Bargains
that will save
rou many a dol­
ar will escape
you if you fail to
read carefully
and regularly the
advertising of
local merchants
Nebraska members of the American
Legion have elected Robert G. Sim-
mons, a former
balloon pilot, as
department com­
mander. Mr. Sim­
mons Is now an
attorney In Scotts­
bluff, Neb.
SUMMONS
The former pi­ 'n the Justice Court for Hermiston
lot entered the
District, Umatilla County, State of
air service Octo­
Oregon. Lane Brothers, Plaintiffs
ber 28, 1917, and
vs. W. M. Tuttle, Defendant. To
was licensed as a
W. M. Tuttle, the above named de­
spherical balloon
fendant:
pilot by the Aero
In the name of the State of Ore-
Club of America In February, 1918, ton:
and commissioned
a second lieuten­
You are hereby required to ap-
ant In the air service In March, 1918.
ear and answer or otherwise plead
For some time he was an instructor o the complaint filed against you in
In courts-martial and then was in com­ he above entitled action in said
mand of the Sixty-third, Eighty-third Court within six weeks from date of
and Seventy-fourth balloon companies •he first publication of this summons,
at Fort Omaha. He was commissioned nd you are further notified that if
ou fall to answer or otherwise plead
a first lieutenant In June, 1918.
Mr. Simmons is a graduate of the n this cause within the said time the
laintiff for want thereof will take
law college of the University of Ne­ udgment
against you for the sum of
braska. He served for one term as $64.35 with interest thereon from
county attorney.
the date of filing of the complaint in
aid action and for his costs and dis-
in this action.
GOOD SHOWING IN SERVICE ursements
This summons is published pur-
suant to an order of the above entitl­
Commander of Nevada Department of ed court made and entered on the
the Legion Roee From Private to
29th day of January, 1921, and the
First Lieutenant
first publication of this summons is
made on the 4 th day of February,
9 21
T. L. Withers, commander Of the
Nevada department of the American
J. T. Hinkle, Hermiston, Oregon
21-7tc
Attorney for Plaintiff
Legion, rose from
the rank of pri­
vate In the Na­
HERMISTON IRRIGATION DIST.
tional Guard to
Notice of Election
that of first lieu­
tenant during his
Notice is hereby given that an
military
career,
election will be held at the office of
which was spent
the Hermiston Irrigation District on
Main Street, in the City of Hermis-
in various organ­
ton, Umatilla County, Oregon, on
isations of the
Saturday. February 26, 1921 for the
Coast
Artillery
purpose of determining whether the
corps.
board of directors of said District
Educated at
shall be authorized to enter into a
Thatcher Prepar­
contract with the United States and
atory school. Nordhoff. Cal., the Uni- with the Umatilla River Water Users
vereltlea of Nevada. California and Association whereby all existing
Virginia, Mr. Withers acted as In­ liens for water right charges except
structor in mathematics and chemistry those contained in patents, shall be
for some time and then entered the discharged and whereby the United
practice of law at Reno, Nev. He States agrees to expend the sum of
served as chairman of the Red Cross $744,000.00 on the original Umatilla
Project in the improvement of Canal
Roll Call In 1917 and chairman of the "A,"
In betterments and reconstruc-
home service section. American Red tion and whereby the District shall
Cross, Reno, Nev., and wax active tn agree to repay to the United States
organising the Nevada department of for building charges and betterments
the American Legton.
the total sum of not to exceed
$1,750,000.00.
The polls will be open from 8:00
To Finish the Job.
Pernear— Pretty good, don't you a. m. until 5:00 p. m of said day.
By order of the Board of Direc­
think 1 I made it for a cover design.
Krltlx—Now. if you could only de- tora
W. J. Warner,
sign a cover for the picture.
20-5tc
Secretary.
Bargains in Windbreak and Shade
Trees for Spring Planting
Here are some of the trees we can furnish you this spring at satisfactory prices:
MAPLES—Soft, Sugar or Norway
LOCUST
POPLARS—Carolina and Lombardy
AMERICAN ELM
HORSE CHESTNUT
LINDEN
BALM OF GILEAD
While you may not be able to plant your trees for some time, now is a good time to
check up your needs—and don't forget we have fruit trees, shrubbery, roses, etc.
Cut out and mail this ad and on an order of 810.00 or more we will give vou credit
for 81.00.
Send in your list now so we can get your order ready before the spring rush arrives.
MORE GOOD ACTIVE SALESMEN WANTED
OREGON NURSERY COMPANY
Orenco, Oregon
“Plant Dependable Trees’’
Department A
In This Paper
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