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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1929)
THE OREGON LEGISLATION FAIRLY UNDER WAY Many Bills Offered In Housat Motor License Cousidered Very Important Tax Equalization First Object—<12, 000,000 Bonds for Highways Propos ed— Stats Departments to be Self- supporting— Stats Library Flourish ss— Annual Fish War Is On Agsln. | One proposed amendment provides for 1 Increasing the fees tor electrical In 1 spoctlons. while another would in crease the tees charged tor plumbing inspections. A new bill authorises the collection of fees for boiler inspection Among the Important bills affecting labor Introduced In the house during the past week Is one that gives the labor commissioner authority to take assignment of and force the collection of wage claims when such action be cornea necessary It is known at bouse bill No. 174. The general laws for 1925 make It a criminal offense for an employer In certain Industries to fail to establish a monthly payday and to pay in full on that date; employers must post no tices In conspicuous places designat ing what date of the month will be the regular payday. In event the employer falls to meel his payday, then the employe can file criminal proceedings against him, or the labor commissioner can act as the employe’s agent. Some district attor neys Insist that complaints be taken before the grand Jury, which means I that In many cases hearing of the com plaints has been delayed for a month. It was found. In the meantime tb> workers have left without otUilr.Ing the wages due them. Library 8ystem Flourishing. The library system of Oregon Is made up of 82 Independent free public libraries, 706 traveling library stations and 28,816 mail-order patrons, accord Salem, O r.- First steps toward the big program to be considered by this session of the legislature were taken the first of last week, when the roads and highways committees of the sen ate and house met to consider read justment of motor license fees, and when the house committee on taxation and revenue decided to lead out the first two measures of the list recom mended by the property tax relief commission. There are eight main subjects In the tax program, but the committee con cluded the best policy Is to feed out the measures a little at a time so that they can be absorbed and under stood, rather than dump the entire complicated series of bills into the hopper at once. Equalization First Object. Equalization, regarded as the funds mental principle of the program, will be the lead-off, represented by two bills, the first on c ntrallzed control and assessment and the second sail ing for a full time state tax commis sion, which will supplant the present commission consisting of the gover nor, secretary of state, state treasurer and state tax commissioner. Under centralized control of assess mcnt It Is hoped to obtain the true value and the equalization of assess ments of property, but to attain this end the state tsx commission must be empowered to exercise general super vision over the entire administration of the assessment and taxation laws. This would enable the commission to step In and adjust the glaring inequali ties which exist In the same class of property In different counties. W ith the exception of the proposed excise tax on banks and an Individual Income tax, all of the recommenda tions of the property tax relief com- j mission were spread before the leg islature Monday, when the session re sumed. Not before most of the taxation measures are well on their way will the controversial bill for a peraeaat In come tax be offered. All things n r.s .il'-- the li--jry b u s ln fi of r - sasa’nn is row fn. ly uader v ay. TIow many, If aty, of lh- -.-.e la- ation I - pp .- u s n il r -nage to pats th? house uad s< rots and be enaeutl Into l.’.wti b unkr.v„~n. Thera appears to be little, If auy, opposition to the tax relief program In the house, but one can never tell. •12,000,000 Highway Bonds Wanted. Both Eddy and Upton, as well as President Norblad and Senator Hall, are Interested in trying to force through a mandate to the highway commission to sell bonds up to the constitutional lim it—about 112,000,000 —and "potlatch" this on a baala ol 40 per oent for eastern Oregon and <0 per cent for western Oregon. . In volved In this measure Is an abun nance of politics for personal and home consumption. It-h a t the aspect of being excellent material for log-rolling. And It is no secret that the governor noea not want more bonds sold, for he wants to see the hpnded debt decreased rather than Increased. Of course, U money was needed to match federal aid, a sufficient amount of bonds may be sold for that purpose and thia can be done without materially Increasing j the load. ' During the first two weeks of the , J 1929 session of the house 153 bills j HEKM UTO3T HE&JLLD, g E B M B W W poratlons f.om 1 creasing their growth from their current status. To quote: “Any corporation now or hereafter do ing business in this state shall not control, vote, bold, own or purchase more than 10 per centum of the num ber of shares of capital stock of any ■ bank or t:ust company or national ■ bank, now or hereafter doing business in this state.” Steelheads swam Into the legisla ture again this session and the bien nisi wrangling over fish legislation ■ started. One of the most Important developments was a promise made to Governor Patterson that illegal fishing would be stopped in the Clackamas and Willamette rivers, now closed commercially, if these streams were opened from November 15 to April 1 Thia promise was made by a delega tlon of fishermen from Oregon City Ths steelhead la a game fish, legis latively. in the Rogue, Nestucca, W ll lamette, Clackamas, Necantcum and Wajiana. Only with book and line can thia variety of fish be taken in these streams. The sportsmen want included the waters of New river, Pis tol river, fixes, Chetco and a couple of other small streams In Coos and Curry counties. Ing to the biennial report ot Mrs. W al ter M. Pierce, nee Cornelia Marrin, state librarian until January 1 of thia year. The report was filed with the legislature recently. The usual stations showed 48,712 shipments containing 276,894 volumes during the biennium. In addition to these activities the state libracy. as purchasing agent, bought annually with the county acbooi library funds and distributed to the school districts 920,000 worth of books. By unanimous vote, house Join mem orial No. 2. by the committee on hor tlculture, was adopted, memorialising congress to place a duty on bananas In order to protect fruits harvested and marketed in thia country. Weath erspoon of Union and Johnson of Ben ton, speaking for the adoption ot the memorial, pointed out that by the im portation ot bananas duty free the market for domestic fruits has been greatly affected. They urged that the fruit Industry of the country be placed on the same base of protection against foreign products as lumber, wheat and other commidities. Bancorporatlona May be Regulated. Rumora that something would he done in the way of regulation of ban- corporations at thia session began to materialize the past week, when a Baaketba'l— Adams vs. Hermiston measure was peddled around to sena at the Hermiston auditorium Satur tors which was so drastic that no one day night, February 18. has yet been found to Introduce it. The tentative bill would have the jfiect of preventing present bancor- ! SWIFT & CO., Hermiston • P. B. BARKER, OPERATOR ; S 3 Waverly Motor Oils . M ak e your Ford Start fc ? sy LI Kneer’s Repair S* cp It ! i f 'Continued on page four> / That you may better under tand what these tele phone people are doing, we cordially invite you to visit any of our central offices. The switchboards, with their miles of wiring, will fascinate you. You will be surprised to fipd that the familiar telephone on your desk, which one of the 143,000 in the Oregon exchanges, amounts to but th ree p e r cen t of the total equipment needed to carry your voice over the state. b Four Reasons for Having Your Printine Done H ere- Oregon men and women have not only used the telephone from the beginning, but have helped de velop the very art of telephony. J. H. Thatcher of this company has been here continuously since the advent of the telephone. Patrick Bacon, now Portland man ager, began as a boy operator more than 40 yean ago. /. 2 Good telephone service requires the mutual co operation of the public and the telephone company. 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Flaclag a number of state depart ments, now supported by public funds, nu a self-supporting basis through thr adoption of a fee system, is the prob Ism that la bow being con »¡dared sert ously by the Joint ways and mean» committee of the legislature At a recent meeting of the commlBeo It was decided to confer with C. 11 Oram, state labor coaunlaaloaer, 1» regard to placing his dnpartmer.t m a self supporlla < basis Mr. Oram ol fered hhf ro apetatlon. and amend meats have been prepand propoain» 2 adpptloa of au oqultaMq fa* actjpduh BM M M MM '>M5BMÌ5wÈÌ5ÌWMM55K 4 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I were Introduced, 47 passed and four | Indefinitely postponed. Of the»« 137. I or more than one-half, were repeal j j bills offered by the Interim commit-1 j < W 8 O lf. JiMMBÌMÌ ffirÌ5Ìg5 l THE KMISTON HERALD .3 •1
