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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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Good telephone service requires the mutual co
operation of the public and the telephone company.
Pay a visit to any central office—it is an interesting
sight. Individuals and organizations a n welcome.
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68 telephones, or in all 2459 Oregon people—are in
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tee appointed at the 1927 session to
eliminate dead timber In the Oregon
rode. Many of the other repeal bills
have been reported back by commit
tees wlBi the recommendation that
they be passed.
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Total disbursement plus cash on
hand, of private Institutions tor de
pendent and delinquent children un
der the Jurisdiction of the child wel
fare commission, aggregated 9942, ! M
919.08 during the past biennium, ac
cording to the report of the commis
sion filed with the legislature last
week.
Self-Supporting Departments la Aim.
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
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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
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