PROCEEDINGS OF OREGON LEGISLATURE
STORMY TIME NEAR
Friday, February 22.
Balom, Fob. 22. The bill creating
the state board of tax commissioners
was killed in the senate by failing to
XUHH.
President Ilainos was presented with
an elegantly framed photograph of the
members and oflleorn of the senate.
The Honate banking bill was passed
by the house. Several unimportant
'amondontB were made. The Benate dis
posed of all business but 12 bills which
will be taken up tomorrow morning.
The normal school question is the only
vexation thoy have on the table.
The houso bill appropriating money
to pay interest on eortidcates issued in
1905, when the appropriation bill was
held up, was passed by the senate,
amended so that interest is not to be
paid on such certificates as were dis
counted. The senate passed the house bill ex
tending the law regulating hours of fe
male labor to mercantile establish
ment;. Another house bill passed by the
senate gives conductors and engineers
authority of sheriffs on trains.
Eight hours is to constitute a day's
work in underground mlnss according
to a bill passed by the house, which
the senate has already approved.
Altogether the senate passed 68 bills
today and the house 20.
Thursday, February 21
Salem. Feb. 21. The Normal school
question is still unsettled and may be
passed up to the next legislature. Both
houses passed a bill providing for a
discontinuance of two normals, but this
was vetoed by the governor. Both
houses have passed appropriations for
Weston and Ashland, and the senate
for Monmouth.
The house passed a bill allowing
farmers to burn brush before June 1 or
after October 1 without obtaining per
mits.
The house indefinitely postponed the
senate bill for the purchase of the half
block east of the capitol grounds.
The irrigation code bill was indefi'
nitely postponed by the house.
The senate passed the locks bill ap
propriating $300,000 for co-operation
with the Federal government in pur
chasing the Oregon City locks.
Land barons were successful In the
.senate today securing the defeat of the
Coos bay grant bill
The proposed tax laws have passed
the house and were favorably reported
to the senate. The house changed the
provision for taxes to be paid the coun
ty treasurer to sneritt as at present
The senate committee made minor
changes in this measure that, the house
overlooked
All bills looking to the creation of
new counties have been killed
The house passed the senate reappor
tionment bill and shortly afterward the
senate passed the house bill appropriate
ins 120.000 for new buildings at the
state fair grounds. " The passage of
and vegetabes grown in this state under
irrigation at the National Irrigation
congress at Sacramento, next September.
The other bill carries $06,552. made
TWENTY- KILLED,;
Heavily Loaded Electric Train Leaves
the Track,
New York. Feb, 18. Sixteen Hansen-
gcrs were killed outright, four others Ratal VICtON ill RQSSla PuT'
nave Uiea oi meir mjuiicn, uuu at leasi
50 more were more or less seriously in
jured in the wreck of the White Plains
and Brewster express on the Harlem
tends Violence.
up of small items such as caring for es- division of the New York Central , &
caped Insane patients.
The bill to establish two or more
state hospitals for tuberculosis patients
was killed in the senate.
The senate refused to pass the Smith
norma) bill over the governor's veto.
The senator will endeavor to secure a
reconsideration.
The senate bill for the purchase of
voting machines passed the house.
The house passed the senate bill ap
propriating $100,000 for the purchase
of a site and erection of a house for
feeble minded.
Agricultural college improvements
was cut from $75,000 to $00,000 for
1907, and $65,000 for 1908 by the sen-
ate.
The house is working from early
morning until midnight in an endeavor
to get its calendar cleared by time of
adjournment. Today 31 measures
were passed, only three failing of pas
sage.
Monday, February 18
fialm. Fflh. 18. The Haines state
banking bill passed the senate today, yards before they collapsed.
It is very lenient, allowing banks to re- The cause of the wrecK nas not Been
duce their reserves to 15 per cent of officially determined. At Grand Central
their deposits and 10 per cent of their station there was inclination to blame
time demand deposits, only one-third tho acci(ent to spreading rails, but
necessarily to be cash. later it was said that it was believed
ine nouse mis aiiernoon paste i wie
the two bills was in the nature of a
trade.
Todav the house passed 27 bills and
the senate 13.
Wednesday, February 20.
Salem, Feb. 20. The bill lor an ap
pronriation of $2,500 for the importa
tion of song birds was defeated by the
house
House bills for free text books in
Dublic schools were killed in the sen
ate.
The sentae by indefinite postpone'
ment killed the house bill annexing
to Baker county a part of Grant county
The same disposition was made of
the bill proposing to create Nesmith
county.
The bill abolishing the 3 per cent
tax rebate was indefinitely postponed
bv the senate
The house defeated the bill appn
priating $25,000 for the construction of
& bridge across Snake river near Ontario.
Hart's blil to found a state library at
Pendleton met a hasty death m the
house.
The senate passed the house bill ap
propriating $10,000 for maintenance of
the portage road.
House members and attaches today
presented Speaker Davey with a gold
watch ana cnain.
An adverse report has been made in
the senate to compel Southern Oregon
land barons to sell their land at $2.50
per acre as provided in the grant.
. . n 1.211 4. u
rue house passea a uiu ior mo re
pair and maintenance of the fishway at
Oregon City.
The joint resolution providing for a
recall of public officers was indefinitely
postponed by the house.
Thirteen bills were passed by the
house today. The Benate passed 20 and
killed 13.
Tuesday, February 19.
Salem, Feb. 19. Veto of- the $125,
000 appropriation for the State uni
versity was overridden in each house
today.
Compulsory passes for public officials
was carried over the governor's veto in
the house and will be taken up in the
senate tomorrow.
Hudson Biver railroad, near Woodlawn
road in the Bronx borough of, Greater
New York Saturday evening.
The train left the Grand Central sta
tion at 6:13 o'clock, drawn by two
heavy electric motors, and loaded with
matinee crowd and commuters on
their way home from business in the
city. It consisted of a combination
baggage an'd smoking car, and five
coaches. After stopping at One Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth street, the train
BOTH SIDES MAKE DIRE THREATS
Letters Menacing Reactionary Lead
ers Met by Notice of Retribu
tion on Democrats.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 23. There
turns received today were only from
15 additional electoral districts, bring'
ing the total number of members of the
was scheduled to run express to White dou ma elected up to 410, as follows:
Plains. At Woodlawn road the four
tracks pass through a rough, rocky cut
and take a sharp curve. When the
train reached the curve it was running
at a speed estimated at do miles an
hour. Both motors and the smoking
Monarchists, 75; Moderates, 35; Pro'
gressives, 26; Constitutional DemO'
crats, 74; Left Party, 125; National
ists, 40; indefinite, 11.
The Monarchists made the greatest
gains, 12 seats, but they nave about
attained their full strength, as an over
weighting proportion of the 108 mem-
surely be
car swung safely around the curve, but
the other cars left the rails and plunged Dera ye 10 be elected will
nvnr the aides with a terrific crash. PPsuion.
tearing up the tracks for a hundred
bill repealing the 3 per cent rebate for
payment of taxes prior to March 15
each year.
By unanimous vote the house passed
a bill to reimburse Indiau war veterans
to the extent of $50,000.
A bill appropriating $40,000 to the
various charitable institutions of the
state was passed by the house.
was
that the axle
coach broke.
of the first passenger
AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN NEXT.
The results promise a stormy session.
The bowling down of ministers will be
supplemented by battles royal between
the Radicals and the aggressive reaC'
tionists under the leadership of M
Kroushevian, the notorious anti-Semite
of Kishineff .
M. Kroushevian has received many
threatening letters, to which the organ
of the reactionists, the Russian Banner
replies with a first page notice to the
effect that Max Vmaer, Joseph Hessen
Professor Milukoff and M. Kishaveter,
the Moscow members of parliament,
all leaders of the Constitutional DemO'
cratic party, have been selected for
retribution in case a hair of Kroushe
vian's head is harmed.
SAYS TRAFFIC IS DECLINING.
Hill
Follow Passage of Immigration Bill-
California's Case Weak.
Washington. Feb. 18. The state de
By unanimous vote a pure food bill partment is awaiting the disposition by
imilar to the Federal statute was pass- onryrrraaa nf fllfl nmAinir immigration bill
V V. - 1 I " n
ou ujr mo mmoc. .... Mn nrnr-BAfliiKT further with thn con-
Beginning with the second Monday .
in uauuaLYi ion. mo DiauQ wiiuuci id
to be-placed on a flat salary of $4,000 a question. If the bill is enacted, an inv
year if a bill passed by the house today mediate effort will be made to come to
becomes law. a formal agreement with the Japanese
The house today passed 4d bills and government that will insure the con
in -I mi . 1 an 1 I 1 IO
killed 11. me senate passed 10 dhib. f5nan tha T.r0.nt. li.v nf that
Both houses have adopted a reeolu- . .tvfc1,1!n
tion to aaiourn at noon Saturday, reD- , , r
,.. M Tha 00nr.a WH H rmHinBf. America to Japanese laborers.
v i;it!. s
well in hand, but the bouse has an im- no iar as m peuumg uu.
mense amount to dispose of . concerned, it is stated that there is
every reason, to believe that it will be
Dracticallv acceptable to the Japanese government; are under way," said Mr. Hill. "Less
at any rate, mere nas not yet Deeu me uiuiicjr in wj uo opcm uon num. mo
slightest sign of disapproval in that effect of this movement is being felt at
. the present time in the falling off
" I nrAara Tho hpoinninc nf t.hifl mnve.
a (..i ti.nt i.. .Wnl. e
nitciconng "Mment is verv evident in Ch caeo.
oped in the discussion or tne respective while I would scarcely call it a re
Predicts a Gradual Reduction in
Business Volume.
New York, Feb. 25 James J. Hill
president of the Great Northern Rail
way company, who has returned from
St. Paul, expressed the conviction yes'
terday that the tide of prosperity is
turning and that there are are mdica
tions of a significant recession in busi
ness. Mr. Hill phrased it, "the hills
of prosperity are being reefed
"General policies of retrenchment
Saturday, February 16.
Salem. Feb. 16 By a
unanimous vote the bill requiring old
line life insurance companies to create
a reserve fund from a certain percent
age of the premiums received for pol
icies passed the house this morning.
The house today passed a bill to en
able the husband or wife to transfer rights of state and nation where treaties cession in business: it is more of
property tnat was acquired suDsequeni . involved is that in at ieast one drawing in. The railroads are curtail
L,:"To "ier" Cn """" case, the California courts have taken ing their expenses and placing fewer
vu .. .. .. - , . . I On mil. 1 naa n,a mill
rri, i.n.. n...j a .,n anut nn thn tnoHt. SLcivanppri frrniinriH in ravnr ni umcm. uuv imvu
Nesmith County from that part of the supremacy of the treaties, in one the wrk we have under way and
vyasco uouniy souin oi we iescnuws instance holding that the treaty rights """
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t of aliens to possess real estate could not FAVORS SAN DOMINGO TREATY
The per diem and mileage allowance be destroyed by a state law,
of the members of the house for this
finish
that
session has been made up. The total is
$9,705.45. King, of Harney and Mal
heur, receives the greatest amount, $120
per diem and $149.10 mileage. Rogers
and Reynolds, of Marion, receive the
smallest amounts, each getting $120 per
diem and 30 cents mileage.
LOSSES MADE KNOWN.
PORTLAND MARKETS
Butter Fancy creamery, 32)35c
per pound.
Oregon ranch, 21 22c
Senate Committee Reports on Plan
for Collecting Revenue
Washington, Feb. 2o. The commit
tee on foregin relations today author'
ized a favorable report on the treaty
with Santo Domingo relative to the
collection of the revenues of that coun
try by Americans.
voted against the report.
The treaty, which later was made
FRISCO BUILDING UP.
Music of Saw and Hammer Continues
Night and Day.
San Francisco, Feb. 19. San Fran
cisco, after all, is not going to allow the
opportunities for civic betterment
brought about by the earthquake and
fire to go entirely neglected. A begin
ning, feeble enough though it be, has
been made. Several of the downtown
streets are to b'e widened. The heavy
teaming and the Congestion brought
about where building is progressing
have moved the board of supervisors to
decree that portions of the sidewalks
must be sacrificed to the thoroughfares.
While this in itself is of importance for
the future San Francisco, its greatest
significance lies in the fact that it has
met with general approval and repre
sents the first signs of a willingness to
make sacrifices for the city that is to be.
The magnificent programme of wid
ened streets, parks and squares outlined
for the city while the embers still
glowed is a gradually passing vision,
but those who unselfishly love San Fran
cisco still have hope that part of the
great plan at least will be realized. The
street widening is the first ray of hope.
a want about tne burned section
shows that a wonderful amount of re
building has been accomplished Since
tne first of May new buildings to the
value of $45,000,000 have been begun.
Plans are being drawn for a like
amount. In every case the structures
are erected under rush orders. In sev
eral instances work has continued night
and day. The streets resound with the
sound of the piledriver, the saw and
.he hammer by night as well as by day.
The last traces of gloom have given way
to an abiding faith.
lne promotion committee has issued
a bulletin bearing on the population of
San Francisco at the present time. The
committee, after figuring by various
methods, comes to the conclusion that
the city now contains 428,000 persons.
Before the fire the committee figured
that the population of the city was
500,000. The figures of the Southern
Pacific agree almost exactly with those
of the promotion committee. Due al
lowance, however, must be made for the
zeal of both bodies, and a fair and con
servative estimate of the city's popu
lation would place it at about 400,000.
STATEHOOD STRIKES SNAG.
Fire Insurance Companies Suffered to
Extent of $180,000,000
New York, Feb. 18 The committee
of the five of the thirty-five insurance
companies which acted in unison in set'
tling their San Francisco losses by fire
earthnuake. todav made tmblic in public, provides for collection of the
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nr nrmml : second trmdn nmam. 2o 1 this citv the list of their net losses by revenues of the Dominican lepuDiic ior
abIumtaJ nit HomflnnH nilnnavrv vu" v x L .
Wi mD uonuu v.-.-b r-r-v president of the United States
insured by the idi companies in n Tha BumfJ colected Bhall be applied as
Francisco was $diD,uuu,uuu, and tnere f0nows: First, to oav ng the expenses
was a net insurance loss of $180,000,000, 0f the receivership; second, to the pay
covered by 102,000 policies. The gross ment of interest upon bonds; third, to
loss of all kinds by the disaster is esti- the payment ot the annual sums pro.
k.. ti, nmit.t.a 1 nnnnnn . vided for amortization of the bonds, in
J iii n,-,Arf mfkraar. nnnn all hAn H a halH in
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Farmers Are Wearying of Oklahoma
Constitutional Convention.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 19. Anxious to
get busy with their plowing and fearing
they will not receive pay for a long
time, if ever, for their attendance on
the constitutional convention, many of
the farmer delegates have scattered to
their homes, intimating that they will
not return unless it is to vote for the
document as a whole when it is com
pleted by the few men in control of the
convention.
The expense of the convention to
date above the $100,000 appropriation
made by congress is nearly $150,000.
Pay of the delegates has stopped, and
if congress does no come to the rescue
with an additional appropriation, some
of the delegates will be in a bad way,
as they cannot afford to stay longer at
their own expense. Advices are com
ing in from the state that citizens here
and there are subscribing to funds to
send the delegates back to their jobs.
Neighborly farmers who
Eggs
per dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 13
14c per pound; mixed chickens, 12
13c; spring, 13146c; old roosters,
910c; dressed chickens, 1415c; tur
keys, live, 1617)c; turkeys, dressed,
choice, 1820c; geese, live, 10c; ducks,
1718c.
000. The 35 companies, in their settle-
Wheat - Club, 69c; bluestem, 71c; Lents, handled 42.077 claims.
11 nr-. 1 n . - - I ' '
vaiiey, owe; reu, oc.
Oats No. 1 white, $29; gray, $28.50.
Barley Feed, $22.50 per ton; brew
ing, $23; rolled, $23.50 24.50.
Rye $1.451.50 per cwt.
Corn Whole, $24.50; cracked,
$22.50 per ton.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $14 building. $480,000; Palace Hotel, $1,265,
10 per con; eastern uregon iimotny, 00n
H(3i8; ciover, f; cneai, f; grain
hay, $910; alfalfa, $14.
Apples Common, 7oc$l.zo per
box; choice, $1.502.50.
Vegetables Turnips, $11.25 per
sack; carrots, $11.25 per sack; beets,
$1.251.50 per sack; horseradish, 7
So per pound; sweet potatoes, 3c
per pound; cauliflower, $2.25 perdoz
en; celery, $3.75 per crate; onions, 10
per dozen; parsley, 2530c; within its limits milk from unclean and
sprouts, 9c; radishes, 2530c; rhu- unsanitary cans and vessels or milk not
sinking fund; fourth, to the purchase
and cancellation or the retirement and
The eight largest settlements on indi- cancellation of such bonds as may be
vidual buildings were: Ban Francisco
Hotel, $992,200; Fairmount Hotel, $200,
000; Merchants' Exchange, $582,000;
Shreve building, $384,497;. Spreckeds
(Call) building, $515,000; Chronicle
directed by the Dominican republic;
fifth, the remainder to be paid to the
Dominican republic.
Milk Poisoned With Formaldehyde.
Chicago, Feb. 18. That thousands of
infants in Illinois as well as many
larger children, are being sent to pre
mature graves, is indicated by tne spe
cial report by State Pure Food Com-
A. Jaynes. uommissioner
No Connection With Japan
Washington, Feb. 23. It was stated
at the White House today that the con
ference held there between the presi
dent, Secretary Metcalf and the general
board of the navy had no bearing upon
the relations between the United States
and Japan. The statement was made
that the name of Japan was not men
tioned during the discussion. The con
ference, it was further stated, had to do
do not wish
The Demociats to see the convention entirely in tne
hands of the lawyers, tne politicians
and the urban element, have promised
to take care of the farm work of the
rural statesmen. The daily attendance
at the session is now less than 75 per
cent of the 122 delegates, and many of
those still here sit sullenly in their
seats and let the leaders run things to
suit themselves.
Prominent delegates from Indian Ter
ritory and some from Oklahoma are
openly charged with a plot to defeat
statehood entirely by drawing up a con
stitution that will be rejected by the
people at the election next August. Those
involved in the alleged plot have been
against making one state out of the two
territories for political reasons. .Dis
affection has now begun to pervade the
democratic members as well as those
on the republican side, and charges of
bossism have become so persistent that
there is apprehension the convention
may break up.
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Schuknucht points out that of 35 cities Pa" la. l,ne 8eneral question ,
visited not one escaped naving sold prBUUU01 ul W1D "n,Jr nuu
Dliliy oi an increase ui uie uueugiu ui
barb, $1.75 per box; asparagus, 20c
per pound.
Onions Oregon, $11.25 per cwt.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, fancy,
$1.351.50; common, 90c$l.
Veal Dressed, 5)9c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, zxmiy&c per
properly strained, showing a deposit of
filth, and in 82 of the cities skimmed
milk was sold as standard, and was
adulterated with formaldehyde, which
authorities pronounce a poison.
the entire navy.
Signal Honor for Mulkey.
Washington, Feb. 18. For half an
hour Saturday Senator Mulkey, of Ore-
pound; cows, 45c; country
1 nnnrnnriation bills . steers. 5 Wtf&GWc.
were reported to the house by the ways Mutton Dressed, fancy, 8)9c per gn presided over the senate, while
and means committee. One carries 'pound; ordinary, 67c. the Japanese question was under discus
il OOO for making an exhibit of fruits Pork Dressed, 69c per pound. Ision.
Predicts War for Markets.
Chicago, Feb. .23. "The time is
coming when our manufactures will
outgrow the country and men may be
turned out of the factories," said Sec
retary of the Treasury Shaw in an ad
dress last night. "One of these fine
dys we are going to have an excess of
manufactures," he said. "Then the
world will not come after pur manufactures.
Snovtr Assures Heavy Crops.
Ellensburg, Wash., Feb. 19 If the
heavy snow goes off gradually crops
this year will be the largest in the his
tory of Kittitas valley. Baled hay is
now selling at $22 a ton. Loose hay,
alfalfa, is worth from $12 to $16 a' ton
in the field. Potatoes are worth $30 a
ton. The Northern Pacific, owing to
shortage of cars and equipment, is un
able to handle freight inward or out
ward bound, causing thousands of dol
lars loss to the railroad company and to
the people.
Kansas May Give $76,000.
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 19. A bill appro
priating $75,000 for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition was introduced in
the senate this morning Dy tne commit
tee on ways and means. The exposition
is to be held in Seattle in 1909, and the
appropriation is to cover the cost of a
building and making an exhibit for
Kansas.
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