Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 14, 1950, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tueiday, March 14. 1950 Voter's Legislative Report (Thii ii the fourth in a la riat oi ariiclat takan from Tha Orgeon Volar in regard to leg Illative proctdura and organ!-lation.) ASSIGNMENT OF BILLS In Oregon the presiding offi cer of each house may refer a bill to any committee he chooses. It is customary for the introducer of a bill to indicate his prefer ence to the presiding officer, and if the introducer is not too far on the "outside" of the organiza tion, or is not suspected of an imnrooer motive, the presiding officer is guided by his necessar ily casual glance at a Dill, it is not often that a capable nrcsid Ing officer will fail to grasp the purpose of a measure and see to it that it is referred to a commit tee where it belongs. An arbi trary presiding officer, for politi cal purposes of his own, may re- ler a Dill 10 a commuiee wiicie it docs not belong, but this has not happened often in an Oregon legislature. On the whole, except as to bills involving expenditure, reference to committee has been unobjectionable, although on a few occasions there has been complaint by an introducer al leging favoritism or manipula tion with the purpose of bringing about the defeat of his pet meas ure. Each house has its own rule pertaining to bills which involve , state expenditure for which pro vision must be made in the state budget as reported in separate appropriation bills by joint ways and means committee. The gen eral practice is to refer a bill af fecting an expenditure to the committee which i identified with the general subject, and then, should the bill be reported fe2 MCHAHI26 , . POK THESI PIRFICT SIID EIOSI Um tha am power implement that prepare perfect seed bed in one operation to mechanize your plant ing. The Rototiller planter attach ment handlee any common crop or vegetable teed in wide rowi or mul tiple narrow rovvt. Come in or call ui for details about thit attach ment available with two or mora planting unit. &QTO1TIMJ1& Trad. Mark Rrf. U.S. Pat. Off. fOWIt TILL!. Of A HUNDMD Osaf We are happy fo announce that we now have the Agency for Rototiller, Rotoette and Terra-Tractor. The Terra Tractor it the new crawler tiller you can ride, PACIFIC FEED & SEED CO. MEDFORD PHONE 2-2413 Granti Pass Phone 3122 favorably, to the house, it is re ferred to ways and means. Thus. a bill to increase the salaries ol judges, is likely to be referred first to one of the law commit tees, and a bill relating to old age pensions is likely to be re ferred to a committee on public welfare. In cither of such cases, much feeling develops against re ferring to ways and means alter the original committee lias put a lot' of time on it and has devel oped its own positive ideas. Usually the lawyers, being nu merous, are able to obstruct the reference of a judges salary bill to ways and means, and occasion ally the bill will gel through both houses and become law without having gone to ways and means. The joint ways and means committee has to provide the funds for the necessary increase without having considered it on its merits in relation to other public salaries or the balancing of the budget. In old-age pension bills, the disappointment of members of a oublic welfare committee is acute. Most of them are members of far less experience than arc members of ways and means, and they resent having their pel bill, into which they may put weeks of hearing and considera tion item by item and page for page, sent to the "dictator" com mittee, which will rewrite it to fit into the general budget pol icy and send it back to the house in form that is hardly recogniz able to its welfare committee sponsors. A similar situation ex ists as to a bill for a stale levy for basic school purposes. The conflict of jurisdiction then is between education committers and tax committees of both houses. Usually the school peo ple are so strong in membership and in lobby nressure that the education committees win, or, if the bill gets to a tax committee, it gets there so late in the ses sion with so much determination behind it that lax committee members feel hopeless about at tempting to revise it, and it gets sent to the house "without rec ommendation," with the convic tion that it will be passed re- garaiess oi its eiu-ci un iua h1"1 r State Can Prevent ills Made To US, High Court Rules Washington, March 14. U.R Hie bupreme court today ruled that a stale can prevent its citi zens from willing property to the United States. The government asked the court lo overrule a decision made in 1876 on this issue but was un successful. Speaking for a 7 to 1 majority, Justice Stanley H. Reed said "a state's close relationship with its residents and their property permits it to limit requests if it wishes. Justice Hugo L. Black dissented. Justice William O. Douglass did not take part. The ruling involved requests by the late Gustave Burnison, San Francisco, and Emily P. San born, Los Angeles county. Burnison died Feb. 23, 1946, leaving $22,668.70 in property to the United States. Thereafter three brothers, one sister, and 13 nieces and nephews tried to break the will. Emily P. Sanborn died Feb. 4 1945. Under her will all her U.S savings bonds and real property went to the United States. The bequest was challenged by An nie L. Harris, an heir. Acted Under Law The heirs acted under a Call fornia law naming parties who may benefit by wills, ine united Stales is not mentioned. The government pointed out, how ever, that it has been accepting such gifts since its earliest days. The California Supreme court decided in favor of the heirs. I he justice department appealed to the U.S. Supreme court. Wafer Rates, Golf Course, Up For Study Ashland. Mar. 14 Two sub jects which have been consid ered time and again by the Ash- cies slowly developed by a tax land city council will be up for committee. Because of its relationship with the budget and the neces sary delays in balancing the budget, joint ways and means committee occasionally is re ferred lo as "The House of Lords." and any reference of a controversia bill to that commit tee by a presiding officer is like ly to be viewed wan suspicion as a "Kiss of Death. A similar feeling exists against both tax committees, as the lax commit tees and ways and means must more or less "get together on budget balancing that may in volve change in revenue laws in order to provide enough money for the appropriations. As revenue-raising bills must orieinato In the house, and the senate tax committee must work for many weeks before the prin cipal house revenue bills get to it, the school Interests and vet erans organizations are mucn concerned to have their revenue bills referred to their friendly committees and holding them there until the time cOmcs when the house tax committee is un able or unlikely to mutilate them too much. The Inter they get lo the senate, the less chance there is for the senate tax com mittee to do much about them, cither In revision, or in holding discussion again at a special meeting of the city fathers at 8 p. m. today. They are the pro posed upward revision of water rates, particularly tor agricul tural purposes, and the lease of the Ashland municipal golf course. Councilmcn say they are anxious lo come to a decision in regard to the water rate pro posal because it is closely con nected with city budget matters, which must be voted upon the May 19 election. Truck Driver Held On Mail Theft Charges Portland, Ore., Mar. 14 U.R A young truck driver was held on mail theft charges today. Mis wife and a friend were charged with receiving stolen goods. Police said Robert B. Helms. stealing a mail pouch February 18 containing $5,200 in rash and a $400 diamond ring. His truck ing firm delivered mail by con tract. them in committee until after the legislature is ready to ad journ. (Tomorrow Committea procedura.) CL r r mm . has the NEW Measure-Vak EASY MEASURING GUIDE 1 prints h SEf-cup Vt print - V4 $(p 1A print q z ifsg& has such Flavor foliar fo mtoiuref Easier to coorl Kanicr on your pocket book! That' Nuita in the new Mpwmrc-Pak. Every pound is cut in convenient quarters, but you pay nothing extra. Other reasons that havo made Nucoa America's favorite margarine arc: frcslmrra, richness and high-food value. Cooks and con noisseurs of flavor are using Nucoa margarine for everything today. No wonder.. "fCOA is America's Latest-Selling Marline Surplus Storage Costs Expensive Washington, Mar. 14 U.W The government is paying about $10,000,000 a month to store its vast holdings of farm surpluses, agriculture officials estimated to day. This is part of the cost of farm price supports. The government now has about S4.UUU.UUU.U00 In vested in 31 farm products held off the market to bolster prices. That's about double the invest ment a year ago. No exact estimate of storage costs is possible. Such costs are not kept separately on the gov ernment s books but are lumped in periodically as part ot the gov ernment's "investment" in each of the surplus crops. But officials estimate the rate at which these costs are runniirg now probably is about $120,000,- 000 a year. WEATHER By. United Preis Northern California: Partly cloudy this forenoon Monterey bay area and StocKton north. with a few widely scattered showers. Clearing this afternoon and fair tonight and Wednesday, except for partly cloudy Eureka north and along Oregon border Wednesday. Little temperature change. West to northwest winds off coast 10-20 m.p.h. EUGENE TO GO ON DST Eugene, Ore., Mar. 14 ill.R1 Mayor V. Edwin Johnson broke a 4 to 4 stalemate in Eugene's city council last night and vot ed for daylight saving time, starting April 30. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada FENCE KILLS DEER Lapeer, Mich. (li,R) One day after the hunting season ev.ded, a buck fawn, carefree once again, killed itself jumping over a farm fence. Three other deer escaped injury. They jumped a little bit higher. INVENTIONS NOTED Boston IU.PJ Russian is re placing German as a "must" lan guage for scientists, according to a Boston university instructor. "More and more inventions are being announced in Moscow," said David H. Kraus, "but it often takes months or even years before they are translated, and even then they may well be in accurately interpreted." 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