FOUR 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
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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.)
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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
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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.
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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."
The horse-breeding industry in
the United States is valued at
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