Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-06-12
WEDNESDAY, JUNE l2, 1876.
THE LEGISLATURE

lbs hlhte lflubfT mas sent aut, IN ac-
e iIdaDce with the usual custom u the
euiefpiieiug aud not uiggsrdiy paid
DuDiisuiug bUUse ~ which be pTesides.
neatly bound pamphlet Of some 30
.s2fr, eDtui~d "OcneTal Laws 81 the
Eizit estb Regular SessiOB of the Leg
islstiye As-s nby." a stIsDge feeling
jf melancholy comes over the reviewer
~ he takes 10 this NnTE, suggestive fot
he mosl pait Of 'might-hsve-beeus. y
rhis volume, for example, might have
sOntBined laws Substituting salaries for
fees for state officers; abOlisbiDg tb~
railroad commission; putting distric
attorneys Oh Salaries; spprOprialins
ess money fJr clerks; cutting down al
OWaDces for disbursements iu th,
.apitOl building; relieving taxation ~
beneficiary schools and colleges; fOt
JrerefvIUK tIe salmon industry pro
ectiug dep3sitOfs 10 rawlings b4Dks;
outing the National Guard aud th'
ftats university OD the same fYOiirg
before the h. " AZ other objects Of state
dd This volume does not coutsib
special laws, and probably that is th'
reason why no mention II made o.
anne endments 10 the chatter # the cts
o! Portland, Dy which the taZpsyers of
/
year, now unnecessarily wrung from
them by higb-hapded officalism -
Oregonian, June 8,
1t was a misfortune that the last leg
Is ature was not composed Of bet ef
men than it was composed Of. 1t II
rue Joseph Simon was there. That
was a redeeming fes ture Of the Senate.
Mr.. Paxton was there in the Hours,
md 30 there was one upright man IN
5odom. Mr.. Gulixson, who alone IN
the preceding legislature, lobbi d
through bills aggregating nearly
10000, was there, but only a. b
c)mmittee clerk, and could not give
the people the benefit Of his entire time
and influence for only S. 3 day. But
Harvey Scott and II. w. Corbett and
Mr.. Failing and several more Of the
sturdy yoemsnry Of Portland and dls.
interested friends Of the people were
not there. But they were ably repre-
sented by the talented Senator McGinn
Of MultnOmah county, that brilliant
cross between a Donnybrook IrishmaD
and a Hoboken German, and so all
was not lost.
The enterprise Of Mr.. McGiun only
enabled him TO use $3.50 for en0rosslng
the Senate bills, when the same work
was done 10 the House for 1886.
"The strange feeling Of melancholy"
that comes over one is despened
almost to sadness not only by the
"might have.beens" VI the lsst egisla-
ture, but by the record made by the
men whom the OregoniRn never tires
OF holding up 10 abuse and ridlculs--
the "nobls thirty" They are blamed
not only for what the legislature did
d y but what II didn't do. They were
no such men as the talented McGlnn
for out Of the whole money apprOpn-
ated for clerks, 6,720.60, they eI.
pended only t3,Ab0.b0, while the ~
Do!phiies, those unselHsh enemies Of
'high-hauded ofiieialism" got away
with ti8, ,720GO. The Legislature would
have appropriated for clerks, II the
mrmsera had all been such friends of
economy aa the Oregonisn upholds
exactly t3I0SO Tor clerks. II n had
been composed All of men like the
Thirty condemned by the OfegonlAn Il
would hays spent Oply tl0,li0 for
aud that 10 too much. t.
was expected that ths nov immortal. |
led committee Oi one Hundred would /
prepare the reform bills and u 10 pfe 1
,uned they we're presented by lhoss I
lobio Poulsnd seBAiofs who were thr
special champions " political ehssi , 1
.nd tbs sSofn foes of "bigh-handsd !
fasnstofs heulsu aud /
Simon. Those reform measures wefs
ifsssnisd 'ihsy are ihs measures lhs
lfsRonlsn sesps not a. fnd ~ the ses
lon laws. There Wa dear llllls llll
. 900 ths district Aiiofnsy on = salsfy
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