Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-01-16
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
.aaal
Who Held Up Reform Meas
ures Last Wlnter2
SENATE DELAYED THINGS
From the Printed Journals Of the
Legislature,

on page 5gj Journal Of the lIOus,
we find the following;
HOUSE RESOLUTION No. ~.
Mr. Gates. Of Washington county
offered the following:
Resolved, That committee Ofthre'
DC appointed 20 confer with the OF
] hcials Of the senate and ascertain whJ
action upon the part Of the senate II
delayed on house measures and report
back Thursday mt 10 o'clock a. m.
Mr.. Gates moved that the rules b,
suspended and that action bc taken or
the resolution now.
Messrs. Paxton and McCraken de
manded the ayes and nays.
Mr.. Paxton demanded a call OF the
house.
[The proceedings for several pages
are taken up with the fllibustering
motions Of Paxton, Long and other
Portland ring men, who moved calls
Of the House and sought TO break the
quorum'in every way. The senatorial
Joint convention intervened, and at
It's close, the same opposition sought
10 adjourn, and the following proceed
ings are recorded on page 39s.
Mr.. Cleeton moved that the house
adjourn.
Messrs. Long and Paxton demanded
the ayes and nays.
On this question the roll was called
and the vote was:
Those voting aye were
Messrs. Beach, Blundell, Briggs,
Calvert, Cardwell, CleetOn, Conn,
DAILY, David, Dunn, Gowdy, Keyt,
Long, McCraken, McGreer, Mintie,
Moorhead, Paxton, Sehlbrede, Shut
rum, Stanley, Smith OF Clackamas,
Smith Of Polk, Smith Of Josephine,
Templeton, Thompson and Mr..
Speaker 81.
Nays Messrs. Baker, Barkley,
Boothby Buchanan, Burke, Burleigh,
Cone, Coon, Cooper, Craig, Curtis,
Davis, Gates, Guild, Gurdane, lIille-
gas, Hofer, Hope, Huffman, Jeffrey,
Lester, Lyle, Nealon, Patterson, Ri
nearson, Stewart, Smith Of Linn,
Tigard, Wright, Yates and Young
81.
Absent-Messrs. Myers and Scott
..
[Then the opposltlon-those voting
"aye"--moyed indefinite postpone
ment, which was lost 20 TO %. The
proceedings were as follows on adopt
ing the resolution;l
Messrs. Long and Paxton demanded
the ayes aud nays on the motion 10
adopt the resolution.
On this question the roll was called |
and the vote was:
Those voting aye were
Messrs. Baker, Barley, Boothby, |
Buckman, Burke, Burleigh, Cole, !
Coon, Cooper, Craig, Cults, Gates, !
Guild, Gurdane, llillegas, Hofer, Hope,
Huffman, jeffrey, Lester, Lyle, Nealon, /
Patterson, Stewart, Smith Of Linn. |
Tlgard, Wright, Yates, Young, 20. ,
Nays-Messrs. Beach, Blundell, |
Bridges, Calvert, Cardwell, Cleeton, !
Conn, DAILY, David, Davis, Dunn, /
Gowdy, Keyt, Long. McCraken, Nc. /
Greer, Mintle, Moorhead, Paxton.
Sehlbrede, Shutrum, Stanley, Smith /
OF Clackamas, Smith of Polk, Smith .
OF Josephine, Templcton, Thomson. |
and Mr.. Speaker-2S.
Absent-Messrs. Myers, Rinearson,
and Scots.
SO the resolution was adopted.
Mr. Paxton moved that q copy of
the rollcall on the adoption OF the B
resolution accompany the resolution 4,
10 the senate.
The motion prevailed
The speaker named as the COM
mittee under house resolution No. |
80, Messrs. Gates, Hofer and Wright. |
What did the senate do In this mat
ter = Harvey Scott is demanding a
special session Of the Legislature be-
cause "the thirty In the lower house
held up" the legislature. Let him
study the legislative record and give
II TO his people 10 read, lie dare not
do II.