Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-24
The Gentleman Gets a Ro-
land for His Oliver.
PENNING PERSONAL LETTERS;
Proves a Poor Investment for a
Bankrupt Politician.


eral Of5ce at Oregon City. You
are Que Of tn best types Of the fac
tion now 10 cOntrOl Of the Republi-
can Darty-politicIans whose talents
consist largely Of the predatory in
stincts Of beasts Of prey rayaging the
l taxpayer.
While elected on the same ticket
with Mr.. MOOres, confess 70 having
never found our political associations
entirely coBgenial. You we're elected
on a platform pledged to abolish use
less commissions. Your frst move
was TO create an enlarged commits
siOn-the state board Of horticulture
and provide an increased appropris-
tiOn. / voted and spoke against the
bug bill and we parted company right
| there.
confess To voting for two apprO-
priatlOns that / considered IN the
real interest Of the peopie-a portage
| railway bill and free textbook bill, to
provide a fund for the state Of Oregon
/ u print the elementary school books
at cast to the patrons Of the public
schools. Those measures could not
| interest a man Of your stripe and got
very few votes in republican leg
islature. / am proud to have voted
for these measures, though l do not
consider my record perfect by any
means. All who were members Of
that legislature know that for some
reason best known TO yourself, Mr..
| Speaker Moores never called the house
70 order promptly on time. He would
waste from ten minutes 70 half an
hour at the opening OF each session
and his attention was called to the
fact repeatedly. 1t is notorious fact
that not half the. business on the
calender was ever considered under
your speakership. To save time, l
proposed committee Of three to reYise
the Journal Of the House each day
and correct clerical errors and report
the same TO the House instead OF read
ing 1t, or taking the time to call the
roll each morning to suspend the
rules. Comparisons are odlous
but you have assailed me where
my 13.inch guns are loaded. My work
on The journals cost the people not
one cert, and saved from ten minutes
t. half an hour each days session
while you as speaker deliberately
wasted that much time each day. AS
for the one clerk employed by the
committee on Banking and Insurance,
Mr.. Norris Brown, he was kept con-
stantly at work by the committee for
thirty days at SO day, when he was
discharged. He was a deserving
young man, who was closely attentive
to duty and earned all he got, II eyer q
clerk did, and the money went to sup
port his wife and children. Mr.,
Speaker Moores did you not have your
sister appointed to clerkship in the
Senate ?
We all know how you killed your
self for ever running for any Office be-
, fore the people by your management
OF the committee you appointed land
of which you we're a member,) to re .
wise and correct these same journals
OF the house, (which had already been
revised by my committee and ap-
proved by the house each day for moth
ing.) Your committee cost the tax
payers $50 a day for month or more,
; and then the journals were left so full
Of errors that no one can tell whether
the appropriation bill ever legally
passed the house or not.
If you did not take your share Of
the swag nobody had ever heard of it
before.
A competent committee Of the
house at 50 a day each could haYe
done the work In a reliable manner at
cost OF less than 800, for which Mr..
Moores and his incompetent commit
tee took about $1,000 out OF the tax
payers. / could not have been a
member OF your committee as only
one (Mr. Moores) could get In from
; Marion county. With what did Mr..
Moores employ his time on that COM
mittee for thirty or forty days each
at $40 a day? Soon after they were
through. the Salem Statesman
printed table showing my vote on
each bill, TO make IL appear that i
had voted for more appropriations
than Mr.. Moores did, gallant act on
your part to perform towards col.
league, as was Informed Mr.. Moores
had compiled the table while paying
himself $40 day, for correcting the
Journal"
You had been so brave also as TO
walt until enough votes had been
cast toensure the passage OF the gen.
eral appropriation bill, when you as
speaker, voting last, voted against
the bill,
II your vote had been the deciding
vote on the fate of that bill Oregon
would have piled up four years ago a
million dollars In the treasury on
which the people would have had TO
pay eight per cent taxes. But II will
charitably admit that II you, Mr.
, Moores, had not felt perfectly safe in
! your grand stand play TO make a record
OF economy on paper, you would