The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-09-30
GOOD THING
FOR PORTLAND
Vastly Better Form of Government is
Assured if the Measure Becomes a
Law--ReductiOn in Salaries of
all City Officers.

SALEM, Sept. Ex-senator Hazeltine
this morning. The leading feature of
the measure is, of course, the board of
public works, which will virtually act as
the city's disbursing agent, and comes
near having the reins of the city govern
ment in its hands.
For the present the board will consist
of the mayor, auditor, city attorney and
superintendent of streets, and with the
incoming of new mayor, new board
shall be appointive, the tenure of Office
being ,, 4, 6, 8 and 10 years.
Under the rotation system there will
always be some one in Office who is ia
miliar with the city government.
The charter further provides for an al
most general reduction in salaries of city
elective officers, councilmen being re-
qulred to serve without compensation.
As Haseltine expressed it, "The taxpay-
ers demand reduction of the city ex-
penses. We cannot afford to run behind
$4,000 annually; hence the reduction
of salaries"
If the charter is adopted the police and
fire commissions will be made elective,
the tenure of Office being 2, and six
years. 1t will be the aim to keep the
two departments out of politics.
The present boards are to serve until
the next election. These in brief are
the leading features of senate bill AT,
which is the most voluminous yet intro
duced.
When Myers joint resolution provid-
ing for fish commission of five was in
definitely postponed in the house this
morning, the state was saved several
thousand dollars. Those who opposed
the measure did so on the ground that
the state has already fish and game
commissioner, and that the appointment
of commission would be an expensive
and useless move.
Fulton's resolution urging the Oregon
delegation in congress to do all In its
power to secure the retention of thePhil-
ippine islands will, IN all probability, be
passed.
A message from the governor, reciting
the loss of Mechanical hall at the Ore
gon agricultural college at Corvallis, and
recommending an immediate appropria-
tion for rebuilding it, in the interest of
the state and students was received.
Stanley of Union introduced in the
house bill for an act to prevent sheep,
horses or cattle from being moved OF
driven from any county in this state into
any other county, or from any other
place into this state, for the purpose oi
being herded or -pastured on the public
lands or upon any lands owned by any
person other than the owner of such
sheep horses or cattle, or his agents, oil
the person having them in charge, with
out the permission Of the owner of such
land
Two veto messages of the governor
were sent to the house today, both oil
them pertaining to bills passed in 1895
but sent to the governor too late for hin
to act upon and return to the house a
that session. One of these vetoes was o
an act to authorize sheriffs to charge anC
collect mileage in certain cases, in. lie,
of expenses, the money to be retained
by the, officer. The veto, which was flee
February 2S, 1895, was on the grounC
that it was against the expressed will o
the people, who had declared agains
the tee system.
The last bill introduced in the hous
this afternoon was by Hill OF Multno-
nah, to create the Office of clerk in jus