Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-02-10
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BILL.
It Passed the Oregon House Almost
Unanimously.

Unanimously.
In the Oregon house Monday the dis
trict attorney salary bill was passed,
after amendment by the judiciary COM
mittee, by almost unanimous vote.
The bill as passed fixes salaries as fol-
lows: First district, IS, 900; second
district, $4,000; third district, S.. 500;
fourth district. $1,000; fifth district,
$4,000; sixth district, So. 900; seventh
district, $3, 900; eighth district, 50, 500;
ninth district, $4,000.
Flagg's bill to require all executions
to be held at the state prison and>con-
Quoted by sthe superintendent of the
penitentiary was the first defeated, re-
ceiving only 80 votes, but upon recon-
sideration of the vote and a speech by
the author later in the day it was
passed by vote of SO.
Blackaby's bill to empower county
courts and clerks of school districts to
sell property and bid in for taxes was
passed by 43 votes.
Other bills passed were: To limit
appeals to the supreme court in money
actions to amounts involving 5000 OF
more, and to give street railway com.
panies the right of eminent domain; 70
amend the code relative to new trials
so as to nullify the plea of former jeop-
ardy and to require street railway COM
panies to provide cars with vestibules
from October 1 to April /; to prohibit
the adulteration of candy; to require
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company to fence its tracks between
Portland and Huntingdon; to prohibit
persons from running push cars or
hand cars on railroad tracks without
the consent of the railway officials; to
appropriate $4,000 for bridging the
south fork Of the Nehalem river. This
bill came up on reconsideration of
the vote by which it was defeated Feb
ruary 2.when it received only 80 votes.
The motion to reconsider carried by 80
votes and then the bill was passed by
vote of 33.
Grace's bill to extend the time in
which laborer's lien may be fled
from 80 to so days and contractors
from 80 to 80 days was defeated, as
was also Stillman's bill to repeal sec-
tion 1890 of the code, providing for the
observance of Sunday.
At the night session the following
bills were passed: To regulate travel
over county bridges; to repeal the act
of 1891 prohibiting driving or herding
livestock along public highways; to fix
the salaries of county treasurers so as
to increase the salary of the Tillamook
county treasurer from $3.50 te $3.50; to
fix the salary of the sheriff of Lincoln
county at 81, 800 and salary Of clerk of
county court at $1.250; to require the
signatures of householders to petitions
for saloon licenses instead of the sig
natures of legal votes as under the
present law; to prohibit the sale of Ii
quor in private boxes or booths Of res
taurants; to amend the liquor laws so
as to require license fol the sale of
any quantity, whether more than a
gallon or less.
Moody's bill to regulate the practice
of horseshoeing in counties OF 80, 900
population and over and creating
board of examiners to be appointed by
the governor was showed under by 80
negative votes as against only %
affirmative.
The Oregon senate Monday passed
unanimously Josephi's bill to make the
cost of the maintenance of insane per-
SONS chargeable against their estates in
certain cases, and to provide for the
transportation of insane patients to the
asylum in charge of trained nurses
from the asylum.
Other bills passed were as follows:
Charter of Dalles City (The Dalles); to
amend the charter of the town of Du-
fur. to amend the law relating to ten
ancy in common, and abolishing joint
tenancy; by request. to give preference
to honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors in all public employment; to
amend the law so as to make records of |
official court reporters pima facie evl.
denoe, and to authorize the settling |
and signing of bills of exceptions by
SUCCESSORS of the trial judge; to require
county to take the city OF
lease of the steel bridge; to
amend the charter of Lebanon.