Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-02-09
Initiative and Referendum.

Initiative and Referendum.
The resolution for an initiative and
referendum amendment. to the constitu-
tion passed the senate last Thursday.
having previously passed the house,
and is ready for submission to the next
legislature.
The American Bar Associations codi-
fication OF laws relating to negotiable
paper passed both houses. The Curtis
bill limiting the number and salaries
Of professors in the state university
passed the house after sharp discus
sion.
Hills pilotage bill, which passed the
house week ago, was reported by the
senate committee on commerce and
navigation with amendments striking
out large part OF the bill and leaving
1t without direct bearing on bar pilot
age and placing the appointment of
pilot commissioners in the hands of the
governor. The amendments were
adopted, and the bill passed, 81 to 8.
The only change in the present law is
to make river pilotage not compulsory.
In the senate Thursday a resolution
to authorize the exchange of tine old
blind institute site for a block adjoin-
ing the present site of the blind insti-
tute. owned by J. H. Albert, was the
special order, and, after a vote carry
ing the resolution was nearly complet-
ed, it was recommended ON a state
ment from Selling that he had just
heard something about il that needed
investigation.
The following bills were passed:
To constitute the county court a board
Of equalization for county assessment;
to extirpate Russian and Chinese
tbistles; to appropriate $4,000 for the
Oregon Historical Society.
IN the House.
The greater portion of the forenoon
session of the house Thursday was
given up to hearing reports OF standing
committees. In addition to this, two
bills were passed and eight new bills
introduced.
The bills passed were those by Cur
tbs. amending the salmon fishing laws
passed at the special session SO as to
conform with the regulations agreed
upon by the joint fisheries committee,
and by Myers, to apply to the military
fund OF the state all moneys that may
be received from the government for
transportation and equipment of the
Second Oregon volunteers.
Other bills passed were: To require
that all claims against the state other
than salaries and liabilities established
by law, be incorporated into separate
appropriation acts; to abolish the ex-
pensive practice of copying assessment
rolls for the state and to provide for
transmission to the secretary of state
summaries only; to provide for the re-
organization of the state militia; to re-
store to the military fund of the state
$S,S97.6S expended in the suppression
Of riots by the state militia at Astoria
and Roseburg during 1896; authorizing
the supreme court to employ clerical
aid and appropriating $1,000 therefor;
to codify the laws relating to negotia-
BILE instruments; to prohibit false label.
ing of Oregon products, applying es-
peCially to salmon and Oregon fruits.
Reapportionmsnt Bill Approved.
In the Oregon senate Friday, Sena-
tors Smith, of Baker, and Dufur pre-
sented explanations of their position
with reference to the reapportionment
act. which was approved by the gover-
nor while they were speaking. Both
opposed the double districting feature
of the law.
The following bills were passed: To
authorize county courts to permit con-
stiuction of logging roads along public
highways; to prevent the unauthorized
use of trademarks.
District Attorney Bill Remitted.
In the Oregon house Friday the ju-
dietary committee asked to amend the
bill by substituting 1900 for 1909,
claiming the figures were placed in
the bill as the result Of a clerical error.
The following bills were passed.; To
define the duties Of administration in
payment OF claims, and declare the Or
der Of pIopriety Of claims to give farm
laborers lien upon farm products for
labor performed; to protect salmon in
Alesea bay and streams emptying into
1t. and fixing the close season;
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