Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-02-03
BERBERIS AQuIFoLIuM.
The Oregon Grape Chosen as the State
Flower.

Flower. :
In the Oregon senate Monday after
noon three bills were introduced, 25
house bills were read the first time, two
house bills read. the second time and
referred, and two house bills were
passed.
Haseltine, of the committee on horti-
culture, reported favorably a bill for
park boards in cities of 5000 or more
population.
Petitions were filed from 26 mem
bers of the Nesmyth Grand Army post,
The Dalles, favoring admitting wives
and widows of soldiers and sailors to
the Soldiers Home: from 19 residents
on the Barlow road, favoring the states
acquiring that tho1oughfare; from #
residents of Clackamas county, for the
county court to plank bridges for trac-
tion engines; from Portland Woman's
Club, for the adoption of the Oregon
grape as the state flower. The last
named petition was accompanied by a
resolution, which was passed, declar-
ing the berberis aquifolium the official
state flower.
The house bill to create the office of
state biologist was passed, II to 10.
The amended charter of the town Of
Adams was the only other bill passed.
Haseltine offered resolution of
thanks to Henry E. Dosch for his serv.
ices to the state at the Omaha exposi-
tion, and it was unanimously adopted.
The following new bills were pre-
sented: TO authorize the governor to-
let convict labor for not less than 35
cents per day per man for period not
exceeding 10 years; to amend the As
toria charter SO as to permit the water
commission, instead of the council, to
fill vacancies on it's beard; to amend
the statutes SO as to permit only 5
cents per mile, for private persons serv-
ing papers or for Jurors and witnesses
in Multnomah county.
In the House.
In the house Monday afternoon,
Donnelly's bill fixing the salaries Of
officers of Tillamook county, were
passed. A mum Der of bills were read
the second time and referred to COM
mittees, and half dozen bills were in
troduced. Before adjournment. also,
the ball was set in motion for the res
direction of the apportionment bill.
Contrary to expectations, Donnelly's
bill to create Wheeler county out of
portions of Crook, Grant, and Gillian,
which was defeated in the house Janu-
ary 26, had comparatively smooth sail
ing today. passing by a vote of 81 to
l3; absent, IL; paired, 2.
Myers submitted report, of the
joint legislative committee on fisher
les, showing that uniform legislation
had been agreed. upon at the conference
held in Tacoma Sunday, which was
adopted.
Bills were introduced as follows: To
incorporate Medford; to amend the
charter of Arlington; to prohibit exhi-
bitions of mesmerism, hypnotism and
artificial somnambulism = providing
penalties ranging from fine of 500 to
5000 therefor; to prohibit laying out
county roads on greater grade than 2
per cent, and to require road and
bridge work to be done by written con-
tract with the lowest bidder, whenever
the cost exceeds $50; to abolish the
office of county recorder of Clatsop
county; to prohibit the organization of
banks with a smaller capital than $10,-
900; to protect trout, to change the
time of terms of court in the second
judicial district.