The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-01-30
FOR FORTY DAYS
AND FORTY NIGHTS
SENATORIAL CONTEST WILL
LAST THAT LONG.
Pierce's Eloquence Gained the Ex-
perimental Station Appropria-
ton for Union

Salem, January 2S-(Special Cores.
pondent. While perhaps not doing
anything of general Importance, the
legislative assembly is disposing Of a
great amount of routine work this week.
Many bills have gone through first and
second readings, quite annmber through
the third reading and have been put on
final passage, most of them passing
without much opposition and few be-
ing voted down.
The senate at the morning session to-
day disposed OF all the work on the
table and took a recess from III 10 to
ii DO, calling to order for the purpose of
going into the joint session at noon,
The members from Umatilla county,
with the exception of Phelps, belong to
the minority and are taking active part
in the deliberations of the legislature.
Mr.. Blakely has introduced house bills
A and 48, the former bill for an act
to protect stock growers, the latter
a bill for an act to tax inheritance. He
also introduced the Adams charter bill
which passed. Following are the most
important bills introduced by Senator
G. j. Smith: s. B. 10, relating to rail-
road property smbject to liens; s. b. 65,
relating to care of insane people; S. b.
80, providing for manner of securing
license to sell liquor; s. B. SO, providing
for state grain. commission and grain in
spector; s. b 95, compelling placing
road brand on cattle driven through
other counties than that in which brand
is recorded.
Senator Walter NJ. Pierce has intro.
duced the following: S. B. 4, making
the school tax levy amount to SO per
capita for all children of school age in
stead of the present 5-mill levy; s. B.
IL and Is, abolishing the office of reord-
er for Union and Umatilla counties re-
spectlvely; S. B. 72, making taxes pay
able any time before December 31st of
the year in which they are levied; s.. B.
81, appropriating $4,000 for Eastern
Oregon Experiment Station; S. b, lis,
declaring the Associated Press and
similar associations common carriers.
Senator Pierce is earning quite repu-
tation for eloquence. Yesterday after
vigorous speech he succeeded in hav-
ing s. B. 81, carrying $4,000 for the
Eastern Oregon Experiment Station,
pass the senate. Several senators testi-
fed that their votes were changed by
his argument.
Charters or amendments to same have
been introduced or prepared for PEN
dleton, Freewater, Weston and Adams.
Copies Of any of the above bills except,
some of the charters which are not
printed, will be cheerfuly furnished free
Of charge upon application to members
OF legislature or secretary of state.
The monotony of the purely perfume
tory proceedings of the joint session was
varied little today. After the roll cali
Senator Squire Farrar, of Marion, a
Geer supporter, arose and in short
speech conceding the hopelessness Of
his candidates cause and declaring it to
be the duty of the republican majority
to elect United States senator, changed
his vote to Chas w. Fulton. This pre-
cipitated storm of applause and cheers.
Everyone looked anxiously for other
slmilar changes, but they did not come.
Multnomah, as usual, scattered. Rep.
resentative j. X. Gill (Rep.) voted for
Wood. Two votes were cast for w.
w. Cotton, attorney for the Union aci-
fic, who appeared before the committee
on railroads and transportation few
nights ago and argued against the
socalled fellow servant bill. No one
can be found here who will attempt to
foreten the outcome of the senatorial
contest. Nearly every one expects a
contest of 40 days and 40 nights.
j. N, S.