The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-02-08
trary notwithstanding there were
plenty ofvotes to passit and to- spare.

IL is regarded now as certainty
that the local option amendments
stand some show of passing the
legislature. The polls made by
newspaper correspondents indicate
as much. The provisions, how
ever, will differ largely from the
bill as originally introduced by
Jayne. Instead of an emergency
clause, there will be a provision
for referendum vote on the meas
TIRE by the people in an election to
be held in June. Many legislators
dislike the special election which
will entail a cost of many thousands
of dollars on the state. Some say
it is not necessary, and that the
referendum vote had better wait
until the regular election in 1906.
The postponement however, would
not give opportunity for the var
ious county tests sure to come in
1906 to be made under the amend
ed law, and that is why liquor men
and anti-optionists insist that if
there is to be vote at all that it
shall be the coming June.
The compromise measure is the
consequence of a certainty that the
original measure stood no possible
show of passing. Many members
of the legislature really believe that
since they were elected by the same
vote that enacted the option law,
it is in bad taste for them to tamper
with the law at all.
. The bill for an additional Judge
in the end district passed the House
last week, and at last accounts was
in the hands of the president of the
Senate. There seems to be gen.
eral sentiment favorable to the bill,
and it is expected that it will pass
the Senate and become a law An.
other measure of similar tenor is a
scheme to make judicial district
out Of Lane, Linn, Benton and
Lincoln, leaving Judge Hamilton
what would be left of the end and
naming new Judge and prosecut-
ing attorney tor the district to be
created. Some people in Linn OBJ.
ject to the proposition and the same
Is true of Marion and other count.
les of the district from which it is
proposed to take Linn. No bill fo1
the purpose has been presented
and on account of the lateness o1
the hour and the opposition that
has developed it is not likely that
there will be.
There is talk around the capitol
of an adjournment Of the session to
a date this autumn. One excuse
set forth for the plan is to enable
the legislature to override such
vetoes as the governor might ad.
minister to delayed measures
Others are more frank, and freely
admit that the possibility of a con.
viction of Senator Mitchell in the
land fraud cases has more than an
ticipated vetoes to do with the
scheme. It is not so much the
governors veto as it is the COVER
nor's appointment of an United
States senator as a successor to Mr.
Mitchell that is feared. 1t is alse
whispered around that Senator Nit.
chell is i'll, that the worry ane
trouble incident to the indictments
might prove fatal, and that an op
| perfume session already scheduled
for naming successor, would bs
timely
It is not believed that there i
serious intention to adjourn for {
special session. The extra session
talk is mainly if not altogether il
the third House. The solons then
selves are not likely to prejudice
the case Of Senator Mitchell BY an
ticipating his conviction, nor te
jeopardize his life by waiting lik'
buzzards for his death. A session
of the kind and on such an errane
would be so out of harmony will
good taste that it could hardly b.
undertaken, and there are few, i
any, who want or expect it.
/ Nobody knows what the appro
priation bill will total. ItWas saic
on the floor Of the Senate. Monday
that the appropriations would ag
gregate more than 2,eoo, 900
The same speaker declared that i
would be a bigger sum than two
years ago when the half milliot
dollars for the Lewis and Clark
fair was included. The bill is K
be reported the latter part Of tht
week.
A graft pure and simple is bi