Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-01-26

ulStrlct primary law operative III I0UO
extending open salmon season for Co
lumbia from Augsut Is to August 25;
to exempt from taxation property OF
householders TO $500 valuation, and to
create Cascade county. The new
county is to be cut out of Wasco and
its temporary and probably permanent
county seat is to be Hood River.
Salem, Jan. 1.-THE following were
among the 10 bills introduced in the
senate today: To protect Eastern oys-
ters planted in Oregon waters; to
amend the law fixing the boundary of
Grant count; to create the Malheur ir-
rigation district; TO make death penalty
apply to trainrobbery; to authorize the
Lewis and Clark fair to condemn pri-
vate property.
The purpose of the irrigation district
bill is to enable the people OF the Mai
heur country to overcome the obstacles
in the way of government irrigation
work.
A bill raising the statutory age of
consent from 16 to is years was laid
on the table.
In the house five bills that had been
vetoed by the governor were read.
One, for higher salary for Multnomah
county school superintendent, was not
sustained. The other four, authoriz-
ing additional expenditures by the
state dairy and food commissioner,
amending Astoria charter, to bond the
warrant Indebtedness of Multnomah
count, and for executive mansion and
other appropriations, were sustained.
A joint resolution to adjourn legis-
lature February 10 was referred.
Thirty-five new bills were read for
the first time in the house today,
among them being: To make gambling
a felony; to authorize special tax for
bridges in Portland; to protect coal
mines and miners; to compensate In
dian war veterans of 1906, and appro-
priating $45, 900 therefor; to create
railroad commission; TO create Eighth
judicial district; TO create Tenth judi
cial district; to enable electors to vote
without new registration when they
move to another precinct; to amend
local option law.
Local option by precincts only is the
purpose of the house bill. If it be-
comes a law prohibition in counties as
a whole and groups of precincts will be
abolished.
Salem, Jan. Is. - The right of the
people to exercise the referendum pow
er is to be protected by Governor
Chamberlain and notice to this effect
was today served upon the two houses
of the legislature. In special mes
sage the governor told the members in
plain language that they are attaching
emergency clauses to many measures
which are not designed to meet real
emergencies and that he will feel
bound to disapprove such bills if passed
in that form.
Seventeen bills were passed by the
senate, all of minor Importance except
ing to the localities directly interested,
being mostly changes in city charters.
Among the new measures introduced
were: To raise the salary of the assist
ant warden of the penitetiary from
5000 to 81 200; to amend general road
laws; to make it unlawful to shoot
from or upon any public road; to de-
fine rights of riparian owners fronting
on the Columbia river; to provide for
forming OF dyking districts.
The senate defeated the house Joint
resolution asking congress to call a
constitutional convention for the pur-
pose of adopting an amendment provid-
ing. for election of United States SEN
ators by direct vote of the people.
Three bills passed the house today,
as follows: To extend the Bancroft
bonding act for sewer and street inn
provements to all Incorporated towns;
to empower corporations to act as ad-
ministrators, executors, receivers,