Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-02-10
IN THE LEeIsLATuRE.

Salem, Jan. 31.-A bill was intro
duced in the senate today to suppress
poolselling and poolrooms. Eleven
other new measures were introduced.
Nine bills were passed, one of them
appropriating $15, 200 for fish hatcher
les. This bill has already passed the
house.
The senate bill authorizing the Lewis
and Clark fair corporation to condemn
private property was passed by the
house.
Ten new bills were introduced in the
house, one of them being the anti
cigarette bill, identical with that intro
duced in the senate.
The house rejected the senate con-
current resolution for joint assembly
tomorrow to consider constitutional
convention. This stops any further
possibilities of constitutional conven-
ton.
Electric bells at railroad crossings is
the object of bill introduced in the
house today. They are to be of suffi-
cient weight and sound to be heard 100
yards and are to be placed at every
crossing where public road crosses a
railway track where the view is OBJ
structed either way.
The house committee on mining ia
vors the passage of the bill relieving
such mining companies of the annual
license tax as have an annual output
of less than 81 900.
pox1, hill in tho bo,1co prouiIoc bo +
all sheep driven into the state for pas
turage shall be taxed 20 cents a head
and censt head shall be paid for
each county through which the sheep
are driven.
The Cascade county bill will appear
in the senate tomorrow or Thursday.
Salem, Feb. l - Twelve bills were
passed by the senate today and Is by
the house. Five new bills were intro
duced in the senate and seven in the
house.
Two bills were killed in the senate
today: For a constitutional cor n7ention
and to permit corporations to act as ad.
ministrators.
The house this afternoon voted down
the bill for the appointment of board
l of internal commerce commissioners
and appropriating $4,000 for the
opening of the Willamette river from
Portland to Eugene.
A bill of Representative Steiner
: fixing the terms of circuit court begin
ninfg on the second Monday in MAY
and the third Monday in October
passed the house this morning. .
To permit district attorneys ant
: their deputies to bid in for counties
: lands sold for delinquent taxes, bill
r of Representative Vests passed tn
8 house today. Under the present Law
y the county judge is required to do tina
h function, but sometimes is not present
: A bill to empower juries to fix pun
: ishment in criminal trials was indef1
n nitely postponed by the house thi
= morning. The bill came from Smith
g of Josephine.
Salem, Feb. 2. - The senate toda
" passed the house bill appropriatin
> 81, 900 for the widows of the prisol
), guards who were killed by Tracy an
,f three years ago.
y The senate bill appropriating $25 90
n for maintaining the portage railwa
II was passed by the house.
= The bill to exempt from annual col
" poration tax mining companies who's
). annual output is less than 81 900 wa
~ also passed by the house.
e The senate committees on countie
- - has practically decided to report favor
- - ably on the house bill for the creatio
Is of Cascade county and the probabilitie
- - are that the bill will pass the senate
" Abolition of the Drain normal schot
will be recommended tomorrow by til
- - house committee.
- - From five to 20 years. imprisonmer
.; in the penitetniary is the punishmer
y :, allowed under the senate bill to preve1
9 train holdups passed by the house.
- The house sanctioned two appropri;
:, tions of 81 500 each for district fairs
9 Eastern Oregon.
- The senate amended the fiat salal
bill today by striking out the items fl
NJ justices of the supreme court and tt
~ provision that the law shall not s
~ into effect as to the secretary of sta
and state treasurer until June l, 100
It is probable the bill will pass.
t. Salem, Feb. 3.-Nineteen bills we
in introduced in the house today and fo1
g, in the senate.
o. Appropriations asked of the Oregt
Sc legislature at this session aggrega
s. $2,34O, 900, but Chairman Farrar,
~ y
n Laboratory Apparatus Arrives.