Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-02-09
DO|NGS OF OREGON STATE LEGISLATURE

! Salem, Feb. 4.-Allegations that ar
J attempted change in the water code is
move to further the plan for placing
two more justices on the Supreme
bench will be fought out when the pro-
posed changes are put before the legis-
lature, unless they are killed in COM
mittee beforehand
Open allegations of dishonesty,
charges that Dairy and Food Commits
sioner Bailey had purchased furniture
with money of the state and exchanged
it for secondhand goods, and declara-
tion by Governor West that if any dis
honest acts by Bailey are found to
have been committed in Marion coun-
ty that grand jury investigation will
be conducted here, weres developments
this afternoon in connection with the
investigation of ssBailey's Office by a
joint legislative committee. The ses-
sion was also. marked by lively tilts be-
tween Bailey's counsel and committee
members.
Anonymous 24-page pamphlets, as
sailing the management of the State
insane asylum and the treatment of
patients in that institution, appeared
today on the desks of the members of
both houses.
The authorship of the pamphlets ev-
identity rests with Carl Free, now re-
siding at Los Angeles, from the fact
that in the same mail in which the
pamphlets were delivered came a
signed letter from Free, dated Los An
geles, January 20. The text of the
letter makes reference to various
charges contained in the pamphlet.
In company with President ]. H.
Ackerman, Representatives Chattin,
Abbott, Mann and Reynolds, members
of the house ways and means commit
tee, visited the Monmouth normal
school today and went over the build
ings and grounds. While the members
were noncommittal as to what may be
done for the school, they feel that the
equipment is not adequate.
Salem, Feb. 3.-All of the official
acts of Jay Bowermen as acting gov
ernor, which under the law are re-
quired to be attested by the secretary
of state to be valid, such as all com
missions, pardons and appointments of
all kinds, are void, according to the
opinion of both the governors Office
and secretary of states Office, ex-
pressed today.
For this reason all notarial commits
fntv hxy Of
ing Governor Bowerman are invalidat-
ed and can be affirmed only by reissu-
ance of the commissions by Governor
West or by curative act Of the legis-
lature assembly, affirming all the ac-
tions of the acting governor so attest
ed by the secretary of state.
Two bills have been introduced in
the Legislature attempting to authorize
an assistant secretary of state to act in
the absence of the secretary of state.
One such bill was introduced in the
senate by Senator Bowerman of Gil
liam, Sherman and Wheeler counties
and the other in the house by repre-
sentative Derby of Hood River and
Wasco.
Representative Steelhammer's bill
to require engineers and signal boys
working on donkey engines in logging
camps to be 18 years of age or older,
met determined opposition when it
came up for passage in the senate yes
terday afternoon. Senator Lester of
Clatsop, who is engaged in logging,
said that boys are perfectly competent
to do signal work, and that to shut
them out would cause hardship for
families dependent upon such support.
Members of the house INDUCED in
some choice personalities yesterday
afternoon before they could decide to
adjourn until Monday instead of Satur-
day, in the the course of which Hunt
ington of Douglas grew angry and de-
clared that Fouts of Multnomah was
using "horseplay" and acting like
"fool".
Salem, Feb. 2.-House bill No. SO,
presented by Buchanan of Douglas, |