Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-11-01
Time does
not Make
the Voter
PERSON SIMPLY STOPPING IN A
PLACE 30 DAYS DOES NOT BE.
COME A VOTER-THE INTENTION
TO REMAIN MUST BE THERE.

Because employees on a paving job
at Silvertotn, who have been at work
in the city for 30 days or more are
claiming residence in the city with a
view to voting on election day, j. c.
Spencer has written the office of the
encouragement inquiring If they
have such a right. The reply will be
that they have not such a right.
While the law provides that 30 days
in a city in Oregon constitutes a resi-
dence, it also provides that the per-
sons location in the city or town must
be fixed and not merely temporary.
State Superintendent Alderman's Of
flee yesterday referred to the attorney
general a communication from teach
ers in the high school at Union in
Union county, asking If the chairman
of the school board has a right to hold
back the warrants for their monthly
salaries, and If the remainder of the
board car issue the warrants without
the consent of the chairman. The at
torney-general's Office finds that the
law compels the chairman to issue and
sign the warrants, and that the clerk
of the board must countersign the
warrants. The teachers claim that
their pay has been held back two
months. The law provides that the
chairman may be removed from office
on the charge of a misdemeanor,
Another question put to the attor-
ney-general today comes from State
Game Warden W. L. Finley, who in
Quires as to the disposition by JUS
tees Of the peace Of the money taken
in by them as fines from persons vio-
lating the game laws. The office re-
plies that the justice Is required first
TO pay the informant, then turn the re-
n'ainder of the amount over to the
county treasurer who |reimburses the
Justice for his work. An old law
passed in 1864 provided that the JUS
tice first took out his expenses, then
turned the remainder over to the
treasurer. Insofar as the two statutes
conflict the older one is void.
Mrs. P. e. Brockway, of Trenholm,
Oregon, inquiries if a woman who has
a dover right to sign deeds and other
papers with her husband is allowed to
vote in school elections. The law is
Interpreted as providing that on that
basis alone she is not qualified as a
voter. She must have property in her
own name in the district, which may
be in the nature of stock in corpora
tions, or may vote if she is a widow
and has children of school age, pro-
vided she has no son Of age who as
sumes the head of the household at
his majority after the death of his
Father.
Governor West has referred the
queries of alfalfa men of the state ask
ing if the governor has power to quar-
antine alfalfa in Utah, Nevada and
Wyoming against being shipped into
Oregon because it is infected with
weevil, to the Encouragement who
believes that the question must be set
tied by the state horticultural board.
A hard question comes from Oak
land, Oregon. 1t gives the information
that two precincts, Oakland and Gala
pooia, divide the town, but that each
also embraces some of the surround
ing country. The query is how the
prohibition question, in which the
people Of the town only have a right
to vote is to be managed with no spe-