Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-24
BILL IS
KILLED IN THE SENATE
Upper Body Says 1t Will Present Lc-
gltlmate Suggestions to LeglsIa-
e-ElectrOcutiOn Defeated.

luS, DuJ 10 lllnlL Ine Workings OF the
third house by requiring the lobbyists
to register and indicate for what
measures they were working. On the
grounds that legislators should be
open to suggestions from people in
any part Of the state the bill was op-
posed
Speaker McArthurs bill to substi-
tute electrocution for hanging as
mode of capital punishment was also
defeated in the senate yesterday after
noon. The committee, which reported
adversely to the bill, stated that in
investigating the cost of installing
electric apparatus 1t had discovered
that the bill would neCessitate the ex-
penditure Of $4,000, and that at this
time the expenditure did not appear to
be warranted, in view Of the fact that
capital punishment in 0rego nmay be
abolished in the next two years.
Await Vests Approval.
The senate yesterday passed the
following house bills, and they now
await the governors signature.
BY Wheeler, fixing salaries of GER
tain officers Of Wheeler county.
BY Homan, fixing salaries Of GER
tain officers Of Harney county.
By Potter, fixing salaries Of school
superintendent of Wheeler county.
BY Mitchell, appropriating $4,000
annually for Oregon Social Hygiene
Society.
BY Upton, relating to disorderly wo-
men.
By Mitchell, relating to irrigation
districts
By committee on fisheries, regulat-
inf establishment of fish traps.
By Macarthur, providing an appro-
priation to protect state against spread
Of bubonic plague.
BY ways and means committee, ap-
propriating $4,000 for heating plant,
repairs and improvements at Univer-
sity of Oregon.
By ways and means committee, pro-
viding 100000 for additional mainte-
nance University Of Oregon.
BY ways and means committee ap-
propriating 100000 for administration
building at University of Oregon.
BY committee on ways and means,
appropriating 100000 for extension
work at University Of Oregon.
BY ways and means committee, ap-
propriating $12,SS3 for improvements
Of streets abutting on University of
Oregon property.
0. A. c. Fares Well.
BY ways and means committee, ap-
propriating 100000 for additional
equipment at the Oregon Agricultural
College.
BY Bonebrake, appropriating $4,000
for improvement of jefferson street at
Corvallis.
BY ways and means committee, ap-
propriating 100000 for additional
buildings at Oregon Agricultural Col
lege.
BY ways and means committee, ap-
propriating $4,000 for additional
maintenance at Oregon Agricultural
College.
BY ways and means committee, ap-
propriating $4,000 for library books
and Improvements and betterments at
Oregon Agricultural College.
BY committee on education, millage
tax bill for Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, providing four-tenths of a mill
tax.
BY Homan, authorizing purchase OF
site for fair grounds.
BY Stanfield, preventing stock rum
ming at large in Sherman county.
By Stanfield, for act relative to
false statement to obtain credit.
BY Loughlin, to prevent spread OF
tuberculosis.
BY Loughlin, relating to county fruit
inspectors.
BY Chapman, relating to creation Of
road districts.
By Applegren, relating to courtesy
and dover
BY Labourette, relating to taking up
marked timber without owners CON
sent.
BY expositions and fairs commit
tee, authorizing holding Of county
fairs.
Senate Kills Bills.
The senate killed the following
house bills yesterday, by indefinitely
postponing them:
BY HadleN prohibiting dumping
refuse in certain streams
H. b. No. sol, by Forbes, relating
to immigration agent.
BY Abbott, relating to mechanics
liens.
BY Spencer regulating archltectur.
al competition on public buildings.
By Forbes, making II a crime tC
overdraw from a bank.
BY Mitchell, relating to corpora.
tions.