East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-02-03
MAJORITY OF
VETOES UPHELD

Salem, ore. Feb. S-Fifty eight
bills OF the 1911 legislative session
were vetoed by Governor West, and in
IL cases the veto has been sustained
by the present legislature OF the re-
naming Il. nine have become laws.
the others still awaiting final action.
These figures show that instead of
wholesale passage of bills over the We
to- as turmoil over a few of the bills
may have suggested to the public mind,
the governor has been sustained in
20 per cent of the vetoes, and of the
other so per cent he has publicly
stated that he now desires several of
the bills TO become laws, as was the
case IL Connection with the livestock
sanitary board bill.
When it is remembered that among
the bills passed over the veto some of
them deal with such subjects as cut
ting weeds and posting the time of
railroad trains, which can hardly be
considered matters of large govern
mental policy, the proportion of bills
that really count upon which the gov
ernor has been overruled is reduced
10 SuldlI pEOpOTllOlS.
Making His Own Record.
Really there are only four or five
bills so far passed over the veto where
there was a real conflict, on which,
as the governor has said the legis-
lature is making its record and 1 am
making mine" These are the two
Wood bills providing against the ere
ing an emergency board; the bills
raising the salaries of District Attor-
neys Tongue and Bryson, and the
Thompson bill providing for reclama-
tion of swamp lands
The two Wood bills are objected
to on the ground that they will have
the effect of harrassing the work Of
the governors office and the state
board. Two others, it will be observ-
ed, are salary increase bills, and the
other is a case in which the legisla-
ture failed to insert clause to prevent
possible speculation ~of land owners
in the great tract of lands to be
drained by private capital
Bills Become laws.
The vetoed bills that have become
laws are as follows:
Requiring station agents to post
true time of arrival and departure of
trains.
Creating a livestock sanitary board
Prohibiting the secretary of state
from drawing warrant for any claim
FOR which no appropriation has been
made.
Creating state emergency board,
which may authorize payment of
claims incurred by state institutions
in excess of appropriations.
Providing the manner in which new
counties may be formed.
Fixing the salary of District Attor
ney Tongue at s3500
Fixing the salary of District Attor-
ney Bryson at $4,000.
Making county. municipal and
school district officers personally re-
sponsible for failure to exact bonds
from contractors on public work.
Authorizing reclamation Of swamp
lands by riparian owners.
Three senate bills of the last ses-
sion are awaiting action in the house.
having been passed by the senate over
the veto Two of these are compan-
ion bills providing that corporation
may be sued in any county where it
has an office. The other is bill es-
tablishing a fish hatchery on Spring
creek. in klamath county.
One house bill passed over the veto
and awaiting action in the senate
makes it the duty of abutting prop
erty owners to destroy noxious weeds
on highways
Vetoed house bills undisposed Of
are four in number. These declare
each county a prosecuting attorney
district increase the salary of the cir
cult judge in Lake and Klamath
counties. reopen the Rogue river to
commercial fishing. and grant title to
lands to certain settlers in the War
ner valley.