Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-01-24

Bill N 0 W
Is theLaW
A Good Bill in General, but
Dangerous on Account Of
Some Of the Big Lakes
That Companies May Get

With 27 members of the state SEN
ate voting for and three against
House bill No36 Of the 1911 session
this morning became q law Of the
state Of Oregon over the veto Of Gov.
ernor West. simultaneously Senate
bill No. 151 of the 1911 session was
passed and become a law.
The House bill which was passed
the state land board to
contract for the drainage Of lakes,
marshes and swamps; the reclama.
ton Of the land forming the beds on
submerged by such lakes, marshes
and swamps, and for the sale of such
lands to the person, company or per-
sons, association or corporation re-
claiming and draining the same, and
fixing the rights of riparian owners"
Any surplus from the sales goes into
the common school fund.
Provides for New Counties.
Senate bill No. ISL, which was made
a law over the executive veto by pass
ing in the House this morning, pro-
vides for the creation and organiza-
tion of new counties and the govern
ment of the same, and to provide for
the change in boundaries Of counties
now in existence and TO provide regu-
lations for the adjustment of the
changed conditions incidental there
TO-"
Tho drainage bill was introduced
in the lower house by w. Lair Thomp-
son now a member of the Senate. In
debating for his bill this morning
Thompson made much of the state.
ment by Governor West in his veto
message that there is much merit in
the BILL" replying to the objection OF
the Governor that the bill was OBJ
jeCtionable in that it doees not pro.
vide for the sale of the reclaimed
lands in small tracts to actual set.
tiers, but provides that the state land
board shall make and execute deeds
direct to the reclamation companies
for all the land reclaimed by the
companies and at prices to be fixet
by the board The governor declared
1t possible for this to result in tn,
acquisition of large tracts Of land by
the reclamation companies and theil
being withheld from settlement foi
purposes Of speculation, thus retard
ing the development Of the country
McCOllOch Champions West.
McColloch Of Baker alone cham
pioned the Governor. He said tha
while he had been one of those VIII,
in 1911 believed in the bill and votet
for 1t he was glad that the governo
had vetoed It because the senator
had been given a chance to study 1t
defects.
This bill is the only piece Of Ian,
legislation, either national or state
that / know Of at this time, that give
additional power to corporations t
hog more land" declared Senate
McColloch. "I oppose the measIr
because If 1t is passed it will SGT bac
land development in this state fift
years. 1t will repeatedly result /
conditions that we have long dc
plored."
Senator Joseph, who styled himsei
the only man who had opposed tn
law in 1911 this morning upheld 1t.
The passage of the bill was favore
by Moser and Butler.
"The common school fund Of th
state, which has such a warm frlen
in the Governor, will be helped an
not hurt by the passage of this bill
declared Moser.
Senator Butler said:
81 will vote for any measure tht
will improve arid land by placin
water upon It, or that will improl
swamp land by taking water off
IT,"
Senator's Miller and Won der He
len voted with McColloch against III
bill, but took no part in the debat
Anti.BOOze Bills Hit
Senator Hoskins' bill, which ca
ried the approval of the Goyerno
and which was given rise to by Il
affair between Governor West an
the Jefferson street depot saloons
Portland, was decidedly weakened ;
reported on by the committee on raj