Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-01-15
A Number
of Bills in
the House
Bills to Sterilize HabituaI
Criminals and Rancid Bnt=
ter Observation-Disclosures to
Guide to a More Moral Life

The house session this forenoon
was featureless, except for the dis
posal of much routine business and
the introduction Of number Of inter
estlng bills. A house record came near
being broken, when the committee on
claims reported back with recon-
mendation for passage the bill of Mr..
Upton appropriating money to reim-
burse Richard Williams and others
for money expended by them in the
purchase of IL acres Of land adjoining
the site Of the Champoeg monument,
in Marion county. However, the COM
mittee recommended that the bill be
further referred to the committee on
ways and means for that committee
to find way to raise the money.
AT the request Of Governor West, a
bill was introduced by Mr.. Lewellyn
for the sterilization Of habitual Grim
inals, moral degenerates and sexual
perverts in state institutions.
A bill was introduced by Mr.. How
ard, which, If 1t becomes a law, will
provide for courses of instruction in
manners and morals and sex hygiene
in the grammar and high schools Of
Oregon. The bill provides for
graded course Of instruction an man
ners and morals in all grades, from
the ninth down, and for courses Of
lectures on social and sexual hygiene
in the schools for all pupils over the
age of 12 years, men lecturers to give
the course before the boys and women
lecturers before the girls.
Separate bills We're introduced by
Representatives Upton and Stanfield
amending the laws 50 as to exempt
women from jury duty. Stanfield's
bill however, makes the question Of
women serving on juries a matter Of
| privilege and not of right
Mr. Hagood introduced bill to ap-
proprlate $5OO,OOO for the Panama-Pa-
ciflc exposition and another meas
ure providing for the office Of secre-
tary to the governor with salary Of
$4,000 The present secretary Is
known as the governors private Sec
retary, and receives a salary Of $3.50
a month
Among other bills introduced was
the following;
BY Hagood, authorizing the COVER
MOI, secretary Of state and state treas
urer, as board Of control to pro-
vide all heat, light and water to the
state institutions by means Of water
power filed upon by the state; by
Meek, an act to regulate the sale, use
and possession Of blasting powder,
fuse and caps and other explosives;
by Bonebrake, an act to regulate
crossings of railroads and highways;
by Blanchard to prohibit minors from
playing cards, billiards and pool,
and taking part In games Of chance in
places of public resort by Blanchard,
to amend law so as to regulate the
sale Of old and rancid butter by Up
ton to amend laws relating to the
payment Of wages to employees; by
Abbott, TO provide for detail surveys
and investigations Of the water re-
sources Of Oregon; by Upton, making
Il crime to threaten to kill and in
pursuance thereof purchasing weap-
ons or other agencies; by Nichols,
prohibiting any kind or character Of
livestock from running at largo on u
fenced public highway or county
, road; by Stanfield, abolishng the
, statutory requirements for use Of
private seals In the execution Of con-
veyances; by Murnanc, TO amend
statute liking the number ana com
ponsation Of deputies Of the county
assessor Of Mumomah
A memorial was introduced by
p TIandley Of TiIlomook asking the
legislature to rcQuQcsr congress to
p improve the ports and waterways Of
, Oregon and grant necessary and ann
Z ploapproprlation5 chat win open them
i to at least soastwso vessels partic-
ularly those Of Tilomuok Bay Coos
4 Bay aud others, 80 that the products
Of Oregons forests. mines and soil
4 may reach the worlds ports
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