Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1913-02-25
LEGISLATURE FINALLY DELIV.
ERS IT'S NEW MEASURES
TO GOVERNORS OFFICE
IN HIS ABSENCE.
FITTING Anglers SENATORS
Radical Measures Adopted to Save
Recently Enacted Legislation; Bill
for Relief of George Nessling Pass
es; New Superior Court System
Adopted; Treasurer to Be Collector.

Salem, Feb. "a Editorial Cor
respondence. when President Dan
j. Malarkey and Chief Clerk John w.
Cochrane, of the senate, with their
hands full. of senate bills that had
been passed by both houses, left the
front entrance of the capitol building
and, securing precarious footing on
the narrow ledge that runs below the
windows of the second story of the
building, edged carefully along until
they reached the windows of the exec
utive offices, it was the first time in
the history of Oregon that such a
method has been adopted to deliver
bills to the states chief executive.
The action was taken in obedience
to a senate resolution instructing the
president and the chief clerk to "pre-
sent" the senate IS bills to the gov
ernor, even if they had to use force
to do it. When the governor had not
to his offices this afternoon
and the same remained closely locked,
extreme measures were adopted and
entrance to the Office was effected in
the manner indicated.
Offices Unoccupied.
No one was in the offices and the |
bills were deposited on the governors s |
table in his private Offices and the
door to the same was unlocked and a
bearing the house bills
ready for the governor inspection,
was admitted through the outer door.
Tonight a guard of three employees
from the house and one from the SEN
ate, specially sworn in for such duty,
Ire guarding the bills and the where
abouts of the runaway executive If
he state are still unknown.
Such is life in Oregon under the
'eign of King Oswald |.
The continued absence of the chief
of the state is causing con-
iderable caustic comment around the
tate house. but it is asserted that
he act of delivering the bills to the
governors office complies with the
aw and the legislators say he may
low remain away until the crack of
loom, if he so elects, for all they
are, and that the bills presented at
lis Office today will become laws in
i've days whether he returns or not
Both houses are going right along
business, and passing
ills, which are conveyed to the gov
rnOr's office and piled on his table
long with the others, and he is GER
ain to be greeted with huge pile of
hem when he returns, if he finally /
lusters up courage sufficient to do so. ,
Nessling Bill Passes. ,
House bill 337, for the relief of
gorge Nessling, of Dallas, in the sum {
$2500 passed the senate this af- t
ernoon and now reporses ON the ma [
ogony desk in the governors office, {
his approval before becom- Z
lg effective. Nobody attempts to t
rediet what that erTatic individual {
i'll do with it, and it apparently 7
akes but little difference, anyway, v
; the temper of the organization of E
lis legislature is such that they will
ass it over his head if he elects to 4
sapprove of it, along with all other a
easures which have merit that the t
gislature has put up to him.
The bill providing for what is prae-
eally a superior court system passed
lie senate today and has been trans
tilted to the governor, also one doing I
way with the district attorneys and t
'oviding for county attorneys. An P
her house bill which passed the SEN II
e provides a radical change in as 9
ssment and taxation methods, the Il
ineipal items of which are the =
of the three per cent re- .
tie on the first payment of taxes, =
Id a prOviso that the county treas =
'er shall hereafter act as tax reeeiv- :
rather than the sheriff.
Both houses worked at lively rate =
Is afternoon. and both held night =
ssions. which were not adjourned '
It'll close TO midnight. The members '
identity mean business and propose ?
clear up the business in sight be- =
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