Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-12-25
LAWS, COURTS AND GOVERNORS.

6&VXT won't she won't and that's the end op
W way Hudibras put it, and
Wv had he lived Oregon in these days he might
the apply sometimes amusing and
estng 1t is the misfortune that he is
Legislators of
head off anything he his little hatcht time
not long previous looked with dust
making branch of Ud government places it the
unavoidable calamte benna but avoabe between times
and refuses call the solons together in session
That extra session necessity undeniabe Between the Legislators
making laws attempting to do and the pme court butng into the af
fairs of Deity undertaking Legislators
there has affairs practically hopeless
The registration hopeless and helpless nge The clerks must
have their books time the
idea of casting ballot election has harder job trying
out how it can be done legally than is to learn the nuo dips wOwy
gides omnip tango
supreme Tuesday ghhour law was
interpreted has left the state institutions the rather
boards and of those institutions lift altitude
only survey the situation from aoiOr viewpoint
thou y Sphinx only
terror sph ARcIe to solve it with.
M make the law it only stated what in its iudg.
ment, the done hewng legal line, the chips
like the id where they listed, that
cOu Ne the lawmakers certificate for wisdom, just
the facts ant are the
does not suggest That is beyond its jurisdiction and certainly
Under this deci institutions The says
the applies prevents empOye working
eight hours day, than six days week
readily be that Robinson cOo apy said "Thorc
hell to and pitch hot the legislature had provided that there
should be only six days in the week. tho difficulty would not have asen but
they forgot do this the institutions without employees
Sunday To take the instance there
help for the patients after Sundays
days Then longer than eight there
be three shifts for Sunday there be watch the
prison. and at all the institutions In fact the
board of control all state Treasurer Kay pulling its individual hair
and whiting its individual shirt collars while wrestling with the problem And
there solution
If tho governor day forget opinion Legislators
generally the solution would bo easy The his
can staghn onand he udbas said Of woman won't The
tGton law mangeab and the ghhou law the
institutions bound and gagged No sg but legisa
tue and cannot unless the requests
There still remedy that might settle the matter of the ghthour
as applied to state institutions Tho might call out the militia and
have tho boys do the extra stunts the asylum and other public institutions
This would give the militia boys chance show their enthusiasm
ing and also demonstrate that handle the situation without
aid from the legislature.
Looking at the matter diasonaC learned attorney whom sub
mtte tho proposition the hope Of getting light informed that first
blush he considered
act itself the mnum nra" while princ
of judicial architecture
When this otted added that what the Legislature needed
have its ceyis ovo
than could the classical Arkansas "Bt off
could chaw He further suggested that the governors "no tangore"
out OF plumb and that his ama rumque cono shy
and dogs and In violation of the conclusion ho allowed that
ho who steals the legislatures chance special session steals trash but
he who robs II Of It's good nome-pcroms miracle
SO far have examined into the attorneys theory convinced
IL is