Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-26
HOUSE REPEALS THE
FREE TEXT BOOK LAW
BY VOTE OF 1917
Continued from Page one.)

step in the direction of the adoption
Of free text books in all public schools,
and he, as well as several others, ar.
gued thar, insofar as the spread of dis
ease germs was concerned it was the
duty Of the state board Of health to
see that all text books be thoroughly
disinfected before being used by an
other pupil, under the present law, and.
if this duty were observed by the
health board, the danger of contraction
Of diseases would be eliminated.
Upon the report and recommendation
of the committee on revision of laws,
Of the house, which reported the bill
back this morning with the recommen-
dation that it do not pass, the Bow.
man bill was indefinitely postponed
and went tumbling to the scrap heap.
This bill was especially designed to le-
gislate Supreme Court Reporter Frank
A. Turner, of this city, out of office,
which he has held for several yoars,
under the pretext that the state could
work saving of approximately $1,000
per year in the printing Of the supreme
court reports.
Under the present law the supreme
court reporter receives $500 per volume
for each and every volume of the su.
preme court reports which he complies
and this amounts to an average com
pensation of about $4,000 per year for
i the reporter. II was represented by
those responsible for the new measure
that the supreme court could contract
Il direct with the printers Of the reports,
\ the Whitney Printing com
\ pany, Of San Francisco, for about $500
4 per volume including the cost of com
Y pilation and the new bill was designed
to give the supreme court this author
Il ity,
A total of eleven house bills were
i passed by the house during the morning
session, seven Of which were introduced
y by the house printing committee, which
. abolishes the state printing fund and
provides that all departmental printing
must be paid for out Of their respective
appropriations for maintenance. An
other bill which passed was that OF
| Representative Barrow, Of Coos, to pro
y mote the crab canning industry in Coos
county, and another was the Blanchard
/. bill, providing that veterans Of the
!. civil war may hunt and fish without
I. taking out hunters and angler 's Ii
d cense,
o At two O'Clock this afternoon the
k house took up the consideration of the
n Lewis bill licensing and regulating EN-
II ploymcnt agencies as a special order OF
h business.
t, True to his promise, Representative
k Schucbel introduced bill in the hous,
n this morning requiring the board of re
gents of the Oregon Agricultural Col
n lcgc and the state treasurer to provide
It for the maintenance of the department
k for the investigation Of fruit pests ant
IS diseases, $4,000 annually; experiment
e station at Corvallis, $4,000 annually
i department Of industrial school work
$4,000 annually, and the department
u for the examination and testing Of
&c seeds, $1,000 annually, out Of the four
Z, tenths mill tax that was enacted by th'
To last legislature and adopted by the pco
plc at the last election. This tax, it il
y ! estimated. will raise $3S0,000 per yea
- and Representative Sehucbol insist
~ that it was the intention Of the lcgis
~ lature as we'll as the people, that al
. of these special funds be provided TO
IN out Of the millage tax fund
4 The following bills were introduced
No in the house this morning;
II. B. $50, by Notwithstanding Q
. A. c. to pay for certain extension worl
from millagc appropriation
al II. b. 240 by Allen--lixing saloric
o Of Justice officers in Salem
n II. b. 24l, by Michclbcek-R Rcgulat
ing cold at storage warehouses.
n. b. 2I2, by Tom Brown-ixempt
ing property Of widows from e1ccu