Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-30
HOUSE INDULGtS
IN ANOTHER LONG
WRANGLE TODAY
Contest Over Employment
Agency Bill Hottest Of
Session
SEVERAL IMPORTANT
BILLS ARE PASSED
Eaton Would Create State
Board Of Employment
Bureau


during which charges of cOllusion for
measure creating department Of
employment under state support and
supervision were made upon the one
side and counter charges were made on
the other that an attempt was being
made to legislate in favor Of an EN-.
ployment agency monopoly to the ex.
clusion Of the smaller agencies, the
house this morning finally sent
Representative Lewis bill, providing
FOR the licensing and regulation Of en-
ployment agencies, back TO the commit
Tee on revision of laws for amendment
and to come up again in connection
with other measures treating of the
same subject.
Other measures passed upon by the
house this morning was that Of Repre-.
sentative Hinkle, II. b. l44, prescribing
the qualifications of candidates for the
office Of county school superintendent
which provides that a candidate for
This office must either possess a diplo.
ma from a standard normal school, col.
lege or university, or a life diploma TO
teach in the elementary grades or pub
lie high schools before he is eligible to
the office, which was passed; Repre-.
sentative Jones' bill, abolishing the
lmnaha and the Steens mountain game
preserves, was passed, and Representa-.
tive Stott 5 bill apprOpriating 5000 for
the relief of Miss Ella Ellefson for in
Iuries received while in the employ Of
the state, was referred to the commit
tee on ways and means. Fenwicli $
hill nwATnnfiuo Of iha aiNiI
and Mexican wars from taxation to the
amount Of $1,000 was defeated after
coming up for reconsideration, follow
ing its defeat yesterday afternoon.
The most violent struggle before the
house this morning was upon. the
Lewis employment agency regulation
bill which was rereferred the revision
Of laws committee for amendment and
further consideration. The debate
brought out all Of the old arguments
upon the question Of labor that has
been revived at each successive session
of the legislature and political cam
paign and waXed warm and furious
until Representative Horne was moved
to the point of impatience, bordering on
anger, when he openly denounced the
NHhlt DlNNNtNlHk uh u lulNN hAAh hu ~"
tempt to evade the maiR issue, which
rested solely upon the question Of
whether or not the interests Of the
laboring element was to receive any
consideration and recognition by this
legislature. He declared that the
time would come when the laboriDg
man and the farmer would sit in the
legislative halls and enact legislation
FOR their own protection and aggrand'
ilement.
During the morning session Represen.
lative Eaton introduced bill provid-
ing for the creation Of a state bureau
Of employment to be under the super.
vision Of the bureau of labor statistics
and inspector Of factories and work
shops. This bill calls for biennial
appropriation of $4,000 and provides
Cor the appointment Of head Of the
enjoyment bureau, by the labor com
missioner, at a salary Of $4,000 per
year, and It was charged on the floor
that the opposition to the Lewis bill
was prompted by the agitatOrs for the
creation Of the employment bureau and
several members declared themselves as
being openly and decidedly opposed 10
any motment looking to the creation
Of new boards or bureaus carrying big
appropriations and providing FOR more
salaried officials.
When Stott's bill, appropriatng 5000
relief for Miss Eleffson, came up fol
final passage, the house resolved itself
nto a committee Of the whole for It's
consideration, when Representative
Wesley Smith, Of klamath, delivered
his ultimatum against the practice OF
railroading appropriation bills through
the legislature which did not 70
through the hands Of the ways and
means committee and he voiced hi,
protest in such vehement language that
his motion to refer the bill to the way,
lnd means committee was carried
without dissent.
House Bill 3d. by Peirce, Of Coos and
Curry, for the repeal Of the statutes
providing for the prevention Of tn,
spread Of the buhonic plague, The
standing appropriation for which wer,
repealed bv the continuing approria
ton repeal bill, was also passed by the
house.
Fourteen new bills were introduced
In the house this morning, bringing the
total for the session, down to date, tr
1872, with a half day left In which tC
introduce others, except through com
mittees or by unanimous consent Of The
bouse.