The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-10-05
land, Oregon.-Bill Repeating and
Abolishing the Sunday Closing Law

land, Oregon.-Bill Repeating and
AbOlishing the Sunday Closing Law
repeal Section 2125,
of Lords Oregon Laws, which pro-
hibits the keeping open of any
store, shop, grocery, bowling alley,
billiard room, or tipping house, for
the purpose of labor or traffic, or
any place of amusement on Sunday
or the Lords Day, excepting thea
ters, drug stores, doctor shops, un-
dertakers, livery stables, butchers
and bakers, under penalty of fine
of not less than IS nor more than
$50. Vote YES or NO.
by Equal Rights for Home
Industry Committee, C, E. S. Wood,
Chairman, 254 Vista Avenue, Port
land, Oregon; c. T. Haas, Secre-
tary, 206 Stock Exchange Building,
Portland, Oregon. - Permitting
Manufacture and Regulated Sale
-Four Per Cent Malt LiquOrs-Pur-
pose-To amend Section 36, Ar
ticle I, Oregon Constitution, which
prohibits manufacture and sale Of
intoxicating liquor, by permitting
the manufacture of fermented malt
liquors containing four per cent or
less of alcohol, for shipment out
side of this state and for sale and
delivery within the state by the
manufacturer in original packages
only, in quantities and under reg
ulations which may be provided by
law. Until otherwise provided such
sales within the state shall be lin
tied to the same quantity as may
now be imported, but same persons
cannot, within any one period fixed
by law, both import and buy To-
cally. Vote YES or NO.
by Oregon Prohibition State
Committee, J. P. Newell, Chairman,
S22 Spalding Building, Portland,
Oregon; ]. Sanger Fox, Executive
Secretary, Ala Behnke-Walker
Building, Portland, Oregon.-PrO.
hibition Amendment FOrbidding
Importation of Intoxicating Liquors
for Beverage Purposes-Purpose-
This is constitutional amendment
extending the existing constitution
al provision, relating to the pro-
hibition of the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquor, by also
prohibiting the importation of in
toxicating liquors for beverage pur-
poses. Vote YES or NO.
Initiated by the Oregon Referendum
League: c. E. Spence, Master Ore
gon State Grange, Oregon City,
Oregon; j. D. Brown, President,
Oregon -Southern-ldaho Farmers
Educational and Cooperative I'm
ion, Arlington, Oregon; T. H. Bur-
chard, Ex-President Oregon State
Federation of Labor, 829 Eleventh
Street North, Portland, Oregon
Rural Credits Amendment-Pur-
pose-To bond state for not over
two per cent of assessed valuation
of all property therein for Rural
Credits Fund" Bonds from $685.
90 to $1,000 in series of $50,000,
maturing in not over SO years, in
terest four per cent, exempt from
taxes. State to loan said fund to
owners occupying farm lands, on
mortgages not over half land value
nor $50 per acre, nor less than
5000 nor more than $4,000 to one
person, small loans preferred.
Loans made for: (a) payment for
land; (b) purchasing livestock and
equipment and making improve
ments; (c) satisfying membranes
incurred for such purposes, inter
est five per cent. Vote YES or NO
Initiated by State Tax Payers Lea
que, Walter M. Pierce, President
La Grande, Oregon; c. l.. Hawley
Vice-President, Mccoy, Oregon; j
A. Westerlund, VicePresident, Med
ford, Oregon;A. M. LaFollett, Vice
President, Salem, Oregon; Robt. E
Smith, Secretary-Treasurer, Rose
burg, Oregon.-State-Wide TaA
and Indebtedness Limitation Am
endment-Purpose-Limiting taA
levies of State. County, municipal.
ity or other taxing power to NOT
more than the total amount levied
the last preceding year plus six pei
centum thereof, except for paying
bonded Indebtedness and interest
thereon, or by vote of people, any
increase so voted excluded in de-
termining subsequent tax; limited
power of counties to incur indebt
edness to $4,000, either voluntarily
or when imposed by law, except tC
suppress insurrection or repel in
vasion, or not over two per cent Of
assessed valuation for permanent
roads on vote of people; and inval
idating debts, payments and taxes
exceeding such limitations. Vote
YES or NO.
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