Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-02
SCHOOL OFFICERS
MAY Be OUSTED
BY RECALL PLAN
House Passed Senate Bill
This Morning After
Hard Fight
GOES TO GOVERNOR
FOR HIS SIGNATURE
Many Senate Measures Are
Re-referred to Various
Committees

Two senate bills were passed by the
house of representatives this morning.
several house bills indefinitely post
poned, and a fight staged over the sub-
stitution Of minority report Tor ma
jority report on another bill.
Senate bill No. l6, to provide for the
support and maintenance of illeaitimate
children, introduced by Senator Olsen,
and recommended by the committee on
health and public morals for passage,
was passed without much discussion
Senate bin No. 95, by Senator Eddy,
declaring school directors SUBJECT TO
recall and providing a method for such
recall, provoked flow of oratory that
took up considerable time
On motion of Representative Brand
the house resolved itselYg into com
mittee of the whole with Representa-
tive Mann as chairman. One particular
change was made in the bill in that the
per cent of voters required to sign a re-
call petition was reduced from 25 per
cent to l5 per cent.
Mr.. LaurgaaYd was in favor of the
measure because director who was not
in sympathy with the people could be re-
moved. Mr.. Forbes declared that the
school directors stood in high favor of
the community and that il was an over
recall. Representative Gore saw no
reason why the law should be changed.
He opposed the recall.
Representative Goode declared he fi-
vored the recall He said school direct
ors were given power to spend-a great
deal of oney, in fact moreAthan the av-
erage official and should be subject to
check
Mrs. Thompson also favored the recall
and saw no reason why good man
should fear il. She said there was an
insistent demand all over the state. for
legislation Of this kind. Representative
Thomas believed as did Mrs. Thompson
regarding the recall Tie said he could
not see why they should be exempt.
Both Representatives Small and Al
Jones were FOR the recall, and the lat
ter declared he could not see why ii
should not be applied to school directors
just the same as to other Officials He
thought that il the school director was
not doing his duty he should be recall
ed
Representative Ritncr called for the
previous question, which carried On
the vote the measure passed and II will
now 20 to the governor.
Mrs Thompson Won.
When house bill No 1862. by Mrs.
Thompson, to prohibit the collection Of
fees by employment agents, came up
with an adverse report by the commit
tee on judiciary, Mrs. Thompson asked
that it be referred to the committee ON
ilaboran industries This motion was
lost and the question then came on the
indefinite postponement Of the bin. She
declared she had not been given an
opportunity to appear before the COM
mittee to defend aud explain the bin,
and the motion to indefinitely postpone
was lost by vote of % to 90, with sew
eral absent.
Fight Over Irrigation.
The real fight Of the morning devel-
oped over house bill No 1853, by Repre-
sentative Stott, granting the public SER
tvice commission authority and control
of Carey act irrigation projects, which
was reported back with an adverse re-
port Of the committee ON irrigation.
! Representative Forbes declared he
did not believe the committee on irriga-
tion gave the bill the careful considers
tion it was entitled to. He said an ir-
rigation propect was public utility the
same as railroad or telephone and that
propects under the Carey act come un-
der the provisions. He moved that tho
minority report, which was favorable.