Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-30
RELIGIOUS SECTS
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drawn. concerning the rlght 10 VISIT IN |
stitutions that receive state money for
the care of these children, he said that
where the state spends money the proper
state officers should be given opportun-
ity to visit and see how the money was
spent. This statement was direct ref
erence to the declaration OF Mrs.
Thompson on the floor of the house that
when. armed with her certificate as a
representative-eleet she was denied op-
portunity to inspect certain seetarian
institution that was receiving over $500
a month from the state. This institution
was later made known as the House of
the Good Shepherd in Portland
Representative Stott declared the law
passed by the 1913 legislature was suf-
ficient and provided for inspection of
the institutions by an officer of the
state board of health. He said the
statute provides that if the institution
fails to comply with the orders of the
board, the secretary of state is TO be no.
titled and the appropriation is to be cut
off.
He declared the institutions of the
state are over-crowded, that the change
| in the means of caring for the children
is unnecessary, that the bill is unconsti-
tutional, and that the matter should be
deferred until another time.
Representative Forbes took hand in
the discussion and said the idea of the
bill was good. He saIo he was against
appropriatisg money for any institution,
sectarian or private, as that was not
the way to spend the state IS money. He
believed the bill did not go far enough,
! short mt tO
be of much use.
He pointed out that it took away the
methods operated under at present with
out replacing by some other plan. he
was opposed to the bill because he said
it denied the equal protection of the
law to all citizens of the United States
i. coming into the state. He did not
think it right that a citizen of Washing
ton could not bring into the state Sis
ter or brother that was defective with
out putting up bond.
Representative Clark said he was one
of the unlucky members of the ways
and means committee and he said there
was some objection to every institution
the state had as none were being run
exactly in accordance with the wishes
OIL the people. If this bill was passed by
this legislature he said it would be uE
TO the ways and means committee OF the
next session. He said he favored the
proposition when the state was ready
for it and not until then.
That the state should maintain and
support its own wards was the opinion
of Representative AL Jones. He favored
the idea of the bill but not the way il
was drafted. He said the institutions al
present lacked room for taking care OF
the unfortunates. He said it was some
what ambiguous and in its present shape
he felt he could not vote for it.
The move was a step in the right di
rection, according to Representative
Laurgaard, who said it was impossible
to get bill satisfactory to all. He wa
for the bill. Whatever minor faults j
Ehas he said could be corrected IN th'
senate.
Representative Ritner moved the pre-
vious question and it was carried. II
rebuttal Representative Bowman statet
that all sorts of freak questions ha(
been raised concerning this measur
that had nothing to do with it, as per
sonalities and interstate commerce.
Concerning the attack made on tn
putting up of a bond by people WIN
brought delinquent or defective children
into the state he said that at any TIM
in their lives such children may becom
dependent on the state and an Expense
and this bond was to protect the state
Regarding the statement that ther
was no place to put the children /
further commitments to the lnst1tu
n &C. bo rfata1 that th
!. hill provided for that by permission TO
temporary commitments to be MADE D
ne the courts. He asserted If dollars an
nd cents were to figure in the care OF tines
children, then the matter had bette
a be dropped now once and for all.
~ In reply to the statement that it wa
as no time to bring up the question whe
m the state was under the six per cen
m limitation he said that at the beginnin
somebody must be affected, and II tn
state waited until all were satisfied an
ltS ready, it never would be done. He san
rs the state would continue to spend MOI
I'm ev and have nothing to show for
Ior when the money should be diverted int
r improving and bettering the state IL
? stitutions.
* The bill then passed.
Free Text Books Discussed.
Ut Discussion of house bill No. n, whlc
provided for the state supplying fire
N text books for the public schools, b
rs its author, Representative Sweeney, {
er- Josephine, ] brought out the fact thf
rs; California pays $1S each to its scho
L. children, Washington $40, Montana 81
ge' and Oregon $40. He said it was tin
=. the people of Oregon were doing som
ac' thing for the school children.
In his investigation concerning Il
bill. he said he found 500 families tn;
paidsout last fall $40 for books to ser
their children to school, which the sta
- requires to be done. Only five per eel
,a+ of the children ever get to college. T
mo asked il the people were not willing
~ a small millage tax to help the 9TH
Oh 95 per cent to get an education.
4; After brief discussion by Represe
~ tative Burton, a school teacher fro
.ov Multnomah county who opposed the bi
"a Lunger, whose parents never had fir,
=, ioI school books for him; and Elmore, wi
'9A thought soon the state would call arouI
for the children with jitneys, the b
iei came to vote and was lost by vote
eu' "a against, which killed it.