Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-01-12

from which the governor recommended
a cut of $4,000 be made. It was open
ly limited that the people of eastern
Oregon bred coyotes so as to get the
bounty on their scalps.
Under close scrutiny as to their use
/ fulness are the State Humane society,
! which asks $3240; the board of pilot
commissioners. which was declared to
have outlived its usefulness; and the
travelling expenses of the state off
cials.
Senator Farrell of Multnomah, when
roll call was completed this morning,
rose to a question of personal privi-
lege. He had seen an article on the
social page evening paper, notifying
the public that President Moser, ae-
eOmpanied by his wife and two daugh-
ters had arrived in the city. The SEN
iator said while he congratulated the
president of the senate on the sudden
acquisition of two daughters. so soon
after his arrival, that he himself de-
sired eommiseration for having lost his
stenographer. President Moser, diff
dent and bashful as he always is, hay-
ing been born that way; made heroic
attempt to blush, but after the third
trial gave it up.
When recess was taken, however, Gus
walked over to Senator Farrell's desk,
and with a puzzled contracting of his
eyebrows. asked: "Say Farrell since
when have you taken to reading the
society pagcs9 and what for2'' Sena-
tor Ferrell did not try to answer or
even to blush-he realized the limit Of
his powers and accomplishments.
Prohibition matters have occupied q
large portion of the time OF the sen
ate. One of the senate joint memorials
asks congress to deny the use of the
mails to all liquor advertisements writ
ten or printed, seems somewhat unnec-
essary, in view OF the Webb Kenyon
law, under which liquors can be stop
ped coming across the Oregon border.
When it is impossible to send liquor
into the state it would seem a work of
whatever that is to
bother about the advertisements. 1t
is a safe bet that if liquor can't be
sent into the state the advertisements
will not be sent, through the mails or
otherwise. It is surplus age and redund
ancy, or as the lawyers say immaterial,
and irrelevant.
So far no resolution has been intro
duced in either house requesting that
warning nations of Europe get ashamed
of themselves and quit.
One senator this morning in the lob
by suggested that this should be done.
He also pointed out that the committee
on state house grounds had but little
to do and it would be quite the proper
thing if it would plant a peace tree,
or at least piece of one.
!'What s the idea?" asked Chapman,
who just at that time was taking a few
minutes off
"Therc amt any idea, was the
reply. "But its like the fellow who
got his feet tickled with feather when
he had the collie. The treatment was
to do no harm if it did no
good -
1t is rather surprising when one con-
siders the condition around the state
house a dozen or so years ago when
every committee room was small siZ-
ed barroom, to hear the clerk reading
one prohibition measure after another,
Dnd far more surprising to see the mem
bers voting solidly for each and all of
them. The water cart did not in the
Did days seem an especially nice We
hicle for riding on and few there were
who tried it. Now it is different and
the entire legislature and all the em-
ployes rival each other in their efforts
to get on the seat with the driver.
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