Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-10-15
State House Notes
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As the attorney general has held, in
a written opinion, that the state emer
gency board has authority to author
ize the Oregon Agricultural college to
incur deficiency of $37, AGO to meet
the requirements of the war depart
ment in taking care of the thousands
of young men who have enrolled in the
war training courses, another meeting
Of the emergency board has been call
ed for 1880 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing.
When the board was in session last
week, the question was raised as to
whether the board had authority to al
low this deficiency, but the attorney
general points out that it comes within
the scope of the emergency board law.
No legal bar exists to Conrad P. Oh
son holding the office of justice of the
supreme court by appointment, accord
ing to an opinion given by Attorney
General Brown to Justice Olson.
Justice Olson requested the opinion
to settle the question which had been
raised in Portland. This was to the ef-
feet that Olson was a member Of the
state senate when the 1917 legislature
passed law fixing the salary of seu-
preme court justices at $4,000 a year,
while the cor/sitution provides that no
member of the Legislature is eligible to
appointment to an office for which the
emoluments have been increased dur
ing the time he was in the legislature.
The attorney general points out that
in this instance the supreme court pus-
tees were receiving $4,000 year, but
under two separate laws, prior to the
enactment of 1917, so the emoluments
of the office were not increased.
Farmers on the state S Carey act pro
iect in the vicinity Of Redmond and
Bend are shown to be prosperous ac-
cording to the biennial report of the
Central Oregon Irrigation company
filed today with John H. Lewis, see
retary of the desert land board.
The total area cultivated this year
was 22,260 acres, or an increase of 500
acres over last year. The amount of
stock on farms has doubled approx
mately. Present population on farms
1880 or a decrease of SO. Automobiles
owned 172, or an increase of So over
last year. Estimated value Of crops this
year, $9OS,OO0.
Following receipt of telegram to-
day from James K. Linch, governor OF
the federal reserve bank for the twelfth
district, Insurance Commissioner Wells
is preparing to issue a ruling to the
effect that all bonds Of the United
States issued after April "a, 1917, will
be accepted at par and interest from
insurance companies which are requir-
ed to make deposits of securities with
the state. Over 100000 of liberty
bonds have been deposited by insurance
companies with the insurance depart
ment.
Persons who made application for
telephone service prior to September l,
but for whom telephones were not in
stalled until after that date, will not
be required to pay the additional seT
vice connection charges of So, $40 or
SIS, as the public service commission
today received a letter from the Pa
cifie Telephone & Telegraph company
announcing that the company was re-
funding the amounts which had been
collected for service connection charg-
es in such cases. The company had mis-
interpreted the order of the postmaster
general allowing service connection