Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-14


Members of the Legislature will be
just as safe from flu in Salem as any
place else, declared Senator w. D. Wood
a practicing physician of Washington
county, this morning when the question
Of accepting the offer Of .the state
health board to inoculate the members
Of the legislature with anti-flu serum
was before the senate.
The senate voted unanimously to ac-
cept the offer from the health board
which was transmitted in the form OF
a telegram from DIR. A. c. Soeley, act.
ing state health officer, to Secretary
OF State Olcott.
Senator Smith of Coos suggested that
the flue serum be tried on the desk
clerks and newspaper reporters first
and if it did not kill them the senator,
would try it.
:" In all seriousness, said Senate,
Wood, 81 think this offer of the state
health botrd should -be accepted. It is
all right for our good Christian Science
friends to make jokes of it, but it will
be a good idea to inoculate them. The
medical profession does not claim that
inoculation will prevent the influenza
but it will modify the disease and make
it easier to throw it off. ("
Senator Pierce objected to making
the inoculGtion compulsory and it was
decided to leave the matter to the in.
dividual choice Of the members, but the
state health officer will be invited to
come TO the capitol and vaccination will
be in vogue.
Senator Moser introduced O memorial
to the United States senate, urging i'm.
mediate favorable action on the pend.
ing equal suffrage amendment to the
federal constitution. The rules were
suspended and the memorial was adopt
ed and sent over to the house.
Senate bill 242. passed by the 1917
session and vetoed by the governor sft-
er the last legislature had adjourned,
was reported to the senate by the SC.
rotary of state, and was referred to
the committee on counties. The bill pro.
vides for an increase in the salaries OF
county officials of Hood River county.
1t is the only senate bill which was We.
toed by the governor after the close Of
the last session.
After two or three tie votes and con
siderable discussion in humorous vein,
the senate adopted resolution intro
duced by Senator Pierce putting a ban
on smoking while the senste is in ses.
sion.
A motion was made to Indefinitely
postpone the resolution and the vote
stood Is to Is. Then Senator Pierce
moved to consider the resolution at once
Again the vote was tie. Senator Mo
ser moved to adjourn until 2 O'Clock,
and Senator Pierce moved to amend
by providing for an adjournment of Is
minues, in order to give the resolutions
committee time 10 report on the reso.
luton. BY majority of one the amend
ment carried.
During the short recess the opponents
Of the resolution withdrew their oppo-
sition and when the committee turned
in favorable report it was adopted
unanimously.
The first resolution introduced in the
senate, when il took up the first order
Of business following completion Of per-
manent organization, was PRESENTS. Dy
Senator W. A. Dimick Of Clackamas
and provided for a joint committee on
conso o'idations. The committee is to
have three senators and three repre-,
sentatives Us its members.
The second resolution introduced in
this session was presented by Senator
B. L. Eddy Of Roseburg and provided
for the ratification Of the national pro-
hibition amendment TO the federal con-
stitution. Senator Eddy had noped to
have his resolution the first matter of
business to come before the senate, but
Dimick WIS ahead Of him.
These two resolutions were followed
by the usual resolutions providing fol
a committee to revise the calendar, fol
stenographers and clerks at s5 day
for postage and sets of law books.
Senator Dimick introduced resolu
ton providing that no overtime should
be paid to the clerks and stenographeri
while another resolution extends an In
citation IN the Salem ministers to ar