Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-01-22
FIVE MORE Bills
FALL VICTIMS OF
COVERNOR'SVETO

Thirty-seven measures jammed
through by the lawmakers in that wild
est week of legislation in the history of
the state have fallen by the wayside.
laid low by the governors official veto,
and the casulty list is expected to show
several further additions when reports
from the front are all in.
Emergency" measures-bills of lit
tie general importance, many of them
of purely local interest-have been at
tackled with particular glee by the Of
ficial executioner, the governor taking
occasion in numerous of his messages
accompanying the returned bills to call
attention to the abuse of the opportun
tiles offered by the special session as
well as the misuse to which the emer-
gency clause has been put in connec-
ton with measures which not be inter-
preted as emergency legislation by any
stretch of the most vivid imagination.
Norblad Bill Killed.
Senator Norblad's bill comforting
upon the port of Astoria wide powers
of bonding without consulting the peo-
pie of the district, came under the dis
approving eye of the governor today.
In his message accompanying the re-
mains of this measure back to the SEN
ate from which it emanated Governor
Olcott declares:
This is a measure making very ma
terial amendments to the general port
laws Ostensibly it is designated to
affect the port of Astoria alone but in
reality 1t affects every port in the
Istate. With the exception of the pro-
vision relative to he issuance of bonds
its would apply likewise to the port of
Portland at such time as bill affect
ing that port passed by the special
sssion becomes law. 1t will be noted
that section three of this bill declares
an emergency. BY the use of this emer-
gency clause the people within the con-
fines of those ports as well as of the
site at large are deprived of an oppor-
Itunity of expressing their approval or
ldisapproval of the terms of the bill"
Clerical Error Fatal.
| A clerical error in house bill AZ, de-
signed to make more definite and cer-
| tain the powers of the state board of
| fish and game commissioners in pur-
chasing land for game farm purposes
has resulted in the death of that meas
ure at the hands of the governor. AS
pointed out in the official death mes
sage both the title and body refer to
the measure as amending secion on
| page 2S7 of the general laws of 1915
whereas it is evident that the legisla-
tors intended to amend chapter" 2S7
as the page" referred to deals with
pawn shops and not with game farms
THE title of the bill in question even
| fails to mention that its subject matter
relates fish and game in any manner
consequenly to allow it to go on the
statute books would in no way enhance
the powers Of the fish and game COM
mission and it might very materially
affect the validity of the act relating
to the business of persons loanine
money other than banks and trust CON
panies," the governors message con-
cludes
Other Measures Die.
other measures falling under the
executive axe today together with the
governors message explaining his veto
fololw:
H. p. 20. by dwards-Giving au-
thorlty to the state for the construction
of a bridge across the Nestucca river
1T is a measure of purely local type
covering construction of privately
owned bridge and should have had nj
place in the consideration of the spe-
cial session"
S. B. IA, by Hurley-Regulating the
grazing of non-residnt owned live
stock upon unenclosed lands