Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-02-25
Laws Asked
By Governor
Are Enacted
Legislators Refuse
Only Measures Con-
solidating Boards
and Commissions

as well as lndt cOHIalncu III ms spc~
ciai message were enacted into law.
Only two recommendations OF the
of state departments and commits
sions-were rejected by the law
makers.
Budget Plan Passed.
OF perhaps the greatest import
ance Of the numerous recommend
ations conveyed to the Legislators
in the execu' ,essage was that |
for a change budget system, |
centering resp l.Isibility for the
preparation of budget estimates OF
all state departments. institutions
and commissions in the hands of
board of control. This recommend
alton is carried out in the provis-
ions of senate bill IS by Patterson
which requires that all agencies re-
ceiving financial aid from the state
must first submit their financial
requests to the board Of control for
approval before the same are sub
mitted to the Legislature for final
action. The new law contemplates
that the board of control Will In
spect the various departments, IN
stitutions and agencies, checking up
on their expenditures and ascer-
| tanning at first hand their actual
needs, eliminating all superfluous
| demands >efore the ways and
means committee meets to take fl
nal action in the disposition of the
| available state funds.
Training school Aided.
| Another recommendation of the
Eexecutive which should be of far
reaching Importance in the devel-
opment of the citizenship of the
citizenship of the stae was included
in a special message in which the
governor asked for a transfer OF
certain funds so as to permit the
appropriation of money for the cor
struction of new boys training
school The plan was almost unan-
imously adopted by both houses oi
the legislature, and Is the bill az
framed in the executive office an'
introduced by Senator Patterson a
lsenate bill No. 271. Provision wa
worked out for an appropriation o
S2S0lOO0 for the boys trainin
school, $4,000 for the state indus
trial school for girls, $50,000 10
/. | the feeble minded school, an
is16O,OOO for wing at the easter
oregon state hospital. Because o
the fact that the per cent limita
, tion amendment has crowded II
nances for a number of years tn
institutional building program ha
been virtually stagnant and all o
the proposed additions are consid
cred highly essential. The ne'
; building at the school for feebl
!. minded will be for the purpose
housing adult feeble minded girl
y who'are now thrown loose upon Sc
> cietv in the various communities
t with the result that they are propa
eating their kind to the detrimer
= of the state and at a vast futur
= expense by continually increasin
e the population in the feeble mine
n ed institution itself. The approprif
t ton for the girls industrial scho'
/, is considered extremely essentii
il because of the fact that the pre-
= ent institution, intended to house
girls, has been housing from 45
80. many of them being in phys
cal condition which endangers II
health and moral welfare of all Il
other inmates. The new wing
the eastern Oregon hospital WI
r deemed almost an absolute nece
sity. as both of the state insane no
L pital are crowded to capacity, wi
ie a continually mounting populatio
/ pen Policy Sanctioned.
ii Four constructive proposals
= regard to the state penitentiary,
lg advanced in the governors origin
ID message, were all adopted. One
these, Incorporated in house bill
l. by Representative Gordon, allo'
n $4,000 to be expended under 4
m direction of the governor for the
le staIIation of an industry at the pr
I'd on and the governor has made
m ulaiu that before definite indust
10 he established is determined u
10 on a most thorough and rigid
vestigation will be made 10 asct
: tain what is the most feasible a
: most productive plan to be CARR
ont by the institution. As a col
lnanion bill, house bill No. l69, a.
introduced by Representative &C
'h don. was passed. This bill det'
mines how money earned by &C
victs in connection with such
e dustry shall be disposed of. It
les made mandatory that in the n
instance proceeds from the pi'
pi- must nay for the cost Of operau
mt ana depreciation Of the indust
be In the second instance, the moi
n,ust he applied TO cover the c
% maintenance Of the convicts
-. irstftution and this cost wO
nrohablv be figured out on a
capita basis and il Is believed T.
under the plan the taxpayers
he relieved Of the burden OF car
for o,,ite a large number Of pris
. In the third instance, mo
n Iii be diverted in reasonable 81
y ,o.y.rd the care Of dependents
-. srcb conyiets, in order to not al
the Drisoner to assist in support
-. bis wife and family while he Is
ore learcerated in the penitentiary
% TO relieve in a large degree the
~ cesSitv OF supporting such pee
= ss n,,bIio charges. In the last er'
"a - any money is left from the ]
re ceeds OF the industry that mo
i 10 be diverted TO tse betterm
20 eund 10 be expended as the
- .~nor NAV direct. Under this la
a. nlan II may be possible 10 also
~ enc men themselves certain
,hs ~onable way to forify them aga
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