The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-09-15

tailed in whipping into shape the reso-
! luton carrying the financial plan Of
! the exposition, approved with unani.
nous vote, with f. w. Mulkey Of Port
land, qualifying with the statement
/ that he would reserve the right to op-
/ pose the taxation plan, and A. T..
| Mills, president of the First National
Bank Of Portland saying he did not
/ personally favor the project. but that
| if the referendum, as he called the
/ finance plan, carries, he will take off
his coat and work as hard as any of
them.
The committee which drafted the
resolution was composed Of Emery
Olmstead, president of the Northwest.
ern National Bank of Portland; A. J.
Johnson, Corvallis; j. A. Thornburg.
Forest Grove E. c. Apperson, Nc
Minnville; Frank G.. Deckabaugh, Sa-
lem; c. h. Gates, mayor of Medford
j. {. Hostetler, The Dalles: Nathan
Strauss, G. c. Colt, David M. Dunno.
John F. DAILY and Guy w. Talbot,
Portland.
Following is the resolution in full:
the amount to be raised for the exuosi-
ton be So. GOO. 600, and that this amount
be raised in the following manner:
'One million dollars to be raised bv
private subscription Of sale of stock in
the City of Portland.
"A tax levy on the property in the
city of Portland to yield 81, 900, 600.
which will require an annual levy for
a period of three years of about q
mills on assessed valuation of about
43l4, 1000, 600 yielding 81, 600, 600.
Contingent upon a tax levy of
mill on all property in the state each
year for period Of three years on the
assessed valuation of about 81 coo, 600,
600, yielding So, 600, 600
"lnasmuch as the city of Portland
pays about third of the state tax
levy, this means that of the total |
amount of taxes to he levied the city |
is to raise So, 900, 600 and the state, |
outside of the city, 81, 900, 600.
Adding the 81, 900, 600 subscription |
additional to the city's share of taxes |
will mean that the city's proportion of |
the SO, 000, 600 will be $4, 0O0, 600. or 66g |
per cent.
Another committee named by Chair
man Meier was that on resolutions. 1t |
of E. +. Brodie. Oregon
City, chairman; S. G. Morton, st. |
Helens: Truman Butler, Hood River
G. r. Ingalls,, Corvallis; George Neu.
er, Roseburg; Il. A. Koen, Dallas
A. 7. Hill, La Grande; Franklin T. |
Otto Hartwig, Edward Cook
lngham and George l.. Baker, Port
land. To this group was assigned the
duty of recommending whether an ex-
position should be held and an outline
Of what it should be-
Following is this resolutionsin in full,
It being unanimously adopted
Whereas, We. the delegates from the
various sections of the state of Ore
gon and the northwest. in conference
assembled, deem it proper that
worlds exposition should be held in
.he year 1925, for the purposes, among
)thers, as follows
!. AS peace jubilee following the
world war.
2. Concentrating the centennial
If the discovery Of the electro magnet.
3. Celebration Of the completion of
The transcontinenal highways joining
he Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
A. Restoration of commercial inter-
curse between the nations of the
world.
And Whereas. the congress of the
United States passed joint resolution
authorizing the president of the United I
states to invite foreign nations to par
lcpate in the Atlantc-Pacifc High
Ways and Electrical exposition to be
eld in Portland, Ore, in 1925, and
Whereas, all of the states west of
he Rocky mountains have. by official
oice of their legislatures indorsed |
)regOn's 1925 exposition, and !
Whereas, the state of Oregon has +
een given the official sanction of the +
ation to present the irst peace loving I
emonstration since the close of the {
var, by the elimination of conflicting D
XpOsltion dates in other parts of the +
ountry, and knowing the readiness of {
he American people to participate in {
movement that is destined to bring /
be world into closer relations.
Now, Therefore, Be it resolved, by (
he delegates here assembled, that this
onvention does hereby indorse, ap- Il
rove and recommend the holding Of
be worlds exposition in the city of {
ortland, in the state Of Oregon, dur T
~ the year 1925, for the purposes and f
} the ends hereinbefOre enumerated. h
In keeping with the central idea of q
ne conference, that of tying the en- O
re state with the exposition project, 4
resolution was adopted, authorizing e
hartman Meier to appoint at least n
ne representative from each county
q the general board and to name an O
gecutive committee Of 10 which shall v
ave charge in the absence Of the p
ain board. This Will weld the differ s
1t communities into the plans and fl
eep them fully informed on develop a
ents at all times. n