Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-12-23
IA BILLS
ENACTED
BY HOUSE
All Highway Bills and
Other Measures Put
Thru Under Forced
Draft

Working under forced draft yes
terday afternoon and last evening
with the fair tax measure and tn
three road bills out of the way
the house milled its way through
more legislation than at any tim,
during the session, and when /
adjourned had its desk clear fol
the reception of additional bust
ness from the senate.
Fourteen bills, three OF them Of
senate origin were disposed of In
final passage, and a fifteenth
Representative Martins bill tc
amend the state jury law to elm
mate the requirement that six
members Of any jury sitting on a
case involving minors must be
women, was killed by indefinite
postponement.
The proposal to amend the jury
law in this respect provoked the
only furry in an otherwise calm
session, when Mrs. Kinney of Cat
sop raised the point that the report
OF the committee did not include
the amendment agreed upon that
the six-woman jury provision be
amended only to the extent OF al
lowing lesser proportion Of WON
en- on a jury trying case involv-
Ing minors only where it was
found impossible to secure less
than six women from the jury
panel.
Law Impractical.
Mrs. Kinney's motion met with
heated opposition from Allen OF
Lane and Gallagher of Malheur, |
both of them attorneys, who in
sisted that the law as it now
stands is impracticable and un-
workable. They corroborated
Martins statement that the trial
of many cases involving minors
has been impossible under the
provisions Of the law as 1T exists,
and that several persons, some of
them children are now in Jail, or
out on bond because their cases
cannot be disposed of until jury
with six women in its member
ship cannot be secured. n
Representative Kay's house bill
"a, permitting school districts to
loan out idle moneys at interest
Instead of being forced to keep
Them in the county treasury, pass
I'd without dissenting vote. The
bill permits school districts who
have bonded themselves for the
construction Of school house or
,ther improvement and which
have sold the bonds to invest the
money in such way as will re-
urn an income equal to the inter-
sst being paid on the money until III
uch time as the money is needed II
or the improvement for which 1t II
vas voted. II
Kay's School Bill.
Kay presented the measure in
he interest of the Aurora school
istrict in northern Marion coun-
y, which after bonding for the
of a school the dis
rict decided to unite with neigh
oring districts in the establish
lent Of union school, and has
cen forced to pay interest on the
onds while the money derived
rom their sale has been lying idle
the county treasury.
House bill 26, providing money IL
pay the warrants held by the
AK growers of Marion county for NJ
AK delivered to the state plant at
ie penitentiary, but never paid II
II because of the lack of funds on
10 part OF the state, was also ap-
-oved after its terms had been III
Iplained to the members.
EddY's Budget Bill. IN
Senator Eddy's bill removing XII
ad districts from the provisions Nj
the budget law enacted by the MI
st legislature, the constitutional III
OF which inclusion has been iii
tackled aud in one case sustained iii
Judge George G. Bingham, OF K
9 Marion county circuit court, fH
ceived the sanction of the house
d now goes to the governor. i0
The curative measures to cor iii
CT errors in legislation enacted iii
the regular session Of the leg
ature, house bills 17-1S-19, Hi
re passed.
Other bills to receive final ac-
n were. IH
Other Bills Passed. yD
House bill 2S, py the committee III
ways and means-To appropri-
$4,000 to complete the con
uction of the Anderson school fH