Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-28
income TAX
AMENDMENT
IS ATTACKED
Court Asked To Restrain
Secretary Kozer From
Putting Grange Bill on
Ballot.


Charging false and fraudulent
methods Of the circulators In Sc
curing names to she petition to
initiate the so-called grange In
come tax amendment, and false
certification Of names on the petit
tions by notaries public, Mccain
ant C Thompson and w. S.. U'Ren,
Portland attorneys, this afternoon
filed injunctions proceedings in
the circuit court of Maron county
to restrain Secretary of State
Kozer from placing the measure
on the ballot at the general cleo
tion in November.
The complaint alleges that
1897 of the 1876 names signed
to the petition were certified to
only by notaries public, and not
by the county clerk of any county,
and that the certifications or
these notaries were made with
out knowledge of the qualifica-
tions of the signers as legal vot-
ers. Many Of the persons sign
ing the petitions weren OF and are
not legal voters, the complaint al
leges.
Signed on Streets
THE circulators of the petit
tions, the complaint states,
s'stood on the street corners Of
Portland, and particularly on the
busy street corners of the business
section and passers by were solic-
tied by the circulators to sign the
petition. No investigation was
made whatsoever either by the
circulators Of the petitions or by
the notaries public to assure them
selves that the parties so signing
were legal voters of the state of
Oregon, or were resident at the
addresses given by them when
they signed the petition"
The complaint adds that "in no
case did the notary public execut-
ing the certificate referred to in
paragraph six of this complaint
know that the signatures found
on any page Of the petition to
which his certificate was attached
were legal voters of the state or of
the county written after their re-
spective names.
Certificates Fraudulent
That in truth and in fact, the
certificates SO made by the notar-
les public were false and fraud
ulent and the signatures were se-
cured to the said petition by false
and fraudulent representations
and many signatures were turn
ed in by the circulators to the mo-
taries and to the defendant where
the circulators and notaries pub
lie were affirmatively advised
that the names were not those Of
legal voters of the state and
where the circulators and notar-
les knew that the residence and
postoffice address attached to the
names were incorrect"
The notaries public mentioned
in the complaint are w. N. Carter,
Otto Newman, Charles Lorati.
George Bylander, Paul Turner. b.
l.. Turner and Caroline Herman.
The names of several persons, al
legged to ze unable to vote, whose
names we're on the petition, also
are given in the complaint.
Other points in the complaint
are as follows:
That postoffice addresses not in
existence are on the petition.
That the same names have APP
peared in the petitions more than
once. csssssl
That certain Of the names ap-
pearing on the petitions We're
written by others than those bear
ing the names.
That the names OF non-residents
and aliens appear.
That many signatures were OBJ
tained by Misrepresentation. cir
culators of the bill claiming It to
be a measure to reduce taxes or
telephone charges.
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