Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1913 — GOVERNOR GRUBS STUMPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOVERNOR GRUBS STUMPS

Meanwhile Lawmakers Deliver Bills by Force—Broke Into Private Office.}

Portland, Ore.—“l have been down on my farm grubbing stumps. I was so glad to get away from that bunch I could hardly nerve myself to go back,” said Governor Oswald West here.

The governor’s outburst came when he, was Informed that the speaker of the house and the president of the senate, with their respective chief clerks, had forced their way into his private office and' left there the bills passed by both houses. The houses then adopted resolutions declaring that these constituted “delivery to the governor,” who has five days after delivery in which to sign or veto them. The legislature normally would have adjourned sine die last Saturday, but for fear the governor, with whom the

majority is' not in accord, would veto many measures, a five-day recess was taken, with intent not to adjourn until the governor had been compelled to pass upon all bills. “I may go away again.” said the governor, “and if I do there will be none of these roughnecks breaking into my office. What they did does not constitute 'delivery.'”

Gov. Oswald West.