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Show CANDIDATES PLEDGES Shall Be Disqualified From Holding Office in State of Oregon. Olympla, Feb. 9. Seeking to end the custom of exacting pledges from candidates for the legislature to support sup-port certain bills or measures, the senate sen-ate today passed a bill providing that any candidate who signs such a pledge shall be disqualified from holding office of-fice he seeks. It was acknowledged on the floor of the senate by the fram-ers fram-ers of the bill that it is directed particularly par-ticularly at labor organizations, but designed also to apply to any compact working organization, such as the anti-saloon anti-saloon league or the equal suffrage association, as-sociation, i The Mil as passed, places qualifications qualifica-tions also upon candidates for supervisors, super-visors, school directors or for any legislate leg-islate body who sign similar ante-election ante-election pledges, and also makes acceptance ac-ceptance for an annual retainer for looking after the interests of persons, company or corporations, a disqualification disqualifi-cation for holding office as a member of the legislature. The bill was warmly contested by the minority members, who sought to have restriction placed only upon the signing of secret pledges. This movement move-ment failed. The bill carried 27 to 11. |