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 offered to the election of U. S. Senator had become so flagrant a violation of the popular will that the people of Oregon began to appreciate the necessity of some other method of choosing their representatives in the U. S. Senate. Accordingly what was known as the Mays* Law was passed by the legislature in 1901, the purpose of which was that candidates for the United States Senate might submit their names to llie people at the precedmg general election in order to determine the popular preference for that office. In accordance ivith this law Elx-Goveroor Geer securedthe necessary signatures and announced his candidacy for the Senate, and his name was placed on the ballot. He received a majority of 12.070. but the follovring legislature, in choosing the U. S. Senator ignored the popular vote. This disregard of the popular wOl did much to khidle a sentiment that resulted in the initiation of the direct primary law and "Statement No. 1,*' in the following administration.

Columbia University. Columbia University, of Portland, a boarding; and day school for the Christian education of boys and young men, was founded in 1901 by Archbishop Christie. Since 1902 the institution has been owned and conducted by the congregation of the Holy Cross, a religious community of priests and brothers with the mother house at Notre Dame, Indiana. The institution has a grammar grade, a high school, and a college department. The present Administration Hall was erected under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1891. This was the Portland University, which began to languish after the panic of i 893 and some years later closed its doors. Columbia University is strictly Roman Catholic, but admits students of other denominations and respects their conscientious beliefs.

Carey Inigatioii Act Accepted by Oregon. In 1901, the State of Oregon accepted the terms of the Carey Irri a