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Oklahoma State Register.
FOURTEENTH YEAK NO.
GUTHRIE, OK LA., THURSDAY. DEC EM HER, 7 11)05.
#1.00 PER YEAR*-
Message 01 The President
lo The Fifty-Ninth Congress
Cherry Hay Be
U. S.
Marshal.
New York, Dec. 5.—
President Roosevelt's message was read in both houses of con
gress and received close attention. At 11 oclock the president
was notified by a joint committee that congress was in session and
ready to receive any message he might desire to deliver t o it. I he
President expressed his gratification at the convening of congress
and soon thereafter copies of his message were sent to the House
atjd Senate. A synopsis of the message follows:
can 1I9 and
j^houra ws
Corpora* Ion
| I am In 110 sense hostile to corpora-
tions. This is an age of combination,
land any effort to prevent all combina-
tion will be not only useless, but In the
iend vicious, because of the contempt
for law which the failure to enforce
law Inevitably produces. The corpora-
tion has come to stay, Just as the
trades union linn come to stay. Each
uud Uas Uojiw tjt'eiU JjoihJL
fnmred so long &S *t floes
good. But each should be sharplr
checked where It acts against law and
Justice. .
Experience has shown conclusively
that It Is useless to try to get any ade-
quate regulation and supervision of
these great corporations by state ac-
tion. Such regulation and supervision
can only be effectively exercised by a
sovereign whose Jurisdiction Is coex-
tensive with the field work of the cor-
porations-that is, by the national gov-
ernment. I believe that this regulation
and supervision can be obtained by the
enactment of law by the congress. If
this proves Impossible, It will certainly
be necessary ultimately to confer in
fullest form such power upon the na-
tional government by affirmative ac-
cient of the constitution.
The laws of the congress and of the
several states hitherto, as passed upon
by the courts, have resulted more often
In showing that the states have no
power in the matter than that the na-
tional government has power; so that
there at present exists a very unfortu-
nate condition of things, under which
these great corporations doing an in-
terstate business occupy the position of
subjects without a sovereign, neither
any state government nor the national
government having effective control
over them. Our steady aim should be
by legislation, cautiously and carefully
undertaken, but resolutely persevered
In, to assert the sovereignty of the na-
tional government by affirmative ac-
tion.
This Is only in form an Innovation.
In subBtance it is merely a restoration,
for from the earliest time such regula-
tiou of industrial activities has been
recognized In tile action 6f the law-
making bodies, and all that I propose
Is to meet the changed conditions in
such manner as will prevent the com-
monwealth abdicating the power it has
always possessed, not only in this coun-
try, but also in England before and
since this country became a separate
nation.
Railroad Rate Leglitatlon.
As I said in my message of Dec. 0
last, the immediate and most pressing
need so far as legislation is concerned
Is the enactment into law of some
scheme to secure to the agents of the
government such supervision and regu
lation of the rates charged by the rail
roads of the country engaged in inter
' state traffic as shall summarily and el
feetively prevent the Imposition of uu
Just or unreasonable rates. It must
include putting a complete stop t'o re-
bates in eVery shape and form. This
power to regulate rates, like all similar
powers over the business world, should
be exercised with moderation, caution
and self restraint, but it should exist,
so that it can be effectively exercised
when the need arises.
In my Judgment, the most important
provision )viiich such law should con-
tain is that conferring upon come com-
petent n*ra!r.!strftt1ve bofly
to decide upon the case being brought
before it whether a given rate pre-
scribed by a railroad is reasonable and
just, and if it is found to be unreason-
able and unjust then, after full investi-
gation of the complaint, to prescribe
the limit of rate beyond which it shall
pot be lawful to go-the maximum
reasonable rate, as it is commonly call-
ed—this decision to go into effect with-
in a reasonable time and to obtain
from thence onward, subject to review
by the courts.
It sometimes happens at present, not
that a rate is too high, but that a fa-
vored shipper is given too low a rate.
In such case the commission would
have the right to fix this already estab-
lished minimum rate as the maximum,
and it would need only one or two such
decisions by the commission to cure
railroad companies of the practice of
giving improper minimum rates. I call
your attention to the fact that my pro-
posal Is not to give the commission
power to initiate or originate rates gen-
erally, but to regulate a rate already
fixed or originated by the roads upon
complaint and after investigation. A
heavy penalty should be exacted from
any corporation which fails to respect
an order of the commission. I regard
this power to establish a maximum
rate as being essential to any scheme
of real reform In the matter of railway
regulation.
It is worth while considering whether
It would not be wise to confer on the
government tire right of civil action
against the beneficiary of a rebate for
at least twice the value of the rebate.
This would help stop what is really
blackmail. Elevator allowances should
• «. aioaiaoii far tha.v have now grown
to such "An extent that they are demor-
alising and are used as rebates.
Private Car I.ine«.
All private car lines, industrial roads
refrigerator charges and the like
should be expressly put under the su
pel vision of the interstate commerce
commission or some similar body sr
far as rates and agreements practical
]y affecting rates are concerned. A ro
bate in icing charges or in mileage or in
a division of the rate for refrigerating
charges is just as pernicious as a re-
bate in any other way.
There should be publicity of the ac-
counts of common carriers,, Ouly.ln
Char'es T. Cherry, receiver of the
Capital National bank, may b appoint-
ed United States marshal for the dis-
trict of Chicago. He has for several
years been manager of Senator Cul-
loms' campaigns in Illinois, and he pos-
sesses the friendship of Senator Hop-
kins. In a general estimate of the
changes in federal appointsmer.ts, the
Chicago Chronicle has the following in
reference to Mr. Cherry's chances:
"There is little doubt that Vlr Hopkins
will name the next marshal. Represen-
tative Charles T. Cherry of'Kendall
county lives in Senator Hopkins' dis-
trict and his knowledge of political con-
ditions in the state, combined with a
de' S, medicinal soaps, etc., advising
that they were violating the law by
handling such goods and were liable un-
der the law to a fine of $100 for each
offense.
As a result of this action "by the ter-
ritorial board of pharamcy, retail deal-
ers throughout the territory, otherwise
Synopsis of McGuire's Statehood Bill.
Delegate 15. S. McGuire's statehood bill declares for one state
le territory, otherwise "
than registered ptaanaaclsts, canceled of Oklahoma and Indian territory, without reference to Arizona
their orders for such lines of goods, land New Mexico, and provides for its admission on M irch 4, 1907,
and this occasioned the Pratt Food com-1 under the name Oklahoma. The structure of his bill generally,
pany to begin action against the board 1S the same as that of the Hamilton omnibus bill. The hope of
I asking a restraining order which will te„ o{ ungate McGuire's bill is that after the contest over
1 prevent the issuance ol further letters , .. . j u • i > ,
lot- this sort to merchants, also asking | the admission of Arizona and N w Mexico has b,en determined
damages, and iu addition demanding i the comttlittce on territories will strike Irom the omnibus bill all
I that an order of court bg issued com- reference to Arizona and New Mexico, leaving the text substanti-
I pelling the board to retract the state- j ajjy as appears it Delegate McGuire's bill, or,rather, as it will
j ments made in the letters. The com- pear f0r there will be many minor amendments am
' pany claims it has been damaged $20,- «
000 by this action of the board, but some radical changes.
As in the Hamilton bill, the
probably
state,
native shrewdness, may secure for him n^ake3" no demand for that amount of
Ames place And again: If he j m j w tho court to
fails to land the marshal s office Rt pre-
,, , , I assess their rightful damages.
sentative cherry will ask tor the inter-1
nal revenue colloctership and may get
Wants Unanimity.
Block well Record: Hon. B. S. Mc-
However, Mr. Cherry states he is af-
ter neither of these places, but some of,
his friends insist on his availability, i Guire and his secretary, Hugh Scott,
These appointsments arc to be made in ( left for Washington last week, where |
afewdavs. , McGuire will be reasonably busy both
j before and during the session of con-
Stlit Brought J gress. Our worthy delegate in addition
DhnfmQcvRnaril ' to the statehood bill, has much legisla-
Against Pharmacy Board t.on fa view that wiU be of material
A suit was filed in the district court j benefit to Oklahoma. He expects to
in this city to test the Oklahoma pliar- j work night and day for a', itehood, but
macy law, the Pratt Food company, a ^ will not neglect other in*portantduties.
Pennsylvania corporation, with head-1 Oklahoma has confident in the ability
quarters at Philadelphia, being the of her delegate; but we \ must not ex-
plaintiff. Recently, acting under an p ;ct the impossible of hill. We firmly
opinion by Attorney General Percy C
Simons, the teri itorial board pf phar
macy, composed of A. B. Clark cf Wa-
tongo, E. E. Howendobler of Perry,
believe that if Oklahoma and Indian
Territory will get together for single
statehood that Mr. McGuire can have
such a bill passed, but if half Oklaho
F. B. Lillie of Guthsie, began issuing ma and Indian Territory are knocking
letters to all persons, olh r /ise than on him and his bill, congress will make
registered pharmacists, who have been us wait until we know what we do
handling stock foods, condition pow-jwant. Line up if you want statehood.
McGuire's Many Bills in Congress
For the Good of the Territory
(Continued on page 7.)
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The statehood plank of the President's message is as fol
lows:
I recommend that Indian Territory and Oklahoma be admit-
ted as one state and that New Mexico and Arizona be admitted
as one siata. There is no obligation upon us to treat territorial
subdivisions, which are matters of convenience only, as binding us
on the question of admission to statehood. Nothing has taken up
more time in the congress during the past few years than the
question as to the statehood to be granted to the four territories
above mentioned, and after careful consideration of all that has^j
been developed in the discussions of the question I recommend
that they be immediately admitted as two states. There is no
justification for further delay; and the advisability of making the
four territories into two states has been cltarly established. 4
In some of the territories the legislative assemblies issu^
licenses for gambling. The congress should by law forbid this
practice, the harful results of which are obvious at a glance.
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Accidently Shot.
St;'!man Goodnough, aged 22, of Me,
Hall Caine's play "The Eternal
jCity" with its beautiful Mascagni
- - music, and probably the most massive
hati, w ns brought to this city and plac- 1 pro(juction that will visit ns this season
ed in the West Side hospRal. While j wj|| ^ here ghortly, awl a mere men-
hunting Sunday wilh companions, he ^ tjon of the n&me b. infficient to
was shot in the stomach by a 22 calibre cauge a flutter of great expectation
rifle, which was accidentally diseharg- among our play goers. There are
ed. The ballet was in his stomach | many who slaim that Jaae leaaard is
but aa eperation was performed which the best and most faslaatia* Donaa
saved the young man's life. | Koma who ever uaayed the part,
In addition to the bill asking immedi
ate joint statehood for Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, Congressman Mc-
Guire will introduce at least fourteen
other bills in the interests of the two
territories. Prominent among these
will be the bill asking free homes for
the homesteaders in the Kiowa and
Comanche country, which was opened
to settlement in 1901.
An irrigation measure will also be in-
troduced by McGuire, demanding that
O lahoma be given her share of the
mammoth reclamation fund now on
hand for irrigation projects. Oklaho
ma's share now amounts to nearly $4,
000,000. In addition to the irrigation
reservoir now in course of construction
at Navajo mountain, reservoirs are
wanted in Beaver and Day counties.
A bill to open to settlement the In-
dian pasture res 'I've of 240,000 acres,
lying along the Red river, will also be
introduced. The secretary of the in-
terior is now formulating a plan to
lease this pasture, in quarter section
tracts, to farmers for a period of three
years, giving each lessee the privilege
of re-leasing w .en the first lease
pires. The rental money goes to the
support of the Kiowa, Comanche and
Wichita Indians. Mr. McGuire would
open the lands to settlement and give
the Indians the proceeds for a perma-
nent fund.
One of the main bills will 'ask the al
lotment of the Osage Indians' land,
| comprising 1,500,000 acres of rich agri
cultural land in northeastern Oklahoma.
In addition to alloting the bill will ask
that congress give the Indians permis-
sion to sell all their lands excepting a
homestead of 140 acres for each Indian.
This would place on the market for
white farmers four-fifths of the Osage
lands.
Another bill of interest to the Osage
Nation will ask that a court be located
at Pawhuska, the Osage capital, giving
it entire jurisdiction throughout the
Osage country.
Mr. McGuire maintains that his most
important bill, other than that for
statehood, will be that to remedy the
jury defects which now exist and which
have caused such a prolonged muddle
in Oklahoma courts.
Mr. McGuir? will ask congress to re-
move the prohibition, so far as the re-
moval of the asylum is concerned, and
allow the legislative appropriation to be
used In refitting the buildiagi and re-
moving the patients.
Be will also ask congress to remove
the prohibition regarding public build-
fags, la order that regent* of the North-
weatera aormal iah*>ol may oeatrasi fer
aid erect a $60,000 additional building
in connection with this school at Alva.
At the request of citizens of Woods
coun*<n a bill will be introduced asking
congress to donate to the territory a
section of school land lying adjacent to
the town of Aline, in Woods county, for
a park and an old soldiers' home.
An Indian allotment, near Anadarko
in Caddo county, is wanted as a site
for a territorial reform school, and con-
gress will be asked to cordemn the al-
lotment for that purpose. The last
legislature passed a bill, which was
championed by the Oklahoma federa-
tion of woman's clubs, for establishing
a reform school, and the land near Ana
darko is wanted for that purpose.
Congress will be asked to take some
action regarding the frequent attempts
by mineral prospectors to locate miner-
al claims on school lands. In the Cleve-
land oil and gas fields, in the Caddo and
Blaine cement fields and in the Wichita
mountain mineral fields, the territory
holds a Urge acreage of land of great
mineral value. A liL|,wilI be intvoducr
ed, asking congress To open these lands
to mineral entry, and to allow the terri-
tory to take other lands in lieu thereof,
perhaps in Beaver county.
Mr. McGuire has given his piomise
to the Otoe Indians that he will ask
congress to insert a clause in the Indian
. state capital rem tins temporarily
at Guthrie, until 1910, alter which time it may be permanently lo-
cated by a majority vote of the people at an election to be called
by the legislature.
One of the most important features of the bill is that provisionc
appropriating ten million dollars for a public road fund to take th<sfl
place of a school land fund for Indian Terrttory.
There shall be IIO delegates to the constitutional convention',
the districts to be apportioned by the governor and chief justice of
Oklahoma and the senior judge and commissioner to the five civil-
ized tribes in the Indian Territory.
Within sixty days after the approval of the act, the governor
of Oklahoma and the senior judge of the Indian Territory shall by'
proclamation order the election of constitutional convention dele-
gates. The proclamation must be issued at least sixty days prior
to the election.
The United States judges in the Indian Territory are made the
election and canvassing boards.
The capital remains at Guthrie until 1910, whf-n it may bt mov
ed at an election to be provided for by the legislature.
The constitutional convention delegates must meet the first
Tuesday after their election.
There is an expressed provision permitting the maintenance
of separate schools,
The bil^j provides for seven congressional districts to which
Oklahoma's 1,500,000 inhabitants more than entitle her.
The territorial officers continue in charge until the ratification
ot the constitution and the election of state officers and representa- -■
tives to congress.
Section thirteen is reserved for the use of the higher territorial
schools, the university and university preparatory school getting
one-third, the Agricultural and Mechanical college and Colored
Agricultural Normal university one third, and the normal schools
established and hereafter to be established, one-third. Further
division of the funds derived from these lands is left to the legisla-
ture.
The legislature may lease the common school lands for periods
not to exceed five years or may sell them, giving preference right
to the lessee. Should other school lands be sold preference right
is also given.
Further 'and grants are in ide to the Oklahoma schools as fol- .
lows: University, 250,000 acres; university preparatory school,^
1 50,000 acres; A. and M. college, 250,000 acres; Colored A. and M.«.
university, 100,000 acres; the normal schools, 350,000 acres.
Restrictions upon the alienation of surplus Indian lands are
removed.
Three judicial distr'cts are provided for, the court towns being
Eastern district, Muskogee, Tulsa and South McAlester; Southern
district, Oklahoma City, Ardmore and Lawton; Northern district,
Guthrie, Enid and Alva.
Provision is made for a permanent drainage fund.
In the taxation ot lands and the sale of liquors and other affairs
p rtaining to Indians, the State of Oklahoma shall make no law or"
regulation which it would have been competent for the United
States to make, should this act not pass
A Place For
Frantz's Brother.
Captain Frank Frantz has announced
ti. i_,apiain rittuft
appropriation bill, asking permission thafc hig brother, Orville Frantz, would
for the Otoes to sell all surplus kinds |.
over and above a quarter section home
stead, for each Indian
Congressman McGuire says he will
pay attention to all calls for assistance
from Indian Territory, and will aid the
people there in securing any legislation
they may desire.
Although many of Mr. McGuire's
friends in the counties of Greer, Woods
and Comanche had petitioned him to in-
troduce a bill dividing each of these
counties into two, he has completely
abandoned any idea of such a bill, be-
cause of the protests filed from thesei
counties.
In addition to the bills mentioned
the people of Shawnee, Enid, El Reno
and Oklahoma City want appropriations
for public buildings, and the people 0"
Shawnee waat an Indian allotment,
near the town, set aside for ichool par-
poses.
The regents of the colored uaiTerslty
at Langston want some action taken
waereby that institatioa will receive
more thaa $1 ,500 annaally from the
Morrill fand, a permanent appropria-
tion for the malatenaacaof agrlaaltaral
schools. Oklahoma geta $M,0M aaaa
ally from that fand, bat Loafskoa get#
only 11,100, the remainder goiag to the
A. and M. auUege at Stillwater.
be his secretary when he became gov-
ernor of Oklahoma, Orville Frantz is
now a Student in the Harvard law
school, where he will remain until Jan-
uary, when he will retirn to Oklahoma
and take up the work of secretary.
This is the first appointment Captain
Frantz has decided upon. He has given
little thought to the other places that
will be at his disposal. He has return-
ed from Cambridge, Mass., where he
attended the Yale-Harvard football
game Saturday, and had an interview
with President Roosevelt relative to
the Oklahoma federal appointments.
The understanding here is that it has
been practically decided by President
Roosevelt that a new United States
^JTrsllirFor Oklahoma will be named.
Marshal W. D. Fossett has been here
for several days and it is reported that
he has received little easouragement
ia his aandidacy for reappointment.
President Rooaevelt to aoma of hi call-
era haa spokea highly of Oepaty Mar-
shal John Abernathy, aad a« Franti
favors Abernathy it ia likely that he
will taeeeed Feaiett.
Tha mi Osage ageat whe will •••
Roosevelt asked Frantz to endorse u
candidate for that place and that Frantz
endorsed Ret Millard. Millard is tha
only candidate under consideration.
Military Music Mute.
At the request of Governor Tom Fer- •
guson and Adjutant General Burlin-
game, the Northwestern normal school
at Alva, has taken sharge of th . regi- -
mental band of the Oklahoma National
guard, with the understanding that it
will be completely reorganized under
the control of Prof. Marshall director
of the normal music department. There
were formerly two regimental bands,
Troop A, of Guthrie, and the First Reg--
iment, of Alva, but both went to piecea
until it was with difficulty that band
music was obtained for the last annual
encampment of the guard at Chandler.
Folk's Definition
Of a "Grafter."
Governor Folk was asked by a Near"'
York publishing house for a definition
of the word "grafter," to be used ia
a new edition of a dictionary. Gover—-
nor Folk answered as follows:
"Grafter—one who preys on the pee--*'
pie either against the law or under the^
law. The boodler sells his official vole
or bays offleial acta contrary to law ]
He is a grafter, hot a grafter ia not
aeceeaaarily a boodler. Grafting may
Tha new Osaga agaa. w.u J* ,U i".*ithc'.T *
Veata ,-h^ will ha name* ia .p"Ul
a few da/a It ia said tfcat t 1"* #r MV * *
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