The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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The Chandler News.
TENTH YEAR.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN C0UNTY.--H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA,.THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1901.
NU- ER 25.
Whv Not Organize Societies for the Improvement of Lincoln County Roads?
■ * * ' |
THE famous (or infamous) public building | IT IS estimated that tho appropriations xr0T the least of the
T bill passed the lower house of thelerri-i <« ? ™ w,U aggregate | ]\1 connected with th
torlal legislature last Tuesday evening. It more than a million dollars. Oklahoma is iic building bill is the fa.
MJlJclJ. l«,_i iaii j o a nrnonorntia Pom mon Weill til. il1Q tavrit.nr
had passed the upper house several days he-
fore, but it was quite gene-
rally beiieved that it would |
BUILDING BILL
PASSES - . , , • ..
LOWER HOUSE. d,e on ,he calendar^ in the
lower house for want of the
two'thirds majority nei-ssary to advance it | tnoney it can appropriate
. I ttq t o mnnnr, is* fill*!
undoubtedly a prosperous commonwealth,
but there,certainly ought to
« OUR MILLION fog- other ways of proving
, crifu nlP ,he fact than having a
legislature see how much
unfortunate things
connected with the passage of this pub-
the fact that it aligns one
section of the territory against another.
There was not a representa-
tive from west'of the Santa
Fe railroad who qpposed
the bill, and there was but
one from the part of the territory east of the
Santa Pe that voted for the bill. The repre-
sentatives of Noble,'Payne, Lincoln, Potta-
watomie, and Oklahoma counties—including
MIGHT,
NOT
RIGHT..
A great part of
two-tniras majority neoeasar,^ . ... ^ ^ w indirectly
to Where-it could *considered 1 h e repo, . the public building scheme.
thai it had ^ camn. ^ anappropriHtion .
m,1S< t0 ,n.°S, i" . . ' 1 - .u],)nt(i(]. bv the ' f°r an.v purpose seems to have been granted more than one-fourth the population ot tho
ie prmcipa amen i 'ni.nni.;a,jon ()f j his desire on the condition that he would entjre territory and one-fourth the taxable
house was 0„e making ai app.opof ^ ^ ^ ^ b„Mlogbill. Theappro-1 wl,alth had the gaJ? ,,,le applied to them,
* • - "La. m'.rh ihevotes'printionsforlhe existing institutions wereLnd ^ere given to understand that they
Guthrie. his was c on > < h e j made larger than they would" otherwise havejcould state their objections if they would be
of the Loiran coun y m ■ ■ L • t-n Vet the sunDort of the-mem- K..iaf uwmt it hut, that if thev undertook to
of the LiOjran couniy mi i u * ' «« " " ' | been in ordpr t() feet t he support of the uiem-
The legislature was prohibited by act ot con- • 0 . ,
/ , • _in,, f,„. '1 bers from the districts in which they ai e
gress from making an appropriation J1()pated fm. the building. bill. A normal
capital building, but it was thought <ha* tlio _ > . , j
, . n n . tn war-1 hold-1 school has been located in Greer county and t UFUli.
building would d, justa« ' ^ |a academy at Tonkawa in Kay esentotives Lincoln county opposed
lug the territorial capital at ®nthr'e''c^L)„nty order to get votes. *A bill dividing I,, e moasul.e, and we believe that in doing so
by another name, and so the amencin/enr| ^ , j u..
brief about it, but that if they undertook to
interpose any barriers to the passage, of the
building bill they would be unceremoniously
sat upon. We are proud of the fact that the
l/C II L> I , .
calls it a library building. By adding this : Woods count, has been passed by- the lowe,
• 1 -p 4.1,, 1 houso in order to votos for tlic public
amendment two votes ^^^^kuiiding bill, and the new county thus
ininnitous measure. Of course <jpou,ouu ai > . „
... .1 1 .| 1 1 t I created has been named for Goveinor
mtiJ iss-nrettv hitrh but the builders had to * ,
Aot< ispteuynwi, ou t 1 Barnes hs a bait to secure Ins approval of
have votes, and the territory pays the bills. 1
anyhow. There can hardly be a doubt that
tin
they represented the sentiment of ninety-
nine per cent of their constituents We be-
lieve, too, that they represented the wishes
of the majority of the people of the territory,
and that the supporters of this bill will meet
If there has been any stone* left j witb a sbarp rebuke from the taxpayers
• otIlon(3m„nf_i unturned by the "mound-builders," as they j wbo do not believe that they can tax
the council will concur n e. ;aro called, it is one that they have over- j themselves rich. We have not. been
it hHS probably cone it y e i™J" 1^siern jiooked. They are not satisfied with pro- opposH(L to this bill because Chan-
press an( negov eino l,n\e at-uviding for the expenditure of all of the [ djer H.nd the other towns of this county
the n , •in so, nn ess 1. ^ jt li'public, building fund now in the treas- were left out in the distribution of
tacked m the . j^'now he-un uYy, but in addition to this.they had to ere- j ins,itutions, but, because we believe it a bad
ever perpetrated 1 < ' |ate a special tax levy so that every taxpayerj polic> True, if a question of right was to
The direc appiopi « « s ' Iin'the territory might enjoy the privilege of • be (.otlsjaered, Lincoln county, with her
*275,000, but everybody knows that thU sum 1,.i!.u,0 Ferhaps. after all, this is „ ,7<uon 1)t)|lUiiltion, is more entitled to a good'
merely maik-t le minimum <) k ex] n"J " jor00d. wny to tret statehood. So many of-the , pUhiic institution than is Greer with only
It was only intended to spend *o 00 fo. 1 ^ \ a haye done fool thing8 and elected leg-1 l7,0(M or Kin-tjsher with but 18,000. If the
.Mva j. 01 ma w ieu ie 1 ( V " , is]atures that were willing to promote the in- j qUt;S, u)l) 0f j ight has been considered, the
passed, but it wi cos ie ei t ^ o ' terests 0f private individuals and favored . 1)roposjti0n of the city of Perry to save the
(tOO. In order to make ie passage « localities, .tha t,the Oklahoma legislature may j ^70.0110appropriation for the construction of
have concluded that it could promote the j tbe penitentiary ought to have had some
xl by showing itself as cor- ^pjcrht. But the motto seems to have been:
rupt and ex'ravagant as'are the legislatures j uy^ick to the combine; don't mind the ex-
in any of the older states, if this was their ])e!IS(i; oklahoma pays the bills."' Two
purpose, they have succeeded well. The members from the west side who were
fact that most of these men expect state- bjtu,, ju their opposition to the bill two
hood for Oklahoma within the next two years j years agl, were prominent in its support
might seem to have been forgotten, but it 1 tbjs year. Two years ago they opposed the
-whs not. They do not seek td locate all these bm ftg a matter of principle; this year they
j institutions now because they think state-1 sUp1)orted jt as a matter of policy, because
bill a possibility, appropriations for the ex-
isting institutions were handed out with
reckless extravagance, and measures of gen-
uine merit and of immediate importance
have been allowed to slumber 011 the
calendar in order that this public building
deal might be accomplished. Already stories
are afloat in regard to the means employed
in passing this bill which indicate that things
were clone that are a disgrace to the terri-
tory.' The appropriations provided for in j b^^s' ^ very distant, but for the very | . * ' ' d to „ive their county seat town a
the bill are as follows: Penitentiary at El rert.s< n that they think it is near at hand and < 1 1 - - (
Beuo, *75.000: insane asylum at Enid, (85,- thai this is probably 1 he lust chance that! bhnd asylum U hard lo
0U0; asylum for the deaf, dumb and blind at i they atafe'l's for in* si llio j The next leglslatuie will want mtditiooal
KingHsher, *30,000; reform school at 1 Onca . ()^ns on lh(> Santa P(1 anfl Kocif island "rail appropriations to complete the buildings
City, $20,000; territorial library at Guthrie, , rofll]s wi]1 not ,1()K1 tb<> balance of power, and winch the present k ^ ! i!1,?-,, o r 1 • ■ t V,, x,«
$100 000. It is said in the newspaper re- they want to fasten this debt on the terri- begin. In «■ i dor to gt , .. « i ] [ < '
ports that the cit.v of Perry offered to give tor? while ,hey are still in the saddle. It J wKch to buy
free of charge 160 acres of land for t he, will ^ noticed tuit.. noW V(,es. Unless the taxpayers determine to
ones" reated, are lorn ted on the Santa Ke , send to the next legislature men who ha
and Rock Island roads. This combine is the backbone and he lumesty^ to oppose
significant. The big east side of the tern- : such a policy we are i i oi hi0h tax., ana
tory is entirelv ignored. extravagance without end.
penitentiary and to ere"t the necessary
buildings without cost to the territory and
to put up a forfeit of *25,000, that it would
do all this, but the offer was declined.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1901, newspaper, March 7, 1901; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117269/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.