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GOV. CRUCE SCORES COMMIT- committee has to flagrantly misstated The governor of this state never h: "
TEE' «*•<to the warden "not I wtHteS !*
and deputy as they have with refer to shift from his shoulder nv t, , n was c®Hed,
Quarrel Between Legislature and the ence to the members of the board of sponsfbility that properly i,e , „L! '' !?*T "**'"=■ <-"",..mittee impor-
Governor a, White Heat. control, then there ab.olutely no there l,„ wWf,k 2 thi S i T ca" * — "
reliance whatever to he placed 'pon he o"*ZiTy Id^~
,hlS repOTt Pub«c official should be willing I here ?*
.... What Report Charges. to si lder the responsibility" that h« of the regular seisfoA was being
The report charges that the Gov- "ffi« imposes upon him. brought to a close. 1 could see "lit
One day early last week the inves-
tigating committee of the lower house
of the legislature made its report on , ,,
it Granite "inO^e'r^-ounty'""'.""J ™mbers of the hoard of "There are certain duties that the justice of this "claim and I felt that
The report severely criticised I ^v'n !,,co,"',ct<nt n"have ab "'embers of the legislature owe to you were entitled to receive So per
Warden Reed and the hoard of con hers of the toarH , i "TV" cTLtT Wh"e the people „f the
trol consisting of Governor t ruce, no efftrt ha,^ J, I t '' «* hour with state. But before I would call the se*
Attorney General ( has. West and L/If 1 ? , T ' I■< i* com- sion I inquired of him to know to
President Bryan of the state board ! n T hoard to correct the comli plained that members of the board of what extent this session would be pro
of agriculture. ' ItT^h h * ! """"" ? t"™ T ***** institu" >cted in the future and I was Jven
tion. It js further charged that com- tions I make the equally serious everv acsiiran^o 1 1 i
The committee's report referred to plaints of the conditions exi-ting a. charge that not one member of this circumstances wouldThe "•" ,""
e reformatory in such term as "So the state reformatory have been made committee has visited this institution, more than thirty dv and Th".
dom and Gomorah and the ' lilack to the governor, the attorney general though rhey undertake in their" report confidently believed th'-,( It 1
Hole of Calcutta." When Governor and president of the boar,I of agri ... detail conditions there. Certainly wo d e id^ with n , ^ T"
trace read the report and the awful culture, and that they have made no it is as much the duty of members of The twmt • 1 i "i I**''
reflection cast upon linn be immedi attempt to verify tile existence of said the legislature acting on behalf of diys Iris exnirpd . 5. "'!r,y
ate to send the house a that were painfully appar the in maintaining and direct- lhe sum Z ' ,h" "W
message that s conceded to be the ent ... the chaplain ... the state re i g the affair- of this institution in a has re a bed' „,v , I,u
mos excorciating message ever writ- formally and various employes and I legislative way, and more especially ! of six bills two , k ' age
ten by any governor during territorial to numbers of men and women resid so in dealing with charges ooncernmir'ortatlon bin , ' t
r ,7,rac' T'"J r a iM "f management 7Z eTofXT
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report could emanate from any body mittee had ever been called to my ai- .institution, and if the neglect of th, i o, „
of men .intrusted with official honors. tention, and 1 state here that tile first I hoard of control is such as to render- ! Alleged.
by the people ,.f Oklahoma and in time a charge of this kind was ever them unfitted for the positions thev i , '. 5 fa" that h'''~ f*a
dealing with it I shall be just as plain ' brought to my attention was last Sal-' occupy, then the neglect on tile ,,-ipt '' 1 'C|> wlttl mc or witb the
in my statements as has been the urday night, when members of the I of the members of this committee'i 'u '' 'S "°w sclki"B to justify
committee u. its report, in what I committee detailed to me the charac- such as, in their own interpretation •h*™on.t?r spent '«t by mak
Shall say I shall deal directly with the | ter of evidence that they had listened j of affairs, abs<dmely dhnualify
members of the committee who are to. I was told what charges had been .hem for the position which they now
made againsit that institution, one by occupy.
aRnd hv " mU"|ST"' "U',' X 1 Has Recommended Legislation.
and by some lad,cs and other- of Gm, Cruc, says |||at « a
Greer county. In neither instance was Lessage to the legislature he has eall
there any charge made further than cd attention to needed leu i -1., t.i. „„
responsible for that report and I want
to exonerate the House of Represen-
tatives which in tli-e midst of excite-
ment and passions, voted upon this re
port without having seen any of the
testimony upon which the report i-
based.
"1 want to state that this commit
tee has not succeeded in covering up
its purposes in a way that has deceiv-
ed me. I know what the committee
has done and I know what the com-
mittee has in mind. T know that this
committee has deliberately set about
after having discussed the matter in
secret, to try to discredit the govern-
or of the state and to bring about a
state of feeling among the people of
Oklahoma that will justify the com-
mittee in undertaking to institute im-
peachment proceedings. I know why
this is so, that members of that com-
mittee are disappointed and angry be-
cause they have been unable to foi^t
upon the people of this state fegisla
tion that was iniquitious and outrage
ous. If I had signed the Muskogee
Fair bill and the redisricting* bill and
thus permitted certain members of
that committee to pave their way to
a seat in congress, there would have
been no such report emanating from
this committee as the one you listen-
ed to yesterday.
"As to the charges made against
Warden Reed and the assistant I will
withhold comment and will state that
no judgment will be passed upon that
case until I have been placed in pos
session of the evidence taken by this
committee. If one half of the things
charged against them by this report
is true, they should be summarily re
that relating to the conduct of Mr.
Reed and the charge as to him wa
that he was an inreligious man and in
dulged in practices in the presence of
convicts that were not calculated to
bring about reformation among the
inmates of the institution.
"The other complaint made to me
j was made early in June, 1912. I at
once referred the complaint to the
commissioner of charities with re
quest that an investiga-tion be made
and a report given me upon the con
ditions. I append hereto that report.
If the legislature will take time to
read it they will find that, like most
of the charges made against institu
tions of this kind, they were based
upon hearsay, and when the parties
were called upon for proof they had
none to offer.
Criticises Delay.
"I call 'attention! to the further faet,
in connection with this charge of ne
gleet of duty, that the resolution ap
pointing this committee was adopted
by the House on the 23d of January.
1913, and with all of its powers and
all of its efforts to find something
wrong with the institutions with which
the governor has any connection, it
required ninety days' time to. bring
forth any sort of charges and yet this
committee charged the governor and
ther members of the board with will
ful neglect of duty because they did
not ascertain these facts.
In the matter of discharge of du
moved from office. If, however, the ties 1 want to make this statement
the prisons and the necessity for plac
ing them under am independent board
of control and that the legislature has
taken no final action in the matter.
I he message continues:
"I submit that the investigation
conducted by yor committee was be-
hind closed doors; that tile accused
warden and deputy had no opportuni
ty to be present and face their accus
ers; that they never knew that a
charge had been preferred against
them until you had practically closed
the investigation; that not an intima-
tion was made by any member of the
committee that the conduct of the
artl of control was in anywise being
inquired into. Such proceedings as
these are unheard of iu a community
mposed of people who believe in
fair play.
lhe legislature and the governor
hould come to a better understand-
ing of each other than now exists,
rile people are tired of this constant
asting of their money iu order that
men thinking themselves orators may,
while drawing $6 per day of the peo-
ple's money, express their opinion of
men for whom they have personal
and political hatred. This legislature
has already cost the taxpayers of this
tate $179,880, of "which $50,000 has
been for tile purpose of defraying the
•xpenses of the special session.
"I confess frankly that I am disap-
pointed in the work that has been
done in the special session. Not only
am I disappointed, but I have been
! ing fictitious and sensational charge
against state officials in order to de-
tract the attention of the public from
his lack of performance of official
duty.
"At the rate we have been going,
if you act upon the subjects that have
already been presented, it will require
practically th« remainder of the year
' have asked you t<. pass such
legislation. Failing in that. I have ask
cd you to submit to tihe people of
this state these questions and let them
settle them for themselves. N'otwith
standing I have had the solemn prom-
ise that this would be done, these
promises have not been kept, but, on
the other hand, action has been taken
in direct conflict with the promises.
"Your committee may be afraid to
trust the people of this stat<
Any
■teful and extravagant appropria
i tions, that time exists today, and there
you will find me standing until the
end of my administration.
Purposes of Recess.
I rom time to time during the last
twelve months rumors have been
afloat that impeachment proceedings
would be filed against the governor
of Oklahoma. Nothing that tllie gov
ernor has done in Oklahoma was un
known to these gentlemen when you
met here January 7, 1913. If the gov
ernor had violated any law of this
state, or if he had failed in anj
in performing his duties or if any-
thing done by him was of such char
acter as to subject him under the con
stitution of this state to impeachment
charges, they knew it more than thr
months ago. If they have sat quietly
by during these ninety days and per
mitted) a man unfitted to be governor
to remain in this position, then the;
are unfitted to be members of th.
legislature The fact that they hav.
undertaken no proceedings of thi
kind is confession on their part a
strong as can be made that they have
been unable, with all the malice that
some members of that commit tec
have manifested, to find charges up-
on which to base impeachment pro-
ceedings.
"The effort made to recess the leg
islature during the summer months i-
made professedly with the intention
on the part of the members of this
commitee to give time to mold senti
men to justify these outrages of the
commitee. It is significant that one
of the members of that committee,
when an attempt was made to have
an end of these charged, remarked
that 'We will let them soak in a
while.'
"The charges I make against this
committee are just as serious as the
charges the committee makes against
the prison board, and I request the
members of the legislature who stand
for a fair investigation to appoint a
smmittee that has had nothing to
do with the present investigation,
clothe them with authority to go
thoroughly into these charges and
let the investigation be in the open,
where every citizen of Oklahoma can
know what i«s being done and whose
reputation is being assailed; but I do
protest against an investigation con
ducted as this one has been conducted
and 1 shall not tamely submit to the
imputationes cast upon my official
onductj and my personal integrity by
the false, preposterous and malicious
hairges contained in this report.
"If this committee will heed the
bible injunction and cast the beam
out of their own eyes, they can more
1 early see the mote in the eye of
•tilers. Respectfully submitted.
"LEE CRUCE,
"Governor of the State of Okla-
homa.'.'
Statement of Maxey.
Speaker Maxey prefaced his re-
marks by saying that as the message
was in the house and the members
were fairly aware of its contents he
would make a brief statement, al
though there was not time to read the
message. The speaker then continu
ed, to quote him verbatim:
"The investigating committee ex-
pects as a natural thing the bitter
criticism of all state officials against
whom damaging evidence is offered
and whom it is compelled to criticise
"We know and understand, and
knew and understood when we com
menced this work, that it would l e an
unpleasant task. That the cries of
those we hit would follow.
"\\ henever thi- committee, under
evidence offered before it, is compell-
ed in the exercise of its sworn and
constitutional duty, to make a report
that casts reflection upon a state of-
ficer, or to charge that he has not par
formed his sworn duty under the law,
■11 knew that that man. in keep-
ing with the universal rule, would
squawk.
"I wan to say now that the govern
j or need not feel any uneasiness as to
this proposition or the action of this
committee when it reaches his office.
If it finds that he should be impeached
I say to you this committee will return
articles of impeachment against him.
If it finds that he has conducted his
office in a proper way, his commit
i tee will say so with the same fearless
ness."
| The speaker concluded by adding
I that la tor he probably will make some
; reply to the personal language in the
j governor's message.
Statement of H. H. Smith.
On behalf of the house, Represeuta
I tive H. H. Smith of Shawnee issued
jthe following statement Thursday
concerning the governor's message:
"It is to be regretted that the gov-
ernor takes the advantage of his posi
tion to send a personal insult to the
| legislature, when he knows that he
ither
Mr. Reed himself was before the
committee for three hours, and at two
diffeernt times; the govenor was be-
fore the committee; the present fore
man; the present chaplain; the pres
ent physician; Representative Morris;
Judge Jesse Dunn; and all witnesses
that the warden desired. The governor
was informed when before the com-
mittee the night before the warden
was before the committee that we
were investigating conditions out
there. Not only that, but he acknowl
edged the board was a failure, and
was unable to perform its duties, and
that neither he nor the attorney gen-
eral had ever been there. Mr. Rryan,
a member of the board, Rev. Huh/-
man, Or Mahr, the public health com-
missioner, all swore that these men
had informed them of conditions
there and with their own information
they imparted conditions to the gov-
ernor. Besides, there are other wit
nesses, who failed to get before the
committee at that time who communi-
cated these facts to the govenor. Be
sides Mr. Reed's testimony and Dr.
Mahr's report would be sufficient, if
there were not other testimony. We
need not visit the institutions, for con
ditions would be so changed that the
committee would be deceived. The
committee secured evidence of wit
i, unimpeachable in chaacter,
and some of whom have been the po-
litical friends of the governor, two of
whom were members of preceding
legislatures. I'pon this testimony and
the testimony of the warden and his
witnesses, and that of Mr Bryan and
iovernor Cruce we acted.
"The goveror says the committee
s violent toward himself, when i i fart
the very men on the committee, who
the report have * ceu wtdc'v
n to be his friends.
e seizes on the Muskogc- i;,ir
bill and the redistricting bill as ex
why he is assailed, when in fact
len who wrote the repo't, and
f whom visited the governor jn
the interests of vetoing the bill, in
hiding myself, all voted against bofi
My difference with the governor is
not a personal one, and he knows it,
and ean point to no single act that
justifies his saying that my opposi
tion is personal. He knows that my
plan to investigate crooked officials
is announced in my campaign.
"Now, to say that because Mr. Max
and Mr Wyand are members of
the committee, that the whole report
due to his vetoing the fair bill and
redistricting bill, sounds to me like
the squawk of a man confessing his
troubles to the public. Money has
long ago been appropriated to reliev
the conditions at Granite, subject t<
his order, and if there had been pen
alties in the law prescribed for willful
neglect, the governor and the mem
bers of the board, who are equally
riticized with him. would have fount
ample time to visit this reformatory
The law specifies it to be a reforma
tory antl fixes the ages of inmate
from 14 to 25 years that may there
be confined."
"Whereas, the communication of
date April 17, 1913, addressed by the
governor to the house of representa-
tives, does not come within either the
letter or spirit of the constitution, but
is intended for, and does make, a per-
sonal attack upon the legislature as
a whole, and especially one of the
committees of this house; therefore,
He it resolved by the house of rep-
resentatives that we decline to receiev
said communication, or to incorpor-
ate same in the journal, and that the
chief clerk of the house is hereby di-
rected to return said communication
to the governor, together with a copy
of this resolution."
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
EXONERATED.
tie that has been raised lean only send a message
>etween them and the governor of house in cases where he sees fit to
u- sJate, 1 am willing to b t the peo-! recommend legislation. The governor
< "i Jklahoma settle. I have not has sought -ince the beginning of th«
attempted to play politics, I have not .session to discredit the committee and
sought to create material upon which the legislature, and he has never re
to make a campaign for some office, moved a man from office that he has
J*v* .";,t Int"ilged in k>ud protests- i been requested to remove; nefehei ha*
tions of honesty on my part .Hird cor he rejected a man whose confirmation
ruptjon m all others, but I have, with-[has been rejected. Detect.ves have
ut regard to criticism and without;been employed by someone to track
regard to the effect that it would have 1 the members of the committee and
upon your l.ody, attempted to faith j several times I have run across men
u y oistrve the obligation I took j who were acting peculiarly around my
when I became governor of this state.'own room in the hotel The message
and all the ravings of dissatisfied and j of the governor is such a clear mis-
' i-.ippointed legislators who feel ag statement of the truth that it needs
RTievcd at me because they could not no reply. It is a body attempt on his
coerce me into doing their bidding ; part, after failing in every way to in-
«i not lave lhe slightest effect up vite the committee into personal con
on my conduct in the future. If there troversy, to discredit its future work
ever was a time in the history of thi- ! For instance, the governor says that
state when the people of Oklahoma we did not give the warden an oppor-
needed some one to stand as a senti tunity to be heard; that the whole
nel at the treasury door of Oklahoma thing was a star chamber sesion, and
and protect tile people from useless,1 that it will meet the deserved con-
Governor Refuses to Accept.
The gubernatorial message was in
mediately sent out to the governor'
offices by the house messenger. Th
governor refused to allow it left at
the ofice. The messenger brought it
back to the house of representatives
and it last was seen in possession o
one of the house members.
1 he last echo of the big row was ;
resolution by Representative Far rail
inviting the governor to co-operatt
with the house and investigating com
mittees ami to send in such message-
as he might deem proper The house
ook the resolution as an apology, and
•nly two members voted to suspend
the rules and consider it
A compromise resolution by Rep
esentative Pruett offered as a sub-
stitute to Hill Pinkham-Tehee resolu
tion to reject the governor's message,
t for want of a second. This sub
stitute had proposed that the house
xpunge from the governor's message
such matters as were deemed derago
tory, and that the remainder be re-
tained antl accepted as a hou-( record.
The recall rejecting the mes-age
was as follows:
"Aye"—Ashby, Baker, Baum. Her
ry. Bond. Brooks, Carr, Christian,
Cook, Cordell, Coyne, Curry, Curtis,
Davis, Hearing. Durant, Kdminster,
Edward^. Emanuel. Farrall, Glasoo,
Halsell, Harvison, Ilaynes, Hill of
Pittsburg, Howe, Hoyt, Jamison,
Joseph, Joyner, King. Lenox, Mc
Crtiry, Mabon, Matthews, Moore,
Morgan of Jackson, Morgan of Mayes,
Olmsted, Parkhurst, Peery, Peters,
Pinkham, Prentiss, Rexroat, Riddle.
Rider, Rose, Rutherford, Sherman,
Smith of Dewey, Smith of Pottawa
tomie, Spengler, Taylor, Tehee, Tcs
terman, Thompson, Veatch, Vosburgh,
Welser, Whitman, Williams of Tulsa,
Wyand, Speaker Maxey. Total 64.
Vo"—Bolen, Bonds, Childers, Cum
mings, (Jriggs, Hill of Washita, Hun
I.emon, Lewis, McMahon, Pruett,
Reece, Russell, Sharp, Williams of
Comanche, Woodward, Wright. Total
17
Absent—Bishop, Brown, Case. Craw
ford, Charles, Chase, DeFord, Diinej
McGuire, Mitchell, Morgan of Jack
son, Morris, Ruby, Searcy, St ill well.
Tener, Welty Total 17.
The Text of Resolution.
The resolution was as follows:
"Whereas, the constitution makes it
the duty of the governor to couummi
aite by message to be delivered to a
joint session of the two houses, upon
the condition of the state, and to
recommend such matters to the legi*
laturc as he shall judge expedient, and
shall transmit a copy to each house of
the full report of each state officer
and, state commission, and shall com-
municate from time to time such mat
The house committee of the legis-
lature made its report to the house
last week relative to the state board
of education adopting text books last
July for which act Governor Cruce
removed four members of the board.
The report was as follows:
"Mr. Speaker We, your general in-
vcstigating committee appointed und-
er and by virtue of house concurrent
resolution number 14, beg to submit
the following report in connection
with our investigation of the work of
the state board of education in its
adoption of text books in 1912, and
awarding contracts for same, for the
five years next after August, 1913.
History of Case.
We find that said board, which
consists of six members appointed by
the governor, with the state superin-
tendent of public instruction an ex-
officio member thereof and president
of the board, advertised regularly and
extensively for probably six weeks or
two months in advance that begin-
ning with about the middle of June,
1912, the members of said board
would individually at their homes and
places of business respectively, give
private hearings to any persons inter-
ested in school books to be offered
for adoption antl that beginning with
about July 15 of said year it would
it as aboard to give hearings to any
such persons, with the view of mak-
ing adoptions and awairding contracts
after satisfactory heariugs and inspec-
tion of school hook- We find that the
dvertisement above referred to, and
pending the hearing of the members
of the board or probably as late as
the hearing of the board as a whole,
the governor learned of the inspection
of books by the board and the pro-
posed adoption and letting of con-
tracts, which did not meet with his
approval; that he conferred with the
board and gave it liis objetcions to
letting the contract at that time—just
before the election—insisting that it
would be bad politics to make the
adoption at this time, and requested
the board to postpone the adoption
amd awarding of contracts after they
had completed their hearing and in-
spections of hooks until aftejr the
November election.
"We find that these suggestions did
not meet with the approval of five
member- of the board, including the
pre-ident that they did not think it
was a prerogative of the governor to
make suggestions or dictate to them
and they proceeded with their work
nf hearings and inspection of books
until Saturday, July 27, in the after-
when they began the work of
adopting books and awarding con-
which time the four mem-
bers, appointees of the governor,
ere asked by the governor for their
-ignations, one of which was grant-
1. leaving three of the governor's ap-
pointee on the board favoring and
participating in the adoptions. That
t this time they adjourned until 9
'clock Monday morning July 29. That
n Sunday, the 28th, the president and
the three members of the board not
• cord with the governor learning
that the governor would probably in-
terfere with their proceedings the next
ling by injunction, got together
Suntlay night and until 3 o'clock Mon-
morning worked on r.aid book
matters getting them arranged and
freeing upon books to be adopted
• that they could perform the work
f adoption and awarding contracts
when they convened at 9 o'clock Mon-
day morning; that they did meet at 9
o'clock Monday morning, in the office
of the president, and adopted the
books which they had been inspecting
for six weeks, awarded contracts for
same, adjourned sine die, and the pres
ident of the board executed the con-
tracts for twenty, or thirty, por.sibly
more adoptions. That at 9 o'clock
lorning. the governor made
attempting to remove the
nbers of the board whose
is he had called for on Sat-
re and which had been de-
at he had sent the adjutant
the office of the president
rd to serve the orders, who
serve the same until the ad-
of the meeting and until
out to leave the office,
investigated all matters
Monday i
an order
three m<
resignatio
urday bef<
clitied Tli
general to
of the bo.i
could not
joumment
they came
'We ft a
pertaining to this book adoption and
yarding of contracts very thorough-
ami industriously, but we have
found no evidence of fraud or corrup-
tion upon the part of any official and
we find there was none, and we are
not disposed to criticise any one since
no act seems to have been prompted
by motives of bad faith or other than
supremacy. We do not assume to pass
upon the legality or the illegality of
the contracts, believing that to be a
matter for the courts, and we make
no recommendations other than that
all state officials should work in har-
mony for the best interests of the
state.
"All of which is respectfully sub-
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The Norman Democrat-Topic (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1913, newspaper, April 25, 1913; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc120174/m1/3/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.