The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 192, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 8, 1909 Page: 1 of 10
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WEDNESDAY MORN IMG
C.L i: , ].,. OKLAnUiuA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8. 1909.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
Lawmakers Are Gathering in Washington
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jXPENDITURES FOR EXECU- Al:l ITFARILY 10 S FURTH
TIVE DEPARTMENTS OF LjI PRO >11' : OF COUK.'l MEASURE MUST NOW BE SUB-
U. S. MUST BE CUT.
BIA S Ar FAIRS.
MOST OF TIME OF BOTH
HOUSES TAKEN UP WITH
ITS READING.
DOCUMENT SATISFACTORY.
Republicans Assert President
Could Not Have Prepared One
More in Keeping With Party s
Declaration of Principles —
Leaders Make Comment,
WASHINGTON. Den. 7.—Having an-
•embled and received the president's an-
nual message, congress today found it-
elf literally "out of work," and in con-
sequence both houses adjourned until
Friday.
The formality of reading the message
consumed about an . hour and a half of
the time of each house today. When
the conclusion was reached, the house
Immediately adjourned, but the senate
remained in session for some time after-
wards, an executive session being held
before that body adjourned.
L' '■ fault was found with the mess*
^ ong the republicans, who seemed
to agree that it was as satisfactory a
document as the president could prepare
and remain consistent with the party's
campaign pledges. The democrats ap-
proved of the president's efforts to econ-
omize, but deprecated his suggest i<i
thnt the Monroe doctrine had practically
become obsolete.
"The message is written in the pres-
ident's customary terse, vigorous style,"
commented Representative Payne, the
majority leader of the house, while Rep-
resentative Clark, the minority leader,
thought about all that could he said
about the message was that it was com-
paratively brief, "as discussion of almost
ell important matters in relagated to
special messages."
In both houses the message was sub-
Je. ted to the most careful scrutiny, and
while the members paid little attention
•n the perfunctory reading of It by the
•lerks, they buried their heads between
pages and digested as much of it ns
%hey could at one reading.
Following th% eust^ m. the mor-«nge vns
Teferred to the committee of the whr.le
by both branches to he prepared for
"vivisection" by the various committees
whose business it is to deal with the
various subjects discussed by the presi-
dent in his mesrspge
The senate adjourned at 2.3* o'e.ock
Siit of the respect of the memory
Representative PeArmond, of Missouri.
nd Lassiter of Virginia. The house ad-
journed at 1:45 o'clock.
The president's message will be found
•«> another page • t the Capital.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 7.—
Senators and representatives have
been swarming into Washington and
taking possession of the offices in the
two big buildings on either side of the
capitol during the last few days, like
bees collecting in a hive. Some have
come afresh from home and are full of
that energy that is born of renewed
contact with corntit tits, while oth-
ers are filled with ideas collected on
tours of investigations in Europe,
Panama and other parts of the world.
One of the first of the members of
the house to arrive was Representa-
tive John W. Dwight of New York,
the republican "whip."' He reached J
Washington about three weeks ago}
SO TREASURER REPORTS MAKES A SI'ECIOUS PLEA
MITTED TO PEOPLE
FOR APPROVAL.
■REPUBLICANS WIN OUT
In Line With Tuft's Declared'At .racy General Even Denied'
Policy of Greater Economy-
Total Estimate.; for 1911 Are
$6t 4,132,197, Or ;i Decrease of
$57,244 493 Under Year 1910
Ri" ht to Attack Signature to
Indiclmcrt-s ma Accusation Re-
ported by Grand Jury—"Inter
ests" as Reason
WASHINUTl IN,
Opinion Folds That Filing of Call
for Referendum Was Sufficient,
Although Details Were Not
Strictly Complied With Peo.
pie's Interests Are First.
:i ril V
mlion
and got busy at once wit! a thousand
things that a "whip" finds to do.
Every day for the last few days he
has been at his office aero* the corri-
SOim "V WT .'KT , KXPUE>t,ICAK *vnjp- jfrj nOUSZ
dor from ti).- &<*** chamber, i
j coming good republican members as <-f the "Insurgents."
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TEN DEAD AND 17 ML-SING OBLIVIOUS
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fcLUKLtiiili liSliVUHl
MISJ AKS SO THE JOBBERS REPORT
Explosion of Gas Tanks Followed Treasurers Report InadvertenUy St. fral M«T Personally In-pact
by Disastrous Fire-Believed ••Reused" for Newspaper Vermina:S and Transler Sum*
B-l r- and Issiie Statement Relative to
Gcrdjtions Hawley to Confer
I with Gompers.
Dead List Will Total 27. While Pubiicition
40 Men Were Hurt—Fire Leaps j Time Fixed -Efforts to
'g a deficit In
7B.H20. Whnn
f.oyt of Nie I a
"debt are add.
ig the incr
«lln .ites, t
propria t lor
> $648,000,0
s at
linarj
pt of ' fl4.-
pa
Skyward.
-Th<
Lrror f utile.
HAMBURG, De
of two gus tank
"Kleine's Grtfsbrook" on the 1-11; ■ •
this afternoon, was followed by an
exteinsive lire and the loss of man -y
lives. The explosion was due to a
leak in a new gasometer. Escaping
gas entered the retort house, where it
came in contact with the fires, caus-
ing a terrific explosion. A large
number of men were engaged in re-
building and enlarging the plant.
Twenty-five of the men were employ-
ed , near th- gasometer. They disap-
peared in a mass ol' flames which,
shot up to a great height.
Firemen appeared quickly on the t
scene hut were unable to approach In ,
large force owing to the isolated con- i
dition of the establishment.
I'p to a late hour tonight ten men ..
are reported dead and seventeen ,
missing. It is almost certain all are j
dead. Forty men were dangerously |
injured. j w
The fire gained rapidly and threat-' j.
ened the old gasometer, containing
fifty thousand cubic meters. So in- f.
tense was the heat and so dangerous ?
their position the firemen were com- t
pelled to withdraw to a safe distance.
A terrific explosion soon occurred and
the tower became a mass of flames,
which leaped high In the air, sending
fragments of glowing coke far and
wide over the city and harbor.
VASHING'n
-called;Bu ., of New
ST. PAUL,
rominent joi
stituti
Minn., Dec. 7. Fifteen
ers and manufacturers,
committee ol' the job-'
>ers' union and the manufacturers
i St. Paul today mad a personal in-,
pcetjon of the terminals and trans-!
• r stations in and about the Twen-
it for the purpose of ascertaining
/ -til . traffie i >11"
I'itii
id the
strike
p«.i
After a tour
* committee g:
at 'the freight is li.ing
satisfactory manner, and
mal conditions do not
ill points, a volume of
itch-j 4!i_ 't
pri- i ;■ l ••
anal :
total deficit of th
isea 1 ye«r 191a is estimated at
20.12. Tlie estimated ordinary receipts
or mi art' $<572,000,000 and the estimated
r a surplus in ordinary receipts of $:?".,-
31.327.4H When the Panama canal es-
imates fur ir.11 are added the surplus
•< turned into a deficit of $12 l'!2.197.21
For the fiscal year 1910 tlie naval
tuilding program was not included in the
\'h' n the naval program is eliminated
rom tlv estimates for 1910 and 1911.
than the total estimates for
no
nal
points."
eint
ty of the preset
h its recurrent
nd its long in t *
It will be necess.,
indebtedi ess.
Tii i ! i Ti! I I,allot" and all the
...s, „f the pi ■ iaiuns of the Taylor
All'" n' 'let • i.11 v ■ d t- repri'sent] ( ) r)(in |uvv |(ass,.,i j)V ti,,, last iegis-
I, t now in effect and will
1 the iiiestion is voted on
j is the holding of th«
'.out of Oklahoma, which
is.-oied th" writ of manda-
b\ (,'hairman Joe li. Nor-
cretat \ II. <! House of tho
te central committed
rotary of State Bill
the referendum peti-
tions submitt"! by the republican
state committee, and take the neces-
sary steps to provide for the submis-
sion of the qu< stion to the peoplo
of the state under the provisions of
that it! the initiative and referendum.
not to the best interests of the,
, ,, , . , HISTORY OF CASE.
t •* that an 111\■« st n;a t ion of t u« ■ , , . , *un
The T'lyior lav winch places tho
lunil'i i s iff ilrs be made at ,.ntir0 election machinery of the slat'i
time. H declared that when tho and Its municipalities in the hands of
j grand jury, rjpvernor Haskell
| l.rought to i sudden terminal
j uve ligation the attorne> gent
i making into tin .ause «f the
j oi the Columbia Hank and Trust corn-
Oklahoma City. The attor-
al was not permitted to
•n three indictments and two ac-
i ' • itions reported by the grand jury
before that body was discharged.
The l- i son assigned by Governor
Haskell for this action
mpel
included its ac-
affairs all rec-
will be turned
state honking board
counting of the bank
ords of the institutli
over to a grand Jur
court should demand it.
\V. L. Norton, president of the *
untbia, and his wife were to have"
pen red before the grand Jury to<
and were waiting in the jui> lo"
when the order came from the gov
nor.
Alto
lenora I West was in-
sked that his department
indictments. This w
and he applied for ;
of the law a.s his du
part.v in power, and is intended
effect the practical disfranchise-
nt of the negro, was passed by tho
MJj last legislatune by a strictly party
the district , ot , but without the necessary two-
thirds majority required to put it
into effect at once as an emergency
measure. Within the ninety days al-
lowed by law for that purpose the'
republican committee circulated pe-
titions for a referendum vote on tho
hill, secured th required number of
_ L. inn-' and submitted 'he petition
to tin ie< retarj of state for filing.
Later, after the expiration of the
ninetv days, a protest was filed by a
number of democratic leaders of
Guthrie, on the ground that the filing
ha<l never be n completed because of
ti . t ct that the signatures had not
he. a detached by the secretary of
stat- in the presence of the gover-
nor. as required by law, and further
rontendit i' that the w was not sub-
i,., i to tie re' ' ■ ndnm because it
ecision, rend
eli. in 190S,
tilled, then tore, in
our customers through-
e northwest, that they
ods freely without fear
.i |
Minn., I)
Hawley o
-i'resi-1
a, will
iihl
of North Am
•ow night to meet Presl- v
s of tlie American Feder-
•• r. at Cincinnati on Fri- u
he situation relative to r,
en's strike in the north- }V
which \V-
the const
Id that the g
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WEATHER.
into
tho
effect
initiative and
or. went into
)n its passage
ounds of tho
b} the secre-
,on Norris and
lie petitioners.
Court ami
mus to compel
ARE FILED, ANYHOW.
ASKED FOR WHITE SLAVE DATA. ROCKEFELLER INTERESTED.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The pres-<
ident was called upon hv the senate
today to furnish it with information
concerning action taken under the
treaty of March 1, 1905, for the sup-
pression of the "white slave" trade.
NEW YORK. Dec. 7.-Morgan-
Rockefeller interests will control the
Pan-American bank which will start
with its first branch at Buenos
Ayres, according to the World this
morning.
LEMUEL T. ATWOOD DEAD.
CI NCI XXATI.
Atwood, 't oi
Cincinnat i P«e \
financial head
newspupc • s. .Ih-
neaa extending
FOR FAN-AMERICAN BANK
niiy Charter to Ee Asked of Congress!Continued on page
by Morgan-Rockefeller.
retidum
vd by
med to
JMN 5.
an 111-
lontba*
Gould to Erec liilion Dollar Castle
.•A sivii ;i i'uih
Wave of Prohibition Given
;FREEDOM FOR REPORTERS. >
C il X R /? i , m Enactment of Le^i^.itive Eill
Setback in Mass acnusetts wm m«i to ah dc. j
partmcnts by News Gathers.
IKlln'H ('C
Tin■ r. re
Itll li(.adc|
iii<l brail
yall River, New Bedford, Marlboro and Gloucester Return to
L'ce-se Oolumr, While Havcrh-11 Alor.e Gors Otber Way—An. • u
ti-S loon Lra?;ue Rcpo ts 11.090 Grog Shops
Closed *he 'resent Year.
A reaction or
which last year
HAVE VOTED 11,COO OUT.
t ts
aj -!
CHICAGO, O.
Dr. T. A. Hak-
with tin
law.
In a
o in ! •; •• i or. g- 11 ral • |..-rit ' ; t f ti -j
r"ur then., Miti-Snloon L gue of America, at . in li u ' d pi
'' Marlboro ■ ,t organisation's thirteenth nation* Chairman Ta vn« the 1
to til ) ! conv« ntion here I ' fel ted 11,- i; I
HO saloon bad : -en \ -t :-cl . ut of .-x- t no i • u • "•••
i -v r to no li- trM , and 4,000 more forced to close ver\ l t i ■■
1 w re nee. North in 1009. he free to ti • ■
|)r -field . an l "S nee January 1, lfeio," Dr. IJak r "The p h, • \ ,V(
•i the license col- elated, "saloons haw been closed to know what is tr<> • on in
! tnn Qulncy and t the rate of forty a dnv and 70 per ington at !. t hand id not
* license a«« i t of the area of the United Stat a i gents employt > 1
' ids 11Cei >8Pd liquor t^.. ' Th s m< t ts."
' r th • 4,-- • i part I \ lc r T
.■T0PEK1 HAS A uAS FME;
=> AND WEATHER IS WINTKY
— i
Pressure lessens Until Flames
r' Flicker and Go Out—Coal
V; igons Work in Night.
i ti'
■Und tiii j
ontinued on- i!- cket uftcr the DUtricL o.
i bill.
•« ho enng about tin • .
•eKa is practically without
i!. 10arly in tin afternoon
i'. h went out and in other
dickering: flames burned. I
a hav. been busy all ar-
id are working far Into the
relieve the situation. Local
is profess ignor-
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FOR CASTLE CToh^D, MR. howard OOUUD'J NEW MANOR HOUiE
FORT VVAiHlNCiro;} L.T. ~K~r * «
i Clfu
o th>
uvhei prevail
the
Nl-:w YORK, ne,
Castlegould, Mr.
new mUlion dollar
\V • hilifion, 1* I, li
pittud. t" " ' ■ >\
,1 1 ' •' lr<!:
.
been coni | ,t to the barren it-- where it w ts, high'. i towel
that of ani originally la/ intention to build thoj the air.
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Greer, Frank H. The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 192, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 8, 1909, newspaper, December 8, 1909; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc127559/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.