The Edmond Sun (Edmond, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1907 Page: 6 of 8
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PROHIBITION
WINS AGAIN
UNIFORM TEXT BOOKS
DELEGATES DEFEAT CHANCE
FOR LOCAL OPTION
MUZZLES I. T. VOTERS
COMMITTEE ON REVENUE AND
TAXATION REPORTS
Under New Schedule Maximum Levy
Is to be Thirty and One-half Mills
and Limit of Statehood In*
debtedness is Placed at
$400,000.00
GUTHRIE: The prohibitionists again
proved that they were in a majority
In the constitutional convention when
they defeated a proposed constitutional
provision to allow amendments to the
constitution to be voted upon only in
the parts of the state directly affected.
The provision was championed by the
local option advocates, who saw in it a
chance to let Indian Territory vote to
throw off the prohibition yoke imposed
under the terms of the enabling act, if
prohibition does not become effectlvo
over the whole state. The proposition
was stricken from the report, on mo
tion of Herring of Elk City, by a vote
of 50 to 26.
The section adopted provides that a
majority vote of both houses of the leg-
islature may submit a proposed consti-
tutional amendment at a general election
By a two-thirds vote of each house
it may be submitted at a special elec-
tion. A majority vote of Khe people
is sufficient to adopt a proposed amend-
ment. No constitutional convention Is
to be called except on a referendum vote,
and the question of calling a convention
shall be submitted to the people every
twenty years.
The committee on revenue and taxa-
tion submitted a supplemental report on
the sections of its former report in re-
lation to limits on taxation and indebt-
edness referred to It by the convention.
Under the new schedule the maximum
levy is to be 30^ mills, of which 3V4
mills shall be for state purposes. 8 for
county, "with a possible additional 3
mills for county high school4 for town-
ship. 10 for municipal and 5 for school
districts.
The limit of state indebtedness 1/*
placed at $400,000. The limit of Indebt-
edness for a municipality Is R per cent
of the total valuation. An additional 5
per cent may be Incurred by cities of
over 2,000 Inhabitants for the purchase or
construction of public utilities.
The report of the committee on im-
peachment and removal from office was
#Liken up late in the afternoon, but no
progress had been made upon it at ad-
journment.
IS APPEALINQ FOR WATER
Lawton Has None to Drink or for Fire
Protection
WASHINGTON: Lawton, Oklahoma, Is
threatened with a water famine and tele-
graphic appeals by the score are being
made to Senator Ixing and Delegate Mc-
Guiro to liavo the $60,000 appropriation
made by congress last year to extend
the water works system of that town
released by the interior department so
the service can be improved.
An official from Lawton wires:
' 'ty Lawton without water for domes-
tic purposes. Health of entire city In
danger. Help us get relief."
Another reads:
"We are absolutely without water for
drinking purposes or fire protection
urge Immediate necessity of action which
we must have to protect life and prop-
erty."
Secretary Hitchcock has |iot ad-
vanced the money for the improvement
of the water service because the war de-
partment requested him to defer action
until some scheme could bo devised to
supply water to Fort Sil also. The Law-
ton matter has been in discussion by
the cabinet and Hitchcock hoped to dis-
pose of the matter before he retired
from the interior department last Mon-
day.
RICH GAS FLOW IS STRUCK
Well Spouts 75,000,000 Feet Per Day Su-
perior Dry Gas
SAPULPA: What Is said to be the
richest gas well in the mid-continent
district Wits brought in recently by the
Reese Oil company of Independence,
Kan., on the Poloke allotment, five miles
distant east from this city and a short
distance north of the Glenn pool.
The strike was made at a depth of
3.200 feet, and the following day the flow
attained a flow of 75,000,000 feet and
for a long time baffled all attempts at
capping the well.
The flow Is the finest dry gas, super-
ior to any other that has been secured
in the territory field.
After eighteen months' service, Clar-
ence W. Buxton of Okluhoma City has
resigned as treasurer in the school land
office. A. C. Sceley of Watonga has
resigned his position :is bookkeeper in
the office of the territorial auditor and
will succeed liuxton in the school land
department.
A committee from Oklahoma City will
visit Dallas soon to l«\u-n how to man-
age a successful state fair.
BUSINESS MAN ARRESTED
Indian Territory Man Accused of an At-
tempt to Poison
DUNCAN: W. P. Evans, who has
been engaged in the dry goods business
here for the past four years, has been
placed under arrest on a warrant charg-
ing that he attempted to poison J. S.
Belev, husband of one of his saleswom-
en. He Is being held to await the acilon
of the grano All the parties occupy
prominent positions in social ife here.
The supposed poison is alleged to have
been put into a dish of chicken which
killed three cats after having betn
thrown away by Belcw
Section on Corprationg Is Cut Out and a
New Constitution Presented by Asp
GUTHRIE: By unanimous consent the
constitutional convention Tuesday morn-
ing struck from the bill of rights section
31, which contains the provision against
the importation of armed men to protect
private property.
This provision is the one which Dele-
gate McGuire was recently quoted as
saying that President Roosevelt had se-
verely criticised, and which, according
to the Oklahoma delegate to congress,
would almost certainly cause the presi-
dent to withdraw his proclamation de-
claring Oklahoma a state, if incorpor-
ated In the constitution.
No other change was made in the bill
of rights as accepted in the committee
of the whole, except minor alterations
In punctuation and wording.
As adopted on Its third reading, the
bill of rights will contain 31 sections. Its
consideration occupied the attention of
the convention during the entire morn-
ing, the final section being disposed of
Just before the noon adjournment.
The section stricken out provided that
no person or corpo:riilon shall Import
Into the state any ps^son or persons for
the purpose of preserving the peace or
the suppression of domestic violence, nor
•hall any person or corporation engaged
In the business of common carrier or
mining, employ wltl In the state, Inde-
pendent of the civil authorities, any per-
son or persons for the preservation of
the peace or the suppressing domestio
violence.
A special exception is made of the right
to preserve armed guards on railroad
trains and steamboats and other means
of transportation, for the purpose of pro-
tecting property entrusted to a corpora-
tion for shipment. '
The convention resumed its work in
committee of the whole in the afternoon
and adopted the report of the committee
on education after making several Im-
portant additions.
Among the provisions added to the
original report is one providing for uni-
form text books throughout the state
and another for the teaching of agricul-
ture In the public schools.
The provision that the reading of the
Bible shall not be prohibited In the public
schools was stricken from the report, as
was the clause preventing teachers from
receiving any emolument from the sale
of school books or school equipment.
The latter rlause was stricken out
on motion of Hayes of Chickasha, who
pointed out the great hardship It
would work on a teacher who might
write a meritorious text book or invent
a useful bit of school furniture.
The compulsory attendance at school
of children between the ages of n and
16 years was re lueed from four to
three months In each year.
After the report of the committee on
education had been adopted the com-
mittee of tho whole took up several de-
ferred sections of the report of the leg-
islative committee.
Sessions of the legislature were lim-
ited to 60 days ani for all time exceed-
ing the limit members are to be allowed
but $2 per day. Th'e first legislature
is exempted from this rule and given
160 days in which to complete Its work.
A constitution, full and complete, and
guaranteeing to the people of Oklahoma
the full rights and privileges contem-
plated in the O ganic laws of other
states; a docuniet t, which, when print-
ed, will not take up as much space as
the recent county boundaries provision—
this was what Messrs. Asp. McCloud,
Harris, Hudson and other republicans
presented for the consideration of the
convention Tuesd ly morning.
The introducers of the document cre-
ated profound surprise.
Shortly after the convening hour, Mr.
Asp arose and asked unanimous consent
to Introduce a constitutional proposition.
The delegates had received no Inkling
of the existence of a completed consti-
tution and the request was quickly
granted.
The document was passed up to the
clerk's desk, wheie it was read by title.
For a space of a full minute there was
absolute silence in the room. The dele-
gates looked at each other and toward
the chadr. Surprise was depicted ©n
every face.
The tension was quickly broken by
Mr. Asp, who atked that the convention
order the propo Itlon published, not at
the expense of the convention or the
government, but at the expense of him-
self and the republican members.
Hayes and Kornegay both opposed al-
lowing the republican members to foot
the printing bill and as the matter pro-
voked debate President Murray held that
under the rule it would go over until
Wednesday.
At the afternoon session the question
of printing the Asp proposition was again
brought up by Hayes of Chickasha, who
moved its immediate consideration un-
der a suspension of the rules.
After this motion was adopted, Has-
kell of Muskogee after reviewing the
extravagant appropriations made by the
national congress and the failure of that
body to provide for the expenses of the
constitution offered on behalf of the
New State Tribune to print the Asp
constitution and deliver it to the con-
vention free of cost.
Moore of Enid moved that Haskell's
offer be accepted and the motion was
seconded by half a dozen members.
Asp pleaded, however, that he and
the other republican apostles be allowed
to bear the expense, but the Haskell
offer prevailed by the full democratic
vote.
The constitution presented by the re-
publicans provides for twenty-five sena-
tors and fifty members of the house of
representatives with a privilege of In-
creasing* to thirty and sixty respectively.
A railroad and warehouse commission
Is created and a drastic provision against
railroad *rate discrimination, making it
a felony on the part of any one grant-
ing rebates. It provides for prosecution
in bohalf of shippers wherein unjust
rates exist. A stringent anti-trust and
INITIATIVE FINALLY
ADOPTED MONDAY
GUTHRIE: The Initiative and referen-
dum was formally made a part of the
constitution of the state of Oklahoma
Monday morning, when President Mur
ray signed the article after its adoption
by the convention on its third reading.
80 to 5, with 27 delegates absent. By
vote of this convention the pen with
which President Murray signed the arti-
cle was presented to the Farmers' union,
which led the fight for the Insertion
of the measure in the constitution.
As adopted the article provides that
a petition signed by at least 5 per cent
of the electors of the state may prevent
any measure passed by the legislature
from going Into effect until the next gen-
eral election, when the people may vote*
on whether the proposition will be adopted
or rejected. In case of a measure of
especial importance the (legislature <or
the governor may provide for a special
election.
A petition signed by S per cent of
the electors may propose laws, independ-
ent of the legislature, which becomes
fuly effective if ratified by a majority
of the people. The governor can not
veto a measure which is voted upon* fa-
vorably by the people. For proposing
constitutional amendments, a petition of
15 per cent of the electors Is required. In
counties, cities and municipal sub-divi-
sions, a 10 per cent petition is required
for a referendum election and 16 per
cent to Initiate. A question once rejected
by tho people can not again be propsed
within three years, except by a 25 per
cent petition.
All of the opposition to the proposi-
tion was based on the ground that the
initiative and referendum did not conform
to the requirement of the enabling act
that the state government adopted should
be republican In form. Kornegay of Vi-
nita, democrat, was the principal oppo-
nent of that view. He called attention
to section 6 of the constitution of the
JJnlted States, which requires all United
States senators, congressmen, judges,
executive officers and members of the
state legislatures to take an oath as one
of their qualifications to hold office. Un-
der the initiative and referendum people
who have not taken any such oath may
exercise legislative functions.
Efforts Were made In connection with
the legislative department report to have
the pay of legislators Increased from $6
to $8 per day and to extend the limit on
the first legislature from 90 to 150 days.
The first proposition, fathered by Ilan-
raty of McAlester, was turned down and
the other by Johnson of Perry was re-
ferred to a committee along with the
section to which it was an amendment.
The section providing that laws shall
not become effective until ninety day-
after adjournment was also referred
Consideration was deferred on the sec
tion requiring the publication of any lo
caJ or special law In a newspaper in the
district affected. For the section pre
scribing tlwit every act of the legislature
shall contain but one subject the conven
tion accepted n substitute by William
of Durant which goes into the matter
In more detail.
Oklahoma City Is the gainer by the only
amendment made to the judicial apper
tionment report under consideration by
the convention. That amendment pro
vldes for the election of two Judges In
the Oklahoma-Canadian district, raising
the entire number of judges to twenty
two, but making no change in the num
ber of districts.
The section giving the legislature pow
er to provide for holding court terms else-
where than In county seats was stricken
out together with the proposed amend
ment granting the same privilege In spe-
cial cases. Judge Maxey made an es-
pecial effort to secure a court session
for Shawnee which furnishes the bulk
of the Pottawatomie court business, but
without effect.
News of the rejection of the Item ap-
propriating $135,000 to pay the expenses
of the constitutional convention by the
conference committee of the national leg-
islature was received In the convention
Just before adjournment and was greeted
with applause.
The failure to obtain an appropria-
tion from congress was, however, rather
disheartening to the (relegates, although
It would not have helped them out per
sonally, unless an stipulated, as the enab-
ling act provided that they should not re-
ceive pay for more than sixty days
Before exhausting the original appro-
priation Secretary Fllson had paid all
convention expenses up to January 30,
excepting the printing bill and most of
the employes' salaries and Inqidental
expenses since that time. The printing
bill said to be so far between $15,000
and $20,000 is wholly unpaid and will
probably have to wait until the first leg-
islature.
Although there are no funds for the
election to ratify the constitution Jt
will of course be held Just the same.
All expenses wil be certified up to the
disbursing officer and another effort
made to secure an appropriation for the
deficit which will then be exactly known
at the next session of congress. Failing
In that the matter will be taken up with
the state legislature.
PASSED INTO HISTORY
^Ifty-Nlnth Congress Adjourned In Dus
Form Monday
WASHINGTON: There are a large
number of persons 4n Washington whe
are exceedingly sorry that the fifty-ninth
•ongress has passed Into history, but
it is safe to say that the majority of
who have had direct or Indirect
Interest In the sessions of the national
legislature breathed a sigh of relief when
the senate and the house adjourned Mon-
day.
1 he past session has been a dull one.
strung out over three months and a vast
amount of public business has been trans-
acted, most of It of vital concern to the
country.
From now on until December, when
the sixtieth congress will convene, un-
less there Is an extra session called by
the president at an earlier date. Wash-
ington as a center of national interest
will be practically off the map.
The closing scenes in the big white
capitol building were full of interest,
but they were not different from those
of tlie last day's proceedings of other
sessions of the national lawmakers body.
President Roosevelt was at hand to
sign some of the delayed bills, some
of which would have failed of proper
passage, if he had remained at the
White house, as President Cleveland
Insisted on doing.
Tlie president spent more than an
'iour In his private room. Just off from
the senate chamber, and signed forty
bills before (lie adjournment of congress,
after It had closed Its transaction of busi-
ness.
The senate closed Its session with the
light tap of the gavel held In the handf
of Vice President Fairbanks, followed
M a light round of hand clapping, but
the house sang and cheered and had a
good time generally.
Hoth houses had sat all of Sunday,
beginning at 9:30 o'clock in the morning,
though there was not a great deal for
either body to do. The greater part of
time up to the hour of final adjournment
was taken up by the passage of some
•oelated measure, and In semi-humorous
lebates ef no particular Importance.
Constitutional Convention
Turns Down tHe Recall
RISKED LIFE TO SAVE BABE
READY TO BE SIGNED
a fellow servant
measure are among the
provisions and the right Is given to
women to vote at school elections. It
provides for protection for the Interests
of the state and does not drive out capi-
tal.
1 ho rural mall carriers of Comanche
county met at Lawton recently and or-
ganized a county association.
Bill Providing for Transfer of Oklahoma
Court Cases Is Passed
WASHINGTON: The house Saturday
passed a senate bill amending the act
enabling the people of Oklahoma and the
Indian Territory to form a constitution
by providing for the transfer of cases
fram the courts in Oklahoma and Indian
Territory to the United States and dis-
trict courts of the sta*e of Oklahoma.
It is made necessary by a provision
In the statehood act which provides that
all cases in which the United States Is
a party should be transferred to the
United States district courts for final
disposition. All criminal cases pending
In the courts in the Indian Territory
are brought In the name of tho "United
States" and tho effect of the provision
would be to transfer all criminal cases
to tho United States district and circuit
courts for tho eastern district of the
state of Oklahoma and crowd the dockets
of these courts for years to come.
Ths bill also fixes tho salaries of
United States attorneys and marshals In
tho two districts of Oklahoma.
Lawton Woman Climbed Down Rope Into
a Well to Save Her Little Daughter
LAWTON: If has been predestined
that a Panhandle woman should enact
in the course of human Nfe one of the
most heroic masterpieces in dramas in
real life that a mother's love and a
mother's responsibilities are made heir
to. Down a rough and blistering well
rope that burned, blistered and lacerated
her tender hands until they reeked In
blood, for thirty-five feet, surrounded by
the dark, adamantine walls of the weil
phaft, slid Mrs. J. G. Robertson of Alva-
Yado, Tex., to save the life of little June,
four years old, \vho had precipitated
headlong into the well.
The little one had been playing with
tho well rope and was tripped by a tan-
gle In the rope and fell downward over
the well boards at ths surface. An older
wister gave the alarm and the mother ran
frantically to the scene, but with heroic
presence of mind she waited for no other
assistance. Reaching the surface of the
water, which was ten feet de/*p in the
bottom, she found that the child upon
rising to the surface of the water had
grabbed hold of a bucket that hung in
the well. The mother saved the child
and held it in her arnas. bracing herself
above the water by clinging to the rope
and finding scant foothold on the side of
the well until the elder child procured
the assistance of men to draw mother
and child from the depths.
Last week, while preparations were
being mnde for the big masquerade skate
at the Tulsa skating rink, the manager
of the rink sent a bunch of circulars
ever to Sapulpa to a* friend to be dis-
tributed. The friend distributed the
bills, but both he and the Tulsa man
failed to put on the bills where the mas-
querade was 10 be held. When the night
arrived for the dance Sapulpa streets
were filled with young people wjth mas.
querading suits on going to the Sapulpa
kating rink instead of Tulsa. The man-
ager of the Sapulpa rink could not un-
derstand why so many people should
come with masquerade suits on, but did
not refuse to them skate. None of
the Sapulpa masquerade people had any
idea that the masquerade was announced
for Tulsa. The Sapulpa rink enjoyed the
largest crowd of the season at the ex-
pense of the .Tulsa rink.
POSTMASTER UNDER FIRE
GUTHRIE: That two-thirds of the
constitutional convention membership
would have been recalled by this time If
the system ef recall had been in vogue
was the assertion made by President
Murray in a speech against the recall
Saturday afternoon. He said that
through misrepresentation the people
might be led to recall honest and capa-
ble officers who are trying faithfully
to perform their duty. He contended
that political and special interests would
use tho recall as a "big stick" over pub-
lic officers.
Voting by the uplifted hand Instead
of by roll call the convention in com-
mittee of the whole after the debate
had been terminated Hy a motion to table
killed the Kane amendment permitting
the legislature to provide a system of re-
call by which the electors could remove
all county and state officers for the
same cause for which public officers
are liable to impeachment.
Delegate Johnson of Perry argued that
any public officer charged with wrong
doing should have the same right as any
other accused person to a trial in a Judi-
cial body.
Delegate Kane of rChigflsher Inter-
rupted Johnson to ask if he had signed
the legislative demands of the labor
and farmers' unions. Johnson replied
that he had signed nothing, and that lie
would have considered himself disquali-
fied to sit in the convention had he
done so. He declared his only pledges
were contained in his platform and In
the oath he had taken before the chief
Justice, "to perform his duty as his con-
science dictated."
"Those who have signed secret
pledges," Johnson declared, "have im-
peached themselves and destroyed their
usefulness to society for the common
good."
Kane, in supporting the recall, claimed
that it was in lino with the policy of
trusting the people that the convention
had followed heretofore. The people may
be trusted to exercise as deliberate and
wise judgment regarding the recall of
their officers, he asserted, as they could
be trusted with legislative matters and
the forming of organic law under the
initiative and referendum. He expressed
the opinion that the system would do
much to Improve public service. He ad-
mitted that he had signed the legisla-
tive demands of the unions but said that
it was because he thought them right
and Just and that he proposed to stand
by them.
An additional section to the impeach-
ment and removal article leaving it for
the legislature to provide for the re-
•moval of officers other'than state offi-
cers elected by the people and justices
of the supreme court, was adopted.
The remaining section of the report
adopted at the afternoon session provides
that the senate shall sit as a court of
impeachment; that a verdict of guilty by
a two-thirds vote of the senators pres
ent be necessary to convict; and that
judgment shall not extend beyond re-
moval from office though further pro-
ceedings In the courts are not barred.
The senate, when sitting as a court of
Impeachment, shall be presided over by
the chief justice or an associate justice
unless a member of the supremo court
is being tried. In that event the senate
shall elect one of its members as pre-
siding officer.
When the supplemental report of the
committee on liquor traffic, providing
for an enforcement commissioner, was
brought up for consideration in the con-
vention an adjournment was taken with-
out action.
result was a tic vote. Without permit-
ting a division a few minutes later Chair-
rr.Hn 1 arfclcy declared a motion to rise
anl report progress carried.
The convention adjourned a few min-
utes la'ur.
The 21 district court judicial districts
are apportioned to the various counties
a^ follows:
District 1, Adair, Cherokee, Delaware
and Sequoyah counties; 2, Craig, Mayes,
Nowata. Ottawa, Rogers and Washing-
ton; 3, Muskogee and Major; 4, McIntosh
and Pittsburg; 5, Haskell, Latimer, L*
Flore and Pushmataha; 6, Bryan, Choc-
taw. Marshall and McCurtain; 7, Atoka,
Coal, Johnson, Pontotoc and Seminole;
8, Carter and Love; 9, Hughes, Moman,
Okfuskee and Okmulgee; 10, Lincoln and
Pottawatomie; 11, Kingfisher and Logan;
1?. Grant, Kay and Noble; 13, Can ull in
and Oklahoma; 14, Cleveland, Garvin, Mc-
Lain and Murray; 15, Caddo and Grady;
1 f ; Comanche, Jackson and Tillman; 17,
Plaine, Custer, Kiowa and Washita; 18,
Peckham, Dewey, Ellis. Greer $nd Roger
Mills; 19, Beaver, Cimarron, Harper,
Texas, Woods and Woodward; 20, Alfal-
fa. Gaifield and Major; 21, Tulsa, Osage,
Pawnee and Payne.
The supreme court Judicial districts
are made up each of the sevral judicial
districts as follows:
District 1, the First, Second, Third
and Fourth districts; 2, Fifth, Sixth, Sev->
enth and Eighth; 3, Ninth, Tenth, Elev-
enth, Twelfth and Twenty-first; 4, Thir-
teenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Six-
teenth; 5, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nine-
teenth and Twentieth.
SALARIES OF STATE OFFICERS
First Legislature Will Probably Have to
Make Good Constitutional Delegates
Salaries
GUTHRIE: A normal annual salary
of $131,300 for state officers, dividing
legislative salaries between the two years
of the blennlum, and an expense of $195,-
800 for the first year, when an evtra
long session of the legislature will be
held, are provided for In the report of
the committee on salaries and compen-
sation of public officers of the constitu-
tional convention, of which Cham Jones
of Ryan is chairman. These estimates
include in legislative expenses of course
only the salaries of legislators and not
the other legislative expenses which
usually amount up to a much greater
figure. The first legislature will also
in all probability have to make appro-
priations for the deficiency on the sa-
aries of constitutional delegates.
The salary list as agreed upon by
Chairman Jones and his committee Is as
follows: Governor, $5,000; five Justices
of the supreme court, $4,000 each; twenty
district Judges, $3,000 qach; attorney gen-
eral, $4,000; secretary of state. $3,000;
state treasurer, $3,000; three corporation
commissioners. $3,000 each; labor com-
missioner, $2,500; Insurance commissioner,
$2,500; examiner and Inspector of ac-
counts, $2,500; state auditor, $2,500; state
superintendent of public Instruction. $2,-
500; chief mine Inspector. $1,500; commis-
sioner of charities, $1,500; lieutenant gov-
ernor, $1,000: members of the legislature,
per day; seventy-four county judges,
$2,500 each; other county and township
officers as provided- by the Oklahomt
l#;v.
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS' LOCATION
GUTHRIE: Aside from two normal
schools in Indian Territory the commit-
tee on public histitutions and state bulld-
The first section, defining intoxicating
liquors as any malt, fermented or alco-
holic beverage of any kind, and permit-
ting the manufacture and sale of de-
natured alcohol, was adopted with but
little opposition.
General Shake-Up Is Caused at Muskogee
fcy the Inspectors
IVI1 sKOGEE: It was authoritatively
stated here Monday night that charges
have been preferred against Miss Alice
Robertson, Muskogee's postmistress, bv
Inspectors Lindley of Topeka, Kas., nnd
Grogan of McAlester, who have been here
checking up this office for some time
and might recommend her dismissal.
When Miss Robertson was asked about
the matter she said: "I have known for
some time things were not going right
and I wanted to remedy it. I was also
criticised for being partial to clerks.
Perhaps I have been, for which I have
been fearfully skinned by the Inspec-
tors."
Assistant J. T. Cromwell has resigned.
Miss Robertson says she does not know
his reason for it. She did not know
whether the Inspectors had asked him
to do so or not.
There has been considerable complaint
from business men of late regarding the
service of the postofflce and It is stated
this Is responsible for both inspectors be.
Ins here.
Governor Franta has appointed William
McCan inspector of animals for slaugh-
ter at Manitou.
Ings of the constitutional convention will
recommend nothing in the way of per-
manent location of state schools or pub-,
lie Institutions.
This information was glve^n out by a
member of the committee who declared
Provision for the appointment by the that the puhIlshert rurnor that the com-
eovernor of an enforcement commission- . Wn,lM rec<," ™n<l the location of
er is made In tho next section. The I"" lnsane as>'!um at Fort Supply and the
commissioner may command the aid of i r0™J|,val of t,lf* state university nnd other
the attorney general, all state's attor- p"b1lc lnBtlt"tlons to Indian Territory
neys, sheriffs and other executive offl-1 . T,"6 ent,rfi,y without foundation,
cers of counties, cities and towns According to this Informant the mem-
Murray offered as a substitute for the "'J T " W°"M
section the South Carftlina provision and m„f . , " % e °r establish.
asked that It be referred to the legal ™ ,tern , ^ TT* th"
. . , b i eastern half of the state since Oklahoma
advisory committee. Such action was atrPrl(,y hns thrPe Ruf.h lnstltutlon, *
aken but when Chairman Langley held The l0(,ntl0n of th„ •
that th. reference served to defer action p,nltentlaryi |nBanp «
on the section reported by the commit- Rt*e Institutions will be left to the ae-
tee a reconsideration was moved. The Itlon* of the legislature. /
COMMUTATION VETO HURTS
SENATE GIVES IT UP
Recedes From Demand for Appropriation
for Oklahoma Convention
WASHINGTON: Sunday night nt 11
'clock tho senate conferees on the gen-
eral deficiency blU decided to recede
from* their amendment providing addi-
tional funds for the Oklahoma constitu-
tional convention. This means that the
members of the convention will have to
be content with .the amount carried in
the original statehood bill for the action
of the senate conferees knocks out the
$135,240 additional proposed for the ex-
oenses of the convention.
Pasture Land Speculators Lose Heavily
—Railroads Also Affected
LAWTON: President Ro.osevelt's veto
of the bill allowing pasture land pur-
chasers in the southwest Oklahoma to
commute their tracts for townsite pur-
poses frustrates the plans of a dozen or
more bidders who were awarded
tracts for which they paid twice what the
land was worth in order that they might
establish towns of their own and for
railroad companies, and it again brings
Into favor five government townsites of
the Big Pasture, assuring the success of
the lot sales that are to be held this
summer, and enriching the tills of the
Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians.
"What are you going to do about it?'
is becoming a common inquiry of dis
appointed successful bidders who had
connived with officials of proposed rail-
road companies by opening townsites in
opposition to the government.
A Wichita Falls man, who fs probably
Interested with the railroad company,
made a bid of over $4,000 on a tract that
is not worth half that amount. Other
men are known to have done similar
things.
In renewing Interest In the govern-
ment townsites this act of the president
also serves to restore loss of heart among
those who paid ultra-exorbitant prices
for tracts situated near the government
townsites. For instance, the tract ad-
joining Randlett on the west brought
more than $7,000, the highest price ever
paid for a piece of raw land in the south-
west
The president's veto may result Jn
the railroad companies changing their
surveys so that the government sites
will be touched for the government now
has the advantage of them and will sell
Its own sites before any others, by any
process of commutation or patent can
avail the companies anything.
MADE NO INDORSEMENT
Kansas Delegation Falls to Take Action
on Oklahoma Judgeship
WASHINGTON: At a meeting of the
Kansns congressional delegation It was
decided to postpone action In regard to
the Oklahoma Judgeship matter. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has given assurances he
will not decide upon the appointment
irntll late In September, as the constitu-
tional election Is not held until August.
Practically all the members are ready
to Indorse except Long. He has not
reached a concusion yet. Tho delega-
tion now stands: Curtis. Miller, Scott,
Murdock, Calderhead for Dicker:., n;
Campbell and Reeder for Gill; Long ori
tl*e fence. Madison, who became rep-
resentative of the Seventh district Mon-
day, Is for Dlckerson.
The delegation also decided each mem-
ber should constitute himself a commit-
tee of one to continue to urge the re-
appointment of Judge Tom Ryan as as.
sistant secretary of the interior.
President n. L. Wlnchell of the Rock
Island told Oklahoma City shippers at a
smoker that the congestion caused by
car shortage would be relieved soon by
the arrival of part of an order of 5,00t>
freight cars for Oklahoma traffic.
*135,240 FOR CONVENTION
Oklahoma Provision In Deficiency Bill-
Also Would Aid Smoot
WASHINGTON: Included In the gen-
eral deficiency appropriation bill, which
was passed by the senate, Is an appro-
priation • of 1135.240 to defray the ex
penses of the constitutional convention
in Oklahoma.
The bill carries slightly less than 110 -
IT0! ri, ,wa,s amendej bV ,h0
.n'l,,, °f ral P'ovLlw,.
in addition to that for Oklahoma a«Kre
eating S00,tt«0,
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Dailey, A. D. The Edmond Sun (Edmond, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1907, newspaper, March 7, 1907; Edmond, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc150088/m1/6/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.