Harlow's Weekly (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 21, 1937 Page: 4 of 12
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HARLOW’S WEEKLY
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Oklahoma News at Washington
By CLARK HUDSON
Would Curb Federal Court Tax Suits
THE House has passed a bill by Rep-
resentative Hill which seeks to pre-
vent non-residents of a state from go-
ing into federal courts to enjoin col-
lection of taxes. It provides that “where
a speedy and efficient remedy may be
had in state courts of the state levying
a tax,” jurisdiction will be denied in
federal courts to non-resident protest-
ants, including corporations.
It was pointed out by Hill that long
delays have been occasioned in collec-
tion of taxes by the state and its sub-
divisions on account of suits brought
by property owners, usually corpora-
tions, who reside outside the state and
thus have been entitled to sue in federal
courts. The bill has gone to the Senate,
but may not be reached at this session.
Senate Committee May Visit Oklahoma
Dividing into two sections, the Senate
agricultural committee will visit agri-
cultural areas of the United States dur-
ing the autumn for the purpose of as-
certaining, first hand, the desires of
farmers and conditions as they relate
to various products of the soil. One
division, which will include Senator
Elmer Thomas, will go through the
South to hear cotton, rice and tobacco
farmers, while the other division will
visit the North and West to hear those
who are engaged in the production of
wheat and corn.
Senator Thomas has asked that the
two divisions join in a meeting at Ok-
lahoma City late in October, at the con-
clusion of the investigation, since, as he
explained, Oklahoma farmers produce
both wheat and cotton in major quan-
tities. He said he expects to make a pre-
liminary investigation in this state be-
fore joining the southern division of the
committee. There are nineteen members
of the Senate committee on agriculture
and forestry.
Meetings will be held at various
points during the month of October,
since it is expected to have a report
ready in case a special session of Con-
gress is called in November to act on
farm legislation.
Three-Year Building Program
More than $2,300,000 of the $70,000,-
000 proposed by the House appropria-
tions committee for a three-year public
building program will be allotted to Ok-
lahoma, it is reported from committee
sources. Leading the list is a new post-
office and federal court building at
Vinita, to cost about $218,000. Other
federal building projects eligible for
construction during the three years in-
clude:
Atoka, $75,000; Broken Arrow. $70,000;
Cherokee. $75,000; Cleveland. $70,000; Coal-
gate, $75,000; Eufaula. $75,000; Fairfax. $70.-
000; Fairview. $75,000; Healdton, $70,000;
Heavener. $70,000; Madill, $70,000; Marietta,
$75,000; Marlow, $70,000; Newkirk. $75,000;
Nowata, $78,000; Okemah. $90,000; Pawnee,
$75,000; Perry. $77.000; Picher, $70.000;
Pryor, $75.000; Purcell, $75.000; Sand Springs,
898.000; Sayre, $75,000; Snyder. $70,000;
Stigler. $75,000; Tonkawa. $70,000; Wagoner,
$75,000; and Yukon, $70,000.
The bill has not been reported out of
the committee.
* * *
First of the approved allotments for
federal aid in construction of new Ok-
lahoma school buildings under PWA
allocations are five for the so-called
“fire hazard” applications. Total
amount allotted is $268,995 for build-
ings at Chattanooga, Dale, Durant, Per-
kins and Ponca City. The federal grants
are on the basis of 45 per cent of the
total cost.
* * *
Congressman Ferguson called on Sec-
retary Ickes, Monday, to urge approval
of a $145,000 public works grant to
Blackwell for the purpose of assisting
in repairing and enlarging the munici-
pal light plant there. The Secretary was
doubtful, since Blackwell had not pro-
vided its share of the cost within the
time required. Next day Blackwell
voted a bond issue for the purpose, in
the amount of $300,000; but assistance
from the government still is in doubt
because the time limit for new projects
expired on June 30.
* * *
Senator Josh Lee is appointed on
a special Senate committee “to investi-
gate matters relating to the conserva-
tion and utilization of aquatic life,”
which committee was named last week.
* * *
The army housing bill as passed by
the Senate on Friday of last week car-
ries an appropriation of $330,000 for
barracks and $1,000 for additional tele-
phone facilities at Fort Sill.
* * *
Figures submitted to Congress from
the housing division of the PWA show
the cost of Will Rogers Courts, in Ok-
lahoma City, to be $2,025,544. The proj-
ect is nearly complete and ready for
occupancy. There are 1,232 rooms, and
the rent per room is fixed at $5.38 per
month. Estimated number of persons
to be housed, 1,255. Of further interest
is the statement that the assessed value
of the land before purchase was $5,865,
while the actual purchase cost was
$109,920. At Enid, where a smaller but
similar project is nearing completion
by the PWA, named Cherokee Terrace,«
the discrepancy between assessed value
of the land and the purchase price was
not so marked; being $13,863 and $55,- j
078, respectively. Number of rooms in
Cherokee Terrace is 311, and the esti-
mated cost $570,582. The cost per room
of Will Rogers Courts, exclusive of the k
land, is given as $1,563.
* * *
Passage of a House joint resolution
by the Senate last Saturday assures us
that an avenue in Washington is to be
named “Oklahoma.” Four unnamed
avenues in the Mall south of the Na-
tional Museum, each 11 blocks in length
and extending east and west, are to be
named Maine, Oklahoma, Ohio and •
Missouri.
* * *
Indian Legislation Halted
The House Indian affairs committee
has decided, on motion of Congressman
Cartwright, to hold no more hearings
on Indian bills and cleared its desk of
all pending measures. Before finishing,
however, the committee approved the
bill, already passed by the Senate, to au-
thorize the Secretary of the Interior to
reserve title to minerals on all future
sales of lands for the C hoctaw and .
Chickasaw Indians in Oklahoma. The
House later adopted the measure, to-
gether with two others: one, prescrib-
ing a uniform manner for paying gross 1
production taxes on Indian lands in Ok-
lahoma, based upon the plan lor pay- •
ment of similar taxes on lands owned
by white citizens; another, providing
for payment to the 3,127 members of
the Seminole tribe in Oklahoma of an
aggregate $109,445 from their own •
funds on a per capita basis of $35 per
person. The Senate bill that provided
for return to the Sac and Fox tribes of
money that had been spent by the fed-
eral government in administering the
affairs of other tribes was defeated in
the House.
* * *
Would Buy The Dust Bowl
The Department of Agriculture has.
formally asked Congress for an appro- ‘
priation of $10,000,000 for purchase of
approximately 2,000,000 acres of land
in the “dust bowl,” including the Okla-
homa panhandle, and an additional $78,-
000 for development of new drouth-
resisting grasses that will return the
land to grazing. The House appropria-
tions committee was told that the land
so purchased and reclaimed will be
leased to stock raisers.
After conferring with the Secretary
of the Interior concerning the effort to
secure the appropriation, Representa-
tive Ferguson announced that the
reclamation bureau will soon begin a
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Harlow, Victor E. Harlow's Weekly (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 21, 1937, newspaper, August 21, 1937; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1600837/m1/4/: accessed July 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.