Harlow's Weekly (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 4, 1928 Page: 7 of 16
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INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL PASSES
THE Interior Department appropriation
bill carrying $272,4»>.7MI for the of-
fice of the Secretary of the Interior
and for a’l bureaus under its suiiervislon, a
measure of unusual imjiortance to Oklahoma,
imssed the House of Representatives last
week. Congressman W. W. Hastings of the
Second Oklahoma District, was a member of
the committee that prepared this bill and as-
sisted both in its preparation and passage.
It appropriates monies for the entire Indian
service, including the various tribes in Ok-
lahoma. It carries $13,714.51 Hi for the Indian
service, of which amount $7.21*7,000 is for
education and $1,434.5(10 for health work
and the relief of distress. This bill is of
more interest to Oklahoma than any other
annual supply bill because there are so many
items for the 119.21(> Indians belonging to
the thirty-three tribes residing in the state.
It carries an appropriation for the Supei in-
tended of the Five Tribes at Muskogee and
his clerical and field force; for the probate
attorneys; for the Osage Indian reservation,
and all other agencies throughout the stale.
It carries $15o.ooo in aid of rural schools in
Oklahoma, in lieu of taxes not collected from
Indian homestead and restricted lands, Hinds
for the Sequoyah Training School for or-
phans, the Eufaula Indian School, the school
at Chllocco and the Tribal Indian schools
among the Seminoles, ('hoetaws and < hicka-
saws. Congressman Wilburn Cartwright of
the Third district is also a member of the
Committee on Indian Affairs.
Oil Commission Closes Hearings
The s|H*cial committee, appointed at the
suggestion of Secretary Work, to gather
data for solving the problems of overproduc-
tion and the elimination of waste in tin
lietrolvum industry, rendered its report last
Saturday. The report was not made public
but Secretary Work states it is being com-
piled and he will submit copies to the mem-
bers for their approval before public an-
nouncement is made. Considerable revision
of the recommendations, which are of a
tentative nature, will probably lie made be-
fore a solution is derived, (’hairman Henry
M. Bates of Ann Arbor, Michigan, said that
the committee would draft a bill designed
to give more authority to the federal oil
conservation board. Oklahomans from their
interest in the oil industry were especially
interested in this committee. Also, because
of the fact that James A. Vcasey, of Tulsa,
was a representative of the American Bar
Association on this committee. The other
American Bar representatives were Chair-
man Bates and Warren O’ney, Jr., of San
Francisco. The representatives of the oil in-
dustry were Thomas A. O’Donnell of the Cali-
fornia Petroleum Company. Los Angeles;
Edgar Pew of the Sun oil Company, Dallas.
Texas; and W. S. Farrish of the Humble
oil ami Relining Company. Houston. Texas.
The government was represented by Edward
C. Finney. Assistant Secretary of tin* In-
terior, Walter F. Brown. Assistant Secretary
of Commerce, and Abram F. Myers. Federal
Trade < 'oinmissioner.
A L. CARLSON of Tulsa, secretary of the
Sinclair Crude oil Purchasing Company,
has been subpoenaed to ap|war before the
Senate committee investigating certain off
si....... of the Teajmt I kune oil reserve lease.
Swank Would Aid Veterans
Congressman F. B. Swank of the Fifth
Oklahoma district has introduced a bill that
would give the regional offices of the I’nited
States Veterans Bureau jurisdiction over all
claims of World War veterans and calling
for the review of all claims by these offices.
The claims would be those arising under
the World War Veterans Act of 1112 L The
(•’aims which have already been passed on by
the central board of appals or the area
board of appalls would be returned to the
regional offices for review. The bill was re-
fer reel to the committee on World War vet-
erans legislation and ordered printed.
Senator W. B. Pine has introduced a bill
(‘ailing for the expenditure of $50,000 for
the planting of shade, ornamental, and fruit
trees and shrubs in the states of Oklahoma.
Texas. New Mexico, (’(dorado, Kansas and
Nebraska. The bill provides that the propa-
gation shall be conducted at one of the field
stations of the Department of Agriculture in
the area and shall be under the direction of
the Secretary of Agriculture.
Pine Criticised for Smith Vote
SENATOR W. S. PINE was one of the
twenty-three senators who voted to Beat
Senator-elect Frank L. Smith from Illinois.
For this action he is being severely criticised
by the democratic press over the state. An
example is the following, from the Heavener
Ledger:
We notice where Senator Pine voted for the
seating of Senator-Elect Frank L. Smith, of
Illinois, who was recently refused his seat in
the I’nited States senatorial laxly. Just what
excuse he is going to be able to offer the voters
of Oklahoma for his action, is beyond us. He
was sent to the Senate instead of Walton. >e-
cause the people thought Walton was unworthy
of the honor. Yet he turns around and votes
for a man of the same stripe or worse. Well.
Senator, the day is coming when you will be
up again for approval. We believe we can
guess the verdict right now.
The Pauls Valley Enterprise condemns him
in still more severe terms, and says:
There are probably thousands of residents of
Oklahoma who do not know that one of our
I’nited States sen;.tors is W. B. Pine.. It has
been about four years since Mr. Pine was
fdeeted ai.d since the announcement of his elec-
tion against the deinoeiat nominee, he has
apparently been forgotten. He hasn't done
anything in the Senate to cause even a casual
mention in press rep>rts. .
After viewing his four years in the Senate,
the Enterprise is inclined to regard his sena-
torial career as a failure. Mr. Pine was elected
bv democrats who refused to vote for Walton,
and therefore owes more to the democrats than
to the republicans. Yet be has been one of
the most partisan republicans in the Senate
He has openly affronted the people who elected
him every time the opportunity was presented.
He voted to receive Smith and are into the
Senate when many of the staunchest republi-
cans could not conscientiously do so.
AUTUMN FANCY
Vivien Hoyt
A golden leaf came floating through
The perfumed air one day
And wafted by a gentle breeze
It laughed and danced in {day.
Our dreams are like the autumn leaves,
All colored and so gay.
But all too soon like autumn leaves
The color fades away.
And what was once so lovely
Is now all sear and dried;
But each year the earth is richer
Because the leaves have died.
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