The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ORLANDO CLIPPER
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NEWS OF THE STATE CAPITOL
Oklahoma City.—
One hundred and nine delegates to
represent Oklahoma at the seventh an-
nual convention of the Southern Coin-1
nierclal congress, which will be held J
at Charleston, S. C„ December 13, have
been appointed and commissioned by 1
Gov. K. L. Williams, as follows:
Murray Haskell, Muskogee; .1 F. Darby,
Muskogee; A. F. McGarr, Muekogee;
George Bowman, Kingfisher; Elmer Solo-
mon, Kingfisher; J. E. O'Neil, Oklahoma
City; Allen Street, Oklahoma City; G. W.
Bruce, Guthrie, Neil Holman, Guthrie; II.
G. Stcttmund, Chandler; J. H. Hyde, Al-
va; John Doolin, Alva; Hr- W. K. Kelly,
Watonga; A. L. Emery, Watonga; Harry
Smith, Watonga; P. 1’. Huffy, El Reno;
M. B. Cope, El Reno; Jack Kivett, El
Reno; J. A. TUlotson, Nowata; Arthur
Mosely, Goltry; J. F. Kroutil. Yukon; \V
A. Chase, Nowata; Luther Harrison, W'e-
woka; Hr. W. L. Knight, Wewuka; Wil-
liam Westmoreland, Antlers; L. H. Hav-
enport. Antlers; Tom Hanilton, Colbert,
J. U. Coleman, Colbert; G- W. Ellis, Hen-
drix; W. L. Curtis, Sallisaw; J. Roy Wil-
Uama, AlcAlester; J. J. McAlester, Mc-
Alester; Melvin Cornisa, McAlester; J. S.
Terry, Poteau; Bert Hodges, Okmulgee;
Hr. S Li. Johnson, Okmulgee; John Lan-
drum, Kingston; C. A. Coukley, Madill;
J. R. McKinney. Durant; Horace Mar-
shall, Durant, E. F. nines, Durant, trunk
Semple, Caddo; 11. M. Kainey, Atoka: .1-
II Chambers, Atoka; L. A. Ledbetter,
11 label; M. P. McDonald. Hugo; J. L.
Dickson, Hugo; Dr. Howard Weber, Bar-
tlesville; A. F. Vandeventer, Bartles-
ville; Robert Dunlop Newkirk; C. S. Mac-
Donald, I’awhuska; John Leahy, Pawhus-
ku; 11. Tom Klght, Claremore; J- S. Moore,
Fairland; J. I*. Thompson, Afton; L. 1 -•
llarlin, Welch; W. T. Whitworth, Car-
men; S. H. Mayes, Pryor; A F. Parkin-
son, Wagonor; John .1. Gerlach, Wood-
ward; L. L. Stine, Woodward; 11. K. Daw-
son, Waurika; Frank Beauman, Waurika;
J. E. Falkenberg, Medford; Dr F. P. Da-
vis, Enid. John Whitehurst, Savre; L. t.
CornelH, Sayre; Sam Hawks, Clinton; Jim
Menefee, Anadarko. William Cross, Hol-
lis; J. It. Thacker, Eldorado; Andy Ste\y-
nrt, Hollis; J. \V. Alexander, Frederick;
Dave Boyer, Walter; A. A. Spring, Ryan;
J S. Mullen, Ardmore; W. 11. Johnson,
Ardmore; It. M. Johnson, Norman; Ben !■.
Williams, Norman; E. W. Low, Pauls
Valley; Cecil Williams, Kingston; Perry
Madden, Chevenne; E. M. Garrett, Wa-
kita; I.. P. Robo, Wilburton; II. M Ch<»-
nutt, Muskogee; II. W. Hoffman, Semin-
ole; J. E. Gibbons, Purcell; J. H. Holland,
Achille; Dr. E 7. Norvell, Wynnewood;
Charles A. Thomason, Pauls Valley; N.
M Williams, Chickashu: A. L. Hausam,
Coweta; 11. S. Johnson. Perry; .1. J. Hilar-
ies. Fairfax; Don P Wills, Miami; 1. C.
Wyatt, Shawnee, S. J. Soldini, Ponca
Cltv C S. Wortman, Claremore; R. I'..
Echols, Elk City; D. W. Poery, Carnegie;
.1 W Steen, Checotah. Guy Horton, Ai-
ms; II J. Denton, Hollis; George A. Cof-
fey, Sentinel; J. W. Reece, Stillwater; b.
A. Horton, Oklahoma City.
ARCTIC CIRCLE SENATOR
Santa Fe Has Two Valuations.
Cross examination of C. F. W. Felt
chief engineer of the A. T. & S. F. sys
tem, featured the liearing last week
of the two-cent rate case, in Federal
Judge Frank Youman's court.
Valuations offered by the Santa Fe
in reports to the corporation commis
sion and In exhibits prepared for the
rate cases were the principal points in
the attorney general’s Questioning. A
report made by the Santa Fe to the
commission in 1909 in which a great
difference in the reproduction new
valuations especially in the charge
made to engineering, was apparent,
was taken up. In the report made to
the commission, this item was given
as slightly over a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars, while in the exhibits pre-
pared for the rate cases, it was nearly
a hundred thousand dollars more than
this.
Another report made by the com-
pany to the commission, in 1909, gave
the average cost of a mile of track on
the eastern Oklahoma line of the Santa
Fe as $3S,126, while the exhibits pre-
pared for the rate case give the re-
production new value of the same as
$44,361.80 per mile. In each case,
where the difference is favor of the
rate case exhibits was pointed out, the
witness explained that either some
item had been left out of the corpora-
tion commission’s report, or that the
commercial rate on the material had
been charged instead of the company
freight rate.
Frank A Aldrich is a hardy man.
and he needs to be in order to fulfill
his public duties. For Mr. Aldrich
is a member of the upper house of the
legislature of Alaska, and when the
lawmakers of the territory are called
in session he girds up his loins, packs
his dog sledges and sets out on a trip
from the Arctic circle that lasts thirty
eight days. Thirty three of these days
are spent traveling on a sledge.
Down here this seems like a
hardy adventure, but in Alaska the
inhabitants do not think it anything
out of the ordinary, and Senator Aid
rich has had a life training that makes
him look on it as rather trival. In
deed, when he was in New York re-
cently for the first time he intimated
that a sledge journey of hundreds of
miles over the snowy wastes was noth
ing to compare with a trip across
Fifth avenue through the streams of
automobiles.
Senator \ldrlch was born in Fort
Wayne, Ind„ fifty-eight years ago, and at the age of nineteen he joined Gen-
eral Terry's command on the Yellowstone river during the Indian campaign
of 1876. He was driving a six-mule government team in Terry's division in
Montana at the time of the Custer massacre The next year he was with
Gen. Nelson A Miles in the Nez Perces expedition, in which Chief Joseph
was captured. In 1879 he began prospecting for gold, and has pursued the
career of a miner ever since. He was elected to the Alaska legislature til
1913.
Rate Cases Open Again.
Federal Judge Frank A. Youmans
has convened court in Oklahoma City
and further hearings of the railroads
in the 2-cent fare cases will be taken
up. There are several different phases
of tiie valuation testimony of the roads
yet to be offered, and the lanA valua-
tion testimony of the roads yet to be
offered, before the state can start to
present its proof.
This is the third sitting of the court
in (he case.
Equipment valuations of several of
the roads have not been finished, and
the land valuation, compiled accord-
ing to the land owned by each com-
pany in each county, are yet to be
introduced. It is thought that it will
take at least ten days, and perhaps
longer, for the roads to finish offering
testimony, after which time, tHe state
will introduce its first proof by put-
ting C. S. Ludlam, the expert who pre-
pared so much of tlie state’s evidence,
on the stand.
Income of Auditor’s Office.
Request from the governor for a
statement of collections made by the
auditor’s department since the advent
of the present state administration
came into office is only another fact
confirming the general rumor that a
special session of the legislature is
to be called by the chief executive. Tn
response to the demand, State Auditor
E. B. Howard submitted these figures;
Collections under the gross
revenue act on oil and gas $43,368.53
Collec4ion under 2 p. c. gross
production act, March 11
to November 8, 1915..... 627959.88
Annual gross revenue tax
collected since Jan. 11, ’15 30,585.85
Inheritance tax collected
since March 11, 1915.... 117.72
Hundreds of young men and wom-
en scattered throughout the United
States remember their young Colum-
bia university friend, V. K. Wellington
Koo. it hasn’t been so many months
since he graduated with them and
went home to China. Should they
desire to see Doctor Koo now, they
will find him minister to the United
States, at the Chinese embassy in
Washington
Doctor Koo is just thirty years
old To him has been intrusted the
destiny of China in its relation to the
western world. He has dedicated his
life to “save China as a nation from
being dismembered and swallowed up
in the maelstrom of the European
war.”
Doctor Koo was popular at Colum-
bia, a leader in student activities,
editor of the college paper, and active
in athletic and literary groups Doctor
Koo has grown a tritie more sedate
since his diplomatic duties have been
put upon him. He Is hailed by Frol. John liassett Moore and other enthusi-
astic American friends as “a most brilliant student of international law.
comparable to the prodigies of a century ago—William Pitt, if ox and Alex-
ander Hamilton.”
Total collections......$709,178.72
The auditor gave this additional in
formation: Number companies report
ing and paying gross revenue tax
January 11, 1915, 1,073; number com
revenue tax, November 1, 1915, 1,186
net gain in number compaines now
paying gross revenue tax over num
her paying January 11, 1915, 13.
WOULD TAX RICH HEIRS
Get Requisition for Norman Pair.
Little Rock.—Governor Hays Tues-
day honored the requisition from Gov.
R. L. Williams of Oklahoma for the re-
turn of J. M. and Ernest Berry, who
are wanted at Norman, Okla., on in-
formation charging them with false
pretenses. It is alleged they gave
bogus checks while conducting a poul-
try brokerage business in Oklahoma.
They left there in April, 1914, and for
some time have been running the Ber-
ry Commission Company here. L. P.
Berry, an officer from Norman, arrived
to get the men.
State Asks Probe of Gasoline Rates.
A federal investigation into the
prices charged for gasoline was asked
by Corporation Commissioner W. D.
Humphrey in a letter to the officers
of the federal commission. The com-
mission is now making sucli an inves-
tigation in several other states and
Mr. Humphrey asks that the scope in-
clude Oklahoma.
According to complaints to the com
mission from time to time, gasoline is
sold at a higher price in Oklahoma
than in any of the adjoining states. It
also is alleged that there is great dis-
crimination in price between points
within the states, the same grade of
gasoline being sold higher at some
points that at others.
If the federal body agrees to investi-
gate tiie condition in Oklahoma it will
have the support and co-operation of
the corporation commission, Mr. Hum-
phrey said.
Senator Norris of Nebraska says
he intends to introduce in the senate
a bill providing for a graduated tax
on inheritances.
“An inheritance tax,” Senator Nor-
ris says, “would not take from any
man a single dollar he had don<? any
thing toward earning. It would, in
fact, take only a part of the property
that the legislatures of the states or
of the Nation have a right, if they
see fit, to take away entirely.
“1 do not believe any injustice can
come from taking away a portion of
an inheritance from a man who has
done nothing whatever toward its ac-
quisition. It is taking something that
he has not produced. The particular
provisions l propose will leave enough,
without any serious taxation, to keep
him and all his friends and family in
absolute luxury during all their lives. ’
Mr. Norris proposes to tax all In
heritances, direct and collateral, in
excess of $50,000. The rate he pro-
poses is 1 per cent on the first $50,000 above tiie exemption, 2 per cent on the
next $100,000, 3 per cent on the next $100,000, 4 per cent on the next $100,000,
6 per cent on the next $100,000,7 per cent on the next $500,000, 10 per cent ou the
next $1,000,000, 15 per cent on the next $2,000,000, 20 per cent ou the next
$5,000,000, 30 per cent on the next $10,000,000, 46 p< i < < nl on (lie next $16,- ^
000,000, 60 per cent on the next $16,006,100, and 76 per cent on all over $50,-
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Lanter, W. L. The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1915, newspaper, December 3, 1915; Orlando, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc910754/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.