Queen City Times. (Agra, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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Queen City Times
AG Tv A.
OKLAHOMA
STATE HAPPENINGS.
The Oklahoma Swine Breeders’ as-
sociation have just closed the most
successful meeting ever held in the
state at Anadarko.
It is understood that J. A. Mene-
fee, state treasurer during the last
administration, will be elected secre-
tary of the school land board.
It was states semi-ofllciaily Friday
that Charles L. Moore, Assistant At-
torney General, will be assigned as at-
torney for the corporation commission,
succeeding George Henshaw of Madill,
wjio was recently elected a member of
the corporation commission.
Government sale of unallotted lands
of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Na-
tions, lying in Pontotoc county, began
Friday, but sale was not spirited. Out
of 200 tracts offered up at 3 p. m.
only ninety-seven were sold at prices
ranging from $3 to $40.50 per acre.'
By a vote of 7 to 4 the state board
of agriculture elected Joel M. Sand-
lin of Guthrie secretary, succeeding
W. F. Gist. M. F. lkard, member of
the board from Chicltasha, tendered
his resignation and was elected super-
intendent of the live stock division.
Judge D. A. Richardson, who Mon-
day concluded a term on the bench
of the criminal court of appeals, has
returned to Durant and will resume
the practice of law in that city. Prior
to going to the higher court Judge
Richardson presided over the district
court of the sixth judicial district.
SENATE DEMANDS
CODE RECORDS
SENATE ORDERS OFFICERS TO
GET EFFECTS OF COMMISSION
DISCUSSION FOLLOWS
Work Done Sy the Three Members
Since Last Spring Is Wholly
Ignored By the Senate
HOUSE ACCOMPLISHES LITTLE
The Oklahoma Anti-Saloon league
joined hands with the leagues of other
prohibition states and arranged to
eend a committee to Washington to
argue for the passage of the Curtis-
Miller bill, which provides against the
shipment of liquor into prohibition
territory from other states.
The farmers of Grady county are
without a regular organization on ac-
count of the corrupt politics that have
crept into the organization of the
Farmers’ Institute. At one time the
Grady County Farmers’ Institute was
one of the strongest in the state.
The coumy commissioners of Bryan
county have issued a call for a good
roads convention to be held in Durant,
February 18th, for the purpose of dis-
cussing the needs of the several sec-
tions of the county in the matter of
roads and bridges and the best means
of supplying them.
About forty members were present
at the annual meeting of the Oklaho-
ma Fruit. Growers’ association, which
met in El Reno Friday. Representa-
tives of the Iowa and Arkansas asso-
ciations also were present and made
interesting talks concerning the fruit
industries in those states.
The corporation commission has
asked the attorney general to bring
suits forfeiting charters of fifteen
thousand private corporations that
have failed to comply with the law
imposing a license tax of $1 per year
upon foreign companies and 50c per
year on domestic companies for each
$1,000 of capital stock.
Closing arguments in the investiga
tlon into Indian contracts will be madr
soon. Senator Gore will speak brief}
in reply to the summing up made yes
terday by Denny Flynn of counsel fo>
J. F, McMurray, after which Ceci
Smith of Sherman will close for Mr
McMurray. The printed testimony
which will cover nearly 2,000 pages
will come from the printers In about
two weeks.
Oklahoma City.—The affairs of the
code commission took up the greater
part of the Semite session Friday after-
noon, culminating in the adoption of
the resolution already adopted by the
house, directing the sergeant-at-arms
to secure, for the use of the joint
codes committee of the two houses,
all of the records, books and papers
of the code commission, and if they
were not found in the custody of the
secretary of state to fi^d where they
were, and who had them.
By the adoption op this resolution
the legislature refuses to recognize
the existence of a code commission, at
the present time, or to consider as of
any legal force the code gotten out by
the three members of the commission
who have continued their work since
the special session last spring.
The resolution occasioned consider-
able debate in the senate, including a
defense of :he new code by Senator
E. D. Brownlee of Kingfisher, a son
of one of the code commissioners.
Brownlee claimed that it was not just
for the legislature to refuse to consider
this code, which, he said, had been
submitted to a number of Oklahoma
City attorneys and appioved by them.
He stated rhat both volumes had been
printed, and that one is now ready
tor distribution.
In the course of his speech Brown-
lee bitterly attacked an interview at-
tributed to the president pro tern of
the senate, declaring that the state-
ments in it are incorrect and that the
informrWdon could not possibly have
come from a source that knew the
facts. Brownlee also declared that the
time taken in compiling the code had
been less than In many other states,
and that the statement that it has
cost $100,000 was untrue. He asserted
that the consideration of the new code
is not a matter of dollars and cents
to the men who had worked on it, but
simply one of honor and integrity.
The senate passed finally a local
bill by Goulding authorizing the coun-
ty commissioners of Garfield county
to make appropriations for premiums
for a local fair and live stock exhibi-
tion in that county. Several other
bills were up for consideration, but
final action on all of them was de-
ferred. Announcement wras made that
the Roddie bill, making several amend-
ments to the banking law, would come
up for sonsideration soon.
Favorable committee reports were
made on the appropriation bill for
court stenographers, cutting the
amount from $41,000 to $32,500 and on
the bill appropriating ?11,000 for the
maintenance of the reformatory prison
camp near Cordell.
The rules committee’s report on
joint rules was adopted, but no final
action was taken on the rules them-
selves. The report of the special com-
mittee on mileage was also adopted,
the mileage being, of course, the same
as reported for the special session.
Senator Kendrick was added to the
special committee appointed to con-
sider the sheriffs’ fep bill.
A joint resolution was Introduced by
Senator Kendrick, disclaiming any
title on the part o the state in the Platt
National park at Sulphur. This was
desired by the federal government to
Rear the title to the park, Inasmuch
is the original transfer to the govern-
nent by the Indians contained a pro-
vision stating that it was expected that
he property some time would be trans-
, erred to the state
Oklahoma City.—A bill, said to have
been largely written by President A.
Grant Evans of the State University
at Norman, was introduced in the
lower house Friday by Representatives
Atkin, Logan and Clark (of Grant).
It provides for the creation of a state
board of education, as suggested by
Governor Cruee in his first message,
but goes even further by regrouping
the educational, eleemosynary and
penal reformatory institutions of the
state into five groups, with full power
to control, in the hands of five boards
of regents; practically abolishes the
state board of affairs by making the
functions of that board the chief du-
ties of the state board of education,
and abolishes the text book commis-
sion by giving its functions to a state
educational commission.
Another feature of the big bill is
that the state commissioner of chari-
ties and corrections is the first regent
of the board controlling the institu-
tions for tV» deficient and delinquent.
Instruction, either sectarian in re-
ligion or partisan in politics, is for-
bidden in any of the institutions.
It is said that the bill was written
with some difliculty and that the state
hoard of agriculture, a constitutional
creation superior to legislative changes
compelled several changes from the
bill as originally written.
The bill places in the control of the
state board of education the construc-
tion, repair, maintenance, insurance
and operation of all buildings, owned
or occupied not only by state educa-
tional institutions, but also by state
eleemosynary, reformatory and penal
institutions. In this respect the bill
appears merely to be transferring the
functions of the present state board
of public affairs to the proposed state
board of education.
It is also made the duty of the board
of education to co-operate with all local
boards of education, and to this board
is given a general supervision of the
public schools and educational institu-
tions of the state; and finally, it is also
given authority to prescribe the pow-
ers and duties of the several boards of
regents, created in the bill, except
where the law otherwise provides.
The board of eduucation is made to
consist of the state superintendent of
public instruction and five members
appointed by the governor (only three
of the appointive members to be of the
same political party). The appointive
members are required to furnish bond
in the sum of $50,000 each, and are to
be allowed a salary of $3,000 a year
each.
The bill then concerns itself further
with grouping the various state insti-
tutions embraced within its provisions
into five divisions; creating boards of
regents or control; and so it appears,
practically giving to these boards of
regents or control, full power for man-
aging the institutions in the respective
groups instead of leaving the super-
vising control with the proposed state
board of education.
The University group, consisting of
the state university and its two pre-
paratory schools, is put under the gov-
ernment of a board of ten regents, ol
whom the governor shall be one; eight
to be appointed by the governor, and
one of the appointive members of the
state board of education, the latter to
act as secretary.
The agricultural group, consisting of
the state agricultural and mechanical
college at tSillwater, the six secondary
agricultural schools, the school of
mines at Wilburton and the girls’ col-
lege at Chickasha are to be under the
government of the state board of agri-
culture, to whom the constitution, any-
how, gives control of the agricultural
and mechanical colleges.
The normal group consists of the
six state normal schools, which shall
be under a board of six regents, one
of whom shall be the state superin-
tendent of instruction; four to be ap-
pointed by the governor, the sixth to
be another of the appointive members
of the state board of education, the
latter to act as secretary.
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HOW A-MUSE-ING.
Philomena — How Poe-etical the
woods are in autumn!
Jack—Yes; even the leaves are
Browning.
Needed Assistance.
A poor old cast down hobo started
to knock the paint off of a back door
the other morning, and when he tear-
fully told the lady who appeared that
he had a sick wife at home and a
dozen hungry kids, she gave him a
couple of home-made biscuits, Daintily
the hobo handled them, and once
more he glanced up wistfully.
, “What’s the matter,” indignantly
demanded the housewife, “aren’t you
satisfied with the biscuits?”
"Yes,, dear lady,” replied the tramp-
ful one, “but I thought perhaps you
would be so kind as to loan me a nut-
cracker for a few minutes.”
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