New-State Tribune. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1911 Page: 1 of 16
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Successor to The Muskogee Weekly Times and The Muskogee Weekly "Democrat
Seventeenth Year
Oklahoma City, Okla., Thursday, March 2, 1911
Number U
RECIPROCITY NOW
SURE, SAYS CLARK
Speaker to Be Says the Democrats
Will Pass the Bill if the
Republicans Fail.
Washington, Feb. 27.—The tariff pro-
gram of the sixty-second eoagress will
be taken up for action, along with
and means committee of the next
selection of committees, at a meeting
of the democartic members of the ways
and means commitee of the next
house which Mr. Underwood of Ala
bama, the chairman, has called for
next Monday.
The committee will meet from day
to day until the work before it is
completed.
Democratic leaders of the house ex-
pect an extra session of congress and
plan for the committee, or rather its
democratic members to determine
upon the democratic personnel of all
the committees of the next congress
and outline a tariff procedure. A dem-
ocratic caucus to be held -"-ithin a
week of the convening of the extra
session will take up the matters.
The republicans will select their
members of the committees and the
democrats insist that when the com-
mittees are handed in they must have
been approved by a republican caucus.
All the big committees of the next
house will have twenty-one members,
fourteen democrats and seven repub
licans.
The courses of tariif procedure will
be considered. First, the tariff revis-
ion legislation and then reciprocity;
second, recoprocity and then tariff
revision legislation; third, tariff re-
vision legislation incorporating the
reciprocity bill as a part thereof.
Speaker-to-be Champ Clark. Mr. Un
derwood and others prominent in the
party councils, say there is no doubt
whatever of reciprocity legislation
passing the house at an extra session,
despite rumors that have come to the
house that certain senators have as-
serted their belief that the house would
not again pass such legislation.
CARTER TO SECURE
A PLACE OF HONOR
Oklahoma Congressman to Head Com
mittee—Ferris Is in
Line.
Was Oklahoma Ruined?
Oklahoma has had three years of state government. Was it
stormy ? Yes, rather so. Did you expect six thousand miles of rail-
road, The biggest oil producing area in the Union, yes—Five hun-
dred million dollars worth of corporate property that had led a
lawless life in Territorial days, with high handed oppression of the
people, to be subdued in a manner so mild as to resemble the soft
zephyrs of a June evening? Uncle Reuben can tell you that the
storm was no surprise to him. The special interest never sur-
renders to honest government without a regular cyclone of wrath,
a regular avalanche of vicious assault on those they cannot control.
Mr. Special Interest now says to Oklahoma "You got such a
bad reputation that capital will never come to your state unless you
reform." Mr. Special Interest by the ivord "reform" means "sub-
mit" and submission means robbery of the people.
Let us see how bad Oklahoma was ruined during the first three
years—
Oklahoma City
Doubled her population—
Multiplied her wealth by four—
Multiplied her commerce by three and a half—
Multiplied her bank clearings by four.
T ulsa
Increased her population one hundred and thirty per cent
Multiplied her wealth by six—
Multiplied her commerce by five.
Muskogee
Increased her population ninety-five percent—
Increased her wealth four hundred percent—
Increased her commerce six hundred percent.
Sapulpa
Increased her population about one hundred and forty percent
Trebled her wealth and her commerce.
Numerous other towns did as well as the few we have men-
tioned and in the whole state of Oklahoma our population increased
one-fourth of a million people. Our bank deposits rose from fifty-
five to One Hundred and Two Million Dollars.
Say, Mr. Special Interest, what are you kicking about the reputa-
tion of Oklahoma for? If this is the way we grow under a crazy
populistic government, don't you think we had better remain crazy
and populistic ? Uncle Reuben cannot be fooled on this kicking
about the bad reputation of Oklahoma in the presence of such prog-
ress and increase of wealth as was never before yielded by any
state in the Union. It strikes us we have heard about enough rot
about the ruination of Oklahoma's reputation abroad.
OKLAHOMA CASES
IN HIGH COURT
LEGISLATIVE BALL
DATE IS ARRANGED
Brilliant Social Affair Will Be Held
March 3—Many Invitations
Issued.
DAIRYMEN ARE TO
KEEP SCORE CARDS
Charles D. Carter of Oklahoma, is
slated for a committee chairmanship
when the democrats reorganize the
house, if there is an extra session.
Carter, of course, will know about this
at once, otherwise there will be noth-
ing definite about his appointment un-
til next December.
Carter will be the only Oklahoma
congressman in line for a chairman
ship, although Scott Ferris, the pop-
ular young congressman from Lawton,
will be ranking member on the im-
portant committee on public lands.
Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas is
slated for the chairmanship of the
committee, but inasmuch as Robinson
wants to be governor of Arkansas it
it not unlikely that Ferris will become
chairman of that committee after all.
This is one of the big committees of
the house. Mr. Carter's committee
would be the committee on land
claims.
All plans have been completed for
the legislative ball, and it was an-
nounced Saturday night that the big
official affair will be held at Euclid
hall on Friday night, March 3.
The ball is primarily for the legisla-
tors, attaches, state officers and the
press, but the invitations will include
many prominent people outside of offi-
cial circles.
Messrs. Champion, Miller of Musko-
gee, Edwards, Maxey and others of the
house are on the committee. Senator
Stewart is chairman of the senate com
mittee. The legislative ball is a cus-
tom that has existed for many years,
and is always one of the most bril
liant affairs of the state capital.
March 24 has been set as the date
for the sale of allotted Indian lands
in Grady, Jefferson and Stephens coun.
ties. Thirteen tracts of land will be
advertised.
SOUTHWESTERN FARMERS
IMPORTING GOOD COTTON SEED
The Tillman County Farmers' Insti-
tute will bring a carload of Mebane's
Triumph cotton seed, direct from the
Mebane farm, at Dalhart, Tex. The
Mebane Triumph is recommended by
the state board of agriculture as be-
ing best adapted to the climate and
soil of southwest Oklahoma. A local
bank will paw for the cotton seed,
and those farmers who want part of
it and cannot pay cash will be allowed
to give their notes.
New System of Safeguarding Public
Health Inaugurated by Dairy
Inspector.
RAILROAD AND PROHIBITION
MATTERS ARGUED AT
WASHINGTON.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 27.—(Spe-
cial.)—Perhaps the most dramatic
scene ever enacted in the United
States senate chamber, occurred on
Wednesday last when Senator William
Lorimer, of Illinois, in a four hour
speech, defended himself against the
charges of bribery and corruption in
connection with his election to the
senate by the Illinois legislature.
Staid old Senators, many of them har-
dened to all things worldly, snuffled
or continually wiped their eyes with
their handkerchiefs, while Senator
Tillman of South Carolina, covered his
face with his hands and wept like a
child, as the "Blond Boss" of Illinois,
step by step unfolded the story of his
life from the time when as a newsboy
of 10 when he first formed a life long
friendship with Michael Kenna, more
familiarly known as "Hinky Dink,"
when that interesting political charac-
ter, defended young Lorimer against
the onslaughts of his fellow newsboys.
The women occupants of the over-filled
galleries, were in tears as were many
of the men in the audience.
Step by step, from the days when he
was forced to go out into the world to
make his own living by shining shoes
and selling newspapers, through the
period when he acted as conductor on
the Halstead street car line in Chica-
go and of his first dip into precinct
politics, Senator Lorimer told a life's
story which in human heart interest
has rarely if ever been equalled in the
oratorical annals of the upper branch
'of congress. His friendship for the
Jews, his many kindnesses to the poor
of his district, which from a congres-
sional district of from 5,000 to 17,000
democratic had been overturned by the
election of Lorimer as a Republican
congressman, was told with a homely,
straightforward honesty that was con-
vincing that the man, who for weeks
has been forced to listen to the most
grilling denouncement of any man that
ever held a seat in the United States
Senate, was telling a human story with
a heart throb in every sentence he ut-
tered.
For four hours, Senator Lorimer held
the undivided attention of his fellow
senators, and fully one-half of the Rep-
resentatives, who crowded the cham-
ber, together with the galleries which
were crowded to the doors. It was not
an appeal for sympathy but the story
of a man, who through his love for hi3
fellow man, irrespective of his political
affiliations, had climbed the ladder of
A new system is to be inaugurated-
by the State Dairy Commission in
safeguarding the public health relative
to the sources of milk supply.
In the future dairymen are to be
given score cards showing the per-
centage of care taen with the premises
and equipment, and in this manner pa-
trons will have a way of finding out
if the "milk man" is complying with
sanitation regulations. It is expected
by this system to inculcate the spirit
of pride in dairymen to the extent | fame, from an obscure newsboy of ten,
they will vie with one another to de- in a great throbbing American city, to
termine who can obtain the highest
score for cleanliness.
HARRIS-DAY CODE IS
ADOPTED
IN SENATE
After a debate lasting all evening,
including defenses of both the pro-
posed codes, the senate Monday Bight
adopted the so-called Harris-Day code,
compiled by S. H. Harris and Jean P.
Day, and voted down a proposition to
substitute it for the code prepared by
John T. Hayes, John R. Thomas and
W. R. Brown, composing a majority of
the code commission appointed by
Governor Haskell under the law of
1909. Similar action had already been
taken In the lower house.
a seat in the Senate of the United
States.
"I have never borne malice to any
man," feelingly declared Senator Lori-
mer, "and if, as it has been charged, I
was forced to the use of money in in-
fluencing votes, I during my political
career would have had to have bought
them by the tens of thousands. How-
ever, I have never in my life bought a
single vote, although I never found it
necessary to show any malice to any-
one because his political faith was oth-
er than my own. I challenge anyone
to charge that in my political life, my
relations with my family, my social ex-
istence or my public life, that I have
done other than tried to live as a de-
cent citizen. I do not believe the Sen-
ator from New York, (Mr. Root) can
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