Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-12-14
ECHOS FROM TAHLBQUAH.
What Council is Doing for the
People.
TAnLEeuAH. Dec. 10. 1893.

TAuLRcUAH, Dec. 10, 1898.
The constitutional thirty day
session expired last Saturday and
call session assembled Monday
morning. On that day $4,000 of
preferred warrants were issued.
The senate bill to appoint finan.
cial agents remained in the exec
utive department five days and
on the last day allowed according
to the constitution it came down
with a veto behind it. Chief Har.
ris vetoed the bill because he said
it was unconstitutional. The SEN
ate considered the matter for two
days and finally q. w. 8enge
called Tor a vote on the veto mes
sage and then followed quite flow
of oratory. Senators Spade, G.
w. Benge, Samuel Smith and r.
NJ. Wolfe made quite lengthy and
cutting speeches. G. w. Benge
aimed most of his speech at Chief
Harris, while Senator Wolfe got
right after j A. Scales and accus-
ed him OF being the author Of the
veto message. A vote was then
taken in the senate and the bill
passed over the veto of the princi-
pal chief, the vote being a strictly
party one--ayes 14-nays 4.
The bill having thus passed the
senate Notwithstanding the veto of
the principal chief was sent to the
house. Here was where the
trouble lay. A strictly party vote
could not carry the bill through
over the chiefs veto. Finally they
got matters fixed and called for a
vote yesterday morning on the
bill. Every part of the capitol
building was crowded with specta-
tors eager TO hear the action of
the house on the veto When the
clerk Of the council begun to call
the roll and when the first name,
r. X Adair, was uttered the
council chamber became as quiet as
the awfulness of death itself.
Soon the result was announced.
The vote stood 26 ayes, II noes.
Then followed wild confusion; the
speaker of the house could hardly
maintain order. During this, the
time when wisdom should be put
to the front, Speaker Jones placed
Rev. Leonidas Dobson in the chair.
Rev. Dobson is a parliamentarian
of no mean ability and put matters
in a business like manner. So the
financial bill became a law not
withstanding the chiefs veto. SEN
ate bill No. 3, an act in relation to
education, was the next to get
smashed by the chiefs veto pen
but it was not destined to remain
so, for when a vote was reached in
the senate it passed in a hurry by
two-thirds and was ushered into
the house where the members, re
membering yet the Indignation
caused by the veto of the financial
bill, rushed it through by two
thirds majority and notwithstand.
ing the chiefs veto the bill became
law.
The Advocate appropriation bill
was vetoed because the appropria-
ton was too large but the National
ak hewed the way for the bill
through both houses and il became
law notwithstanding the chiefs
veto and without his signature.
Tuesday an act passed both
branches OF council readmitting
Mrs. Mary A. Payne to citizenship,
also an act appropriating s3l500
to make out and transmit to the
president of the United States a
separate list of intruder rolls.
The act to incarcerate prisoners
failing to give bond, pending trial,
passed the senate but failed in the
house.
The COW bill is dead as "door
nail" passed the senate but was
killed in the house.
The balance of the Strip money
that is subject to the action Of
council has been placed to the
credit of the different funds as
follows: 90 per cent. to the general
fund, 80 per cent. to the school
fund and Is per cent. TO the orphan
fund. The amount is s45, ,736 90,
or what remains after $3.50, 900 is
reserved TO pay the intruders, from
the s295,OOO paid on the first in.
stallment already received.
The work Of revising the census
rolls will require a week or ten
days longer; the appropriation will
be made in a short time and ii Is
thought that council will adjourn
sine die before Christmas, proyid.