The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-02-09
THE LEGISLATURE.

called 10 order Dy ~. J'hn.
After the usual effective prayer by
the Rev. McPheetefs, roll call showed
Bradfrld, James Brown, Lowery,
Spencer. Stein, Vickers Waits and
Barnes absent.
Owing to the necessity which exist.
ed Of his pres nee elsewhere Waits
was excused.
Little stated that owning to the fact
that the trains did not run he was un-
able to get back from his hoTe and
asked that the house excuse him from
attcnIan e during his enforced alb
scuce which was done
The committee on criminal jurispru-
dencc recommended that house bills
lOl staying execution in certain mis-
demeau RS and 90 amending article
:, chapter 0s on criminal Jurisprudence
do not pass
Also by majority report making
the same recommendation on house
bill 30.
On house bill lis providing punish
ment for bank and train robbers, this
same committee recommended that
action be indefinitely postponed on
account of the passage of house bill
100 on the same subject.
House bill Sc making provision for
custody of juvenile offenders was re-
ferred to the committee of the whole
by the committee on criminal juris-
prudence.
Lowery introduced house bill ia re.
quiriug makers Of lost instruments to
issue duplicates.
House went into committee of the
whole for consi leration of bills on
the calendar, with Sutton in the
chair
Hogan's bill legalizing half section
lines for public highways, was taken
up by the committee.
On motion Of Lovery the bill was
killed by the committee recommend
ing that the ona ting clause be strick
en- out
The opposition to this bill was by
Lowery on purely legal propositions
Mccoy thought it was job, and fur
ther that our statute laws were very
ample on the subject of establishins
public roads
The substitute of the fish and game
committee to house bills A. and 100 re-
lating to game and fish was next con
sidcred, aud the balance Of the fore
noon was taken up in its considera
tion
As introduced the committee substi
tutc made it unlawful to kill deer oI
antelope at any time and allowed
wild turkey and quail tilled betweel
Oct Is and Feb 10, aud plover au'
dove between Aug. l and Dec. 81 A
no other time could any insectiviou
birds b. killed. 1t made exporting t.
any other state territory or count
unlawful, and any officer or agent of
common carrier transporting gam
contrary to its provisions be fined no
less than 5000 1t further prohibited
fishing in every way except with
hook and line or catching small min
nows for bait with a seine not owe
ten feet in length. But it did allo'
fish to be taken out of the large river
be ween Jan / and June l, and Sept
and Nov / OF each year. Furthe
that any railroad company carryin
game out of the county or territor!
should forfeit 5000 and costs of tn
suit
st. John offered an amendmen
making it unlawful for any one t
hunt on the premises of another with
out first obtaining the owners cor
sent. Carried.
Elliott wanted the time for huntin
cut down to one month from Dec.
TO Jan IS.
Lowery called attention to tn
wording of the bill. The way it rea
il would allow hunters to hunt abo'
fifteen months in the year.
Little said he differed with Lower
as the bill as it read would not allo
auy hunting at all in fact but woul
allow people to kill quail and turk'
tn year.
M,Cny stated that the prairie chic
ems were so stuck up his way tuat
people were not allowed TO kill the
that crops would be seriously int
fered with Prairie chickens we
therefore classed with quail and tu
keys
Elliott thought the penalty Of 81
for carrying game out of the count
or territory to be forfeited by the ra
road companies was too severe a
put in an amendment TO the effect tn
the shipper he not liable if they we
led to believe that they were simp
carrying it in the same committee
which 1t wac killed
Mason thought that there as
position on the part of some of
members to take good care of the C
porations aud that If the suggest