The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-02-15
Third Legislature .

Sixty days session
Council Republican, 5; Democrat. /;
House Republican, lG; Democrat, 8,
Populist, z
President of council, Republican;
president pro tenn, Republican.
Speaker of assembly, Republican,;
speaker protein, Republican.
Assembly organized on first ballot
first day.
Contained no colored member. Capt
Baker, the only member with Indian
bloc in his veins, he being a cousin of
John A. Logan and half brother of
the squaw who came out Of the
woods
Lowry introduced the first bill, be-
! ing on destroyed records of Payne
county.
The congressional appropriation for
! legislative expenditures being S2I 600,
and promises are good for a short.
age.
Estimated territorial printing bill,
! s.. 900 Clerk hire IS, 600 This body
being compelled To pay it's predeces p
! sors extra clerks.
Estimated total territorial legisla-
tive expenditures, $4,000.
Area voting for legislature, 6,sl5
! square miles.
Population when election was held,
! 2l2 Ga5.
Territorial cost per capita for legis-
latiou (afier paying its predecessors
| extra clerks SOC.
Area represented by an average of
the assemblymeu. l.O3l square miles;
! being about two townships less than
the state of Rhode Island.
The year 1890 finds territorial solons
eating meals during regular session,
drawing pistols on fellow members
! during regular session, discussing and
! cussing the capitol question, trying TO
! make Frisco the county seat Of Cana
! dian county, considering much liquor
! legislation, fooling with the color line
| M pm bile schools, locating territorial
! colleges, and stealing bills in open
| session Night sessions began the
! week following gouvening and pair
! y he anne "a common practice. The
! i itroducjug of the capital punish ment
! w wa, a q first 10 violate its provls-
] i Yu., "A vote for Colsou is "A vote for
! thrie took the place OF "Oh, Joe,
! pege , YOUR mule" The State Capital
! dies show that legislature TO have been
! reported al greater length than have
! been either of it's successors, short
! laud reporter having always been on
] maud 10 catch flashes of Republican
! oratory or errors of "the other fell
! low"
The year 1898 finds but one legisla.
tive pet, and that was the gambling
law.
The Legislature OF l,a5 cannot be
I -gfI -. a
! @ any line of legislation, unless IL be
an effort 20 give special legislation the
! appearance of being general Later
m, the wise men of the east see huge
! chunks OF county seat, county line euui
Jubic institution trouble. Logan
! 'ounty vividly depict, interesting
| charges since the first legislature was
| elected. That county entire de.cga.
! tiou iu each house was Republican, %
| condition never since obtaining. II
| nad three members in the council aud
| i've i'm the assembly, being nearly
! twenty-five Per cent OF the entire leg
! lslatiye strength. Today, the same
| county has one councilman and tW.
| assem- blymeu, being about eight per
| cent of ITO c Eislauve strength.
S.N mem bers Of the first body were
re- elected 10 the second. one member
| the second and one of the first were
re-, Get "a 20 the third. CoI,ou of
kinqd-he was the only member ever
eltc cd a. large. Iu the territory
history, but Two contests for seats
nave ever been tried one having been
,uecessful
In The First Legislative assembly oue
finds the ever active and prrceptivc
i~ist Mill Jones, SO constant iu friend
hip and forceful I'm war; the quiet
Nertcn, able IT, debate, quick I'm dcei--
ion. Grm in conclusion and insom para
oily Just in parliamentary dealing the
inotfensive Neal, the procrastinating
700 fellowship Of Pitmau, the CON
servatism Of Campbell the ayarice OF