The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-02-09
THE LEGISLATURE.
What Has Been Done During the
Past Week.
MORE COMMITTEES TO Be APPOINTED
Speaker Reid 4. waiting for the Council to
Act Fsvorabiy on the House Amend
menis to the Inve.tigsting
Re.oit t''on--So'e'.
MORE COMMITTEES TO Be APPOINTE


authorized by resolution No. 4. The
senator from Pawnee will be chairman
and II is thought that Senator Winkler
will be the other republican member,
and Senator Garrison or Seuator
Thacker may be called on to represent
the minority party on the committee.
Speaker Reid will announce the
house committee of investigation when
officially informed that the council has
acted favorably upon the house
amendments to the resolution.
An important feature of the brief
session held the first of the week was
the passage of the bill introduced by
Representative McElrath which pro-
rides that in Me event of the death or
resignation o{ member of either
house the vacancy shall be filled bv
the house in which the vacancy occurs.
Speaker Reid appointed Representa-
tives McElratb, wilkins and Smith as
. committee on the part of the house,
to visit the territorial institutions.
One of the unique specimens that oc-
casionally come before the legislature
was laid before the council by Senator
Havens in the shape OF a petition from
Woods county. 1t follows:
1--WE, the undersigned citizens Of the
territory of Oklahoma, hereby most
earnestly and respectfully petition
your honorable body 10 give us relief,
through Legislative enactment, from
overcnarges for mileage, consultation
fees and prescriptions by physicians
and surgeons. We also request that a
law be enacted regulating charges and
fees for reducing fractures and dislo-
Gated joints and providing penalty
for malpractice in the use of instru-
ment is in cases of obstetrics. There is
to prevalent custom among the ply
sicians to use instruments in the prac-
tice of obstetrics when such instru-
ments are not needed, but are simply
used In order to sec1re unusual fees. >
Speaker Reid appointed Representa-
tive Olmstead chairman of the commit
tee on education in place OF Repre-
sentative Scott, deceased.
The much-tallied-of com binatiop to
locate territorial institutions came to a
head. The excitement reached the
boiling point when Dennis Flynn and
William Grimes appeared on the scene
In opposition 10 the combination.
For three weeks Charley Hunter has
worked with the mem bers representing re
different localities and he claims TO
have eight councillors and II membe rs
Of the lower house pledged to the
measure.
The measure contemplates the erec-
tion of $4,000 temporary capitol,
0 sloC, 600 penitsnLiarv, insane asylum,
reform school, institute for the blind
and school for the deaf and dumb.
Liberal appropriations are to be made
TO the pubic institutions already To-
Gated at Norman, Edmond, Saltwater
and Langston. The institutions above
enumerated are to be located at Guth-
rie, Enid, Perry, El Reno, Ponca City
and Shawnee.
Senator Clarke has laid before the
council the memorial adopted in the
recent statehood convention, which
Prays the legislature to pass the bill
providing for Ii constitutional conven-
tion. The memorial was referred to
the committee on federal relations.
Senator Havens bill which provides
for the holding OF consutu-
tional convention, was favorably re-
ported for passage by the committee
on federal re a lions with the following
principal amendmenL: "The bounda-
ries of which state shall embrace the
present terr tory of Oklahoma and so
much Of the Indian Territory as Con-
gress may desire TO attach thereto,
nnder such consent as may be ex-
pressed in said constitution"
The following bills were introduced
in the councils
BY Magness-To provide for a terri
toria geologist,
BY Garrison-An act providing for
and esta blishing public libraries in
public schools,
by Gandy-An act To provide for the
manner of payment of school district
and township indie ebtedness.
BY Gandy-An act to amend the fish
and game law.
BY Huston-An act to punish cor
rupt practices in political conventions
and among the members thereof
House bill No. II, which sppropriates
s5, 900 for the pay of legislative officers
clerks and employees, passed tue coun'
ell under the emergency clause.
The resolutions concerning the en-
ployment anu discharge OF council
clerks were made n special order for
Monday afternoon.
BY Misunderstanding of peddlers,
By Clarke-An act requiring probate
judges 10 give bond.
BY Clarke, by request-An act TO
change the Dames of persons.
BY Clarke-An act exempting from
taxation the notes and evidences of in.
debtedness and securities therefor be-
longing to building and loan associa.
tions organized and doing business un.
der and by virtue of the laws of the
territory.
BY Clarke-Ameud,pg section II OF
article 8 of chapter 10 of statutes OF
1889.
BY Clarke-An act prescribing the
sureties on official bonds
by Clarke-An act providing for in
dexing transfers relating TO lots in
cities and towns and in addition:
thereto, in numerical indexes.
BY Clarke, by request-Au act per
mitting defendants in criminal cases
to tender plea Of guilty aud avoid pen
atty.
BY MISUNDERSTANDING sections /
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