The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-03-10
REPRESENTATIVE LY-
DICK BITTERLY SCOR-
ED THE LESSEES
SELHSHNESS IS CHARGED
With None TO Guard Chill.
drenS' interests

The feature Of the house yesterday
afternoon was the speech. made by
Representative Lydick Of Cleveland
county against The school land lessees
hill which was manipulated by Con.
gressman Mcclure and his friends in
The house with the purpose Of ap
peasing the lesses. whose friepdliness
for McCuire IS waning because Of
the defeat recently Of the Becker bill.
which would have given county sup
crvisson OF ali school lands
When the bill was called up in tho
committee Of the whole with
liandy presiding. Mr. Lydick moved
that 1t do not pass and followed up
rs action with the best speech on
the floor Of this session. = have
heard. he said. 'many speeches since
l came here beNailiar the fate OF the
school land 1essecs, but have yet TO
hear fve.minutes speech in behalf
uf the school children of the territory.
The lessces have no club to hold over
over my head to compel ne 10 vote
for them. It has COME to pass that
II man would go to the Legislature
or congress. he must pass such meas.
ures as this in order to get the les
see vote. The time will come. how
,ver. when such acts as these will
react tn the heads OF those now
championing them. / want 10 tell
you. gentlamca. II YOU are seeking
TO turn these lands over to the lessees.
ifvJa . not care fer the children OF
t.s territory and for the interest the
territory has in these lands. il you
want to shut on all competition for
these lands, you are certainly on the
right track IN trying 10 pass this BILL
And again. gentlemen. | wans to tell
ycg. that u the lessecs were paying
what they should pay for these lands,
in rentals tho income would ba
enough to run all the territorial edu-
cational institutions OF Oklahoma.
care for the insane and support tne
convicts iD the penitentiars You
had better vote for the protection Of
the territcry's interests in these lands,
and / verify believe that in les than
three years time it wiz he popular
20 oppose these measures instead
Of champianing the alleged rights Of
The lessees."
DR.. Jestor Of Washita also spoke
along the same lines lie opposed the
l,ia vigorously and said; This prop
ositioa ia enc that affects the in
terests Of our children and # the
children for generations to come.
conme7s never INTENDED that these
lands should be set aside for the bene-
IT Of the less.ees. but for a fund for
the education Of the rising genera
lions in Oklahoma We cannot af-
ford 70 Surrender all interests to the
lcssses1s
slr. Daniels Of Dewey was against
the bill principally because it gives
the lessee The rieht 70 destroy all the
timber IN the lands. some Of which
Is very valuable walnut
Mr. Mcbride also spoke at length
IN support Of Lydicks motion that
--the bin DO not pas He said that the
bin prohibited the hoard from charg-
ing rental Of more than four per
cent on the value Of the raw land,
and that such a bin meant that the
men. who own land must pay all the
taxes, as The bin would eliminate the
lesiees as a taxpaylng class.
Nj Ferris Of Comanchc. Mr.. Ross OF
Alya and Mr. Wood, all spoke for
the bill ehampioning the "riehts" on
The lessee - against the interest Of
The school childlea in the lands
Mr Lydick's motion was lost
HIcksm's Refundlns Bill,
senator hiclan's bill. for the re.
funding 70 certain counties of poy-
ton Of the common school fund. met
with rough treatment in the house
az the hands Of Messrs. Hosg and
Daniels, but was finally passed. It
refunds to these counties the amount
Of money owing such counties for
The reaeon that the county superin.
'enients ala not report the correct
aumher Of children in said counties
IN time for the distribution Of the per
eapira schooi moneys
MT Hogg charged that All the child
ren. for whom this money was wanted
IN Oklahoma county were those in
ne kindergarten grade. childrea be