Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-01-26
ARE HARD WORKERS:
Business is The Order with no Dlsra.
sitIon to Crate.
UNNECESSARY FRILLS CUT OUT.
The Council Held Two Short Sessions
and Many Important Bills Were
Introduced in Both Houses-Many
Here Given.

Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 21.-The coun-
Gil held two short sessions, and de-
veloped talent for routine work.
There seems no disposition ON the
part of the members to crate, and
hard work is the order of the day
All frills at the opening of the ses-
sions are cut out. the chaplain be-
lieves that brevity is the soul Of di-
vine petitions, the reading clerk rat.
ties off the minutes of the preceding
day in dry. metallic monotone, and
the council is down to real work in
short order.
The resolutions adopted by the Ok
iahoma Good Roads association were
presented by Mr.. Murphy, but on ac-
count of the length of the document
reading was dispensed with and the
whole matter was referred to the
committee on roads and highways.
Bills were introduced and read by
title as follows:
Amendatory of section ri. chapter
16, session laws of 1908, and requir-
ing the governor to at once make ap-
pointment of the officers and trustees
named in the bill, said officers and
trustees to at once commence the
work of preparing the buildings at
Fort Supply for the care and custody
of the insane patients of the terri
tory, the governor, when such repairs
are completed, to make proclamation
to the sheriffs of Cleveland and
Woodward counties to move the in
sane patients now at Norman to Fort
Supply for future treatment and
care.
Providing that the governor, the
secretary and the treasurer of Okla
homa shall constitute board to con-
tract for all the printing and station
cry for the territory.
The house achieved the distinction
of passing the first bill through third
reading and final passage.
The herd law for Beaver county
went over again, and the following
bills were introduced:
Providing appeals from district to
supreme courts.
Regulating powers of mayors.
Limiting grounds for divorces.
For purchase of school books for
poor children.
Regulating payment of judgment of
municipalities.
Providing appeals from probate to
district courts.
Comforting additional powers on
councils in cities of the first class.
For removal of insane asylum to
Fort Supply.
The speaker announced the ap-
pointment of Sam Hawkins and Ev-
erett Becker as pages, and the house
adjourned.
Guthrie, Jan. 20. - The following
new bills were introduced in the
house this morning:
Relating to supplies for school dis
tricts.
Creating a railroad commission.
For the establishment of high
ways.
Defining new trials and the neces-
sary procedure.
Providing removal of public officers
for cause.
To regulate better handling of
county and municipal funds.
Regulating fees of county officers.
For protecting and regulating oil
and gas wells.
Controlling gas waste from oil
wells.
Regulating county attorneys sar-
aries.
Regulating the practice of DENTS
try in Oklahoma.
All house members answered the
roll call this morning.
The first sensation of the session
occurred when Speaker Norton, fol-
lowing the roll call, ordered the name
Of R. J. Call1ins, a house clerk, strick-
en- from the pay roll because he had
not complied with the house rules.
Calkins lives in Garfield county. On
the motion of Representative Ingmire
Of that county the name of Dora
Reynolds was substituted on the pay
roll for that of Calkins. 1t is stated
Calkins has been incapacited for
duty.
Mr.. Becker, of the committee on
criminal Jurisprudence, reported a
substitute measure for Gayman's bill
relating to protection for secret or
ders, and recommended that the sub
stitute do pass. The report was
adopted.