The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-03-13

8vc or six members IN their own body 20 /
pass such pension bills as the clerk
might read
The critlesi Hour.
Tho critical hour had come The clock |
pointed 10 g. Tho vica president directed
that tho committee amendments to the
bin be read and the situation became
somewhat tense All won't we'll until !
Sec was reached When the bin came
! from tho house. Sec. provided among
other things that sioo 600 should be ap-
propriatcd to dafray the cost OF holding
The constitutional convention in Oklahoma
ana inuiau Territories. Mr. Beveridge
COMMITTEES had changed this amount TO
Si50.00O. a hundred thousand was quite
1 rufscient OF course but IL Is a. rule OF
the house that when the senate changes
| an appropriation carried by "A bill. the
measure when 90 comes back shall be
referred to a committee Could the
speaker get this bsli in committee again,
there were some who feared It would be
la tAe -scolrasing situation Of one
shacSled In a dungeon.
SO the men who want statehood for
/ oklahoma and Indian Territory voted to
restorethe amount carried by the bill as
Il came back from tho house, so tsat
when it was sent back It would have un-
impaired an the privileges OF a confer
encc report. ono Of which is that Of being
submitted Co a vote fthe house
II was q crucial test and the vast
crowd in the senate appreciadng the
circumstance kept stiffness which al
lowed an echo to each aye or no. When
the pairs had been arranged and tho
vote verified. it was found that on the
" q aNs.aH
amendment forty had voted no and thir.
ty-one aye. So the house provision re-
mained.
Beveridae seowled.
Mr.. Baveridge 'scowled. Mr. Foraker
sitting but a few feet away wreathed
his face with glee. After that there was
no doubt as to tho fate OF the bill. though
even It had not been disclosed how rude
ly Mr.. Beverldgc aud the administration
would be rebuked.
when the clerk reached Sec. 13 which
. describes where court shall be held Sem
ator Warner objected to the cmmittee's
! amendment eliminating Vinita and Mr..
Beverldge. somewhat less confident. con-
/" sideratsly Withdrew his amendment,
J, leaving vinita in the bin as court
town" Afterward senator Culberson, on
behalf Of Senator Bailey. who was absent
because OF illness In his family, got in
= an amendment which makes Chickasaa
"a court town, and some one else had Sui
y phur Put in. so that as It passed the SEN
J alto the bin provides that in the eastern
! district. circuit and district courts shall
. b. held at Muskogee, Vinita. South Me-
= Alcster. sulphur, ChcSasha and Ardmore
As to the western district which will b'
IN Oklahoma the committee had stricken
out Iawton senator Long had objected
= 10 this and the amendment was disa'
:, greed 20. so that Tawton remains in th'
!. bill.
~ The committee amendments wer'
agreed to. an Of them being OF "A trivia
nature and then senator Foraker Offered
y his amendment making it optional will
~ both New Mexico and Arizona whethe
they should come into the union. Thi
amendment which is long one, can b
y sufficiently explained that It prescribe
merely that tho people Of those two ter
~ ritorics should be given an opportunit
TO vote as to whether they desire 4
b. joined as one state. and that it shoul
: require the assent of n majority OF eac
~ territory 10 make the act applicable
=, them.
20 what Roll Call Showed.
~ should ths amendment be adopted
|' the president and those who in obediene
20 TO his behest have bcen trying to fore
- statehood on NeV Mexico and Arizon
=" would be siguauy defeated. And thi
= was the outcome of tho ron call. IN
detailed vote is shown in the dispatchc
of the Associated Press 10 is suthcien
'N to- say in this that the vote was forty
f,yn avoe and thIrty-ninc noes, a clea