Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-05
OKLAHOMA MALEG|SLATURE
LITTLE SHORT OF
ECCENTRIC
Governor Reads His Own Mes
sage to the HOUSEHOLDS
Proceed Appointment
OF Committees
A jim CROW" LAW
AMONG THOSE LISTED
Democrats Rule Republicans Arc
In MlnorIty--Ty Insist
that State Printer Must
Have Had Eight Years
Experience.

Guthrie, Okla, Dec. 5.--Oklaho-
mas first state legislature continues
10 do things In manner little short
Of eccentric. Following Gov. c.. N.
Haskelrs record breaking stunt of
reading his own message to the house
on Joint resolutions. Speaker Murray
| a democrat. allowed the Introduction
OF bills before appointing his COM
mittees.
C. A. Skeen, of wapanucka offered
the premier bill. declaring that rail-
road companies should provide separ-
ate coaches and separate depot wait-
ing rooms for persons of African de-
scent.
The democrats intended at one
time to submit this as provision of
the state constitution. but fearing
that President Roosevelt might turn
grew alarmed and struck II out.
The Appearance of the House.
In appearance the members of the
house are superior legislative body
to any other ever assembled In Okla
homa. They outrank the constitutions
al convention, and at a glance would
suggest that there are more intelii-
gent substantial business men In the
body than there are professional
Speaker Murray called the repub-
lican minority In the constitutional
convention the twelve apostles" He
has been casting about for several
days for an appropriate name for the
republican minority in the house and
| this morning. spoke of them as the
grand jury"
Representative J. Roy Williams of
Lawton offered joint resolution ask
| ing congress to give relief to settlers
in the big pasture lands in the Kiowa
ana Comanche country. by granting
them an extension of time In making
| payment on their homesteads.
VIII Move Capital.
Permanent location of the state
capital regardless of the provision
of the enabling act that the capital
should remain temporarily at Guth-
| rie until 1918 became a Legislative
Issue upon the Introduction of a bill
| in the senate by p. J. Goulding of
Enid.
The bill provides that the perman-
ent Location of the state capital shall
| be submitted to the people at the
general election in November next
year and that all candidates be re-
quired to make known the fact to
whom each shall deposit $1,000 to
| defray election expenses. The town
| receiving a majority of the votes cast
| shall become Immediately the per-
manent capital. If no town should
| receive a majority of the votes cast,
Il y
| ber shall be the temporary capital
| until the general election In 1910, at
which time the two towns that stood
4 respectively first and second in the
| election in 1908 shall be candidates.
| The one that receives a majority
shall become the permanent capital.
| Introduces "Jim Crow BILL
Senator Clinton G. Graham, OF
| Marietta, the most aggressive mem
| Der of the constitutional convention
II ,Wsar.l laaras a
| such a measure today as the first bill
| offered in the state senate. senator
| Graham makes his bill apply to all
state and city railroad companies and
requires them to provide separate
\ coaches separate depot waiting
rooms. Nurses travelling with their
| employers and officers with prisoners
are exempt from the provisions OF
| the law. Passengers who refuse to
occupy seats assigned 10 them by
| trainmen may be elected from q
| train without recourse in law against
the companies For violations of the
law railroad companies may be hned
from 500 so $1,000 for each offense
| and passengers from IS to S25.
Lobblests are Barred.
Senator Eggerman attacked trusts
| and monopolies by defining what they
were and fixing penalties for their
punishment In another bill he seeks
| to restrict lobbying In the legislature
| by requiring that all agents of COM
| panies, etc, shall be recorded I'm the
office Of the secretary OF state and
| that they may seek TO influence MEM
| bers OF the legislature only when
| appearing publicly before regular
| committees or when asked 20 appear
| on the floor by the legislature itself.
| Companies that ignore this law Will
subject themselves TO fine OF from
| 5000 10 $1,000, while lobbyists could
be fined from $10O TO $1,000.
After Corporations.
| other senate bills were.
by Senator Taylor, 10 cancel the
| license OF foreign corporations when
such corporations remove litigation
| from state 10 federal courts. BY Sem
/ ator Franklin, To prohibit bucket
shops. BY Senator Billups, requiring
railroad companies TO maintain union
/ depots ia cities and towns. TO pre-
vent the carrying Of concealed weap-
ons and their sale by dealers except
under certain circumstances.
state Printer Must Belong TO Union.
/ The typographical unions OF the
state have representatives here ask
/ ing that the STATE printer when elect
I ed or appointed, shall have had not
/ less than eight years experience as
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