The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-12-26

be composed of the Governor and |
nine other citizens. nominated by the /
Governor and approved boy the senate /
Transfer Of Cases From Territorial 20
State Courts
This az transfers the pending civil /
and criminal cases from the Territory \
courts to the state coorts and includ- |
lng transcripts from Mayors Courts /
and United States Commissioners |
Courts in the former Indian Terri /
tory. which are. under the Constitn- |
ton, properly triable in the County or
District Courts OF the state.
Appropriation for state Officers
This act makes an appropriation of |
Twenty Eve Thousand Dollars upon
which to draw for the payment OF |
salaries of state officers, until the !
Legislature may hereafter pass a gen /
eral appropriation bill
Jury Law.
This act provides for the selection |
OF grand or petit jurors for the Dis !
rlct Courts and the County Courts OF
the state of Oklahoma
Herd Law.
This act gives the people of any
countv or district the right, by petit
tion. TO regulate the question of stock
anning at large i'm counties where
be laws have not been in force. until
such time as the people thereof may
have time TO vote and is chiefly ap-
aHcable to the Indian Territory
Supreme Court Gill.
TGis act approprates the sum oil
rhrty-tHo Thousand Two Hundred
md Eighty seven Dollars and Fifty
,ents. to pay the salaries of the SUI
| jreme Judges as provided in the
constitution. -Four Thous"nd Dollars
or each Judge per amgm, the salary
| if the marshal OF the Supreme Court
IL Fifteen Hundred Dollars per an
| um. and the salary of the stenogra-
/ hers at Twelve Hundred Dollars per
| mpula. and Fifteen Hundred Dollars
| or contingent expenses per aDuum,
| taking total of Twenty-nine Thou
| and Dollars per annum. but as this
| i'm covers the time until December
! n. 1908. being total of one year. one
! month and fifteen days. we are
leased 20 note that this is favorable
| comparison compared with the state
| IF Kansas. which has just about the
4ame population of Oklahoma and
| where the appropriation for running
heir Supreme Court last year, as
| hown by the state Auditors report,
nearly Nine Thousand Dollars per
| lnnum greater than Oklahoma.
The above legislation fully COM
leted, with a great deal more par
| tally passed upon and considered,
| represents a degree OF industry and
ard work which Is unprecedented
thin our knowledge. We challenge
| nv state 10 show as much good hard
ork i'm the opening session of new
| legislature as our Oklahoma Leeisla-
ure has done Every one of the
boye acts are properly emergen
cts for the reason that they are
aquisue 10 carry the provisions OF
1e Constitution into effect. The
| riuc,pal.n these laws were declared
on by the people by their vote for
| be Constitution, and the details nee
ssary to carry these principles into
Tcct are properly Cmerg ncy acts.
| ut those who object to the emer-
ancy acts, either for the reason that
| key have not read the Constitution
IN that they stiu want TO fight the
constitution as IN y did throughout
be camLaign win understand that
n people have the right TO change
hese detail provisions should they
lesire to do So by resorting to the
| initiative and Referendum.
Prohibition.
The present law for the enforce
ment of prohibition features OF the
Constitution is not sufficient TO make
he enforcement success, and we
egret that the Legislature did not
| ave time before the recess to add
he additional law required for this
! ,rrDose. However it must not be
understood that we are finding fault
With the Legislature They had only
| eighteen legislative days to work and
| hey devoted those eighteen days, as
| ven as the nichts, to the most dill
ent labor that legislative body ever
| 1ad TO its credit The Legislature
| sin doubtless take mp the prohibition
| law when they convene again, ana
give the people what they voted for
| the September election. OF course.
the opposition TO prohibitions sticks
ts head up I'm every conceivable way
They tell you that prohibition won't
prohibit
Reader. don't you believe word
IF this.
When the Legislature has given MS
a plain, emphatic law you will see
that prohibition does prohibit.
They will also tell you that 1t will
cost the taxpayers money to enforce
this law Certainly it win, just as IL
costs the taxpayers money to capture
and convict horse thieves c. any
other criminal, but it won't cost, tc
enfarce prohibition, FIVE per cent Of
what IL will cost TO punish crimes
keep orphans, paupers and criminals
that whiskey tranic creates
In addition 10 the prohibition mat
Ter. there are several other important
laws under consideration. The peo
Die of oklahoma only need 70 know
what their Legislature has actually
( done aud the diligence with which II
, has worked day and night, ana they
viii be proud of the Representatives
! and Senators, whom they 2iected.
Respectfully yours.
q n HASKELL.