The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-11-06

TO Be BUSY
MANY BILLS ALREADY PREPARED
FOR SUBMISSION.
Jim CROW" AMONG FIRST
tobbies Are Already Forrins-There
VIII Be Sufficient Work % Keep
Lawmakers Busy For the
Entire Session.


the fact that It has enough work
laid out by the constitution to keep
II busy during practically It's entire
session. the coming Legislature will
also have host of other measures
TO look after. many of which are al
ready being groomed by members.
elect
First and foremost will be Jim
Grow" legislation of various sorts. in.
cluding separate coach law, which
was left out OF the constitution only
because of the fear that 1t might en-.
danger the approval of that document
at the hands OF the president Senator
Clint Graham of Marietta, who fought
for the Jim Grow" proposition to the
last ditch in the constitutional con.
vention, Is coming back to the legis.
lature with bill which he will intro.
duce on the first day of the session.
and which will be his especial care
throughout the legislature. Senator
Roy Stafford OF Oklahoma City, editor
of the Oklahoman. will also father a
separate coach and waiting room law
Some notifications will also be made
in the present separate school law
Strong efforts will also be made to-
ward the adoption of some law which
will effectually disfranchise the negro
population, or a considerable portion
of 1t. Educational qualifications and
poll tax provisions will both be pro
posed. Fear of action of this sor,
made the negroes of the state unit
against the constitution and induced
them to 20 to the extent of sending
a delegation to Washington In a for
lorn hope of inducing President
Roosevelt to turn down the docu
ment.
Another important measure which
Is sure to come up early in the ses
sion is the one providing for the
purchase OF the segregated coal and
asphalt lands of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations by the new state
The Indian tribes are willing and anx
ious to sell. but many men who are
familiar with conditions there con
slider their price too high The fact
that they are to get a commission on
the sale of the lands causes the tri
bal officers of both tribes to be es
pecially anxious to push the matter
through.
The advocates of the purchase have
derived additional strength through a
combination with the Oklahoma
school land lessees, who desire the
immediate sale of the school lands In
this territory. The plan is to sell
the school lands and use the proceeds
to buy the coal and asphalt lands
The commission appointed by Presi
dent Murray, of the constitutional
convention, to negotiate for the pur
chase of the segregated coal lands
will probably report during the leg
islature. 1t is composed of T. j
Leahy of Pawhuska, ]. J. Curl OF
j. IL. Chambers of Alto
ka, w. +. Hendricks of Wakita and
J. b. Tosh of Hobart
The capital location question will
also play an important part In this
legislature. although II will probably
not engender as bitter a contest as in
the first territorial legislature. Al
though the enabling act requires that
the capital shall remain at Guthrie
until 1916, the other towns which are
aspirants insist that no condition
which congress may impose can be
made binding after the state is con
ducting its own affairs. and measures
of the question either by the legis
allure itself or by the people at the
next general election. Guthrie will try
to secure appropriations for tempo
rary capitol buildings, which it is
thought would strengthen the towns
hold on the cpital. Shawnee, Oklaho
ma City and El Reno are its principal
rivals, with Shawnee apparently in
the lead I'll Reno claims that the mil
itary reservation at Fort Reno. soon
20 be abandoned by the war depart
ment, coult be secured for a CAPT
tol site.
Both farmers unions and labor
unions will maintain lobbies at Guth
rie during the Legislature, as during
the constitutional convention. and
will make specific demands In the
way Of legislation. w. T. Fields OF