The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-02-19

lowed ais 20 the labor commissioners
department Stivere desired 60 amend
by adding t0 the s5Stion provision
for $4,000 for contingent expenses
Whitchurst offered 20 substitute ST.
600 for contingent and travelling eN.
penses. Later he offered an amend
meet as a substitute for all pending
amendments. one which embraced
that item. ana also 81 900 for an assis-
tant and 5000 for a stenOgraphor. A
motion 10 table was lost and his
amendment was carried Earleys
motion TO add s 500 for a labor statis-
tirian WAS lost. and the section was
then adopted as enrSnded
When the committee Of the whole
arose Il recommended the passage Of
thu appropriation bin as amended aud
lt WAS passed 20 it5 next reading
During the session petitions We're
received as 20 the eight hour law
johnson grass and the usual number
as 10 peddlers OF medicine
Mlaui desired 60 have the petitions
as 90 medicine pcddlels cut Ogf as Ne
stated that it had become a great
nuisance
A great number 81 them are writ
ten on the same typewriter and signed
hy the same man he declared
A suggestion was made that these
petitions be lsrd with the clerk and
shown On the lornal la The usual
manner Nandeycnter raised the point
that The riEht of petition could not be-
denied as II is guaranteed under
both me federal and state oonstitu-
tions
A number ot petitions have been
received against mandatory hifh
schools for counties Evans stated
that the report had boon circulated
That he WIS the author of "a bill nlak-
Ing county high schools compulsory
and that the governor was 10 locate
these institutions regardless of file
/ wishes of the people. He stated em-
phatically that ne Is the arthor Of
no such bin and branded an such re.
ports AS ialsehoOds The records bear
lhim out la his statements
Bryan introduced q memorial from
druggists at shawnee asking that
liquors be sold in dispensaries and not
Ia drug stores The Shawnee drug
i gifts had heard that a BIN was ia pre-.
poratiOn which contemplated mSking
irug stores dispensarles this being
as they understood IT, In the iolthcom
ing substitute for the prohibition bill
/ They wished TO protest against thi,
and the reading OF their commnnica
tiOn was greeted with applause.
Rill No.ll4a by Brook, regarding Ia
corporation and government of cities
was amended to some extent, and
passed unanimously
The iuis bin by Durham ana Japp
in the house and Senators Blair aad
i Taylor was reported With aIaend
ments by the conference committees
The amendments We're agreed To- and
adopted on roll call
Yesterday being the regular day foi
the consideration Of matters arising
in the senate. those bills were iakcs
np and disposed of Ssnator Land
rim had a resolution asking that thl
i governor request the interior depart
ment 10 furnish the state with tho
field notes and surveys OF an Indian
lands made IA Oklaohma on motion
of Mhilson the resolution Was adopt
ed.
Neuate Blli no 2. by Cunningham
aeain eame up This h the bill EN-
DoWefing county commissioners 10 en-
Ter into contracts for thl lease or rem
tal pf county lands and buildings if
the lsate on federal anthoriliee Il Il
lnleRded 10 coftf particularly the case
~ Logan coNui1, nntfe the coQll
house pas been leased l0s state oiii
cehl it 81 ia emergency measugl