The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-02-25
NONE OF THEM ENACTED
Some However, Have Been Passed to
Third Reading With Every Pros
pect Of Final Passage-Some
OF the Brain Efforts.

! riety have been introduced In the
Oklahoma legislature. but no one of
them has been passed as yet. al
though some measures which might
without difficulty be Included in that
classification have been fayorably
reported and in one or two instances
advanced to their third reading
Representative Ballard's bill to pro-
hibit snakeeating, which has been
reported fayorably by the house judi.
ciary committee. would probably head
the list of unusual measures. Bal.
lard, who by the way halls from Par
adise, has made quite record along
that line. ON the same day when
| his snake-eating bill was presented
he introduced bills to prevent pub
| lie exhibitions of mesmerism or hyp-
notism; to prohibit black mailing,
and to give women the right to vote
for presidential electors notwth-
standing the constitutional inhibition
on the latter subjectD
The hotel inspection bill, drawn by
/ Speaker Murray and Caucus Chair
man Whitchurst of the lower house,
contained many features which at.
tracted comment, notably those re-
Quiring ninefoet sheets and forbid
ding the use OF cracked dishes. It
was recommend for passage by the
house in committee Of the whole, but
failed on final passage, in spite OF its
distinguished parcntage.
The anticigarette bill. which has
was recommended for passage by the
the house but has not yet come to
final vote, is unusual in the sew
Gritty of its provisions, If in no other
respect 1t provides among other
things for fine of s. to S25 for any
one found smoking cigarettes within
the state. \ bill for the eXtermina-
tion OF Johnson grass is also awaiting
final vote in the house.
Senator Conn has bill to prevent
hazing in the schools and colleges
of the state and Senator Yeager one
to prohibit kidnapping. \ bill by
Senator Stafford "To discourage the
theft of livestock" is freakish in its
! title rather than its contents
Two bills for hog-tight fences
! al. is.l
pending in the house. one requires
the railroad to install that kind OF
fence where the farmer wants it,,
and the other permits the farmer TO
attach the hog-wire to fenceposts al
ready installed by the railroad. An
other house bin requires railroads to
furnish double decked cars for the
shipment of hogs and sheep. Also OF
an unusual character is the Taylor
bin in the senate requiring a letter
of discharge to be given to every dis
charged employe; stating the reas-
ons therefor.
Representative Smith of Dewey
county submitted a bill with very
extensive catechism as to personal
habits and family history for the ben
fit of applicants for marriage licen-
ses, and another bill to prevent the
procreation of idiots and imbeciles,
Representative Bowdre would require
a physical examination as prece-
dent to marriage and would prevent
women from riding astride
\ lobby Of Indian chiefs killed
the bill to prevent the use of peyote,
narcotic drug dear to the Indians
heart. The scene when they appear
ed before the legislature to protest
against the bill was one of the pic
turesque features of the session, The
prohibition enforcement bill original
ly forbade a man to get drunk, even
i'm his own home, and provided for
the confscation of any vehicle in
which liquor was conveyed, even
though without the knowledge and
NOl0t|Al VI Allt QNlANAt buA boNAA Va
these provisions were cut out. A bill
to prohibit drinking on trains, along
the line OF the Texas Law, is still
pending.
A result OF the increase Of cheap
moving picture shows is a bill 10
prevent the exhibition OF Aims depic
ting prize-fighting, bull fights and
any such performance which would
itself be contrary to law, That the
state should engage in the cotton
milling business is the proposition OF
Senator Brazell II is not very like
lly to be adopted, although a state oil