The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-01-31
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) TALES OF SENATE
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The cloak room Is prepared TO
forsake Senator Stanford. Not that
he is any worse republican than he
was, but he is too much down in the
Okmnlgee pasture, and nimor sayeth
he is aspiring to contest for the Dav-
export chair down Washington way.
aud IL is a rule in state cloak room
circles to deny the right OF alienation
even by the allurements OF life In the
nations capital city MIR Davenport
has promised to send Stanfords hide.
after the election. TO Guthrie where
ii may be exhibited 20 prevent others
seeding to escape their place in state
affairs
The l.andrum resolution about the
buildings at Tahlequah is fair evil
dence OF what may be expected when
the question of state Institutions
comes up The cities expecting the
legislature 70 run - foot race to de-
liver them few buildings ana state
institutions needs some one TO prod
It's guiding stars. 10 tell them 10 come
ont OF the sleep.
When the secretary to the speaker
of the house of representatives car.
ried the famous booze bill back to the
senate and il WAS announced there
was a message from the house, all
senator's attaches, and even the con
veyor Of the message, smiled broadly
That bill or bills. or whatever il may
be called has caused more waltzing
to slow and fast music than any other
measure in the hands of the legisla.
ture, and YET there are some pending
which more yitally AFFECT the whole
people
Senator Pat Goulding is not overly
obstreperous for one OF his name. and
he is a devout believer In saying
what he has to say and ceasine.
hence he has been able 10. measure
well in accomplishment Two propo-
sitions, or amendments. offered by
Goulding have been deteated a fair
record in a session two months old
When man gets so terribly in
earnest he win not take time to
listen to the other side of the con
troyersy he generally errs at every
turn OF the road The Senate. Thurs
day. was engaged in q tug with a bill
long and intricate The amendments
We're many and their fate had been
the same-voted down with impunity.
One man, weary OF all the strife for
minor points, arose and declaimed
loud and long against the policy OF
making amendments on the floor. and
when othnrs laughed. wondered the
cause. just twenty-tour hours prev
ious he had been the only man who
wanted the bill read by sections, that
he might amend same
The serious illness of senator Eg-
german. Of Shawnee. has cast gloom
over the Senate and cloak room alike.
/ laggerman Is the diplomat OF the Sen
ate and behind his diplomacy is a
fair judicial mind; balanced by con.
tact with the world and few men in
the state are in better prOsition 10 be
o. service 10 the people than Mr. Eg-
german ln his prime. possessed of
the attributes which make men largo
his absence from TIE Sen1te chamber
az this time is almost a calamity,
like TO watch en- was the ex.
preston of Banker Jim" Orr Thurs
/ t-2 fN N' MNthNtA Nuf NtIiuht. MT
/ Orr was ten years the leader of The
Democratic party in Illinois: chair
man Of the state central committee
and won his spurs as "a politician I'M
I The days when John y Altgeld was
making history Now the head of q
I string OF banks, and making his home
at Ninita. Mr. Orr is ike a war horse
( sniiling battle from afar liis mission
/ was however, OF financial nature
ana ne spent but few minutes il
the senate chamber
! Senator Thomas Is becoming the
! Cochrell OF the senate and his 0pin
ion on legal questions. together witt
fairness 10 all, is fast making OF hin
one OF the Senate's lenders "a posi-
tion he has not aspirod 10. AN tho
easier 20 acquire bg reason OF m,
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