The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-12
MURRAY'S POINT OF
ORDER RAISES QUESTION
Chairman Leaves Matter to
Conscience of the
Legislators

The school land bill was under dis
cusion IN the house yesterday after
noon and several sections mad been
passed when the house adi1urnd for
the day.
When the bill came up Murray Of
fered a substitute for The Fisher bill.
though both bills bear the same mum
Der and the substitute was 10 bear the
name Of Fisher II Is essentially the
same ss the substitute recently offered
BY Murray FOR the Fisher bill ana
which the house would not accept at
that time. On roll call the house yes
terday again refused to nsider the
Murray substitute aud the Fisher bill
was again taken dp as the basis upon
which the house chose to work
Whitehurst desired to cut ont Section
i, as he stated that be did not desire
TO see all the land sold az this time.
He wns particularly opposed to the
sale Of Section l6 and &c.
Reeve also opnosea selling the com
mon school lands now, believing they
wonld not bring their full value.
Smith of Washita. stated that his
people we're also opposed 10 the sale OF
Sections 16 and sG
Murray offered Section | Of his meas
ure as q substitute for the same section
: 10 the Fisher bill, stating that his sec
tion made amy reference to the lands
more conveniena as 1t named in one
section an The lands to be dealt with
In The bill
Fisher opposed this because he
thought the section covered too much
gfound, even carrying clause relating
70 oil leases Roll call was demanded
and II appeared that the Murray sub
siituto section had carried by a vote
OF eto A. Fiseh stated tAat an error
IN the count had been made and de-
sired 10 have the ballot sounded. on
doing this Il was found that two or
three members had accidently been
put down erroneously and that the vote
was against the Murray first section
to the tune Of as 20 As
Roll call wax had on a motion 10
table the Whitohurst proposition re-
latlng TO Sections l6 and %, and his
motion was lost
Raises Point Of Order.
Murray raised a perplexlng point of
order when he1read section OF the
constitution providing that any Nom
ber having a substantial private or per-
sonal Interest IN any measure should
not be permitted 70 vote thereon. bus
should disclose lis interest aud refrain
from participating IN inc voting on
such measures. lie thought that un-
der this provision teh school land les.
sees In the house had no right TO par
ticiDale In the consideration OF this
bill. This noini or order called forth
p long and interesting discussion, much
OF II being among tEe lawyers along
technical lines as % vested rights,
equities, etc.
Or Sands said that he had lease
which had expired April I and that
he had not renewed &C. The Durant
bin had renewed an leases Tor a year
but ho bad not applied for renewal
and the land was not yielding him any
thing. Hence be had no substantial
interest IN the sale Of the land and be.
lieved himself qualified 70 vote. Earle.
of Texas and one OF two others made
similar statements. Abbott, OF Woods.
stated that he possessed a lease and
would not participate in the discussion
of the measure.
Some thought that the possession
OF preference right would operate
10 diaqualily members having such
riglH from considering the bill Smith,
OF Grant. In ore OF the clear nnd con.
else speeches Of the debate, believed
that ne preference right had been