The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-14
EARLY PAVING BILL
RECALLED FOR FIXING
Senate Amendments TO
Ellis Anti.LObby Bill
Rejected

In the house YESTERDAY afternoon
the school land bill, by Fisher was at
the head Of the calendar sailing under
Especial orders. Japp introduced a res
lolution that the bill should be recon-
mitied wiki instructions 10 redraft
Sections . to l3, inclusive, and Sec
tion %.
Much discussion followed on the mo-
tion TO recommit Casteel desired to
have II recommitted to o special com
mittce of nine. A motion to table was
lost, as was also the Casteel amend
ment Hobby desired to have the
committee instructed that the bill
should provide that every sale of the
land should include not over so acres,
carry long time aud low rate OF in
forest preference rights OF lessecs,
etc. The amendments seemed TO be
the sense OF the house, but the point
OF order was raised that these were
all contained In the bill. Finally The
motion to recommit was carried.
The bill provides that certain por-
tions OF land may be set aside for
parks, poor farms and other public
uses. Banks opposed this as did 9th
er members
In the general discussion Murray
made che Of the strong speeches of the
session dealing broadly with the prob
lem Whitehurst opposed the sale OF
the lands, and desired the bill 10 be
Iindetinitely postponed, He said there
P@aa been too much talk about the
rieAes OF the lessees and too little
abeat the rights OF the school chill
dron OF the state
Ellis said that the democracy should
remember it's campaign pledges and
Fisher spoke along the same line
There was general discussion of the
measure along the time worn argu
ments pre- and con-
The recommitting of the bill means
that II win be worked over in q mum
Der of its provisions.
The Farley paying bill, recalled from
the governor last week for purposes
|of correction was returned from the
senate with slight amendment
which, on roll call, was agreed to.
A number OF new bills were intro
.duced and they with their titles and
authors may be found In the House
Journal published elsewhere in this
Issue Of The Leader.
A number OF bills were made special
.orders for today.
The senate had amended ellis anti
lobby bill, but the house refused TO
concur in the amendments. A con
ference committee was appointed,
similar committee asked of the sen
ate.
The TandyEzzard bill. establishing
county courts at Collinaville and
Chelsea In Rogers county was rec
commended for passage
A resolution was adopted memorial
lAing congress against the passage of
the Penrose bill This measure gives
The postmaster general power TO sup.
press newspapers and other publica-
iions and is believed to be a menace
TO the liberty of tho press
The committee ON rules recommend
cd r code Of rules regarding the notes
of The Official stenographcr Each
member ie TO he permitted 10 have ac-
cess to hts own speeches al all times
but any member Is to have thirty-six
hours notice when another member
desires his speech The time notice
rs for the purpose of giving an on
porluniN for the member TO properly |
revise his speech before II becomes
public property
The special committee 10 which the /
Thomas bin WAS committed, recon- |
mended that Il pass without amend |
ment This Is the bin relating to eloc-
uons for the purpose of establishing |
permanent county seats.
u was nearly 6 o'clock when the !
house adjourned until . O'Clock this |
morning.