The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-10-01
QUESTION RAISED ON
TWO PREVIOUS OCCASIONS
Committees Of Two LGgiSIa-
lures Reported FaVOTabIy Upon
Commissions Course


aminer aud Inspector Charles Ta lor
an the state school land department,
ISSUED recentls II o. Cassidy,
secretary to the school land commits
SION. has given out The following
statement:
That part Of the report which com
ments uron the authority Of the com
missioners OF the school land office g
pay the expenses Of m9intaining the
department. out OF the receipts is q
matter IN which there is q diversity
81 opinion There Is no question ia
my mind, after q thorough examine
ton OF the law, bnI what the com
missioners OF the land office are
working within their constitutional
powers in so doing
Was investigated Twice
The commissioners of the land 0t
flee have had this question heioio
them upon two occasions When the
first state legislature was In session
Governor Haskell presented the mat
ter to the legal advisors committee
OF that legislature and asked lhat
committee to investigate carefully
and if, in their Judgment il was rec
essary 70 make appropriations b.
would by special message, conves
such information 10 the lcassleture
This committed, made q Yery caroful
and painstaking investigation and re-
ported 10 the governor that N fnlE
believed and found, after careful est
animation of HE law, that the com
mi8sioners 0l he land Office were
acting within their constitutional
powers During the session OF th9
second state legislature the csmHis
sicnars of the land office and Cover
nor Haskell again had this subject
up for consideration. and on Jenn
airy rs. 1863 Governor Haskell iran
mtted special MESSAGE g The set
ond state legislature requesting iha
body 10 investigate the question a
10 whether or not the commits 1n
ers of ihe land office wore ac INK
witAin the law and their cons iut
t0nal powers. and requested ihe
Legislature to take such action on
4 This subject as che concusian
would warrant after an Investigation
A meeting was called of thg lcea
advisory committees OF che b0use an
senate and much Time devoted hf
tlls oomn.ttec 10 AN oXaminatian
/ into the question with the result
! that said committee reported Thai
AFTER "a very careful eNaminatisr
I they found chat The commissioner
4 Of the land Office We're working wiih
ln their rights and authority, as de-.
I fined by The constitution Of the state
Of Oklahoma.
III will thus be- seen thai Cover
/ nur Haskell and the commissioner
If the land Office have been verH
frank IN submitting This question O.
/ beth legislatures, with he result
4 thai neither thn first nor second
state legislatures saw fit to Interfere
With the management 81 the affair
Of the department alone the lines and
policies adopted by The commission
\ ers Of the land Office.
Comparative Statement.
The item 30 S205.g2N go eXpons
for maintaining the whole depMt
memt for the nineteen and a haN
months appears In the report 81
This amount SSa522 4s was eNpend
/ ia hy direction ol the FIRST state leee
laura M appralsng al Of the sch9o
! and public lands belonging to th
state ol Oknhoma Deduciing hi.
! amount from 2c total expenses O..
shown be Mr. rayhrs report leave
( the cost of maiuiainlng the Wh0l