The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-03-18
QUITTING 5lH
7 T|ME: Is
POSTPONED
VOTE TO ADJOURN SINE
DIE TODAY NOON is
RECONSIDERED
MEASURES OF MOMENT
STILL ON CALENDAR
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But This Evening or Tomorrow
VIII Probably Witness Close
Of Special Session

Nervous and fdgety was The sen
a.e body this morning, and at one
time President George Bellamy an
nounced that unless the members
;ook their seats and remained IN
hem he would refuse 10 recognize
any member and would suspend bus
mess until quiet was maintained. The
body seems TO he living in the keen
est anticipation of final adjournment
o come.
When Senator Graham Introduced
Il concurrent resolution calling for
reconsideration OF the vote by which
the concurrent resolution setting
high noon today as the hour for sine
die adjournment, the senate backed
up by adopting it, and now the track
Il clear and The special session may
lun as long as it elects, but il is
thought that il viii adjourn this even
ing or tomorrow morning
The special committee reported on
he usurf bill the report being
adopted The senate reccded from
ils amendments and the bill WAC
! passed by 4 vote Of - to r..
After the passage Of this measure
the senate listencd TO the reading Of
the governors twcnty-GGih message
House Bill No. 100, by Ross, re-
.laiinE TO coniribulory negligence
undor suspension of the rules, WAS
paced on third oading for final pas
sage his morning II was defeated,
receiving all told four votes, while
wcH,yCour senators voted nay
The senate this forenoon agreed to
accept The house amendments to
Senate Bill No, So by Alien, except
the leaving off of the emergency
clause. This is The bill making an
appropriation FOR The school land com
mission for the purpose of paying
salaries Of employees and expenses in
eldert 10 the management OF the
permanent common school fund and
land sales department
The game propagation bill, as
amended by the house. reducing the
appropriation from s50oC0 10 $4,000,
was finally passed by the senate this
morning, % voting for and / against
Senators Beeler, Cordell and Bill
ups were named as a committee TO
confer with the house committee on
senate bill No 1879, relative to locat-
ing agricultural colleges.
Dep'ores Striking Out Emergency
In a message submitted to the leg
islature Governor Haskell deplOres
the striking our Of the emergency
clause in Senate Pill No. 50, the ef-
feet of which has been to close down
Immediately the land sales depart.
ment and 10 keep closed the farm
mortgage department OF the state.
The message is as follows:
To the Honorable Oklahoma Legisla-
ture.
Gentlemen. beg the privilege OF
calling your attention 10 the fact that
In he Failure OF the house TO put the
emergency clause on Senate Bill No.
S4. that the effect of il has been 10
Immediately close down the land
sa'es department. and TO keep closed
the farm mortgage department Of
the state. The effect OF this u.s. In
closing The land sales department. to
lose several thousand dollars that has
been invested In advertising these
land sales, and which viii be entire
~ lost as said advertisements viii
have 10 be remade under the exist
ing law after the ninety days required
to capse before said Senate Bill No
50 can so into eifec5 without the
emergency clause
Also in addition 10 The loss Of
money invested in advertising, there
IS several thousand dollars expense
already incurred In other work pre-
/ iimiuary to these land sales, which
will likewise be an entire loss 10 he
state by the end Of said ninety days
Blow Also at Farm Loan Department
As to The farm loan department,
there Is about one million dollars Of
cash on hand earning The state only
4 three per cent in the banks, and
which when this department was
closed down was being leaned to the
farmers of CHS sta;c al an avodge
of about twenty thousand dollars 2
week, and as soon as these loans are
made the state earns FIVE per cent
en- this money.
There are over one hundred and
fifty farmers applications now on
file desiring 10 borrow from this one
million dollars cash on hand The
failure la nut the emergency On Sen
ate Bill No SO, likewise deprives
the farmers Of the privilege of bor
rowing this money for the next three
months, ana also deprives ghe state
OF ihe increased income that Il would