The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-11
INITIATED MEASURES
AaO REFERENDUM
Four are Offered as Amend.
InsntS TO the State
Constitution

Six questions, to which the voter
aust direct his attention, are TO De
separately submitted at the genera
lection on November 8. Three are
Initiated measures, under the initia-
i've and referendum procedure. one
a popular or peoples referendum
nd two IRE legislative rcferendumA
Our are ohered as amendments 70
he constitution
Caief among the lot Is the proposed
constitutional amendment TO substl.
ute local option and high license for
tatcwide prohibition, which was
Initiated by the Sons Of Washington,
! state organization opposed to gen
raj prohibition The proposition has
heen through the courts, not as TO It's
gality, but as to the procedure en-
loved in getting 1t TO a vote. When
ratters are initiated under the Ok
ahoma law petitions calling for q
ote are filed with the Secretary Of
itate. II objection is made 10 tA5
Efficiency OF the petition hearing
nay be had before the secretary Of
tate. from which either side has the
ight to appeal to the supreme court
1ut the latter's finding Is final
Another initiated proposition IS
ampbell Rrssell's New Jerusalem
roiect, proposing to locate TIE state
apital within FIVE miles Of q town
I'd within specified distance from
be geographical center Of the state
he proposition is guarded with de-
3ils affording safety TO the state, and
eaulres. among other things, submis.
ion of sites for the capital, with the
nrice per acre made known. before
he vote Is taken If this feature is
OF complied with the site Is not con
ldered IN the race II adopted. the
New Jerusalem project, which also
7cludes the building of n city around
he seat OF government, would super
EIDE the location attempted at the
lection of June Il which is now he
ore the supreme court The New
erusalen idea does not move the
eat OF government from Guthrie un-
u after 1919, IN obedience 10 thc Ok
lahoma enabling act
Woman's Suffrage And Election Law
The third initiated proposition is an
mendment TO the suffrage section II
he constitution. giving women The
right to vote. and, like the local 1p-
ion and New Jerusalem propositions,
las been througl the courts on points
Of procedure only.
The only straight peoples refcren-
ium is on the Bryan election law en-
cted by the Second legislature in
pecial session. and Is presented al
he instance OF the state Republican
rganization. The Bryan law propos-
d repeal Of the TAYLOR ribbon bal
ot law, pending at the time OF the
crmer's passage before tho supreme
court upon referendum petitions also
led by Republicans, and, wile it
as nominally charged that refer
nee OF the Bryan law was In effect
. attempt to prevent the repeal Of
he Tay.or act at the special session
anaeting the Bryan law. a bill Wa.
assed giving an independent repeat
~ tbe ribbon ballot act. thus effac-
lively putting il out of the way by
gislatlye action. While the Bryan
cw now being referred to proposes
70 return to the emblem ballot of ter.
itorial DAYS, Republicans assert that
rher features are manifestly unfair
nd partisan for ire party which hap
pens 70 be in power.
The legislature has referred for the
November s, election, an amendment
TO the greatly discussed Section ,.
Article TX, of the public corporation
1ortion OF the constitution. This was
an act of the Second legislature IN
regular session completed long be
ore the initiation of Section - to
The same article by the railroads of
oklahoma, and which ives defeated al
the special election of June ii. I've
pYoposed Section 40 repealed in effect
q number of sections. among them
Ing that governing the keeping and
submission Of public service corpora
lions within the state. The corpora
ion commission at that period was IN
q bitter controversy with the rail-
road lines over the production of re-
ports and earning statements upon
which the commission proposed to
pdne new diHEnheilt OF iIelSnJ rates
and openly regarded a repeal Of the
so.called general Office provision as
faial atb its cifeetiy@iess as an or
ganixaiiOn
Commission Opposed Amendment
Had the objectional feature been
eliminated, 1t Was understood at the
time ihe commission would not have
opposed 4 reasonable revision of some
OF tie provisions, but the directing
head Of the railroad organization de-.
clined To do SO The commissions
ioined forces with the state tsdera-
tan OF Labor ana the State Farmers
Onion. accomplishing defeat Of thc
prnposiiion BY teavy majority
The amendment to Section ., sub
miftcd BY the legislature aud 10 be
voted upon November s. Is dupli.