The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-12-16
LEGISLATURE COMPOSED OF
MEN FROM EVERY WALK

the house of representatives OF the
third legislature, being fifteen strong.
Illinois is second with nine, Tennes-
see third with eight and Texas fourth |
with seven. Texas held the record |
in the constitutional convention and
the first and second legislatures.
Nineteen of the 101 members own
up to an interest in farming; seven
are editors; two are druggists, and
two are bankers. Lawyers number
eighteen, physicians four real estate
dealers eleven, merchants and busi-
ness men nine, ministers two, school
teachers. stockmen, two, and oil busi-
ness, travelling statesmen, manufact+
lurers and surveyors, one each.
Fifty of the house members state
, that they have no legislative hobby,
Two will make it point to offer
amendments to the present banking
law, a number want better rural
schools, and one, Vogle of Harper
{ county, will labor for election of Unit
ed States senators by direct vote OF
the people, and laws that will give to
the state the/value of every dollar ex-
pended. A member from the west
side wrote on the slip of paper handed
him that he was for anything that his
: district could get. Mr.. Shearer OF
. Logan county says he is interested
only in keeping the seat of govern
ment in Guthrie, and Brooks OF Love
county will lend his energies to the
: passage of a new graduated land tax
e law. Dr. Johnson of Holdenville ad-
. mits that his preference is for state
- bridge over the Canadian in Hughes
e county. One republican, barking back
n to. the late state campaign, says he
Y wants economy in public expenditures
d and more business and less politics" "
g Many of the members have held Of
r fetal positions heretofore. Renfrow
4 of Grant county was sheriff of Polk
t county, Mo-, in 1881 and 1882; DR.. B.
= F. Nesbitt says he is the only surviv-
e ing democratic member of the sixth
Y and seventh territorial legislatures;
e Breedlove served as assistant treasurer
K of the Cherokee nation; Green of Nc
t Claim was attorney for the city of Pur-
= cell; Barnham held a position as un-
e dersheriff of Seminole county; Will
Jams of Kay was mayor. of Tonkawa;
Joe Porter of Enid used to be county
auditor in Indiana, his native state;
Cox was county superintendent in
Greer county; Miller of Muskogee
Il served as clerk of the district court
' there; Logan, chairman of the house
member of the Fifth territorial legis
J. lature; Barrett served one term as sec
q retary of the state board of agricul
:. ture Cham Jones was city attorney
for Ryan, Jefferson county, and a mem
Der of the constitutional convention.
d Clark of Grant county used to be
Il county attorney in Rush county
q Kans. w. A. Durant of Bryan county
member of the first and second legis
lature is now speaker of the Choc
taw legislature, and is a candidate fol
speaker of the third Oklahoma legis
lature; Fulsom was county clerk OF
lie Flore county; Vossberg served as
member of the Woodward city coun
+, Gil Coughlin was city attorney fol
Frederick; Charlie Emanuel was as
sistant county attorney in Rusk coun
ty, Texas, and mayor of Sulphur
Okla; Dan Peery served in the frs
territorial legislature, and has been {
justice of the peace in Caddo county
:. Joe c. Chambers was city attorney O.
!, Claremore; Rose, Clayton of Logan
and Rowland have been federal post
masters
S. J. Smith of Sapulpa served three
: terms in the legislature of Pennsyl
yana, ten years on the city council o
ihs home town in that state, fifteel
= years as school director and was al
ways a delegate to state conventions
He is a republican Steen has beer
mayor of Checotah; Lindsey, the old
est member of the house in years, wa
a member of the state board of agri
= culture, is a native of Georgia, and ha
:. resided in Indian Territory and Okla
homa for fifty-one years; Thrash wa
= mayor of Clinton, Broome and Tabo
=. were members of the first state legis
" lature; James served in the Oklahom
-9 constitutional convention Tehee wa
:, two times mayor of Tahlequah Brook
:. has been a justice of the peace; E. N
Clark of Pawnee was the first pro
visional police Judge of the city G