The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-12-14

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offered sixteen hundred acres with a
promise of a building to cost $l,500, 900
to be erected free of cost to the state.
This proposition was sent to the cap
itol committee with instructions that
they report this afternoon
Oklahoma City, Okla, Dec. 1.-THE
capital location fight was brought up
on the floor of the senate yesterday
afternoon for the first time since the
special session of the Legislature con-
vened, November 2S, when the senate
capital location committee submitted
unanimous report faw0ring the loca-
ton of the permanent capital at Ok
lahoma City, and recommending the
selection by the Legislature of the
Northeast" site, commonly known as
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES tract,
and reporting concurrent resolution
providing for the acceptance by the
Legislature of the contract presented
by the promoters of this site. The
committee also recommended that
house bill No l be adopted with
amendments made by the committee
to make it conform to the Northeast"
site proposition
| The committee recommended that
the legislature name the site before
the bill locating the capital at Okla
homa City is adopted. After the reso-
luton was read Senator Roddie moved
that the resolution lay over one day.
He made long speech in which he
declared that inasmuch as it has taken
the senate committee ten or twelve
days to prepare the report, that COM
mittee should not try to ram the reso-
luton down the throats of the SEN
ators until they had time to consider
| it. After several members of the sen
ate capital committee had disclaimed
any desire to rush action on the reso-
luton the senate voted 21 to 20 to lay
| it over for consideration until tomor-
row morning.
The resolution contains the terms of
the greement and bond proposed by
the hackers of the Northeast" site
The promoters put up bond of $780,
600 that they will furnish the state
81, 100000 for capitol building by
July l, 1914, at the rate of $25,000 a
month beginning next July, and not
more than twenty acres of ground for
the capitol building and a site for the
governors mansion.
That some of the terms of the con-
tract will meet opposition in the SEN
ate was evident from the discussion
yesterday, but it also appeared evident
that the senate will adopt the resolu-
tion.
Leading house members, however,
express the belief that the house will
never agree. Some of them look upon
it as an attempt on the part of the
senate to force the house to accept
the Northeast" site before the senate
will agree to pass the house bill locat-
ing the capital at Oklahoma City.
That the house is still partial to the
Putnam site proposition seems evident
and unless Governor Haskell steps in
and openly advises his leaders in the
house to abandon theh Putnam propos-
ition and accept the Northeast" site,
it seems likely that there will be no
capital legislation at the special ses-
sion.
Asked what the senate would do if
the house substituted the Putnam for
the Northeast" site or adheres to the
terms of the original bill making the
selection of the Putnam site a possi-
bility, leading member of tie senate
said last night:
You can put it down that the sen
ate will never accept either the Put
nam site or compromise for the Lin
wood site. 1t win be the Northeast