The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-23
WAS FIELD DAY
FOR OKLAHOMA
REPRESENTATIVES, OF STATE IN
CONGRESS SUCCESSFUL IN Sc
CURING LEGISLATION.


CURING LEGISLATION.
Washington, d. C, June 22.-That
old and threadbare campaign argu
ment, send republican TO congress
/; you want results" was given such
a rude jolt in congress today that
il is doubtful whether any republi-
can will venture upon that subject
in the fall campaign. For when Sen
ators Owen and Gore and Represent
atoves Carter ami Ferris left the
capitol they had succeeded in pass
ing so much legislation of vital mo-
ment to Oklahoma that the congress
sional record tomorrow will likely re-
rather than the official gazette of
the country.
AS result of the omnibus public
buildings appropriation bill passed
today is full of Oklahoma provi-
sions and the same may be said OF
the omnibus Indian bill by which it
il hoped to bring about the sale
of 403 900 acres Of rich agricultural
land in the segregated coal and as
phalt tract in the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations The bill, in its
presnt form, does not provide for the
opening of this land to set
tiers, for the reasoh that the senate
has refused to pass upon such legis-
lation directly That the senatorial
conscience would not object to vot-
ing for the conference report con
tanning such legislation seems GER
tain. Senator Owen proposes to see
that the provision goes into the bill.
SO does Representative Mcclure who
may also be conferee on the bill.
The sale of the surface lands has
President Taft's support. and the
good reason to believe that Senator
LaFollette also has changed front,
and will cooperate with the Okla
homa congressional delegation to Sc
cure this piece of much needed leg
islation.
This was field day for the Okla
homa congressional delegation in
many respects and it is doubtful
whether the new state will share so
literally in many day.
In the public buildings bill that
was passei delegation shared as
follows:
Representative Mcclure: Enlarge
ment Guthrie federal building, S125.
600; new projects, Kingfisher $40
GOO, Blackwell $4,000.
Representative Morgan; Oklahoma
City s130,000 fer additional site
and first class building material;
El Reno, building and site, 100000
Representative Creager: $360000 ad-
ditional appropriation for federal
building at Muskogee; Tulsa build
ing. $135,O00
Representative Carter: Ardmore.
building and site, s15O,OOO; McAles.
ter, building, $135,00O.
Representative Ferris Lawtor.
building. $152,300; Chickasha, build
ing, Sl35,OOO.
Senator Gore, as a member of the
committee on public buildings ami
grounds, cC-operated with the dele
cation throughout an5 it was only
through his persistent fight that
the senate did not cause considera-
Die reductions in the omnibus bill.
1t was he who added McAlester,
Chickasha and Tulsa to the bill
Senator Owen distinguished him
self by refusing to permit reduction
of the Muskogee appropriation of
S360,0O0, which seemed too big to
most of the members of the COM
mittee also by amending the bill
on the floor of the senate, enabling
Craig, Carter and Pittsburg counties
and the city of Muskogee to acquire
title to federal jails in their re-
spective communities. There is also
a federal Jail at Guthrie, but no
attempt has been made to cede this
property to the former state capital
Attorney General Wickersham, at
conference with Representative
Carter, Creager and United States
Marshal Grant Victor agreed to turn
over the four federal jails in eastern
Oklahoma to the counties in which
they are located, namely, Pittsburg,
Carter, city of Muskogee and Ninita,
upon the condition that the federal
prisoners be provided for without
cost to the United States and the
payment of $4,000, representing bal
ance due the United States mar
shals office for keep of prisoners
Luring the interim of territorial eX-
istence and statehood.
Marvellous Discoveries