The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-02-08
PEOPLE DEMAND
AN INVESTIGATION
Decision Of Judge Hook In Rate Cases
Has Aroused the Ire of All
okIahomans.

Guthrie, Okla, Feb. S.-Oklahoma's S
delegation is asked to use all honor
able means to secure an investiga-
ton of Judge W. c. Hook of Leaven-
worth, of the United States circuit
court " appeals. who has granted an
injunction against the Oklahoma two
cent rate, and twelve freight rates
by concurrent resolution introduc-
ed in the Oklahoma house.
Representative Workman, democrat
of Claremore, Monday afternoon. in
asking for an investigation of Judge
Hook, characterizes his decision as
'an absurd and unreasonable assault
on representative government"
Senator L. K. Taylor, of Chickasha,
chairman of the democratic senate
caucus, Monday introduced in the
senate two concurrent resolutions on
the Hook decision, one condemning
the federal judiciary and asking for
the popular election Of U. S district
judges, and the other asking the cor
poration committee for report. Both
resolutions went over under the rules
until today. The first resolution de-
clares that "the federal judiciary has
SO often within the last few years
shown that it was lacking in true
conception of the wants of the great
industrial masses of the country and
that it fails so often to place that
broad democratic construction upon
the constitutional powers, privileges
and rights of the people, that the real
purpose of the government is often
thwarted or altogether denied. And,
by long continued and erroneous con-
struction, corporate interests have
profited at the expense of the produc-
ers of wealth and Of all other legiti-
mate enterprises"
"That the people believe this mis-
construction is due to the fact that
the federal judges are appointed in
stead OF being elected by q popular
vote; and that the federal judiciary
is blinded to the public interests, that
it is failure
The resolution concludes by mem
orializing congress to submit an
amendment to the constitution, max
ing federal Judges elective.
The other Taylor resolution de-
clares that "the million and half of
people of the state Of Oklahoma, by
ali expression of their popular will
decreed that they through legally
constituted branch of the go'Srnment
should retain supervising power
over public agencies or corporations;
that such powers have been curtailed
by judicial orders and DEGREES of one
man who is a nonresident of the
state with no interest in our people
or in our states welfare; that such
judicial DEGREES not only strike from
the people the right to control these
agencies and give to such agencies
the right to dictate to the people who
dictate them, but it has in annulling
the powers of our people subjected
them to the payment of tribute to
said agencies by allowing them to ex-
act what the people have declared to
be unreasonable charges for public
service and that the people whose will
has thus been dethroned are entitled
to know the extent to which shall
tribute be laid and the difference in
dollars and cents to them under the
system they createed and that ordered
and decreed by federal courts resi-
dent in foreign states"
The resolution asks the corpora
ton committee to prepare compara-
tive tables on rates and furnish other
data and information in its posses
sion.