The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-26
STATE HONOR involved
Adoption Of Capital Removal Bill Would
Violate Solemn Pledge
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ton provided for herein shall, BY or
dinance irreyocable, accept the te ms
ahd conditions OF this Act"
Enabling Act Accepted
The constitutional convention pass
ed an ordinance in language as fol
lows
Enabling Act accepted by ordln
ance irreyocable-be il Ordained by
the Constitutional convention for the
proposed state OF Oklahoma. thar said
Constitutional convention do, by this
u.'5inance irrevocable, accept the
terms and conditions of an Act of the
congress OF the United States, EMIT
led, An Act to Enable the People OF
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory
to form q Constitution and State Gov
ernment and be admitted into the
Union on an equal footing With the
original states. and 10 Enable the
People of New Mexico and Of Arizona
ta form Constitution and State Gov
eminent and be admitted into the
iTnion on an equal footing with the
original states. approved June the
sixteenth, Ammo Domini. Nineteen
Hundred and Six.
Certificate OF president OF cOnven.
t:on.-i hereby certify that the fore.
AeIng ordinance accepting the terms
sss aondirions Of the Enabling Act
as the same has heretofore been pass
....,t ss.A,aOssvd, was eugrossed with
the engrossed copy OF the constitution
on parchment, was read as engrossed
pnd ioll call had thereon and ths
same duly adopted By majority OF
the voters of ail he delegates elect
ed to and constituting this conven-
ton, at ll:4l oclck, A. NJ, this 22ag
lay OF Apiil, Ammo Domini, 1907.
sWM. Fl. MURRAY"
president of Convention
Attest:
JOHN MILAN YOUNG
secretary.
Ii is very evident that The eonsti-
tuiional convention, elected by the
EeopIe of the state Of Oklahoma. act
Ing as the agents OF the people, un'
dertook, by most solemn agreement,
TO carry out the conditions laid down
in section % OF the Enabling Act.
Ii II now claimed seriously, for the
first time, that all of the provisions
III the Enabling Act are not part
II the con. titutioa, and binding as
compact upon the people Of the state.
ID IS Impossible TO conceive how tie
orovisions OF the Enabling Act could
more elfectually have been adopted
faau has been the case in Oklahoma.
g.he presiaent OF the constitutional
convention has certified that the con
sritntional convention did adopt the
terms and conditions of the Enabling
Act by ordinance irreyocable, and the
delegates 10 the convention being the
agents and officers of the people ana
ss.tinp for and on behalf of the peo-
lie. by their solemn obligation, in con-
tention assembled, have said to the
people Of this state and OF the United
states that all OF the conditions ana
terms Of the Enabling Act were ac'
JeIDied and are binding upon the peo-
yle OF the state of Oklahoma, The
term @irrevocable" means just what
il saws. that ii cannot be revoked
changed or amended in any manner
h the people OF the state of Oklaho-
fiH.
Other Conditions Accepted
me constitutional convention, al
tie time of the acceptance OF the
-ond;,fone named in the Enabling
sct. accepted many other eonditiohs
.,hich were beneficial 10 the state OF
oklahoma. If one can be repudiatea'
sll OF the othe may also be repual-
ateJ. on behalf of the people OF tne
s.ste of Oklahoma. the constitution
n convention accepted large grants
o. lands. s5NG0, ,0O000 for the perma,
rent school fund: an amount equal
Il five per cent of the proceeds oI