The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-12-06
CAPITAL MUDDLE
STILL UNSETTLED
Bill Durant Offers Motion to Bar AS
ISOLATED Press Man From the
Floor of the House.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Dec. e.
There is a good chance now that the
house capital committee may recede
from its attitude favoring the Putnam
site plan and will recommend the adop-
ton of the resolution passed by the
senate letting a legislative committee
from each house choose the site. Such
a compromise may be forced by the at
titude of the senate, which still refuses
even to report on the house capital
bill until some site more accessible
than Putnam can be offered by Okla
homa City or at least until the back
ers of the Putnam proposition agree
to give bond guaranteeing free cap
itol building and site to the state
Oklahoma City people now are work
ing on two new sites. One is section
l16 comprising state school land to
(which they propose to add 400 acres
with guarantee of $1,000,000 cap
itol building, and the other Is the Cul-
bertson proposition comprising land
adjoining the residence section on the
northeast with conditions equally fav-
orable to the state II one OF these
propositions can be procured the Put
nam site probably will be ditched in
the senate, and If neither can be ar
ranged the senate is inclined to require
the Putnam site to be backed with a
guarantee and to eliminate the emer-
Igency section from the site feature of
the bill giving the people chance to
reject or accept the site at the polls.
Each house passed one bill Monday
and then adjourned until o'clock this
lafternoon to give committees an OPP
Iportunity to find some solution to the
deadlock
In the house, Speaker Anthony
called the attention of the house to
an article in ST. Joseph newspaper
which stated that the house and SEN
ate had taken slap at William ].
bryan, the house by hanging map
of the Putnam site over Bryan's pic
ture and the senate by not hanging
Bryan's portrait at all. Anthony stated
that the house should resent such
story. Bill Durant another Haskell
Organization man. moved that the AS
lsociated Press man be barred from the
floor of the house unless he retracted
the article by today
Charles Barrett of Shawnee declared
that the adverse newspaper criticism
of the state was due largely to the
attitude of enmity to the newspaper
men shown by certain leading mem
bers of the constitutional convention
and First Legislature and advised eau
tion in incurring enmity of the press
at this time. j. Roy Williams of
Comanche also defended the press and
f offered a resolution which was adopt
! ed, providing that the house appoint a
. committee to investigate the truth of
the article mentioned and report to
j the house.
The senate yesterday finally passed
:. the Cornell bill from the house giving
q the supreme court original and exclu-
. sive jurisdiction to hear all suits aris-
!. ing for the removal or location of the
state capital or any educational or
6 eleemosynary institution. The pur-
pose of the act is to eliminate the dis
trict courts in the determination Of
!. such actions and it is aimed particu-
larly at the district court of Logan
county, which enjoined the removal OF
+ the state capital to Oklahoma City. AS
the bill passed the house no one ex
d Ipected the attorney general could have
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