The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-03-05
BILL HAS PASSED SENATE,
NOW PENDING IN HOUSE
Expect to Garry Oklahoma Case
Through Federal Courts at Less
Cost Than Missouri Case

That the corporation commission
and the attorney general expect to
he able TO fight the freight rate case
tlgtugh the federal courts al less cost
! l. Oklahoma than the Missouri case
has been TO that state is indicated by
comparison of the figures in the
appropriation bill that passed the
senate committee of the whole yes.
telday afternoon with the figures IN
vowed in the Missouri litigation
The corporation commission is ask
iug for $4,000 and the attorney gen
ernl for $4,000, the bill providing that
all of such funds as are not absolute.
" necessary in making the court
fight shall be left in the state treas
ury. While no serious question had
been raised as to The reasonablencs
Of the amount asked in senate bill
No. lOt. The corporation commission
Yesterday secured figures affording
members of The legislature an oppOr-
tuuity to compare Oklahonlas esti-
ri,n cd need With MissoUri's actual OK
renditure telegram from the com
rtssion to Governor Hadlcy at JEFF
{ sson CITY brought the information
lat Missouri has had to spend in
tshting her case approximately sSo,
90.
Cl lahoma will profit by MissoUri's
experience in several ways Knowing
that ii would BE- necessary to ascer.
f@in hp npt nc fA oil "a MI
revenues in the Missouri case, that
state em,loyed the firm of IIasbips
I Sells ccmnercial accountants with
off ces in New York and London and
put experts Of that company into the
railroad offices 10 prepare the fiscal
f hpwing necessary IN the ease. These
r. "oUutants. several in number. cost
Tie state $50 per day each. When the
llie offered their testimony In The
caring Of the case il was rejected
hy the court on the ground that
ihose accountants were incompetent
ccause not actually experienced In
the railway business as such. Okla
llna viii profit by Missouris expert
onca In this particular by having IT'S
crountants enlisted f'om actual sery-
ie IN the railway business and by
faying them approved and commits.
oioned BY the federal court before
inrv enter upon their work.
httornev General West and Assist
anf Attorney General Henshaw,
counsel TO The corporation commls-
lon have made the closest possible
Inspection of the record in the Mis-
somi case, step by step. and II is
fN'N expected that Oklahomas case
O.! eadv advanced bv The court over
. vast amount of older litigation for
the purDose of arriving AT speedy ins.
tce will be put through without mis-
.;pps or lest motion al any stage
'rhe items of expenditure necessary
10 he taken care of bv the pendins
APPROXIMATION include. beside the hir-
ing of experts 10 prenare the finan-
Nal statements needed, the printing
81 the record in the case the compen-
So ION of such legal ability as can
lie secured AMI The travelling eX-
ipses of those al work on the case
10 It's numerous phases. As the trial
cf the case has been set for May >,
'l 81, Paul, MINI the preparation o.
the showing OF oklahoma will have
10 he hurried rs much as possible.
ro'h the corDoration commission and
the attorney general are confident
hat the state has an excellent chance
Il win out on the issues and maintain
both the two cent passenger fare and
the corporation commissions schedule
- freight rates now tempora lily SET
,ilc hv the federal injunction issued
at ST Louis.