The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-04
AIMS BLOW AT OUTSIDE
COLLECTION AGENCIES
Senate Passes Bill TO Prevent
Transfer Of Claims TO
KO1-Residenis

Life in the senate Is much the same
as it is in other pursuits lust one
thing after another when a bill is
gotten off the calendar that mas con
sumed lots of time and drawn heavi-
ly on lung power and the patience of
man, another is called and before 1t is
passed or killed probably more nerve
tissue has been burnt out than was
on its predecessor.
Senator Allen introduced a bill in
the senate yesterday afternoon max
ing q conditional appropriation of $40
900 for the proposed Confederate
home at Ardmore.
Discussion Of house concurrent res
olution in the senate relative to the
national government being asked to
change the meander,ng of Deep Fork
creek In Lincoln county in order that
lands which are now inundated sew
elal times during the year because of
the overflow OF the creek, took a turn
a the ludicrous before, it ended
When the resolution was indicted in
To the senate the chair, (Senator Bill.
ups) requested Senator Cordell to ex-
plain the needs of the Lincoln county
people. Senator Cordell told OF the
great value of the lands, especially
for cotton raising, but which lay idle
because Of the frequent overflows
they are subjected to- Senator Cor
dell took the position that the Ma
tional congress could with all pro-
prlety be asked TO ala in reclaimng
these lands, since it has been and is
now expending large sums to reclaim
arid lands in Colorado, New Mexico
and other western states. Senator
Thomas, in speaking on the propriety
Of asking congress to help out in
these matters, took tho position thai
la was the waste of time on the part
of the legislature and the establishing
Of precedent that would he so badly
abused that cong ess would eventual.
ly be so flooded with like memorials
that 1t would cease giving them any
consideration whatever.
Senator Stafford loica on the me-
moral In much the same light, and
in closing his remarks said that ii
the memorial was to go through that
il would be good policy to ask the Ma
tional congress also TO help out in
drainage matters. The chair sug.
gestcd that a request to help build
packing plants might be good one tc
incorporate in the memorial and Sen
ator Stafford smilngly agreed that it
would
The senate was not In a very good
mood, having been engaged all day
discussing knotty problems. and so
the house concurrent resolution was
left in the hands of committee 0i
five, of which Senator Cordell is a
member.
Since the Taylor bill providing that
is shall be unlawful TO transfer claims
Of persons or corporations out OF the
state for the purpose of collecting
from persons in the state has been
passed by the senate, and will in all
probability be passed by the house
and finally approved by the governor
agencies in the cities located in states
where the laws stand for the garnish
ment of laborers wages for debt, are
going to have hard time molestine
and harassing the Oklahoma man whe
earns daily bread by the sweat oi
his brow. This bill was thoroughly
threshed out in the senate yesterday
In one instance IL was shown that a
man who had 'phoned for a doctor 70.
npighhOr In one OF the states In
which wages are subject to garniAa,
ment had to pay the bill, amounting
to $32, after he'd moved to Oklaho
ma, one of the agencies having puI
the matter up to him in such a man
ner that he had to pay or so back
to the state and fight me case.
The following bills were recon
mended by the senate sitting as a con
mittee of the whole for passage: Staf
ford's bill providing for weighing mil
products; Durant's house bill appro