The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-28
GOVERNOR
FINISHES
MEASURES
Saturday Was Last Day faI
Executive Action on LeglS-
IaiiVe EnaCtmeniS

Special to the Daily Leader
| Oklahoma city. okla, Mar 27-Al
midnight sa urday night when IN,
! time allowed for signing bills passed
at the recent session OF the lesiala
ture closed, Governor Cruce had
cleared the docket
| Altogether 1856 bills and four joint
resolutions have been signed and be
come laws, while tairtv measures
have been disapnroyed hy he cNeeu
tive NO bills were allowed 10 die Nt
Limitation everything IN the govern
or's hands fayiug been either appgaY
cd or vetoed Governor Cruces
heavy use of the veto Is q new hns
lin Me history OF oklahoma legsla'
lion, not more han half dozen
bls having been disapWoFea az any
ef the previous legislative sessions
since statehood
As his last days work Governor
! Cmce signed eighteen bills aud 1e
toal ten All ot Che bills vetoed sat
Imday were measures Of statewide ln'
ttresl, including several which were
likely to prove a heavy burden on
ltha railroads and other corporate ~
lterests. No more appropriation billa
were in the disanproved list
The vetoed Hill probably OF the
erea est local Interest was The one
Establishing 4 state Iair at MuaSo'
gee. Muskogee haI hGdN strong
lobby all week, but was unable 10
range the governors opinion that
/ the bill, while carrying no appropua-
tlon now. afforded an 9nter'Rs wedge
tor bis demands Oh futGae lessla.
\ lures
The BIN for the joint use Of street
railway tracks was another OF those
ltisapproye1 which was ~ great lo'
loal interest
| Offers dlsapprovcd were those ,re'
ating tho Office Of ate tax commits
sioner. allowing the leasing Of min
ors land for oil and gas for q period
extending beyond their majority, re-
quiring railroads 60 maintain lol
lpitals III the state, fixing the export
cnce 10 be required Of railroad RAIN
men, requiring railroads TO instaii
CROSSINGS ON an public Highways OF
private roads locating an additional
AGRICULTURAL school AZ Shawnee, ana
making The state board of agriculture
the stae poultry commission
Several important bills on when
the governor had apparently been Uil-
decided 20 the last were signed Sainr'
aav. including the hill for iho sale =
Fan az the states school lands, one
creating the office of county assessor,
one reorganizing the state militia ana
ono creating n state training school
tor incorrsihle girls, With no loea'
ion specified !,
The other bills apn6Wcd were ali
appropriations, iacluding building ap
preparations or S250,000 for The nenl-
tntiarv. with $4,000 for additional
lands: SSaa.O00 for the reIormatory'
With St2.0ON for land, s2aNo00 for the
yinita insane asylum; SlTO,aa0 Tor ne
Agricul ural and Mechanism college,
S-e 600 for the school for the deat
cnf hy the governor FROM SlSa,VoV'
$4,000 for the school Of mines cut
from Sl0S.000 S7S0oo for ne boys
naining school al Pauls Valley; Sill
4sn Tor the Claromore preparatory
.ehol $4,000 fer the orphans home
at PRYOR Creek. and appropriations 81
s 800 for agh ing hog cholera ma
SIS 600 for deficiency at the nWant
normal
No end to Appropriation Bills
ln ! lengthy statement eNplana' ofN
ST his action on the varioNs measures
passed upeu saturday, Governor
IrUce says. In part
Of anpronrla ion bills there seems
to be no end The appropriation htlls
passed during the last DAYS session
ef the legislature dispose OF funds 1e'
l0nnine Is he people exceeding y
2monnt the sam of Si50Nt03 ADO ie
this t6e amoun included TN appr2.
iaiatien bills passed prior TO the last
Gays session aud we have an amount
losely anpfoximating, II II does nos
actualy exceed SS,Neeo goo
Surely this IS sufficiently large g
cause conservative men To pause ara
consider. 0f course, we have oihef
sources of Income but If the entire
amonnf haa TO be mise8 By an ad
lNainrem Tux il woWd require eavh
wear tor tbe mex tWa years TAX ie'F
}e excess Af foug Mills p rate 70 eN'
cess Isl one-half mill Of the total AT
ilewei under our conSAtuuoA' n itAs
here iu my ollee with all OF these
I hills spread out before me, realikias
hat each dollar spent Is trust Iund
belonging 10 the people Of the lale'
have doNe my utmost go reduce
fese appropriations and ! have no1
/ hesiiated @ resar, 20 ,Re veto POW
~ given ms w che constitution Win
ill all have yet to learn OF q single
stance In which my action II ihe
lin crest of economy has not met With
stubborn opposition and burning
ltHsicssm from those liying IN locat
lines where these appropriations sfe
- Be epeaded