The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-12
GOV. CRUCE
AGAIN USES
The VETO
Makes Big Slash In AppTUprla.
lion for Enid Feeble
Minded School

Governor Cruce again exercised his
veto power on public buildings Fri
day, cutting out items aggregating
$1,000 from the bill for new build
ings of the school for the feeble
minded at Enid, and leaving only S25-
600 for the completion and equip
ment of the one building now con
structed In that school.
In spite Of the position which he
has taken in this respect, however
the mouse today passed appropria-
ton bills alrtady approved by the
senate aggregating over million
dollars. most OF them for buildings,
and the senate passed several small
er buildings bills from the house.
New buildings were provided by these
bills for the A. and M. college boys
training school. reformatory, insane
asylum. and Fort Supply and Vinita,
Tahlequah, Weatherford and Durant
normal schools, school OF mines, or
phans home, deaf school and militia
barracks at Chandler
A new institution was also created
when the senate passed the house
bill creating state training school
for incorrigible girls, amended so asl
to locate 1t at Altus. No appropria.
tion was made, however, at this time.
Agree on School Lands Bill
An agreement was reached on the
school land sale bill, and the confer
ence report adopted by the senate.
lt accepts all of the minor amend
nents made by the house, but rejects
tthe provision for referendum vote
on the bill on the ground that 1t is
unconstitutional to include it in the
bill itself. The supreme court com
mission bill, recalled from the gov
ernor. was re-passed with an amend
lhent giving the appointve power toI
the supreme court instead of the gov
ernor.
The bill increasing penalties FOR
theft of livestock was recalled from
the governor on account of an opin-
ion by the attorney general that the
chicken stealing section inserted by
the senate was unconstitutional and
lit will be re-passed without that sec
tion.
The house committee appointed toI
Investigate an alleged scandal in con-
nectlon with the final passage of the
public defender bill reported back
that the procedure was entirely legal
and regular.
The house passed the senate bill
modifying the procedure for issuing
public building warrants, so as toI
improve the sale of those warrants,
and practically killed the bill Great
ing the office of state tax commits
sioner by the amendments added to
lit.
To Encourage Railroad Building
The senate passed bill intended
to encourage railroad building by ex-
tending for one year the time when
domestic railroad corporations shall
begin work. The charters of several
companies would expire soon with
out such a law, which gives them a
chance to see what is done with sec
tion ., article 8, before resuming
work. An important change in the
separate school is made by the Dill
authorizing county superintendents
to select teachers for separate
schools
Bills for payment by the county OF
witnesses in misdemeanor cases Tin
tended to apply especially to liquor
cases,) and providing for working
clay and county prisoners convicted
of minor offenses on the streets,
were killed in the senate
The minor oil lease bill from the
house, which allows the leasing of a !
minors land for ten years past his |
majority, narrowly escaped defeat in
the senate, the motion to kill being
lost on d tie vote.
Senate objects to Veto
The senate raised novel point n
the matter of the governor vetoing
the bill appropriatng money for the |
Enid school for the feeble minded. |
The senate records show that the |
bii was delivered to the governor al
his hotel March g. 1t was given to !
the governor in his office March A.
The senate he'd that the bin was
regularly accepted on March 3 and
therefore was not returned to the
senate within the five days specified /
by constitutional provision.
Governor Cruce last night notified
the house that unless the public dc-
fender bill, regarding passage Of
which there was some hint of scand-
al, is not re-passed, he would mol
sign It. The house refused to recon-
slider the bin and unless the governor
changes his mind it win not become
law.