The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-08
GREATER POWER
FOR COMMISSION
LEGISLATORS HAVE BUSY DAY
MANY MEASURES RECOMMEND
ED FOR FINAL PASSAGE.

\ bill giving the corporation com
mission power 10 make emergency
railroad rates for thirty days, pend
ing action by the interstate com
merce commission, was recommend
ed for final passage in the house o.
representatives Monday afternoon.
Maxey introduced the bill at the re-
quest of the corporation commission.
4 similar law has proven very effec
tive In Texas. Immediate relief from
intolerable rate conditions is promised
by the bill, according TO some OF its
advocates.
The house killed by a negative vote
on passage, the proposed constitution
al amendment by Logan, Maxey and
others, TO make the supreme court a
kind OF legal adviser TO the governor
and legislature. The vote on passage
was decisive, "a for, % against.
The bill to exempt real estate mort
cages from ad valorem taxation failed
of passage also, the vote pelng 49
for and 81 against, with % absent.
Wright, one OF the authors of the bill
lodged a motion 10 reconsider and
hopes to get enough votes from abb
sentees to pass the bill.
Secondary Measures.
The Monday afternoon session OF
the house was largely given over to
the passage OF secondary measures,
those passing finally being as follows:
By Steen and MaXey, ratifying and
legalizing all street railway fran
chises; Peebly, to appropriate $4,000
for Deep Fork drainage assessments
against state lands, etc; Kerr for
bridges, being a measure to allow the
construction OF a bridge across the
Arkansas river between Muskogee
and Wagner counties at Haskell;
lfils duillOl lLlb- NOulNs tOlhhiio
soners or excise boards to levy spe-
cal taxes to assist in tax eradication,
etc. Wright and Bolen, providing for
clerks of justices of the peace; Mil
ler of Muskogee, to appropriate $780,
600 for the six secondary agricultural
schools for dairy buildings, shops and
farm houses; Crawford, to appropri-
ate $4,000 of the bar commission fund,
etc; Champion, relative to suits for
garnishment: Clark, requiring adjoin-
ing owners to clear driftwood from
streams in August; Wright and Por-
ter. authorizing cities over 10000 pop
ulation to call special elections to levy
additional school taxes In case OF a
deficiency; a bill appropriating $1,256
to reimburse the former state game
warden, Judge Askew, for personal
funds expended, etc; Cox, to appro-
pirate $4,000 for additional lands for
the Granite secondary penitentiary;
Williams of Kay and Akin, making
available the income, interest, rentals
and proceeds from section 13 fund,
state educational institutions; Rex
roat, Ashby OF Pushmataha, Champion
and Allen for the senate, to appropri-
ate s11,250 for building and equipping
a hospital, etc, at the Ardmore Con-
federate Home.
The house recommended for final
passage a number of bills, as follows:
Moore of Coal, relative to railroad
crossing; Glover, creating a black
smiths lien; Whitman, authorizing
and directing the state board of af-
fairs to prepare state government
budget or estimate for the appropria-
ton sessions of the legislature; bill
extending the cemetery acquirment
laws of cities of the first class to
townships and towns and villages.
Recommendations.