The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-15


house today disregarded the wishes
of Gov. Lee Cruce relative to the COM
position of the state banking board by
adopting the minority report on the
Roddie banking bill from the senate,
which provides that the state banking
board shall remain as now constituted
with the exception that the secretary
of state shall serve instead of the
state treasurer.
State Officers on Board
Gov Cruce had urged the creation
and bank commissioner and two ap-
pointive members not state officers.
The bill passed the senate in that
form and the majority report of the
house committee favored this arrange
ment. The minority report, however,
leaving state officers on the board as
at present, was adopted by the house
in committee of the whole, after a
long debate by vote of 81 to Al.
This is the third time that the
house has taken a stand directly op-
posed to Gov. Cruces wishes on i'm
portant legislation. Charles Barrett
of Shawnee, who favored the majority
report, declared: Il want to say right
now that it is a question of whose
hand is the strongest in this house,
that of the ex-governor or that of the
present governor"
The remarks were ordered stricken
from the records.
The adoption Of the minority re-
port operated as passing section 1 of
the bill. The discussion of the meas
ure then was transferred to the ad-
option of a new section, which gives
,the banking board authority to issue
negotiable warrants against the guar
anty fund. This, as partially explain
ed, would give the remedy in case of
panic if number of banks should
fail and the guaranty found in any
way be inadequate to take care of
the losses. These warrants would be
redeemable from time to time and
would also pay the holder interest
at the rate of per cent
Postpone Consideration.
Because many did not fully under
stand the purport of the section a
motion to postpone further consider
alton of the bill until Friday prevail
ed Notice was also given that when
the bill is taken up again a motion
would be made to reconsider the vote
by which the minority report was
adopted.
After a long fight in committee of
the whole the senate, by close vote,
II to 16, struck Sec. from the house
prohibition bill now pending in the
senate. The friends of the section
gave notice that they would move to
'reinstate the section in the final pas
sage of the bill.
The section provided that person
might have in his home but one gal
Ion of whisky and one cask of beer,
but was amended before it was killed
to increase the amount of whisky to
three gallons and to except liquors
kept for sacramental purposes from
the provisions of the section. The
leaders of the opposition to the sec
tion were Senators Potter and Gould
ing, both declaring that it was pro-
posed by the section to regulate the
affairs of the home, something un-
y heard of before in legislation, and
to put all good citizens in the criminal
class who happened to have quart or
more of liquor in their homes over the
maximum allowance in the law.
Senator Thompson, author of the
bill, declared that Sec. was only in
tended to aid officers in catching boot
leggers who turn their homes into
bootlegging establishments and then
set up as a defense that they kept
the liquors there for home use. The
senate arose from committee of the
whole without taking further action
or the bill.
Bills Passed by Senate.
The senate passed finally bills by
Mr.. Franklin requiring railway con-
ductors, engineers and firemen to
have certain experience before the
railroad is authorized to employ them,
and by Mr. Goulding, authorizing the
. county commissioners of any county
to levy tax of one-tenth of one mill
for aid of county fairs or live stock
expositions when voted at an election
called in pursuance of the petition
signed by 80 per cent of the voters of
the county.
Marshall Bill Passes Senate.