The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-03-31
GOVERNOR MAKES
GOOD HIS PROMISE
Did Not Spare Even His Home Town,
vetoing Bill Appropriating $1,000
For Ardmore.

conserve the business interests of tn,
state, Governor Cruce Friday vetoed
! bills carrying more than $75O,00O O
appropriations uassed by the recen
: legislature. Most of the appropriations
from the public building fund for ad
ditional buildings and equipment al
various state educational institutions
fell under the veto of the governor
and in addition he trimmed $4,000
from the defcviency bill by vetoing
certain items of that measure.
Governor Cruce stated several times
during the recent session of the legis
lature when it was appropriating
money recklessly from the public
building fund that he would veto a
large number of these appropriations,
declaring that there was no money in
that fund. The governor did not spare
even his home town, vetoing a bill
carrying $1,000 for buildings at the
Confederate home at Ardmore. While
he approved the deficiency bill carry
ing nearly 100000 of appropriations
to cover deficiencies created by the
various state departments and insti-
tutions for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1911, he disapproved items aggre-
eating $29,20425, the largest of which
was $26,33540 for salary and printing
expenses of the code commission.
Relative to the abuses that have
grown up through deficiencies, the
governor said in a public statement
Friday:
81 want to sound this warning to
all heals of departments and state in
stitutions. l will be here for four
years, and during my term of office
the wholesale and reckless creation of
deficiencies must cease. In the future
| shall have to be convinced beyond
all reasonable doubt that justification
exists before l will again approve
deficiency bill, and certain l am that
no conditions will arise that will make
necessary deficiency appropriation
of more than 100000, as is contained
in this bill"
Included in the code commission
items vetoed was one of $500 to the
E. w Stephens Printing company of
Columbia, Mo-, for printing the Brown
lee-Thomas-Hayes code. The COVER
nor declares that none of the work
allowed pay by the legislature had
been accepted by the state, an dthat,
therefore the commission should not
be paid for it. All the appropriatins
carried by the bill for the entire code
commission were vetoed.
Among other items in the deficiency
bill vetoed by the governor are 81 900
for expenses of district judges which
was duplicated in another part of the
bill; $210 to c. H. Pittman for serv-
ices after the adjournment of the
first legislature and $1,65925 for stem
ographers to the territorial supreme
court.
Barnard, commissioner charities and
corrections, were vetoed by the gov
ernor-the bill creating the office of
public defender" to look after legal
cases for the charities department and
the Thomas bill, based on the Kansas
law for the publication of waters in
tho IF fha
Other bills that failed to get by the J
governor were; $31,500 for buildings
at Tahlequah normal; $11, ,25O for build I
ings at the confederate home at Ard I
more; $4,000 for Durant normal; $780,
600 for Claremore university prepara-
tory school; $4,000 for Tishomingo .
agricultural schol; $4,000 for Lawton
agricultural school; 6,4O0 for addi-
tional land for Broken Arrow and
Goodwell agricultural schools; $4,000
for water works at Langston agri-
cultural and mechanical college; $685. ,
600 for buildings at all agricultural
schools; $4,000 for equipping Ton
kawa university preparatory school;
$4,000 for Ada normal; providing for
publication of state questions sub
mitted to vote of the people; requiring
owners of manufacturing plants to sub
NIT statistical reports to the labor
commissioner; creating the Office of
official court reporter; authorizing the
leasing of school lands to the Helena
agricultural schools; providing for pay
ment of expenses of district judges
while holding court in other districts; 4
fixing salary of assistant county at
torneys; establishing two fish hatch
cries; fixing liability of foreign insur-
ance companies desiring to do business
in the state.
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