The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-02-01
COUNTY DIVISION BILL GOES
THROUGH WITH SEVERAL lta-
PoRTANT CHANGES.
FREE TEXT BOOKS
FOR THE CHILDREN
ARE PROVIDED in BILL PASSED
BY THE HousE-sTATE WILL
OFFER REWARDS FOR FISH
DYNAMiTERsA
Special By United Press.

Special by United Press.
Oklahoma City, Feb. THE lower
house Of the legislature was III ses-
sion this morning and passed to third
reading bill authorizing the state 70
pay rewards for the arrest and con.
yiction Of parties who dynamite fish il
the streams Of the state. The senate
session did not open till 1880 this aft
ernoon.
Make County Cutting Difficult.
The house of representatives Tues
day passed finally the county division
bill put the emergency on the county
assessor bill and passed the williams
free text book bill to final roll call.
The county division bill went
through in a radically different shape
thar that which the senate passed. The
bill was by Senator Smith and as it
passed the senate merely repealed all
existing laws under which counties are
divided The house rejected the idea
Of stopping county cutting, and dopt-
ed a series or amendments, chiefly BY
Teehea, which SO change the present
laws as to make county division much
more difficult Instead Of allowing rs
per cent Of the voters Of the territory
affected To begin county creation Or
/ division movement, the Teehee amend
ment, as trimmed BIZ Glover, requires
a petition Of ST per cent OF the AFFECT
ed voters to originate a county-cutting
election
TIE bill as 1t passed the house, pro
yides for special election commission
ers in each precinct of the voting ter
ritory, to be appointed BY the governor
and to live outside and have no inter-
lest personally or financially in the ter
ritory arfected BY the special division
election.
third important change in present
laws i that the movement to create
new counties, to secede, etc, shall not
he successful unless 60 per cent Of the
vote Of each portion Of an old county
affected shall favor the division. The
present law requires SO per cent Of the
entire territory, without regard To
whether the Individual portions Of the
proposed county shall all cast a SO
per cent vote in favor Of division or
not.
A fourth change, Is that. the new
counties, II successfuI. shall pay the
expenses Of the county division and
creation.
The bill finally passed BY the easy
majority Of ~ to TO- The emergency
was killed BY the decisive vote Of 80
for and 46 against Mr.. Peery, who
lives within the proposed county of
seger, to create which a special elec,
tion was called BY Governor Cruce, was
responsible for killing the emergency.
He urged that all preparations had
been made for the Seger county crea-
tion election, bur that If the present
bill passed with the emergency, max
ing such radical changes in the present
laws, it might destroy all the Seger
county work to data and force every
thing done over again. The house eyi-
IDENTIFY took his side Of the question.
Free Text Books for Children.
/ The free text book bill was passed to
final roll call with very little trouble.
An amendment appropriating S5O0.O00
E9ut Of the state treasury for the schol-
astic years ending in 1912 and 1918,
or s150,000 per year, had been pre-.
viously agreed upon as compromise
between the advocates Of state Or dis.
trict ownership Of the books and was
/ presented by MIR. Anthony. It was sup.
ported by Speaker Pro Tempore j. Roy
Williams, the author Of the bin, and
went through easily.
The qraaser million dollars annually
is to be apportioned to the districts
on August IL Of each year, just as she
school funds are sDportoned now, ac.
eording to the scholastic population
Under the I'LL as finally passed, PEN
ellis, tables, drinking cups and other
supplies will not be furnished tree to
the pupils
Bank BIif Passed. w
The senate finally disposed Ok the
Roddie banking bill on Tuesday and
sent il to the house after Roddie had