The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-02-16
A STRONG LAW FoRBIDDlNG THE
CARRYING or WEAPONS WAS
PASSED TODAY.
VOTE TO RECONSIDER
THE BANKING BILL
Grady County Representatives Both
Vote in Favor Of the MotIon--Rev.
Andrew P. johnson invited to Ad-
dress the Legislature.

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Special by United Press.
Oklahoma City, Feb. l6.-The lower
house Of the Legislature today took q
decided stand against the weapon carr
rying practice and IFS attendant evils
and the conditions that encourage it
when BY a vote Of So to 81 It finally
passed a bill which not only increases
the penalty for the crime but also pro-
hibits the exhibition Of guns or brass
knuclis, etc, in show windows.
In a joint resolution passed by the
house today an appeal is made to con
gress to make provision whereby In
dian land can be taxed for drainage
district purposes. The resolution says
that there are thousands Of acres Of !
land in the eastern part Of the state
that can be made productive if con
gress will pass a law whereby the
state drainage laws can be made ef-
fectNe where Indian land Is involved.
Reconsider Bank Bill
The house of representatives We'd
nesday completely reversed its first
action on the banking bill, and BY
vote Of 81 to 35 RECONSTRUCTED its adop
ton Of the Killam-Fuller-Moore mi
norlty committee report, which It had
adopted Tuesday by vote Of 81 to
Al.
Exactly score Of members, five re-
publicans and fifteen democrats,
changed sides 10 bring about this re-
suit,
The second fight WIS short semple
made his motion to reconsider the adj
option Of the minority report, as he
mad given notice Tuesday he would.
Anthony moved 10 substitute the mo-
ton to reconsider and table The An
thony motion got the roll call, and It
lost BY vote Of s5 aye. 67, absent.
Under Speaker Durant's rulings when
the motion I'd reconsider and table
fails, the measure is reconsidered
Well satisfied with undoing what
had been done Tuesday, the supporters
Of the motion to reconsider attempted
nothing further. The bill will not
come up again until Friday.
The action Of the house Wednesday
merely puts matters back to where
they were before the first fight, in
which the governors idea, of a banking
board was defeated. Both the majority
committee report on the bill, advocat-
ling the governors ideas. and the mi
nority report, recommending the con-
trary. are before the house to be dis
posed Of
Glover and Frey Vote EYES,"
Following are those who voted to
reconsider the unfavorable action on
the governors board Tuesday: Acton.
Ashby (Jackson), Ashby (Pushmata-
ha) Baldwin Barham, Blackburn, Bo-
len, Brown, Campbell, Chambers,
champion, Charles. Clark (Gran),
Clarke (Kay) Cornell Coughlin, Cox,
Crawford. DAWSON, Deford (absent
Tuesday, Devereux, Edwards, Fisher,
Frey, Gillispie, Glover, Green, Harris,
jackson, Jamison (absent yesterday,
Jayne, Jenords, Jones, Kerr. Knee
land, Knight, Leftwich, Logan (abseut
yesterday, McCHntic, Madden (Har.
mon, Madden (Roser Mills, absent
yesterday, Milburn, Miller (Alusko
geel, Miller (Nowata) Moss, Patchelli
Peters fabsent. Yesterday, Porter,
Rentfrow, Rexroat {absent Yesterday
Rose. Searcy. semple twho voted
YES Tuesday to lodge motion to "
considerl, shearer, smith tAdairl
Smith (Creek) steen, Testerman
Thrash. Tooley vosburgh. Watrous
Webb. Williams (Kay), Woodson
Wright, Speaker Durant. Total, g.
The house recommended for passage
the bill sy Moore Of Ottawa relative
to county toll bridges, particularly ap
plying to a bridge near Miami. Tho
bill By Broome relative TO election o'
county commissioners was killed. The
p Frey, Bolen und Cornell anti-wife de
serion bin came up for discussion, bu
was re-referred.
chickasha Minister Honored.
The house accepted an Invitation t
" visit Tulsa next Saturday, and aiten.
banquet there An Invitation was ex
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