The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-26

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work during the first legislature,
and $1,65925 for stenographers TO
justices of the territorial supreme
court.
No change was made in the items
appropriating approximately $4,000
for expenses of the capitol commits
sion to March IS, $4,000 for expense
of removal from Guthrie, and $4,000
for repairs on the Irving school
building
The other bills signed were for
the most part small appropriation
bills. The Edmond Normal school,
whose new building bill was vetoed
by the governor some time ago,
gets $4,000 for improvements and
repairs, which will help to increase
the capacity of the present build
ings somewhat.
Other appropriations approved
were: For deficiency of mine in
spector, $4,000; state historical So
ciety, $500; statue of Sequoyah,
$1,000; equipment for girls school
at Chickasha, $5,S00 equipment for
colored university at Langston, So
200; state election board, $14,2OO;
fire marshal's office (from special
fund.-, $4,000 fish and game de-
partment (from game protection
fund.-, $62,200; Fort Supply insane
asylum insurance money reappro-
priated), 1000; for payments of
rewards, $4,000; for eXtradition ex-
penses, $4,000; compier1on of A. 4
NJ. college buildings treappropriatedl
34,676.i9; reimbursing Game Ward
en- Askew, $l,256,S9; completion OF
buildings at Warner Agricultural
school (reappropriated 81 1,417.O5.
Governor Cruce also approved bills
by Vandeventer, regulating elections
in charter cities; by Graham, giving
county superintendent an assistant,
and by Cox, authorizing the leasing
of school land at Granite to the re-
formatory.
In the governors statement on
the deficiency bill, which presents
strong exposition of his views on
the subject he says:
In passing upon this general de.
ficiency bin, l have been compelled
to grope in the dark, and l am
sure that items of doubtful merit
have been approved. i have done
the best | could with the lights be-
fore me- i desire here to call at
tention to the custom that seems
to have prevailed in nearly all the
departments aud institutions of the
state, of creating deficiencies. Es
pecially is this true of the normal
schools of the state. Every normal
school in the state asks for a de
: ficiency appropriation ranging from
$2,325 for the Ada normal to $S,
+ 61S.9S for the Durant Normal, and
aggregating for the six nOrmals the
sum of $33,424.50. The girls indus
trial school at Chickasha asks for
$6,2S5.
Not All Valid.
Il am thoroughly convinced that
all OF the above amounts are not
valid claims against the state. How.
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power to reduce them, and since
to veto the entire amount, thereby
compelling meritorious claims to
wait for settlement for two years,
would entail great hardship upon
meritorious claimants, l have ap-
proved the items with the distinct
understanding that no part of same
is to be drawn against until prop
erly checked over and approved by
the state board of education, created
by recent act of the legislature.
The item expense of district
judges when transferred out of their
districts, $1,000 is disaproved for
the reason that it is a duplication
of appropriation made in another
paragraph under the caption, district
Judges
Il have disapppved all items
in any manner connected with the
code commission. If there is real
justification for this appropriation
/ have not discovered II. The act
creating this commission was ap-
proved March IL, 1909, and provid-
ed that the commissioners should
begin work not lated than the first
day of April, 1909, and unat they
shall have the same ready for sub
mission No, later enan the first day
of Decenbcr 1909 1t is evident
that It was intended by the legisla-
ture creating this commission, that
the commissioners should complete
the work within eight months, and