The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-03-18

WORK AS
A SOLON
Put in Hard LiCkS for
Good Roads and
Schools

when went to the legislature
had two special objects in view" said
Representative r. l.. Glover who was
in town yesterday from Rush Springs.
First l wanted to get a better sys-
tenn Of public highways for Oklahoma
and second I wanted better system
Of higher education at home.
These two subjects engrossed most
of my attention and made very sat
isfactory headway till they reached
the appropriation committee and when
it appeared that we were confronted
with half million deficit and to car
ry out my ideas would require the
state levy to be raised beyond the two
mill limit. l saw that ! had to back
up and be content with the best pos
sible under the circumstances.
4 had to abandon my original good
roods bill and accept substitute.
This substitute as passed by the house
called for a levy of 25 cents per horse
power on all autos and would have
yielded $4,000 a year, which would
have gone long way in road build
ing. The senate made it 81 per auto
which will bring in about $4,000 a
year, sufficient to meet the expenses
of a good roads department that can
do much in the way Of educating the
people on subject which is one Of
the most important before US.
II succeeded III getting the house
to pass my convict labor bill unani
mously but It was smothered In the
senate committee. also drew a bill
providing for rock crushers at Gran
lite and AIcAlester where the convictf
might be employed but it met the
same fate. 1t takes 100000 year tC
maintain our convicts and the sooner
we put them to work on the roads il
the various counties, the better off VIZ
shall be, in addition to the benefits t
The roads.
"As to education, my main idea wal
10 bring higher education close to thu
homes Of the children. soon founl
two conflicting ideas on this subject
One called for consolidated school dis
tricts, this sentiment being yer
strong, and the other for union grad
ed schools. MY own idea was to leav
our school districts as they are ant
add a central high school for seyera
districts. Both Of these plans vii
doubtless eventually be adopted il
different sections Of the state.
Il had to give up the idea Of stat
aid for the schools by direct taxatio
for the same reason that / had t
! abandon it on the roads bill. clair
to be the author Of the bill for th
: sale Of the Greer county lands and tn
use of the proceeds in aiding in tn
erection Of rural high schools. Th
/ bill for the sale Of the land passe
= the house without any provision ths
u the money thus realized should
credited to the fund to be thus use
3 On my motion it was recalled fro
= the senate and this provision was a
= ded 1t went TO the senate again al
: was slightly amended and on my m
Y tion a conference committee was a
y pointed of which | was chairman.
2 it was finally accepted BY both hous
. the bill provides for the sale OF Al
= 900 acres. worth all told approximat
ly 100000 AS soon as this land
= sold the money win be available to a
in building rural high schools not
excesd $250O for each building"
:, Among the other bills which NJ
y Glover put through were the unlfor
mill product bill and the blacksmith
lien measure. And we didn't lose
= single item in the appropriations as
e ed for the l. /. & C." he added.