The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-13
(From the Oklahoman)

tFr0m the OkldnOnldll)
with but eighteen days remaining |
of the regular session of the legis-
lature. the law makers are taking
stock to see what they have done,
and yet have to do. They find, in
brief, that they have introduced some
seven hundred bills altogether, on
all subjects from matrimony to MUIR
der and deputy constables to con-
gressional redistricting; that they
have passed finally and sent to the
governor some dozen of bills, none
of them of great direct interest to
the general public; and that of all
the big questions submitted to them
at the beginning Of the session. mos;
are yet to be finally disposed of.
In many respects, the present ses-
sion has been unique. 1T has been
the most ndependent-minded legls
lature / have ever seen, said an
old politician Sunday.
Both houses have worked indus
triously from the beginning. The ad.
journment over Saturday has been
rare There has been no laziness,
either in committee or on the floor.
But both houses have shown a de
cded inclination to undo, or make
great changes in anything that the
other has done.
The house and senate are now di
ametrically opposite on the question
of the capitol building commission;
ing the commission the fullest pow
ers TO build the state capitol; and
with senate bill in the house to
abolish the commission entirely On
the question of prohibition enforce
ment, the same tendency to differ
has been shown, since the house af
ter fight that developed fully the
sentiments of all the members, cut
| from that bill the section advocated
by both the present and the former
governor, that the governor should
be given the power to suspend
county officers failing to enforce the
prohibitory law.
The house has eliminated the anti.
county division bill passed by the
senate and substituted therefor
bill amending the laws, still to allow
county cutting but making it more
difficult to begin such agitation.
Tax Bill Dead.
The tax extension bill, that passed
the house so readily has finally died
in the senate, after a career excep-
tionally rough. 1t got to the COVER
nor once, but on the opinion of the
attorney general that it was framed
unconstitutionally, was recalled oy
the legislature, passed again by the
house, passed by the senate but with
amendment, sent to conference com
mittee, and doubled back and forth
between the two houses until finally
the senate in a fit of evaporation
at what was becoming really humor-
Gus, killed The bill
The tale of the Muskogee fair bill
that passed the house in three days,
and has been tied mp in the senate
a month or more need not be re-
peated. And what the senate will
do to the county assessor bill: the
district attorney bill, and other i'm
portant measures that the house has
passed, is question yet to be an
swered
With all of this conflict of opin-
ion between the two bodies. and
the emphatic messages of Governor
Cruce upon several questions or bills,
wherein he differs from the legisla-
tors, where there has been no Ill
! feeling engendered. In fact, the cor
dial good will between the two
! houses, and the respect and admlrd-
ton in which the legislators unani-
/ mously hold Governor Cruce, are al
most record breaking. The LEGISLATORS
and governor seem to be of the idea
that even if they disagree over pro-
posed laws, the disagreement is from
conscience and not from malice or
obstructionary tactics.
This is the first legislature since
statehood in which there has not
been some coterie personally at i'll |
will with the majority and the ad. |
ministration. Even the republican
members of this legislature are for.
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