The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-26
GOVERNOR
,D.TRIMS nPAY \.
7 MEASURES
Veto Applied 10 Seventeen Bills
Passed BY Late LegIs-
IatuTe
Special to Daily Leader.


! Friday to seventeen bills passed by
the legislature at its recent session,
Including appropriation measures az
gregating with increases OF salary
and similar items three-quarters of a
| million.
Most of these were for new build
Iings at the various state institutions
4 Twenty more bills were signed. in
clnding several of Importance. ~he
! governor has Just thirty bills still in
| his possession, to be disposed OF be-
fore Saturday night. 1t is believed
that he will either approve or disap-
prove ali Of them, and not allow any
OF them to die, merely by limitation.
Between the bills disapproyed Fri
and those vetoed by the governor
! during the session Of the legislature,
appropriations of more than $1,000
600 have been eliminated, and many
others greatly reduced by the gov
Gnor's frank declarations to the
friends Of the bills that he would We
to them il the amounts were not re-
dueed.
i Only one of the public building
bills passed by the legislature, tbat
appropriating $l25,000 for a new
building for the law school al the
state university at Norman, has been
signed by the governor Building
bills for the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical college and the normal school at
Alva are still pending.
i The institutions affected by Fri
i days yetoes and the amounts involv-
ed are as follows: Claremore Prepar.
atory scLpol, $4,000; six district
agricultural schools, $4,000; Lawton
i Horticultural school, $4,000, Tisho-
mingo agricultural school, $50,000
i Confederate home at Ardmore, s11,-
i coo; Tahlequah normal school, $780,
600; Durant normal school, $4,000;
Ada normal, $4,000. colored uniyer-
4 sity, Langston, $25,000 Tonkawa
\ Preparatory school, $25,000, militia
barracks at Chandler, $4,000: addi-
tional land for schools at Broken Ar
row and Goodwell, $6,400.
Bills Vetoed
4 The two most important bills We.
toed outside of the appropriations
were Miss Kate Barnard's public de,
i fender" bill and the Thomas bill. Civ
ing the commission of health control
over the water supply Of the state,
which had been vigorously opposed
hy all Of the larger cities. The veto
Iof the public defender bill had been
expected, and was probably helped
along b5- the questions raised as to
The regularity OF the passage of that
bill in the house
i Other bills vetoed were. BY Bar.
rett. for publication of initiative and
referendum propositions in newspap-
er instead of in pamphlet form: by
Echols. increasing the salaries of
court reporters; by Vandeventer, re-
! curing reports from various indus.
tries to the commissioner of labor;
by Peters. for leasing school land
OF Helena to the board OF agriculture,
by Steen, for paying expenses of dis
trict judges by Crawford and Sem
pie. increasing salaries of assistant
county attorneys in certain counties;
hy Jones and Denton, regulating the
issuance of state warrants; by Thorn
as establishing fish hatcheries. by
fish and game committee. for game
propagation farms. by Maxey. 40 per
cent liability law for insurance oom.
panies.
Severe Arraignment T
Most important OF the bills signed
! ~ Governor Cruce, Friday was the
general deficiency bill which carried,
rs passed by the legislature, close to
100000 in appropriations Only
S29,204,65 was cut out OF that bill,
but the deficiency idea was severely
arraigned In statement made by
the governor in connection with that
bill.
In the future says the governor
shall have 20 be convinced beyond
/ ali reasonable doubt that mstifea-
ton exists before viii again approve
la deficiency bill"
| The normal schools come in for a
strong share of the governors crit
icism and he states that he has ap-
proved the items relating to them
with the distinct understanding that
nothing Is to be drawn on them un-
ul they are checked over and approx
Ga by the state board OF education.
The higgest item cut out is $685.
g72.5'0 for the code commission, to-
sether with $l,06250 for rent for the
commission at the lone hotel in
Guthrie other items eliminated was
loco for expenses of district judges
duplicated In another item. 1910 for
| e. II pittman for extra work during
the First legislature, and $1,659 25
Tor stenographers 10 Justices of he
territorial supreme court.
No change was made In the items
appropriating approximately $4,000
for expenses OF the capitol commis-
sion to March Is, $4,000 for expense
of removal from Guthrie, and $4,000
for repairs on the Irving. school build,
ling s
s fRiIta other bills Sl&ffed were for the
most part smalff appropriation bills
The Edmond Normal school, whose
new building bill was vetoed by the
governor some time ago, gets $25,000
fer improvements and repairs, which
win help TO increase the capacity oil
the present building somewhat.
Other appropriations approved were
for deficiency of mine Inspector. $S,-
oe0. state historical society. s5,s00.
statue OF Sequoyah, $4,000; equip.
ment for girls school at Chickasha,
$500: equipment for colored unirer-
Issty at Langston. $4,000; state cleo.