The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-02-21
RESOLUTION TO
ADJOURN ADOPTED.
Monday Spent BY Senate With Public
Building HiIIs--ResoIutIo to Dis
pose Of Normal Schools.

Oklahoma City, Feb, 21. without
quibbling the senate Monday after
noon adopted the Franklin resolution
calling for adjournment of the legis.
lature sine die at 10 p. m, Saturday
March 4. The house later adopted 1t
unanimously. The only discussion in
the senate was furnished by the au-
thor.
This legislature has done less up
to this time than any since statehood"
said Franklin. I'VE have not even
done enough to pay for our coming
here"
"A great many seem to think the
governor will call special session,
and if he should he win openly specify
a few matters for Us to consider"
There seems to be nothing Of inn
portance that we cannot do before
March If we fix the date of adjourn
ment and work with that end In view"
THE senate moved to make March
10 the date, but only Senator Stewart
supported him.
Public building bills occupied the
attention of the senate Monday, and
that they were considered and advanc-
ed to third reading during the day, in
Icluded one finally passed, the Thigh
man bill, carrying $4,000 to construct
barracks on the state encampment
grounds at Chandler.
Appropriation bills perfected, in the
senate were by Anderson, carrying
$4,000 for private orphan asylums;
by Goulding, appropriating 100000
for building at the Oklahoma insti.
tute for the feeble minded in Enid:
by Memminger, appropriating $i1,-
900 insurance money already available
for the insane asylum at Fort Supply;
by Landrum, appropriating $31 500 for
buildings for chapel, gymnasium and
heating plant at the Tahlequah state
normal
Representative Baawin iutfodnsed
Ia bill Monday abolishing the normal
|school at Ada, Tahlequah ana Wealth
Ierford and the university preparatory
school at Clareicore and providing for
the disposition Of the property by the
state board Of public affairs.
A great grist Of bills were passed
finally by the house as follows: BY
Woodson, legalizing the incorporation
|of Waynoka; by Cox. to pay Jurors in
Greer county; by Edwards and Bar
rett, reqniring gas TO be furnished
Through meters: BY Woodson, carrying
$500 for Ira r. Gibbs, an injured milf
tiaman; by Chambers and Coyne, ap-
|propriating $1,000 for special judges
of the criminal court Of appeals by
Moore of Coal authorizing county
clerks to issue warrants for mileage
and fees of witnesses and jurors: by
Barrett and Glover regulating the sale
of mill products; by Cornell. providing
for the transcribing of judgments; by
Moore Of Ottawa. authorizing counties
to acquire toll bridge rights; by Aiken
providing how city and county pris-
oners shall bcS worked: by Moss, legal
izing an election in Wagner: by Wood
son. legalizing Waynoka bond cleo
ton; by Broome, making spiro court
town; by the Muskogee delegation.
placing Muskogee county officers in
the same class as those of Oklahoma
county.
A harmless bin offered by Senator
Anderson carrying $4,000 for the Cor
Inish Orphans home, was SO loaded
downtown by the senate before 1t was
finally advanced to third reading Mon
day that 1t appeared for practically
every private orphan asylum in the
state. Amendments were adopted
carrying $4,000 each for the Goodland's
home at Hugo, the Murro home in
Coal county, the home at Kingfsher:
the Greek Orphans home at Okmulgee;
the Holiness Institution at Putnam
City; the Lebanon home in Marshall
county AS perfected the bill carried
$4,000