The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-15

New legislative apportionment bill
gives Carter county only one repre-
sentative. More than seventy state Of
ticers abolished. Repeal of section 8
OF article 8 submitted to the people in
special election.
j. b. Champion who returned from
his legislative duties at the state capt.
tai yesterday in an interview today
said:
The number of bills passed by the
third legislature is considerably less
than any session since statehood, and
a majority of this number of lacol
nature, such as the establishment OF
additional county court towns in the
large counties of the state, and appro-
priations for the various institutions,
etc.
Legislation of Importance to all the
people. are such as the enactment of
good road law, providing for a state
highway commissioner, and a civil
engineer establishing system in road
building Providing for special tax
on all owners of automobiles, which
goes into the special road fund of the
state.
The bill adopting the Harris & Day
code, was the most important work of
the legislature. its complete revis-
ion of all acts of former legislatures
and all laws of the state. All dead
and obsolete laws with which our stat
utes have been burdened We're cut out,
conflicting acts and sections of the
statute have been revised, and acts
and sections of the statute where the
legislative entent was obscure, and
susceptible to different cOstructions
were differently worded and revised
so as to clearly set forth the legisla-
tive entent. This is of much impor-I
tance to the people for the reason wei
have all been at sea, as to what was
the law, etc, having had merely a few
compilations by Snyder and Elder for
instance, which was in no sense the
law, but merely prima facie evidence
of the law.
The passage of a resolution provid-l
ing for the repeal Of article nine sec
tion nine of our constitution, about
which we have all heard so much, is
important to the people of the state,
for the reason. time has convinced us
that it has been a stumbling block
in the way OF railroad building in Ok
lahoma. Many counties Of the state
have no railroads, and knowink that
nothing developes a state like rail-
rod building, and if this provision Of
our constitution is an impediment, the
intelligent people of the state should
repeal it.
The second legislature proposed the
repeal of this section, but at the same
time undertook to substitute a new
section in its stead which completely
utSlIOy Illt pOhCI VI lhC wi pOI dliOh
cmmission to control such corporation,
and which the people justly voted
down on the 18th of June last. And
in the general election in November
last, the matter of the repeal of this
section was submitted to the people
which received majority of more
than twenty thousand votes, of those
that voted on the question, but not
enough voted on this question to con-
stitute a majority of the voters OF the
state. So now the people have right
to repeal this section without limit
ing the power Of the corporation COM
mission, and in my judgment there
will be but little opposition.
A judicial redisrticting bill passed
the legislature, which gives great re-
lief to the people. especially in dis
tricts where judges were burdened