The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-01


held its biennial re-or'
panization at which Chairman Jack
Live was reelected as chairman for
tbe next two years and the Office
staff of the commission was lot
mally reelected or re-appointed'
Commissioner George A. Henshaw
is the new member of the commis-
sion having been elected in NoVeh-' /
her TO succeed the Honorable }. D.
McAlester, who was a member ol
the commission when organized with
the first state administration ana
who was last November elected
lieutenant governor Of Oklahoma.
The Honorable A. p. Watson, VINO
was elected in November 1908, for
full term of six years, Is the third
member of the commission. Under
this reorganization, Chairman Love
will remain at the head of the
commission until the expiration oi
his term of office, which Will be IN
January, 1918. Mr.. Love is the only
member OF the commission now serN-
ing as a result of the original stale
hood election in 1907. lie was chosen
for term as corporation commits
sioner and IN the casting OF Iots
for tenure of office won the long
/ at &c
be ten and one-half months short OF
the constitutional period of six years.
The legislature is vitalizing provi-
sions of the constitution including
those creating the corporation com
mission provided or certain posi-
tions. There were as follows: one
secretary, one Scorporation record
clerk. one expert accountant ana
rate clerk. one marshal and two of
fetal stenographers. The commission
at its reorganization this year re-
elected to these positions the per
sons who had been serving in the
same respective capacities under the
former organizations. The commits
sion also reapponted the other
members of its staff. These include
an expert rate clerk and one as
| sistant, telephone engineer, con
su,ting railway engineer and
craftsman, an assistant auditor and
accountant, mailing clerk and five
additional stenographers.
The work of the commission Is
apportioned by the commissioners
for the sake of convenience in gen
eral, as follows:
The chairman, Jack Love, is al
most constantly present at the OF
fices of the commission and ha
general supervision over the ad
ministration of its affairs, includ
ing the handling of general cor
respondencc, which is very volum
inous. He also presidos at hearings
before the full commission at tn,
state capital and occasionally con
ducts hearings at other points. Com
missioner Watson sits with the com
mission at hearings held at tn,
state capital in regular terms anC
spends most of the time betweeI
regular terms conducting hearings
which, as an accommodation to in
terested parties, are held at variou:
points throughout the state. Commits
sioner Henshaw, who from the or
ganizatiOn of the commission tC
his inauguration as one of its mem
bers, was its special counsel, il
addition to participating in hearings
at the capital, pays special attention
to the propositions OF law involved
in all matters enlisting the atten
ton of the commission, and will de
vote a great deal of time as long as
necessary to directing and super
vising the intended complete ap
nraisement of the properties of al
public service corporations in the
state of Oklahoma.
Al the members of the commission
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other partners belonging to said part
nership.
Dated this 18th day of January
1871.
d. 5. BLACKBURN,
+. \. RICHMOND,
QUINN WICKER,
State of Oklahoma, Carter county
SIS:
Before me, the undersigned, a Nc
tary Public in and for said Count
and state. on this 18th day of Janu
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