The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-07-03
|0KLA. CITY
PLAYS THE
BABY ACT
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First Remittance on 'fTss''
Capitol Building Not
Forthcoming

4 oklahoma city, Okla, July j.
(, Payment OF the Hrst $4,000 due II
state Saturday from the Capt
X building company in the $1,000 30
free state capitol project was no
t made Instead member OF the ron
lpany delivered TO Governor Cru
Saturday night letter In which ta
lcompany's refusal was explained a
\ being due TO the petition recentlt
lftled by Thomas q Whiteley OF Gut1
Irie asking the supreme court for +;
lfchearing of the caFitol removal siilt
The building company relies upot
that feature of the contract mae.
with Governor Haskell relieving il
from making payments In event erec
tion OF the building is eniolned OF
become involved IN litigation as .c
LEGALITY OF the site, or as TO location
thereon
So long as the motion for rehear
ling Is pending the company announ-
ced there was an element of doubt
[tfat the location has been made in
Oklahoma city or that the capitol
viii be placed or the so-caled north
east site. Members OF the company
ARE having its liability more fully
locked into from legal standpoint.
and Ii II develops, according TO Ed s..
Vaught. one ct the company, that
the refusal OF Saturday can not be
sustained, then. he says. the obliga-
ton will be met.
That II Is pract ylly impossible.
urder existing conditions. TO realize
upon the property as originally con.
templated is freely admitted, and a
reeting of business men was held at
pbich committee, consisting OF @.
D. Halsell. o r. Workman, president
OF the Chamber of Commerce, ana
81 A. I.edbetter, one of the attorneys
in the capt. Il reno al litigation, wesl
appointed to work with the building
with view OF finding q
solution. Several plans are in pros
peet one being to bond the build
irg company for sufficient sum tol
bring the 81 ,000, ,00V. placing the prop
erty assets as collateral, and work
cnt the sale throueE trustee. An
other contemnlateg the states TAX
II charge of the tracts of land ard
realizing the money if it is possible
ard building it's own state house. Lee
cal opinions say a million-dollar bond
issue By the city would be illegal.
The state will mo- go into the pro- |
ject any further than the contract
made with Governor Haskell permits,
according to statements made by
Governor Cruce to tts committee
several days ago. Neither will he call
he legislature to meet to consider a !
revision OF the contract terms, so
that the building committee can be
X elieved from the present obligations
ly turning over the companys land
assets TO the state, as appears to be
he desire That plan was proposed
q the legislature last December, but
gas not cordially received. II Is IN
lerstood the committee named will
llso consult Governor Haskell IN
,Iuskogee with view OF enlistins
'is support.
Announcement was made that
leeds 10 5i9 OF the R27 ~ acres in
he proposed capitol location district
Iad been made to the building COM
ANY and placed on record, and that
eeds to the fifteen acres upon when
~ state buildings are to stand,
you'd be made delivered TO Governor
'ruce. together with a plat OF the !
nd showing subdivision in lots ana
locks