Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-06-11
ALL OVER WITH
THE DISPENSARY
PETITION FOR REFERENDUM
ON THE BILL NOT FILED.
NUMEROUS LAWS EFFECTIVE
Measures Enacted by Last Lcgisla-
turc Became Operative in Okla
hOmn Yesterday.

Special to the World
Oklahoma city Okla, June 10
The Oklahoma dlspeusury as meth
OF of handling the liquor question
passed into history at midnight
Thursday. II had seemed for time
as though the efforts TO secure "A
referendum on the bill passed by the
last legislature might be successful,
and general reports had been cur
rent during the last two days that
the referendum petitions which have
been in circulation would be filed
before Thursday night, when the
time for filing expired, but they had
not yet made their appearance at o
8 o'clock Thursday afternoon, when
the secretary Of states office closed
for the day, and Secretary of state
Ben =. Harrison announced that he
would not receive them If they were
presented to him after office hours
The failure to file them removed
any possibility Of the suspension Of
the operation of the new law, which
large number of other new statutes
Many Of the most important laws
passed at the last session of the leg
islature become effective today un-
der the provision of the constitution
that no law shall become effective
until ninety days after the adjourn
ment of the legislative session at
which is was passed unless an
emergency clause Is attached, max
This can only be done by a two
thirds vote of each house and the
result is that the measures which are
closely contested are likely to have
to wait the ninety days before taking
effect.
The purpose Of the ninety days de-
lay is to give the people Of the state
an opportunity to invoke the refer
endum against such bills If they so
desire, The new prohibition enforce
ment bill is the only one of the
measures effective this week on
which any effort was made to Sc
cure referendum. and referendum
petitions on that bill have been cir
culated, but they were not filed
within the ninety days, and will
therefore not delay the putting into
effect of the new law. At the time
the legislature adjourned 1t was con-
sidered almost certainty that there
would be a referendum on the school
land sale bill, and some steps were
taken in that direction, but no one
seemed to be willing to put up the
money required for the circulation Of
the petitions, and that movement has
fallen flat.
Those two bills are probably OF
greater general importance than any
Of the others which become effective
at this time. The prohibition bill
does away with the state and local
dlspensaries as a means Of handling
the liquor business, and does away
with the general system of state en-
forcement officers and the state en-
forCement attorney II substitutes for
them one special enforcement officer,
who Is to be under the immediate
direction OF the governor, and may
be sent by him wherever he has rea-
son to believe the prohlbitory law is
not being enforced The old system
of selling Coniiscated liquors outside
the state Is done away WITH and pro-
vision Is made for the destruction Of
ali liquors seized
The amount Of liquor which may
legally be kept for personal use Is
limited to one quart at club or
place of business, and one gallon Of
spirituous or vinous liuqor and ono
cask Of malt liquor at a residence.
a person convicted of a third viola.
tIon Of the prohIbitory law may be
judged an habitual vlolator and
guilty OF a felony.
The school land bill provides for
the sale Of all the school lands not
covered by the previous sale bill, in
Guiding at this time sections 16 and
SO, the common school land, and
section 19, the college land, granted
as an endowment to the higher edu-
cation al institutions Of the state,
Two minor bills effecting the sale OF
school lands also become effective at
this time, one regulating the method