The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-26
GOVERNOR CRUCE
vET0ES MANY BILLS
APPROPRIATIONS TO AMOUNT
OF THREE-oUARTERs OF A
MILLION TURNED DOWN.

Friday TO seventeen bills passed by
the legislature at it's recent session,
including appropriation measures ag-
gregating with increase of salary
and similar items three-qarters OF
million.
Most of these We're for new build
lngs at the various state instltu-
tions Twenty more bills were
signed, including several of import
ance. The governor has just thirty
bills still in his possession, to be
disposed of before Saturday night.
1t is believed that he will either APP
prove or disapprove all of them, ana
not allow any Of them to die, mere
ly by limitation.
Between the bills disapproved
Friday and those vetoed by the gov
ernor during the session of the leg
islature, appropriations of more than
81 100000 have been eliminated, and
many others greatly reduced by the
governors frank declarations to the
friends of the bills that he would
veto them if the amounts were not
reduced
Only one of the public building
bills passed by the legislature, that
approprating $l25,000 for the new
law school at the state university
at Norman, has been signed by the
governor Building bills for the Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical college
and the normal school at Alva are
still pending.
The institutions affected by Fri
days yetoes and the amounts in
volved are as follows: Claremore
Preparatory school, $4,000; six dis
trict agricultural schools, $55,000
Lawton Agricultural school, $4,000;
Tishomingo Agricultural school, $780,
900; Confederate home at Ardmore,
$l1,250; Tahlequah Normal school,
$51,50O Durant Normal school, $2O,'
900; Ada normal $4,000; colored
university, Langston, $4,000; Tonka.
wa Preparatory school, $4,000; mil
itia barracks at Chandler, $4,000;
: additional land for schools at Broken
Arrow and Goodwell. $4,000.
Bills Vetoed.
The two most important bills We
toed outside of the appropriations
were Miss Kate Barnard's public de
fender" bill and the Thomas bill
giving the commission of health con
troll over the water supply of the
state, which had been vigorously op.
posed by all Of the larger cities
The veto of the public defender bill
had been expected, and was prob
ably helped along by the questions
raised as to the regularity of the
passage of that bill in the house.
Other bills vetoed were: BY Bar
rett, for publication of initiative and
referendum propositions in newspa-
|
Echols, increasing the salaries OF
court reporters; by Vandeventer, re-
! quiring reports from various indus
tries to the commissioner of labor;
! by Peters, for leasing school land
at Helena to the board of agricul.
| ture; by Steen, for paying expenses
of district judges by Crawford and
Semple, increasing salaries of as
sistant county attorneys in certain
counties; by Jones and Denton, reg
ulating the issuance of state war
rants; by Thomas, establishing fish
hatcheries; by fish and game COM
mittee. for game propagation farms;
by MaXey, 40 per cent liability law
| for insurance companies.
Severe Arraignment.
Most important of the bills signed
| by Governor Cruce, Friday. was the
genera deficiency bill. which car
ried, as passed by the Legislature,
close to 100000 in appropriations
Only 29,2Oi.65 was cut out of thai
bill. but the deficiency idea was
severely arraigned in statement
made by the governor in connection
with that bill.
In the future" says the govern.
or. II shall have to be convinced
beyond all reasonable doubt that
justification exists before | will
again approve a deficiency bill"
The normal schools come in for a
strong share of the governors criti-
cism and he states that he has ap-
proved the items relating to them
with the distinct understanding that
nothing is to be drawn on them un-
I'll they are checked over and APP
proved by the state board of edu-
cation.
The biggest item cut out is $685.
272.50 for the code commission, to.
gether with S1.O625O for rent for
the commission at the lone hotel in