The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-12-04
GOVERNOR ASKS
SENATE TO CONFIRM
HIS APPOINTMENTS
Governor Places Essential Proposition
Immediately Up to Senate
Without Pleadings.

Oklahoma City Dec 4.-The Okla
homa senate convened at noon Tues
day in the auditorium of the Okla
homa City chamber of commerce in
the Colcord building, attended to
some minor matters, received the gov
ernors message transmitting the
board feducation appointments, and
went into executive session to hear
it, and then adjourned until 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning.
The senate began the special ses-
sion leisurely, and the signs now are
that it may still be in session week
cided Monday night that a perma-
nent organization would be effected
at once, and that all committee as
signments for the regular session
should be made now This will take
three or four days, and then the SEN
ate is showing no great desire to
jump at once into the business for
which the governor has called them
in extraordinary assembly. So far
the matter of gubernatorial appoint
ments has not been broached either in
the senate or in democratic caucus,
though this usually forms the chief
topic of conversation wherever two
or three senators are to be found to-
gether
With certain prudent foresight,
Governor Cruce did not send up all
of his nominations Tuesday, but mere
ly those of the state board of educa-
tion and the district judges About
the latter there will be no fight so far
as any one has heard of and around
the former the big fight of the session
will rage. Why Governor Cruce did
not send all the nominations to the
senate in the opening message puzzled
some of the politicians, but the wiser
ones say that the reasons that it is
best not to get the other appointees
tangled up in the fight that all now
realize the board of education nomi-
nations will make When the board
of education is out of the way then
the governor will send in the other
names, and they will not be in ieop-
ardy in the mentime.
Action is Uncertain.
AS to what the senate will do with
the board of education, no answer yet
has crystallized There is one strong
faction that would confirm them; an
other strong faction that wants delay;
and between these two a lot of scat
tered opinions. A proposition to ap
point committee to take the various
nominations and qualifications of the
appointees to be confirmed, is right
now in high favor with those sena-
tors who have taken sides against
Governor Cruces board of education
policy. Such a plan could we'll ex
tend the fight until the regular session
of the legislature meets
Governor Cruce, in his message,
puts the matter up to the senate with
out any pleadings whatever. His
chief argument is that the senate in
special session should dispose of the
combinations, so that the regular ses-
sion of the legislature can go to work
at the many important problems that
will confront it without harassmcnt
from such controversies He says
ITO the senate in special session
assembled
In calling you in extraordinary ses-
sion | have departed from fixed pol
icy of mine, but feel that the condi-
tions that exist justify my action.
realize that no session of the legisla-
ture or of the senate, however brief,
can be held without expense to the
taxpayers of Oklahoma, and that the
governor is never justified in incurring
this expense unless the result to be
obtained is in the interest of the tax
payers Of the state.
L lie laws Oh JHlS Sldle lHpose upoh
the senate certain duties that cannot
be shared by the lower branch of the
legislature, and any public duty that
must be performed by the senate alone
ordinarily can be performed with less
expense in special session than to un-
dertake to have that duty discharged
bled
No Pleading by Cruce.
by the terms of the laws of this
state there is imposed upon the gov
ernor the duty of making certain ap-
pointments. In obedience to that law
and in the discharge of my obligation
thus imposed, ] have named certain
;nd;vfd,,,le 70 onnofntmente under me