The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-11-27

per month, and those on second grade
certificates. from drawing more than
$50.
Superintendent Wilson also recon-
mends changes in the control of the
eelemosynary institutions and that
the text book commission be made
separate commission He suggests
several other minor or technical
changes in existing laws,
Appropriations Asked.
On behalf of the state board of edu-
cation, he recommends appropriations
as follows: For an additional build
ing at the Edmond normal; $4,000 for
the Tahlequah normal Improvements;
$4,000 for a dormitory at the Chick
asha girls college; 100000 for the
Enid Institution for the feebleminded;
$25,000 for school and chapel for the
orphan home; 100000 for the Sui
phur college for the deaf; and appro-
priations for home for the blind, for
the boys training school at Pals Val
ley, for improvements at the school
for negro orphans at Taft; and at the
negro A. and NJ college at Lankston,
State Treasurer Bob" Dunlop rec
lommends that the state treasurer be
custodian of all public funds of the
state Of any kind whatever, and that
Iall departments and commissioners
collecting moneys shall deposit such
with the state treasurer whenever they
have 500 in their hands, except the
county treasurers, who shall remit to
the state treasurer the first Monday
|of each month. THE state treasurer
also should be allowed to make call
for warrants every thirty days, If nee
Iessary."
Secretary of State Benjamin f. Har-
Irison calls attention to several defec-
tive statutes, in which through omis-
sion or carelessness, important points
Iare missing.
He strongly urges that all hearings
on protests against the initiative and
referendum be transferred from his
office to the sole jurisdiction of the
supreme court. He asks a general
law governing the distribution of stat
utes and session laws. He urges that
the state grain commission be abolish
ed and the work turned over to the
state board of agriculture. asks al
change in the method of making rel
ports in his office; asks for palmer
statutes relative to the fees to be paid
by foreign corporations, and asks that
some restrictions be put around the
appointment of notaries so that UNI
qualified persons would not be named
One important recommendation that
the secretary of state makes is that
corporations be required to pay in a
certain amount of their capital stock
before applying for a charter. and
limiting the time when the remainder
should be paid in
Better Road Laws Wanted.
State Highway Commissioner Sid
ney Suggs asks the repeal of all exist |
ing road laws and the enactment of a
code that centralizes the matter OF
making and working roads under COM
tions call for a systematic plan, the
object OF which shall be to secure |
results and not to provide Offices" All |
road taxes should be paid in cash. |
Bids for road and bridge building
should be made upon standard plans
and specifications fived by the state in
order to prevent pooling and combina-
tions of bridge concerns and contrac- |
tors. The county should be made the
unit in place of the township in road |
work; new road improvement dis /
trict law should be passed; the auto
mobile tax should be raised from 81
to registration fee of S. for each
in the state; the state high
way fund should be augmented from
other sources, such as taxes upon pipe
lines, telephone companies and others
the public highway; convict
labor might be used instead of funds
whenever practical
The state board of public affairs,
OF Messrs Lon Frame, E. Il.
Howard and Eugene Morris, devotes
is part of the supplemental message
% a business-like argument in favor
If more economical methods in pur-
chasing state supplies.
Miss Kate Barnard, commissioner Of
charities and corrections, urges the
need of a girls training school for III
or wayward girls; points
mi tho need of radical changes in the ,