The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-29

the 1anleQudH NORMAL Improvements
$50 900 for a dormitory at the Chick
asha girls college; 100000 for the
Enid institution for the feebleminded;
So. 900 for school and chapel for the
orphan home; 100000 for the Sui
phur college for the deaf; and appro-
priations for a home for the blind. for
the boys training school at Pauls Val
ley, for improvements at the school
for negro orphans at Taft; and at the
negro A. and M. college at Lankston.
State Treasurer Bob" Dunlop rec
ommends that the state treasurer be
custodian of all public funds of the
state Of any kind whatever, and that
all 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 a call
for warrants every thirty days, if nec-
essary."
Secretary of State benjamin F. Har-
rison calls attention to several defec-
tive statutes, in which through omis-
sion or earelessness, important points
are 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 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 a
change in the method of making re-
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 un'
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, land
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
code that centralizes the matter o
makng and working roads under com
petent direction His recommends
tions call for a systematic plan, th'
object of which shall be to secure
results and not to provide offices" Al
road taxes should be paid in cash
Bids for road and bridge buildini
should be made upon standard plan
and specifications fived by the state Il
order to prevent pooling and combina
tons of bridge concerns and contra(
tors. The county should be made th
unit in place of the township in roa
work; II new road Improvement di'
trict law should be passed; the aut'
mobile tax should be raised from :
to a registration fee of $5 for eac
: machine in the state; the state higl
/ way fund should be augmented froi
. other sources. such as taxes upon pip
= lines. telephone companies and othel
. utilizing the public highway; conyi;
1 labor might be used instead OF fund
S whenever practical.
i. The state board of public affair
s composed of Messrs. Lon Frame, e,
: Howard and Eugene Morris, devote
/. its part of the supplemental messas
l. to a businesslike argument in fave
l. of more economical methods in pu
chasisg state supplies.
Miss Kate Barnard, commissioner
n charities and corrections, urges II
4 need of girls training school for
1t eorrigible or wayward girls; poin
o out the need of radical changes in d
D. penal system. aud urges a bill callil
e for complete modern system OF c'
d ing for and treating the insane.
tx DR. J. c. Mahr, commissioner
=; health says; The state by app
a priation should furnish antitoxin fre'
of and a marriage license should
to refused when one of the contract
at parties is suffering from a contagio
is or infectious disease that will endi
at ger the life aad health of the othe
or And provision should be made by
.e, state for the proper care and segrei
at ton of patients having tuberculosi
ny Stream pollution should be prohibit
ty and competent inspection for wa
", supplies and plants required, I
IN hotel inspection act should be ame'
DIS ed to provide for state instead OF CO.
IL.