The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-11-29
STATE OFFICIALS
ASK LEGISLATION
cruee Submits Department Recon-
mendation in Special Message
Demands Are Varied.

Oklahoma City, Nov 27.-Many i'm
portant changes are suggested in Ok
lahoma laws by state departmental
heads, whose recommendations GOV
ernor Cruce made public Tuesday In
n supplemental message to the mem
bers of the Fourth legislature. The
various recommendations, gathered
together in one pamphlet, with brief
preface of transmission by the gov
ernor were given out, to the news
papers and mailed to the legislators
as was the governors message itself,
State Bank Commission ]. d. Lank-
ford advocates a alw making 1t a
felony to circulate reports derogatory
10 the financial condition of banks;
asks palmer and more definite banking
criminal statutes, and heavy penal
ties for bank robbery; advocates a
bad check" law; would absolutely
prohibit any state banker advancing
any funds OF his bank TO firmsor cor
porations in which he is interested, or
10 any relative or person with whom
he is connected in any way; urges that
all public funds of the state should
he deposited in state banks; that
building and loan associations should
be placed under the supervision ot
the banking department.
with reference TO the bank guar
anty feature of our law" says Com
missioner Landlord, will say 1t is not
growing in favor with the banks, but
it Is becoming more popular each day
with the people" He recommends
Hxed specific tax against banks TO
keep up teh guaranty fund and that
IL this is not enough in emergency, the
state make up the balance.
insurance Department.
Insurance Commissioner Perry A.
Ballard submits thirteen recommends
tions. as follows: That tn insurance
commissioner be given the same gen
eral power over insurance rates and
rate regulation as the corporation com
mission has over corporations; tha'
the minimum paid up stock of iir'
companies be not less than 100000
and $4,000 surplus required; that al
insurance companies be placed unde
the jurisdiction OF the insurance dc
partment as soon rs chartered tina
the expense OF promotion and orgahi1
alton OF insurance companies be no
more than Is per cent of the amour
realized from the sale of capital stock
that a tax of at least 8 per cent b
levied on premiums of unauthorize
companies: that it be made mis6
meanor to represent an unauthorize
insurance company in any capacity
that insurance companies in any CT
uacity; that insurance companies b
required 10 bond all their agents; tina
Insurance companies should be pena
lied for accepting insurance from I'll
authorized agents; that the legislator
should make a sufficient appropriate
to pay the benefits under the firemen
pension law: more stringent regui
tions around insurance receivershiI
are desired; also a bill relating to "e
cess insurance in unauthorized cor
panies;" regulating reinsurance co
tracts and giving the department s
pervision over such.
Wilson's Recommendations.
state Superintendent r. Ii. Wilst
comes in with twenty-siX recommend
tons. not the least Of which IS tn
all teachers should be required
stand a physical examination and fur
ish certificate of good health /
also urges that the compulsory atter
ance law be amended to require a
months attendance instead of tire
that the university be supported by
millage tax; that the qualifications
county superintendents be raised
that of a normal school graduate tf
the county treasurer be made the e'
todian of district school tuIos' u
cities may make levy sufficient
nine months school without n Vo
and district. a six months school; Il
no teacher should be engaged IN a
city without the approval of the c
superintendent, nor in the coun
without that of the county super
tendent that the nepotism law TIM
OF the patrons Of any school distrl
a relative Of a member of the bo;
may be employed; that after 1918,
teacher should be licensed to te'
who has not an education equiyai
to a four-year high school course t
psychology, biology and literae
should be added to the requireme
Of a first grade certificate; that tea
ers on third grade certificate be
hibited from drawing more than
v,o, month and those on second gr