Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-05
CRUCG UNDOINC
MIDNIGHT WORK
TRYING TO RECTlfY WRONG
DONE BY ACTING COVER
NOR M'ALESTER.
court ACTIONS ARE next
Countermands School Book Order
and Tells Warden TO Disre-
gard PardoDs Issued.

OKLAHOMA CITY, okla, Aug. 4.
Especial with instructions to
the attorney general to disregard ac-
ton of j. j. McAlester as acting gov
ernor in signing contracts Tor the
adoption of text books, and notifying
Warden Dick of the state prison not
to release five men pardoned ny NC
Alester, Governor Cruce Monday
seems to have control of the sltua-
Ion relative to the hurried acuon Oh
Lieutenant Governor McAlcster sat
urday night M 10 o'clock, when he
pardoned five men and signed the
book contracts.
While Governor Cruce served no.
Hce on an book companies that the
legal question affecting the adoption
of the books was still in the courts
and would not be determined untll
the supreme court passed on H. H.
II. Wilson, state superintendent, mas
notified the companies to send the
books on now that the contracts nave
been signed. Just how far the book
companies will get in the distribu-
ton of the books, ii Is Impossible To
tell now. The oklahoma Book com
pany of this city will receive the
books from the various companies
but will only act as n receiving agent
for the books and will have nothing
to do with the actual distribution OF
them. 1t is expected that If an at
tempt is made to deliver the books
to the various school districts, IN
junction proceedings of some klnu
will be resorted to.
Expect Habcas Corpus.
Az Governor Cruce has notified
Warden Dick at the ponitenuary not
to paw any attention to the pardons
granted by McAlester, II is expected
that habeas corpus proceedings VIII
be started If the attempt to liberate
the men is followed up.
Governor Cruce Is of the opinion
that he had power to stop the par
dons to the five men. He takes the
position that until the pardons have
been delivered to the men Interested,
the governor has control Of them
and can revoke or recall them. II
Is a question that will probably go
10 the courts whether or not a par
don becomes cgeCtlve the moment II
is signed by the governor or not until
IL has been delivered to the prisoner.
If the court holds to the latter
point then there Is nothing TO pre-
vent the men being turned out In
this connection Governor Cruce is OF
the opinion that there is nothing to
protect his office being used in his
temporary absence TO liberate all the
prisoners in the penitentiary
No More Vacations.
Governor Cruce has cmphatlcally
Indicated that he will never again be
off the Job as long as his term lasts,
unless something happens that will
put him entirely out Of commission.
He was going to Colorado Springs
the latter part of August to attend a
governors conference, but has can
celled that. He does not consider 1t
safe for the interests of the people
Of the state to absent himself from
the state The governor went to
Ardmore Monday morning to paruci-
pate ia the ceremonies there conso-
quent upon the beginning of the con-
struction Of the new Ardmore, Dun
can and Lawton railroad.
On Saturday evening about )
o'clock. when the governor went TO
his hotel in Kansas City to pack his
grip before departing a few minutes
later for oklahoma City, he says
there was a telephone call for him
from Ardmore. When he attempted
to answer the call, another came in