Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-04-18
YOU RE LIARS" ="
SAYS LEE CROCE
GOVERNOR SENDS SPECIAL MES
SAGE TO HOUSE ON RE
FORMtTOR NATTER.
R0ASTS The committee
Charges That Committee Is Dcliber.
atcly Trying To Discrcdlt Him
Before the People.

OKLAHOMA CITY, April IL
Especial. )-Charging that the report
was the result of an effort to inJure
him, Governor Cruce sent special
message to the house of representa-
tiyes Thursday afternoon, replying to
the charges contained In the report
of the general investigation com
mttee on conditions at the state re-
: formatory at Granite
THE members of the committee" ,"
said the governor ARE disappointed
and angry because they have been un-
able to foist upon the people OF this
state legislation that was inlquitous
and outrageous. If | had signed the
Muskogee Fair bill and the redistrict-
ing bill, and thus permitted certain
members of that committee to pave
their way to a seat in congress, there
would have been no such report ema-
mating from this committee as the
one you listened to yesterday.
81 know what the committe has
done and | know what the committee
mittee has deliberately set about, af-
ter having discussed the matter in
secret. to try to discredit the COVER
nor of the state to bring about "a state
of feeling that will justify the com
mittee In undertaking to institute i'm
peachment proceedings
The governor does not undertake
to defend Warden Reed and his assist
ants lie says that If half the things
charged against them are true they
should be summarily removed, but
that If the committee has misstated
facts AS flaglantly in that connection
as in reference to the members of the
board of control, there is no reliance
to be placed In the report.
He says that he appeared before
the committee Saturday night and
testified on oath, bat that his testi-
mony was ignored by the committee
and that the first intimation he had of
the evidence upon which the com
mittee's report was based was when
he read the accounts of the report 1t
self.
He refers particular to the testi-
mony given by the Rev. Mr.. Hults-
man, former prison chaplain, upon
which the committee seems especially
to base its findings and asserts that
statements attributed to him by the
committee are directly at variance
with the reports made to him by the
chaplain. He quotes particularly
letter written by the chaplain after
he had been there nine months which
reports conditions as being entirely
satisfactory, and defies this shrewd
committee of attorneys to reconcile
this statement Of the Rev. Hultsman
with the statement contained In their
report that conditions there We're in
tolerable for the past two years"
He declares that the report has
garbled the statements contained in
the report of the commissioner OF
health as to the number of convicts
at Granite who were affected with
certain classes of diseases and that 1t
has made the percentage much higher
than the health commissioners report
would warrant
What is apparently intended to be
one of the governors strongest argu-
ments is the statement that the repre-
sentative and senator from Greer
county is discussing reformatory
matters with him have never told
him of the existence of any such con-
ditions and therefore the presump-
ton is that they do not exist