The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1913-01-30
MUSKOGEE FAIR
BILL PASSES HOUSE
Prosecutors in impeachment Trials Of
State Officials Named.

Oklahoma City, Jan. 3O.-With ma
chine-like precision the Organization
pushed the Muskogee state fair bill
through the house of representatives
Wednesday afternoon.
The vote stood So to Al. Speaker
Maxey led the fight for the bill, which
was by Representatives Wyand and
Carr, both Of Muskogee. Mr.. Welty
Of Oklahoma county headed the oppon-
ents in a vain effort to so amend the
bill thai it would read "The New State
Fair" insi ad of The State Fair" CON
tending that the latter title was an in
fringement upon the title of the long
established state fair at Oklahoma
City
Mr.. Williams of Comanche, fought
both the bill and an alleged combina.
tion between Muskogee and Oklahoma
City by which, so Mr.. Williams charg-
ed, the state fair was swapped for
a capitol appropriation, and said that
if he saw proof Of such a trade he
would fight the capitol appropriation
to the last ditch.
In the course OF the fight that Mr..
Williams waged against the bill, some
Of the bitterness left by the speaker
ship fight became apparent.
The Oklahoma county delegation
voted against the bill OF final pas
sage.
Anti-Saloon League Bill.
The passage of the fair bill, and the
massage to final roll call Of the ''anti-
Saloon league bill to make it a felony
to maintain an establishment for the.
sale of intoxicants, or to sell intoxi-
cants to minors, or to act as Okla
homa agent for wholesale liquor
house. or to take or transmit liquor
orders, made up the chief work of the
house of representatives Wednesday
Speaker Maxey named the Sulphur
Investigating committee, Messrs.
Curtis, Hunter and DeFord, but with
held the names of the general investi-
eating committee until Thursday.
Messrs Wyand, of Muskogee, Pink
ham, of Kay, and Mcclure (republi-
CAM, of Guthrie, were named as the
prosecutors" for the house Of repre-
gentatives to handle the impeachment
trials of State Auditor Leo Meyer and
State Printer Giles w Farris in the
senate. These three gentlemen drew
up the articles of impeachment, and
we're members of the house commit
tee on impeachment and removal,
which returned the indictments |
against the accused state auditors.
Roll Call on Fair Bill.
The roll call on the passage of the
Muskogee fair bill was as follows.
Ayes: Baker, Baum, Berry. Bishop,
Bonds, Carr, Case, Curry, Charles,
Chase, Coyne, Crawford, Curry, Cur
It's, Davis, Durant Edmister, Edwards,
Emanuel, Farrall. Glasco, Griggs,
Harvison, Hill of Pittsburg, Howe,
Toyt, Hunter, Jamison, Lenox, Nc
CURE, Mabon, Matthews, Mitchell,
Morgan of Mayes, olmstead,
Peery Peters, Prentiss,
Rexroat, Rider, Rose Searcy, Sher-
man, Smith of Dewey, spengler Still
we'll Taylor Teehee, Thomes, Veatch,
Vosburgh, Williams Of Tulsa, Wyand,
ffaxey. Total, 55.
Nays, Bolen Bond Brooks, Brown,
childers. Christian, cordell Cum
mings, Dearing, DeFord, Disney, Hal
sell, Haynes, Hill of Washita, Joseph
Ioyner, King, Lemon, Lewis, McCrory,
Morgan of Jackson, Morris,
Dnkham Pruett, Randall, Reece, Rid
lie, Ruby, Rutherford, Russell, Sharp,
Smith OF Pottawatomie, Tener, Tes-
.erman, Thompson, Welty, Whitman,
of Comanche, Woodland, h
Wright Total, A.
Absent; Ashby Cook, Roberts. !
Total, 3.