Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-04-20

ton 10 send a personal insult To th'
Legislature, when he knows that ne
can only send message 10 either
house in cases where ne sees iit To
recommend legislation. was not
surprised, ana neither was any mem
ber of the committee 10 whom nave
talked The governor has sought
since the beginning ~ the session to
discrodit the committee and the leslS-
laturc. and he has never removed "A
man from office that has been re-
qucstcd to be removed, neither has
he rejected man whose conflrma-
ton has been rejected. Detectives
have been employed bN some one To
track the members of the committee,
and al several times have run
across men who were acting peculiar
~ around my own room IN the hotel
The message Of the governor is such
clear misstatrmcnt of the truth
that ii needs no reply, II Is Dold
attempt ON his part after failing In
every way Ia invite the committee
into 4 personal controversy To dis
credit It's future work that might ho
Of concern to the governor personH-
| H. As long as the committee con-
find its work TO Giles Farris ana Leo
Mcycr. the governor chuckled ana
laughed. but when II got to his APP
pointecs he changed his tune, fol
instance, the governor says that We
did not give the warden an uppor-
tunlty to be heard that the whole
thing was star chamber session, and
that is will meet the deserved con
demnatlon of every fair minded per
son in the state. Not only Is TINS
statement false, but the governor
knew that it was false when he made
II. for Mr. Reed himself was before
the committee for three hours, and at
two different times the governor was
before the committee, the present
foreman, the present chaplin, the
present physician Representative
Morris Judge Jesse Dunn, ana an
witnesses that the warden desired on
could produce. The governor was IN
formed, when before the committee
the night before the warden was be-
fore the committee, that We were in
vestlgaating conditions out there.
Not only that, but he acknoledged
the board was failure, and was un-
able to perform its duties, and that
neither he nor the attorney general
had ever been there. Mr. Bryan a
member of the board. Rev. llultze-
man, DR. Mahr the governors pubic
health cmmissiOner all sWore that
these men had informed them of con-
ditons there and with their own IN
formation they impaired conditions
to the governor Besides Mr.. Reed 8
testimony and Or. Mahr's report
would be sufficient, if there was no
other testimony. We need not visit
| the institutions for conditions would
be so changed that the committee
be deceived. The committee secured
evidence Of witnesses, unimpeachablc
/ in character, and some of whom have
/ been the intimate political friends of
the governor two Of whom were
members of preceding legislatures.
| Upon this testimony and the testi-
mony of the warden and his witnesses
and that of Mr. Bryan and Governor
| Cruce, we acted. The charge that
our hearings are secret is 50 foolish,
when it is understood that we pre-
sent a copy of all of the testimony to
the governor, and the senate that II
needs no answer. Therefore, his dec
! laration that the warden and deputy
| had no opportunity To face their ac-
/ cuscrs, and that not an lntimation
was made by any member Of tho
! committee, that the conduct Of tho
| board Of control was in any wise be
ing inquired into ConNicts the gov
ernor of the cheapest kind of calum-
ny. The governor says that the com
mittee is violent toward himself,
when in fact the very men on the
| committee, who wrote the report,
| have been widely known to be his
! friends and the friends Of the attor-
| ney general as well. There are other
members of the committee who are