The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-18
COY. APPROVES
. S|XTY.SEVEN BILLS
FOUR RECEIVE HIS VETO-TWO
BECOME LAW WITHOUT ACTION
BY THE GOVERNOR.

With the fourth regular session of
the legislature passed into history,
l119 bills have been sent to the gov
ernor, sixty seven have been ap-
lproved, two have become laws be-
cause of the neglect of the governor
| to take action on them within the
prescribed time and four have been
vetoed. A half dozen resolutions
which did not require the signature
of the chief executive of the state
have been formally filed in the Of
flee of the secretary of state. This
numerically sums up the work of
the legislature which is now nearing
adjournment and which will immedi
ately be reconvened in extraordinary
session.
OF the sixty-seven bills approved
fourteen we're signed Monday !nclud-
ing the measure aboishng the office
of state printer, and the resolution
accepting Oklahoma City's gift for
the state capital. Among those
which are now laws are the new
banking law and the measure pro-
viding that the mayor in towns Of
200 population and less be eX-of-
ficio police judge, abolishing that
office and allowing the city councils
to consolidate other offices where
possible.
All of the bills vetoed caused a
concerted effort on the part of the
law makers to override the opposi-
ton of the governor but without ef~
feet. The railroad hospital measure,
requiring railroads operating in the
state to build hospitals in Oklahoma
from the fund derived from per
capita assessment on the employees,
was the first to meet with disap-
Iproval. The governor vetoed the
plan on the ground that the railroad
men themselves were opposed to the
the bill and that it was to all in
tents and purposes the same as the
one he vetoed two years ago.
State Enforcement Officer.
The bill abolishing the office OF
state enforcement officer was the
next to fall under the governors
blacklist. In this case, he held that
although the prohibitory law could
not be successfully carried on by
one enforcement officer, that the SER
vice rendered was commensurate
With the undertaking before him and
that the newly passed Webb law made
it possible for him to exert wider
Influence for enforcement.
Next came the proposition to re-
duce the salary of the warden of the
ipenitentiary at McAlester and place
his appointment in the hands OF a
hoard composed of the governor, the
attorney general and the president
of the board of agriculture. The
reasons assigned for disapproving
this measure were that, if not the
intent Of the bill, its accepted mean
ing would be to discredit the gov
ernor and declare that he was inca
pable of making appointments. Be
cause also the warden of the reform
atory at Granite was not included
it might be inferred that the bill
was a personal attack on one of the
: governors appointees.
: The last bill to get the official
lax was the Vandeventer IA cent
railroad fare bill. In explaining his
veto on this question, Governor Cruce
declared his allegiance to the Okla
homa constitution providing for 9
2-cent railroad fare. He held as the
question was now in the hands o.
the supreme court for adjudication
and that such measure as the
Vandeventer bill would be in the
! nature of a compromise on the par
of the state.
The two bills which became laws
without the signature of the governor
were the measure providing for thc
expenses of delegates to the farm
| ers' institute at Saltwater and the
bill requiring railroads to pay theil
employees twice a month.
The measure making pipe lines
common carriers will not be acted
upon until after the governor has
, made an investigation of the propo
| sition. For this purpose he has call
ed for a hearing on the plan for Tues
day morning, March %.