The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-18
APPROPRIATION FOR
CAPITOL IS URGED
Cruce Renews Plea for Retrench-
ment Protests Against the
Legislatures Attitude
Toward AppOintees
Special 70 the Daily Express.

Oklahoma City, March iS.-Upon the
call Of the governor the fourth legis.
lature convened at noon today, the
regular session having come To ali end
at . o'clock last Night.
Immediately upon the eonvening Of
tile two houses Gov Cruces message
outlining the work Of the session was
received and read. It's recommends
tions cover wide range Of subjects
left over from the regular session. The
governor again urges retrenchment
and economy all along the line.
Referring tc me attitude Of the lex
islature in regard to his appointees,
the governor protests against the an
parent disposition to regard all Of
,thom as crooked.
In his message the governor ex-
presses satisfaction that the capitol
question is finally settled and that the
Legislature had accepted the land and
money offered by Oklahoma City. He
recommends that 25 acres be set
aside for the capitol and executive
mansion, the remainder Of the lanl'
being turned over to the state land
department to be sold for the purpose
Of securing funds for capitol building.
Al the same time. he says it will be
impossible to start the building and
he recommends that the legislature be
liberal in appropriations for this pur-
pose. He says the capitol should be
ready for occupancy within eighteen
months.
With the fourth regular session OF
the legislature passed into history 119
bills have been sent to the governor.
sixty-ssven have been signed, two
have become laws because Of the neg
lect 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 ia The
office Of the secretary Of state. This
numerically sums up the work o. lhe
legislature.
OF the sixty-seven bills approved,
fourteen were signed Monday, includ.
ing the measure abolishing the office
Of state printer, and the resolution
accepting Oklahoma City's gilt for
the state capital Among those which
, are now laws are the new banking
law and the measure providing that
the mayor in towns Of 1200 population
and less be ex-officio police Judge
abolishing that office and allowing the
. city councils to consolidate other Of
fiees where possible
All Of the bills vetoed caused a con
certed effort on the part Of che law
makers to override the opposition d
the governor but without effect Th'
railroad hospital measure. requiring
railroads operating in the state e
build hospitals IN Oklahoma from th'
fund derived from a per capita assess
ment on the employees. was the frs
2 10 meet with disapproval The SOY
ernoF vetoed the plan on the grounl
that the railroad men themselve
were opposed to the bill aud that
was to ali intents and purposes th
same as the one ne vetoed two year
age.
Tho bill abolishing the office Of stat
enforcement officer was the next &
5 fan under the governors blacklist Z
this case. he held that although lh
prohibitory law could not bs success
fully carried Oh ~ one enforcement
S. officer that the service rendered wa
I. commensurate with the undertaken
d belore him and that Che newly pasae
s. Webb law made # possible for az
IS 10 exert a wider Influence Tor enforce
nient.
s. Next came the proposition to redu'
Or the salary Of the warden oi she Fen
OF tentiary at MeAlester and place b
Is anpoinfmeut III the hanas of d HeAi
(Conhnned 0A Faae I#o'l