Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-02
VOTE ON CAPITAL
MEASURE TODAY
HOUSE CLEARS WAY FOR \ VOTE
ON TIIE CAPITOL BUILD
ING APPROPRIATIONS.
DAY OF strenuous Debate
speaker MaNcy In n Vigorous speech
DcnOunccs Oklahoma Guys
Capitol Plans.


OKLAHOMA CITY, May 1.-(Spe-
cial) Whether this Legislature viii
make an appropriation with which to
begin the construction of the state
capitol at once, may be settled Fri
day AS far as the house is concerned.
After an all day debate Thursday,
| the capitol" forces succeeded In de-
fcating the Matthews idea of buying
the Miller building, for temporary
down town offices, also in tabling the
Smith substitute which called for a
special committee to go further INTO
| the question of purchasing some
| building down town, and Durant of
! Durant, chairman of the appropria-
tion committee, the floor leader for
the capitol" forces, indicated that he
would force the main question to a
vote at once
we have cleared away the under
growth he said Thursday night.
I'VE are now ready for the real
work.
The lighting Thursday centered
around three propositions; the bill Of
the joint committee ON appropriations
and public buildings called for an ap-
preparation from funds on hand Of
$500, 600 with which to Immediately
commence building S1,500,O00 CAPT
| tol, the Matthews resolution to buy
the Miller building for $25O,O0O with
$50, for two additional stories and
! $4,000 for alterations, and the rem
tai of the Lawrence building; the
smith substitute for a special com
mittce to buy some building more
suitable for offices and state depart
monts.
The Matthews substitute had pre-
cedeucc and the all day debate theo-
retically centered around it, though
really covering the entire question
and outlining in most of the cases the
sentiment of the leaders and ranh and
file on the question, of immediate
construction of the capitol. The vote
to table the Smith substitute for the
Matthews resolution carried "a to 2S.
The vote on the Matthews resolution
which Immediately followed resulted
Is to 67.
As the vote was not taken until
after O'Clock there was but little
time left to try to get a vote on the
main question, the bill to appropriate
and build. but Mr.. Durant showed an
inclination to force the issue. Upon
statements from Speaker MaXey, and
others that they would debate the
bill before final vote, the motion to
adjourn until 10 o'clock Friday morn
ing was put.
Mr.. Durant, asked if the bill would
not come under the head of ''unln
lshed business, and the speaker re
piled that it would.
I'VE viii finish here in the morn
ing" said Mr.. Durant Representa-
tive Curry of Tulsa, was in favor of
buying the Mile building. The
people are not prepared to build a
capitol now" he said. They are too
poor" lie wound up in an ironic
eulogy of Oklahoma City, and con-
cluded by stating tha- Tulsa, despite
much urging, did not want the cap
itol
Speaker MaXey said outside of Ok
lahoma and Logan counties, wherein
were located the two contesting cities,
Guthrie, and Oklahoma City, the ac-
tual vote of the rest of the state was
for Guthrie, as the figures would
show.
But not more than one-tfth of
those who voted for Guthrie last year
did so because they loved Guthrie
he said, they voted for Guthrie, be-
cause they were disgusted with the
trickery and chicanery Oklahoma City
has displayed all along"
Referring to the McMeohan reso-
luton passed by the resgular session
accepting the Oklahoma City lands
and money, the speaker said, I'VE
have had thrust on us an agreement
to relieve oklahoma City of her
promise of million dollar capitol
We have made the further agreement
TO go into the real estate business to
take these chips and whetstones,
these scattered bits OF land and ped
die them over the state to every Tom
Dick and Harry, But we have made
no agreement to at once burden the
already overburdened people of this
state with millions of dollars more to
build n capitol TO boost the real es-
tate plans Of a few real estate men.
This state is now levying all the
people can stand. yet oklahoma City,
would have the legislature go on and
put the state from two to three mil
lion dollars deeper in debt for a state
capitol" he said.
Lacking two of the necessary ma
jority of 23 votes for the final pas
sage of any measure, the text book
commission bill by Senator McAlister
was defeated in the senate Thursday
The vote was 21 ayes, II nays. a
motion to reconsider was lodged.