The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-16

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speaker recited the work of the in
vestigating committee, gave synop-
sis OF what had been done and told
what was left to do and expressed
it as his opinion that the investiga-
tions must go on until everything
IS cleaned out. But the committee,
he said, is practically exhausted by
its long hours of night work after
the house had adjourned. Most of
its members are lawyers with large
practice at home from which they
could no longer absent themselves
without serious private loss and en-
barrassment. The special session
was about done with it's work There
was no necessity of continuing the
entire legislature. The committee
could work in the recess, after it had
taken month off for rest and pri-
vate business.
Asserts Continuance Necessary.
"As for the Investigations" said
the speaker what we have learned
makes all the more imperative that
we should continue until we have
probed every department and instl-
tuition of the state government. We
could not quit now in the middle
of the stream and be good citizens
Representative Pinkham, also
member of the investigating commit.
tee and of the board of impeachment,
was likewise emphatic that the COM
mittee should keep at work Mr..
Pinkham said that the committee
had hardly started into many. mat.
tcrs He said it practically had re-
moved three high state officers and
another of lesser Importance, who had
either resigned or been impeached it
had recommended the dismissal of
others But, he regretted TO say, he
feared that the committee had more
equally disagreeable matters to set
tle
Mr.. Pinkham referred directly to
the forthcoming report on the Gran
ite reformatory, for which the COM
mittee took its last testimony Tues
day morning. The roTc:::. he said
would disclose conditions so horrible
and shameful that he had no doubt
Governor Cruce would cooperate
with the legislature in removing
everyone concerned, or else the les
islaturc should abolish the institu-
tion utterly.
The report, he said, would be pre-
sented to the house probably We'd
Ecsday.
Other Probes to Come.
Mr.. Pinkham continued that the
committee had yet to investigate the
penitentiary, all of the educational
institutions, the attorney general, |
state treasurer, governor, secretary Cf
state, corporation commission and |
many other state departments, who
if not guilty of any wrong, were
certainly entitled to careful survey
and eXoncration from the general
suspicion.
II. II. Smith OF Shawnee, another
member of the investigating commit
tee, said that the Legislature could
not afford to adjourn at this time,
that ii must recess and keep its hands
on the roius. There are certain in
fluences which should be kept in
ave. he said, until the legislative
Investigations have been fully and
thoroughly completed"
After various amendments had been
lodged, the house passed the ReXroat
recess resolution by a vote of 10 to
5. the recess to begin April 26 ana
run to the first Tuesday in Sep
ember.
Representative Pinkhams collateral
'esolution, providing for the continu-
,nce of the investigations, was pass.
d unanimously. The resolution pro-
loses to cut the investigating con-
nittee from twelve to eight members,
% retain the speaker as chairman.
md the others to be appointed oy
lim The committee is to sit at its
discretion during the recess, and tn.
members to draw Sc per day when