The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1913-01-15
STATE OFFICIALS
BE |MPEACHEO
Attorney General Declines to Discuss
Possible Proceedings.

Oklahoma City, Jan. 15.-Rumors
will not down that the legislature soon
will be the scene of impeachment pro-
ceedings against one or two high state
officers. There was a strong under
current OF expectation in the house Of
representatives Tuesday, due to an un-
verified report that Attorney General
Charles West already had prepared
the preliminaries of one such proceed
ings, and that it might appear on the
floor of the house at any time.
Whether the rumors are based upon
inside Information" or upon the gem
eral inclinatio nof many of the legisla-
tors to wish to ascertain if anything is
really rotten in Denmark" as ex-
pressed in the number of investigations
already ordered or requested by for
NAL resolutions was not learned When
the question was put to the attorney
general, whether he were preparing
proceedings against any official, he re-
piled rather emphatically, you should
not ask that question. l do not care
to talk about such at all"
The hearings of the senatorial in
yestigating committee, the McBrine
case and the forgery charge arising out
of the famous Red Book contract of
course would afford substantial grounds
for such rumors, though the latter
specifically name one state official who
has not heretofore been public mixed
up in any alleged irregularities.
Smith Resolution.
In the meantime, the legislature and
the house Of representatives especially,
continue putting pointed questions at
this department or the other with for
NAL resolutions couched something in
very plain language, and Tuesday II.
II. Smith of POttawatomie introduced
into the house a resolution calling for a
joint legislative committee Of three
house members and two senators, who
should sit as a permanent investigat-
ing committee upon all state depart
ments, after the end of the present
session.
At the same time. Representative
Farrall introduced resolution for a
committee of three to investigate the
state department of agriculture; Rep
resentative Lemon is the author of a
resolution for a committee of three to
go to Sulphur and investigate the
building of the college for the deaf
there and see why the state has no
more for the $4,000 already spent on
the building.
A resolution calling upon State En-
forcement Officer w j. Caudill by
name to furnish the legislature COM
plete information as to his operations,
deputies and the results of his work,
especially in larger cities like Okla
homa City, Muskogee, Ardmore, Tulsa,
and others, was introduced by Repre-
sentatives Rexroat and Cook of Atoka,
following the introduction of a bill a
day or so ago to abolish the office Mr..
Caudill holds.
Text of Resolution.
The resolution introduced by H. II. |
Smith, for a general investigation,
with salaried committee and an ap-
preparation to carry on the work, went
over until Wednesday without action,
after some parliamentary objections.
The resolution in part is as follows:
Resolved, that a committee to act
at the close of the legislative session
of the legislature of Oklahoma, for
the session of 1913, be and is hereby |
appointed to consist of three members
elected from the membership of the .
house and two members elected from
the membership of the senate, which
committee shall be authorized to pro-
ceed to an investigation of such state
institutions, and of such state office
holders in the state of Oklahoma as
in their discretion they may deem nee
essary of investigation.
Second. Said committee is hereby