Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-06-26
HOWARD s WORK
IS COMMENDED
TULSA MEMBER OF BOARD OF
All AIRS IL GIVEN \
CLEAN BILL.
Others ARE Condemned
Committee says State Would BE Ret
ter on Without Lon Frame or
Eugene Morris.

OKLAHOMA CITY, June 25, --
Especial "A report that sustains
the findings of the Thomas Mcintosh
branch of the senate confirmation"
| committee ~ to Chairman Lon NJ.
| Frame OF the state board Of affairs,
the general investigating committee
| expressed the view that the state
would be better or without the ser
vices Of Mr. Frame and Eugene NJ
| Morris The report was made to the
| house wednesday, afternoon. Re-
ports on the governor and board Of
agriculture are yet to be made.
The criticism of Mr. Frame and
| Mr. Morris are based largely upon
the same matters condemned by the
! Thomas Mcintosh committee al
though going further in some re-
! spects and not so far in others. For
| the third member of the board Of
affairs, T.. h. Howard, the inyesti-
eating committee expresses the high
est commendation. and practically
gives him credit for checking bad
practices which the other two mem
ing ut least willingly oondoned.
What They Reported.
The report of the senate commit
tee upon the board of affairs was
made before Christmas, to the spe-
cial session Of the senate called by
Governor Cruce to settle the state
board Of education controversy and
confirmation OF various gubernatorial
appointees The senate committee
disagreed rs to its findings, Five
senators, of which Senator Barefoot
was chairman, refused to condemn
Mr., Frame, whose appointment was
the subject under consideration. The
other members, Thomas and McIn-
tosh, joined in report severely crit
icising Mr.. Frame and recommending
! that he should not be confirmed. The
Thomas Mcintosh findings, in brief,
were as follows: That Mr. Frame
and Mr. Morris had joined in an at
| tempt to organize and control the
policies of the board of affairs and
to shut Mr.. Howard out fo any
voice in the deliberations Of the
board That during this period Of
Frame Morris supremacy various
contracts, such as the khaki cloth
contract for the penitentiary, the
contract with c. O. Bum to anno-
tate and index the code, the con-
tract for the supreme court filing
cases and the purchase Of electrical
machinery for the state university
We're made. These contracts were
all condemned as bad business at the
least. That Messrs Frame and Nor
rls had awarded such business to
the oklahoma Brokerage COM
pany against whom charges were
filed by the governor.
rhe house committee concurs in
these findings with the exception of
the contract for electrical machin-
cry for the university and the con-
tract for the annexation of the code
With regard to these the house
committee finds everything O. X,
so far as the board Of affairs is con-
cerned, although Bum is severely
criticised in another report for the
manner in which he inserted certain
alleged advertising annotations
With regard to the Oklahoma Brok-
erage company, the committee re-
ports:
"ln the opinion and judgment of
this committee, this brokerage com
pany was organized for the primary
purpose of grating on state con-
tracts and that its objects and in
tertions were thwarted through the
L
Howard"
May Adjourn Saturday.
Charges that the house Of repre-
sentdtives, especially the members Of
the investigating committee. have
broken faith with the people, the sem
ate and he governor, were made on
the floor Of the senate Wednesday
afternoon by Senators Carpenter and
Redwine in suppoting n motion TO
take immediate action on the reso-
luton 10y Senator Tucker, fixing ad-
journment sine die for next Satur-
day afternoon at 6 o'clock.
The resolution was passed finally
by vote of 90 to Is, after an un-
successful attempt to postpone con-
sideration until Saturday morning
The same resolution was Immediately
transmitted to the house where 1t
also was passed.
Senator Carpenter charged that
house was delaying action on the gen
eral appropriation bill in order to
force the passage of certain bills in
troduced and advocated by the inves-
tigating committee. Senator Carpen-
ter said he originally opposed the
recess plan. but on the promise Of
members 81 the committee and of
the house that the recessed session
would not last longer than four or
five days he yielded and favored the
recess plan. Now, he charges. the
committee has broken faith and in
trOduced bills and mapped out other
work which If properly handled,
would prolong the session twenty or
thirty days. All Of this, he declared
was done in the scenate when the com
mittee was asking for the recess in