The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-12

5e.eacT. or z.y oselse constituting
-nfseoad1c. u o-Ice. Or co1tBct IN
rol,i-g moral tsryitude Etle z
osioe.
one .ezc.re O, TIE I'LL Ehic1
5ro1z1ly al soften the o22ositioa
~ ., s that the goTernor Is 70 III
rzcznc-es il ease state officer i5
re-gved. bat The county eonnis-
zlo-ers III sgch vzcznc.es IN county
y district Offices. The remedy AZ
fo-ce5 remoTe1 county cr dist-i =
osIcers il Quo wsrTanto proceed
lng 5e,ore the district court ot the
sourty o. their residence. where T.
,ls 70 the position may be determined
and from the district courts holding
the accused have appeal TO the Sd
pre-ne cOgrt The idea Of removal
Ezs before the legislature tWo years
ago in more seTere form and was
,erly opposed and defeated !,
then only applied 70 such officers
as refused 70 enforce the prOhibi
ton Law.
Senator Jones offered q bill Civ.
ing % county attorneys or spe-
cal attorneys named By the court,
authority % bring Accusations against
county, township city. school or
municipal officers which authority
Is now limited to grand igries.
He offered another bill abolishing
the positions Of deputy consAbles.
This would eliminate about 1000,
many Of whom do no work, but gain
authority 70 carry a siI-shooter.
To Persent Gun Toting.
II the bill did nothing else said
the senator, 1T would prevent much
gun toting."
Senator Tucker Of Ardmore, chair
man Of the senate committee on ed.
1catiOn, offered a resolution, which
went over for one day, calling for
investigation OF the state education
al Institutions by a committee Of
the senate. All educational insti-
tutlons are included, but the com
mittee would do much OF It's work
in Oklahoma City by calling wit
nesses from the institutional towns.
The resolution names the commit
tee TO be composed 0 Senators
Tucker, McClintic, Horton, Thomas,
Redwine and Barefoot.
Another resolution going over un'
der the rules was by Senators Ken
drick and Memminger, calling upon
the board OF affairs TO send in in
formation concerning the building
for the deaf at Sulphur, work on
which the board stopped when il
found the construction was not con-
forming TO specifications. The state
has already spent $4,000 on the
job
IC hurry appropriations and pre-
vent the we1ging OF claims throu n
on the heel Of the legislatures ses-
sion is the purpose Of a resolution
offered in the house by Mr.. Lewis
Of Kiowa county. 1t requires the
appropriation committee to report
all general appropriation bills by
Jan. %. The resolution went Iyc'
for one day.
The house passed finally a 3!ll
appropriating 100000 for miease
per diem and contingen. expenses
Of the legislature, including b III
houses. after two attempts to re-
duce the amount. Mr.. Williams OF
Comanche and others thought the
amount too large to start with,
and offered an amendment to make
it $4,000 He called attention to
the economy lessons (which mem
bers Of the legislature have been
reading TO the people" and urge1
lidL II an duultlOudl sum was IJuuu
necessary 1t could be appropriated.
The amendment, offered in commit
tee Of the whole, was defeated and
on third reading an amendment was
offered reducing the amount to $685.
coo, which also went to defeat. The
bill passed finally by vote Of 60 "
p. and the emergency clause was
added by vote Of 81 10 g. A com
panlon bill passed by the house ap-
propriated $4,000 to pay salaries o!
officers and employees for the general
and the special session of the sen
ate.
Home Bills introduced
The following other house bills
were introduced:
BY Lemon; Making chicken steal
ing a felony with five years in the