Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-01-07
ARE PRAYING At
OKLAHOMA CITY
MERCHANTS At CAPITAL WOULD
SURE LIKE TO SEE A
LONG SESSION.
INVESTIGATION RUN0RS
Governor Cruce Even May Not Escape
sensational Probes That Are
Contemplated.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Jan. a. (Spec-
ian-Whether this session Of the state
legislature will last one month or fNe
appears TO be much mooted question
In the capital and ON that subject no
two men agree hut II IL reported thAt
the Oklahoma merchants are praying
that the legislators will remain here
forever, as the large retinue OF camp
followers" lobbyists, ct cetera, TO say
nothing Of the law makers themselves
have brought more business to Okla
homa City than 1t has known for
many months.
on the eve Of the opening OF the
session the hotels are rapidly filling
up and hotel managers confidently eX-
pect that they will be doubling up
before the week is out
one subject nearly everybody is
agreed and that is that this session
Ia far more important than any legis-
lature since statehood, as one demo-
cratic leader expressed II yesterday.
1T is the turning point, Upon the
next sixty days depends whether okla
hOma Is to continue it's progressive
march onward or whether IL is to drop
back into the slough OF desponden-
cy". However this all depends upon
the way the individual looks at legls-
lation. What one man would call
going backwards Ia TO another man
the very essence OF progress and
vice versa.
Investigation rather than law max
| Ing seems to be the program at the
| present although this may be changed
when the leadership lines are drawn
| tighter as they will be this week. If
there is any department Of the state
that escapes a probe" II will be be-
| cause thoy have "A powerful friend at
court Even the governor is likely
| to tome into his share of the investi-
| CATION. One thing developed Satur-
day In the investigation by the spec
ial senate committee into election
frauds In the state that may cause
the governor to make an explanation.
An Oklahoma city man who was
employed by the state last August to
check up the list Of registered voters
in Oklahoma declared he found that
about 20 per cent Of the registrations
We're false. He made written report
TO the attorney general who in turn
lald the report before Governor
Cruce, whore as far as 1t could bf
learned it has died a natural death
That Red Book.
one of the first things investigated
VIII be the so called Red Book scan.
oar. for which state printer Giles Far.
IT'S has been arrested on 4 charge nj
forging the name Of William Striker
Gator of the Tulsa Democrat to stat,
warrants Certain state officials her,
declare his scandal will involve no on,
out the state printer but the legisla
Tors are going to see for themselve
now the affair was hanled and nro
oablv one of the first things done h,
'he mouse will be the appointing Of ,
special committee to get to the hot
tom Of the affair
AS yet no set program for legisla
ton has appeared and each man -,
ne appears in the lobbies has a air
terent pet bill he wants passed. How
the governor will stand with relatto,
to the legislation he wants passed de
pends n great deal on the selectlo,
OF speaker Of the house. II I
thought that If John Crawford IN
governors avowed candidate. is de
reated 1t viii mean the partial n
least defeat OF the governors program