The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-02-21
House Committee Kills Bill Ap.
preparation Sum for Additional
Buildings for State Won
ems College
FRIENDS TO URGE
The BILL AGSIN
Senator Barefoot Coming lone
and VIII Confer with Citizens
Economy Sentiment is
Strong in House

IN long distance telephone ccnver-
sation with representative Of the
Express State supt. Wilson said he
had by no means given up hope for
the dormitory BILL q believe We have
a chance to secure reconsideration oR
the bill in the house committee said
Mr.. Wilson, "and there is at least
fighting chance for favorable report.
| have just talked witb Senator Bare
foot who told me he was going to
Chickasha tomorrow and would confer
with the citizens in regard to the bill.
He will explain the whole situation
Oklahoma City, Feb 2t-Among the
measures reported unfayorably by the
house committee yesterday was one
by Barefoot and Pugh Of the senate
and Riddle and Brown Of the house.
making appropriations aggregating
over 100000 for the erection Of q
dormitory and power house for the
State College for Women az chicka.
sha. The Grady county representa-.
lives and other friends Of the bill hope
to secure reconsideration al the hands
Of the committee.
The house committee on approprla-
tions, w. A. Durant chairman, in q
general report Thursday. killed a
score OF bills carrying an aggregate
Of sSs2,OOO The Bond bill for a state
sanitarium for the treatment Of tuber-
culosis. was reported favorably.
The Curtis bill to pension former
Confederate soldiers was killed by this
committee. The Farrall bill to estab,
lish state training school for way-
ward and incorrigible girls, and locate
it at or near the town Of Tecumseh,
Pottawatomie county, was recon-
mended favorably BY the committee on
public buildings, Of which Bonds Of
Rogers is chairman.
A substitute FOR the series Of bills
by Peery OF Latimer, to improve the
conditions Of coal mine employee, was
reported fayorably by the committee
on mines and mining. The bills not
only provide for various technicapr reg
ulations bat incorporate such humane
provisions as bath houses for the coal
miners when coming out Of the mines,
and such safety precautions as mine
telephone systems, by which not only
would the entire interior of the mine
be in touch, but would be incommuni-
cation with the surface also. and would
! afford entombed miners an avenue OF
communication in many instances.
A substitute for the Hunter-Tay1or
/ fish and game protection bill was Of
, fered by Speaker Maxey and e. p. Hill
Of Pittsburg. The substitute calls for
1 the abolition Of the state fish and
! game department and the state game
/. warden, puts the enforcement Of the
game law in the hands OF the local au
thorities and provides that the county
clerk shall issue the hunting licenses
The substitute and the original bill
went over for future consideration baf
y there is much probability that the sub
stitute will win in the end, as ths
Taylor-Hunter bill was so loaded witl
unpopular provisions and cumbersoml
ig amendments that it probably viii b
a killed on final roll call, which it
As now awaiting
" The Maxey-Hill bill steers clears Q
in all the general amendments to tn
he game protection laws which the Hun
er-Taylor bill attempted
N Other appropriation bins killed b
N. the appropriations committee are .
follows BY Wyand, 100000 for o.
lahoma building and exhibits at Il
. San Francisco exposition; Ncauif
9 $4,000 for additional dormitofies
. the Colored a. & M. college al Ian
= ston; Durant $1,000 to pay attornl
! fees to George c. crump for defea
= ing grandfather clause cases Ale
: rls, si0.o0O for a legislative felerea
: rom: J Roy Williams. ei als Eis0a
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