The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-07-25
SECRETARY Gets
QUESTION TITLES
ALL TRANSMITTED EXCEPT ON
ONE REFERRED MEASURE
BY HARRISON
FIVE MEASURES ARE INCLUDED
5ackers of Initiative Petitions Still
at Work Securing slgners-
Other State Capital
Notes

Other State Capital
Notes
The legal machinery working out
the details for the special election
August was put In operation last
week, when the ballot titles Of all
referred questions with the exception
of one were transmitted to secretary
Ben w. Riley of the state election
board by secretary of state Ben F.
Harrison. The work of getting out
the ballots and supplies has been
started.
The title to the proposed amend
ment providing new rules and regu-
lations for the leasing of beds of nav
igable streams for oil, gas, sand and
gravel purposes is the only one which
has not been sent to the secretary Of
as not been prepared by the attorney
general and now is in the hands Of
the secretary of state, but the reso-
tuition, which authorizes the submis-
sion of the question, has not been
acted on by the governor. The gov
ernor has until July 23, or fifteen days
from the final adjournment Of the leg
lislature, in which to sign or veto the
measure. In the event he does neither
the resolution, the same as bills, auto
matically becomes a law,
The title to questions, giving the
gist of the propositions to be voted
on, which have been sent to the sec.
rotary of the election board are:
State question No. 49, proposed
amendment to Art. TX, Sec. of the
constitution. giving foreign and do
mestic corporations the right to con-
solldate under the supervision and
with the consent Of the corporation
commission.
School Fund Measure
State question No 81, providing
that all taxes levied for the main
tenance of the public schools of the
state upon the property of any pub
lie service corporation operating in
one or more counties shall be turned
into the common school fund of the
state and distributed the same as
other school funds.
State question No IS, to amend the
constitution, providing for the adop-
ton of an additional section giving
county commissioners the right to call
a special election to vote on the ques-
ton of abolishing township govern
iment when petitioned to do so by 16
percent Of the highest vote cast for
any county official at the election pre-
ceding the filing of the petition.
State question No SO, to amend the
constitution giving the legislature the
fright to levy taxes in aid of the COM
mon schools of the state and to pro-
vide for the distribution thereof
among those school districts OF the
state in which 1O.mill ad valorem
levy and money derived from other
sources is insufficient to maintain a
five-montns' school in year.
To Reduce Size Of Board
State question No. 60, reducing the
size of the state board OF agriculture
from eleven to five members and re-
pealing the law under which the
board is now chosen.
Only one of the many initiated bills
have been completed and ready to go
on the ballot, that being the bill sub
hitting the question of repeating Sec
ton Is of the new mining law.
Among the. initiated measures still
out are the usury bill, initiated by
Representative Glasco; the Wood
ward school BILL the socialist cleo
ton law; the bill by H. c, Berrigan
of Norman, providing for the estab.
Ilsment of a state agricultural bank
and providing a bond issue of $4,000
600, and the McAlester school book
bill.
Three Russell Bills
In addition to these there are three
others in circulation, being under the
management Of Senator Campbell Rus
sell Of Warner, president of the PEG.
pies Power league. They include the
bill eliminating the silent vote from
the count on all state questions, with
the exception. of constitutional amend.
ments, the bill prescribing additional
oaths for state and county officers
and the bill providing a two-cent gross
production tax on all oil and gas pro-
duced in the state.
For the most part the campaign in
the interest Of the various questions
so far. has been done by mail. Sen,
ator Russell and the miners. mine
operators and the friends Of the
amendment to article TX, section g.
are conducting the most active cam.
paigns, Senator Russell is conduct.
ing the campaign in the interest OF
his measure from Muskogee while
that on the mining law and the cam
paign for the amendment to article
tx, section 9, are being conducted
from Oklahoma City.
The campaign being wagon by the
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