Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-05
"Bennie" Kicks On
Too Much Real Truth
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have a few things to say in answer
to Mr.. Harrison"
The gentleman is out Of ORDER"
stated Speaker McCrory.
Hill made an attempt to continue
his speech but was forced to sit down.
Representative Wash Hudson OF
Tulsa county was recognized by the
chair.
Hudson came nobly to tho rescue
Of his home newspaper
"As far as / am concerned
shouted Hudson, in his war-whoop
style, II want to register here and
now my eternal confidence in the in
tegrity Of Ben Harrison"
When Harrison first arose a hush
fell over the members. They all knew
what was coming FOR they had been
reading the story as eagerly almost as
Harrison himself
In view OF the fact" said the for
mer secretary OF state, that The
Tulsa World today credits me with
| putting over a smooth deal on this
house l merely want to state that the
| Tulsa organ Is mistaken"
His Argument Weak
He then plunged into details con-
cerning the transactions Of the school
land commission about which much
criticism has been raised throughout
the state and to provide n means Of
covering up which Harrison intro
duced the bill that was passed by the
house yesterday.
UNLESS this bill Is passed. said
Harrison, "the land on which the state
has loaned money and is unable to get
1t back will lay there and be of no
benefit to anyone. That Is the purpose
Of this bill--to enable the commiS-
sioners OF the land office to fOreclose
the mortgages and sell this land"
To show the fallacy Of the argu-
ment that his bill would cover up the
actions of the commission, of which
he was a member, Harrison declared
that the loans made by that commis-
sion could not possibly be foreclosed
this year He failed to mention, how
ever, that the bill will be In effect
next year and the year after.
There has been great deal OF
criticism OF these loans" he admitted
at is true that some Of the men max
ing Application for loans have Offered
bribes. Whether they were accepted
| do not know If any mistakes nave
been made | do not know who is to
blame, The commissioners had to rely
upon the reports OF the appraisers
The World says that it had the evil
dence to support its statements III IL
has evidence to show that any mem
Der of tho commission accepted a
bribe. as good citizens the persons on
that paper should present this evil
dence to a grand jury"
Then They Used Two.
He pointed out one instance where
a certain piece of land was appraised
at an amount greatly in excess of It's
true value. He said this prompted
the commission to put two appraisers
on each application after that ana
even then there we're many instances
where the two appraisementS on
single tract Of land were vastly DIFF
ferent
No mention was made of the report
on loans in Rogers Mills county that
was filed by State Examiner and ln'
spector Fred Parkinson with Gov
ernor Cruce and later turned over TO
grand jury
Not a wo.d was said about the reso-
luton adopted by the house at the
beginning Of this session to investl-
gate the acts Of the former school
land commission and the Rogers
Mills county loans.
Harrison never attempted to explain
why Il ls that this resolution has
never been acted upon by the senate.
although 1t was sent there several
weeks ago. after having been acted
upon finally by the house.
The incident has not ended.
The Light VIII Shine.
Certain members OF the house are
going TO insist that the truth about
the school land loans be made public
and the guilty persons punished.
Someone is going to insist that the
invest cation resolution be acted upon
at n o0ralV and DTOmDtly.
There has been too much OF the
states money squandered for every
one TO ait idly BY and pas laws to
whitewash tho guilty persons and not
turn a hand toward Furnishing the Of