Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-03-11

damaged machine.
court decision in the Columbia Bank
and Trust company case was passed
finally, but without the emergency.
The bill giving the states consent
to suits to determine the legality OF
the Red Book and Leader warrants
was advanced to engrossment, as was
the bill appropriating $55, 900 for the
payment of the disputed military or
rifle range warrants, issued during the
Haskell administration for work al
legged to have been done on the ma
tional guard rifle range at Chandler.
Two former state legislatures and one
former state attorney general have
flatly refused to recognize the legality
Of these warrants. The bill has passed
the senate and Is sure to become a law
at this session. Most of these war
rants are now held by Guthrie banks
1t is said.
Cotton Gin" Trust Concerned.
House bill No. 1877 by Waldrep and
others, divorcing cotton seed oil mills
from gins, was made a special order
Of business for 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning. This bill Is aimed at the
alleged cotton GIN trust in this state
and is sure to bring about an exciting
debate when 1t comes up for consider
alton.
Representative Pinkham, one of the
house conferees on the general w
nue. bill, reported this forenoon that
the conference committee was in a
hopeless deadlock, IN account Of the
binding instructions given to the house
conferees yesterday. The house then
voted to withdraw these instructions
aud napnnif tho nnnfnrnaG IN nQkn
their own terms. 1t was intimated
that the section IRA or Campbell
Russell amendment and the gross re-
ceipt tax provision would be stricken
from the bill and the graduated land
tax amendment permitted to remain
In the measure. If this is true 1t will
be a big victory for the Tulsa and
Creek county representatives and SEN
ators who have been fighting valiantly
to prevent Russell from vitalizing by
legislative act his school tax amend
ment to the constitution.
An antitrust bill of more drastic
and fa%r-reaching effect than any sim
liar legislation yer enacted in this
state was passed finally by the house
today. 1t is house bill No. eos by
Speer OF Stephens county. II was
originally intended to prevent q mon
opoly on the purchasing of cotton
seed but was amended so as to in
clude "all commodities Of general use
whether in the raw or finished state"
Blow At Oil Industry.
Under this bill, IL It becomes a law,
monOpolies OF every sort and de-
scription "a be reached, even TO the
oil business. The author of the bill
claims that 1t will prevent n pipe line
from paying more in oil field for
rho nr1Inn nrnhfnt than &c. notn FOR thn
same grade of oil in another field.
Some idea of the scope Of the bill
can be obtained from reading the
complete draft of the measure, which
follows:
Section 1. II shall be unlawful for
any person, firm, association or cor
poration engaged in the production,
manufacture, distribution, sale or pur-
chase of any commodity of general
use, whether in raw or finished state,
for the purpose OF creating a mon
opoly or destroying competition in
trade to discriminate between differ
ent persons. associations or corpora
lions, or different sections, commun-
tiles or cities Of the state at the same
period Of time, by selling or buying
such commodity at a lower rate in one
section, community or city than in an
other, after making due allowance for
the difference If any in the grade,
quantity or quality and In the actual
cost Of transportation from the point
Of production, purchase or manufac-
ture.
Section 2. The buying or selling by
the same person or persons of any
such commodity at a lower rate in
one section, community or city OF this
state than I'm another at the same per-
Tod of time. after making due allow
ance for difference II any in the grade,
quantity or quality and In the actual
cost OF transportation from point of
production, manufacture, purchase or
sale shall be prima facie evidence of
an Intent on the part OF such person
or persons to violate the provisions Of
Section / Of this act.
Section 8. Any such person. firm
or corporation violating the provisions
OF Section l shall be deemed guilty
Of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
ton thereof shall be fined not less
than 500 nor more than $1,000, or
by Imprisonment In the county Jail
for not less than ninety days nor more
than one year. or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
Section 4. For the preservation OF
the public peace. health and safety,
an emergency is hereby declared to
exist by reason whereof this act shall
De In fOrce ana erect from II after
its passage and approval.
The Socialists introduced a bill for
the payment by the state of $1,000
cash to the dependents Of every person
legally executed.
The senate bills declaring all IL
braries and office equipment OF min
listers exempt from taxation and pre-
scribing stringent penalties for the
obtaining of board and lodging under
false p%retense we're advanced to en-
grossment.