The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1915-01-23
= WILLIAMS MESSAGE IN TAB
r LOID.

Z Governor Williams first FORM +
4. al message to the state legisla =
. ture submits and recommends +
Z these matters: =
8 Urges abolition capitol com +
Z mission effective Is days after r
= capitol contract is awarded and +
3 creation of citizens committee, +
five or seven, to inspect progress =
= OF building and report to legisla- +
Z ture. Asks power for governor +
= to remove commissioners before s
= contract awarded, and ex-ofiicio Z
= board thereafter to supervise =
Z construction. I
3 Says tax commission of experts I
= should succeed board equaliza- I
Z ton. !
. Recommends passage declara- .
+ tory act making previous con- Z
Z solidation acts Immediately eff I
Z fective, thus stopping litigation. I
& Declares school fund should be Z
= in state treasury. and loans made I
+ through county board. !
+ Asserts oil pipe lines and pro- I
+ ducing companies must separate. 4
= Recommends $4,000 for Pana- I
= ma-Pacific building. I
+ Suggests method by which cor I
+ poration commission could
+ charge fees and become self I
+ sustaining. I
+ Recommends consideration of 4
+ plan to work convicts on roads, I
+ in penitentiary factories, making I
: state supplies, and on state farms. I
= Urges continuance office of I
Z state highway commissioner. I
+ Recommends submission of con. 1
+ stitutional amendment providing I
= for state senate of "a and house I
+ of rs members, with 50-day regu- I
+ lar session and 30-day special I
+ terms. 4
+ Says supreme court clerk 1
+ should have less help and JUS I
Z tees stenographers work harder I
Z and be forbidden to sell copies I
Z of opinions.
Z Recommends constitutional 4
+ amendments limiting right of ap- I
+ peal and allowing supreme court I
+ to sit in divisions, criminal court I
Z to be one division; dispensing I
= with written opinions; permitting
+ appellate courts to render judg- I
+ ments without reversing and re- I
Z manding and abolishing county I
= courts. 4
+ Urges consolidation state IL 4
Z brarian and marshal supreme I
Z court. I
+ Says boards controlling insane I
Z asylums should be abolished, and Z
+ expert examiners appointed to I
+ manage. I
+ Would have litigants pay jury I
I. fees. I
+ Urges constitutional amend I
+ ment limiting municipal indebt- I
+ edness to ten per cent valuation. !.
+ Recommends biennial assess I
+ ment of rural lands. I
+ Urges reasonable extension of I
= all taxes at six per cent penalty. I
= Recommends creation rural I
+ credit unions for moderate loans I
+ at reasonable rates.
+ Would exempt farm products I
+ from taxation. 4
+ Declares against offlce-hloders I
= running for office, except to sue I
+ ceed themselves. 4
+ Recommends amendment per I
4 mitting non-partisan municipal I
+ elections. 4
+ Urges making supreme court I
+ clerk, insurance commissioner, (
+ state examiner and inspector and 4
+ mine inspector, appointive, and I
+ allowing short ballot. I
4 Endorses preferential primary I
+ system. I
+ Recommends fire insurance I
+ commission of three with power Z
+ to suspend and fix rates. Z
Declares hope to see every Z
+ board and commission in state I
+ abolished except board of affairs Z
= and board of education. Z