Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-03-15
Official Washington Ad-
mits 1t Is Dead and
Gone Forever.
AVOID FILIBUsTER
Many Senators Were Ready
to $50 to Bat If
Emergency Required

WASHINGTON, March 13.-That
the owen resolution extending on
lands for two years is dead is generally
admitted tonight. When the rcsolu-
ton was called up in the senate TO-DAY
Senator owen asked that II go over
To make way for legislation of more
Importance. This is taken To mean
that the oklahoma senator VIII per
NIT his resolution to die a bornin'.
This view is shared by other SEN
ators, who were ready to launch
nlibuster against the resolution to-
day, If need be in order to defeat the
resolution. Senator Reed of Missouri,
was already primcd to take the floor
and hold il throughout the entire
day. lie had prepared lerriilc
speech against the measure IT is said
which would have caused an cNplo-
sion on Capitol Hill. senator Gore
was also ready To go to bat against
the owen resolution which IT is now
admitted can hardly be brought up
until after expiration of leases next
Thursday.
In commenting on the victory OF
Charles Page of Tulsa in securing
100. 600 acres of Usage gas territory
contiguous to Sand Springs, aflef
having been turned down 10y Secfe-
tary Lane former Creek National At
torney NJ. L. Mott of Tulsa, who act
ed as senior counsel for Mr.. rage.
tonight declared that Secretary Lane
had simply not understood the situa-
ton until he had got TO him in the
presence of all the other applicants
for gas territory on Saturday morning
last.
Felt No Alarm.
Before leaving for Tulsa. Sunday
night. Mr.. Page admitted that he had
been in danger of losing his lease un-
til he had enlisted Mr.. Motifs services
but that from then on he had felt no
alarm over the final outcome as he
soon discovered that members of the
senate and department had conil-
dencc in Motifs representations,
Unless another attempt is made to
bring up the Oliver resolution, 1t is
thought that the senate will extend
no relief to the Barnsdall oil COM
pany, the Gypsy Oil company ana
Foster and Brennan. whose developed
oil acreage is advertised Tor sale on
April 20. II is therefore up to the
Usage council to say what shall pc
done with the acreage held IN 4,soO
acre blocks, which under the resolu-
ton adopted last June was to have
ter subeases.
There has been a disposition on the
part of the Osages to execute no oil
leases whatever it having been
charged that the present sublesseeS
| have been supporting the owen reso-
luton. 1t is thought. however. that
the Osages will execute lease of the
present oil lessees whose acreage does
not exceed 4,S00 acres except such
quarter section units upon which the
producing wells average in excess OF
25 barrels daily.
Senator Gore announced tonight
that in opposing the owen resolution
he had no intentions of preventing
| the execution of leases where an
agreement had already been reached
between the Osages, the interior de-
partment and the sublossees, and
declared that he saw no reason why
leases of this character should not be
executed and approved before March
16, the date upon which all Usage
| leases expire.
Revcrts 10 Tribe.
In the event. however, that the
| Usage council fails to execute any oil
| leases the oil production in the entire
| field reverts to the tribe to be dis
| posed of as may be deemed proper
WltH lHe dppIoNdl Vi lh' SN'iS'o'S VI
| the interior
Secretary Lane left today for Cali
fornia and will probably be absent
from Washington for several weeks.
Before leaving, however. the gas
lease forms were perfected and the
terms practically accepted by all the
gas lessees who will take possession
of the property on March II. through
| a letter of authority from Secretary
Lane, who has announced he will ap-
prove the leases after being passed
upon by the Usage council.
/ Senator owen has intimated to
I the senate that his resolutions would
probably be endangered by "a filibus-
| ter, at the suggestion of the Usage
! lobby. The Usage lobby consists of
Gene Scott and John Palmer, inter-
married Osages and two members of
the Usage tribal council whose wishes
have been opposed by the lobby
headed by former Congressman
Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania,
and lesser legal lights. Mr.. Palmer is
! the representative of the Gypsy oil
/ compay and as such has been urging
| the adoption of the owen resolution.
Senator owen has also publicly ad-
mitted that the present Usage oil
| leases will have no equitable or legal
right under the terms of the exist
! ing contract with the Osages after
March 16, upon which date the oil
properties revert to the tribe in the
event that no lease renewals are eX-
ecuted by the tribal council prior to
the expiration of the present leases.
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