The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-02-15
zth - A.
Oklahoma
Legislature

Keepers ana stenographers IN all state
departments which includes a nun
Der of increases is provided for IN 4
bin reported BY the house approprla
tions committee which haes the sal
aries and the number OF employees ~
all the state departments.
4 The salaries OF all elective officials
who have been receiving $500 a
year or less. are increased 70 5000
year. salaries of assistants 10 heads
OF departments are fixed al $1,000.
bookkeepers' salaries are fixed al
sl500. and general schedule of
sl.200 year for stenograPlers Is
provided
BY the terms Of this blll the salaf-
les of an elective officers. eNeep the
governor. attorney general. members
Of the corporation commission and
justices of the supreme court, Vii
each be $4,000 a sear.
The salary - the state health com
missioner is increased from CISCO 10
$1,000 g year. aud the salary Of the
state labor commissioner which has
been the lowest OF an salaries FOR
elective officers. Is increased 10
s3 600.
The senate trimmed virtually all
OF the salary Increases out Of the
bill fixing salary increases al the state
penitentiaTy al AcAlesier and the
state reformatoIy al Granite. The
only Increases hnally allowed were 10
an assistant matron al the peniten-
tiary who WAS allowed $1,000 year
instead OF ss20 a year and 10 guards
at the penitentiary Who will get 500
a month where they formerly received
100 and SIS a month.
Excitement over conditions al the
home has about died down and the
reports and recommendation Of the
house and senate committees which
were promised 10 be 20 fiery were
decidedly tame The "resignG.'ions"
OF DR.. Clymer. superintendent hlah.
erty and her assistants were a eeept
ed. commissioner Mathews Was slap
ped violently on the wrist and a gem
eral recommendation made that the
present home be abandoned aud the
whole plan made over on larger
scale
A committee bill, appropriasing
100000 for the construction OF six
state tuberculosis sanatoria, which are
10 be constructed and maintained un-
der the supervision and direction OF
the state board OF public affairs and
the state board OF health. was intro
duced by the house committee on
health, pure food and drugs.
The bin provides for a division of
the state into six districts OF as near
the same area and population AZ is
practicable for the purposes intend
ed A sanatoriaum will be located in
each district as near the center as
possible. and contagious to some bown.
is donated the board is authorized TO
accept on behalf OF the state. gifts
OF lands and other gifts and cndow.
ments for this purpose. II no land
| donated the board is authorized to
purchase not less than ten acres at
the lowest price obiainable or the
s60o.000 appropriated. $500 600 will be
available during the FIRST fiscal year.
beginning next July and other half
available during the following year
All contracts are to be let by the
state board of affairs.
The sanatoria viii be under the
supervision OF the state board OF az
fairs and the state superintendent OF
health, the former having charge OF
the business. or fiscal affairs. and the
the latter the care and treatment and
discharge OF the inmates. 4 superin.
tendent for each home sanatnrium is
10 be employed by the superintendent
OF health at a salary OF s2.4o0 year
The bill carries an appropriation OF
$4,000 for the payment OF salaries.
Agitation for the creation OF a de-
partment OF the state health board
for fighting tuberculosis began sew.
eral months ago and reached proper
tions Of county.to-county campaign.
The result was that many senators
and representatives came to the cap
iial interested in the cause and |
pledged to introduce bills creating
sanatoria.
The six sanatoria will mark a be- |
ginning OF state effort TO reduce the /
abnormal percentage OF tuhercular az. /
fiction in Oklahoma Six sanaioria /
will take care of 45o patiems at the
outside. or little more than one per
cent OF the tubercular population OF
the state. Eventually there will be
4 sanatarium in each county. accord
ing to those interested IN tubercular
treatment There are bound 10 be.
they say. because there are $4,000
cases in Oklahoma now.
A dozen different measures have
been drafted in the last thirty DAYS.
All containing the essential features
of the act presented. Finally the
health committee OF the house STEP
ped in and took over the task OF
framing the kind OF a law the state
needs. The committee has been
working quietly on a draft Of the
measure for several weeks. hearing
from the State Tu.
berculosis associations, members OF
he medical profession and DIR. John
W. Duke. head Of the state board OF
Aealth