The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-03

SAhst Apl II tothd'' aAN
house worked under high pressure
Thursday and Friday. Senate bills
that have not reached the house and
house bills that have not reached the
senate today are doomed with legisla-
tive ADJOURNMENT today. Both houses
started VIZ, accordingly at 10 o'clock
on both mornings, recessed for the noon
and evening meals, and continued in
session late into the night. Most bills
We're given brief consideration - they
We're either passed or killed without
much debate The slaughter of bills
was particularly marked in the lower
house, where the number of absentees
made the chances slim for a measure
10 which there was respectable
amount Of opposition.
The senate took up in the Thursday
night session the appropriation bill for
state institutions. AS passed by the
house, the appropriations in this mea-
sure totaled s9,4S4,427. AS amended
by the senate committee on appropria-
tions, the bill calls for expenditures Of
s9,732 900 for the next two years.
Thursday saw the end Of the move
ment to abolish certain minor state
schools, a move originated in the sem
ate by Senators Il. p. Hill of McAlester,
Harry CHASER of Enid and Morton
Rutherford of Muskogee. Bills to abol-
ish the schools Of mines at Wilburton
and Miami, the schools OF agriculture
ut Lawton and Tishomingo, the prep
aratory school at Tonkawa and the
military academy at Claremore have
held the head of the senate calendar
under general order for more than
4 week. Hill asked that the bill to
abolish the Wilburton school be ad-
vanccd TO third reading. Joe Fleming
made substitute motion to indefinitely
postpone; the substitute motion lost, IS
TO 2l. Clark Nichols moved to recon-
slider this vote, and it was reconsidered.
The senate then voted "a to II TO in
definitely postpone the measure
The argument was used against the
bill that wounded soldiers were being
given vocational training at the school,
and this work should be allowed to con-
tinue. Fleming said the school was a
failure us a school Of mines, but the
work Of rehablitating soldiers should
not be disturbed Nichols and Ross Lii.
lard made similar arguments Ruth
erford said the soldiers could be trained
at some other institution.
II Is generally conceded that the vote
yesterday on this bill sounded the kncll
Of the abolition movement at this Ses-
sion.
Senator Luther Harrison took advan'
40 h. g4hpll
sure to make Il speech calling attention
to the neglect Of the world war veter-
ans. lie said 1t was two and half
years since the arnistice was signed,
and the federal government had not
Yet made adequate provision for dis
abled veterans. And the legislature Of
Oklahoma had been here SS days anu
not a single soldiers relief measure had
been passed. The blame will fall on
the whole legislature, not On just one
house, he predicted--and added that
both houses would deserve the unspar-
ing condemnation OF the public lie
concluded that il the representatives
Of the American legion would get to-
ssther and present Il definite program
Of relief legislation at once. by today,
he was sure the legislature would adopt
it, Harrison began his speech by an
nouncing he wanted TO help make q
noise, and he ended by saying he knew
he was out of order In not speaking on
the subject before the seate, but other
speakers had been in the same posi-
lion. "As for the BILL" Harrison wound
up, Il know nothing about H."
Echoes Of the school fight permeated
the debate on the institutional budget
bll In the senate Thursday night. FL
forts to raise and TO reduce the appro-
pratlons for normal schools brought
out the ringing speech and the waving
arm. Senator Bob Davidson, who IN
this instance, argued for smaller ap'
preparations. lie insisted he had nc
wish TO cripple schools, but declared
that economy was necessary. lie made
the same fight in committee TO Keel
down appropriations, and protested VIC
orously against the amended bill re-
ported out TO the senate lie IL credited
with the statement he would have
brought in i minority report had h'
not been chairman Of the committee
Senator Bill Holloway Of Hugo made
his most vigorous speech Of the session
ia support Of more money for th'
schools. lie told some OF his fello"
senator's they ought to be ashamed OF
themselves for trying 10 pinch the edu'
cational Institutions OF the state Sen
aor John Carlock was backing W
Davidson's program OF retrenchment.
The first ink well hurling OF th'
senate occurred in this debate. Ton
Anglin OF HoIdenvile made u state
ment which Charles McPherren ol
Durant resented McPherren said Ang
Inns statement was without founda
tion. Angln took that as retlec
ton Of his veracity and threw an inh