The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-13

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 12.-
Closing of the legislative week finds
the house investigating committee
doing all Of the HmclightinE and
making a bid for the high spots for
the coming week.
The toutaclcs reaching out from
the reports of this committee have,
uf course, caused other departments
to come i'm for a share Of attention
aud the senate has been kept busy
by the fire Of house reports. now
coming in and receiving attention.
Tho house Investigators took an
awful slap at Attorney General
Freezing for permitting George Short
to remain as an assistant attorney
general while the latter admits that
he has been compensated by one OF
the large lumber companies ot the
southwest. The report was in the
way OF ccnsure, but II carries with
It the significance that failure to
heed the committee may bring on
oven moro severe and more i'm
portant charges from the members
Of the probe body.
The house prosecutors IN the
Trapp case arc Matthews Of Clare
more: Drake OF Wagoucr and SEQ
field Of Stilwcn. In addition the
probe committee has had the legal
services OF Judge Kornngny OF Vi
nita and John Embry OF oklahoma
City.
II is Just beginning 10 dawn on all
statohouse people that this com
mittce e. very much in earnest and
the charge that II Is partisan body
does not find ready credencc, for
there have been no two men on the
probing trip more In earnest than
King OF Frederick and Newman Of
Durant, democrats Of long standing
and Newman ~ among the oldest
Legislators In service today. Perhaps
no single individual has had more
70 do with advancing the charges
and striving for their standing up
than Newman, and very certainly no
person I'm this state is more cordially
hated by those being investigated
than he. Newmal an state Treas
urcr Arthur Lcccraft are both from
Bryan county, hut that has not
changed the aspect Of the treasurer's 3
status with the committee.
But tho great surprise TO all ot
those concerned has boon Speaker
SChwahc Of Nowata. lie is young
aud for time tho old time leaders
" politics were ot the opinion that
tho veterans Of tho senate would he
able to outgcneral him. Moreover,
when tho house was first organized
the republican members wero not
acquainted with each other. and the
speaker assumed command with n
divided house among members OF his
own party. and the vast matOritv ot
that membership unframed to legls-
lativc work and knew little about
legislative procedure.
Naturally tho trained democrats
og the senate expected to br able
10 master the situation, and 20 fur
ther fortify their strength. the dem
orratlc minority In the house had a
large pumbor OF old legislators
some of them veterans OF many
political battles.
Bon Harrison, clint Graham, w
r, Disney, Perry Miller, Pearson Of
Hollis and others have been sea-
soncd I'm the game and for the first
three weeks these old time legisla-
tors made Schwabc's colts sweat leg
lslatlve blood.
Slowly, patiently and with caution
the speaker has been able TO get his
inexperienced men into a fighting
line, and he has also demonstrated
mate the senate and hold the limo
against odds, Schwahe has arrived,
and. In arriving, brought along n
bunch OF trouble for the democratic
state machine men that fortclls lot
OF work. The smiles OF derision
which first greeted the speaker and
his unframed co-workers have
changed To frowus, and the state
house organization has awakened to
the fact that It must contend against
men who were electad for the pur-
pose Of Cooking over the books"
and who are going about that bust
ness In a methodic and painful Ito
the organization) manner.
This is the program OF war which
Schwabe and his men have arranged