The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-02-06
Senate Bill No. 1853
(By Staff Correspondent

(By Staff Correspondent
Oklahoma City, Feb. 5.--Senate bill
No. 15s looked innocent enough. 1t
was u measure introduced by NJ. w.
Hugh, democrat, Of Boise City, seek
ling to appropriate $1,000 for the sup
port Of the Panhandle Agricultural
Flnstitute at Goodwell for the remaind-
Ter of this fiscal year. But 1t brought
Ito the surface yesterday in the sen.
||atk probably the bitterest factional
Sfseling OF the session. II also brought
Eout an issue relating to deficiency APP
ppropriations that Is likely to remain
j,an issue throughout the appropriation
Vprogram Of the eighth legislature.
u discussion Of the bill began in M
y6rdinary way. Pugh explained the
Panhandle school would have to close
&unless the emergency appropriation,
Twas made; since the last legislature
0had made its regular appropriation for
1.-THE school, the attendance had grown,
Ecausing increased operating expenses,
land the original sum was not suffi-
lcient. The Panhandle institute Is the
4only state school within an area Of
|l5O 900 square miles, Pugh said
\ T.. f. Woods, republican of Clare
lmore, declared this particular appro-
ipropriation might be meretorius, but
|}lf It was made, there were many 9TH
fers the senate could not consistently
Iturn down. He thought 1t time to call
M halt. He dwelt on economy and
Ithe necessity for state schools keep
Hing their expenditures within the ap-
}propriations made for them. Woods
rprominent place among the republi-
9can senators gave reason TO suspect
Lthat he was enunclating republican
,fpolicy toward such measures.
\ Ross Lillard Of Oklahoma City. dem
'Iocrat, possibly. had some such idea
'lHe got the floor and pointed out that
'NWoods seemed TO have undergone
|'change OF heart: the day before the
had moved TO reconsider
lthe vote by which the emergency on
,lan appropriation measure for q nor
'lmal school had lost. and now he was
'|fighting q similar appropriation. Lii-
Hard attributed this to the Influence
{of the republican state organization
(which has headquarters at the Law
Arence hotel; he intimated he thought
1.-THE republican chiefs had lined up
<the senators OF their faith TO stand
as n matter Of party policy
||against such appropriations. lie ask
ted the republican senator's rhetorical
Ily) II they were going to allow them
Aselves TO be voted by "the Invisible
Igovernment at the Lawrence hotel.
Nile said the secretary OF the republl-
lean state committee was In evidence
Hat the session Of the appropriation
Ncommittces OF both houses yesterday
NReferring 10 Woods change OF posi-
ttion, he said ut IN inconsistent az
'ihen." Lillard wakes quite dcnuncia-
tory in charging the senate rcpubli-
tcans with playing politics.
I IL looked ns n other democrats In
Tho senate disapproved Of Lillards
tspeech. Several deplored the inJeo-
ttIon OF partisan politics into the dis
4 cussion. II is reported that group
x OF them collarcd the ira,e senator
/, from Oklahoma City In the antc-room
land advised him to LAY Off" But
Joe Sherman OF Sherman, republican
4 caucus leader, suffered great lacciation
OF feeling from LIZARDS remarks. ana
insisted ON telling the senate about
1it. 49,.
sherman declared that Jim Harris
Hand John Appleby had no cinch ON
<hIm. Hc further asserted they had
no standing In the house. But he
would rather. he said. belong to
party that had an invisible govern
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