The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-02
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(By Staff CorrespC
Oklahoma City, March
of two days the Oklahoma
argued the matter Of abol
parts Of the corporation
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vindictive, impassioned,
solemn at times in debatif 10 cold I
lion.
And when the appropj of ones
the corporation commisst
was adopted late yesterda, reputati(
it was found that the res
senate's consideration was - Lo
he appropriation S7,4O0 fo'' navy
years. The total appropran you
he department, as presente liz;
budget bill, was s157,450 for Aiiis
sl37 $50 for 1923; when the figure
finished amending the item,
preparation for 1922 was sl41,
for 1928, Sl61 ,15O
A good time was had, howevG Ie
function Of the commission wag dis
continued-the bureau for the regu-
lating of common carriers. Joe Sher-
man, republican floor leader proposed
provision for this bureau be stricken
from the bill and his amendment was
adopted by a close vote. In consid-
ering this amendment, the senate
again debated whether the corpora
tion commission has lost jurisdiction
over common carriers. Il. =. Hill of
McAlester, democratic flood leader,
asserted this question was now be-
fore the United States supreme court,
and fought the amendment. Hill said
he was not defending the commission
because Of any connection with it or
because of friendship for the mem.
bers, but because it was the only
agency which stood between the peo.
pie Of the state and corporate agrees
sion. After the Sherman amendment
was adopted he told the senate it had
turned the railroads loose on this
state for the next two years.
Bob Davidson Of Tulsa said the con.
stitution gave the legislature power
TO take every vestfge Of jurisdiction
from the commission if it saw fit.
He thought the district court was
a better place TO have some of the
cases heard. District judges were
more responsive to public needs, he
said, and are lawyers trained 10
weigh evidence. Davidson declared
the corporation commission had failed
to function in proper regulation Of
public service corporations. He said
he did not favor stripping it of all
jurisdiction. although the legislature
had power TO do so, but did favor re-
moving from it such functions as il
could not perform. Morton Ruther-
ford Of Muskogee strenuously opposed
the amendment. Harry Cordell OF
and Pete Coyne Of Estella
were among the democrats who de-
Tended the commission. while Clark
Nichols Of Eufaula, Tom Anglin of
and Ross Lillard of Okla |
homa City took part in the attack.
Lillard proposed an amendment to |
strike the appropriation for the regu- |
lation Of telephone utilities. The APP |
amounts to $4,000 for
each year, and Lillard asserted this |
small sum was useless 10 fight the |
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., |
which paid its Oklahoma attorney |
$40, 600 q year and its district counsel |
$4,000. Lillard said If there was any |
thing on earth the corporation COM
mission had done TO help the people |
of Oklahoma in respect 10 telephone 1
rates. he failed to recall II. He spoke |
raaIfntr1tr aIa Of
lmendemnt failed.
An amendment by Hin added rate
clerk at $1,000 a year to the bureau OF
The contingent fund for
The bureau for the collection of cor
poration tax was raised from $500 TO
I ZOO n year. A contingent fund OF
10000 available next year for the APP
lIaisal Of the Oklahoma Natural Gas
Co properties was wiped out, and the
money transferred TO the contingent
und for the appraisal OF public service
properties in general, and made avail
,ble In 1923. With these changes, In
addition 20 those made the day before,
he appropriation for the corporation
was adopted.
In night session, the senate took
NJ other departments provided for in
he budget bill, approving appropria-
ions for the health department, in
urance commissioner, state election
'oard, public instruction, board Of
ducaion, vocational education, and
military department. The board Of
griculture was the subject Of much
eba,e at the night session, an appro-
'riauon OF s12300O for tick eradica-
ion being particularly criticised. Bob
Wallace was active In attacks on ap-
ropriadon for this department.
The house yesterday set a record
or the present session by passing "a
Ills. Incidentally, II made consid.
rable impression on It's calendar by
citing these bills disposed Of Six
( the measures passed weru senate
r house bills on third reading. The
were local blls, or those
lassed as local for purposes OF quick
ction, which were moved up out Of
OCULAR order TO third reading and
laced on final passage. The hasty
rocedurc In regard TO this latter
lass Of bills was taken at the sug.
cstion OF Speaker Schwubc. lie went
trough the bills on general order
.ith the house and checked of those
hlch were local Ia application and
lose TO which there was no oppo.
uon. These were then advanced
lthout amendment to third reading
nd final passage. by one motion
hich included them all by number
.toh bin then was read and the roll
U on the first applied to the others.
rong the bills passed In this way
s one by W. O. Pratt Of Pontotoc
Inty which would provide that rural
,h school buildings attain a certain
lndard of construction. Another.
y Craven and wismeyer Of the house
nd Coruett OF the senate. would
cato judicial district 20. composed