The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-27
Closeup SidehghtS From
State Legislatures Halls
BY c. w. B. HiNDS..

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fnents against which the governors
critics have ccntcred their battle
notably tho state board of affairs
and the highway department.
Robertson Scored One.
The governor scored ono in a con-
test in the senate Tuesday when
Senator Rutherford asked unani-
nous consent to have his resolution
authorizing the supreme court TO
pass on the validity of the state
board Of equalization one and one
half mill * levy to appear on the
calendar without the formality OF
being printed.
He explained that there were q
number OF resolutions and bills In
the two houses and that this would
end the matter IL carried. II was in
conformity with a message sent to
The senate by the governor and In
direct opposition to the Wallace
resolution to declare the levy in
valid.
That Of course does not determine
what The Legislature will do regard
ing the levy Wallace objected to the
procedure. but It was easily carried
on an aye and naye vote, no record
being asked for.
House measures are before com.
! mittecs and deal with the topic and
there is a probability that the house
may not deal kindly with the pro-
/ posal 10 have the court pass on a
stated question when tho right oil
| the board of equalization may not
| be asked, except in a technical man
/ ner.
! Declaration that tho tax !s un-
| necessary and therefore rcsCinded
| might not be the ordinary method
| but. in the event that 1t was then
I taken 10 the courts, they would have
/ first to determine the right OF the
/ legislative body Ia resCind taN---oI
/ reverse the situation completely,
Scott Asks Aid.
The report that the effort to pre-
vent passage OF an act for soldier
! relief by the srate and the news
| paper announcements that the fed'
| eral authorities would provide fol
/ this emergency received an early
week setback Colonel Hugh Scott
in charge of the federal medlca
| work within the state, and who ha!
| figured quite prominently on thu
| proposed state hospital. Is quoted
IN Oklahoma city newspapers as be
| ing Of the opinion that the fedora
government, will not ho able to op
crate a hospital before 1925.
This has caused some Of the for
MIR s2000,000 advocates to thinl
the state can get action quicker
Just why one branch OF gOyernmen
can build a structure In six month.
and another--richer and with more
o. kt.r L. MI =
less than five years will probably b,
disclosed TO the legislative com
mittees, but at present is "a secret.
The matter has been injected II
some measures Of n different natur,
one would turn some very useless
state institutions into temporar,
hospitals. such division and scat
tering of effort did not prove popu
lar when the Introduction occurred
but Il Is generally accepted that on
or possibly two Of the bigger struc
lures could be easily inserted int
an act that would prove popular II
both houses,
There are several reasons for this
not the least among them the fac
that experienced legislators ar
conscious that the state has TO-
many institutions and they kno,
how hard il is to conduct a winnini
battle to abolish even the smalles
OF them.
Several of the larger institution
heads desire TO annex some farminl
land-the head OF the suppl
asylum and Doctor Waters of tn
Granite Teformatory having pre-
pared statements OF 40 reasonabl
nature In efforts To show that pur
chase OF more land would really b