The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-16
CALLING SESSION
|SA BITTER PILL
But the Pressure on Gov
ernor Robertson sWas
Irresistible.
TAX FERRET IS MIFFED
Gulager Thinks the Governor
Vetoed His Bill at Behest
Of Big Lawyers.
Ry G. w. II. KINDS.
Tho W,rId's Capital Correspondent.


OKLAHOMA CITY, April Ia
still seeking to secure some extraord- 81
mary excuse TO enable him to escape
In responsibility OF calling an ex-
draordinary session of the legislature
the governor journeyed to Medicine
Park. II was announced in the ma
chine newspapers that the governor
would probably confer" with former
Senator Elmer Thomas relative to
the predioament he had made for
himself
asa matter Of fact Senator Thomas
lad been in Oklahoma City for two
iavs and was therefore accessible TO
the conferences Of all the disgruntlcd
and disappointed statesmen out at
the capitol building
Passage Of "a resolution asking the
governor TO call the special session
bv the oklahoma City chamber Of
commerce. unfastened the last fcath-
or in the Oklahoman uniform for the
initiation Of the appropriation bills,
and the call will be issued in a few
DAYS 1t is like taking a dose OF
castor oil for the state administra-
ton crowd, and the press bureau has
been authorized to pound violently
on the explanatory keys of the type
writer
If Trapp We're Governor.
Even Lieutenant Governor Trapp Is
talking differently from what he was
, few DAYS ago. He declares that
~ we're governor I would call the
,sslature at once. moreover. I
would stand up and walk straight
ahead and not palavcr with oppo-
rents" Trap is not governor.
Republican senators and members
" the house of representatives, who
lad their bills killed by their not
being sent down to tho governor
from the senate insist that they are
likely 10 "huck' the line unless tho
session is opened for them to have
these measures re-enacted. Senator
Horner Of Okmulgee had one or two
measures TO die in the senate dry
dlGk"-thc place where the big fell
lows lost thcm until other legislation
could b. forced. Senator Horner Il.
O. new member and had not previ-
olsv ascertained just how some
wrinkles get into bills even after
their passage by both houses.
Tax Ferret Gulager of Auskogoe
has been ON the pecycd list, too, for
his measure. giving the right of an
appeal from the tax finding of the
ratc board Of equalization to the
suprcmc court, was vetoed by Cow
,-nor Robertson Wednesday. Gula-
ccr claims this was the only measure
racscd by the Legislature that would
a =.
does no, attribute the veto To that
particular reason.
The measure passed he house
and senate with only one dissenting
vote m each branch. but vicious
lobby was maintained against IT,
Gglsger paced the hotel lobby de-
.larinc that the same big attorneys
who have been charged with mani
p1lating legislation and directing
government killed his bill, just hav.
ing the governor make his usuai
signature In any event the tax
ferret Is of the reservation ana
was searching for Cartoonist 10
draw q picture OF what he thought
happened in the office Of tho chief
executive when his bill was killed
That Dark Capitol.
The board OF AFFAIRS ContlOlS the
aey which turns the switch 10 fur
.Hsh light and power for the capt.
Ul The corporation commission
has money in its contingent fund
10 pay for lighting and when the
board had the lights and power
turned off, called the supply com
pany and asked that the lights be
turned on for the commission. the
commissioner who called was sur
prlsed to learn from the supply
company that they would he glad
20 furnish the lights, but that the
switch at the capitol was turned ana
hat the supply company had no KEY
10 turn It back with.
There is money for lights and
power but the board of affairs Is
seeking TO give the people a lesson
on how the house played politics.
Elevators do not rum lights are
OH and little work is being done
As 10 the work, little is ever done
IN legislative seasons. those being
occasions when the department
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