The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-02
Time to Pause in Flight to
Wait for Legislators
to Finish
RAGGED ENDS TO TIE
And It's Bound to Take So
Ions Considerable Time to
Get Through Last Rush
by O.. w. H IUSDS
Tho WDrIa capital Corrcspondcnu

iN.dNNilA ltEiNlh. uIN Dr. suIIttlhE
with an oEDca feeding and It Is
almost impossible to keep pace with
She movement ui proposed blllH--for
az One mumHut thr'c is change In
ono house and then there rs "a
,utuE. lu the other
GuU houHc has reported out tho
trrltc departmental bin of sG,SiS.-
900 with H TtUOmmcudatl0n that II
bo reduced Gt,8OO.O0U. That does not
mean that 10 viii finally bo dealt
thl Hlf blow Tor at this moment
30 To- being coua.dcfcd In the house
and there are hwift changes, cspe-
,iaIly when some particularly strong
lCE.HiafuT wishes 10 insert "a slip OF "A
hundred thOutand or 80 dollars for
suWc pet institution.
For instance, when the house was
81 accusing the senate deficiency pill,
BriCo of McAlcgtcr got an Increase
uf $4,000, Tor the purpose of en-
ablinR the highway department 20
pay tho penitcntiary revolving fund,
the debt being duu for the hutomo-
bio license tags turnlBhod 10 the de
partmrnt OF highways.
should tho adjournment motion
FOR noon Saturday not be rcacindcd,
that probably means about noon
sunday 10 VIII take u lot Of time
to tie the ragged ends OF legislation
together, ana here are ragged ends.
The house OF representatives very
evidently has outgeucralcd the zen
ate relative to appropriations. and,
should It bo able to Ret the depart
mental bill over TO the senate great
~ reduced, might conclude to ad-
tuuru and allow The senate to con.
fer about amendments with the at
moHphcro, which. whllo hcalthful.
is not OF great legislative value.
Aud Kerr L. Somr Little I.Xplnincr.
Aud tho house investigating com
mlttcu piled up somo totals In thoec
closing daya which left many logis-
latiyc minds In doubt. Major Eu
gene Kerr, who is the gcnerallwimo
TO make tho democratic end OF lcgls-
lation look well In spite OF tho
muddy roads. waa even unable TO
explain how the oil lease valuations
In Jackson county had suddenly
mounted to such great altitude. but.
the mills of legislation Just have To
keep moving Notwithstanding reports
Of wicked investigating committees.
The appropriation bill train Is
working In both house and senate.
The latter body has boen trying to
sandwich In some other matters. but
the trend IL approprlationward and
that IL likewise true In the house.
Tho senate has amended the house
institutional bill not a little and that
calls for agreement to tho amend
mcnts or to conferences and In
either event will take up some time.
Tho departmental bill calls for Simi-
lar efforts and the deficiencies have
80 far called for words and express
sions which place correspondent at
"a disadvantage In trying to explain
their exact meaning.
school Aid Bill Passed
The house has finally passed the
common school aid bill which carries
s3l7. 900 aid for the common schools
for the remainder OF the fiscal year
and tho $4,000 emergency APP
preparation for tho women's college
at ChickGsha.
Another measure passed was one
permitting the A. & NJ. college at
saltwater TO issue bonds for $780,
900 for a building, the bonds being
issued against the endowment prop
crty Of tho institution.
Schwabe'a troops sent eight bills
TO final death In one clatter, but the
majority OF them pertained TO affairs
OF which the public has heard little
and they carried little OF moment
one OF them provided for an ad
ditional assistant to each member OF
the supreme court, and another
would have permitted employers q
work employees on road contracts for
more than eight hours each day,
The first mentioned has been very
much discussed by attorneys. and
there was a companion bill TO pro-
Nido for "A civil court OF appeals. A
has been true In all matNrs refer
ing to the judiciary. the honorable
laarIulutlNrn a lisnatiAH aa ~
what was proper, and the result foI
the eighth Legislature has amounted
TO the same thing which happened
in the years which have gono before
More PagCs To the Code.
The senate has been advancing
some unlmportant measures that
win add pages TO the session laws II
finally passed and signed by the gov
ernor
Governor Robertson signed the
house bill by Porter Newman of Du-
rant and Judge Crsyer of Bart les
VILE. cNempting state building war
rants from taxation. That was the
original status Of the warrants but
an adverse court decision declared
them taxable and, had the law not
been amended bank holders OF the
warrants would have been com
PEELED 10 pay back taxes for a period
OF several years back.
They were sold to state bankers
on the theory that they could be
held as reserve and not taxed, max
inE the five per cent interest net
proposition, IL was one among the
really Commcndablo measures intro
duced in the session.
Movie Bin a Prublsm.
The senate Is now struggling with
the McPherrcn -CarloCk btll to censor
moving pictures but at the present
writing the outlook for its final pas
sage are none too good. II was IN
trudused TO prevent the showing OF
outlaw wuvies, and has had con-
siderable opposition, its opponents
stating that there IA no method by
which pictures can bv censored nm
der the provisions OF the proposed
law.
In this closing struggle, all atten.
ton is Centoring on how an OF tho
appropriation bills can bc passeI
within tho time set for adjourn ment
and this includes the indlyidun
building bills, some OF which are Ia
back on the calendaric procession. /
is admitted that there Ia u powerful
element ambitious for some OF thos
proiects to remain In tho rear, bu
here are other strong men am
bitious that they be rapidly advance,
and passed on the final roll calls I
be had on tho last night OF tn
Efruggln