The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-29
GREAT LOBBY At
LEGISLATURE IS
PROSPECT SEEN
Believe Coming Session OF solons
TO Rival First Session After
Statehood; Army Special
Workers Expected.
SLANT
is GIVEN AS REASON
Some Law Makers 10 Have Their
First Hitch This Year; OBJ
servers Say VIII Be Beset by
advisers" From start.

Oklahoma Ilty, DEC 50 Nv
greatest organized army OF lobbyists
In Oklahoma history will advance on
the ninth Legislature.
II any special interest has affairs
IN Oklahoma Il viii be represented
and ably-at the session that opens
Tuesday.
In respect to the diversity and
power OF outside influences working
on the members the session prom
lses to be comparable only to the
first after statehood. And there Is
another parallel.
The farmer labor combinations
part in the recent campaign makes
the nowly elected Legislators 10 many
cases the representatives OF a new
order of things.
Men who have had no previous
experience in lawmaking are com
ing to the capitol, inspired perhaps
with flaming desire TO do some
thing in behalf Of the farmer and
worker.
While some of the special interests
will maintain their lobbies here in
all honesty of purpose-the protec'
ton Of what they consider their
vested rights-others will augment
their usual force of operatives on the
theory that the unsophisticated
farmer-labor members will be easily
influenced.
Public utilities of all sorts serv'
ing Oklahoma communities will keep
close tab on legislation affecting
taxation, corporation commission leg
islation and other subjects bearing
on electric, gas, railway and teie
phone comapnies.
The utility men keep a highl,
paid organization intact all the
year round to see that public Officials
are advised of the good intentions
of the corporations and to foste
friendly feelings on the part of thu
consuming public. This organization
will function during the Legislature.
Necessity of taking forceful mea
sures to put new life in the stat
banking system means that TN
bankers will have strong lobby o.
hand.
The state bankers are vitally II
IL
= terested in restoring the people
confidence in the guaranty law, /
rehabilitating the fund and at tn
same time doing it in way as nc
to saddle such burden upon tn
v bankers as to make their bushes
q Improbable.
,r Any move on the part of the LEI
" islature toward increasing the III
4. bility of the state for the debts
the state banks will be encourage
of by the bankers. 1t is becoming noise
" abroad that there is no foundatit
a. for the popular impression that Il
,e state has been guaranteeing depo
n it's. Dispelling this impression hi
not helped the state banks.
le II the state banks are to
~ wholly responsible for guaranteed
,e- their own deposits the bankers W
'ir insist that the legislature leave wi
ly them the administration of the gui
at anty law.
no They will take the position in
Is. feet that the states part in RI
\ ming the banking business shot
es be somewhat in proportion to
er- willingness to lend its credit to I
III, bankers.
~ 1t has been a general belief Il
= the independent oil men would be
- high favor with the administrati
= If Governor-elect Walton is pledt
to the cause of the independents,
his campaign pledges and utteran
would indicate, it is unlikely t
the gross production tax will be
th. creased.
ter Toward the close of the campai
e. however, it was rumored that tn
had been a split between the cal
date and the oil interests. If
rth- be true, the matter of inceras
mo, the tax burden of the producer 1
trail be raised. At any rate the oil
sed terests will spend whatever is ne
Ap- sary to keep the legislature prop
5. informed.