Evening star., 1923-09-27
Legislature, Dramatically
Dispersed by Military, Re-
news Fight on Walton.
SENSATION is EXPECTED
BEFORE ISSUE SETTLED
New County to Be Placed Under
Martial Law-Lower House
Status in Doubt.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, September
27.-The conflict between Gov. J. c.
Walton and the lower house Of the
Oklahoma legislature developed today
into a finish fight as the lawmak. g
prepared to take their cause to the
courts.
Meanwhile the state is in doubt as
to the official status of its lower leg
islative branch.
The dramatic action of national
guardsmen in dispensing, on orders
of the governor, sixty-six house men,
bers who gathered yesterday in the
state capitol at their own call to con-
slider impeachment charges left the
executive victorious after the first
brush. But the contention of the leg
islators that the house formally was
convoked, no, outstanding the mill
tary interference. presented an un-
precedented problem which a court
must solve.
From the maze of charges and
counter charges revolving about Gov.
Waltons fight against mob violence
rand masked depredations in Okla
homa has appeared a tense situation
which observers say is the prelude to
spectacular climax.
Continued Military Law.
The use of military forces to combat
hooded outrages" will continue until
domination of one-third of the counties
in the state by the Ku Klux Klan is
broken, the governor said. Within the
next few hours. he added. he will place
a. =" 'sr county under rigid martial law
a. .ie request of some of its citizens.
Rum1r has 1t that Murray county is the
one to which he referred. although this
finds no confirmation in official quarters.
Political enemies of the governor, in-
signed tts ssaf for N f,s 'sssioi ssssiSn. charge
| that by his official acts, particularly the
+. use of the military in his war on the
Ku klux Khan. the executive has over
thrown constitutional government ana
assumed the powers of a dictator.
Asserting that the proceedings in
| the state house yesterday constituted
an official assembly despite the inter-
vention by the military. the rebel"
Legislators went ahead today with
to test their right to meet without
a call from the governor. A legal
committee is in charge of the work
and while no details have been made
public, 1t is expected that either the
state supreme court or the federal
district court will be asked to enjoin
the governor from preventing the
session. The action is anticipated be-
fore the end Of the week
The fight has just begun" de-
clared leaders of the movement. THE
meeting of the legislature has just
started"
Welcomes Court Test.
THE legislature shall not meet"
was Gov. Waltons retort from the
executive mansion a few hours later.
He added that he would welcome
test in the courts, declaring that any
such a meeting would be a direct vio-
lation of the constitution.
Allowing the governor no oppor-
tunity to carry out his threat of using
all force of arms and men necessary
to prevent the session, the legislators
have agreed to await the outcome of
their action in the courts before at
tempting to convene again.
The executive has charged that
sixty eight members of the house are
Ku KluX Klansmen and that their
proposed meeting would be barred
under the martial law decree pro-
hibiting unlawful Klan assemblies"
TROOPS ENTER CITY.