San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-15
OKLAHOMA
LAWMAKERS
FACE JAIL
: Governor Threatens to Inn
i prison Legislature If
1t Meets.
ASKS NO INTERFERENCE
Legislators Want Special
Session to Probe Tulsa
p Martial Law.
ASKS NO INTERFERENCE
Rx the Associated Press.

Oklahoma City, Okla. Sept. 10
Members of the state legislature will
be put in Jail "and kept there" ii
they attempt to meet in extraordin-
ary session to interfere with his war
on floggings, Governor j. c. Walton
declared today.
II don't intend to stand for any
such thing" the governor said.
Governor WaltOn's statement fol-
lowed a report that movement Is
-afoot among certain of the lawmakers
to convene for an investigation OIL
the executives martial law edict IN
Tulsa county.
I'm my effort to return the gov
eminent to the hands of the properly
constituted authorities, and to secure
equal Justice for. all of our citizens,
/ do not intend to brook any inter
ference" he said.
Governors Call Necessary.
IAN attempt to convene the legis-
lature in such an unlawful manner,
such as has been suggested would be
an interference with my efforts, and
IL they come in here and try such a
thing, l will put them all in Jail and
keep them there as long as l am in
office"
Certain Lawmakers were reported
Yesterday to be contemplating an at
L.tempt to hold such session. No
Itiegislafure in Oklahoma has ever met
without call from the governor, the
constitution providing for this pro-
cedure.
Those said to have been planning a
4 ~ q a1l-
sent are said to have taken the posi-
| ton that there is warrant for such a
| course because the constitution does
rot expressly forbid.
Enemies Sustain Position.
On the other hand, even bitter po-
. litical enemies seem to sustain wal
. toms position. This is evidenced by
| the fact that these avowed opponents
| of the governor recently caused the
| initiation of bill. providing for the
converting of the Legislature in spe-
| eial session upon agreement of a ma
. iority of the members of each house,
| i'm the belief that statute was neces-
| sary TO make such action legal
With the time limit drawing near
| for the execution of the governor
| threat to clamp down an iron-handed
military rule in Tulsa county, no eff
4 fort is being made TO meet the de-
mands of the ultimatum calling for
the resignation of five Tulsa county
officials. alleged by Walton TO be un-
der domination of the Ku Klux Khan.
kIt was intimated that. unless the Of
ficiah retire voluntarily, custer pro-
ceedings viii be instituted on the
basis of evidence already gathered by
the military court sitting in Tulsa.
Censorship Of Papers.
The publishers of the Tulsa Tribune
are preparing today TO 20 into. federal
court to test the right of the gov
ernor to establish censorship NJ
that newspaper, and Z. X. Bixby,
managing editor of the Muskogee
Phoenix, announced that attorneys
for his publication would join with the
Tribune in asking federal injunc-
tion.
- Governor Walton would not discuss
what steps he plans at Muskogee
where w. II. Sampson refused 10
Iobey the executives ultimatum to re-
sign as exalted cyclops of the Musko-
gee klan.
In well informed circles it is pre-
dicted that martial law will soon be
declared in both Muskogee and Okla
homa City.