Volume 15 , Issue 20

May, 1913 - To Probe Case of W. R. Dutton

In The Tulsa World, dated 20 May 1913, Tuesday, on the front page, the headlines read: "To Probe Case of W. R. Dutton." A special committee was looking up alleged attempt to bribe senator. W. C. Allister was seeking to have people Vote on today for the Womens' Rights.

A committee of the state senate appointed in an executive session would be at work during the legislative recess investigating the charges against Senator W. R. Dutton. Dutton, in connection with Judge Amos Ewing of Guthrie solicited a bribe from the moving picture men of the state to kill the Dutton Bill which proposed to close the theaters on Sunday. The committee was appointed following the filing of a report by another committee, with testimony of moving picture men and others attached.

The Maxey Investigating committee would resume its investigations of the various state departments the next Monday, according to the 1913 news article. The banking board and state bank commissioner, whose affairs were partially inquired into several weeks before, would receive attention fire, and between now and then reconvening of the legislature every state office not investigated would be visited.

The Maxey committee was reduced from 12 to 8 and friends of Governor Cruce could see Monday as an indication of anti-administration feeling in the manner the committee was deuced. Wyand was relieved at his own request for business reasons. Crawford, Edmister and Childers were climinated and it was claimed these three were friends of Cruce.

Having been defeated in his attempt to have the legislature authorize the text book commission to extend the 1908 school book adoptions for a period of two years, Senator W. C. McAllister of Hugo, had decided to make an effort to submit the question to a vote of the people and that Monday filed with the secretary of state a copy of the proposed initiated petition.

Owing tot he uncertainty as to whether the legislature would appropriate sufficient money to continue the present system of the commission, Col. Jack Love, on that Monday issued a circular letter to all employees of the commission advising them to engage in other employment before June 30th, 1913, if an opportunity presented itself.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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