PROCLAMATION RECONVENING THE CONVENTION, ON JULY 10. "You are hereby notified that the constitutional convention for the proposed state of Oklahoma, will be re-convened in the city of Guthrie, the seat of government, on Wednesday, the tenth day of July, 1907, at 10 o'clock in the morning, for the purpose of making any proper changes in the election ordinance and make such other regulations as will subserve and promote the interests of statehood. You are urged to De present promptly at the convening of the convention. "A committee on election ordinance, to consist of R. L. Williams, W. A. Ledbetter, S. W. Hayes, M. J. Kane, Henry S. Johnston, D. S. Rose, George A. Henshaw, John B. Harrison and John J. Carney, is hereby designated for the purpose of submitting suggestions relative thereto, and said committee is requested to meet in the city of Guthrie on the tenth day of July, 1907, for said purpose. "Whereas, Since the adjournment of the convention, criticism of the legislative apportionment has been made through the Republican press; and, "Whereas, The Republicans did not present any request, facts, or statistics at the making of said districts, and the Democratic majority at all times being desirous of making a fair apportionment upon the population of the state and correct errors if any were made. "Therefore, As president of the constitutional convention. I hereby constitute and appoint a committee to take testimony upon legislative apportionment, to consist of Flowers Nelson, Charles Moore, Roy Allen, J. F. King, J. H. N. Cobb, to meet in the city of Guthrie on the fifth day of July, 1907, and to take the testimony which may be submitted by any and all persons between said date and the convening of the convention as aforesaid, and the Hon. P. B. Hopkins, minority leader of the convention, the chairman of the Republican state committee, and all Republicans and other persons of the state are hereby requested to appear before said committee and to submit testimony, facts and statistics to disprove the fairness of the apportionment, made by the convention with a view of correcting errors, if any be found, in said legislative apportionment. "Given under my hand on this, the 25th day of June, A. D. 1907. "WILLIAM H. MURRAY, APPEAL FOR FUNDS. Pres. Murray issued the following appeal for financial assistance, and received $2,067.15, nearly half of that amount being contributed by his fellow delegates: To the Citizens of Oklahoma: In view of the great expense which has attended the making of the constitution, and failure of congress to make additional appropriation, I hereby call upon the citizenship of the state to contribute the sum of six thousand dollars to be used exclusively in paying clerk hire and necessary expenses of the convention. The two official reporters of the convention, since its adjournment, have been busily engaged in copying the debates and proceedings, and as soon as they have completed their work they will call for their money. I have assisted them from my own resources, but am unable to do so longer. I have also had two other stenographers employed during the most of the time since the adjournment of the convention, and upon the reconvening of the convention on the 10th of July, it will be necessary to pay for the clerk hire then. All of these expenses I have estimated at $6,000. I request the citizenship of the state to divide this burden with me and immediately to make remittances of such sums as the people can afford to contribute. I want the name and postoffice address of every person who contributes as much as $1.00 in order that I may send them a certificate of the same and keep a record in order that the amount may be paid by the state to these contributors. Send directly to the undersigned. WM. H. MURRAY, President of the Convention, Tishomingo, I. T. June 27th, 1907. Newspapers please copy. ELECTION PROCLAMATION. To the Public, GREETING: Whereas, Pursuant to an Act of Congress entitled: "An Act to enable the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a Constitution and State Government and to be admitted into the Union on an equaì footing with the original states; and to enable the people of New Mexico and of Arizona to form a Constitution and State Government and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states," approved June 16, 1906, and hereinafter referred to as the "Enabling Act," Delegates were duly elected; and, Whereas, Said Delegates so elected did, on the second Tuesday after said election, meet at the City of Guthrie, the seat of Government of said Oklahoma Territory, and organized as a Convention; and, Whereas, After such organization said Delegates in Convention assembled, did declare that they adopted the Constitution of the United States on behalf of the people of the proposed State of Oklahoma; and, Whereas, Said Constitutional Convention did, by ordinance irrevocable, accept the terms and conditions of said Enabling Act; and, Whereas, Said Convention did thereupon form a Constitution and State Government for said proposed State of Oklahoma; and, Whereas, In pursuance of a resolution of said Convention, the said Constitution of said proposed State of Oklahoma engrossed and enrolled upon parchment, signed by the officers of said Convention and certain members thereof, and attested by the Secretary of the Territory of Oklahoma under the Great Seal of said Territory of Oklahoma, was on the 22nd day of July, A. D., 1907, filed in the office of said Secretary and is now on file in said office; and, Whereas, Said Convention did, after said Constitution and State Government for said proposed State of Oklahoma had been so formed as aforesaid, provide by ordinance, as amended on the 15th day of July, A. D., 1907, entitled: An ordinance providing for an election at which the proposed Constitution for the proposed State of Oklahoma shall be submitted to the people thereof for ratification or rejection, and submitting separately to the people of the proposed State of Oklahoma the proposed Prohibition article, making, substantially, the terms of the Enabling Act uniformly applicable to the entire State for ratification or rejection, and for the election of certain State, District, County and Township Officers provided for by said proposed Constitution, and for the election of members of the Legislature of said proposed State of Oklahoma, and five Representatives to Congress," for submitting said proposed Constitution to the people of said proposed State and for its ratification or rejection at an election to be held at a time fixed in said amended ordinance, to-wit, on the 17th day of September, A. D., 1907, at which election the qualified voters for said proposed State shall vote directly for or against said proposed Constitution, and for or against any provisions separately submitted; and, Whereas, By said amended ordinance it is provided, that at said election a separate provision adopted by said Convention, that is to say, a propostion as to whether or not the manufacture, sale, barter, giving away or otherwise furnishing intoxicating liquors shall be permitted in said proposed State for a period of twenty-one years from the date of its admission into the Union, and hereafter until the people of the State otherwise provide by amendment of said Constitution and proper State legislation, the said proposition being, "Shall the provisions for Statewide Prohibition be Adopted?" and, Whereas, It is provided by said amended ordinance, that, at the time and place of said election for the ratification or rejection of said proposed Constitution, there shall be held an election for officers for a full State Government, including all the elective State, District, County and Township Officers, provided for by the provisions of said Constitution, members of the Legislature and five Representatives to Congress; and, Whereas, Said amended ordinance, certified by the President and Secretary of said Convention, was on the 22nd day of July, A. D., 1907, filed in the office of the Secretary of said Territory of Oklahoma and is now on file in said office; and, Whereas, Section twenty-one (21) of said amended ordinance makes it the duty of the Governor of the Territory of Oklahoma to issue proclamation giving the public notice of the time and place of holding said election, Now, therefore, I, Frank Frantz, Governor of the Territory of Oklahoma, by authority of said amended ordinance, do hereby make proclamation giving notice that the elections herein before mentioned and provided for will be held in each and all election and voting precincts in each and every County and District in and throughout the said proposed State of Oklahoma, on Tuesday, the 17th day of September, A. D., 1907, at and between the hours of said day fixed by law, at which elections the qualified electors for said proposed State of Oklahoma shall vote directly for or against the said proposed Constitution, and for or against the separate provision separately submitted as aforesaid, and for any and all of the elective officers for a full State Government, State, District, County and Township, and members of the Legislature and Representatives to Congress herein before mentioned. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the Territory of Oklahoma to be affixed thereto, at the City of Guthrie, County of Logan, Territory of Oklahoma, this 24th day of July, A. D., 1907. INDIAN TERRITORY, CENTRAL DISTRICT. I, P. B. Stone, proprietor of the Daily Capital, published at South McAlester, Indian Territory, within the limits of the proposed State of Oklahoma, in Pittsburg County thereof, do state under oath that the attached Election Proclamation issued on the 24th day of July by Frank Frantz, Governor of the Territory of Oklahoma, was published in the Daily Capital, being a daily newspaper of general circulation within the proposed State of Oklahoma, and within each County of said proposed State. P. B. STONE. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of September, A. D., 1907. (SEAL) My Commission Expires March 6, 1911. BROOKS FORT, |