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Show SOLONS ASKED TOJFIGHT KLAN OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE IN SESSION AFTER STORMY PERIOD" ' Bitter Attack on Invisible Government Govern-ment 1 Reviews Events Which Have Kept the 'State in Turmoil ' ' Oklahoma ' City, Okla.', Holding In abeyance recommendations of Governor Gov-ernor J. C. Walton that they fc'iJJ sider at once legislation affectf 0 the Ku Klux Klan, the lower hou4l the state legislature vote a resolution empowering the speaker to name a committee of Investigation and Impeachment Im-peachment which would be empowered empower-ed to Inquire into the official acta of all Impeachable state officers. , Martial law, In effect throughout Oklahoma since September 1"), was lifted by Governor J. C. Walton in. a proclamation made public Thursday. The Oklahoma legislature, called Into extraordinary session by Gov. ernor J. C. Walton, convened Thursday. Thurs-day. The house was called to order by D. A. Stovall, representative from Choctaw county, who was chosen majority floor leader at a ' caucus Wednesday night. The senate convened and both branches then recessed for a joint session to receive the message of the governor. A committee of the Joint session Informed Governor Walton that the legislature was ready to hear him. The governor did not appear personally, person-ally, however, and Aldrich Blake, executive counselor, brought the message mes-sage to the Joint assembly and de-livered de-livered It to the clerk of the senate with the brief statement: "Gentlemen, herewith Is presented present-ed the governor's message to the legislature." The clerk then began reading the message. In his message, the executive charged the klan with responsibility for hundreds of outrages. "This all-powerful and most demoralizing de-moralizing 'super government' Is un- dermlning tbe very cornerstone ana foundation of our goverment and sapping the life blood of our citizenship," citizen-ship," Governor Walton declared. "It must either be killed or the government govern-ment itself must finally give away to anarchy and revolution. , There Is no alternative or middle groiltfiy' The governor reviewed at f length the chain of events which have kept the state In turmoil for a month and conclued his message with a plea tbat the legislature immediately pass a bill, which he himself prepared, "that the people may be protected forever In their person, property and fundamental llbertls." |