Show THE constitution IS FREAKY oklahoma offers some strange new ideas kansas city among the freak propositions offered in the oklahoma constitution are the following levy ing a tax of one per cent on the gross receipts of railroads to eliminate the name 0 almighty god from the con ution substituting in the preamble the supreme ruler of the universe taxing peddlers and taxing theaters and circuses to locate the capital of the state on a barren prairie at the exact geographical center of the state to prohibit the system of you scratch my back and scratch through the trading of votes on pro posed bills ln legislatures poll tax qualifications for voters providing tor the election of united states sena tors by direct vote of the people and compelling the legislature to ratify such election or expel members vot ing against it compelling insurance companies to invest at least 75 per cent of surplus reserve fund within the state prohibiting the leaving of a large estate to one child compelling corporation officials and employed emp loyes to testify and then denying them the right 0 immunity from evidence tend ing to incriminate themselves pro viding that all persons of good moral character may be admitted to practice law in any of the courts of oklahoma without wit lout examination and to allow per sons not la to serve county judge and a provision forever biting all foreign building and loan as from doing business in ok lahoma A proposition to prevent the piping of gas out of oklahoma by denying pipe lines the right of eminent domain and forbidding them from crossing public highways or alleys without con sent of the state Is now under con sider atlon by the convention also a proposition to make it a misdemeanor for any person other than employed emp loyes of the road physicians and nurses in case of emergency to ne on a pass upon any railroad in the state and now count boni threatens to commit suicide it is not necessary to be cruel in disposition to face that chance calmly |