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122.5-11 - Oklahoma Appeal
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OKLAHOMA CITY CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
April 25th, 1914.
Hon. Robert L. Owen, U. S. Senator,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:
On the 17th of this month Mr. Mee, President
of the Security National Bank, wrote you asking if you would
not secure from the Comptroller's office the number of
banks in southern Oklahoma allotted to the Dallas District,
that keeps accounts in that city.
Believing you had over-
looked the matter he asked me to please write you again concerning same.
We are delighted over the encouraging sentiment
shown by yourself and colleagues in uniting for the purpose
of placing our state in Kansas City District.
Thanking you for your prompt attention to the
above matter, I am
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Senator Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
We are very much opposed to the division of the
State of Oklahoma which places the southern half of the state
in the territory reporting to the Federal Reserve Regional
Bank at Dallas, Tex., and the northern half in the territory
reporting to the Federal Reserve RegiOnal Bank at Kansas City,
Mo.
We believe that any division of our state of this char-
acter is most harmful to the best interests of the state as a
whole, and would respectfully request that you use your best
endeavors towards the re-districting of this state so that
it may report as a whole to the Kansas City Regional Reserve
Bank.
Most of our business goes north and east, and the
sentiment in Oklahoma iB strongly in favor of reporting to
Kansas City in preference to any city in the south.
Very truly yours,
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April 25th,
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Hon.Robert L.Owen,
United State Senator,
Washington D.0
Dear Sir:-The Federal Reserve Board,Yas divided Oklahoma
into two regional bark districts, and we believe that the
proposition is of sufficient importance to demand action of
every banker and business man of Oklahoma.
We learn from God p s word that a house divided
We learn also from experience,
against its self,will fall.
We have also
that united we stand, divided we fall.
learned through the channels of trade p tat the trend of the
comrercial interects of Oklahoma is toward the north and
not southward, and that it would be going backward to try
to divett the business froNnatural channels.
In the evert that the present division of Oklahoma
should remain unchanged, inour opinion there would be no
probability of establishing a branch bark in the state, or
would an Oklahoma banker be recognized on the Federal board
Reserve Bank.
Or
Believing that it would be to the best interests
of the state of Oklahora, ale believing that it is the
desire of at least ninty per-cent of the bankers and business
men of Oklahoma to have the ertire State in the Kansas City
regional district, we would request that you use every
consistent effort to have the Federal Reserve Board change
Oklahoma in to the 10th, reserve District.
Realizing that what is done, must be done quickly,
trusting in your integrity and loyalty to state and your
and
constituents, beg to remain,
Yours Very Truly,
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.I. W. SHOFNEI?, Chmn., Holdenville
GERMAN FRENCH,V.-Chmn.,Tonkawa
.I. A. SMITH, Secretary, Sasakwa
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Holdenville, Oldnhoma, April 24, 1914.
Honorable Robert L. Owen,
Tashington, D. C.
Dear sir:I regret very much that in establishing the
boundry lines for the Regional Reserve Banks that
Oklahoma was divided into two sections. The bankers
of Oklahoma deem this a great injustice as in nearly
every instance all of their banking connections have
been with Kansas City or St. Louis, largely with
Kansas City.
This is the natural trend of our business and
especially so with this section of the State and we
would much prefer to be in the -ansas City district,
rather than the Dallas district. Another fact with
regard to Hughes County is that the present division
would greatly dis-oraganize Group 4 3, of the Oklahoma
Ban:frers Association of which Hughes County is a member
and the only County in Group 11- 3 that is not included
1)1 tbe -n-Isps City district.
As Chairman of Group A 3, of the Oklahoma Bankers
Association, I wish to protest against this division
and earnestly ask your influence that the State be
ineluaed as a whole in the Kansas City district, or
if the State is to be divided, that the boundry line
follow the South Canadian River so as to include
Hughes County in the Kansas City district that we may
not be seperated from the other Counties of Group 4 3,
and of which as afore-said we are a member.
Very respectfully,
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W'M. ANDERSON,
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WAURIKA , OKLA.
Honerable
Rob/t. L. Owen,
Member, United states Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:
It is the unanimous
wish and desire of
the Officers and Directors of this bank, that if,
possible, the State of Oklahoma be held intact
and placed in one district, preferrable, the yansas
city district, as
ever seventy-five per cent of
our business is transacted through the
st. Louis
north and
and Kansas City has been the clearing house
for all of our business since we began business, some
ten years ago.
Thanking you for
consideration of the
above and thanking you, we are,
yours v ry1 ruly,
Cashier.
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April 23, 1914.
Mr.
L. A. Wilson,
El Reno, Okla.
My dear Mr. Wilson:
It may interest you to know that in a trip
I made yesterday in the southern part of the state, during
which I talked with two bankers at Rush Springs, two bankers
at Duncan, one at Comanche, one at Waurika, one at Terra', also
with two at Addington and one at Chickasha, - that without
exception all were opposed to the division of the State into
two Regional Bank districts, and all expressed a desire and
hope that the State might be again put back into one district.
At Terral and Waurika, both of which places
are within ten miles of the State line, the bankers were
particularly outspoken in the matter and feel that by all means
the State should be put back into one district.
Without exception, all of those whom I have
talked to feel that the division as made is a blow of the most
severe kind to the commercial and business interests of the
State, that it will in time destroy the solidarity of the
State and tend to build up the cities in the neighboring states
at our own expense.
I beieve you will agree in this conclusion,
and I wish to add that I personally feel that this tendency would
grow rather than decrease in the future, unless this great wrong
is righted and the entire State is kept together as it should be.
yours very truly,
CASHIE R.
ANTON H. CLASSEN
OKLAHOMA CITY
April
Twenty Third
Nineteen Fourteen
Hon. Root. L. Owen,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Jar. Owen:This is
April 14th relative to
serve bank district in
cated and attaching it
in answer to your letter or
the manner of changing the rewhich part of Oklahoma is loall to the Kansas City district.
You state in your letter that you think a
good many of the banks in the central part of the state
ask to have themselves attached to the Dallas district.
Upon inquiry I learn that in January a poll was taken
or the banks and that there were only two or possibly
three that favored Dallas, ana since that time return
has been had from 260 banks and out or this number only
nine ravored Dallas, and in several cases they claim,
that personally the ofiicers or these banks favored Kansas City, but because of some ox the large stockholders
living in Texas they were compelled to take that position.
It is certain to leave the State intact; Will
not work injury to anyone in the state and it is reasonably certain that if the State is cut inttwo(that it will
seriously injure some.
Our people are very much in
earnest in this matter and they feel that you are almost
personally in position to have this change made.
I
learned yesterday that a committee or twenty rive or
more will vist Washington and see you in regard to this
matter.
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Wishing you continued success, I am,
Y urs very truly,
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C. II. GRIFFITH, PRESIDENT
.r. A. IITNIEWAN, VICE PRES.
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11. A. ChAMPLIN, CASInEll
L. R. GALLOWAY, ASS'T CASHIER
NO. 9995.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
SENTINEL, OKLAHOMA.
.rril 2Z, 1914.
senator Robt. L. Owen,
Washington, D.
Dear SenatorThere is nothing before the representatives
in Congress from Cklahoma of more vital interest to
the State, especially this Dart of the state, th_ri
the regional bank rroposition.
It will be ruinous to our
business, if we are left in the Dallas District, as our busi-n
ness will all be throv. out of its natural channel.
7:e realize that it will take Dromrt and vigorous
action by the entire Ckaahoma delegation to have this chance
made, but we feel like our representtives in congress are
'1)1e and worthy to co-no with the situation.
We respectfully
reuest that you give this your promt attention.
Or
ninety 1TX cent of our banking business is done in Illansas
City.
P.espectfully yours,
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No. 10442
THE FARMERS NATIONAL BANK
CAPITAL STOCK $25,000.00
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23.,1914.
Senator Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
This bank having been placed in District # 11. of
the Regional Reserve Banking System declares its natural course
of trade and financial communicattion violated, and urgently
requests that the districts be so re-adjusted that it will be
in District i 10. with headquarters at Kansas City.
If it is true that any of our representatives had knowledge of the placing of any portion of Oklahoma in any Southern
District, and consented thereto, that portion so placed could
not feel that it had been well represented.
Wishing to urge that necessity requires speedy and positive
action, I beg to remain
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April,22d,1914.
Hon. hobt. L. Owen,
Washington,D. C.
Dear Sir:
I write to ask that you use your influence
with The Federal Reserve Board to the end ,that they
change the boundary of the K.C.distriet so as to
include all of Oklahoma in that district.
I can conceive of no reason to include this
territory in the Dallas district except to make up
sufficient capitalization for the Dallas bank,and
I believe they would have that without any of
Oklahoma. Our financial connections are almost all
with Oklahoma City,Lansas City and St. Louis.
This natural trend of business will continue as it
is though we remian in the Pallas district,however,
it will be at a disadvantage for we will be forced to
keep sur reserves in Dallas whereas they should be
kept where we will naturally go to borrow money.
I take it that our credit will be curtailed
considerably
by the fact that we are forced to carry our reserves
in a city wiarapoic where we have never,and perhaps,never
will ask for accommodations. Anything you may be able
to de for us along this line will be appreciated by us.
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22nd, 1914.
Hon. R. L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I note in your letter that
"The assignment of banks
in Southern Oklahoma to the Dallas Reserve District is open
to an appeal to the Federal Reserve Board"
We believe that this is a matter of vital interest
to the whole state and
put the entire state
a strong effort should be made to
in the Kansas City District.
We
know that the present assignment will upset our business
relations and will be a serious handicap to this bank.
When the banks of Oklahoma were asked to state their
preference, practically all of them gave Kansas City as their
first choice, and St. Louis as their second.
We believe that the division of the state is little
less than a calamity and if the Federal Reserve Board will
not assign the entire state to Kansas City, it ought to
assign the entire state to the Dallas District.
While that
would not be a satisfactory solution to the matter, I think
that it would be much better than the division.
We trust that you will do everything in your power to
help Oklahoma get a more satisfactory assig
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W L.STOCKEh.VIGE PRESIDENT
ROBERT A ZEBOLD,C"st-ttcp,
J.B.SYLENDER, ASS.T CASHIER
April 22nd 1914.
Honorable Robert L. uwen,
United States Senate,
7ashington, D. C.
This bank made a vigorous
protest to the Organization Committee
as to being placed the the Dallas District, but the same appeared of no
avail.
7e feel that the success of the new bill largely depends upon the
wisdom of the Orginazation Comittee and of the first directors elected.
Y:e feel that a great mistake has been made by the Organization Comittee
in splitting Oklahoma in two districts, and especially so when placing
any part of Oklahoma in a district with Texas.
The reason have been ad-
vanced and we believe them correct, that the bank at Jallas will be overtaxed before this section of the district will be in want.
We hope even
yet to be placed in a district where the deposits of the bank will be
greater than it will be in the Texas bank and where the territory will not
be demanding funds at the same time in every section.
7e hope that you
will use your best efforts to have Oklahoma placed in the Kansas City
District where we rightfully belong.
Thanking you for past favors, I am,
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L. A. WILSON. PRESIDENT
M. W. DIMERY, VICE PRESIDENT
JENNIE E. EVANS, CASHIER
J. L. EVANS, ASST CASHIER
Abbinpton, Okla.
Apr...22nd. 1914*
Hom.R.L.owen,
U.S.Senator,Washington,D.C".We are protesting in every conceivable manner abqUt
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being attached to the Dallas Reserve District and if there is any—
thing you can do to get us put back in our own terri;ory welkwIld
surely be under lasting obligations to you,. and would be glad to
reciprocrate at any time.
We have never carried an account in Texas as we have hever
felt the need of it as all our business interest centered in Kansas.
Please do not leave a stone unturned as we feel that Kansas City
knows our needs best of any ,lace.
Very truly yours.
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Hon. Robert L. Owen,
C/O United states Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:I am writing you in regard to the redistricting of te
Federal Reserve Bank Region.
While we are satisfied with our position in the Kansas
City
District, we would like to help our other banks to the south
and west
who are not at all satisfied.
We think that it would be a big help
to all the bankers in Oklahoma, if all of Oklahoma could be placed
in the Kansas City District.
Anything you can do toward this end will
be very much appreciated by us.
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W.A.NEWTON. CASH I ER
R.L.WILLIAMS.VicE-PREs
JOE McDONALD.Assr.CASHIER
tasir STATE 13j___,ANK
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Apri1,22nd, 1914.
Eon. Robt. L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:-
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We are one among the many that wants Oklahoma
placed in the Reserve District with Kansas City
and will feel under lasting obligations to you
if you will use your influence to help us in thts
time oftrouble,
With best wishes, We Remain,
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CAPITAL & SURPLUS $30,000.00.
RESPONSIBILITY, QUARTER MILLION
DOLLARS.
CUSTER CITY. OKLA.
WE MAKE FARM LOANS
April 22, 1914
Hon. Robt. L. Owen,
United State Senator,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:We wish to continue our protest ar to
the districting of your good state and mine-- OKLAHOMA-by the reginal bank board.
Your constitutents, with our bank, protest
on this injustice done Oklahoma and we ask that you use
every fair and honorable means--at once-- to bring about
conditions so that Oklahoma as a state, will be placed in
the Kansas City district.
Yours respectfully,
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OKI-A.1-i 1VIA. C x -r
April 4, 1914.
Hon. Robert Z. Owen,
United States Senator,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:I trust you will pardon me for
writing you relative to the division of Oklahoma into separate Federal reserve districts.
I am sure that your attention has been called
to this matter by a great many others who have
more direct and personal interest than I, however, I feel that the necessity of a reconsideration and the placing of the State of Oklahoma
in one reserve district cannot be too strongly
urged, and I wish to add my request that you
give this matter your unqualified and persistent
attention.
In my humble opinion, no local
governmental question has arisen since statehood which would so vitally affect the commercial development of Oklahoma as this. I do
not deem it necessary to present arguments in
support of these conclusions, for the reason
that I know they have been and will be forcefully
presented by others, but I do wish you to know
that business in general, independent of the
banking interests, is awake to the great injustice
which will be done if the State is not placed in
one district.
Thanking you in advance for your most
hearty and continued assistance in this matter, I
remain
Yours truly,
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FARM LOANS, REAL ESTATE,INSURANCE AND
COLLECTIONS
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MR. ROBERT.L.IOWENS
WASHINGTON.D.0
Honored. Sir
of
BY request .of several bakkers and loan Cc‘ thi state
the way the stat i is devided
i write you this letter inregardto
In the regionalbank diArict.it would seem to me. that it would be
was in one reginal district.how ever i am
better if all of the state
prepared to say .that any real harmay or inconveniance wil come
not
to the state by reason .of this division
it is very seldom i have ayriy thing to say about things i know nothing
about. if the division of okla is the only defect in the new currency
billwe should all be well pleased .and i hope it is
now mr owens i helped to elect you to the .u.s senatbecause i tbought
you were bettor qualified to fill the office than my selfand i dont
think i made any mistake in my judgment
thare foer i wil say this .you are there and know what work you have
before youif you have no other presing business and believe it is best
for oklahoma to be in one regional district i would ask that you
use your influence to have this did
assuring you that i am for .WILSON.BRYAN AND OWENS FIRST LAST AND
fiLL THE TIM .AS LONG AS THEY GONDUCT THEM SELvES AS THE/ HAVE IN THE
IOURS TRULY
PAST
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CAPITAL 8, SURPLUS $30,000.00.
RESPONSIBILITY, QUARTER MILLION
DOLLARS.
CUSTER CITY, OKLA.
WE MAKE FARM LOANS
April 221 1014.
Hon. Robt.L.Owen,
United States Senator,
Washington, ID .C.
Dear Senator;
Following our former letter protesting against
division of our state by the Organization Committee
the
of tiie Federal Reserve banks we wish to state that we
do not favor being placed in the Dallas District as all
our business goes north and east and we have very little
dealings with Texas points.
We respectfully ask that you use every fair
and honorable means to bring about a change in the
boundries of our district so we will be placed in the
Kansas City district together with the entire State of
Oklahoma, as we do not think our State should be divided,
and we think it will seriously retard the development of
our State to be divided in this way.
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Respectfully yours,
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G. H. CONNELL, PRESIDENT
FRANK JONES. VICE-PRES,DENT
CONGER. VICE-PRESIDENT
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J. H. BREWER, Ass-r CASHIER
NO. 10244
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CAPITAL,$50,000.00
DUNCAN,OKLA.
April 22, 1914
Hon. Robt. L. Gwen,
Washin#on, D. C.
Dear Sir:—
I most respectfully and earnestly and request you
give your support to the movement to put all of the 2tate of
Oklahora in Federal Reserve Bank, District No. 10, which point
is and has been formany years the natural clearing house for
this section of the state.
My opinion is that a division of the state will not
best subserve its banking and financial interests and that
we will not be as well served by Dallas as Kansas City.
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Thanking you for your careful consideration I am,
Yours truly,
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W.L.STOCKE R .VICE PRESIDENT
ROBERT A.ZE BOLD.CAsH.ct,
J.B.SYLE NDER ASS.T
CASHIER
April 22,1914.
Honorable C. D. Carter,
House of Representatives,
7ashington, D. C.
NA/ ThogFir
Sir:I have written you on one or two former occassions relative to
the location of Federal Reserve Banks.
This bank made
a vigorous
protest against being placed in the Dallas District when that evil
became apparant but nevertheless we were so placed.
7e feel that the
success of the new currency bill depends largely on the wisdom displayed
by the Organization Committee and by the boards of directors that
to be elected in opening up these bank's.
are
7/e feelt hat a great mistake has
been made by the Organization Committee in placing any part of Oklahoma
in the Texas District.
Our business all goes Torteast and we cannot
adjust ourselves to the new conditions without loss.
All of Texas will
call for funds before we need anything and the result will be that the
bank at Dallas will be overtaxed by Texas alone.
Texas in our opinion
should have been placed in a district without St. Louis or Kansas City,
but we are not interested in fighting the battles of the Texas bankers.
7e want relief
and ask that you do all you can to have all of Oklahoma
placed in the Kansas City District.
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NO. 6230
American National Bank
E. C.MILLION, PRESIDENT
JAMES Mc CONNELL,VicE•PRts-r.
J. G. PUTERBAUGH,VicE•PREsT.
A. U. THOMAS,CASHIER
S.G. BRYAN, Ass, CASHIER
J. J. KIRKPATRICK, AssT.CAsmiER
McAlester,Oklahoma
April 21,1914.
Hon. Chas. D. Carter,L.C.,
Weshington, D.C.
'near Sir:In common with the rest of the banks of Oklahoma,
we are very much disappointed to be put in the Dallas
Regional Bank district instead of the Kansas City district,
and we want to urge upon you our desire to have the district
so changed that all of Oklahoma can be placed with Kansas City:
ninety per cent, of our business goes in this direction and
the banks of this section when they need money, need it at the
same time that the rest of the banks in the Dallas district do,
and this fact makes this regional bank rather a one-sided
proposition.
We trust that you will give us every assistance
in your power in bringing about a change in the lines of the
Kansas City district so we may be included therein.
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Very truly yours,
Cashier.
W. W. JUIDEN.
PRESIDENT
PHONE IN'ALNUT
C. F. GI_ISTASEN,
VICE-PRESIDENT
GEO. W. STEPHENS...I
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Hon.Robert L. Owen,
U.S.Senate, Tashington,D.C.
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Sir:
1 would like to a:ik you why it is that you sat idly by and allowed
your own State to be split and part of its banking business ent to Dallas
and part sent to Kansas City,when practically all of our banking business
for years and years has been going through Kansas City?
It does look toi me,Senator that you have certainly neglected the vital
interest of your own State in allowing this division of Oklahoma,and it
seem to me that the least you could do now it to try and go out and
rectify and corre!t the wrongs which have been imposed on Oklahoma by
this split•As for myself,I am a native TeRan and will feel perfeciy at
home with my business in Dallas,but the rest of the Oklahoma bankers wont
feel that way,as thee are not possibly over a dozen Oklahoma banks who
carry accounts in Dallas or possibly Texas ,and to split this State in t
this manner certainly has worked a great hardship on all the Oklahoma
Banks.The people of Oklahoma have been mighty good to you Senator,add it
is up to yau to get busy on this and correct the matter.
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very 1truly,
Predident.
A. B. DUNLAP,PlIt SIDENT.
A. E. STINSON,Mcr PRESIDENT.
A.E.KOBS.CAsKieR.
D.W.STU DrAssr.CAsHIER.
N9 5656.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
MOUNTAIN VIEW, OKLAHOMA.
April 21st 1914.
Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:
We are of the opinion that you have had sufficient
notice that the action of the Organization Committee in
placing the state of Oklahoma in two Regional Districts
has been met with a protest from nearly every bank in both
sections of the state. This letter is for the purpose of
putting our Protest irAwriting, and placing us properly
before our rePresentatives in Congress, and the Federal
Reserve Board.
We protest and object to the fullest extent in this
matter, and will ask you to use your utmost efforts to
correct the existing conditions as created by the Organization Committee.
As you know, Senator, there exists in Oklahoma at
present, an Imaginary dast and west line, which is of no
material benefit to the state. With the action of the
committee, dividing our state north and south about equally,
which makes an absolute division in the greatest meaaure
possible, we feel that our representatives in Congress should
not stop short of anything reasonable to correct this
division.
The prestige of our state must stand upon unity, and
by unity only, can we make the proper showing to the world.
With a division of this character, it being more severe
than the average person will believe, we cannot hope to
make the showing commercially that would be made if the
state belonged to one regional district.
We shall expect to see thOeugh the press of your
earnest and able efforts to cl
,rect this matter. We feel
that we are only asking for what is right, and a right that
we have to ask for, knowing the benefits that would be
derived by us personally to be connected with a district of
which Kansas City is the regional bank point.
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J. R. UTTEIRBACK, PRESIDENT
T. A. VAUGHN. VICE PRESIDENT
E. W. POWER. VICE PRES'T AND CASHIER
0111a.
April 21st, 1914.
Hon. Rob't L. Owen,
U. S. Senator,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senatar:Relative to the placing of southern Oklahoma in the
Bank District with the State of Texas, I wish to say that this
Regional
Bank has never had an account with Dallas or Ft. Worth, but does carry
balances at Kansas City and Oklahoma City, as the natural trend of our
business is in that direction, and it does appear to us that an error
ha:: been made by the Committee in attaching any part of Oklahoma to the
Dallas District, and we hope the boundries as shown at present, can and
will be corrected by the Federal ReserFe Board, placing the entire State
in the Kansas City District.
Yours
MP-J.
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E.C.MILLION. PRESIDENT
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A. U. THOMAS. CASHIER
S.G. BRYAN. Assr CASHIER
J. J. KIRKPATRICK. ASST.CASHIER
McAlester,Oklahoma
April 21st.,1914.
Hon. Robt.L.Owen,
nate,
United States
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:In common with the rest of the banks of Oklahoma,
we are very much disappointed to be put in the Dallas
Regional Bank district instead of the Kansas City district,
and we want to urge upon you our desire to have the district
so changed that all of Oklahoma can be placed with Kansas City:
ninety per cent. of our business goes in this direction and
the banks of this section when they need money, need it at the
same time that the rest of the banks in the Dallas district do,
and this fact makes this regional bank rather a one-sided
proposition.
We trust that you will give us every assistance
in your power in bringing about a change in the lines of the
Kansas City district so we may be included therein.
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Very truly yoFs s
-C,ashier.
C. A. FISHER, CASHIER
T. J. HOWE, ASS'T CASHIER
C. M. HAXTON, VICE-PRESIDENT
M. F. PIERCE, PRESIDENT
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Sir:I
21st 1914.
Owen, U.S.Senator,
Washingbon
Dear
April
D. C.
am writing you with reference to the situation we have
been placed in by the Federal Reserve Board, having been cut off from
the North and East by being placed in the Dallas District, which
is
No 11. wo feel that it is an imposition to be placed in the Dallas
District, as we scarcely have any business from that part of the
Country, the trend of business is from the North and East, and
we
want to be in the Kansas
Dity
District, No.10. and we earnestly
ask you to use your influence to get all Banks in Oklahoma in
one
District, and that be the Kansas City District.
thanking you in advance to use your beet efforts to have
the line
changed, so we will all be in one District as above
mentioned.
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Yours truly.
President.
DR. D. P. RICHARDSON. PRESIDENT
O.
GEO. W. BELLAMY, VICE-PRESIDENT
A. DIXON. CASHIER
ONTA KILGORE, ASSISTANT CASHIER
Zite !auk of Tthon
UNION, OKLAHOMA
April 21st, 1914.
Senator Robert L.Owen.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Senator:In the matter of districting the Eitate
of Oklahoma into two Federal Reserve Districts, We believe it detrimental to the State as well as a great
inconvenience to the Bankers in the Southern District
of Oklahoma.
We feel the State is homogenous and
should be kept in one Reserve District, only.
Our
preference is to be in the Kansas City District and I
believe you will find it the same all over the State.
Above everything else, I am doubly interested in keeping the State of Oklahoma as a whole in one Federal
District.
I would kindly ask your due consideration
along this line.
Yours most respectfully,
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CAPITAL STOCK $10,000.00
FIRST STATE BANK
POCASSET. OKLA.
Apr. 21", 1214.
Honorable Robt. L. Owen,
Ti. S. Senate.
Dear Sir:we wish your cooperation in changing our part of the
State of Oklahoma, now attached to the Dallas,Texas, reserve
district, to Kansas City, for the following reason.
Our business relations are almost exclusively with Kansas
City, which has all come about in a natrual way, and any other
arrangement. will disrupt
Us
for years and perhaps would rever
be reconciled to the present organization. We are sure that you
are more familiar with these conditions than ourselvec and belteve
that your aid in help making this change would be a lasting
benefit to our state, we urgently ask your immediate help.
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Thanking you in advance for the favor, we are.
Yours truly,
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Cashier.
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April 21st 1
Hon. Robt. L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:Our hank is to small to core into the
Federal Reserve Syster so we are not affected
ai-
rectly by the division of our state into part.
of two Listricts.
We can only register our views
on this ratter.
The division of our state in this manner is a mistake and will work dertimentaly to
the interPsts of our commonwealth.
We are of
the opinion that the state sT;ould be in the Kansas City District.
We trust that the earnestly expressed
views of the bankers and business men of our
state will convince you that this division should
be correoted and then I am satisfied you will
loyally support us and secure the desired relief
For your state and ours.
Very truly yours,
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CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $30,000 co
MEDFORD, OKLA., 4121/114-.
Hoobert L.Owen)M.C.
Washington D.C.
My Dear Senator:—
This comunication is a little late but I have been
sick and hence could not write you sooner.I an writing this as
a request that you do all in your Dower to have this Great State
### of ours placed in the tenth Federal Reserve district.We bankers
.,
do not want to see our assocation split and we believe that it is
to the best interest of of all to have it in one
istrict and that
In the Kansas City 019trict.Thanking you for any thing you will do
for us I am
Very TrUTy Yours
C aohieT
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W.F.BARBER, C ASHIER
T R.KEEGAN,Ass-r CASHIER
ESTABLISHED 1901.
April 21, 1914.
Hon. Robert L. Owen, U.S.S.,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator Owen:We wish to add our voice to the general
chorus of protest against the Southern Oklahoma being
cut off from the rest of the state, and placed in the
Dallas Federal Reserve District. Oklahoma wants to be
a unit financially. Oklahoma City is at present our
natural financial center, at any rate for the western
part of the State. It would be very inconvenient to
say the least for the southern part of this state to be
in a differeng4 districp from that in which Oklahoma City
is located. furthermore, we have been accustomed for
years to doing business through Kansas City, and this is
our natural large financial center. The placing of us
in the Dallas District is going to make necessary an entirely different line-up, which none of us Bankers desire.
Surely the wishes of practically every Banker in southern
Oklahoma will be considered in this colinection when the
matter comes up before the ,,ederal eserve Board, and we
hope that we wiThi have your assistance in this connection.
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state of Oklahoma divided into two parts by
the federal authoities, organizing the Regional Banks, would be especially glad if you it
will use your best efforts to get the Federal
Board to reconsdier and allow this state as
a whole to put into the Kansas City district.
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COALGATE. OKLA
ATOKA, OKLA
CITY. OKLA
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COLCORD BUILDING
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
April 20, 1914.
Senator Robt. II. Owen,
Washington, D. O.
Dear Senator:
As a voter of Oklahoma, I wish to
protest against the division of this State in
the matter of locating the Federal Banks.
It looks to us here on the ground
as a discrimination against our own State in
favor of Dallas.
Not only that, but it is a
severe blow to all of the commercial interests
in the State, and we urge that you bend every
effort toward putting the State all back in
one district.
Yours very truly,
RFF:.Alk
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April 20th.1914
Hon.Senator Robert L.Owen,
Tashington D.C.
Dear Senator:M.C.Elliott contends that we are in the reserve district
with Lianas Texas,when we are away above the line defined with Dallas,
I presume they did not look at their map when they recd.our letter
telling them to send us pipers for subscription to reserve bank in
Kans.City.
I would be pleased to have you appear before Mr.Elliott
Secretary of the Reserve Bank Organization Commitee and point out
to him on his map that we are not in the Dallas district according to
their ruleing and see that we get the proper subscription papers which
we are willing to fill and send in at once.Kindly let me hear from
you at your earliest convenience and oblige,
Yours truly,
'
P•S•
Cashier.
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OKLAHOMA CITY CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
April 20, 1914.
Hon. Robert L. Owen,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Replying to your telegram of the 18th inst., will advise
that the overwhelming wish of the banks of the State of Oklahoma
is that the State be kept intact and all be put in the Kansas City
District.
Since the southern part of the state has been designated
as part of the Dallas District, there are certain bankers living
in certain towns who have been promised directorships by the
Dallas bankers; while in other places they have promised to secure
them a branch bank and have urged them to use all their influence with
you and senator Gore, es well as the Congressmen, to hold southern
Oklahoma in the Dallas District.
But even under these conditions,
there are but very few bankers that want to be in the Dallas District
.
Up to Friday evening there were 260 banks that had reported to
the Secretary of the State Bankers Association - 251 wanted to be in
the Kansas City District, end 9 expressed a desire to remain in the
Dallas District.
You must realize that where the owners of banks live
in Dallas or in that vicinity, they are urging their Oklahoma banks
to
stand by Dallas; but they are in such a minority that they will cut but
very little figure.
We certainly expect that you will have influence enough to see
that we are all put in the Kansas City District.
Trusting that you will
be able to put Oklahoma back on the map and not have the State
ruined by
the division as now made by the Organization Committee, we remain,
Yours very truly,
OKLAHOMA CITY CLEAR1EG HOUSE
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Hon. Robt
Washington, D.C.
Senator:Dear
As we have been placed in the Dallas Federal
district against the wishes I presume of 95%
reserve
in
the Southern part of Okla, and this you
of the bank
relations
know will cause many of of us to sever our
feel
with our Kansas City bank to a large extent and I
will work many hardships on the Oklahoma bankers
it
merchants and farmers as our interest are mutual and will
us all you can in the placing of
you please assist
Okla, in the Kansas City District, Your efforts along this
line will ceartainly be appreciated.
Yours very truly,
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part of Oklahoma which is attached to the 1)allas "egional. ljark District
changed to the Kansas City District.
dr Carter, I am asking you this for the reason that 1 al in the
Farm -oan business and handle considerable exchange, all or which roes to the
east and north and the fact that we are in a different Bankin- Zone will
make considerable diffiuulty in more ways than one in thel".andlirT of business
The political reason in my opiricr
::r serious one, from
v,
the fact of the division of our .;tate into two sererate districts in this
matter. You well know that thi
:3tate is made un of a very cosmopolitan
population coming froll all narts of th = country and that.naturally the
most. of the ,;outhern portioL of tis state is southern neenle and thenost
of the peonle in the northern are from the east and north. In my judo'n'rent
anything that tends to divide our business relations, one section o+' the'
Jtate with the other creates
a
bad condition and
53 not (rood for the Itnte.
Iqease advise nig) if there is any olpportunity to rot all of
in one region in tis matter of Regional. Lanks.
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PRESIDENT
INDIANA BUILDING
ROBERT P. CARPENTER
SECRETARY AND TREASURER
109 NORTH ROBINSON ST
OKLAHOMA STATE SOCIETY
CHARTERED MAY IS, 1905
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April 18, 1914.
on. Robert L, Owen,
Member of Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator Owen:I desire to write you in reference to the financial arid social calamity which will result from the division of Oklahoma into North and South Federal Reserve Districts.
In the early territorial days of Oklahoma, there
existed much factional division and misunderstanding between
the people of the South and their Northern neighbors.
Each
class had their prejudices against the other with the result
of constant friction.
But time, a new generation and inter-
marriage have produced a bond of union, until today the misunderstandings of early days are fast passing away.
But now comes the Federal Reserve Board, and establishes a "Mason and Dixon " line throuj-c. our state.
The
pioneers of this new state have suffered enough hardships in
moulding this glorious New State of Oklahoma, without having
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this division thrust upon them.
financial, that are sure to follow
The results, social and
a North and South divi-
sion of Oklahoma, are not paralleled in the case of other
states.
My own experience of twenty years in the state,
is that a much greater trade territory that finds a center
in Oklahoma City, is South of the "I;=ason and Dixon" line established by the Federal Reserve Board, rather than North of
it.
Everything possible should be done to avert this
calamity to follbw the contemplated division and place all of
Oklahoma in the Kansas City District.
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Sincerely yours,
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KD OKLAHOMA CITY OKLA APR 16 14
HON ROBT L OWEN
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PLEASE SEND ME FULL LETTER LIST BANKS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA WANTING
STAY DALLAS DISTRICT WANT SEE HOW MANY OWNED BY TEXAS PEOPLE AND
TRY INFLUENCE ALL TO INSIST ON OUR STATE BEING KEPT FULLY INTACT
APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORTS HELP US PREVENT DIVISION
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Senator Robe't L. Owens,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Seantor:
It has been brought to our notice that under
the new banking system, Oklahomq is divided and part of
oklahoma is placed with the Division surrounding 1:6 11as
,
and the other part with the other Division surrounding
Kansas City.
Our business and financial interest have always been more nearly allied with that of Kansas City and
we believe it would serve our people best to have the
boundary changed so' that the surrounding boundary of
Oklahoma wouldbe the Division line for the Reserve Dank
District around Kansas City.
It would allow business
to flow through its natural 'channels and the channels
that have always been in operation.
We trust you will give this your consideration.
Yours Very truly,
ROBERT L. KNIE.
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OKLAHOMACITY OKLA APL 17 1914
SENATOR WOBERT L OWENS
WASHINGTON DC
COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY WILLIAMS ADVISE THAT DIVISION OF OKLAHOMA WAS
MADE WITH YOUR APPROVAL WE FEEL AFTER YOU ASSURED US HERE THAT WE COULD
RELY ON YOUR INFLUENCE AND ASSISTANCE IN KEEPING THE STATE INTKCT
THAT THIS MUST BE A MISTAKE PLEASE ADVISE BY WIRE:
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CURRENT REPORT HERE THROUGH ONE OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS
THAT JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS IS AUTHORITY FOR STATEMENT THAT MATTER
OF CREATING BANKS DISTRICTS HAD BEEN TALKED OVER WITH YOU
BEFORE LINES WERE DRAWN AND THAT THERE WAS AN UNDERSTANDING
THAT DIVISION OF STATE INTO TWO DISTRICTS WAS SATISFACTORY WITH
YOU BANKERS HERE ARE URGING US TO GET STATEMENT FROM
YOU ABOUT THE MATTER FOR PUBLICATION TOMORROW MORNING CAN YOU
WIRE SUCH TO US NIGHT PRESS RATE COLLECT
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INSURANCE BUILDING.
OKLAHOMA CITY,OKLA.
April 17, 1914.
Hon. Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am writini-, to you as protest against
the division of the State of Oklahoma into two
regional districts as was done pursuant to the
adoption of preliminary measures looking to the
enforcement of the recent Banking Act.
This is going to affect all business
men in the State in the fact that it disrupts the
general trend of commercial relations which from
this State is to the North and East.
In the case
of my business the fact that the people who are
paying money to me from thr: Southern part of the
state will necessarily clear their remittances
through 7)allas, is going to cause no little delay
in seucring payments.
I would appreciate a redistricting of
this State so as to include it all in the Kansas City District and I am sure that this is the
feeling of all business men in the State.
Yours very truly,
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C. S. McGAUGHEY, MANAGER,
514-515 TERMINAL BUILDING.
OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA.
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April 1 j
Senator Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:In establishing reserve banks, our state
was divided, half going to iansas City and the other
to Dallas, Texas.
The business men of this state feel that
this will prove a detriment in the development of
our state, and I earnestly urge you to use your
great influence to see that this state is not divided.
Personally I do not care whether we are
included in the Dallas district or Kansas City,
but strongly protest against the state being divided.
As a life tine Democrat and one too, who
has always supported you, and believing a division
of this state would be detrimental, I feel justified
in making this request.
Yours respectfully,
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1914.
Yr. Robert L. Owens,
United States Senate,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Senator:I wish to thank you for your courtesy in having the abstract of the 13th Census
sent to me.
I want to express to you my opinion
on the division of Oklahoma on the Federal Reserve Board. I think that this in extremely
unfortunate for our State. it will unqueslionably have a tendency to divide us commercially,
and what we want to pret away from down here is
sectionalism. Muskogee and Oklahoma City are
becoming the two financial centers, but this division will materially decrease their ds8fulness
as such.
You have done
oman service in connection with this bill fnd I do hope that you
can now use your s len id influence townrd making
the Red river the ivision line between Kansas
City and Dallas territory.
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Robt. L. Owen,
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7or mrre than twenty four years WC have been
to build up R. business system based upon the
striving
conditions of nur nountry as once found in Oklahoma and
In inthe Stp.te or Oklahoma .
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pntion. It is an FIX:1MM, “Stste lividnd P7rinst itself
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no west, - Pra now 'when we Pre in P fPir
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wpy to forget Wqnhoma. Territory and Inainn Territory
there is P proposed other firnncisl division, more
disastrous to us thpn the plysicn1 thPt once "rPs.
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We refer to the division of thi stPte whjnh
the south h-lf in he Drains Reg1onP1 vednral
places
Reserve bark pna the -north half in the Knnsas city Regionpl
'Federal reserve bsnR.
We pre located pt eleven or the principal cities
In Oklnhoma, viz., Muskogee, Tulsa, nuthrie , Enid,
Shnwnee, 0 lnhoms City, pnd Arksnsr.s City,Kpns., which
would come under Kpnsss fity, snd Ardmore, Lr.wton,
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Chinkpsha Prd McAlester under Dnllas..
division which is not rpir to us P9 P n011'rPrniPi body for
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April 17,1914.
Hon. Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Deer Senator Owen:Thank you for your letter of recent date,
and which I find awaiting me upon my return from a
trip to Texas.
The more I investigate, the more convinced
I am that the division of our State in the regional
bank matter is a great injustice and will lose us,as
well as other banks in Oklahoma City, a large amount
of business.
We had no idea that the division would
be made, pinning our faith almost entirely in you and
still feel that the kind interest you have always manifested toards the business people of Oklahoma will
again carry us through , end in a way that will prove
satisfactory to all concerned.
At any rate your continued favor end efforts to have Oklahoma included
with the division in the Kansas City district will indeed be greatly appreciated.
With kindest regards, I tr.
Yours very truly,
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ED. S. VAUGHT
JOSEPH HUCKINS, JR.
G. B. STONE
SOL BARTH
M. D. SCOTT
C. F. COLCORD
J. M. OWEN
S. E. BEATTY
F. D. BEARLY
L. D. KIGHT
HUGH DONLEY
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SECT TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION
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SECT RETAILERS ASSOCIATION
ELt4EN E. BROWN, SECRETARY
OKLAHOMA CITY
April 17th, 1914.
Hon, Robt, L. Owen,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:.
This Association has advice from Wash
ington that the division of Okla
homa was submitted to you
before announced, and that you
approved the division, thus
forever preventing this State from
developing any large
financial or commercial centers.
This organization is sending out
one
hundred and twenty five business
men to spend a week touring
the State in behalf of the trad
e interests of Oklahoma City.
We will have a number of good spea
kers, and would like to
know before we start whether
this report is true, or not.
This organization has alwaysfe
lt very proud of the results
of your work and felt assured
that you would do everything poss
ible for the henefit of the Stat
e.
We trust that the report is not
true and
that your influence will be
used for the best interests of
the
State. But the time has come
when we must know where we stand
and where our representatives
stand in this matter. Dallas,
Tex., is doing everything possible
to hold the Oklahoma territor
by assuring certain localiti
es that they can have a branch bank
,
and other localities that they
can have a Director in the parent
bank if they will assist in hold
ing the territory for that city;
while Dallas wholesalers and jobb
ers are assuring those people
that they have everything fixe
d and that Dallas will retain the
south half of Oklahoma.
We trust you will write us fully conc
erning the facts in this matter.
We want to know where you stand.
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HUGH DONLEY
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SECT TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION
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SECT RETAILERS ASSOCIATION
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This letter is written at the urgent
request of a large number of the members of the Chamber
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Dear Senator:As A representative citizen of the South part of Okla
wish to qay that I am very badly disappointed over having
Oklahoma cut in to. fart going to the Dallas reserve and
the other part to K.C. Now I realize that all cannot be
pleased in this matter, but it does look in my humble
opinion that this will be A serious blow to the south
part of the state.at least for several years as practically
all of our business relaitions are to the north. I know
you are receiving many complaints and requestsin your
official capacity.But if you could find time to protest
again-A this together with an effott to get it changed
that all of Okla may go to K.C,you would confer A favor
tate that would be
us peonle in the south part of the 1.
Yours very truly
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Honorable Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Esteemed Sir:
We note that the Federal Reserve Board
in fixing
the boundaries of theterritories to be served by the regional
banks, has placed southern Oklahoma in the Dallas, Texas
District and the northern Oklahoma in the Kansas City District.
We believe this line dividing the state is detrimental to
Oklahoma's business interests as a state.
We therefore
respectfully urge that you use all possible influence to
remove this dividing line and place our great state as a
whole in the Kansas City District.
Yours very truly,
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Hon. Robt. L.
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Deet,r Senator Owen:Your favor of the 10th inst.,
in relation to the assignment of southern Oklahoma.
to the Dallas district received, and we note your
favorable suggestion therein.
an writing you at this tine
to suggest to you the responsibility placed upon
you in this matter, as it has been emphasized by
our local bankers.
They say that while they ;ere
in attendance with the rederal Reserve Board at
Kansas City, that it. was suggested by sorle of the
Oklahoma bankers, that above all things it was their
desire to perserve the unity of this State, and that
every portion of it be assigned to the same district,
and that Secy. :IcAdoo replied to this request . s
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follows:- "Your able Senator from your State will
fully take care of you in this 1[1z...titer, and his requests along this line will be fully considered':
Thus, Senator, you will see that
whatever ,nay be the attitude of the Board in this
matter, the Secretary has left the impression that
your word will be "law" in this hatter.
I an suggesting this, not especially for your direct information,
but more particularly for your protectio21.
Trusting that you will be able to
secure the proper adjustment without much trouble to
yourself after being aided by the requests from the
various bankers throughout the southern district, I
beg to remain,
Yours very truly,
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April 16, 1914.
Hon. R. L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Preparatory to presenting to the Federal Reserve Board, soon
after its organization, an urgent and emphatic request to have all of Oklahoma
included in the Kansas City district, this organization has been collecting,
in company with other organizations, a large amount of data which establishes
the claim that none of this state belongs by any right in the district of
which Dallas is the head.
your prominence in connection with the enacting of the new currency
law, and the fact that you are an Oklahoman, bases the general supposition
that you will do all possible to effect the desired change.
In fact, prior
to the announcement of the districting we understood from you direct that you
would protect Oklahoma's interest in this grave matter, and we naturally
assume that you are still anxious to do so.
However, during the many discussions that have taken place, it has been frequently stated by various
parties here that you agreed to the districting as it now exists, and that
you would not lend active support in our efforts to have the lines changed
so as to place the entire State in the Kansas City district.
This is a matter of tremendous importance to our State and City.
Before proceeding farther along the line we are following, we desire to
know whether we can depend on your active support in presenting our request
to the Federal Reserve Board.
We now have letters from 251 banks located
in that part of Oklahoma which has been assigned to the Dallas district, and
242 of these letters protest against this arrangement.
Nine favor Dallas.
Will you do your utmost to see that the Federal Reserve Board acts favorably
on our petition?
Yours truly,
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Senator Robett L. Owens,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
As I am located at Anadarko, Oklahoma, where I have been
handling mort,s
-age loans for thepast twelve years, I have established a credit with the local banks here that furnish me clearance
to take up out-standing liens held by other companies. But within
the -oast ten days I have been notified by my local bank on account
of the Federal eserve System placing them in the Dallas Texas district, a city where they have not been doing any business and causing them to divide their account from 1-ansas City, where they have a
credit established, that they would be obliged to cancel the crtdit
that has been extended to me during the past several years.
Now, Senator, if such a law as tills exists that is to put
our local banks up against a proposition like this, so that a local
business man is hampered in cariying on his business, it seems that
there should or could be arrangements made so that the banks of soutkern uklahoma could be placed in the Kansas City district where they
have been doing busiLless for years, and have their credit estaulished.
now, Senator, I hope you will stand oy the banks and
business men of Oklahoma and do everything in your power to see that
the banks in the southern part of uklahama are placea in the Kansas
City district.
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Ilobert L. Owen, United States Senator,
WashiLcton, D. C.
Dear Senator:::any of us have taken a natural Pride in the fact that
throughout inevery way, Oklahoma ia a good strong State.
In the locating
of the Regional Reservc, Banks, Oklahoma has been divided as to districts,
part of the StLte beim-7 attached to Kansas City and the other part to Dallas.
I would net, in any way, wish to take issue with the Locating Committee
because I fool that they have done their duty as their judgent dictated, and
we in this locality, were placed just as we wanted to 1, - with Kandas City,
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and feel very well satisfied and greatful to the Committee in realizng tint so
much of
great Southwest Country was tributary to Kansas City.
After
allowing ::ltd conceding for all of these facts we have a natural state .
,ride
wherein we would like to see every thing connected with the State just as strnc
and just as great as possible.
PollowL.g up this thou_ht, if at any time
Oklahoma could be all combined with the Kansas City District, we would like to
see it thi s way.
From all of our past experiences we naturally believe
that the tendency of money and commerce is along the lines of attraction aid
therefore possibly sometime in the future would like to see all of Oklahoma
combined in the the Kansas City District.
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Thanking you for your favors, and with best wishes, I remain
W. J. HAMILTON.
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Hon. Robert L. Owens:
Washington D.C.
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"near Sir:We note that our part of the State has been divided
by the 7Terietaa Reserve Board and th;Lt we
re in the .. ,13as, Texas.
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district: now we would consider it a personal favor if you
.will use your influance in zettinE the whole of 01 1ahoma
added to the Hanaas City District: most all of this part of the
State trades and borrows money at Kansas City and it would
be much better for us all should the whole of Oklahoma
be in the Kansas City District and not a ri?rt of us connected
with Dallas,
Now as ;;:bove stated we will consider it a personal
favor of any thing that you might do in getting us connected
with Kansas City and thanking you in advance for your service:
we are.:
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MUNICIPAL BONDS & SECURITIES
524 INSURANCE BUILDING
April 15, 1914.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
Senator Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. "
liear Senator:The Organization Committee of the .ilederal
Reserve ',oard has made its report fixing the seeral districts, and putting the northern part of Clahoma in ,Jistrict
o. 10 - Kansas City, and the southern part in Dis-
trict
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eserve
cities it is impossible to please everyone; but I do think
that Oklahoma has not been treatel fairly and, as one of
the voters represented by you, I take the liberty of reoue[;ting, and join 7:ith others in urging, that you do everythinE in your 1)ower to have this inj-lstice corrected.
The situation in Oklahoma is peculiar.
originally two territories.
the ::orth and from the South.
It was
Our citizens come both from
'Ve are finding it very difficult
to unite these two territories and the people from these different sections of the country into one harmonious State to
-et the proper union and team wor'.
ie have been working
hard along this line and now to have this division will
greatly handicap us in this effort to promote united action
along all lines.
It will, to a large extent, undo the
work which has been done in the past few years by those who
are seeking to build up this new State.
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Senator 7.obert L. Owen.
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(Reserve Banks)
seriously injure the industries of all the commercial
centers - Iduokogee, McAlester, Oklahoma City, Shawnee
and fll Reno.
Therefore, as one of the voters - one who is
doing all he can to help build up this State - I would
earnestly rernest that you insist to the limit upon a
reconsideration of this point, that your State be put
all either in one district or the other; for if it remains divided as at present, I believe that the bill
which you have worked so hard to put through will do
more Lamage fo your State than good.
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Very respectfilly,
F. M. POTTER. PREST
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Washington,D.C.
Dear Sir:We respectfully request you to use your best effertt in placing.this
state in a federal district of the regional banks which will work the
greatest geed for the building up of Oklahoma. We do practically all of
our business at Kansas City and prefer that point to any ether as now
established. Outside of this city and Oklahoma City we have no interests.
Very re.,pectfully,
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Senat ,r Robt. L. Owens,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Knowing that you have the interests of all o Oklahoma
at heart, I write to ask your assistance in getting
of Southern Oklahoma transferred to the Kansas City Regional Bank District.
Every one in Oklahoma is hurt by having the State divided,
but us poor unfortunates located in the southern portion are more so.
We realize that the Organization Committee had a big task
in front of it to apportion twelve banks among three times that many
applicants and to satisfy them all, but we are not disappointed because we did not get one of them for our town, but we do feel that
we are put to a great disadvantage by being put into the Texas
district.
We have absol ;tely no business whatever with Texas points,
everything going North and East, and Denver would be just as logical a point for a district toAinclude Kansas City, Kansas, as
Dallas is for us, and I mean by us, all of Southwestern Oklahoma.
I believe the ones directl:, interested are better able to
,
know their wants than the committce which had so much to look after,
and in matters of this kind, which are mere details to the 4ganization Committee but liase of vast importance to the banksinvod, I
should not think the committee wyuld take offense at our wanti
to be changed.
Anything you can do, either before the Organization Committee or the Federal Board will be appreciated bzi
Yours truly
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J. H. SCHAEFER, PRESIDENT
J. B. DOOLIN,VICE PRES'T
J. B.SCHAEFER,SECT&TREAS
THE SCHAEFER-DOOLIN MORTGAGE COMPANY
INCORPORATED
ALVA,OKLAHOMA
Hon. Senator F. E. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:
We notice by the press reports that the State
of Oklahoma has been divided into two Federal
Rescrve Districts, and as citizens of Oklahoma,
we wish to protest against this or any other
division of this State for these reasons. It
is an injury to our citizens and will injure
business arrangements already establishes,
because such interests are now one and to divide them into two separate districts would
naturally cause conflict among our people and
would tend to bring about unnatural division
in our State, which all of our citizens wish
to avoid.
Tith the exception of s few counties in the
souther!? part of the State our natural business trend is to Kansas City, Lo. We do not
know of a single business concern in this part
of the State who has any business with Dallas
Texas, nor do we know of a single farmer or
business man who has any business transaction
with that city.
We know that you are interested in the upbuilding of our State and beleive that you
will co-operate with the other good citizens
of this State in this matter and by so doing
we beleive that you will be doing our State
a greet service, and will assist in stopping
a sectional strife, which is bound to ensue
if we are put into two separate commercial
districts.
Yours very truly,
JBD/Zi.IG
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JOHN MOLLMAN.
L. L. STINE, VICE
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April, 14, 1914.
Honorable Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I drDp you a line to request your assistance, if
possible for you to do so, in helping the Banks of Oklahoma
secure a change in the Federal Reserve District, to the extent
of having all of Oklahoma thrown in the Kansas City District
#10 as a unit.
Under the present division of the State, I believe
that it will work a hardship on all of the Bankers in the our
State, from the fact that it divides our Clearances and other
business to a great extent.
Thanking you in advance for this favor, if you see
fit to grant same, I am
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C. W Crook;
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Carter
Comanche
Caddo
D. L. Burkett
Ft Cobb
Oklahoma Bankers' Association
D. W.Boyer
E. E. Huff
Thomas
Geo. W. Hogan
Tuttle
P. A. Jane way
Mangum
Harmon
Bert A. Hudson,
Secretary
Randlett
Tom L. Wade,
Treasurer
Marlow
E. B. Ellis
Waurika
Jno. H,Boys, Vice-Chairman
Carnegie
Custer
Greer
Jefferson
Kiowa
0. M. Marsh,
Chairman
Sayre
Walter
Grady
John Woods
Altus
C. W.Crabtree
Lawton
Cotton
DIRECTORS
Harvey Edmondson
Roosevelt
Roger Mill)
W,C. Ernest
Hammon
Stephens
Tillman
Washita
J. M.Browning
Duncan
E, M. Kimmel
Grandfleld
W.0. Calloway
Cordell
W. L. Hollis
Hollis
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Randlett, Okla.
April 14, 1914,
Mr. T.L.
9enator,
washirpton, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I would like to call your attenti.311 to the rpnrer in which Onahora is divided for the Pegieral Banks and
7:ould like to say I can't help but believe that this Till
7ork'to the detriment ef Oklahora financially for these reasons; for instants take our county, a county borde-red by Red
PiVeT and having sever banks and rot a single one of these
,
banks carris ar account in Dallas and eveTy one If these
seven banks carry a large balance at Kansas City.
Stephens andJefferson counties Aying lust east
have only two barks carrying balances in Dallas.
of us
Comanche just north of us has two barks carrying balances in
Dallasduring cotton eason only and mt1 1 -nr cou.ty'jubt wet
t-TAI banks carryinu balances in Pallas and I could
nare each curty separate of the fifteen counties comprising
Group Ni. 1. of the 0.B.. mr Mich I ar secretary and you
would see that they run abcut the Sarre a,FLthe above counties.
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I have noticed that There Zee owned and controlled by Texas rer that they do their heavy business with Kansas
City just the sare as the northern an with his bark- which
goes to show that it rakes no difference where a an is raised for fr- That state he conis f7w-, Ther he gets into the
financial businessof Oklhora as his business Till go the
rfturel trend of the business around hir Thich leads to Kansas
City.
I ar a rerbor f th Executive ?ouncil of S.B.t.
also Sec. of Group No. 1. of O.B.A. andir ry work in these
lines I ar free tc 71rform you that I find in the neighborhood
cf P0,1 cr Group No. 1. going to Kansas City.
The Barl:caq:, cf Oroup No.l. both State and National have built great hopes on getting a branch bark at Oklahona
-gee but with the state divided as
City and. 1Probly one at Musk
it is we car rot expect a bark at either place and for this
reason I 'would like to ask you to do all you can to put Oklahoma
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C. W Crooks
Beckham
.1 aekson
Carter
Comanche
Caddo
Oklahoma Bankers' Association
D. L. Burkett
Ft Cobb
D. W.Boyer
Custer
E. E. HuhT
Harvey Edmondson
Roosevelt
Roger Mill;
W. C. Ernest
Hammon
Stephens
J. M. Browning
Duncan
Tillman
Tom L. Wade,
Treasurer
Marlow
P. A. Janeway
Mangum
Harmon
Chairman
Bert A. Hudson,
Secretary
Randlet
Geo. W. Hogan
Tuttle
E. B. Ellis
Waurika
Jno. H, Boys, Vice-Chairman
Carnegie
Thomas
Greer
Jefferson
Kiow a
0. M. Marsh,
Sayre
Walter
Grady
John Woods
Altus
C. W. Crabtree
Lawton
Cotton
DIRECTORS
Washita
E M. Kimmel
Grandfleld
W.0. Calloway
Cordell
W. L. Hollis
Hollis
in one Pegiunal District with Kansas City
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'as th ran tThat accorplishel this.
Hoping you Till da this fey
as the bark center.
feat is accirplish—
tell Ty peoTae Tht,
us I rera,ir,
Yours truly,
Sec. af Croup N3.1.
Cashier,Bark of ParAlett.
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LEON KAHN, VICE-PRESIDENT
V. N. BARNETT, CASHIER
PONTOTOC. OKLAHOMA
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Sen4itor Robt. L. Owens,
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bank district. We believe that it an important matter that we have it
this way to prevent the state from being divided financially and coraiercially..
Dank of Pontotoc,__
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E. C.TEAPE, AsT.CAsniER.
LONE WOLF, OKLA.
April 14-1914.
Hon. Robt. L. Owen,
Washington, D.
Dear -ir
We have your letter of the 6th inst.
in regard to the matter of being changed from the
DaDas to the Kansas City Reserve district. We wish
to protest strongly against being left in the Dallas
district, as we feel sure it would be a great deal
more to our advantage, and to the advantage o f all
of southern Oklahoma, to be placed in the Kansas City
district.
understand all the banks here are making
this same protest, both to you and the the Reserve
%Board, and if anything can be done to make the change
asked for, it will be greatly appreciated by all of us.
Very truly,
.T. T. CRONIN, PnEsiA. O. MILLER, VD.:
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TIIND14,
Jon lobert L Owen,
-rashington D C,
Dear Sir:.
l'rom what infnrmetion we fla-n 0et we
fir
tilic part of the State
tbqt
are very badly dissatisfied at having been
- laced in the Dallas,District by the Federal
F.eserve -Thard,and we will greatly appreciate
any thing you may be able to do toward having
the boundry line changed so as to place us in the
ir.ansas City,District,
Thanking you and again assuring you
that your efforts in this matter will be greatly
appreciated we are.
Yours very truly,
S- If
J. B. IREIN IRON & FOUNIIIIIY CO.
118 NORTH FRANCIS STREET
Fabricators and Shippers of
Structural Steel
OF
Everything in Ornamental Iron,
Wire and Brass Work
PHONE WALNUT 4575
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FOUNDERS
QUOTATIONS SUBJECT TO
OF
ALL
AGREEMENTS
ARE CONTINGENT
UNAVOIDABLE
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Castings
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Hon. R. L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Then the Feleral Roserve Bo-trl Pixel the hounl -Irles
ot' the torritofqes for t,11-: crarioug !le-Lon)1
thq7. 1ivil-
oi, for some reason or other, our state in tvo parts, assigninE the nouther-n half to Dallas an-1 the -lorthern
to
Kansas . City.
Our f'irm
is
enga7e1 in the Structural iron an
Founlrv
Business awl eighty percent 04 our busine-3o is lone with psonl.
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in the southern part of this State.
So you will see by
ing the banking buRiness a very serious harlship is "orcel uron
us, not taking into consileration the injury that is lone to
the banking business in general.
Vs thin
this Itato has been livilel more than its share
anl shoull not 1- , -hurlenel with further harlships
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xe appea
this kin-I.
t ) you, a a repre9i1ntative of our qtJe, to
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your po:er arri in!luerrye to pet ti
assign the whole qt te t
Use all
orle- repeals-I, 1n-I either
Oallaq o- "ansas Ciy, nreforably to
Kansas City.
frusting, thqt you will. he quoces9ful in larry'ncr out
the wishes of the majority o the peopl cyt' this
,
State, we are
Yours very truly,
J.B.KL.
IRON & TDY.
JB-CB
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April 13", 1914.
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Hon. Robert M. Owen.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator
As a citizen
of Oklahoma and as a democrat at the same time I
am writing to you to protest against the division of the state in connection
with the "Currency Bill" and the location of the regional banks which places
a portion of our great state in the Dallas District and a portion in the
Kansas City District, I alp vitally interested in seeing the commerce of
Oklahoma grow and flourish and a division of the state at this time will
greatly retard our business our finance and our prosperity,believing that
" UNITED WE STAND AND DIVIDED WE FALL" I ask that you use your best efforts
to have Oklahoma "UNITED" and placed in the Kansas City District entirely
so that the efforts of the citizenship who are working to build a great
and prosperous commonwealth in the great southwest will be amply rewarded
Asking your support in this great cause I am,
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Very Truly Yours,
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NommesiOson.TranC,AW
ANDRE
IFINGKADE.
PRESIDENT.
GEO. W. CARSON,
VICE-PRESIDENT.
H. P. DOUGHTY,
143 WEST MAIN STREET,
SECRETARY.
A. MARTIN KINGKADE,
TREASURER.
OKLAHOMA CITY,OK LA.
CAPITAL STOCK $200,000.
Senator Robert L. Owen,
MENTION No
WHEN YOU WRITE ABOUT YOUR LOAN
ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS
TO THE COMPANY
April 13, 1914.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:Regarding the late currency legislation and the
matter of locating regional banks, as the new law provides,
the Districting Committee for the Federal Reserve System
has, as you doubtless know, divided our State, putting the
Southern half in the Dallas Texas and the ilorth half in the
Kansas City didtrict.
We are alarmed at this action, first it serves
the interests of our State, we can no longer pull
to divide
together in the building up of a great State as we have
done in the past,
It is certainly bad enough to lose
identity in this manner, without being split in two
our
and then buried.
We do not understand the matter to be
finally settled, and we hope that you will use your influence sufficient to bring about a change, whereby we may at
least, be put into one district.
If we cannot have a rescrve Bank within the
boundaries of our State, we would like to be all into the
Kansas City District.
Yours truly,
AK/CG.
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CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $12,500.00
C. .). ALDEN, PRESIDENT
W. E. BIER RV, VICE PIRESIDEN""
W. A. HEUSTON. CASHIER
Apra,0111t4*ma
4Iril 13, 1914.
Lir. Robert Owen, U. S. Senator;
WaShington, D. C:
Honorable Sir:After studying the conditions of the Federal Reserve System
33 r:oncerns the State of Oklahma ;Ind the Banks therein It certainly is apparent that the whole State of Oklahma should be in the same Dstrict and the
most advantageous center would be Kansas ("ity and we urge that as soon as
possible that the natter be taken up by the Federal Reserve Board and that
Oklahoma be placed in the same Reserve District,
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H. L. HARDGRAVE, PRESIDENT.
T. L.FRANCIS,CAsRIER.
DR.EDGAR BAILEY, VICE PREs'T.
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ye tru:3t you wila us-: your i2"al:erce to accci,
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DR.EDGAR BAILEY Vicc PREs'r.
T. L.FRANCIS,CAsHieR.
FARMERS &MERCHANTS STATE BANK
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The r'Atur;-L1 trerl of our 1-m-31ress is to
7aLaas City,or St.Louis and from inroniatior We have
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the (Thlaloma Darks that have 1- :er placed in the Fallas
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we trust you will 1.:9; your irrluerca to accomplish thie
char.
rrankinR you f . yoLr care-ful consilerticr.
am -very truly yours.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
908 Colcord Building
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.
April 13, 1914.
To the Bank Addressed:—
We have not as yet received from you one of
the signed slips like the enclosed which we mailed you
a week ago and asked to be returned immediately. This
is exceedingly important, and we cannot put too much
stress on the necessity of hearing from every Oklahoma
bank in the Dallas district at once definitely. If you
want to be in the Dallas district, please state that
plainly. If you do not, sign this slip today and mail
to us, unless you already have one in the mail.
We admit that there is only a fighting chance
to get the district changed, but we have good reason to
believe it can be done. Today we have received from
Washington a signed statement by a high government
official whose support means as much to us as that of
any other man, saying he thinks this change can be made
if the banks will all sign the protest.
It is very important to not only send this in
but to wire your congressman and senators, unless you
have already done so. Let them hear from you direct in
protest against the lines as at present formed, if you
feel that way about it. We have received 220 replies
to date, of which 215 have been protest.
Remember we are working day and night on this
proposition in your interest and intend to keep up that
work until we get a decision. So please do your part
by forwarding the slip to us by next mail.
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Yours truly,
Secretary 0. B. A.
BROWNING, PRESIDENT
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ED KIRKPATRICK, CASHIER
W. S. GUTHRIE, VICE PRES.
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April 13th, 1914.
Hon. Robert L. Owen, Senator,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Two thirds of our cattle business
comes from that Oklahoma territory given to
the Dallas district.
Ft. Worth is fighting us
hard for this business.
The country banks
largely influence this business as they help
the stockmen to finance their business.
We
do not want these country bank to look to the
south for their financial help, we want this
business in Oklahoma.
We sincerely trust that you will
use your great influence with the Federal
Reserve Board to have made the nhanges in the
districting plan necessary to keep Oklahoma
as a whole and to build up financial centers
within the state which in turn will help to
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build up local industries.
We are proud of your past work and
we feel sure that you will have the strength
to secure for us that for which ninety-five
per cent of the banks of Oklahoma are pleading.
BR OWNING, PRESIDENT
ED KIRKPATRICK, CASHIER
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Hon.Robt.L.Owen,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
We see that Oklahoma has been cut in two
by the Organization Committee in establishilv: the
districts for the Federal Reserve Banks.
This we deem not to be the best thing
for our State and will appreciate your efforts to
see if the entire State cant be placed in the
Kansas City District.
We feel this is the right
thing to do and will appreciate what ever you
will be able to do along this line, if consistent
with your wishes.
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Yours very truly,
Cashier
JOHN H. BOYS, PRESIDENT
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April 10, 1914
Senator Robt. L. Owen,
United States Senate Chamber,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Yr. Owen:Our citizens are very much exercised
over the manner in which our State has been cut in
two by the Federal Reserve Board in fixing the boundaries of the territories for the various Regional
Banks.
They feel that it will be a great blow to
Oklahoma for the most of their trade relations reach
north, which the clearings of Kansas City and Dallas
will plainly show.
With the drouth and other troubles
Oklahoma has had the past three or rour years we have
had enough disturbance without any more being added,
and I do hope a change can be made, and that Oklahoma can be placed in the Kansas City district.
I am not a banker; de not own any bank
stock, and am interested only for the good of the State
and City.
The Chamber of Commerce, Traffic and other
trade Associations are of one mind, that this can only
work detriment to Oklahoma.
Oklahoma as a whole certainly will appreciate it if this change can be made.
With best wishes for you, and your work,
I am,
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JOHN M. HALE
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DIRECTORS
C
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ANDERSON
W. E. CAMPBELL
S. E. CLARKSON
TREASUR
DIRECTORS
Oktalionta 1~,tiffir A5auria1iott
R. BAKER
E. G. BLANTON
E. CHADWICK
A. L. GARTSIDE
Titg. Witlaimuut
A. A. MAXFIELD
J. T. ROBINSON
HUGH DONLY
Atilliatt With .0k1a1!puta (Eitg (fIllatubtr of almunitrrt
J. E. DUNCAN
0. D. HALSELL
J. H. JOHNSTON
C. F. WELHENER
G. F. LINDSAY
W. V. HARDIE.
TRAFFIC M6R. AND SEC•Y
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Oktalituna Olitg, (Okla., April 10, 1914.
In Your Reply Refer to File
2809.
Subject 2809—Location of Regional
Banks and division of territory.
Hon. 1'. L. Owen,
.
U.S.S., Iltshington, D.C.
Dear
Your attoition has a.lready been called from
various uources to the division of the State of Oklahoma
has been made by the :Federal Reserve Board assigning the which
northern half to the Kansas City Reicional Bank and the
southern
half to Dallas.
From the standpoint of the jobbers and manufacturers of Oklahoma, L rd in particular to Oklahoma
City,
we wish to state that we believe that, if continued,
such a
division will result disastrously to the trnicing and
business
interests of the state.
Oklahoma City, as you know, contains
many
jobbing houses which a tte -mi't to do business both in the large
northern
and southern portions of the ..tcte, an1 if a division
along
financial lines is to be made which will throw toms
only a few
miles to the south of us in a district which will have
financial relations with the Oklahoma City links will no close
seriously
ret`_'rd the growth and development of the wholesale
institutions
of this City, and cause untold inconvenience to the
retail flier_
chants and -people of the irc 11 ar towns who wish to have
business
transactions with institutions at the Capital of the
StP ',e.
We further b el ieve that wi th in t he bo
the State of Oklahoma there should be at least one rd era clf
sub-bank, but
a division of the State through the center . makes
it unlikely that
such a bank will be established in Oklahoma.
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Will you not use your greatest efforts to
have
the entire state of Oklahoma placed in the
District assigned
to the Regional Bank at iLsnsas City?
There is very little
connection with Dallas at any part of Oklahoma,
and Kanses City
is the nature center to which this state
should be assigned.
Very truly you
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Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:We write to ask you to use your
influence in preventing the division of
the Banking (as scheduled) of the Oklahoma
territory in placing all that which is
South of the Canadian River in the Dallas
District, as 861- of the Oklahoma rankers
voteitfor Kansas City and only 2, asked to he
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placed in the Texas District.
It seems somewhat of an :Injustice to
force all of South Oklahoma in the Dallas
District against their wishes.
If you can conscientiously use your
influence to change this, which seems to us
only a justice to Oklahoma, you would confer
a great favor upon.
very truly yours,
EWF/GJ
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Hon. Robert L. Owen,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:
I am in receipt of your favor of the 7th inst. and
note what you say regarding the banks assigned to the Dallas
District and that the matter is open for appeal to the Federal
Reserve Board.
There will be a protest filed by practically every
bank in thAtdistrict.
In the meantime, I think it would be
well for you to go over this matter with the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency.
I think you can get this matter ironed out for us,
and if you do you will redeem yourself in this state.
Mr. McAdoo
stated to one of our people when at Kansas City that you would be
able to take care of Oklahoma in having it placed in a district
without being divided, and we relied upon this statement very largely,
without making any direct representation to the Location Board more
than was made at Kansas City and in a brief filed with Secretary
McAdoo afterwards.
I think your home town of f:iuskogee is hit about as
hard as Oklahoma.
for us.
I do trust that you can get this thing fixed up
If there is anything you can suggest that we should do
to assist in this matter, we will gladly comply with your request.
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Senator Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:The action of the sommitte in dividing Oklahoma
as to Federal Banking is I fear going to result in serious
injury to Our State by giving Dallas a large shareof our business
in all lines and perclude the possibility of our ever having
a branch in this State unless indeed that feature can be recinded.
The State of Oklahoma needs money here at home in
great abundance to develope our resources and by all means all of
our business should go to tansas City.
Is it not possible that this cormitte can be prevailed
upon to reconsider this feature -
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JOHN H. HALE
C. F. WELHE,
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TREASURER
SECOND VIC. . RESIDENT
FIRST VICE-PRESIDE.NT
DIRECTORS
DIRECTORS
C
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ANDERSON
W. E. CAMPBELL
S. E. CLARKSON
Oktalyinta (Traffic A5oriatititt
J. R. BAKER
E. G. BLANTON
E. CHADWICK
HUGH DONLY
Oltlat!onta CAIN. ODkialpitutt
A. L. GARTSIDE
A. A. MAXFIELD
J. T. ROBINSON
witIT Oktallotitu (gag Clamber
J. E. DUNCAN
Toutturrre
0. D. HALSELL
G. F. LINDSAY
J. H. JOHNSTON
C. F. WELHENER
W. V. HARDIE.
TRAFFIC MSR
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AND SEC.Y
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E.M RIDENOUR, 5ecy.
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C.E.VAN CLE11111,5t.Treas.
1?idenottr-13aker Mercantile Company.
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
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IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OF COFFEE.
Oklahoma City,
April
9,
1914.
Senator Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:
Never in the history of our state have the
business and financial interests been so thoroughly
aroused to a sense of discouragement, and we might
say despair, as since receiving the report of the
Federal Reserve Board dividing our state between two
Regional Bank Districts.
We have suffered many reverses in the past
and felt the depressing effect that comes from drouth,
crop failures, etc., but knowing these were only temporary, never lost our courage; but this last stroke
seems to have "gotten our goat" right. Our very foundation has been divided and we can no longer go on
with the work of building the great and substantial
commonwealth that has always been in our mind, with
the very walls of the structure being pulled apart.
We know that you fully realize this serious
condition without our going into detail, and will
therefore only urge upon you the utmost importance
of your exerting every effort possible to have the
state of Oklahoma placed entirely in the Kansas City
district.
We leave the matter in your hands, knowing
that you will do your best; and hoping for the desired results, beg to remain,
Yours truly,
vpbae,o-#evi,.
Vice President & General Manager.
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HON SENATOR R L OWEN
WASHINGTON DC
CARE SENATE
PLEASE ENTER MOST EMPHATIC PROTEST
OF OKLAHOMA
AS PER PLAN
UNDER NEW CURRENCY
JOBBING
RUINATION OF
MEANS THE
IN LOCALITIES- STRICTLY OURS BY
BOTH HALVES OF THE STATE
IN OUR BEHALF AGAINST
DIVISION
ACT IT
AND RETAIL BUSINESS FOR US
REASON OF LOCATION AND SUBJECT3
TO THE GREATER DEMAND
OF LARGER
TERRITORY
C M GREENMAN
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THE ROATARY CLUB OF OKLAHOMACITY REPRESENTING ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
SIX LINES OF BUSINESS FIRMLY BELIEVES THAT DIVIDING THE STATE
INTO DIFFERENT REGIONAL BANKING DISTRICTS MEANS INCONVIENCE AND INJURY
TO THE BUSINESS INTERESTS AND THAT IF CARRIED OUT WILL RESULT IN
AN IRREPARABLE DAMAGE TO THE WELFARE OF THE STATE SO
WE ASK AND URGE YOU TO USE YOUR BEST EFFORTS
FOR A RECONSIDERATION AND HAVE THE WHOLE STATE PLACED IN
THE KANSASCITY DIVISION
C F WELHENER PRESIDENT
E K GAYLORD VICE PRESIDENT E WHITiNGTON SECY G L LIEBER TREASR
PAUL M
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DIRECTOR, A WELLS DIRECTOR
W F PRICE DIRECTOR
E C THORNE DIRECTOR
316AM
I/SON,CLAYTON & CO.
COTTON.
CABLE ADDRESS
ANDICHCLAY
01-11.1111.0MA CITY, OKLA.
April 9, 1914
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1Hon. Robt. L. Owen,
c/o U. S. Senate,
WaEhirgton, P.C.
Dear Sir:
The action of the Federal Reserve Organization Board in placing
b
part
of Oklahoma in the Dallas district and part in the Kansas City district is, in
our opinion, very much against the interests of
of this State.
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great majority of the people
The annual production of Cotton alone in this State comes to
b
value of $60,000,000.00 and the people of Oklahoma are entitled to an opportunity
to build up within the State financial machinery and resources sufficient to
handle her crops.
Under the scheme of dividing the State
this cannot be done.
The banks in the Cotton producing section of the State will gradually get out of
touch with their former connections in Oklahoma City and Muskogee and will form
new connections in Dallas instead.
This will weaken the two financial centers
of our State when they need to be strengthened year
by year to keep step with
the agricultural and commercial progress of the State.
We hope that you will do all in your power to get the Organization
Committee to put the whole State of Oklahoma in the Kansas City district.
Tours truly,
WLC/MG
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CAPITAL $ 35,000.00
PROFITS $15,000.00
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Senator P.L.0,
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7ashington, D.C.
Dear Sir;
For the future welfare of Oklahoma an
in the
interest of eve: citizen of the :ALA° ye de;;Jr o tc
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ask that you use your utmost influence to
cot reaE:uste,,
the Reserve Districts in this :eclion.
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south of no h:tve
few financial tninvetions with this section, or rater we
have never had occason to handle much of our business
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has been to the rorth anC Tat and it will be like iryinc
to force a river to flow
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towt1rd _its source to trz to force
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nek3:3 senth.
But morc imrortant still it it to avoiE a 0.ivision
of our state, attacLinr this sction as a t:Lil to r.
southern
District. Okl:Aoma can not affori, to be divided. We Le not
aant to be divicie,,. We can not be uivide- and. accomplish
what we can otherwise.
matters.
Vie want your
Yours
auence iii thcse
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SAM L
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Ft LEY, PRESIDENT
TUELL,VicE-PREsIDENT
J. W. MARTYN, CASHIER
P. M. WILLIS, Assr.CAsHIER
NO. 7050
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Ft RCS31, NATIONAL SANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $ 75,000.00
HARTSHORNE, OKLA.
April 9, 1914.
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ll'ear Senator C3en:
Cannot somethins be said to the Eember
of the Federal Tlaserve T3oard that will
ause them to see
er:cor they have Lade in placina a small portion cf the
cf Oklahoma in Pistrict 7c. 11 of the 1-le 1 ional
System?
in
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Our bankins relatione with 7ansas
City are
firmly established that I am quite sure no Okla, banker
wants to sever them. 7:e all have friends th the b1.i31nass
in 7ansas City who know our needs and who are always willin7
to help us in time cf trouble.
We shall have to :1;c to a
new field and make new frienJ.s of people who ara unfamiliar
qith cur needs.
You will certainly render us a service
;reat1y appreciated if you can bring any press—
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that will be .
ure to bear whereby all of Oklahoma iray ,zo to the iansas
City 21-3triet.
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WADDI: HUDSON,PRESIDENT.
U. A.ED 'ARDS, Vice PRESIDENT
10468
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CENTRALNATIONALMNK
W.C.HOLT, CASHIER .
W.S.BARNES. Ass,CASHIER .
CAPITAL $ 25,000.00
TAIILEguAILOKLAt.,
April 9th, 1914.
Hon. Robert L' Owens, U. S. Senator,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Owens:
It will be greatly appreciated by the Central National Bank
and all connected with it if yr'll will use y-ur influence to have
the State of Oklahoma placed in one regional reserve bank district.
Yours very truly,
e,A111 ,
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WCH/AW
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ashier.
W. E. BERRY, Pncsill,
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DEPOSITORS
PROTECTED BY
PLA
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GUARANTEETUND
OFTHE STATE OF
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RIPLEY, OKLAHOMA,
Hon. Robt. Owen
U. S. Senator
Washington
D.C.
Dear senator.
I beg permis:lion to take up a few moments of you valuable
to
time by calling your attentioxyfthe way the
Regional Bank Committee divided
the State of Oklahoma and putting part in the Dallas district and part
in
the Kansas City district.
While this Bank is now not eligible to membership in the reserve Bank $
am interested in other Banks that are * and I am in general interested
in
the financial welfare of the entire state and consequently am not in favor
and dont apprdve the present way of divideing thi states financial interests.
the
m
I feel that the Banks of sonth part of the state have now established
connections with Kansas City and would prefer to contInue to
would
6:46,464*
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So
and
Walt all of this state be placed ih the Kansas City district.
I wish you would kindly take this up with the Committee and make a strong
effort to get them to make the change and place all of the state in
the
Kansas City district .
The committee certaintly does not intend to be so unfair as to divide
state against the wishes of the people of the state tand thereby
the
disarrange
and disturbe bussinese relations that we have been years in building up.
Wishing you sueoess in this matter.
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W. N. RUCKER. VICE PRESIDENT
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA
R. V. DOWNING. CASHIER
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Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:-.
,
We wish to ask your a§sistance -ln an elideaOr to
have the whole state of Oklahoma placed-in.ne Federal Reserve
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we believe will not only be
District. The present arrangement
detrimental to the banking interests but to the general prosperity
of the state.
We feel very sure that the southern part of the state should
be in the Nansas City district. Very few counties 1 if any; would
be benefited by being in the Dallas district, and the total effect
is disastrous.
The people of this state Senator, consider you as the man who
is responsible for the bill creating these districts, to you will be
given in a large measure the credit for the good which we believe
will come from the bill if properly administered, and we also look
to you to protect Oklahoma's interests in so far as the bill
affects us..
I would appreciate a reply on this subject.
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Yours ver
Cashier Farmers N
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THEO. N. VAIL, PRESIDENT
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WEATHERFORD
OKLA APR 8 1914
ROBERT L OWEN
WASHINGTON DC
THIS BANK IS
PLACED IN
DALLAS DISTRICT OF REGIONAL
BANKING SYSTEM WHICH IS OUT OF
RESERVE
NATURAL COURSE OF TRADE
AND FINANCIAL COLUNICATION FOR HS
WE URGENTLY REQUEST YOUR EFFORTS
AND COOPERATION WITH RESERVE BOARD
TO PLACE US IN KANSASCITY DISTRIXT
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WE WISH TO PROTEST THE ACTION OF THE RESERVE BANK
COMMITTEE IN DIVIDING OUR STATE INTO TWO DISTRICTS EVERY NATIONAL
BANK IN OKLAHOMA DESIRES THE STATE KEPT IN TACT IN A
REGIONAL RESERVE BANK DISTRICT
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MAR I ETTA,OK LA.,
Hon. Charley Carter,
'.)ashinrton, D. C.
April 8, 1914.
G' APR 1410
Dear Sir:As you know, two separate and distinct districts
in Oklahoma are created by the Organization Committee of
the Federal Reserve Syste, the one tributary to Li_ssouxi
and the other to Texas.
A careful study of the provisions of the new
currency measure, in connection with the information that
every banker and. business man in Oklahoma has concerning
the channels of business, shows conclusively that the result of this action can be nothine: more than a financial
calamity, to the business interests of the state at large.
To this action of the Committee, in dividing
Oklahoma and placinp: the southern portion of the state in
the Dallas District, we object, and offer in support of our
objection, thc following:First, the principal agricultural yroduct of the
south half of Cklahoma is cotton, and since this part of the
state is joined with Texas, the greatest cotton producing
state in the Union, the district will not be self stpporting
for the reason that every bank in the district will want to
borrow at the same season of the year.
Second, a close study of the map of Oklahoma discloses the fact that the proposed division injects financial
conflict into co, munities naturally allied and inter-dependent and. so diverts the local trend of trade, as to disorganize
established business interests.
Third, the growth of strong financial centers
within the state is essential to its welfare, and tith our
state cut in two there will be no opportunity to develop a
center of sufficient importance to justify a branch bank and
the two reserve cities that we now have, iduskogee and Oklahoma
City will not have sufficient territory left to support them.
Fourth, southwestern Oklahoma has but little business, if any, 'oith Dallas, and the natural trend is to Kansas
City.
Existinp: railroad facilities are cettain to prevent
economical diversion toward the South, for years to come.
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MAR I ETTA,OK LA.,
1914.
Hon. Ohnrley Carter.
Fifth, it is the purpose of the law that
business shall flow in natural channels and along
customary lines, and the Federal Reserve Board, when
appointed, has power to make such changes in the boundary
lines, as in its judgment are proper and right.
in viev: of the above facts, I am sure you will
agree that it is exceedingly important that we keep
Oklahoma intact and tributary to 4
-ansas City District,
and by using your influence v:ith the federal Reserve Board,
am confident that the southern part of Oklahoma can be
changed so as to become a part of District No. 10.
We urge you to use your every effort to this end.
Aespectfully,
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STATE IN KANSASCITY REGIONAL BANK DISTRICT INSTEAD OF THE PRESENT
DIVISION WILL YOU HELP, SENTIMENT IS STRONG
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non. :-:obt. L. Owen.
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Dear Sir,
I am writing you regarding the recent decision of
the Federal Banking Board, wherein thay have seen fit to give
Oklahoma a divided representation in the 7eserve Banks.
This will work a great hardship on this City, and
I am naturaly more interested here that in the smaller towns,
as well as the othet commercial centers of the State. In the
event you have occasion to look into the matter, you would
do this City a great benefit, and personally, I assure you
that we have no other place to go for such favors as these,
to recommend a change.
While I am on this subject, might I also suggest
that this State has a
an who we think would be fit to hold
one of the Directorships, I refer to our mutual friend, one
Hubert L. Bolen. This is just a suggestion, gratus.
With kindest personal regards, I an,
Very truly yours,
p/L.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.,
April 8, 1914.
Senator Robt. L. Owen,
Washington, P. C.,
Dear Senator:
As a citizen of Oklahoma, I am much interested in
seeing that ther6 is no further division, real or imaginary,
within our state border.
We regret to hear it spoken of
frequently as the "East side" and "West side," and now the
members of the Reserve Bank Organization Committee have seen
fit to divide our state into a North and South Oklahoma by
running a line due East and West through the state. Earnestly I protest against this, and ask that you use your best
efforts to see that the state of Oklahoma is undivided, and
that it be in the Kansas City Territory.
Kansas City is our logical financial center -- it
is more acquainted with our needs and actual conditions than
Texas; furthermore 90% of our State Bankers already have accounts there, and it would be nothing short of a calamity to
force them in a strange community.
Oklahoma city, if located on a border line, loses
its financial, as well as commercial prestige.
It takes
from it that location of which we continually boast, the center of financial, political, commercial and social activity
in the state, hence I trust that you will use your best efforts to see that the proposed boundry line of this financial
territory ischanged and the whole state thrown into a district designated as No.10.
Thanking you for anything that you might do in this
matter, I am
Yours very truly,
JH-SW.
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MAR I ETTA,OK LA,
April 8, ln4.
Hon. Robt. I. Owen,
':lashinton, L. C.
De!lx Sir:As you know, two sopa-ate and distinct districts
in Oklahoma are created by the Organization Committee of
the Federal eserve System, the one tributary to Jisouri
and the ether to Texas.
A careful study of the provisions of the new
currency measure, in connection with the informtion that
every hanker nnd business ram in C171ahoma has concerning
the channels of business, shows conclusively that the reslit of this Potion can be nothing more than a financial
calamity, to the business interests of the stite at lnrge.
To this action of the Committee, in dividing
Oklahoma and placing the southern 1)ortion of the state in
the Dallas district, we object, and offer in suv,port of our
objection, the following:First, the principal agricultural product of the
south half of Oklahoma is cotton, and since this part of the
state is joined. with Texas, the Ereatest cotton producing
state in the Union, the district will not be self supporting
for the reason that every bnnk in the district will want to
borrow at the same season of the year.
Second, a close study of the Eup of Ck]ahoma discloses the fact that the proposed division injects financial
conflict into communities naturally allied and inter-dependent and so diverts the local trend of trade, as to disorganize established business interests.
Third, the growth of strong financial centers
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- ithin the state is essentil to its welfare, and vtith our
state cut in two there will be no opportunity to develop a
center of sil:ficient importance to justify a branch bank and
the two reserve cities that we now have, 1:.ushogee and
Oklahoma City, will not have sufficient territory left to
support them.
Fourth, Southwest em Oklahoma has but little
business, if anv, with Dallas, and the natur-1 trend is to
n7:isting railroad facilities are certain
I-ansas City.
to prevent econoAlical civersion toward the South, for
years to come.
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W. G. DAVIS, CASHIER
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MAR I ETTA,OK LA.,
Hon. Robt.
April 8, 1914.
Gwen.
Fifth, it is the purpose of the lay that
business shall flow in natural channels and along
customary lines, an the Federal Reserve 3onrd, when
appointed, has -power to make such changes in the boundary
lines, as in its judgment are proper and right.
In viEn, of the above facts, I am sure you will
agree that it is exceedingly improtant that vie keep
Oklahoma intact and tributary to the 'Kansas City District,
and by using your influence with the Federal Reserve 3oard,
I am confident that the southern part of Oklahoma can be
changed so as to become a part of District ro. 10.
urge you to use your every effort, to this end.
Resrectfury,
Cashier.-
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Hon. Senator ;'obt. L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:
You are no doubt aware of the fact thLit this
part of Oklahoma has been placed in the Dills
Federal District.
we dislike to b.
connected
with Dallns as all of our business is in the Kansas
City territory.
I would like very much to have
you use your best effort to (et us placed in the
Kansas City District.
Please do what you can
for us.
Yours very truly,
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H. T DOUGLAS, VICE-PRES/DENT
ROSA S. GALLOWAY;2N° VICE-PRES/DENT
W. A. GEREN, CASHIER.
No.5935.
CAPITALS( SURPLUS
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WETUMKA,
April 8,1914.
Senator Robert L.Owen,
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Dear Senator;The three banKs of wetumka hive just wired you
requesting th-tyou use your influence with the Districting committee.
Our first desire is to have the whole state of Oklahoma left
intact,that it be placed in the Kansas City District. And if that
cannot be done to have Hughes county placed in the nansas uity
District.
You are doubtless aware of the fatt that we have the state
divided in rive groups,Hughs County being in uroup Three and tne
only county in uroup Three which is _nlaced in the Dallas District.
Now the banxs of this county have scarcely any connection.whatever
with Dallav,but nearly all have connection with Kansas city.
So I repeat that if it is impossible to have the state
left intact we very much desire to have Hughes County placed in
the Kansas City District.
We ar your constituents reel that this
Committee is due you the consideration
you being the father of the Bill.
leaving your state intact,
And as you generally get what
you are entitled to we cannot nelp but feel reasonably sure that
you will be granted this consideration.
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Yours very truly,
President.
L. 0. DAY,
VICE-PREsIDENI
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J. A. MURDOCH,
VICE-PRESIDENT
I. P. CLARK,
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E. E3. McALED,
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No. 10239
THE STATE NATIONAL BANK
CAPITAL $ 25,000.00
HEAVENER, OKLAHOMA
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Hon. R. L. 0 7en, Senator,
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a3hington. D.O.
Dear 3r...
Tn thr mRtter of Regional bsnIcs, I presume that you. have
noted
the 1:1acing of this part of the state in the Tlls diF,trict. This is
ing to be a serious handicap to the business interests of this part
of this state and I write you as a constituent to use whht influence
you feel disposed to use in the matter to have Leflore County, if not all
the rest of the State that rAs placed in the aPras district, to he rut
in the Kansas city district. Our busine's trend is north and east and
have no trade with Texas pints. Our underttanding was that the bill
in its original intent
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not intended to clintnrb the busines
trend
as present carried on and the placinp of this county in the Pallas dist—
rimt has not only done this hi i will be 4 very serious haniop on us
for several reasons.
I trust that you 1'1_11 endeavor to lave this state placed in
the Kansas City distrir,t whir!II is its natural 1:1,9ce.
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SENATOR ROBERT L OWENS
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DEAR SENATOR ONEN ;WE THE
THAT YOU USE YOUR INFLUENCE
TO HAVE OKLAHOMA
UNDERSIGNED BANKS OF
WETUMKA
REQUEST
WITH THE ORGANIZATION COIXITTEE FIRST
LEFT IN,_JACT AND PLACED IN THE
KANSASCITY DISTRICT SECOND IF THIS
PLACED IN THE KANSASCITY DISTRICT
'THAT THE BANKS OF HUGHES
WITH DALLAS AND
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MOST ALL
IS IMPOSSIBLE
HUGHES COUNTY
PRINCIPALLY FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS
COUNTY HAVE
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HAVE
NO CONNECTION WHATEVER
WITH KANSASCITY
IS IN GROUP NUMBER THREE
AND IS THE ONLY COUNTY
IN GROUP THREE WHICH_ IS
PLACED
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OKLAHOMA CITY CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION
OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA
,pril 8-Cv, 1914.
Hon. Robt. L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:Your letter received, and beg to say that
we are proceeding along the lines which you suggested.
All sources from which we have received communications are very much wrought up over this matter,
and we are depending upon you and your colleagues to
push the matter.
In a few days we hope to enlighterlyou,7in this
connection.
Respectfully,
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'don. Robert L. Owen,
Senator,
Washington, D.C.
Dear '1!enator:-This is written concerning the 9e4ection or the regionalreserve agents and establishing reserve districts. As you doubtless know
our town is located in district # 11 with Dallas, Tex., as our reserve
City. We re2:ret very much to see Okla. divideq.for obvious reasons.
Texas can have a bank without tearing Okla. in tarts. We have no business
with Texas cities and donot see how we can have except we revolutionize
our methods.
We want to solitdi5 now, your aid, at the proper time,
-have our part of Okla. placed in District No. 10.
in our effort to
)nable why this should be done.
The reasons are many and reas,
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I HAVE CAREFULLY INVESTIGATED THE RESERVE BOARD BANK DISTRICT AND
I AM SATISFIED THAT IT IS THE MOST SERIOUS MISTAKE
THAT COULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN
MADE AS IT WILL FOREVER
DESTROY THE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF
SEPARATE
DISTRICTS AND WILL FOR
ANY CITY IN THE STATE
OKLAHOMA DIVIDING OKLAHOMA INTO TWO
ALL TIME TO COME PREVENT
OF OKLAHOMA FROM EVER BECOMING
A BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL CENTER YOUR FRIENDS AND YOU HAVE
A LARGE NUMBER OF THEM
ARE SEVERELY CRITICISING YOU OKLAHOMA
SHOULD BE IN THE KANSASCITY
TO YOU AND TO THE
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FUTURE WELFARE OF. OKLAHOMA
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IS THE MOST SERIOUS MISTAKE
THAT COULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN
MADE AS IT WILL FOREVER
DESTROY TPE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF OKLAHOMA DIVIDING OKLAHOMA INTO TWO
SEPARATE DISTRICTS AND WILL FOR ALL TIME TO COME PREVENT
.
ANY CITY IN THE STATE nFOKLAHOMA FROM EVER BECOMING A
BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL CENTER YOUR
LARGE NUMBER OF THEM ARE 7EVERrLY
IN THE KANSASCITY DISTRICT AND
AND TO THE FUTURE wELFARE
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IN THE EVENT THAT THAT
CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED THE ENTIRE
IN THE DALLAS DISTRICT THIS
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STATE OF 01 LAHOMA SHOULD BE
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PROTEST AGAINST BEING PLACED IN DALLAS
HUGHES COUNTY BANKERS JUSTLY
STATE GROUP THREE ARE PLACED IN
DISTRICT ALL OTHER COUNTIES IN
ALWAYS TRANSACTED THEIR BUSINESS
KANSASCITY DIST OUR BANKS HAVE
NTRY
DALLAS BEING IN A COTTON COU
THROUGH AND WITH KANSASCITY
CAN NOT RENDER
WHEN OUR BANKS NEED HELP AND
IS HARD PRESSED AT TIMES
CAN YOUR HELP
THE SERVICE THAT KANSASCITY
TO OUR BANKS AND PEOPLE
ED TO CORRECT THIS MATTER.
WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIAT
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Hon. Robt. L. Owen,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:Our City is very much exercised and disappointed
at the action of the Committee selecting the locations for
the Regional Banks.
We feel that the Southern part of our State being thrown into the Dallas District, is going to work a very
great hardship upon the Commercial interests of this City.
We do not feel that when you went before the Committee making the selections, that you intended or expected
that our State would be divided, and I an writing you as a
party man end member of the County Central Committee, Oklahoma
County, asking you to use your best efforts to get our whole
State thrown into the Kansas City Bank District.
I have been in business in this City for 14 years,
and have travelled all over the Southern an Western part of
the State, and know that the largest part of the business
contiguous to this City, comes from the South and Western
if that part of our State is left in the Dallas
sections.
District, it will eventually throw a great deal of our business to Dallas, thereby very materially affecting our
Jobbing business.
We are all looking to you, as being the most
influential member of the Oklahoma delegation in both houses
of Congress, to look after our interests, and trust that
you may be able to get us relief.
Yours vc
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Member of County Central Committee,
Pre
First Ward, Oklahoma City.
W.S. GUTHRIE, President, Okla. City
H. M. SPALDING, Vice-President, North Enid
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
T. H. DWYER, Chairman, Chickasha
Randlett
BERT HUDSON - Medford
L. D:ANDERSON
Okarche
F. H. LOOSEN
- Norman
E. K. HIMES
Blackwell
G. E. DOWIS
Vinita
A. L. CHURCHILL Sapulpa
H. A. McCAULEY
- McAlester
A. U. THOMAS
Ardmore
P. C. DINGS
W. B. HARRISON, Secretary, Enid
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S. JACKSON, Treasurer, Cheyenne
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To O.B.A. Members in'
Dallas District,
Gentlemen:
Without presuming in the least to dictate in the
matter of the regional reserve bank districts, we feel
that another letter at this time will be welcomed by
you, in view of the many urgent letters and telegrams
we have received.
The writer has much information which it is impossible to convey 2n a letter, but the main point is:
After communicating with senators Owen and Gore, all
Oklahoma's congressmen, and after consulting with bankers in Kansas City personally and canvassing the situation as thoroughly as time has permitted, we are convinced that there is a reasonable chance by ptoper activity to get Oklahoma placed in one regional district.
As for a branch bank, the administration forces
are inclined to adopt the policy of placing branches
only where there are not overnight facilities for handling business. Under that policy and the districts as
now framed, every city in Oklahoma is barred from obtaining a branch.
Our information is that 95g of the Oklahoma banks
that have been placed in the Dallas district are very
mueh opposed to this arrangement. We ask that any bank
that is contented to remain in that district please
write us at once. All others should fill out the enclosed. form AND RETURN TO THE WRITER. (Do not mail it
to Washington.) This is VERY IMPORTANT AND SHOULD HAVE
YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.
Further suggestions will follow developments.
Very truly yours,
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Hon. Robt. L. Owen,
Washington,
D. C.
Dear Senator:Before mentioning the political
matters that are on my tind, I want to tbngratulate
you on the splendid fight you are makiAg for the
I was highly
Tolls Exemption Repeal :ieasure.
gratified to see you take this stand; not only because of the attitude of President Wilson, but
because it is the only just view to take of the
J.attEir.
A principle of international law is
involved that we cannot afford to overlof',i..
trust this measure will have the same splendid
support in the Senate that it had in the House.
There is extreme dissatisfaction
among the commercial people and especially the bankers
in regard to the division of the state by which the
south half lb thrown into the Dallas district, and
I sincerely trust that you will not loose sight of
any opportunity you have to secure such an amendment
of the report as will throw our entire state in the
Kansas City district.
Our people are looking to
you for assistance in this matter and there is nothing that will be more appreciated just now than your
efforts along this line.
The political skies are somewhat hau at this time throughout our state. The
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,uber-natorial situation is about the worst mixed
proposition we have to contend with.
Judge rilliLris
TaL e
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had made quite a stir and had secured the support of
'any TTws- apers throughout the state and was appr -yntf
ly making rapid progress, but in the last three weela;
Judge Robertson has gained cluite rapidly and, except
for the entrance of Dr. Puke in the race, I am of
the opinion that Robertson would be . ar in the lead.
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I am quite sure that the delay
upon the part of Dr. Duke in entering the race
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have a tendancy to only further cloud the situation ,
All the votes
without securing the dboly.eci results.
he now gets will come from the reform element of the
party and will perhaps draw more from Judge Roberston
than from any other candidate, and it looks now as if
the final result would be very much in doubt as to
general results, but with Robertson far in the lead
as between he and Dr. Duke.
Jennings is keeping up his peculiar form
of ca'qpaign and most of the rabble and the unthinking
class of people are being drawn to him, while many of
the machine politicians and especially those who are looking for special favors have flocked to the standard of
Judge Williams.
I have not seen Dr. Duke lately and have never
opportunity to talk with him at lenght, but I feel
had an
that his late entrance into the race will not only mean his
final defeat but may possibly result in the nomination of
either Jennings or Williams: and I regard either nomina'0 the party and wholly untion as very .alsastl-oiis
coltplimentary to the state, and, if the republicans and
progressives should by any means unite on a candidate it
would mean the success of such candidate at the polls.
The candidacy of Judge Hayes has been very
enthusiastically received by the better element of the
people throughout the entire state and if he makes a
victorious campaign, as seems to be now his purpose,
I feel that there will be no question of his ultimate
success, especially if he receives the co-operation and
support of the entire reform element that he should
have.
I sincerely trust that the way will be
open for you to emphatically express yourself as between
he and Senator Gore, and, if needs be come, into the
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state and do active work in behalf of Judge Hayes.
a better right to do this than most
feel that you have
for you have a right
any other person in public life:
who will be of material help to
to demand a colleague
you in the representation of this state in the Senate, and
especially in the matter of the reform measureOfor which you stand,
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and in which the people of this State fully coincide with you.
It might be an unusual thing for a U. S. Senator
to do, but you have never in the past hesitated to do
your duty because it was an "unusual thing" or not according to precedent; ayla i feel that you will not hesitate
in this if you are convinced that your presence in the
State and activity and personal interest for the public
weal demands such course.
Ii' you anticipate visiting the State within the
next thirty days, I ;rish you to let me know a'few days
.
in advance as to when you will be here, for I very much
desire to have a number of our members of the Iiinisterial
2issociation and representatives of other civic organizations
personally meet you and hear from you as to what, in your
opinion, is the best .solution of the many vexatious political
problems .now confronting us.
_Issuring you of my continued loyalty and patriotic
devotion to the great principle;.; of '22-06ressive Democracy,
and assuring you of the keen appreciation of the best
people throu6
.hout the State, recardless of party affiliation,
for your splendid efforts iii, behalf of the State, the nation
and entire :vorld, I bog to remain,
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7, 1914.
Senator Robert L. Owens,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Senator:I write you to protest against the
division of the State of Oklahoma into two
reserve territories. We have a very hard
time controlling the wholesale business of
this State as it is, without dividing it financially. If this division is made, the greater
part of the business in the Southern part of
the State will be diverted to Dallas, that now
naturally comes to us;
I wish to ask you to do everything
that you can to see that this State is included
in the Kansas City Reserve District.
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Senator Robt. L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
We wish to call your attention to the division of
Oklahoma into two reginual bank districts, which we feel will have
a disasterous effect upon the future growth of Oklahoma.
We feel that it will be to the beet interests of the
Stae by our being in the KansFs City district, this bank being
placed in that district we have no cause for complaint for our
personal interests.
What we wish to avoid is the division of the State
commercially and financially, and feel that this division is most
unfortunate for the State.
We believe that the southern part of the
State should be placed with Kansas City, retaining the State intact: We trust that you will make your most strenuous
objections in the southern part of Oklahoma being placed in the
Texas district.
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Dear Sir:
At a meeting of the
Mitional
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Directors of the
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a resolution was adopted
clirectinç me to write you expressing to you our
regret
over the action of the Federal Reserve Board in
dividing this state betwen t—o ,
?egi,)nal reserve districts
and respectfully
requeting your
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influence in
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this action . we are opposed
to being placed in a district with Drlls,Texas, as our
reserve
city
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prefer Kansas City as lar first
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Honorable Robert L. Owen,
United States Senator,
Wa3hirion, D.C.
Dear Sir:
In reference to the Districts created by the
Organization Committee and its effect upon the financial interests of
the State of Oklahoma, it is my candid opinion that the division of
our state between the Kansas City and Dallas Districts will prove
contrary to the established and natural trend of our financial business;
and*will make the building up of a strong Branch Bank within our
State practically impossible.
All we ask is that the state be Kept
together in whatever district it may be placed, and anything you can
do to accomplish this result will be greatly appreciated by us and
I 'am sure will prove a great service to your entire state.
Thanking you for your consideration of this matter,
I remain,
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Hon. Robt. L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
De,,r Sir:—
As a business institution in which the success of
the Federal Reserve bank system is of vital interest, we
want to protest against the arrangement to divide up our
State and put it in two districts. We think that this is
going to do the State an almost irreparable damage if the
system becomes a strong and successful one, which it now
looks as though it would.
This cutting of our State in two is going to change
the whole trend of btsiness and will necessitate different
and more direct mail service as well as building some new
roads in order to divert the business to fit in with our
bank business. This plan is going to practically ruin the
two reserve cities which we now have and their likelihood
of getting branch banks there, as they are both on the edge
of the Xansas City district and can hardly go to the first
station south or southwest or southeast without getting
into Dallas territory.
This State is already handicapped to some extent
and ha's been burdened with the east and west side fight,
and this proposed assignment is going to make a north and
south side also.
We hope that you will use your very best endeavors
to have our district changed so as to put us in the Kansas
City district for the whole State.
We feel sure' that if
the Oklahoma delegates will make strenuous objections to
the diotrict as made, that it an be changed to suit the
bankers awl business men of the State, and we await with
interest the outcome of your efforts along that line.
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OUR OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS WOULD BE PLEASED TO HAVE YOU USE YOUR
INFLUENCE TO HAVE THE WHOLE STATE OF OKLAHOMA IN THE KANSASCITY
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MUSKOGEE,OKLAHOMA
April u, 1914.
Hon. Robt, L. Owen, U. S. S.,
Washington, D. C.
Dear
Senator:-
The District, as finally figured Our for
Kansas City, as you know, has put us in the extreme southeastern portion.
On the face of it it means that 72e are
going to be poorly located from the standpoint of asking
for a branch bank.
e are jiist in receipt of resolution
passed by the Oklahoma City Clearing House, in which they
are protesting against the lines as drawn.
In thinking
this matter over, it occured to me that you might be able
to suggest the line of proceedure f.r us to persue in order
to place us in a better position for one of the branch banks.
nth personal regards, I am,
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Washington, D. C.
My dear Senator:
You have no doubt noticed the division of the State
of . Oklahoma,--practically half of it going to Texas, and the
other half to Kansas City district for the Regional banks.
Having the State of Oklahoma at heart, as well as the interests
of your constituents, I am quite sure you will agree with me
that this is about the worst thing that could have happened to
Using the argument of the Organization Committee
when they state that their reason for having established a
Regional Bank at Atlanta, in place of New Orleans, was because
the
trend of all trade was North and East, which is absolutely
true,
I cannot see how they can harmonize their action in
the division of Oklahoma with their Atlanta statement, for they
have done the reverse, and even worse than the other would have
been, for Oklahoma is now, and has always been, a Kansas City
territory, and this is also true with the northern two-thirds
of the State, as well as all of the Southwestern part of the
State.
It is true that Dallas gets some of the business from
the extremely southern portion of this State, but I dare say
that practically all of the dry goods merchants, hardware
merchants, and all of the larger manufacturers of machinery
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trade is supplied by northern merchants and manuf
acturers.
This is also true with the Bank correspondents,
hence I can
see no good reason, looking at the matter from all
angles,
for having divided the State of Oklahoma at all.
Muskogee and Oklahoma City have labored hard and
long as Reserve Cities to build up their business,
but just
now when we feel we have accomplished something by these
years of hard work, along comes the Organization Commi
ttee
and,by their division of the State, knocks the props
from
under us, and do not leave us a leg to stand on for
aryument in favor of giving us a Branch bank, for the
argument will be Dut forth that we are on the extreme
southern boundary of the rezion, and that the mail that
leaves any of the towns within the district can just
as
easily go to K_n9as City in one night run, as to come
to
any City within the district in Oklahoma. But if
the line
was
transferred to the Southern line of Oklahoma then
this would not be true, for it would take a porti
on of the
day run with the night, and in some instances
all day and
night, to reach Kansas City, and the same for
the return
mail to the sender.
I hope you will use your influence with the
Regional Reserve Board when appointed and see if
this line
cannot be transferred, taking in the entire State
of
Oklahoma at once, so that at the very beginning of thing
s
our district will be settled.
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with every every Commonwealth, but aside from all this plain,
cold-blooded business reasons are largely in our favor.
I am sure you will receive many of the same kind
of letters from towns throughout this State, and trust that
you will be able to assist us in this matter to some account,
and assuring you that your efforts will be fully appreciated,
I an,
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Senator R. L. Owen,
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Dear Mr. Owen:-I notice that at a meeting held in Muskogee
a few evenings ago it was suggested that you had a hand in
the dividing of Oklahoma, taking a portion of it from Kansas
City district.
I want to say that I do not believe this.
I want to compliment you on tne successful
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In the matter of naming the Regional Reserve
banks the only surprise to me is that Dallas, Texas and
Richmond, Va. were named instead of New Orleans and Baltimore.
With kindest personal regards, I am,
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April 6th, 1914
Hon. R. L. Owen,
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My Dear Senator:uuthwest Oklahoma,
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we consider the division of our State, our part of
which goes to Dallas, when the same was made by
the Federal Reserve Committee, nothing short of
a calamity. To change the direction of our
financial relations from Kansas City and 3't. Louis
toward Texas, where practically none of we bankers
do any business,brings about an abnormal condition
if not an impossibility.
In-as-much as you are the man who
made the Reserve System possible and a reality, it
is the opinion of the writer that the Committee
dia not show you the consideration that you deserved
because of your services in connection with the
framing of the Law, and 30 far as the local banks
are concerned, our being placed in the Texas
District is bad indeed. If there is anything
you can do to have the State go in one District
as a whole, preferably Kansas uity, you will be
doing the state another good turn in addition to
the good you have already accomplished in her
behalf. If there is anything the banks an do
in this connection, we for one, are ready at all
times to act.
Thanking 7oll in appreciation of all you
have already done and with the request that you
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Dear Senator:There is a great deaL of dissatisfaction
in regard to the way the committee has divided up
the State of OkLahoma, putting part with Kansas
City and part with DnUas. I am very anxious that
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they throw the entire state of OkLahoma into one
district that we might be put in worse shape than
we are by being thrown into the DaLLas district.
1 am dropping you this suggestion in the
hope that you wiLL keep your eye on things at the
front and not permit anything to happen that wilL
put things in any worse shape than they are.
It
would be much better for us if the entire state was
in the Kansas City district.
As it stands now
iuLsa wiLL make a hard fight for a branch bank,
having much advantage in Location, as things now
stand.
With the old dividing Line between
Indian Territory and oLd Oklthoma running north and
;outh and now a sort of Mason
and Dixon'2 Line
running through OkLahoma fron east to west, it
quarters the state very beautifulLy. If we had a
couple diagonaL Lines now OkLahoma would be very
picturesque.
Yours very truLy,
Cashier
ACT/AK
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One of the biggest events in the New South—far-reaching in its influence, broad and comprehensive in its grasp upon the minds of men—will be the 1914 session of the Southern Commercial Congress next November in Muskogee. This great civic organization stands for
larger knowledge of the natural resources of the South and conveying that knowledge to those
who are willing to co-operate in the rehabilitation of commercial and agricultural life and
thereby build up a greater nation through a Greater South.
At the 1911 session, not only the president, a former president, and a then future president
of the United States, were active participants in the program, but also United States Senators,
Congressmen, Governors, leading financiers of the nation, manufacturers, merchants and leaders in agriculture. The Atlanta meeting was one of the greatest of its kind in the history of
the South and it remains for Muskogee to duplicate it. The South is full of economic problems demanding solution. Swamp lands need draining. Navigable streams are unused, only
waiting to help lower the cost of transportation. Rich soil in certain sections is ready for the
plow, except for the knowledge of proper conservation of moisture. Agriculture needs a tonic
through better Rural Credits. Southern cities should have larger bucket brigades. It is a
great opportunity for Muskogee to do things in the old Muskogee way. Results will depend
largely upon the hearty co-operation and patriotic enthusiasm among home folks. It will open
the door to many strangers and lead the way to not only a greater but a better Muskogee.
It is interesting to know that Muskogee County produced 25,220 bales of cotton in 1913,
an increase of nearly 4,000 bales over 1912. As each bale, including lint and seed, is worth
$70.00, it is worth while to observe that the cotton production of Muskogee County alone equals
$1,765,400, almost up to the two million mark, which can be easily reached this year. Cotton
means cash. Farmers must remember, however, that in order to use this money to the greatest
advantage they must raise other crops sufficient for their own living and the feeding of live
stock.
Speaking of farm products, Los Angeles County, California, takes first rank among the
counties in the United States, rounding the total figures of $14,720,900. Lancaster County;
Pa., comes second with $13,059,600, and McLean County, Ill., third, running $12,811,500. The
fourth is Whitman County. Washington, with $12,540,700. then follows Livingston County,
III., $11,377,300, Iroquois County, Ill., $10,607,800, La Salle County, Ill., $10,222,200. It can be
readily seen from Muskogee County's excellent record in cotton alone, with many tenant farmers, that with better and more scientific farming and greater attention to live stock, alfalfa,
wheat, oats, feterita, broom corn and other substantial production that it is within the range
of possibilities for her to reach at least tenth place among the Counties of the United States.
While a few counties in Oklahoma produce more cotton than Muskogee, they do not have the
capacity for as diversified production as Muskogee County.
An instance of a man looking things square in the face and planning for himself the best
method for success in life is Frank S. Size'', who is a student at the Broken Arrow Agricultural
School, under the excellent leadership of Prof. E. B. Hinshaw. Mr. Sizer is in the dairy department and will soon increase his earning capacity 100% as an expert in dairying. When
ti man finds competition too keen on the lower rounds of the ladder where he is competing with
men of inferior capacity and he knows he has ability to work on a higher scale where competition is less intense, and he is able to qualify in the higher grade of employment, is it not a
bright, sensible thing to lift himself from the lower strata to the higher through preparation?
If all the agricultural schools in Oklahoma are managed by men equal to Professor Hinshaw,
there is an excellent opportunity for many to cultivate their abilities and increase their earning capacity with little expense. Nineteen Oklahoma Counties are represented at the Broken
Arrow institution.
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While a stitch in time has saved nine, to swat a fly in April is equal to killing a million in
August. If you are a good citizen you will get busy at once and not permit a fly to feed or
breed on your premises. Restaurants, meat markets, bakeries, grocery stores, confectioneries
and dairies will be more popular with the general public if no flies are in evidence showing
their familiarity with the premises. In Cleveland, Ohio, a youno• lady became the manager of
an anti-fly campaign and at a cost of less than $2,000.00 a year h
Cleveland became "The Flyless City." If you will write Miss Jean Dawson, Professor of Civic Biology at the Cleveland
Normal School, you can learn something that will help you to benefit Muskogee. She will tell
you how she convinced the city officials to pay 10 cents for every 100 flies brought to her and
she began early in the spring of 1911, and by the middle of May she had bought 490,835 flies.
You can do a good thing for humanity and give the doctors a chance to take a vacation during
the hot weathey if you will organize thoroughly in an anti-fly campaign.
One of the most thrifty and successful industrial propositions ever located in Muskogee
with no friction and small expense was the Midland Valley shops. They maintain a pay roll of
about $300,000.00 a year. The three hundred employees mean an increased population to Muskogee of 1,500 people. They came to Muskogee at a time when things were dull. Those who
purchased lots to help raise the bonus received back what they paid and in some cases made
a profit. The shops have never been closed a single day and are larger than when first established. In sizing up the Midland Valley shop proposition when it was under consideration in
the last analysis it all depended upon the men behind the railroad and their record. It is a
pleasure to realize that Muskogee's judgment was correct; that the railroad officials were
straight forward business men and did not attempt to get a bonus without delivering the
goods. After all that is the main problem. Who are the men behind the proposition? Are
they in good faith and will they live up to their agreements? If everybody was on the square
this would be a good world to live in and business deals and city building comparatively easy.
It is hoped the M., 0. & G. shops will soon be completed and also prove to be a substantial asset.
Every community should organize an alfalfa club. A bushel of seed costs $6.50 and will
sow 4 acres. April is a good time to start. Do not undertake too much but prepare the soil
properly, select the best location and watch it grow. If you succeed this year, increase the
acreage as rapidly as possible. The cost is small, the labor and use of land comparatively
nothing, and the results, if successful, will be a step towards easy money.
A good way to help lower the high cost of living is to raise something yourself. Make a
garden. If not a large one, a little one. The education will help you as much as the exercise.
If you maintain a garden, a poultry yard and keep a cow you will soon be independent, and one
thing is sure, you will get the best there is. If you live well you can work better, think more
clearly and be happier. Good common sense is better than frivolity and a spring garden beats
the tango.
THE MARCH LETTER directed attention to the importance of testing all seed before planting. This is so important it bears repeating. We hope farmers will not suffer any discouragement through the lack of proper intelligence and caution at the proper time. The season is
opening fine. Oats is up and promises a good crop. Many believe this will be a good corn year
and have decided to increase the corn acreage, using all available skill and information to help
out in case of emergency. Bear in mind that the silo is a life-saving station for a drouthstricken crop and corn can be used in a silo to great advantage. It is said that feterita will
yield 9 bushels more to the acre than kaffir corn and mature a month earlier and is just as
good for roughage. Keep these facts in mind at the opening of the season. This is the month
when the race starts. Every one should be on his mottle ready to meet any emergency now
unforseen. If you watch the crop progress as you would a horse race you will keep interested. There are many entries and all do not get the prize, but there will be prizes for those
who eagerly and persistently keep their minds on the race. Test—Don't Guess.
The usual pretended election will occur in a few days. There is nothing much to say.
"Until the people exercise judgment and use their brains them is little benefit in talking. It
seems that education must come by absorption and for this reason it is a slow process. Matters are being threshed out in the mill now that should have been in the grist two or three
years ago. In that case it would have been better for all concerned and some people would
have been saved much humiliation. The report of receipts and expenses of the City for the
month of December has just been published under date of March 28th. This is only three
months behind, and not so far behind as the methods of business in the managegrnent of this
big corporation to which we all belong and in which we all hold a little stock. Would a busi-
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ness man pay an inspector $125.00 a month who simply collected in $15.60, and would he maintain another one at the same price who produced only $14.15, and also another at $130.00 a
month who made the magnificent showing of $8.00 collected for fees? There are so many
other things just as glaring as these in the published report that it is useless to burden the
minds of people with too much at once.
A general condition of business which would be satisfactory to every line of trade and
every industry as well as to the financial interests of the country is probably an impossible
thing. This is a world of give and take and a'condition which makes money for one interest
sometimes loses money for the other.
Until recently money was scarce enough to make it difficult to finance new operations or
to sell standard stocks and bonds. Those who had money were holding on to it or using it
where it would bring unusual rates of interest for a short period. Now that money has become
somewhat easier, and easier money is largely due to a slackening in business operations, standard stocks and bonds and other investments do not look good to the man with the money because prospects for earning dividends and interest are not so good. The sum of it is that, if
business were more active, money for investment would be scarcer and, while business is somewhat quiet, people do not care to invest because of such quietude.
As stated in our last report, business is still below normal, and it is hardly probable that
it will do better than remain around normal for some time. It may remain at a few points below normal or, temporarily, a few points above, but on the whole, normal or average business
is all that can be reasonably expected for this year. After the adjournment of Congress, a
slight reaction should take place and unless something unusually radical in legislation goes
through at this session, a real improvement, although not a sensational one, may be expected.
In January our exports amounted to 204 million dollars compared with 227 a year ago and
202 millions two years ago. Exports of 206 millions in January, 1908, stood as the previous
high January record. Imports for January amounted to 154 millions compared with 163 last
year and 144 two years ago. The favorable balance of trade for January was 49 million dollars compared with 64 million dollars a year ago, 59 millions two years ago, 69 millions three
years ago and the high record in January, 1908, of 121 millions. Tariff reductions caused a
falling off in custom's receipts for February of 10 million dollars compared with the same
month of the previous year, making a deficit caused by expenditures for the month of 9 million
dollars. Receipts from the income tax are expected to make up the discrepancy.
For the month of February, building permits for principal cities ran about average and
about the same as last year, if New York is left out of consideration. New York showed a
decline for the month of 50%, while gains were shown by Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Pittsburg. Detroit, Kansas City, San Francisco, Dallas, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Toledo and Ft.
Worth. Building operations outside of New York City for the year to date are slightly above
last year.
A marked improvement was shown in the btu- mess mortality for February, failures being
only a few over 1,300, while in January there were nearly 1.800. The total liabilities for February failures were 21 million dollars compared with 29 millions in the same month last year,
when there were 1,280 failures. It is hoped and believed that this turn in the business failure
situation will last as the most acute condition in the business world for the past year has been
the increasing number of failures. If this turn for the better indicates that the weak ones
have been pretty well eliminated, it will mean much toward the settling of business conditions
in the months to come.
Although the steel companies are operating at about 75% of capacity on finished products
and about 80% on ingots, it is clear that a reduction in operation must come about unless there
is a sudden spurt of buying. Heavier railroad buying is practically assured for later in the
year and orders for steel rails and for equipment were fairly good for February. A lull is on
at present that will bring about a curtailment of operation during this month unless a considerable volume of the unusually large number of foreign inquiries develop into orders.
Dividend disbursements for March will total 60 million dollars compared with 66 millions
a year ago, while interest will amount to 54 million dollars compared with 47 millions last
year. This makes total dividend and interest disbursements for.March nearly 115 million dollars compared with 113 millions last year. The principal decline in dividends lies with industrial corporations which are disbursing 33 millions in dividends for the month compared
38 millions a year ago. The railroad dividends are practically the same as last year. with
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Speaking generally, there is nothing disquieting in the business situation but there is every
reason to expect a halting, and irregular movement for the next few weeks. Something depends on the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the matter of freight rate
advances; something on the organization and beginning of operations by the Federal Reserve
Banks, something on Congressional action between now and adjournment; something on the
outcome of the Mexican mix-up; and, more than all these, on crop prospects for the year. We
believe the careful, clear-headed business man will make a fair showino. in volume of business
and a good showing in profits earned during the year. It is quite likelyhthere will be no period
of exceedingly tight money unless it be a temporary one while the crops are coining in. Business has been much worse during the past few weeks than it is at present and it bids fair to be
better before the year closes.
A. C. TRUMBO, Cashier.
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ENCOURAGEMENT
"THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Messrs. Emmert Brothers, Muskogee, Okla.
Gentlemen:—You :very kindly forwarded to me a copy of
a circular issued by The Muskogee National Bank, which is so
full of good, hard common sense and so well calculated to be
helpful and useful to the patrons of the bank and the state as
a whole that I wonder some bright lot of Twentieth Century
business men have not thought of it before. It is splendid
work for all concerned. A bank, like any other business institution, is dependent upon the prosperity of the section it
serves and such work as is being done by The Muskogee National is bound not only to do a lot of general good, but to be
exceedingly helpful and beneficial to the bank as well. Thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to
see it.
Yours truly,
H. F. NORRIS,
Superintendent of Agencies."
WHEREAS, the New Currency Law provides that each Federal Reserve Bank shall
establish branch banks within the Federal Reserve district in which it is located, to be operated by a Board of Directors, under rules and regulations approved by the Federal Reserve Board, and
WHEREAS, the Organization Committee, composed of the Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of Agriculture and the Comptroller of the Currency, has completed its investigations
of the trade relations and business conditions of the entire United States and has divided
the same into twelve Reverve Districts, locating the northern part of the State of Oklahoma
in District No. 10 and naming Kansas City as the seat of the Federal Reserve Bank of this
district, and
WHEREAS, Tulsa is the logical geographical, railroad, agricultural, financial and commercial center of not only northern Oklahoma, but of the Mid-Continent oil, gas and mineral fields, comprising southeastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri and eastern Oklahoma,
NOW, therefore, recognizing that the financial and commercial interests of the territory named would be best served by the location of a branch bank in the City of Tulsa, it
is hereby resolved, that the Clearing House Association of the City of Tulsa, file its application with the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, as soon as same is organized, for the
location of such a branch.
In order that the Clearing House Association may have all facts and figures necessary
to enable it to properly present Tulsa's claim to the Federal Reserve Bank, for the establishment of such a branch in this City, it is further resolved, that the assistance be requested
of the Commercial Club and.all trade and business organizations, not only of this City, but •
of all of the other cities of the State of Oklahoma, located in the Tenth District and the
Mid-Continent oil, gas and mineral field.
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THE DIVISION
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WILL APPRECIATE ANY EFFORTS TO
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STATE PLACED IN THE KANBASCITY
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK DISTRICT INSTEAD
OF DALLAS LETTER FOLLOWS
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transmission or delivery of Uurepeated Night, Letters. Sent at reduced rates. beyond a sum equal to the amount paid for transmission: nor in any case beyond the sum of
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WE ARE VERY MUCH DISPLEASED WITH HAVING THE SOUTHERN HALF OF
OKLAHOMA PLACED WITH THE DALLAS FEDERAL RESERVE BANK WE HAVE
NO BUSINESS WITH DALLAS ALL OUR BUSINESS GOES NORTH AND
EAST WITH THE STATE SPLIT THE CHANCES FOR A,BRANCH
BANK ARE SMALL IT WOULD SEEM WE WANT TO URGE
THAT IF THERE IS ANY POSSIBLE WAY TO PLEASE SEE
IN WITH THE KANSASCITY DISTRICT
IF WE CANT BE PUT
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Senator 7- obert L. Oren,
77ashington , D. C.
Dear Senator:—e were very much disappointed
yesterday to learn that we had been placed
by the Federal Board in the Dallas District,and
the worst of it we feel that our state
should not have been split by the Federal
Board. Kansas City is the gateway for at
least 90 % of the Oklahoma business, and if we
could not have had hansas City we feel that
St. Louis was next and we do not see how re
could have been placed or attaohed to a place
that inconveniences our business reltions
snymere than Dallas will. We have no sores
spots against Dallas but we do not feel tht it
is the logical place for the Oklahoma business
to flow through. I hear a great dell in the
napers relative to this location and . the
Oklahoma bankers seem very much riled up over
this location; and if this matter should be
brought up again at anytime I trust that you
can see your way clear in pm:testing against
Oklahoma being divided. I think we should
at least nil go tozcthcr end if we have
go to Dallas let us all go in a bunch.
I have heard many expressions
relative to this matter and everyone seer,
to feel the same way, and I trust that; you
csngive same thorcuzh consideratin stthe
propr time.
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NATIONAL
OFFI CERS
D.W.HOGAN, PRESIDENT
J.F.WARREN,V.P.CHMN OF BOARO
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C.E.CARPENTER, CASHIER
F'.H.SHELLEY,J R.AssT.CASHIER
BANK
NUMBER
9561
U N ITE D STATES
DEPOSITORY
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OKLAHOMA Crry,OKLA.
April 4th,1914.
Senator Robert L. Owen,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator:
You have already been advised by letter and telegram of
our diaappointment and chagrin on having our 3tate cut in two by the
Organization Committee working under the Federal Reserve Act, and I
feel certain that under the tremendous pressure of business under
your charge that this matter mam over-looked.
The division makes it impossible for this State to build
up at any one point in it a sub-financial center such as usually develops under commercial, agricultural and mineral influences. If the
State were left intact Yuskogee and Oklahoma City are the natural
clearing points for their respective portions of the State, and since
these two towns are already reserve cities and have developed considerably as commercial centers it seems a pity to have them destroyOur bank alone has
ed in a commercial way by an act of Congress.
twenty-four bank connections cut of by this division, and when da of
the banks of the City sum up their loses it would run up into several
I do not know of a commercial center anywhere
Liundred accounts.
where the deposits of country banks does not enter largely into
the situation, and in our case, with Dallas pulling the south half
of our State and Wichita drawing from the north we certainly are
left in a deplorable condition.
The division line touches fifteen miles south of Oklahoma
City, and with our south and western trade cut off entirely, where
we have our most direct and best rail road facilities we will not have
enough territory left to serve to justify the establishment of a
The business north of us will naturally go to
branch bank here.
Wichita and then on to Kansas City, and you know that it is hard to
draw business from east and west for the simple reason that for
centuries it has been going in the opposite directions.
We are glad that we are in the Kansas City district for
the simple reason that the Dallas district, as outlined, will all
have to borrow money at the same season of the year and will not be
self-supporting, as it should be, by having its trade so fixed that
one part of it will support the other at certain seasons, and viceversa.
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however I am frank to say that rather than to have the State
cut in two it would be much better for us to have the entire State
in the Dallas district.
I want to impress upon you with great
earnestness the seriousness of this situation, and urge you to use
every influence that you can command to have the boundary line so
changed that it will lea-re the State in one district.
I have attended every bankers convention that has been held
in this State but one, and I have never yet met a Dallas banker at
one of them, while Kansas City will charter a special train to
attend our group meetings.
I do not believe there are ten bank accounts in Southwestern
Oklahoma carried in Dallas, and practically every bank in that
section either has an account in Oklahoma City or Kansas City, and
in many instances one at both places.
Under this dividbn onefourth of this State, the southwestern section, will have to change
its entire system and place of banking,and while the southeastern
one-fourth does do a good deal of business with Texas banks, they
should, as a matter of State pride, clear their items through
Muskogee banks, and a financial center could just as well be built
up there from Oklahoma Capital as to build one up in another State.
You will remember, Senator, that I banked two years and a
half in Muskogee at a time when that City was just beginning to
take on commercial developments and I speak from experience in these
matters.
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1667
ROBT L OWEN
SENATOR
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FOLLOWING THE HEARING AT KANSASCITY
MCADOO AND HOUSTON THE WRITER SAID
ONE THING OKLAHOMA WISHES TO
SO
INDELIBLY
THAT IT CAN
NEVER
AND
BE EFFACED UNDER NO
DIVIDED " TO WHICH ONE OF
THE SECRETARYS REPLIED, " I THINK
WILL BE ABLE
" MR SECRETARY, THERE IS
IMPRESS UPON YOUR MEMORY
CIRCUMSTANCES MUST OUR STATE BE
THERE WHO
IN PRIVATE CONVERSATION WITH
YOU HAVE A MAN
DOWN
TO LOOK OUT FOR YOUR
INTERESTS PRETTY WELL" WE ARE
PERPLEXED TO KNOW WHY THIS
UNHAPPY DIVISION WAS PERMITTED THE
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY INCLUDED WIT
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DALLAS MEANS BUT LITTLE TO
THEM BUT MUCH TO US
AND IF THERE IS ANY WAY
ON EARTH FOR YOU
TO CHANGE THIS SITUATION
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IT BELONGS WE WANT YOU
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(31TISTERCITI;01DLAL. April 4,1914
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Robert L.Owen
U.S. Senate
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:In some way Custer County seems to have been place
with rallas as a reFerve center vh4
L1e Dewey County,imme'iately
north of us is in riFtrict with Kansas City as reeerve Center.
TMs works considerable of a hard 'hip on us here as
we have no banlrirrr connections whatever with Tryas points and
practically all o our business is done at Kansas City.
If there is any mecns rhatever vilereby we could get
changee',it would be most highly appreciate0.
If convenient.I would be
eased
heal.7 from you
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on this matter.
Yours Very
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LAwrrow,
April 4
Hon. Robt. L. Owen, U.S.S.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
We wish to enter a protest against the
placeing of the southern half of Tzlahc)ma in the
Dallas district.
Please use every effort to get this part
of the state in the Kansas City district, as all af
our bizsiness now is transacted with Kansas City, and
lklahora City.
Yours very truly,
191
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Mj Dear Senator;
,e have just sent you the followinc
an
desire to 1- .arCifl to 2onfirm same,u7i11 appreciate
,
any efforts to have this section of the State placed in
the I'Lansas City Pederal Reserve Bank district instead
of Dallas': And in this con ection I dish to say, that
feel that I am not only voicinr the
reference of this
Lank alone but those of this entire district of the btate,
and as Mairman of Group One of the Oklahoma Bankers
Association and in pretty close touch with the bankers
of this district I feel save in saying that practically
every meLer of thi- croup profcrs Kansas iitl over
Dallas.
The trod of business from this section has always
been towards Kansas City or St.Louis and not Dallas and
the banks of this section have established relations
with ±ina Kansas City that the
would much prefer, not be
broken.
Trusting we may have your earnest support in this
matter and a.surinr you of our heary areciation, I am,
Yours Iery 2ru
'Cashier.
F.M.ENGLISH,PRESIDENT.
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th the central city oo close to our doors.
.te than: you for tl'e •services tondored in connection
with hantlinr business throup-h the
eserve 1)-1:17: and vA- :n
the o-r)Ilortune ti"o 'trrives .or openin
we
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WE MAKE FARM LOANS
April 4, 1914.
Honorable Robt.1,.0wen,
Washington, D.C.
Dear 6eantor,We would appreciate your using your influence
with the Orginization Committee to thave this County
transferod from the Dallas to the Kansas City Reserve
District. The Counties directly North and East of us
aro in the Kans-s City District and all our business
goes to that point, and we would consider it
great favor
if you crould consistently do this for us.
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HON ROBT L OWEN,
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D IN REGIONAL BANK OF DALLAS BECAUSE
dVE Pt;OTEST AGAINST BEING PLACE
FULLY NINETY PERCENT OF OUR
OUR TRADE TERRITORY FOREIGN TO THEM
CITY PLEASE USE YOUR
COMMERCIAL AND RANK BUSINESS IF WITH KANSAS
KANSASCITY DISTRICT
BEST EFFORTS TO HAVE US PLACED IN
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WE FEEL THAT THE DIVISION OF OKLAHOMA PLACING THE STATE IN TWO
RESERVE DISTRICTS IS VERY DETRIMENTAL TO US AS A STATE AND TO COMHERCIAL
INTERESTS GENERALLY WE URGE THAT THE ST/JE ALL BE PLACED IN KANSASCITY
DISTRICT
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April 4, 1914.
Hon. Robert L. Owen,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
Dear senator:
Vie were very much surprised and humiliated at the
division of Oklahoma into two regional bank districts.
It
looks to us as if it will ruin both Oklahoma City and Muskogee
if we are not placed in one regional bank district.
It will
have the effect to drive all southern Oklahoma business to
Dallas, end all northern Oklahoma business to Wichita and Kansas
City.
Looking at it from our view point we can see no
reason why Kansas City should vote to give us a branch bank
here when we have no territory to supply.
This will apply
equally as well to 1,:uskogee.
While in Kansas City we did our best to impress the
Locating Committee that under no circumstances did we want the
State divided into two or more regional districts.
Secretary
acAdoo replied to.ecu_s_ that we,had a Senator who would look after
that and see thatre was notclArand we feel, if you had given
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the matter due consideration that you would not have seen the
State of Oklahoma ruined financially and commercially by the
Locating Committee.
We trust you can assist us in having this remedied and
the state put in as a whole.
We would be very much pleased to
hear from you on this point.
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Yours very truly,
President.
Form 25S9 B
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RECEIVED AT
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HON ROBERT L OWEN
1308
WASHINGTON DC
DIVISION OF OKLAHOMA INTO TWO REGIONAL DISTRICTS MEANS THE UPBUILDING OF
DALLAS AT THE DETRIMENT OF OKLAHOMACITY AND MUSKOGEE THE PLACING
OF ALL SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA IN THE DALLAS DISTRICT IS
THE
HARDEST BLOW COMMERCIALLY EVER DEALT OKLAHOLACITY WE FOLLOV/C YOUR ADVICE
AND
SUPPORTED KANSASC1TY THAT CITY GETS ITS BANK WHILE ALL
OF OUR BEST TERRITORY IS GIVEN TO DALLAS. YOU ASSURED
US A BRANCH BANK BUT NOW OUR BEST TERRITORY IS
ELIMINATED WHAT ACTION DO YOU ADVISE US TO TAKE TO
PUT ALL TERRITORY
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WEST OF KATY RAILROAD IN KANSASCITY DISTRICT.
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OKLAHOMA CITY OKLA APR 3 14
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CAN YOU HAVE SOUTH WESTERN OKLAHOMA TRANSFERRED KANSASCITY DISTRICT
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DO ALL f)OSSIBLE TO REVERSE DECISION OF ',RGANIZATION COMMITTEE
AND KEEP ALL OKLAHOMA IN KANSASCITY DISTRICT
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00.AHOMA CITY OKLA APL 3 1914 191.•
ROBERT L OWEN
II\SHINGTON DC
BETWEEN DALLAS AND KANSASCITY
WE REGARD THE PARTITION OF OKLAHOMA
INTERESTS OF OKLAHOMA IT CUTS
OF UTMOST DETRIMENT TO COMMERCIAL
NATURALi TERRITORY FOR OKLAHOMA
OFF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF STATE WHICH
ILATES ANY HOPE FOR CENTERING
CITYAND MUSKOGEE AND ABSOLUTELY ANNIH
STATES B !NESS
TEAR DOWN
IN OKLAHOMA DIVISION A8 ARRANGED WILL
DALLAS AND KANSASCITY WE THINK
STATES INTERESTS AND BUILD UP RIVALS IN
ICT AND GIVE US OPPORTUNITY
ALL OF OKLAHOMA SHOULD GO INTO SAME DISTR
ADVISE BEST METHODS TO OBTAIN
FOR BRANCH BANKS OF IMPORTANCE PLEASE
RECONSIDERATION
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ROBT S OWEN
U S SENATE WASHINGTON DC
USE EVERY EFFORT TO GET
SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA
DISTRICT INSTEAD OF THE DALLAS
DISTRICT
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CLINTON,OKLAHOMA
:kpril 5rd, lc.)14.
Senator 1.
L. CWCL,
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Uu Lington, L. C.
Ietir
—o h :ve just read in the papers that Oklahoma
has been divided by the rederal I;heserve Boar0 and that they
have used the Republican gerrymandering scheme by using the
Canadian river as a boundary, and it makes Custer County the
extreme Lorth County in the Dallas District.
Llow if we had been a cotton county, with our products
going south we would not have objected, but practically all of
our business is done Eorth and a'ansas City is and has been our
CentrLil point and is our natural trading: point, as our stock and
products are marketed there and our merchants buy their goods at
nsas City, so they are naturally our clearing point.
All the National Banks of this County joined in a
telegram today requesting that this County be transfered to the
Kansas City Listrict and if it is possible to do so, we will all
appreciate your efforts to gets us in the territory we belong.
There is not a bank in this County that carrys a Texas
account as we do not have enough business South to even justify
a small account, so you can readily see the unnatural condition
that would be brought about, were we forced to use the Dallas
Bank for our clearing house and home.
7e hope this is only a
feeler and that the proper readjusting will put us where it is
natural we should go.
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6incerely thanking you,
T
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BARTLESVILLE OKLA MAR 16 1914
SENATOR ROBERT L OWEN
V,ASHINCTON DC
PLEASE USE YOUR GOOD OFFICES
IN BEHALF OF KANSASCITY FOR
RESERVE BANK INFORMATION COMES TO
TO BE PLACED IN STLOUIS
DISTRICT WE STRONGLY URGE YOU
TO ENDORSE KANSASCITY FOR OUR
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US THAT NORTHERN OKLAHOMA IS
DISTRICT
BARTLESVILLE CLEARING HOUSE
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