Last month bulky Governor Ross Shaw Sterling called the Texas Legislature into a 30-day special session to enact a new conservation law to curb the State's wild oil production. For 28 days the Legislature shilly-shallied, got nothing done. Meanwhile in Oklahoma Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray called out troops to shut in oil wells until the price of oil should reach $1 per bbl. (TIME, Aug. 17.) Taking cue from his neighbor, Governor Sterling last week roweled his Legislature into action one day before adjournment with a threat of martial law. To...
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