In Re Initiative Petition No. 196, Etc.

This is an appeal from a finding and holding of the Secretary of State that Initiative Petition No. 196, involving State Question No. 273, a proposed constitutional amendment to be known as the Oklahoma Welfare Amendment of 1938, involving a transaction tax, failed to have a sufficient number of qualified signers.

The matter comes before this court for hearing de novo. Such hearing was referred to Honorable P. W. Holtzendorff, one of the Referees of this court, with directions to hear the evidence and return to the court his findings of fact and conclusions of law, together with a transcript…