In his first term he was chairman of the Committee on Levees, Ditches, Drains, and Irrigation and he authored successful bills to replace executions by hanging with electrocution and to allow farmers' mutual insurance companies.

[1] In his second term he chaired the Committee on Insurance and authored a bill to allow provide public schools with free textbooks alongside Senator William A.

He also worked on bills to establish a minimum wage for women, increase the duties of the Treasurer of Oklahoma, enable district attorneys to adjust probate matters, created hospitals for railroad workers, and a pension for the widows of men killed in a 1914 prison riot at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

[1] Later as Oklahoma State Auditor he testified against Jack C. Walton during his impeachment trial.

Walton later defeated Childers, who was the incumbent, in 1932 in the Democratic Party's primary for Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner.