The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-29
FLORIDA LAW MAKERS.
No Probability That the Railway
Commission BiiI viii Pass.

NO IrOba bAi1fy thAN Ahe fNahAMuF
Commission BiiI viii Pass.
Tallahassee, Fla. May 2s.-The last week
in the Florida legislature has in some re-
spects been full of interest. 1t has GER
tainly been full of talk, and a vast guam
tity of minor measures of no particular
consequence to anybody have passed
through the legislative grist-mill.
The long wrangle and tangle over the
new Jacksonville charter bill introduced
by Senator Hartridge is now a thing OF
the past; and the majorities in its favor
have been sufficiently heavy to indicate the
feeling of the legislature relative to the
eternal Duval county political wrangle.
One of the leaders of the Stockholm Bars
faction, in speaking of this measure, re-
ferred to 1t as immaterial, and declared
that his side could carry the election as
well under it as under any other. All of
which may be true, but the mystery re-
mains, why has the passage of the bill
been so stoutly contested il II is of the in
nocuous nature described?
The present legislature has shown itself
singularly sensitive on the subject of
newspaper criticism; the Senate has called
both the Citizen and Times-Union CORE
spondents 70 account
The friends of railroad commission are
not feeling very jubilant as there is not the
slightest chance of the bill passing. Those
who really believe in the value of such a
measure, will never vote for the Senate
substitute, which they regard as a snare
and delusioni and those who want Meth
er are willing to kill time with both.
The Jacksonville Jockey Club bill which
was taken up again in the House to-day
struck a snag and was lost this time in all
faah
ure, and one whose passage would have in
Jured nobody, and some of those who OPP
posed 1t on high moral grounds are proba-
bly, not yet fully aware Of the effect they
produced.
An amusing little fracas was that which
took place this evening between Senator
Bitch, of the Twenty-hrst district, and
Cash Thomas. The row was raised from
and sprouted on the bill changing the boun-
dairy lines of Ocaia-the Brick city, of
Marion county, and was precipitated by
the production of certain afiidavits made
by Thomas and read by Senator Marks
and relating to statements said to have
been made by DIR. Bitch concerning the
bill. Tho change proposed contracts the
boundaries of the city about half a mile
and it is not approved by every resident of
that thriving town. Senator Bitch, how
ever, was governed in his vote by the COM
mittee report. and nobody who knows him
believes he was actuated by any but the
purest motives.
A curious project is that indicated by a
bill which passed the House last week, au-
thorizing Monroe county to bind itself for
$4,000 for the purpose of constructing q
causeway from Key West to Key Largo.
To the uninitiated this appears a stupen-
dous project, but as these keys are strung
along the salt sea down there In an almost
continuous chain, the task is one that can
be easily accomplished and which may
prove the forerunner TO that greater high
way some adventurous spirits think of
building from Key West to the main land.
The sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, Mr..
Grantham, met with a severe accident Sat
urday night by falling into ditch Is feet
deep, and will be laid up for some time.
The enrolling and engrossing committees
of both houses are preparing for a heavy
grist of bills. and the next few days will
probably see a small army Of clerks added
to the pay roll