The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-04-09
OUR LAW MAKERS.
The Florida Legislature Meets in Talla-
hassee-c. J. Perrenot and D. Il. Mays
Elected Presiding Officers,

The Florida lawmakers assembled at
Tallahassee last Tuesday, and for the
next sixty days will vie with each
other in having laws enacted for the
relief and benefit of our suffering tax
payers, or at least that is what they
are supposed to do, and to select
United States senator to succeed Sena-
tor Wilkinson Call.
AT the caucus held Monday night
c. j. Perrenot, of Santa Rosa, was
selected as president of the senate over
Senator N. A. Bitch, of Levy, by
vote of fifteen to fourteen.
The full roster of officers selected in
the senate are as follows:
President, J. c. Perrenot of Santa
Rosa; secretary, 7. J. Appleyard of
Orange; assistant secretary, John A.
Willis, of Levy; reading secretary,
Bert Fish of Volusta assistant reading
and bill secretary, Fred L. Robertson
of fernando; recording secretary, o.
X. Paxton of Hamilton; engrossing
secretary, Ernest f. Pons of Baker;
enrolling secretary, John NJ. Gorts of
Lafayette; sergeant-at-arms, w. r.
Grantham of Jefferson; door-keeper,
r. j. Peavy of Gadsden; messenger,
F. G. Reeves of Walton; chaplain,
Rev. J. B. Ley of Tallahassee; janitor,
J. w. Coulter of Marion pages, Ben
ME Ellis of Alachua, Louis Thompson
of Nassau and J. w. Smith of Hamil-
ton.
Mr.. ID. II. Mays, of Jefferson, speak
er pro tenn. of the last house, was Sc
lected as speaker of the present session
over J. A. Carlisle, of Aluchua, by
vote of thirty-nine to thirty-three, as
follows:
For Mays-Messrs. Aver, Bagett,
Baker, Ballentine, Bates, Canty, Car
Isle, Christie, Cobb, Coke, Dees, Ellis,
Fielding, Fulton, Harris, Hendry of
Lee, Lamar, Lewis, Morgan, Owens,
Pedrick. Raw.s, Register, Rice, Rich
boarg, Robertson, Rouse, Shepherd of
Orange, Sloan, Stanford, Street, Thay-
er, Turner, Wall of Putnam, Watson,
Whitner, Young, Zewadski-39.
For Carlisle-Messrs. Bethel, Blan-
ton, Bunch, Chairs, Crumpton, Du-
pree, Dyall, Frisbee, Hardee, Linton,
Mays, Mccall, McCreary, Mobley,
Morgan of Hamilton, Pelot, Pope,
Shepard of Liberty, Stockton, Wall
of Bradford, Ward, Wilson and Wolff
-33.
The other officers of the house
elected were: DR.. Bynum, chief clerk; /;
C. H. DickersOn, assistant; H. ].
Drain, engrossing clerk; Nat Walker,
reading clerk; G. J. Stroller, assist
ant; J. B. Ellis and G. S. Lowry re-
cording clerks; sergeant-at-arms, p. S,
Messner; messenger, George Dice.
The anti-Call papers claim this vote
clearly indicates Senator Calls
strength, but such will not bear them
out in their statements, as by reading
the list of yeas and nays one familiar
with the names can easily see that
quite q number who cast their votes
for Perrenot and Mays, the anti-Call
candidates, are not anti-Call men,
while, on the other hand, admitting
that all who voted for Carlisle and
Bitch to be Call supporters, together
with some of those voting in the anti
Call column, it is safe to say the sena-
tor will have on first vote at least
forty followers
At noon on Tuesday the two houses
met and confirmed the caucus nomi-
nees and notified the governor of their
readiness for business, whereupon the
governor at once sent to the respect
i've bodies a copy of his message
which is entirely too voluminous fol
us to review in this issue or give in de
tail, but in some future issue will take
it up and give our readers the benefit
of some of the excellent ideas ad
vanced ON the many questions now ag
itating the minds of the public. w,
only have time ana space to give the
following portion of his message
touching on the recent failure of tn,
Merchants National bank, as follows
On the 14th of January last tn
; Merchants National bank of Ocali
suspended, and the treasurer Informed
me that he had about $4,000 of tai
! certificate money in said bank, an'