The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-17
USE OF PASSES IS
STILL PROHIBITED
anNE"SoK NErOts THE ACV AND
UOU-E sUSrAISS ulM.
GrN"rnor Fully Srts Forth MA Kcasors tur
the r. elton ~ the Act
The State, l0th.)

prosecuted yesterday reads M follows:
To tn" Speaker and Mombors of tho
House of Representatives.:
beg to return to You without my
approval act No. l20 to "Ropcal an
act entitled AN act to prevent tho uso
Of FREQ pas, express or telegraph
frank on any railroad by any United
States Senator 70 momber Of congress
FRONT his State, or by any mombor of
the general assembly Of thia State, or
hyany State or county official, or by
any judge Of II court of record in this
State Approved December 22, A.
ID. 1884,"
This act WAS passed at your last
session, but WAS not ratified and
turned over to us until tho last day
Of the session and, therefore, could
receive no consideration until after
your adjournment.
The act which tho one under con.
subtraction purports TO repeal was
PASSED in response to II popular dc
m"nd to remove the legislator and
tho official, rs far as possible, from
corporal" power aud influence. 1t
was not entirel y Il factional measure,
though enacted daring tho time
when f"ctional feeling ran high. 1t
had the support Of members of all
factions at that time and was enacted
for the public veal. do not know
of any demand or any good reason
why it should bo repealed, and have
therefore withheld my approval from
tn" act repeating it. The system of
distributing tree passes by railroads
among the members of the Legislature
and other officials before this act was
pas cd prohibiting it WAS pcrnicious,
aud while | would not for q moment
he understood as saying or intima,ing
tha1 any legislator or other official,
State or count, could be unduly in.
tlucnccd by receiving a free pass, yot
it should be remembered that we arc
all human and must feel kindly to
that man or corporation, the recipient
Of whose favors we are These cor
porations arc already worry powerful
and weld great influence on legis-
lahon. Why should frank or free
pass he given to a man as S,ate
o'iicial or legislator whom it would not
hc thought of 30 long ~ he remained
" private citizen. Legislation is
frequently had affecting these cor.
porations and laws already made
affecting them have to be executed
| 1t is best for the public service that
the official and the legislator be on.
hrely free to act with entire impair
tiality i'll making and executing the
laws. He should be able at all times
to hold the scales of justice with an
even hand, remembering always the
rights Of the corporations as we'll as
the rights of the people. Believing
:his can be better done by not accept
ing favors from the corporations, and
therefore not being under obligations
to them, however small the obliga,
tlon, | beg to return to you the re-
peallng act without my approval and
signature. Respectfully,
M. B. McSweeney,
Governor.
The motion Of Mr. Spears Of Oar,
lington to pass the act over the veto
was voted upon by the house at once.
1t required S3 votes to do this. When
the vote was counted it was found
that the friends of the measure had
lost, getting the required figures, but
not in the proper order-3S. The
vote on the motion was as follows:
Ayes-3S; Nays--G4. The New
berry delegation voted as follows
Ayes-Dominick; Nays-Banks and
Kibler.
The following special message was
also sent TO the house on the othe,
"neld up" act. TEere we're 1902 votes
against passing the act over the veto
and none for it:
January II, 1902.
TO the Speaker and Members of the
House of Representatives.:
beg to return without my sigma
ture act No. l03, passed b. you at
the last session, and which originated
in the house Of natives. "To
provide for the establi hment of a
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