The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-05-01
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The conservative Senate has re-
fused to stand for any of the numer-
Gus divorce law bills which have
been introduced and the law will
probably stand as it is today.
Senator Kinks bill providing for
the publication of the acts of the
legislature in each county of the
state has been advanced to its third
reading in the senate So long as
the legislature continues to grind
out laws by the furlong, this bill of
Senator Kinks seems wise. The
county newspaper does come in
| touch with the people occasionally.
Law books they rarely ever see, and
if seen are left severely alone. Citi-
zens have generally learned the 10
commandments, but modern law is
too cumbersome and the. e.average man
will never know much of it unless it
is sneaked into his home after the
manner of the patent medicine
sharks who are wise in their day
and generation. They use the coun-
ty newspapers.
The "University of Florida" bill
has passed both branches of the leg
lslature, and when Governor Jen-
nings puts his signiture to the act,
presto! the Agricultural College will
disappear and University of Florida
will occupy the campus. To make
this university a success there is
going to be money required, and
more money than our legislators
ever dreamed of. The BOYS and
girls of Florida need good primary
schools more than they need univer-
stiles.
Governor Jennings, it is now gen.
orally conceded, will enter the COM
ing race for the United States sena-
tOrship. Whatever of handicaps he
carries will amount to but little.
The man who is at all skeptical
concerning the governors running
ability needs but to go about the
state little to get that doubt out of
his head. There is not a town or
hamlet in the state that has not it's
quota of loyal and influential Jen-
nings workers and when his official
announcement is made, as we have
every reason to believe it will be be-
fore every long, this Jennings army
will line up in such solid phalanX as
to cause something beside still
alarm in the ranks of other candi-
dates.
1t looks now very much as if the
next Governor of Florida would not
have to rent house or move into a
boarding house MS his predecessors
have done, but that instead he will
be given a fully furnished Cover
nOr's mansion at state expense. A
bill appropriating $4,000 for this
purpose has been favorably reported.
OF this amount it is thought 1000
will be required for Il lot, 81 600 to
put the lot in order, $4,000 for the
house and $4,000 for the furnishings.
1t is not too much to put in a house
! for the governor of Florida, who is
the first man socially III the whole
state.
Representative Webb of st. Johns
county, and who is a doctor of the
alopathic school of practice, has
been turned down in his efforts to
pass bill creating monopoly in
the practice of physic in Florida for
his school. 1t is well. The Webb
bill provided for a estate board of
medical examiners, consisting of
seven practicing physicians of abili-
ty, who shall be graduates in good
standing of some medical college
recognized by the American Medical
Association" This board was to eX-
anime and issue certificates emitting
physicians to practice. 1t would
have been a good thing for the alo-
pathic doctors, but little hard on
the h0meopaths, the christian scien-
fists, the divine healers, the mental
curers and the public generally who
have inalienable rights to select their
own particular school of quackery so
long as they pay their own money
for the indulgence. The state is
hardly ripe for the creation of
medical monopoly. or trust.
General Bailey of Jefferson county
is a general" not by reason of war
service bat by common consent and
in approval of his ranking ability as
II ''game cock" The general is II
fighter and he doesn't hesitate to en-
gage in a war of words with any
breathing thing, from a United
States Senator or Judge to cata-
mount. This is the generals second
experience in the Senate. He served
his county in the upper house in
1899. Since that time he has made a
fortune or two and lost them both.
He is a plunger and he has nerve.
Last week he introduced joint reso-
luton in the senate calling upon
congress to investigate and impeach
Judge Charles Swayne, U t d
States District Judge of the north
ern district of Florida. Bailey
charges this Judge with being mot
only corrupt, but that he is ignorant
and Incompetent and that his judi
cial opinions do not command the
respect and confidence of the peo-
ple;" further, that the administra-
tion of the United States Bankrupt
cy Act in the Court of said
Charles Swayne and by his appoint
ed referee has resulted in every in
stance in the waste of the assets of
the alleged bankrupt by being alb
sorbed in unnecessary costs, eXpen-
ses and allowances, to the great
wrong and injury of creditors and
others until such administration is
in effect, legalized robbery and a
stencil in the nostrils of all good peo-
pie" 1t is more than likely that the
general is right, but it needed just
such man as Bailey to start the
fight.
The legislature is doing some Jug
Cling in educational matters. Free
Text Books,n "Uniformity of Text
Books" and kindred propositions are
being discussed. 1t is a lamentable
fact that there is more of "boodling"