The Lake County times., 1907-03-06
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Indianapolis. March 6.--After delays
that were evaporation to it's promo
ters the Mccullough bill, passed by
both houses. reached the hands of Gov
ernor Hanly The law gives him until
Saturday to consider It,
The efforts of the administration
forces in the house yesterday to re-
tard the progress of the bill led to
several heated wrangles, in which
Speaker Branch and Representatives
Fitch and King came in for excoriation
at the hands of Representatives McCul-
Tough and Garrard.
The charges made by McCullough and
Garrard were. in effect, that the friends
of the governor have for several days
managed to keep the Mccullough bill
from reaching him in order to shorten
the time that the legislature would
have to pass it over the executive veto,
which is scheduled to come according
to all reports.
Representative Mccullough succeed
ed in getting the bill out of the en-
rolling room yesterday about o'clock
Then 1T was discovered that a number
of words had been left out. It was
sent back for correction about II
o'clock and did not appear again until
nearly 2 o'clock
BOxyser Takes Hand.
Senator'S Bowser and Ranke. members
of the senate committee on enrolled
bills, and Representative Benson and
! Garrard. members of house commit
tee on enrolled bills. then went over the
bill and found it ready for the cover
nor. They laid it on the speakers
desk. with the resumption that the
speaker would turn it over to Repre-
sentative King, chairman of the house
committee. for presentation to the gov
ernor. This was about o'clock
Shortly before o'clock Representa-
tive Mccullough went to the speakers
stand and found that the bill had not
been turned over to King. Representa-
tive Mccullough demanded of the
speaker why he had not turned the bill
over to King. The speaker is said to
have replied that he would do SO at
once
a hunt was made for King, but he
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sumably the state house.
Here Representative Garrard entered
the case. AS a member of the commit
tee on enrolled bills he insisted that
the speaker turn the bill over to him
that he night take 1t down to the gov
ernor He says the speaker refused
to comply.
Representative Fitch, figured at this
point and objected to the bill going to
the governor until he had had an op-
portunity to read it over. He, too, is
a member of the committee on en-
rolled bills.
Goes After Speaker.
Representative Garrard reminded
him, as they wrangled over the bill at
the speakers stand, that this was the
first time during the session that he
had requested to read an enrolled bin
after other members of the committee
had passed on it.
After refusing to surrender the bill
TO Garrard the speaker turned it over
) TO Fitch. The latter said he would
take it down to the governors office.
First. however. he must telephone a
party. It was then a few minutes
after ) o'clock.
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| telephone booth and talked-to whom
no one seems to know. When he came
out he took the bin to the governor
Office, but the governor had gone. He
brought the bill back
In the meantime Representative
Garrard had introduced a resolution
requiring that the bill be presented &c
the governor before o'clock this
morning. The resolution carried
II the governor gets the bin at
o'clock this morning he Will have until
Q o'clock Saturday morning TO pass or
IL. If he vetoes IL the legislature viii
! have only Saturday and Monday L
pass it over his veto. There will b,
, dozens of other bills demanding atten
ton during those two days