Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-04-04
prsoIUTIONS AND BILLS INTRO
DUCED IN BOTH BRANCHES
OF LEGISLATURES
". R. DORAAN'S RESOLUTION
One Asking that Work Of Drainage
BE stopped-the Other Condemn
ING Peonage Article in Cosmopo-
titan ana Endorsing Congress-
man Clark's Defense of State

Tallahassee, April 4.-Yesterday's
sess;on of the legislature was not
marked by many actions of particular
;r,nortapce to the State at large, half
dozen bills being introduced into
the House and forty-one in the
Senate. Several were passed under
suspension of rules.
The House was in session from ten
o'clock in the morning until noon,
and the Senate from 2:3O until
about 1870 in the afternoon. In the
morning. a number of Senators were
nresept in the house as spectators,
and in the afternoon still larger
number of representatives attended
the session of the upper body.
In the House, the first thing was
the reading of the special message
from the Governor, defending the
trustees of the Internal Improvement
Fund from the attacks made upon
them by various newspapers and
through pamphlets and otherwise.
Representative Carter, of Alachua.
introduced a resolution, House con-
Cured resolution No. /, for the ap-
pointment of joint committee of
three senators and four representa-
tives, as requested by Governor. Bro
ward. The bill is along the same
lines as the Beard resolution passed
/ In the Senate Tuesday afternoon,
4 except that it is shorter. and in the
preamble recites that the fact that
/ tie Governor requested the investi-
4 CATION. Representative. Reese. of
! Eseambia, the home county of Sen
ator Beard. suggested that the Senate
resolution be passed. but ii had not
been certified to the House, and
Judge Carriers resolution prevailed
by a unanimous vote. In presenting
the resolution, Mr.. Carter stated that
he did not know whether the charges
were true or false that have been
made against the trustees, but that
& the truth should be made known as
soon as possible, and II the trustees
were guilty, impeached from Office,
If not, fully indicated
A resolution. condemning in un-
measured terms Richard Barry, auth
or, and William r. Hearst, publisher,
OF the article in the Cosmopolitan
Magazine concerning peonage in
Florida. and extending the thanks of
the House to Hon. Frank Clark for
his defense of the State in the halls
OF Congress, was introduced by Mr..
Dorman, of Suwannee, and seconded
by Mr.. knight, of Citrus. who de-
nouhced the article vigorously. The
! resolution passed unanimously.
Another resolution by Mr.. Dorman,
appealing to the trustees of the In
fernal Improvement Fund not to
spend any more money in the at
4 tempted reclamation of the Ever
giades until the people and tax pay
ers OF the State should signify their
81 Willingness to proceed with the
undertaking, went over at his request
under the rules.
n Resolutions were introduced and
passed over under the rules provid-
Ing for joint committees to inspect
& the reform school and convict camps
&of the State, and committees to visit
8 the State University and School for
Inc Blind at st. Augustine, and
similar resolutions were introduced
IN the Senate in the afternoon.
In the Senate, in the afternoon,
senator Cottrell was sworn in by
Justice Parkhill. and President Harris
announced the committee appoint
ments. No bills of much general i'm
portance were passed, except Senator
buckmanIs bill to restore the num-
Der OF grand jurors to the old num-
Der from twelve to eighteen. Bills
were introduced covering many i'm
portant subjects, such as the State
schools. franchise taxation, railroads