The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-06-14
THE LEGISLATURE
AND COMMENTS.
What Fl0rtda Eaisers ThinH and
Are saying ~ n.


Miami Metropolis: The press Of the
state Is paying much attention just
now the deeds and misdeeds Of the last
Legislature, and while some good acts
BY that body are developed, the most Of
them are either of damaging or
worthless nature. The Pensacola Jour
nal, located not a great. many miles
from the seat where this august body
Of lawmakers sat and held forth for
sixty days, and paper keeping strict
IN ii touch with the proceedings OF that
organisation, deals out its opinion in
the following does which is short and
sweets
''If there has ever been in the whole
history Of the State Of Flofida-or at
least since reconstruction day-a more
worthless SO day IegislA tive session
than the one which expired by
constitutional limitation on Friday last,
there Is probably not an inhabitant
who can remember 1t.
with the exception Of the passage
Of the drainage bill--whieh ought to
settle the drainage question for time
at least almost every other bill cal
culated to promote the best intel ests
Of the State, either materially or politi-
city, was killed.
1.-THE immigration bill was killed.
1.-The good roads bill was killed.
seThe franchise tax bill was killed
.'The primary publicity bill was
killed.
s'The anti-pass bill was killed.
The bin TO establish an additional
court in Escambia county for the trial
Of minor cases, although strictly local
issue, was allowed to die either through
the Indifference or lack Of influence
on the part Of our own representatives,
notwithstanding the fact that every
business and legal consideration of
everyonein Escambia county who has
business in the courts called for just
such bin.
THE legislature of 1907 is dead.
Thank heaven and may we never see
another like il. Let il r. j. p"
The king 10 dead Long live the
kingl But there is no such greeting
for the legislature. That 1t Is dead,
however, there is no question, and from
the remarks of several prominent
journals il would seem to be good dead.
Any how from our standpoint il
seems the legislature bit of more than
Il eeuld chew, and like the man that
climbed up the tree, it turned around
and climbed down again, and there you
are And that was Just what the legis-
'lature did. True it tore of lots of bark
going up and scattered a few limbs
around clouding the atmosphere for
awhile; but really it didn't amount to
much There are several things, how
ever, that they did that meets our APP
probation. 1t killed the bills for the
establishment of great central automo-
bile hard roads, and passed bill aut-
horizing the Internal Improvement
Board to continue the drainage of the
Everglades limiting the taxation to the
area TO be drained. It worked up lot
of things and important things too I'M
der considerable tension TO a certain
point then-killed them. The appor-
tionment bill, requirement of the con-
stitutiol, was allowed to die on the
calendar. and many important bills
shared the same fate. There are two
things, however, that they did doi They
introduced over a Thousand bills and APP
propriated over a million Of dollars,
and II their time could have been ex-
tended the Lord knows where either
one would have stopped The limit of
their time is where the thank God"
come in.
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the Internal Improvement Board
presented partial report, which both
Senate and House refused to receive,
and discharged the committee, appoint
ing commission TO continue the work
1nntil finished. Probably the committee
could have done more IL it had not tried
IN q partisan way to manipulate things.
Why the legislature did not do more
than II did one can scarcely compre-
bend. There is no question but that IL
was composed of very intelligent men,
and the only solution seems to be that
they were too smart. --BradentOwn
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AZ The PresbyteFian CharCh.
On Sunday next, June Is, Rev. Dr.
Julius w. Walden, President Of Pal
n,er College, DeFuniak Springs, win
preach In the First Presbyterian church
both morning and evening, his subject
IN the morning being Christian Edu-