The Pensacola journal., 1907-05-01
Opened in the Senate With
But Little Business of
Importance.
BY A. n. Roberts.


Tallahassee. Apr. 30.-The second
month of the Florida Legislature
opened with brief sessions of both
houses Yesterday afternoon. The
session of the senate was not marked
by any event of great importance.
Three bills were passed-one by Mr..
Massey, authorizing chairmen of leg
islative COMMITTEES TO administer
caths; one by Mr.. Grill providing for
the transfer TO other county funds OF
surplus moneys in the fiue and for
feiturc funds of the various counties
arising from the lease of convicts, and
one by Mr.. Humphreys introduced the
first part of the session. fixing the
time of holding the terms of circuit
courts in the sixth judicial circuit
The special order of the day, Mr..
Ad2ms's BILL relating to the compen-
sation of me state chemist and as
sistant was passed TO third reading,
while the bill by the same member
providing for the erection of a state
penitentiary was passed informally.
Amongst the new bills introduced
were one by Mr.. West of the first,
regulating expenditure of money in
primary elections, and requiring
publicity thereof; and one by Mr..
VI lllC -NtLl PpAO
hundred dollars for the prosecution
of the mandamus suit against the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad instituted
some time ago by A.,orney General
Ellis. A resoluuon was adopted ask
ing the governor to communicate to
the senate list of all the clerks and
attaches Of the capital, with state
ment of their duties and salaries.
In The House.
II. c. r. No. q by Mr.. Carter of
Alachua authorizing the employment
of an attorney by the committee
appointed to Investigate the /. l. Board
was read the second time after hav-
ing been twice informally passed, and
was lost by the vote of 81 to %. Mr..
MacWilliams of st. Johns changing
his vote before the result was an
nounced, in order 10 move recon
sideration this morning, a parliamen-
tary maneuver which seems very
popular at this session. Mr.. Carter
in presenting the request of the COM
mittee stated they did not intend the
expense to exceed 1,500 and were
very hopeful of keeping within one
thousand dollars. but were unable to
inform the house as to who would be
employed if an attorney was author
ton was lead by Mr.. Calkins, Mr..
Knight, of Columbia, Mr.. Wilson, OF
fernando, Mr.. Faulkner. of Taylor,
while Judge Carter was seconded in
his efforts by MT knight of Citrus.
Mr. Dupont of st. Johns, and Mr.. Mac
Williams, of st. Johns. Mr.. Kirkland
offered an amendment providing that
no attorney should be employed who
is, or has at any time in the past
been, connected with the suits in
which the Internal Improvement
Board was interested on either side.
He subsequently withdrew 1t by per-
mission of the house. II is very evl-
dent that the house is opposed to en-
ploying outside legal assistance until
ii is known who the attorney will be,
If indeed it consents at all.
A memorial was received by both
houses from the Woman's Club of
Jacksonville endorsing the recon-
mendatiOns of the governor in regard
to the Florida Reform School. A let
ter was received from Hon. J. Walter
Kehoe, of Pensacola. thanking the
house for their invitation to address
them tomorrow night with Hon. Will
liam B. Lamar on the subject of inter
state commerce, but declining the
same on account of his official duties
as states attorney of the First judic-
ial circuit In his letter Mr.. Kehoe.
who is known TO be an aspirant for
congressional honors from the first
congressional district, now represen-
ted by General Lamar, puts himself I'M
qualifiedly on record as favoring fed
eral and state control of railways.
The house passed the bill of Mr..
Harvell of Santa Rosa. appropriating
twenty-five hundred dollars a year to
pay travelling expenses of teachers to
the summer training schools, A num-
Der OF new bills were introduced, in
cluding one by Mr.. Reese OF Escam-
bia prohibiting election bets, and one
by MIR Decker of Hillsborough, pro
viding a new charter for the town of
Clearwater.
Beginning today the house will