The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-05-22
ReeSe'S Bulk Bill
To Go to Governor

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SiOners over sixty years of age shall
not be requested 20 prove disability.
The scale is from 500 a year up.
Ten years residence in Florida is re-
quired. and the home guards are en-
titled TO the benefits of the act which
is also more liberal to widows than
! former acts. Several amendments
were proposed. one by Mr. Griggs
striking out the Cougar clause for the
purpose of admitting all veterans. but
all were voted down, on account of
! the fact that the session is drawing
! TO a close. The vote was yeas 60,
| nays, none. the heaviest given any
measure so far this session.
| In The Senate.
In the senate the most important
event IVES the indefinite postpone
ment of Mr.. Boards bill TO repeal the
drainage act of 1905, almost identical
with the drainage amendment lost at
/ the last general election. Senator
Beard argued his bill from a constrtu-
tiOnal standpoint. cOntending that the
drainage act deprived of property
without due process OF law. Senator
HUMPHREYS cOntended that drainage
had been diSapprOved by the people
of our state. and if the Everglades
were drained, it would reduce the
value of lands already reclaimed. Sen
atOr Crane moved the indefinite post
pOnement of the bill, defending the
drainage scheme as A member of the
legislative committee which inspected
the operations Senator Buchanan
moved to make the bill 4 special
order for Thursday along with Mr..
Cranes bill amending the drainage
Judge Parke's decision, but the effort
failed The motion to indefinitely
postpone was carried, 16 TO II, five
absent or not voting.
Four Victories.
Entirely aside from the investiga-
ton of the administration of the in
ternal improvement fund, which has
not yet been completed, the drainage
scheme has won four distinct vic
tories during the session-the report
of the legislative committee. which
can reasonably be construed only as
favorable. the withdrawal of the reSO-
luton introduced by Mr.. Dorman the
first day of the session appealing to
the trustees to cease work, the over
whelming vote in the house sustain
ing the governors veto to a measure
which might have hampered the ad-
ministration of the fund. and the
death to-day of the Beard bill. Pres
ent indications point strongly TO The
passage of the Crane bill and its COM
paniOn measure in the house by Mr..
Wilson. of fernando.
A very unfortunate incident of the
session of 1907 was the bill by Mr..
Willis of Levy. TO annex certain por-
tons of Alachua and Marion counties
70 his own. The bill was indefinitely
postponed in the house Yesterday af
ter a bitter speech by Mr.. Carter of
Alachua, by n vote practically undni-
NOUS Mr. Carter fatty charged the
member from Levy with misrepresen-
tation in trying to pass a bill through
the house to steal territory of two
neighbOr counties. to which Mr. VIII
lis replied that he informed both
members from Alachua what he in
tended TO do. that one representative
from the counties affected was present
when the bill was introduced. and that
if he was mistaken in telling the
house the bill was a purely local
measure, it was because Mr.. Carter
had said it was.
Public Printing.
The Sans public printing bill which
brought about the charges and count
er charges in the house Saturday was
by a vote of % TO %, after being
amended several times. Mr.. MacWil-
liams. who brought the charges
against the majority caucus ''the Be
fore Day Club" explained yesterday
that nothing offensive had been in
tended by him
Among the local bills which passed
both houses yesterday was one by Mr..
Decker Of HilisbOrOugh, amending the
charter of Tampa in conformity with
2 measure agreed upon by representa-
tives of the council and Board of
Works of that city. The bill takes
in no new territory. excepting pOr-
ton of Fort Brooke, but under the
Crane act of 1905 any city on town
can hold an election for annexing aid
iacent territory, though the courts
have held il does not apply TO portions
of other incorporated municipalities.
4. !. Knight. !. NJ. Weir and Charles
Wright are here in the interest of
the Tampa Fair proposition, while City
Attorney f H Myers and Councilmen
c. ". Shiu9stead and E T. Lewis Of
ST. Petersburg have been up on char