The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-09-27
sTATEsnANsHIp ExTRAOaDMARY.

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The Tallahassee correspondent OF the
Pensacola Journal (who is also assoei-
ate editor of the Tallahassee SUM, in a
recent letter 10 that paper in which he
wrote the following
Then comes the question Of an extra
session Will the Governor call an eX-
tea session TO receive and act upon the
report Of the commission IL the re-
p0rt goes over until the next regular
session, the people will have 20 wait for
nearly two years before becoming ac-
qdainted with the contents Of the re-
port. il the report Of the commission
IS delayed 1t Is probable that the re-
port OF the legislative committee will
be published and used for partisan pur-
poses The chairman Of the legislative
zee lmittee retained a copy Of all the
papers presented before the legislative
committee, and did not turn them over
10 the investigating commission until
served with a duces tecdnn compelling
the production Of the papers
As the chairman Of the legislative
committee Was openly an opponent Of
the present administration, and as the
legislative committee would not investi-
gate the affairs Of the trustees Of the
Internal Improvement fund beyond the
BrOwerd and Jennings administrations,
although the resolutions under which
the committee was working called for
an investigation covering the entire pc
Rod Of the existence Of the trust, IL il
anticipated by administration partisans
that the partisan report Of the legisla-
tive committee will be used for cam
paign purposes during the next year il
the report of the investigating commit
tee is not made public.
This view, from the inside, 80 TO
speak, oXibIts a condition which every
right thinking citizen OF Florida will
heartily deplore. That great and Wit
nj public matter, like the official inves-
tigatDn Of the /. I. Board, should be
regarded AS a mere occasion for exploit
ing intensely partison personal politics.
is a shame to every decent Democrat in
the State. The Live Oak Democrat
thus aptly and forcibly voices the feel
ing which almost every F'loridian must
entertain for such. perverted States
manship"
A Tallahassee dispatch in the Pensa-
cola Journal, from the associate editor
Of the Tallahassee Sun, hints that there
will be an extra session of the legisla-
ture for the remarkable reason that II
one isn't called, tho report of the inves-
tigating committee of the Internal I'm.
provement Board will go over TO the
regular session, and in this event that
report, which didn't suit the Governor
at all, will be used against his admins
tratiOn In the campaign next year. In
other words, in order TO play politics to
advantage to his faction, the Governor
will be willing 10 saddle upon the tax
payers all the heavy cost Of an extra
session Of the legislature not called for
by any real emergency. What con-
ceivabIe bereft will 1t be TO the people
Of Florida to get the report Of the in
vestigating committee in anvance Of the
regular session Some better reason
tnan that must bee looked up or pOpu.
lar resentment will make itself felt
from one end of Florida TO the other If
IN extra session IL called. IL would be
the poorest politics Governor Broward
ever played. We feel sure that the
Governor is a conscientious executive.
as VIC have repeatedly said, and for
that reason we won't believe until we
see the proclamation that he would call
the legislature in extra session merely
TO serve the purpose Of faction.