The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-09-01
VOTED AGAINST PENSION
Appropriation Bills for Confeder-
ates-T Thought 10 Too High
for the Age of Consent

Ii obiSottbAOAA VI viz lNOOAN Va tAA'
record OF the. Hon. b. w, Hooper, re
publican nominee for Governor, reveals
many interesting details of the Cap
tain's votes upon various questions in
| the Legislature of 1893 and 1895. Ac
cording to the journals of the house
for those years Captain Hooper voted
against appropriations for pensions
for Confederate soldiers, voted against
an amendment to the uniform ballot
law, objected to placing the age of con
sent as high as IS years, voted against
appropriations for the Confederate Sol
diers' Home, attempted to emasculate
the joint resolution providing for the
Turney- Evans contest, and voted
against investing the Governor with
po : er to suppress armed lawlessness.
The records, as set out, are given be-
low, showing the pages of the Journ-
ais upou which his votes are recorded.
Captain Hooper was a member of the
forty eighth. ond forty-ninth General
Assembled, and it was in his capacity
as member of the House of Represen-
tatives from Cooke county in those
years, 1898 and 1895, that he cast those
votes, In view of the bitterness that
is more than likely to creep into the
compaign between Governor Patter-
son and Captain Hooper, the facts set
out here are very likely to play an
important part.
A reading of the lecords of the Jour-
nails set ont below lis very likely to
cause one to think lhat the Republican
state committee will not be over an
xious to permit Capt Hooper to meet
Governor Patterson in discussion. 1t
is scarcely probable that votes against
appropriations would sit
well with democrats, even among
those who voted the Independent tick
ct in the election of Aug. 4.
Some extracts from Captain Hoopers
record are as follows:
Chapter 81, Acts of 1898, is entitled:
can act for the benefit ard support
If the Tennessee Confederate Soldiers
Home"
This bill carried by its first section
he sum of $500 to be expended for
paying for Improvements that had
,een made on the Soldiers Home, and
~ its section appropriated the sum of
$4,000 for the support and mainten-
4nce of the Soldiers Home for the
vears 1888 and 1891.
captain Hooper voted against the pas
age of Ithis bill in the House, when
he Senate Bill No q was substituted
or House Bill No. IS on the same sub
ect.
His vote is recordedin House Journal
or 1893 at page 6l8.
Chapter 80, Acts of 1893, the Appro-
'riation Bill, which is passed at every
ession of the General Assembly to pay
he current expenses of the state, car
led as one of its largest items the sum
f S12O, 600 or 100000 year for >pen
ions for old soldiers as per Acts of the
legislature.
Captain Hooper voted against the
appropriation Bill, and in explaining
is vote said.
ave are not millionaires or Coal Oil
but we would rather lose
ur little per diem than to be parties
} such robbery of The people as this
i'll embodies."
See House Journal for 1895, Page 78S,
II vote and explanation of Captain
Iooper on this bill.
Chapter 16l, Acts of 1898, is entitled:
San act to pay certain INDECENT and
isabled soldiers of the late war between
lie states.
Captain Hooper did not vote on this
i'll although he must have been pres
1t at the roll call, MS he voted on the
cry next bill taken up on third read
g. Ii
House Journal of 1898, Page POP.
"
Captain Hooper voted against the
ssessinent Bill of 1898, see House
1urnal Of 1898. Page 733. lie subsea4
lenllg changed his vote on the Reve-
ne bill, but in SO doing said that he .
ad previously voted against the Rev /