The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-09-01
ROOSEVELT
HAILED BY
HUNDREDS OF 'PUNCHERS
Sioux and Shoshone Braves Were
Gay IN Paint and War Bonnets
to Welcome the Big Chief

Cheyenne, Wyo., August 27,-The
thousands who gathered at the station
here today to meet the Roosevelt spe-
cial train did not come to greet the for
mer president of the United States.
They came to cheer Theodore Roose-
welt, the cowman who ran brand on
the little Missouri years ago; the former
broncho "peeler" and Dakota deputy
sheriff and to greet him as a comrade
of the range and extend him typical
western welcome.
Cow punchers by the hundreds urged
their pones along the track with joyous
yells, while Sioux and Shoshone braves
gay in paint and war bonnets treaded
silently through the great crowd to see
the chief of whom they had all heard.
Some of the Indian chiefs had visited
Col Roosevelt in Washington and
crowded close, hoping to shake his
hand again. To complete the scene so
typical of the old west, soldiers in blue
and khaki from Fort ID. A. Russell
massed themselves about the station.
From all over the state came men
and women to join in welcoming the
colonel back to the country with which
he became acquainted over quarter of
century ago. Many events in which
the old and the new life of the western
land were prominent, were planned for
his entertainment.
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1901, eight years later and under the
administration of Gov, Benton McMil-
lin the age of consent was raised to Is
years.
Captain Hooper voted for the bill as
being an improvement on the law as it
then stood, but in explaining his vote
said that he did not think the age of
consent should be placed so high as 16
years. See House Journal fer 1892,
Page 446.
vi.
Chapter "a, acts of 1898, for the bene-
fit of INDECENT and disabled soldiers
provided by its first section for the en-
ployment of a secretary to the pension
board at salary of $500 per year; by
its second section for an appropriation
of not more than $3.50 per year for print
ing and stamps for pension board; and
by its third section for the payment to
the representative of pensioner, dy-
ing during quarter, the sum due him
from the date of his last pension pay
ment to the date of his death.
Capt. Hooper voted against this bill.
House Journal Of 1898, page 496.
VII.
Chapter 101, acts of 1888, was to
amend the uniform ballot law by pre-
scribing the size of the ballots TO be
used in elections throughout the state.
The supreme court has repeatedly held
that this law was passed to prevent
frauds in elections. Capt. Hooper vot-
I'd against this hiIl. House Journal of
1898, page 7l3.
o VIII.
Chapter Al, acts of 1896, is entitled:
8 An act to have copied the rosters of
he Tennessee soldiers in the Confeder-
tie army
Capt. Hooper did not vote on this
)ill, although he did vote on bill put
IN third reading just before the bill
vas taken up
House Journal Of 1895, page ISL.
Chapter 40, Act of 1895, was an act
o amend an act for the benefit of the :
and disabled soldiers of the
ate war between the states.
Captain Hooper did not vote on this
his bill. House Journal of 1895.
'ages 241-242. )
Chapter Isl, Acts of 1895, is entitled
sAn act for the benefit and support of
he Soldiers Home Of Tennessee. /"
This bill appropriated the sum Of
$50 year for the years 1895 and
500 for the support and maintenance 1
f the Soldiers Home of Tennessee.
Captain Hooper voted against the
,assage Of this bill in the House, just ]
S he voted against similar bill ia
s93, noticed above. See Journal for