The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-04-18
Honor Memory
of John Gorrie
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Gambia and Mckenzie of Putnam for
a hog cholera serum plant. The new
bill will provide for an appropriation
to come from the state board of health,
which has a large sum of surplus
money to it's credit. The bill carries
an appropriation of $4,000.
The appropriations committee will
favorably the bill for an.
appropriation of $4,000 for a silver ser
vice for the battleship Florida, 1t will
report adversely the bill for an appro
priation of one hundred dollars for he
Florida room at the Confederate mu-
scum at Richmond.
CHILD LABOR BILL.
The child labor bill introduced nv
Senator Hudson will be favorably re-
ported. The opposition to this bill
claims that 1t IL adriotly drawn and
will cripple not only factories, laun-
dries, bakeries and other industries
where minors are employed. but win
affect telegraph companies and bust
ness houses employing minors for mes
senger service.
The bill was drawn by John Porter
Hollis, representing the National Child
q.
mainly by John @. Ruge, of Apalachi-
cola, who employs some two hundred
hands in his oyster factory, mostly
Bohemians, about forty of whom are
minors.
PASSES INCOME AMENDMENT.
The ratification of the income tax
amendment was ne special order IL
the house today and the vote was 81
In
voted against it were Bulloch of Ma
rion, Knight of Monroe, Mcclellan OF
Jefferson, and Rogers of Marion.
In explaining his vote, Mr.. Bulloch
said that he favored the principle o.
an income tax, but he was opposed to
the collection of it by the federal gov
eminent. In an informal statement
on the subject Mr.. Bulloch said: THE
Democratic party is on: record marv
times as being opposed to a central
ization Of the government, yet we, al,
Democrats professedly sit down hero
and vote for a measure of this kind
like a lot of chumps."
HIGH SCHOOL BILL UP AGAIN.
The bill making it mandatory for at
least one high school in each county
was debated in the house this morning
with the result that it was postponed
until Thursday for further considera-
ton. The measure, or one similar to
it, failed in the senate because the
negro question was raised and that
killed 1t. The same question was urged
against it's passage in the house, but
the bill had some strong champions in
the persons of Gray of Gadsden, Wat
son of Dade, and Ellis of Alachua.
They denied that the measure would
take the right of discretion away from
the local school boards, and make it
absolutely necessary that where
white high school was established that
one for the negroes would have to Ice
established also.
INVESTIGATE SMALLPOX SCARE.
Representative Fee of st. Lucie, this
morning introduced a resolution de-
handing the State Board of Health to
report to the house within ten days
what steps were or had been taken 10
prevent the spread of contagious dis
eases in certain parts of the state. The
resolution provides that a committee
of three be appointed from the house
to confer with the state health officer
and report in fifteen days after IFS
passage. The resolution grew out OF
newspaper reports that an epidemic OF
smallpox existed in Tallahassee, and
that there was to be a temporary re-
moval Of the capital on account Of the
alleged epidemic. Representative Nc
Kenzie of Washington, who was credit
ed with having drawn such a resolu-
tion. said today that the resolution was
drawn up by MacWilliams of ST. Johns,
and that he in collision with MacWil-
liams, framed the resolution as a joke
on Wells of Leon. Mr.. Mckenzie made
the following statement in writing:
Regarding the report published in
some of the papers of the state that
l would offer a resolution for the tenn
porary removal of the capital on ac-
count of smallpox, will say that the
resolution was never intended to lie
introduced. It was gotten up only as
a joke on Representative Wells of Leon
by Mr.. MacWilliams, and was never
intended for publication"
SOME DISAPPOINTMENTS.
Certain South Florida members OF
the house are nursing a disappoint-
ment arising from an Interpretation Of
the rule which applies to the visiting
of state institutions, the question
coming up this morning when a COM
munication from the phosphate mine-s
was read. The communication was g
protest against the passage OF the