The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-06
Now Believed There Was
Corrupt Intent Behind
Sending Wall $500.
PROPRIETOR OF A BOARDING
HOUSE AND PUBLISHER OF A
NEWSPAPER IN THE WESTERN
PART or THE STATE WIT
NEssEs-sENATE PASSES THE
DAVIS BILL 70 CLOSE SALOONS
AT 8 O'CLOCK At NIGHT.
BY J. n. Reese.

Tallahassee. May 5.-Witnesses were
examined today by the committee to
investigate the cause and object OF
the mysterious envelope, containing
two hundred dollars, delivered to Rep
resentative Wall Monday night. gave
testimony of a highly interesting char
acter which may lead shortly to a
climax, determining what interest 1t
was. il any, that made the effort to
reach the legislator and influence his
vote by the use Of money.
The impression Is growing that
somebody bIundered, and that there
was q corrupt intent behind the send
ing of the package This view is con-
trary to that which obtained with
some soon after the Wall resolution
was passed that the matter was
planned by the friends of the anti-race
track bill to influence sentiment in its
favor.
The witnesses before the committee.
whose names were not given out, are
said to have included the proprietor of
q boarding house and the publisher OF
q newspapers in one OF the western
counties. There will be another sitting
OF the committee tomorrow.
The house passed the Pinellas county
bsII by as to 1s, killed the MacWilliams
limited divorce bill and passed to third
reading the committee bill to reduce
the fees of county treasurers.
The senate passed the Davis bin for
o'clock closing of saloons, removal of
screens and prohibition of seats and
music In such places. 1t also passed
tho Tampa fair appropriation for thirty
thousand dollars and the Johnson
measure for eleven judicial circuits.
TRnEs WEEKS REMAIN.
Three weeks remain in which to per-
form the biennial 1aw-making and re-
pea1Ing which the Florida legislature
is destined, ordered or by chance and
the constitution allowed and privi-
legged to do. The fifth week draws to a
close with more than five hundred bills
having been introduced in the house
and about four hundred in the senate.
The one thousandth mark is not far
away, and like the thousandth tale of
the beautiful and enchanting Schere-
zade. II may be one of unusual interest
or fate. The house has done It's full
portion so far as the number goes IN
sharing the burden with the senate
The flve hundredth bill in the lower
body was that by Mr.. Knight of Mon
roe relating to the appointment and
qualification of pilot commissioners.
This legislature has been no excep-
ton to the ordinary assembly in point
of doing but little the first four weeks
II generally takes that long for the
members to get settled in their seats
and become accustomed to the strang'
surroundings, and find themselves
lesislatiyeIy. The fifth week has beer
more productive of results. 1t ha:
been busy week, and is an indica-
tive precursor of what may be ex
pected to happen during the next three
Four measures of general interest ant
Importance have been acted upon.
There was the capitol removal bill
which the house choked to death.
Immediately following was the bill
to appropriate money for a suprem
court building, which is to be shares
by the railroad commission and tn
state library, which the house passes
with amendments, cutting the appro
prfation to one hundred thousand. TIL
bill was offered in the senate by MI
F1ournoy and carried two hundre,
thousand through that body.
There was the anti-race track bill
about which centered such general in
terest, which passed with a whoop an
without any blood letting.
THE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT BILL.
There is considerable uncertainty a
to what the house is going to do wit
the judicial circuit measure. This wa
practically fought out in the senat
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