The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-01
HOUSE VOTES TO ABOLISH
CONVICT LEASE SYSTEM
Plan of Governor Trammell
is Adopted by Large
Vote and it is Believed the
Measure Will be Passed
by the Senate.
BY FRANK t. HureAKz -

Tallahassee, April S0.--F'ollowing an
address by Gov. Trammell the house
this afternoon adopted his bill proVid-
ing for abolishing the convict lease
system on the installment plan, the
vote on the measure being 81 to s.
The bill provides for the imm ediate
donations from the convict lease fund
for building a state prison farm in
Bradford county, and taking the first
installment of 500 prisoners from the
lessees in June of 1914.
Reductions will be made until June,
1916, when the last batch viii be taken
from the lessees. The convicts will be
offered to the counties for road work
at one hundred and twenty dollars
each and those not taken go to the
farm. Tt is believed the senate will
adopt the same mea sure, in view of
the overwhelming vote in the house.
TAKES sLAPPING AS A. JOKE.
Representative Harry Floyd, who
was slapped yesterday by Senator Da-
Wis, takes the incident as a joke. say
ing he has been struck so often in re-
cent months that he going down and
get the governor to kick him and then
have himself declared to be harmless
lunatic.
After the attack by Senator Davis
friends with whom he was conversing,
saying: LAS I was saying when in
terrupted," and continued the CONVEX
sation as IL nothing unpleasant had
happened.
The senate passed the Cone oyster
bill on second reading, but the measure
was badly crippled with amendments.
1t also passed the forestry preserva-
ton bill on second reading.
The bill giving st. Petersburg a
commission form of government was
passed finally by the senate.
THE GREAT REScINDER.
The house of representatives will be
justly known in legislative annals as
THE Great Rescinder'' If the habit of
acts is not given up at a
decidedly early date. 1t IS safe to state
that a fourth of the time OF the body
for quite a while was consumed in re-
subjects that had already
been acted upon. the last being the
a acceptance of the invitation Of the
Pensa acola Commercial Association to
visit the Deep Water City in honor of
the visit of Secretary Of the Navy
Jcsephus Daniels. The popular branch
began activities with a hurrah that
betokened some real work, but the
hurrah is about the only thing that
HdS DeSn eNlQenl so lar. w nile CnSTe
is life there is hope"
DR.. PORTER CALLS.
DIR. Joseph Y. Porter, state health
officer, appeared on the scene Monday
afternoon with other medicos to look
after legislation Of different varieties.
Being asked whether he intended to
try to enforce compulsory vaccination
Or make everybody regular" DR.. Por-
ter 1aughingly declared that he was
the champion OF regularity" How
ever, he and his medical friends are
going to have a decidedly hard time
{ utting over the bin in favor Of COM
posite medical examining board, par
ticular.g as long as that bill tends to
give one school Of medical practise an
advantage over another. Furthermore
there isn't the slightest chance to pass
4 bin that interferes with the religious
freedom Of Christian Scientists and
others who rely upon prayer for the
cure Of disease. which fact seems 10