The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-05-09
LETTER FROM MR.. LIGHT
COunty's Sawed-On SoIon-OcaIa's
Extension Bill Thru the House

Extension Bill Thru the House
Tallahassee May 6-When the leg
islature adjourned yesterday morning
| il adjourned to meet Wednesday at
a. m. Pensacoians invited the legis-
lators 10 be their guests on this day
| when Secretary of War Daniels IS 10
be in Pensacola to look into the merits
and dement's of re-opening the navy
yard in that city, and the legislature
| accepted the invitation.
! About - per cent of the House was
| excused the latter part of last week to
! 90 home, and both Saturday and Non
/ day there was d light attendance.
Yesterday morning the attendance was
| 50 short that the ergeant-at-arns
was repeatedly required to hunt up
! members so as to have quorum in
| the House
! Washington county was divided
without speech for or against with
out d single no vote recorded, Great
| ing thereby Bay county. 1t happened
! this way: Mr. Howell Of Washington
| county, in the campaign last spring
| ran on this issue and the whole people
of the county gave him majority
vote,
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! against division of Orange county, and
the means employed to influence mem
! bers was to my way Of thinking not
! honorable. At one time I thought
| there would be no possible chance for
! the creation of Seminole county, but
! when the lobbyists for and against
! division appeared before the commit
! tee and a show was made of the means
used to prevent the division, the com
mitted voted unanimously in favor Of
| division, and almost unanimous vote
| of the Hquse. tor The new county was
made.
Santa Fe county out of AIachua
| Clay, Putnam and Bradford died an
easy and peaceful death in committee
meeting.
| Broward county, the north end pf
/ DeSOtO county. made a hame run in
the Senate, but was Killed in the House
| by a motion to indefinitely postpone.
Trabue county, south end of DeSoto
county, is to he heard from. senate
voted for new county: cant tell results.
Mr.. Willis of WilIiston is here, work
! ing for BloXam county. to be made out
of Marion and Levy. He says sena-
torial courtesy is 50 strong that he
could mai hnd a single senator that
I
preached by Representative WoTlel Of
/ Dade county, and the request was
made ny hlm or me to allow him to in
| troduce the bill for Mr.. Willis and he
/ lieving that no man should be denied
/ the privilege of allowing a person 10
| initiate any law he pleases if he can
! get an advocate, 1 consented and Mr.
Worley by requested iRtradueed the
, hill There Is no possible chance for
| this bin TO even come before the House
. This session,
\ poll Sunday on how the House
stood on the subject Of state division
showed twenty against and forty-twn
for division. There is a struhs. IA
tense. quiet current moving FOR sep
aratlon Of West FLORIDA from the hal,
anee OF the state. ON one can tell how
this will end,
The suffra gettes had the day Friday
morning. The vote on referring the
subject to the people was 26 for TO 3S
against. There was some good talk
ing for and against the proposition.
while some of the speeches has hetter
never been made
The good roads bill tnaI asked this
House 10 pass a bill that would per
nit five men TO issue certificates Of
ferring the matter to the taxpayers,
died, It IL waking up again. This
time 1t proposes TO let the taxpayers
have a say if there shall be an indebt
edness created or not There are still
some features in this bill that I do not
like. This bill increases the license tax
on automobiles about 100 pei cent
Lone-half of which is TO be used by the
good roads commission. We have more
than 5000 machines in the state. The
average license tax will be no less
than $40 per machine per year and this
would bring in a revenue OF about
S16O.0O0. or $SO000 would go into the
hands Of the FIVE good roads commis.
sioners to be used as they saw IT.
They would not be under bond nor re-
sponsible to any one. I believe the
uassing OF bill of this kind would be
the very best way to destroy the pros
poets of future good road building. I
have no objections 10 good roads
commission with competent engineers
But do object to giving any body OF
men the privilege Of spending $4,000
year in the way and manner propos-
ed.
There is more kick coming from the
folks at home about the House passing 2
House bill l66 than from any other
source This bill says that all dealers
selling goods on the installment plan
must record the sales, etc The mem
bers of the House are looking up the
Journals to see hom they voted, be
cause II means trouble to some in the
future l. TOO. took TO the woods, had
my record on this vote dug up. and
voted against the passage Of this bill
Messrs. McIver & Nackay please put