The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-21
DIRECTED
TO MISTAKES In ACTS
.dhooAGE or 6uyEMNOR BLEASE
40 GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
One an Item of Sixteen Hundred Dol
lars in Appropriation Bill-Others
Are Enumerated.
pecial to The Herald and News.

Special to The Herald and News.
Columbia, Jan. 20.-Following is the
special message of Gov. Blease 10 the
general assembly calling attention to
mistakes in the Acts Of 1922:
Gentlemen of the General Assembly:
l respectfully beg leave to call to
your attention the following mistakes
in the Acts of 1912, and ask that you
order the same corrected in your
Journals, and in the Acts of 1913:
1t appears in the Acts of 1912 that
Act No AIS, page 738, was not re-
turned to the house in which it origi-
mated within three days" BY refer
ence to your House Journal, page
1116, Message No. 46, you will see that
l returned this Act to your house with
my veto; that the said veto message
/ was referred to the ways and means
committee, and that Act was after
wards taken up and passed over my
Veto
You will find. in the Acts of 1912,
that Act No. 425, page 751, 4" and was
not returned by him to the house in
which it originated within three days. :"
By reference to your House Journal,
1912, page 1875, you will'find Message
No. so, wherein vetoed this Act and
gave my reasons therefor, and YOU
will find this Act was also, passed over
my veto. s.3,ss 80
call your attention also to Act No.
46O, page S41, Acts of 1912, AN Act To
Prevent the Establishment of III
Shaped Counties" In the Acts of 1912
it is stated, This Act was presented
to the governor the 18th day of Feb
uary, A. D. 1912, and was not returned
by him to the House in which it or
iginated within three days, the gen
eral assembly being in session" AS
matter of fact, this Act was passed at
the session of 1911, and was held over
/ by me until the session of 1912, when
| it was sent in to your house, with a
special message, see page q, House
Journal, 1912, Message No. 2, in which
T stated: 'I have decided to allow
this Act to become a law without my
signature to the same, and if the con-
stitutionality thereof (of which I have
serious doubt is questioned, the courts
are open, to those interested, for the
determination of that issue"
See also Acts of 1912, Appropriations
Acts, section "a, Item 1S, under the
head of Miscellaneous" page 9Sz'
John Keuker, refund, s1,eo294"
If YOU will see House Journal, 1912,
page 1854, you will note that I dis
approved Of Item IS, Section "a, be
cause." it is there stated, Il think this
is matter which should be settled
in the courts" etc. On the question
of passing the item over my Veto' the
yeas and nays were demanded, result
ing Yeas, "A; Nays, IA. In House
rnal. page 1855, it is stated: hay
NO failed to receive the necessary
+uo-;hirds vote of this house, the op-
sections Of His Excellency, the COVER
nor we're sustained, and the item fail
ed TO mass" 1t appears in the general
,o,r,rriation bill that this item was
nassed and the refund ordered, ana l
recommend that you instruct the al
tornev general to proceed to coliec'
Tho sono the veto of this approprla-
ton having been sustained by an al
most unanimous vote instead OF ohiy
.ae necessary two-thirds. The state
is entitled to have this money BACK
and Mr. Keuker is not entitled to have
it in his pocket. Of course, this was
mistake, but somebody is response
bic, and the taxpayers are not and
this money should go back into the
treasury.
In this connection, I beg to call 70
vour attention, without meaning any
reflection upon anybody, that care
fn, studv of the Acts of 1912 will re-
veal many mistakes. I call attention
tn the few which I have noted ABOVE
because they directly interest me- ana