The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-09-26
HOOPER
vtTO[s MONEY BILL
LATE THURSDAY
RETURNS MlscELLANEous APP.
PRECIPITATION MEASURE WITH
OUT HIS APPROVAL.
SAYS IT IS PETTY GRAFT
Refuses to Sanction the Allowances
Made for the Runaways at the Reg
uIar session-Also Pays Respects
to Committee Appointments.

NASHVILLE, Sept. IL. Following
the adjournment of the house of rep
resentatives Thursday afternoon. Gov
Hooper. through his secretary, filed
with the clerk of the house his veto
message of the miscellaneous appro
priation bill. Before adjournment OF
the house and senate for the day
both bodies accepted tine report OF
the joint conference committees on
the general appropriation bill, and
the bill was sent to the governor for
action.
The governor vetoed the miscella-
neous appropriation bill on the
grounds that 1t provided for the pay
ment of the salaries of nearly forty
members OF the legislature during the
days they were absent from their
seats on the filibuster to Kentucky.
in violation of that section Of the con-
stitution which says, mo member
shall be paid for any day when absent
from his seat in the legislature, un-
less physically unable to attend: !"
and that it provided for the payment
OF members of certain committees sit
ting during the legislative session,
among which were the Drane inyesti-
eating committee, the special peDi-
Tertiary investigating committee of
the house and others.
The governor in his comments on,
the Drane committee states that the
members of this committee we're
bounteously provided for in the APP.
preparation bill, while members of
the williams committee were no. CIV
en- a cent. This was done. according
to the governor. Notwithstanding that
the Williams committee did the
work which resulted in the inGict-
ments in Claiborne county and fore
ed the back tax fraternity to dis
gorge about $500 to save some body
from the penitsntiary." The governor
terms general items in the dill as
petty graft"
Early in the day a conference COM
mittee of three from the house and
three from the senate was appointed
to confer upon the general appropria-
ton bill and in the afternoon this
committee made it's report, which
was adopted and made the action of
both houses.
The bill which now goes to the gov
ernor leaves undisturbed the appro-
priation to the pure food aud drug
asked for by the travelling
men of the state, reduces the fire
fund to $4,000 annually, the
to the state geological
survey from $4,000 to $4,000 per an
mum, and leaves unaltered the appro
priations to the state fair, the con
servation exposition, and the tri state
fair. The hospitals for the insane |
were allowed what they desired; the
salary Of the state veterinarian was
raised to $500; the salary of the !
state superintendent of public in
struction was left at 5000; the sala-
ry of the state comptroller was re-
duced to $500; the salary OF the
chief clerk of the commissioner Of az |
iculture was left at $500.
The message is a lengthy enc and
among others contains the following |
couched in the characters
tic language of the executive:
after the recess the house cstab.
ishd new precedent in the appoint
nent Of committees, by providing an
alleged investigating committee with.
,ut the concurrence Of the senate,
md having it sit at 50 per day in ad-
iition to the regular 81 per diem.
This special committee was com.
posed of Lon P. Mcfarland, G. r.
M. P. Link, C. F. Boyer and
?. E. Bryant. Under this bill they
ire to be paid $500 per day, and the
tate is taxed up with $3.50 In a vain
Mort to manufacture little political
hunder at the public expense.
ITO show how quickly such an I'm
awful raid on the treasury Is about
ID as precedent, a similar house
committee appointed without the con-
,urrence of the senate, made up solid.
y of one party as the other was, is
low Investigating the fire marshal's
'fice. Perhaps, 1t will figure in the
appropriation bill for this extra ses-
ion.
1.-THE legislature cannot afford to
Jet the seal of It's approval upon this
lew method of extracting money
rom the treasury"
The name-Doan's inspires conf
Kidney Pills for kid
.av ills DIANA Ointment FIR skin /.