The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-28
ANAMENOMENT
GIVING HOME
RULE |SPASSEO
MEASURE JUST ADOPTED WILL
GIVE CITIES RIGHT TO VOTE ON
LOCAL MATTERS WITHOUT SUB
MITTINo THEM TO THE LEGIs-
LATURE. E.

Tallahassee, May 27.-By unanimous
| vote the house this morning passed the
Goldstein- Farris constitutional amend
ment giving home rule to cities, which
was Immediately certified to the SEN
ate. The amendment provides that all
Incorporated cities and towns shall
vote on local matters without submit
ting them to the legislature and Gold
stein states that adoption of the
amendment by the people will mean
the saving of $4,000 or more at each
legislative session, doing away with the
deluge of local bills that come before
each body.
The house passed the administration
drainage bill by forty-nlne to seven
Morley Of Dade, headquarters of Ever
glades drainage operations, who de-
c.ared that he would fight.
The house passed the administration
hill providing for a bond issue of six
millions with which to continue drain
age operations in the Everglades, by
forty-nine to seven. Representative
Worley of Miami headquarters of
drainage operations, who declared that
six millions were not drop in the
bucket, and that he would fight the
bill until some definite engineering re
port was made on the project, sue
cumbed to the pleas of his constituents
and did not oppose the bill. He left
the room and did not vote, after saying
that he could not act against the
wishes of ninety per cent of the peo-
pie.
The senate passed the Hines bill
placing tax on tank and refrigerator
cars, also a bill giving the supreme
court judges one thousand dollars ad
ditional compensation for the examina-
ton Of applicants to the bar. The
house killed a similar bill.
Speaker Farris and Acosta OF Duval
l. l. I,x%1 ~%,
calling on the governor to appoint
commission of three 20 study the Tor
rens system of land titles and report
at the next session.
The GoIdstein- F,arris constitutional
amendment, above referred to. is as
<ollows:
A Joint Resolution
Proposing to amend section Of
articles VIII of the constitution of the
state of Florida, relating to counties
and cities.
Be it resolved by the legislature OF
the state of Florida:
That section of article VIII Of the
constitution of the state of Florida, be
and the same is hereby amended so
as to read as follows:
Section g. Corporation for munich
pal purposes shall not be created by
special laws, but the legislature, by
general laws, shall provide for the in
organization, and classifl-
cation, in proportion to population, Of
cities and towns which laws may be
altered, amended or repealed. Cities
and towns heretofore organized or In
corporated may become organized I'M
der such general laws whenever ma
jority of the electors voting at gen.
eral election shall so determine, ana
sIal, organize in conformity Herewith;
and cities and towns heretofore or
hereafter organized and all charters
thereof framed or adopted by authority
of the constitution shall be subject to
and controlled by general laws; pro-
vided, that nothing herein shall be con-
strued as invalidating or irnpairing the
existing charters of incorporated cities
or towns, or any provisions thereof,
any city containing a population of
three thousand inhabitants or more
shall be permitted to frame a charter
for it's own government consistent with