The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-04-09
LEGISLATURE NOW
ORGANIZED FOR WORK
Senator Davis of Madison
Chosen President of the
Senate.
And Hon. Cary A. Hardee of Live
Oak Speaker cf the House.

And Hon. Cary A. Hardee of Live
Oak Speaker cf the House.
The legislature of 1915 met on
Tuesday morning for the purpose of
organization. On Monday night the
Senate caucus met in the Senate
Chamber, while the House caucus met
in the Hall of Representatives.
As had been predicted Hon. Charles
E. Davis of Madison county was Sc
lected as the caucIs nominee for
president of the Senate by unanimous
vote, and Senator James E. Calkins
of Nassau county was selected for
president pro tenn.
Hon. C. A. Finley, who has been
secretary of the senate for more
years than some members of the leg
islature have to the credit of their
Lives, was nominated for that place,
while D. NJ. Newman of Calhoun
county was named as his assistant,
place filled last session by Hon.
Henry S. Mckenzie of Palatka, now
member of the lower house from
this county. The other attaches of
the Senate were nominated in a body
and Senator johnson was selected to
present their names to the senate for
confirmation. They are: Bill secre-
tary, j. B. Sutton of Polk county;
reading secretary, j. A. Bedintield,
HillsboroIgh county; assistant read
ing clerk, Raine Martin, fernando
county; journal clerk, R. S. Holly,
Osceola county; assistant journal
clerk, R. j. Davis, DeSoto county; SER
geant-at-arms, j. r. Adair, Holmes
county; enrolling secretary, A. E..
Lester, Suwanee county; engrossing
secretary, Leota Conklin, Citrus coun-
ty; recording secretary, Mrs. L. B.
Young, Leon county; messenger, c.
S. Zim, st. Johns county; janitor, W..
E. Lewis, Santa Rosa county; door
keeper, Nat Roddenberry, Wakulla
county; chaplain, Rev. j. D. Adcock,
Leon county; pages, Donald Adkins,
Bradford, Clifford Bitch, Levy coun-
ty and Harold Turner of Baker coun-
ty.
At the assembling of the Senate
on Tuesday morning the Senate elect
ed the above officers and attaches and
then adjourned for the day.
House Organization.
At the House caucus on Monday
night there was quite spirited con-
test over the Speakership, but when
the votes were counted the result
showed plainly that there never was
any reason for anxiety. The candi-
date were Forest Lake of Seminole
and Cary A. Hardee of Suwannee.
On the vote being counted it was
found that Mr.. Hardee had 50 while
Lake had but IA. Mr.. Lakes mo-
ton to make the nomination of Mr..
Hardee unanimous restored the for
mer tenseness to an unruffied calm.
By vote of 55 to 18 Hon. T. T.
Turnbull of Jefferson was nominated
for speaker pro tenn over Hon. Amos
Lewis of Jackson. The other officers
and attaches of the House were nomi-
mated as follows:
Chief Clerk, ]. G. Kellum of Leon;
assistant chief clerk, R. A. Green of
Bradford; bill clerk, c. C. Epperson
of Levy; reading clerk, Nat r. Walk
er of Wakula.
Then came another contest over the
nomination for assistant reading
clerk. The nominees were W. B. La
nier (Buck) and G. Irwin Walton of
DeSoto county. Lanier is one of the
most popular officials ever to serve
in the House; he has Keen there
many times. At the close of the last
session he went west because of i'll
health, and the point was raised that
he had abandoned his Florida resi-
dence except now that it was con-
Ivenient to be here to get a feast
from the loaves and fishes. But the
argument didn't work, and then it
will take something stronger than a
man who parts his name in the middle
to beat Buck Lanier before cracker
Legislature. Lanier won by a vote of
AZ to 29. Eli Futch of Gainesville
won the engrossing clerkship over
/ Harry Fannin of Franklin by a vote
of 4S to 25. Miss Sue Barco of
Pinellas county was nominated for
enrolling clerk over number of
Young men and her victory has been
proclaimed as a victory for woman
suffrage. She received a substan-
tial majority over all the candidates,
and this in a contest which ranked
second only in its interest to that
over the speakership. F. M. York of
Suwannee county won the recording
clerkship over several opponents on
the first ballot with a total of AZ
votes. w. r. Griffin of Hillsborough
was chosen sergeant-at-arms over the
veteran J. NJ. Duncan. There were
ten candidates for messenger, but