The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-09
RACE BILL TAKEN
 UNDER ADVISEMENT
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l signing of the bill by Governor Hays | could in no way be thwarted by any personal intentions of the governor
 When the governor signed the bill and gave it to his secretary to report then from that period the bill was | law, he said:
 'If Governor Hays intended to veto the bill, what object had he in signing the bill? asked MT Martin. "When. Governor Hays gave the bill to his secretary on the afternoon of March s he told him to report it and made DO mention of any veto, he sent no veto message 10 the house with the bill. We are baslng our contentious entirely upon the governors own statement that he signed the bill, which was all that the law requires. J. w. Mehaffy, who with C. C. Reid is assisting Attorney General W. L. Moose in the defense, answered Mr Martin.
 We are basing our conteitnos en- tirely on the bill as a record which shows that it has been disapproved and vetoed by Governor Hays If we take the parole evidence Governor Hays intended to sign the bill. if not he did not intend to sign it. The gov ernOr did not sign the bill. So sign a bill is to affix a signature to the
 bill at the time you intend to approve l the bill The signing of the bill | alone, does not make the bill valid i, must be approved at the time that the signature is made Governor Hays says that to get some of his i friends out of the way he drew his pen through the prefix dis. He did this. but he did not draw his pen through the word vetoed.
 Mir. Mehaffy then cited the case of the commissioners of Allegheny coun- ty of Marand ys. Warfield, in which it was contended that the governor had signed the bill then erased it. In this case, Mr Mehaffy cOntended that it was shown that the governor had signed the bill because he had not gone through the mental process of signing it, that is, he had not approy- ed the bill at the time that he signed it.
 The governor alone can say that he went through the process of sign ! ing a bill said Mr. Mehaffy. The actual signing of the bill means af fixing of signature with the nten. tion of approving or disappearing the | bill. lt did not matter what Governor
 Hays wrote on that bill the bill to have become law must have shown that he approved it, as the bill shows that be disapproved it."
 MT. Reid began his argument by
 declaring that in the case of John | l. Moore, MT Moore, as governor, had declared his intention of approy. ing the bill and at no time had he declared that he intended to dlsap- prove the bill
 The first action taken by Cover. nor Hays was to disapprove the bill, said MT Reid He signed the bill at | that time and that was the only time that he did sign the bill When friends of Governor Hays came 10 his office and asked him to approve the bill he took his pen and ran it through the prefix dis That was tAe only ac- tion taken by the governor, and there was none of the witnesses who testi- fled who was willing to swear that they saw Governor Hays sign the bill
 At the time he signed it he expressed his disapproval of the bill, but not
 when he ran his pen through the pre- fix dis in the presence of those gen tlemen who were in his office on March 8. This act was not paramount 10 signing the bill and could not be so construed"
 Judge Fulk declared that on ac- count of the intrcacies of the nu- merous cases cited he would have to take the case under advisement until l he read up on them.