The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-02-16

amend the text book adoption law &c
provide that not more than three sub
jects of study shall be changed at any
one year was recommitted with leave
to bring it forth at any time. This
bill has passed the Senate and will
be substituted for the House Bill.
stock now that the session of the Gen.
eral Assembly is more than half over.
Every man who has bill that he re.
lies on to pass in order to square him.
self with his constituents is begin.
ming to figure on how he can get II
through the legislative maze that now
confronts him.
There will likely be some fancy
"Jockeying' from now on, and all sorts
OF arguments will be brought to bear
by the anxious solons to get their
measures advanced before the time
when they must trust to the tender
mercies of the Rules Committee.
Statewide prohibition was defeated
IN the House of Representatives fail
inu to receive the necessary three.
firths by six votes.
The vote stood 81 for submission
and so against
During the debate on this measure
IN the House trouble arose between
Representative w. Il. Harvey, of
Dixon. Webster county, and Repre-.
sentative J. d. Humphrey, of Elem.
inrsburg.
Speaking in support of the measure,
Representative Harvey resented a
statement that a Democratic member
who voted for the bill was a boiler.
He referred to the Democratic conven.
ton at Louisville last year as not rep.
reecnting the real sentiment of the
party. He criticized Governor Stanley
harshly and accused him of deceiving
the drys in certain localities as to his
attitude on the statewide question.
When Representative Humphrey
gained the floor his speech precipitat'
I'd trouble. lie declared that he in
tended to vote for statewide even
though he knew it to be contrary TO
the platform, because he had pro-
missed his constituents to support 1t,
but, he declared he could not remain
silent when the Governor was being
attacked
He made charges that a chamber
maid at a hotel in Frankfort has ac-
cused Representative Harvey of ap-
preaching her in his room with out
stretched hands several weeks ago.
The accusation was investigated
thoroughly by Police Judge w. C..
Henrdon and Policeman r. l.. Quire
at the time said that the statements
made by the woman were not sufficient
to issue warrant.
/ Harvey branded the statements OF
Humphrey as a black falsehood de-
| liberately and maliciously planned by
man against his enemy. He told
that it was a frameup by those op
posed to statewide prohibition.
The statewide prohibition amend
ment is dead for the present session
of the legislature, having been defeat
ed by the Senate.
The Woman Suffrage constitutional
amendment providing for the people
to vote of the question of whether
women shall vote or not was brought
out of the hands of the Committee IN
tn House of Representatives despite
their unfavorable report, by vote Of
81 to 40
The vote of the Committee stood
5 to 4 in favor of killing the bill, bu
Representative Hobbs, of Lexington
author of the bill, moved that notwith
standing the unfavorable report, thu
bill be given its first reading anC
placed in the calendar. He made ;
brief speech in favor of the bill ant
Representative ode Duncan, of Hen
derson, spoke against it,
The galleries of the House were fill
ed with women long before the tim
to vote on the motion and were iut
lilant at their success in having
, placed in the calender.