The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-11
DOINGS AT The
STATE CAPITAL

and if we get this county we will build
ed of herself. We have fine school
house which we built practically our
selves, and farms that bloom like a
rose, a court house built on land they
stole from Marion county forty years
ago. They talk about hard roads, the
little old road they built out to Bitch
ton-well, we started them coming
our way"
The committee gave an unanimous
adverse report on the bill. While it
may seem a bit unpatriotic in a Ma
rion county citizen, there is much mer-
hoped that the time will come when
the line will be so drawn that there
will be no opposition to the creating
of new county in this section, which
is fine agricultural section and a
public spirited and progressive peo-
pie, who will not be satisfied until they
have a county, and who will use their
best efforts toward making a county
that will be credit to the state.
Friends of the Harris bill for the
appropriation of three hundred thou
sand dollars for the control and eradi-
cation of citrus canker were made
happy by the passage of the bill in
the senate. Efforts were made to
amend the bill by placing tax of two
cents per box on citrus products, but
the amendment was defeated, and the
bill passed in it's original shape. 1t is
stated that the passage of the bill
without amendment is mainly due to
the efforts of Senators Carlton, Igou
and Fogarty A similar effort to
amend the bill was made when it was
before the house, but it managed to
get by without any changes in both
houses
The bill providing for semi-monthly
payments of wages by corporations
whose pay rolls amounted to over ten
thousand dollars was one OF the stat
performances in the senate, and was
the occasion of much discussion of the
labor question.
The drainage hearings have been
discontinued and the effort to discrc1-
it tna tru5 . 5 If the Internal improve
ment fuud has collapsed. and it is an
derstood that no further effort will be
made to secure the passage of the
Marshall bill. 1t is understood that
"a new sub-drainage district, embrac-
ing Broward and Dade counties will
be created, with view of expediting
the drainage operations in that par
ticular vicinity.
The weather interfered with the
picnic that was to be held at Wakulla
Springs Saturday to such an extent
that none of the political announce
ments that were anticipated were
made. 1t was rumored that Mr.. Amos,
the able representative from Jackson
county would announce his candidacy
for congress, and that Senator Facris
would make his opening speech in his
campaign for governor, but the wealth
er man sent up a bad order, ah1 a
large percentage of those who went
out in the morning returned early in
the afternoon, wiser but sadder," and
declaring that picnic are not always
what they are cracked up to be-"
She passage of the bill providing for
one hundred thousand acres to be set
aside as a reservation for the Semi
mole Indians has caused look of SUI
preme pleasure and content to spread
oyer the faces of Mr. Wilson and Cap
tain Spencer, who have been working
so interestedly and faithfully in the
cause of this most just measure.
SARAH GROOM BITCH.
Tallahassee, Fla, May 8, 1917.
Special to the Ocala Banner:
The senate devoted practically all