The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-11-08

a vote Of 20 to 8. Those voting
against it we're Senators Jones of Es.
Gambia, Gornto of Lafayette. Farris
of Duval.
In less than ten mintues the reso.
luton was taken over to the House.
f, Our leader was alert and moved that
the rules be waived and Senate mes.
sages be taken up at once. Very few
votes against 1t. Attempts were
made to amend, as had been done in
the Senate. Careful work had been
done by the w. C. T. U. lobbyists"
to pledge against all amendments. 80
all were promptly voted down On
roll call ga voted aye and no; five
were absent; the six were Blanton
OF Madison, Chaires of Lafayette,
Gomez of Monroe, Jennings and
Stockton of Duval, Webb of Hamil-
ton.
So the remarkable record was es.
tablished Of the passing of a prohi-
bition submission resolution in less
than one-half hour in both houses,
with no speech-making and no dem
onstration. Joint resolutions do not
require the Governors signature, but
Governor Cats desired to sign it
the first measure to which he affixed
his signature.
The Liquor Traffic Tied Up
The 1917 Legislature certainly cir
cumscribed the liquor traffic in Flor
ida, and leaves it with little power.
AS soon as the resolution was passed
submitting statewide prohibition to
the voters of the State, the "anti.
club" bill was passed, which absolute
ly prohibits the handling Of any alco-
holic> liquors by any clubs in dry"
territory. The Governor signed this
April "a, and it became effective that
day. Then followed the "anti-ship-
ping, blind-tiger" bill, which allows
only heads of families to have
shipped to them by common or other
carrier" only one quart of whiskey
or wine and six quarts of beer within
thirty consecutive days. requiring the
express company to keep accurate rec
ords and providing punishment to the
person and to the express company
for violation of this law. This was
signed by the Governor May l, with
the pen used in signing the Davis
Package Act Of 1915, and presented
to Miss Neal.
One of the most valuable bills
passed was the "anti.advertising" law
which prohibits advertising liquors in
any way anywhere in Florida. Sigend
also May 1 with the same pen and eff.
fective July !.
An act to amend the Davis Pack
age Law, making 1t to apply to all
clubs in wet territory, whether in.
corporated or not, which closed up all
the so-called Service clubs" and pre-
vents liquor selling in any kind of q
club, passed and became effective
July l. Also an act to make the XIX
amendment effective when that 10
comes a law, January 1, 1919, pAsssd
with almost no opposition.
There will be a flag ON every pub
lie school building twhen school Is in
session. beginning Flag Day" June
IA, 1917. This bill was prepared un.
der my direction and its passage So
cured. by watchfulness. Governor
Cats presented me with the pen with
which he signed the bill.
More Counties Dry
A year ago we had A dry. wet
counties. The Legislature created
two more counties-Flagler and Okee-
chobee. Flagler was made from part
of wet st. Johns county, so was wet
by our laws. But an election Septem.
! ber Is made it dry, 80 for to against.
Okeechobee, made of dry territory of
other counties, is dry. st. Johns
! county after hard fight, voted dry
/ Octobed 13. Palm Beach county fol-
lowed October 80. after a splendid
campaign.
You ask about Wakulla and Liberty
counties. There being no saloons in
them ever, we had put them on our
dry list, but as they had never had
elections they were truly wet by our
laws. Because of the quart-a-month
law, these two counties saw they
were going to be the shipping place
for surrounding dry counties. so they
proceeded to vote themselves dry in
July and August. Now we are 81
counties with only 6 wet-Escambia