The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-15
time VALUE
Is CITED BY
LEGISLATURE
BY JOHN c. TRIcE.

EN-. The members OF the house, is
meant Last Saturday morning they
were told by one of their own mem
bers, Mr. Watson. of Dade, that in all
his many years of experience as i
member of the house, this was the
hardest working body. But he also re-
minded them that half their session
Was gone and they had Accomplished
practically nothing except the passage
of some local bills and few depart
ment bills asked for by the state
treasurer.
These remarks were brought out in
the discussion of proposition look
ing to the limiting of time for speeches
in the house. The time was limited,
first to fifteen and then to five min
utes. That very same afternoon the
house passed more bills of a general
nature than had been passed during
all OF the five weeks of the session
past and gone. Now that they h ave
gotten started. just watch 'em.
1t was quite noticeable that the
work friends of the house had no COM
plants to make Sunday Every sun
day since they have been here it has
been the custom for those who lived
too far away to go home for the week
end, to sit around the lobby of the
hotel and complain at having nothing
to do. 1t had become almost a habit
with them. But six days work. most
of the time two and sometimes three
session day, made them a quiet
ibunch on Sunday
Another financial phenomina has de-
[veloped in the house, or in othes
words, has made itself known. Mr.
Folks, of Marion, in debate the other
day. declared he had all he wanted of
this worlds goods. It is quite re-
Ifreshing that this session of the house
should spring upon the world two
notable exceptions to the universal
greed of human nature-the sheriff Of
Hillsborough county and the gentle
man from Marion.
The employment by some cattle men
of two of the best lawyers at the CAPT
y tai to test the constitutionality of the
compulsory cattle dipping theory, has
had q rather depressing effect upoa
some of the legal wise enthusiasts
who have been pushing the matter
lrather hard. These two attorneys,
Messrs. Hodges and Davis, are of the
opinion they will be able to show to
J the court that the constitution inhibits
many of the provisions of the dipping
law now in effect, and of course the
Isame would apply to the new bill as
tpassed by the house. because it car
; ,ries the very same provisions they are
complaining of.
The gentleman from Lee county. Mr..
: Perry, is not only a hard scrapper in
the house, but he is one of the best
: llosers among the membership of that
: body The passage of the GladeS
t Icounty bill through the house hit him
{ | a rather hard blow, but he rallied
: himself and now it would be impossi-
5 bile for any one to realize one of the
/ greatest ambitions of his life has just
e lbeen thwarted.
r Judge w H. Price was up from
( Miami the first of the week. He re-
5 turned home Monday night
Judge D. A. simmons. of jackson
? willie, is at the capital this week The
S Judge formerly lived here and has
lmany old friends in Tallahassee.
!, Miss Myrtle McCaskill, the attractive
). land accomplished house reading clerk
: land Ray Walden. the reader of the
: senate, are candidates for speaker OIL
|. the third house. The caucus will be
: held wednesday at the close of bust
: 1ness by both branches. At a meeting
of the attaches and other member:
of the third house today a COMMITTEES
was appointed to see the speaker o
1.-THE house of representatives in regard
to securing the use of that body
hall.
Members of the joint appropriation
Icomnittee who went to Chattahooche'
: to investigate the actual needs OF II
= State Hospital for the Insane stat
that they cleaned much first-han'
- knowledge that will be helpful to then
"a in settling upon appropriations 10
that institution for the coming tw
l years Those who went down Were
I Senators Lowry, Johnson, Mac VIII
liams. Igou. King Eaton. Turnbul
Carlton and Representatives, Harris
l Marshall. Dawson, A. F. Wilson an
E. P. Wilson.
. Senator Carlton has introduced an
- passed two local bills, one VALIDATE
certain deeds issued by the count
commissioners of Hillsborough count,
Z, and the other granting a new charte
for the town of Gary, changing tt
name of the town to East Tampa. H
also introduced general bill relatin
to suits in chancery for the foreclosur
- or enforcement of any lien or othe
relief as against or affecting the It'll
of real estates.
Three house resolution were indefi
nitely postponed when they reache
the senate yesterday and a fourt
was referred to a committee. The lat
ter was the resolution calling for til
sale of the board of health train
- view of the high cost of operating
~ under government control Of the raj
roads, the proceeds to be used towar
Il the esta bIishment of a state tuberculs
sanitarium-
The Hamblin concurrent resolutic
Enroviding for the county commission
ers of the various counties to emplo
! teacher at the same salary as otht