The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-06
TWO BRANCHES
LEGISLATURE
in ARGUMENT
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES ARE
Named TO ATTEMPT SETTLE
MENT OF DIFFICULTIES AS TO
REVENUE BILL.
BY HERBERT FELkEL.

BY HERBERT FELkEL.
Tallahassee, June when the SEN
| ate was informed yesterday that the
| house had refused to recede from its
| position on the amendments adopted
| by that branch of the legislature 10
/ the general appropriation bill, provid-
/ ing for salaries and expenses of the
/ state government for the next two
! years, Senator Lowry moved that a
| conference committee from the senate
| be appointed. Senators Lowry, Stokes
| and Butler, later in the day, were
| named
Senator Lowry also moved that the
| senate next concur in the house
| amendments to the bill appropriating
| for the state institutions at Charra-
| hoochee, Mariana and Ocala and
! asked for the appointment of a con-
ference. Senators Russell. Eaton and
Oliver were announced as members
of this committee.
The senate was also informed that
| the house had refused to concur in
! the senate amendments to the bill
naming a board of supervisors for the
Broward drainage district. The SEN
ate amendment had changed the per-
sonnet to inclue NJ. c. Hardee in
stead of a. B. Lowe. Senator Hugh
| lett moved that the senate not recede
but he did not ask for a conference.
Senator Malone did not think this
would be entirely parliamentary; said
he didn't think the right thing was
done the other day in a similar mat
| ter, although it resulted in good leg
isIation, and moved that a conference
committee be appointed. When all
the conference committee appoint
ments were announced, just before
adjournment this afternoon. Senators
| Malone, Mac Williams and Turner
were named for this work.
Senator Butler had a telegram read
! from United States Senator Fletcher.
asking for the enactment of a general
| free zone bill. A local bill author
izing Jacksonville TO issue bonds for
| the establishment of free zone for
that port already has been passed
| through the senate.
A bill protecting the fresh water
| fish of Hamilton county, that came
over from the house, was passed by
the senate Mr. Bradshaw succeeding
| in waving the rules.
/ The house Coats bill, seeking to
add a strip of territory now in De-
Soto county to Okeechobee, was re-
ferrsd to the committee on COUNTY
organization although an effort was
J made to place the bill on the calen-
dar without reference. s-ssf-eaz7
> Senator Butler introduced and
passed bill to protect the fish in the
, fresh waters of DuvaI county except
} the st. Johns river.
The senate passed the house bill
| by Representative Williams, No %,
[ to amend section 5 of chapter 6814,
approved 1915. the same being an act
to regulate the finances of counties
and to provide for annual budget OF
| expenses.
The Epperson bill, relating to tax
| assessments and revenue, was tabled,
| the senate having previously passed
another house bill on the same sub
ject.
| BY a vote of 81 to o. the senate
! adopted the HughIett joint resolution
| seeking to cure the title to between
/ one and two thousand acres of lands
( in Okeechobee county, that We're sold
by the state. 1t was announced in
| the long preamble that the records
| of the land office showed large tracts
| designated as highlands which in
! truth, are swamp and overflowed.
+: House bill No. 7SS. by Mr.. Way
bright relating to primary elections
in Jacksonville. passed the senate.
| The Perry house bill for the pro-
| lection of all wild game in certain
parts of Lee county, was indefinite
/ " postponed, on motion OF Senator
Malone.
! The house bill by Mr.. Earnest, for
the relief of H. S. Hosford and S.
IL. Revell, of Liberty county, went
i from second to third reading.