The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-03
Sensation After Sensation
Was Sprung and Person
alities Were Freely In
dulged In.
SPECIAL MESSAGE
FROM CATS TABLED
House Finally Gave Way to
Senate on Road Legisla-
ton - Other Measures
Were Disposed Of.
Bv HERBERT FEIkEL,

by
Tallahassee, June 2.-Today was day
of great strain and turbulence in the
house with sensation after sensation
sprung and personalities indulged.
When the smoke of battle cleared away
at the $50 adjournment the house had
receded from the Scruggs-Wnder amend
ment to the Carlton-Igou two-mil road
bill, had excluded from the journal and
tabled a special message from the gov
ernor notifying the house that he would
veto any road bill sent down TO him for
a pprovaI that did not give the governor
the right to have every department OF
read service audited. that did not carry
a clause requiring the department to ask
for bids on all road materials and road
construction involving the expenditure OF
more than $500, and that the road de-
partment in its entirety shall be subject
to supervision of the board of commits
sioners of state institutions and camps
subject to inspection by convict inspec-
tors, had passed the local game bill for
Leon county over the governors veto,
created new Seventeenth Judicial circuit
and made Mr.. Brooks local fish bill
general.
Everybody had told everything they
justified the statement of one member
that the day had been a continuous III
formation meeting.
Trouble Started Early.
The trouble began early when the gov
ernor's veto message on the Leon county
game bill was read ana Mr.. Williams, of
Leon. asked the house to pass the bill
over his veto. charging that the veto was
a matter of spite because the chief OK
ecutive had been black-baffed by the local
gun club.
MIR Williams displayed petition sign
ed by two-thirds of the registered voters
ef the county favoring provisions which
make the closed season all the year AK
cept November and december in Leon
county, to exclude nonresident owners CT
large game preserves Krom hunting. ON
roll call the house overrode the veto by
a vote of 81 to s.
Speaker Wilder took the floor early
this morning to defend his action and
rulings in connection with the appoint
ment of n conference committee Satur-
day on refusal of the house to recide
from the Scruggs-wilder amendment and
insisted he had acted conscientiously anu
without prejudice.
Mr.. Lewis, of jackson. rose to object
to the statement that he had tied the
speakers hands with his motion asking
for appointment of a conference commit
tee and insisted parliamentary precedent
demanded that the chairman of the road
committee should have been named IN
the conference committee. Later Speaker
), ilder left the chair to move to take UP
senate messages and moved that the
house do not recede from the amend
m er:S which the senate had asked for tue
second time.
Speaking for the motion and in favor
of the amendment he stated he was sorry
he had taken any part in introducing the
road measure. After much debate the
house voted Sc TO 81 to recede from the
amendment.
Governors Message Tabled.
Then the reading o, the governors s
me acro ,stI So
he would veto any road bill that did
not contain provision to gfve the gov
ernor authority to have the road depart
ment and service audited, provision for
calling for bids for materials and con-
struction when the amount to be ex-
pended is more than $500. and a provis-
ion for supervision of the road depart
ment by commissioners OF state institu-
tlons and inspectors of convicts.
The message corrected the statement
gwen out by Dawson or fernando and
Miller of Duval that the governor has
told them he would veto the bin without
certain provisions, brought a sensation
when Mr.. Miller rose and charged the
governors statement was untrue, Mr.
Dawson corroborating.
The statement of Mr. Miller was m
tensely dramatic and precipitated sharp
criticism of the chief executive for at
tempting to influence legislation by threat
of his veto and the house voted to tabio
the message.
Pensacola Excepted.
The new Riparian Rights bill leaving
the title to oyster beds and minerals I'm
the state and exempting Pensacola from
the operations of the first law passed
because of large grants made to private
corporations there for dock purposes was
passed through senate today
The senate today cut naif the tax on
dogs provided for in the ellis house bill
The house bill for compulsory school
passed the senate today after
being amended so as to NOT require teach
ers in private schools to have certifi-
Gates.