The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-27
FEELING HIGH
ON LEON GAME
LEGISLATION
Debate on Local Measure
Involves Question of Sen
atorial Courtesy and Pre-
cedents.
BY HERBERT FELkEL.

] Tallahassee, May 26.-Most of the
session of the senate today was con-
sumed in most interesting discussion
growing out of the Leon county game
/ bill. closing the hunting season here
on January 1, which was passed by
the senate yesterday afternoon, having
previously been favorably acted upon
by the house. Feeling runs high in
this county on the bill which seeks;
to make the local game laws so un-
attractive to the northern hunters who
own game preserves here that they
Will abandon their vast holdings in
this county.
But the merits of the measure were
not under discussion. Senator Mac
Williams on yesterday had tried to ex-
plain his vote against the bill, but
the explanation, which cited that the
bill had not been advertised accord
ing to law, was not permitted on the
journal Neither was a resolution by
Senator Johnson to the effect tnat
district, had admitted that the bill
had not been advertised, which like
wise would have inserted in the rec
OAo LIlAo 1CCl tI1cIc1OIS IeHueTSd
the bill questionable as to its con-
stitutionality.
The long debate today was on the
motion of Senator Mac Williams TO
correct the journal of yesterday to
show that Senator Lowry moved that
the whole matter be expunged from
the record and that the senate had
denied him (Mac Williams) the right
to explain his vote. Since the senate
had voted to expun re all reference
to the matter from the journal of the
senate, not even the motion to ex-
punge had been recorded. The mo-
ton to correct the journal, however,
failed this morning by a roll call vote
of Is to 6, and even that vote was
expunged by motion of Senator Low
ry. despite the fact that the consti-
tuition requires that a yea -and-nay
vote be taken when demanded by five
senators and provides that the same
shall be printed on the journal.
Senator Mac Williams read from the
constitution the provision that leach
house shall keep a journal of its pro-
ceedings and it shall be published" He
said the motion to expunge was never
ordered expunged, and that the record
should show that he had been denied
his inalienable right to explain his
vote and that the killing of the JON
son resolution should also be recorded.
But he did not ask that the subject
matter of the resolution or his vote
explanation appear on the journal.
Senator Lowry said that the senate
had voted to expunge all reference
to the matter, and that included the
motion to expunge. making the point
that a record of a motion to expunge
would in itself defeat the purpose of
the motion.
Senator Mac Williams admitted that
the journal as far as it went spoke
the truth but that the record should
carry the whole truth and nothing
but the truth.
Senator Lowry declared that this
senate had established a precedent
in the case of the resolution by Sena-
tor King referring to the fact that
the famous st. Lucie county fish bill
had not been advertised. which reso-
luton and all reference to it was
expunged from the record on motion
Of Senator Hughlett. The Leon coun-
ty senator said there was also much
precedent to be found in the records
of congress. which body often voted
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