The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-06
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Ample Business For Entire CO.
Day Session in Sight, With
Some to Die During
Closing Scenes
SPEAKERSHIP
BE CONTESTED
Bills Look to Better States Ed
ucation Facilities and Live
Stock Industry Among
First on Calendar
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Tallahassee Fla, April 5-with
Representative George H. Wilder Of
Hillsborough on the scene and a few
members Of the legislature arriving on
every train gossip on the contemplated
speakership race was lacking here to-
night and no contest for the position
which Mr.. Wilder held in the extra
ordinary session and aSpires to fill
again. had developed.
Neither was there any evidence of
Representative Amos Lewis of jack
son county, reported opponent OF Mr..
Wilder, having made any campaign
In fact members who supported Mr.
Lewis last fall stated that they had
heard no word from Mr.. Lewis and
had not been requested by that gentle
man in recent months to pledge them
selves to him.
The much talked OF wilder-Levis
fight may develop. or a dark horse
may precipitate an interesting situa-
tion but tonight politicians here ara
wondering why Mr.. Lewis. il he in
tends to run for speaker. doesn't ar
rive.
Wilder has been here since last
night and is said to have given some
thought to his committee appointments
so as to have that much done ahead
OF time in case ne is nominated in
the democratic caucus Monday ght.
II would not surprise official Tallahas-
see IL Mr.. Wilder were chosen speaker
with the ease that Cary Hardee won
the honor two years aGo, the South
Florida mans position as presiding
ofYicer OF the recent s]sort session hav-
ing given him an excellent opportunity
to lay the foundation for success at
this time.
Preceded by more discussion in the
public press of necessary legislation"
over the signatures of the members
themselves, by the newspaper editors
and the people who write letters to
the editor than any previous Florida
the 1919 session will con-
vene in the historic statehouse at the
quaint old Capital City at a time when
Florida. like her Sisters of the Union,
is reconstructing and preparing. ac-
cording to concensus of opinion, to
enter upon one of the most important
eras of prosperity and development in
the history of the state.
The Unprecedented interest in the
SESSION
that practically every member of both
house and senate has expressed him.
self in print concerning laws that
should be enacted and repealed, reso-
lutions that should be adopted. investi-
cations that ought to be made and
amendments that Jus.
must be. submitted. The personnel
Of the legislature of 1919 also has
iy,I
what it will or will not do.
Appreciating this keen interest that
the public undoubtedly has in the
coming deliberations OF the, solons here
FOR two months. the daily newspapers
Of Florida have made extensive prepa-
rations for thoroughly reporting the |
1919 session Already correspondents
are on the scene getting line on
the situation and sending out their |
advance dope and chats with the |
members who have arrived and with /
statehouse officials and attaches.
The Tampa Morning Tribune. as in
he extraordinary session last year, |
will be represented by the writer who, |
with John C. Trice, dean of the Flor /!
da legislative correspondents. win re- |
port the proceedings for the Florida
Times Union. Jacksonville. Editor
Willis NJ. Ball, OF the Times Union.
will be in charge of the press bureau
md headquarters which that newspa-
per has maintained here for the con-
venience Of all correspondents as well !
rs for members and attaches OF the |
legislature for many years. Joe Hugh
Reese, another veteran OF Tallahassee |
is expected to be here |
Turing the session for the Savannah j!
Morning News and other newspapers |
Mss Jefferson Bell will represent the |
Miami Herald. Miss Sue Pope the
Miami Metropolis. Mrs Sarah Groom |
Bitch the Ocala Star and other Flor /
da papers. while Oscar NJ. Johnson o.
he Jacksonville Metropolis and ]. E /
of the Tampa Times win |
,e In Tallahassee in the interest of
he afternoon papers Of which they l
ire the managing editors. The writer /
will also represent his home paper,
he St. Augustine Evening Record.
md the Pensacola Journal
Mayor Guyte p. McCord OF Taila-
lasSee some weeks ago issued a clean
lp proclamation struck a responsive /
,eople. Tallahassee is "spick and
pan,'s the roses for which the Hill City /
3 famous are nodding their dew
,issed blooms in welcome to the law
makers. six hundred pretty college
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