Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1920-04-15

~ tuOSo fOtlH6 aye. AuucISOu, AA
ley, Barber of Robertson, Barber Of
Bledsoe, Barnes, Bible, Blackmon
Breazeale, Britain, Bryan, eagle
Crawford, Creswell, Davis of David
son, Davis of Wilson, DePriest, Dunk
lin, Galloway, Gallaher, Greene
Grigg, Harlan, Harris, Hawk, Horne
Hurt, Johnson, Key, Larsen, Lax, LIE
vine, Matthews, Mitchell, McCor
mick, McLain, Nicely. O,Brien, Phil.
lips, Sawls, Ridley, Robins, Seal
Shropshire, Simonds, Stanton, Stew
art, Straus, Tankard, .Thornesberry
Tucker, Ward, West, White, Wilson,
Writ, Yoakum, Speaker Cooper.
Voting no: Acree, Agee, Ander-
son Ashley, Claiborne, Craig, Denton,
Elkins, Evans, Fleming, Floyd, Hare,
Harvill, Kreis, Long, Maiden, Math-
is, Miller of Lauderdale, McClaren,
McClanahan, McRee, McMahan, Mich
OILS, Osborne, Pafford, Parker, Palk,
Robinson, Rogers, Scott.
On March rs the bill was eturned
to Senate from Houses. ]. p. 593.
On March 26 bill was reported en-
rolled and ready for signatures OF
the speakers.-S..~J. p. 604.
Same day reported to the House
for signature of speaker.-H. J. p.
71os
Same day signed by the speakers.
IS. J. pgs. COS, 606.
Same day the bill was sent to the
governor and on March 27, Gov. Tom
C. Rye approved the bill, and thus
made it a law.
On March 80 the bill was reported
as signed by the governors. J. p.
656.
This was the official history of SEN
ate Bill No. $50, which became Chap
ter 35, Public Acts of Tennessee,
1915, and thus was Tennessee Poly
technie Institute created, the law To-
eating the school in Cookeyille, pro-
vided the county and city gave $751;
900 to the school, which was prompt
ly done.
When the bill became ready for
final passage 1t was handled rapidly
and successfully by Senator John J.
Gore and myself in our respective
branches of the general assembly.
The. bill passed the Senate on We'd
nesday, was engrossed and sent to
the House and passed on Thursday,
enrolled, signed by the speakers and
sent to the governor on Friday
and signed by him on Saturday.
This quick action was made possible
by my position as chairman of the
committee on enrolled bills.
The bill was passed easily on ac-
count of the careful preparation
made, receiving over a three-fourths
vote in the Senate and almost two
thirds vote in the House.
Hon. Oscar Bussell and Hon. Nor
man Massa, at that time superintend-
ent and assistant superintendent of
the capitol, rendered valuable assist
ance at all stages of the contest, as
did many other citizens of Cooke
vile, who made up purse of $156
and placed it in my hands. This
money was used to pay for telephone
and telegraph messages, travelling
and hotel expenses Of friends who
came to Nashville to hefp us.
I cannot let this opportunity pass
for banking every man who voted
for the bill or assisted in any way
to secure it's passage. You gave
Tennessee great school, and we OF
this section of the stave unitedly say
God bless you. w sincerely believe |
time and events have shown and will
show the wisdom of your generous
leeds in helping to create T. P. /.
Would that I could here close this
history, but, unfortunately the legis-
sture again took recess from April
to May 8, during which time strong
opposition was developed against the
school and an effort made to repeal
he T.. p. I. law, which resulted In
,ne of the most stubbornly contest
ID battles ever waged in Tennessee
general assembly. or this will
peak next week and give the offic-
al history of the struggle.
e. L. WRIT.