The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-28
WEAVER BILL
PROVIDES FOR
ANNUITY AT 65
At This Age Teacher May Re-
tire on Yearly Pension
of $500.
EXPERIMENT STATION
FOR GADSDEN COUNTY
Provides for the Studying of
Diseases Affecting To-
bacc0 Plant.
(ey JOHN c. TRIcEl

TALLAHASSEE, April Ex-senator
Weaver's bill proposing a system Of
teachers pensions was considered in the
senate Wednesday morning. The pension
bill proposes that after so years service
a teacher may retire at 65 with a pension
of $500 yearly. IL she has during that
period paid in five per cent Of her salary
to a state board provided for the admin
istration of the law, Senator singletary
said it was his understanding that there
are but seven teachers in the state who
would be entitled to participate. and
asked that the bin be held UP for a
time in order to see If some more eco-
nomical method of administration could
not be devised, pointing out that $4,000
is now called for to administer pensions
of $4,000 He is not unfriendiy to the
bill. he said.
The senate sustained the veto of SEN
ator Crosby's bin forbidding trains 10
stand on a highway crossing more than
10 minutes.
Senator knights bill setting the num-
Der of No. / convicts who shall be left
on the present farm at Raiford at 35 in
stead of rs, as is the case under the
present law, passed today The rest of
the men will be placed on the state
roads.
The Anderson bin providing for an
texperiement station near Quincy, Gads-
den county, TO study disease affecting
the tobacco plant and carrying an appro-
priation of 5000 passed to third read
| ing also. 1t provides that Gadsden coun-
ty shall furnish land for the station.
| In the afternoon session of the senate
Wednesday, Senator Stokes and Senator
Weaver came to an argument over Sen
ator Stokes bill for the reimbursement OF
Sheriff Van Pelt, OF Escambia county,
| fired by Governor Cats. The bill Sem
! ator Stokes introduced and which he had
placed in the calendar without reference
to committee, wishing to get the poll
| Icy of the entire senate, called for s15,-
S12.17. which would have been Van Pelts
! entire receipts for the II months of 1920
during which Cats action deprived him
/ of office. Weaver showed the reports
\ from the comptroIler's office of Van
Pelt's net receipts for 1919 were s6,O41.I1
/ and for 1920 that his successors net re-
ceipts were s3,012.26. Stokes pointed to
precedents to show that this had been
the method of allowing reimbursement
/ for officers on fee basis and pointed
out that what had been done in the
office should be no criterion for it was
right to suppose that Van Pelt, an ex-
1 perieneed man, would maRe more out Of
/ the office than his successor, who. it
was generally believed, had put on
an excessive number of deputies and had
! paid them a salary instead of working
/ them on fee basis, as had always been
! done before.
BY agreement between Senator wea-
yer and Senator Stokes the bill was held
\ up for a day while Senator Weaver may
make further investigation Senator
! Stokes said his chief desire was to get
an expression from the senate a whole
on what should be the custom to follow
in similar cases that might arise.
Senator MacWilliams put in a bin pro-
/ viding that the state shall repair the
arsenal at st. Augustine. gutted by fire
some time ago. An appropriation OF
$so000 is carried. 1t seems that the
state, leasing the building, carried nc
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