The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-03-08
REPRESENTATIVE MAYo's
IDEAS ON LEGISLATION
Resents Candidates for the Speaker
ship Showing Themselves
ON the House
(Times-Union)

ImfeS-OHiOnt
Editor Times-U Union: Your commu-
nieation asking my views on the com
ing legislature received.
/ am in favor of abolishing the old
way of electing speaker. ] would
like to see every candidate withdraw
from the race and let the representa-
tives do their own selecting instead
of the candidates asking for the honor
and making personal campaign.
This could be done with secret ballot
without nomination, the low man
dropping out on every second ballot.
By this method our speaker would be
elected strictly by the unanimous vote
of all representative and he could go
into the speakers chair without any
strings or pledges. Each representa-
tive should then hand in to the speak
er his profession, business qualifica-
tons and on what committee he
thought he could be of the best serv-
ice to the state, thereby enabling
the speaker to select from the field
those best fitted for each committee.
] am not censuring any of the pres
ent candidates for the personal cam
paign they are making, as they are all
my friends and understand this is
the way speakers have been selected
in the past and / have no doubt but
one of them will be selected as our
next speaker.
In my opinion this would help to
insure us a conservative, business
like and congenial session.
/ am in favor of fifty per cent
valuation, lower millage, just equali-
cation and system that will get all
property properly assessed on tax
books.
/ am not unmindful of our state
institutions of higher learning, but
the foundation for these schools is our
rural schools which need improving.
With the coming of good roads. |
think our small country schools should
be consolidated whenever they can be,
into a high school and the pupils haul
ed from the adjoining communities in
school busses, thereby it will enable
US to have fewer, but better, and bet
ter paid teachers.
/ also think that our school books
should be handled by the state and
distributed through the various coun-
ty superintendent at price to only
defray cost and handling, so as to
enable the pupils to get books when
needed, as we all know, especially
those who hive in the rural districts
and whose schools always open earlier
than the city schools, that under the
present system of school book agents,
our children seldom get the beenfit of
a full term for the want of books.
There are various other important
questions to come UP. To a certain
extent we are going through period
of reconstruction, but space forbids
me to. discuss this here; better roads
must be pushed; agriculture, live
stock, citrus fruit interests must not
be, overlooked, also better marketing
facilities for our farmers; shorter
game seasons and better hunting IL
cense system; our homestead exemp-
ton, bad check, and collection of ac-
count laws should be screwed up a
notch or two. Are our state institu-
tons on economical and business
bases? Be fair and square and reap
portion the state, give our governor
our full support and back him to the
last ditch. Yours very truly,
Nathan Mayo,
Representative Marion County.
| -Summerfield, March 5.