The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1922-04-01


. BILL PASSED OVER VETO.
The, battle on TIE revenue agent1s
compensatio1ss came just after the
governor had been administeIed
slap by the House. = Earlier. in the
day the Governor sent in a message
steing a bill unsier which the Ya7
Mississippi Delta Levee Board
Be required to advertise and le
ets by competitive bidding on
kprk and supplies handled bysits
soteuof f22 yeas to one naY
|Hoose voted to pas he bill pss
Veto, The iohs ns vote .cs
Lawrence Lee Bfody 81 Bentoa
county. The governors &c a.
clad. the requirement 90 lot bus
fFle. and not to the best interest
xpayeIs of the levee district.
governors message on the ak
man Bill took the santis" by sur
prise, as they were Dt expecting it
until later ZIP the week. Z zrh he Russell
Robertson forces were informed of
its coming, though, and virtually
their entire strength were in their
seats when the House convened at 9
O'clock. The governor had worked
until after midnight preparing it.
Clerk George Power began reading
it at II 40 and at IL: 10 the "antis"
made a play for time, when Repre-
sentative Sam V. Anderson of Wash
ington interrupted the reading with
a motion that the House recess until
80 p. m This failed, IL yeas to
Sd nays, and the reading continued.
Upon conclusion of the reading
there was another effort to force a
motion to recess. But Representa-
tive Clinton Dorroh of Noxubee fore
ed action by moving that the bill be
passed over the governors veto. It
| went to a roll call without debate,
and among those who voted nay
were Mr.. Dorroh, while the House by
so yeas to SO nays declined to pass
the bill over the veto. There were
seventeen absent or not voting. Some
| of these seventeen were paired MAX
ing the actsal vote 62 nays. The
"antis" vigorously claim that the
other thirteen absentees would have
voted to have passed the bill.
The Senate also turned down the
governor on the levee board adver-
tising bill, when the upper body with
out dissenting vote passed the bill
over his veto.
The gopernor's message on the "ax
man" bill declared the efforts to
place that official under a salary had
failed, asserting that the insertion Of
this amendment into the bill made it
a revenue measure, which requires
an affirmative vote of three-fifths of
those voting to pass. He therefore
held it unconstitutional.
RUSSELL DOOMS BILL.
| His message discussed the bill un-
der three general headings.
First the constitutionality of the
| bill, second, the iuequities of the
bill as shown by comparison of the
salaries of three various departments; j;
third, the settled policy of the state
in trying to find a just and rigteous-
method of requiring each and every
taxpayer to bear his equal and just
| burden.
His discussion of these followed in
vigorous language, more of the poll
tically stump speaking type than that
usually employed in gubernatorial
messages. A friend of the governors
said this form of writing was follow
ed deliberately by the governor and
cited the fact that it would be pub
lished in the House journal and avail
able for discussion in the 1928 cam
paign.
The only opposition of note to any
of the measures acted on in the Sem
ate today was precipitated when the
finance committee reported back the
appropriation bill for the Mississippi