The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1922-03-22
ASSEMBLY ENDS STORMY
SESSION; ROAD BILL FAILS
Morrow's Message to Adjourn
At Midnight Ignored; Bills
Enrolled.

O'CLOCK tDlS morning. Inc sendt'
adjourned at 4:32 a. m, and thu
house at 4:43 a. m.
The last three and a half hour'
in the senate and the eight and
half in the house were spent in en-
rolling bills and sending them L
the governor. The final measure t
be enrolled and signed was Arch L
Hamilton's bill providing that fees
of inheritance tax appraisers shall
be limited to not in excess Of one
tenth of one per cent.
THE Hamilton bill and a bill in
troduced in the house by S. A. Cary
making Middlesboro, Guthrie and
Fulton highway construction GEN.
tiers, were misplaced in the house
and this fact was not discovered un-
til o'clock this morning when all
senate bills had been enrolled and
sent to the governor.
The remainder of the time was
spent waiting for the house enroll
ing clerks to complete their work.
Wait On Governor
At 4:25 O'Clock a committee COM
posed of Senators Perry and Welch
and Representatives w. d. Watkins
and A. w. Dorsey waited on Govern
or Morrow and informed him that
the assembly was ready to adjourn.
The governor announced that he had
no further message for the assembly
and on the return of the committees
to their respective houses adjourn
ment was taken.
The closing night of the session
was marked by the defeat of the
$5O,OO0,OOO road bond bill in the
senate. The measure was amended
to include the so-called Sibert COM
mission named in the Simmons
highway reorganization bill and
number of memb ers of who had been
in favor of submission OF the bond
issue to the people at the next cleo
ton voted against it.
Democrats in the senate regained
their control of that body with the
return of Senator Walter G. Dycus,
who has been absent from the CAPT
tai since Thursday when he refused
to vote to override the governors
veto on the blind and illiterate vot-
crs' bill, a companion measure for
the Louisville non-emblem bill. The
Smith-Minor general registration
bill, was passed over the chief exc
cutive's veto but the blind and il
Ijterate voters measure was not act
ed HpOn although the veto already
had been oyeTridden in the house.
1t was said that Snator Dycus was
adamant in his determination not
to vote for this measure.
The governor last night vetoed
the Flanery bill allowing pensions
to women who married Confederate
veterans prior to passage of the
pension act in 1912. The veto was
sent to the house at midnight and
the roll was called on the question
of overriding the veto. The house
was in an uproar as the roll was be-
ing called, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis scurrying and pushing one an
other about the clerks desk. The
veto was declared TO have been over
hidden and was attested to the SEN
ate, but no action was taken by that
body. 49, 49,
e." Salary Bill Dies
- Another bill that failed of pass
age at this session was the Park
house bill limiting the salaries OF
county officials who are paid by fees
to $1,000 year.
A feature Of last nights session
was the fact that the clocks in the
house and senate chambers were not
stopped or turned back. Old mem
beers of the asse bly, stated that new
or in their experience had they
known OF a Kentucky legislature
continuing after midnight on the
final day OF the session without
stopping or turning back the clock.
The room housing the master clock
in the capital building was closely
guarded throughout the night 70
prevent tampering with the timing
apparatus.
MORROW Ignored
The assembly refused TO pay any
attention to a message sent to the
house and senate at 12:15 O'CLOCK
this morning by Governor Edwin
Morrow calling attention to the facl
that the. hour OF midnight had pass
ed and asserting that the session
had been automatically ended a
midnight. In the House the reading
of the message did not cause an!
a,,.,,, h,,t IN the senate ID brOugh