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THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1919.
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IS COMPARED
TO CRAZY GUILT
REVISION AT THIS TIME WAS
DISCUSSED AT LENGTH BY THE
SENATE DURING LAST DAYS
OF SESSION.
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CO
EY JOHN C. TRICE.
Tallahassee, Juno 7. There was no
resolution passed at the recent session
of the legislature submitting to the
electors cf the state the question of
. -calling a constitutional convention to
revise the organic law of 1885, though
the very first thing Introduced in the
house at the convening of this ses
slon was ii resolution for this purpose.
.By Mr. Futch of Alachua. Much ado
r was made, about acting on the thing
quickly and getting it off the calen--dar.
Yet. notwithstanding the first
..'.introduced and the first special order
p.put on th calendar, it was allowed to
remain there,
v v It was taken up and advanced from
second to third readinsr durlne th
past week; then it was discussed at j
-aome lenf.th and a vote taken, failing
- "to Set the necessary two-thirds by i
four votes.
t- Mr. Williams, of Leon county, led j
,r off the discussion against it. He de- I
clared there was no need for it at'
, this time. He pointed out that the j
'V expense -cf holding such a convention i
would be somewhere between 160.000 i
v and $100,(00, and advanced the opln- I
i- Ion that such an . expense was not '
, warranted at this time. There was no !
certainty,- he declared, that the desir- '
ed result) could be obtained even by
the callinr and holding of a constitu-
tional convention. The only real rea- j
. son for holding the convention that 1
he had heard advanced was for th
; purpose of getting a reapportionment (
i1 of the state. Inasmuch as the con- I
- vention 'would be composed of ths
i same representation as the house, he '
; could see no certainty of it doing '
somethinir that the house had persist
r ently refused to do. j
Mr. Gillls, of Walton county, said
that if this matter had been brought
tip earlier in the session he had in
?: tended pointing out at some length
his reasoi for favoring it. At this
late day In the session, however, he
did not fuel that he would be justi
fied In taking up much of the time
of the house, but he wanted to say
i a few wards on the subject. The
constitution we are now working un- i
der, he declared, resembles a piece
of patchwork. It certainly needs re-
vision. The governmental principles
ii of the state are the same as when
i it was drawn up, but conditions have
V, so changed that it ought to be brought
fi up to dat. He then briefly outlined
jf' a number of reason for the position
( assumed.
He said
he would
name a great many reasons for want-
M most of these would be pointed out
jH by other members who desired to
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in favor' of the proposition.
I that if ho had more time 1
speak on the subject, hence he would
1 1 confine himself to two reasons only.
LlThe first of them was the Judiciary.
He explalr ed that the system needed
W rehabilitating. Under the old instra-
iment this branch of the government
l lictu gruwu nu eApenssive mai in many
instances it was almost impossible to
get Justice As evidencing the fact
flthat the legislative branch needed
isome changes, he pointed the fact of
Kthe possibility of defeating the man
dates of tlie constitution at succeea
ing session of the legislature on the
question cf reapportionment. Other
defects were named.
j Mr. Mcllae, of Washington county,
i.came out ilatfooted against calling a
; revising convention at this time. He
admitted that the present constitu
I'tlon la somewhat like a crazy patch
Nwork, But the time for revision is
not ripe, -lie declared.. The minds of
ythe people are too much divided, and
fUhere is t'much Bolshevism ram
ipant in the country to go to tamper
ing with t!ae organic law. Trhe, he
j concluded, they might do better, but
there la a chance that they would oo
fworse.
:. Mr. Futch, of Lake county, declared
tie had always advocated simple jus
tice. For this reason, he was in
; favor of the proposition. The local
Jaw evil .was one of the things, he
S"$aid, that made it necessary. In his
hand he h'jld a copy of the acts of
1917, general laws, which contained
;nly 426 pages, index and all. Then
he held up another volume which he
'Said contained 1128 pages of local
laws passed at the same session. He
.supposed tlie ratio of local laws pass
ed by thin session would be even
larger than that. The evil was one
that ought to be abated so that when
the legislature met here ble-ennially
Jt could df vote- its time to the con
sideration of legislation of a general
iiature. If all the local laws the leg
islature is now called upon to pas3
were handled as the constitution re
quires the legislature would have to
iit 363 day in the year and then add
So the nunber of days in the year
$o set thrcugh.
J Mr. Jones, of Nassau county, op
posed the resolution. He was so ear
nest about it that he started off with
out telling a story. Mr. Phillips in
terrupted to call attention to this.
SLlke a flash the story was told, and
then he proceeded to say that if the
jponstitutioc needed changing it could
fee done by amendment, without the
Expense of calling a convention.
f Mr. Harden here moved the
JTious question, but withdrew It.
Mr. Merchant, of Madison county,
told the friends of the resolution they
had absolutely no assurance that a
convention would make the desired
changes in the present Instrument.
They could be better made by amend
ment, he thought. When a fair ap
portionment bill is presented he said
he would vote for it. He called at
tention to the fact that the federal
constitution is a little more than a
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constitution. Besides being a hun
dred years the .oldest it forbids the
doing of things not provided for in
it, while our state constitution is more
elastic by having no such provision.
Mr. Perry, of Lee county,' favored
the plan to call a constitutional con
vention from the viewpoint of the ne
cessity of a. reapportionment of the
state. Referring to Mr. Williams'1
opening remarks, he criticized that
gentlemans action on this subject in
1917, and refused to be interrupted
by Mr. Williams, who had already
spoken and could not get the floor
again. He then proceeded to roast
the legislatures which have convened
during the past 22 years for not re
apportioning the state under the plain
mandate of the constitution whicl.
each of the members put his hand
on the Bible and swore to obey, pro
tect and defend. He was going full
speed ahead when the gavel fell de
noting that the time allowed him by
the rules had expired.
Mr. Scruggs, " of Leon county, took
the opposite view from that of his
colleague, and favored the submis
sion of the resolution. He said he
felt that the very reasons which had
been assigned by the gentleman from
Washington county for not support
ing the proposition were the very
ones why the convention should be
called. He believed it would help to
allay the spirit of Bolshevism the
gentleman had complained of. He be
lieved it wa the only way to secure
a fair reapportionment of the repre
sentation of the several sections of
the state, and therefore, would sup
port It.
Mr. ChavoUs. of Lafayette county,
said that when he came here he was
opposed to the calling of a constitu
tional convention, but that he had
changed his mind and would now vote
for it, giving as his reason the re
apportionment muddle. Here Mr.
Perry interrupted In an effort to
commit him to a constitutional
amendment for that purpose, but
failed. , ,
Mr. Mathis. of Holmes, in taking
the floor .promised not to consume
more than ten minutes of the tim
of the house, because he said he had
noticed that the speaker was using
his gavel quite freely this morning
when members tried to speak longer
than that. He said he had thought he
would - not speak on this subject be
cause to do so he had to use the word
"constitution," and the house had on
yesterday served an ultimatum on him
eiviner notice that he new very little
about that instrument. He then read
from the constitution the provisions
providing for the manner- of calling"
a convention for revision when it waa
deemed necessary by the legislature.
Then he read the provision relative
to reapportionment every ten years,
which h charged had been evaded for
the past 22 years, by the members of
the legislature meeting every two
years and swearing to obey the con
stitution. That was according to his
view, sufficient excuse for submitting
to the people the question at ; this
time.
Mr. Bryan, of Osceloa county, here
moved the previous question. It was
adopted and a roll call ordered. The
vote was 48 to 21.
Mr. Futch, of Alachua, the intro
ducer of the resolution, changed his
vote so as to be able to move for a
reconsideration.
The vote in detail follows:
Members voting for submission:
Speaker Wilder, Messrs! Barber, Bry
an, Bunker. Busto, Caro, . Chavous,
Cochran, Corbett, Dawson, DeGrove.
Dillard, Edge, Earnest, Folks, Fort,
Fowler. Gates. Gillis, Glazier, Green,
Hamblin, Harris, Hineley, Jarmon,
Keen, Kite, Marshall, Mathis, Mil
ler. McCrary, McLeran, Perry, Par,
rish, Ray. Scruggs, Tillis, Wade, Way
bright, Weaver. Whyte, Wicker. Wil
liams (Polk), Wilson (Pasco), Wood
ruff (Orange), Woodruff (Seminole).
Voting against: Brooks, Campbell,
Carroll, Crews, Epperson, Futch.
(Alachua to reconsider), Hagan, Har
din, Jones, Lewis, Mays, Merchant,
McKenzie, McRae, Phillips, Roebuck,
Small, Strom, Surrency; Tilghman,
Williams (Leon) Wilson (Gadsden).
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