1907.

Acts relating to public roads and duties of

County Commissioners.

(No. 5.)

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

Whereas, The Legislature of 1905 passed a concurrent resolution requesting the Attorney General to compile and have printed in pamphlet form all acts relating to public roads and duties of County Commissioners; and,

Whereas, The said resolution requires the Secretary of State to sell the said pamphlets for one dollar per copy; and,

Whereas, Said laws as compiled should be distributed to

the County Commissioners and Clerks of the Circuit Court in the same manner that the General Statutes of the State of Florida and session laws are now distributed; therefore,

Be it Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized, and directed to furnish one copy of the pamphlet, containing the acts relating to public roads and duties of County Commissioners, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court and each member of the Board of County Commissioners of the several counties in this State free of charge, in the same manner that the General Statutes of the State of Florida and session laws are furnished county officers.

Resolved further, That each Clerk of the Circuit Court and County Commissioner receiving a copy of said pamphlet under the provisions of this resolution are hereby required to transmit the same to their successors in office.

Approved April 25, 1907.

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 11.

Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring, That a Canal from Biscayne committee of three from the House and two from the Bay into St. Johns River. Senate be appointed to visit the canal now under construction by the Florida Coast Line Canal and Transportation Company, from Biscayne Bay into the St. Johns River, and report to the present session of the Legislature upon the importance and progress of the work. Approved May 7, 1907.

(No. 7.)

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 12.

Whereas, Throughout the State of Florida there seems to be a general demand that this Legislature shall enact some law having for its object the improvement of the roads of the several counties of the State; and

Whereas, There has been introduced into both the House and the Senate a number of bills with this object in view, and expressive of the various ideas of those introducing them,

In order, therefore, that the best features of all the bills introduced on this subject may be thoroughly considered and embraced in one general bill covering the subject of good roads; therefore, be it,

on roads and

Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring, that the Committee Committee on Roads and Highways of the Senate and the highways. Committee on Roads and Highways in the House, be directed to act as a Joint Committee on Roads and Highways; said Joint Committee shall take under consideration all bills introduced into the Senate and House of Representatives on that subject and report by bill at their earliest convenience.

Resolved further, That all bills introduced on the subject of roads be referred to said Joint Committee. Approved May 7, 1907.

1907.

(No. 8.)

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 14.

Be it Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representa tives Concurring:

Whereas, The Democracy of the State of Florida is deeply sensitive of the tendencies of the National Gov. ernment to drift apart from the letter and spirit of the Federal Constitution; and

Whereas, It is timely that the patriotism of the nation should be aroused to a relization of current affairs, that those conditions which gave this great nation its true force and effect may be perpetuated; and

Whereas, The necessity of local self-government is becoming more evident as the density of our population becomes more and more cosmopolitan ; and

Whereas, The accumulation of interests that crowd the national halls of legislation and which, in many instances, receive little or no consideration whatever, demand the preservation of rights of the several States to pass upon individually that government being best which is nearest the people; and

Whereas, This nation will, in 1908, pass upon the selection of men who will largely dictate the political interests of the State as a whole for the ensuing four years; therefore be it

Resolved, That the selection of a President who can command the esteem of the people for his nobility of character, who is known for his patriotism, whose broadness of vision has stamped him as being first and foremost among the nation's statesmen, is the one great consideration of this country; and that, W. J. Bryan pre-eminently above all others stands the one steady, resolute, irreproachable, unimpeachable, brilliant disciple of Jeffersonian Democracy and Democratic principles, who, to the wonder of both contending parties, has so forcibly expounded the Jeffersonian principles as to convince, not politicians, but true statesmen in both parties that these very principles are the safest and best to be followed at

for President.

this critical period of our Government; and this man is William J. Bryan, whom we commend to the National Democratic Convention as the Standard Bearer of Democracy in 1908.

Approved May 15, 1907.

1907.

(No. 9.)

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 19.

Whereas, The Interstate Commerce Commission under the present law has no power to correct unjust and unreasonable freight and passenger rates on interstate freight and passenger traffic, upon its own initiative; and

Whereas, Said Commission lacks power to prohibit railroads and express companies from increasing and existing rate, without consent of the said commission; and

Whereas, The said commission has no power to prescribe a uniform classification of freight and passenger rates; and

Whereas, The present Interstate Commerce Commission laws do not give the Interstate Commerce Commission power to cause a just valuation of railroads in order to have a true basis for fixing railway rates; and

Whereas, It is for the best interest of the people of the State of Florida, that the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission be so enlarged and extended as to give to said Commission power to correct unreasonable rates; to prohibit railroads and express companies from increasing existing rates without the consent of the Commission; to authorize the said Commission to prescribe a uniform classification of freight and express rates; and to cause a just valuation of railroads for the purpose of fixing a true basis for fixing railway rates.

Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate, the House of Rep resentatives Concurring:

Section 1. That the Senators and Representatives of Florida in the Congress of the United States be, and they

1907. are hereby requested to favor and urge such legislation in Congress as will give the Interstate Commerce Commis Needed power sion power to correct unjust and unreasonable rates, upon state Com- its own initiative; to prohibit railroad and express com. merce Commis-panies from increasing an existing rate without the con

of the Inter

sion.

sent of said Commission; to prescribe a uniform class ification of freight and express rates; and to also cause a just valuation of railroads in order to have a true basis for fixing railway rates.

Sec. 2. That the Secretary of State is requested to send each member of Congress from this State a copy of this resolution.

Approved June 3, 1907.