| Show SPEAKER ALTERED TIE RECORD Ordered Minutes Changed on the Vaccination Veto Vote and Was Severely Criticised by Members of House Speaker GInsmann of tlic lower house oC iho Legislature ran agaInst a snag 3ea tcrdtry When the vote was taken on Iho vaccliuitlon veto the preceding day itvftn understood by everybody who voted that ibm vole was being taken on the veto and us announced In The Tribune the vole was 12 for tim veto and X against ItS It-S TJio minutes as taken at tho tIme find which were corrdct with the exception that Mr Avlon did not make the motion credited to him were as follows and bo appeared In the printed minutes On motion of Psge the Governors veto of House bill No IS was taken up After considerable discussion Axlon moved that the IIouso sustain tIm veto of the Governor Gov-ernor of House bill No JS The roll was Called and the following vote was recorded re-corded Ayes 12 nays 30 Motion was lostWhen When the chief clerk fend the minutes yesterday however he read them as fpl lows On motion of Price the Governors veto of House bill No JS was taken up Tho Speaker put the question Shall JIouuc bill No 18 pass notwithstanding the vote of his Excellency Gov Huber M Wells Rollcall was ordered with tho following results Ayes 3T nays 1 2 nbFcnt and not voting 0 The chief clerk was ordered to fo notify the Senate The minutes had been read and approved ap-proved before the chance was noticed by any of tho opponents of the measure but when their attention was finally called to It something began to happen f Mr Smith Was the member who first demanded de-manded an explanation He asked for the rerrtullns of the minutes relating to the nmttcf and then entered a protest against the clumpo upon the ground that the house had no right to falsify Its minutes and to show a proceeding that did not take place lie also objected to being recorded as vollnp In the negative when ho voted In the affirmative Mr Homer didnt Just understand the proposition but he ddnt want his vote S changed Docs the Journal nhow what was done lie Sneaker asked Yes replied Smith but the way It Has been read doesnt Mn Van IFornc took It that the House hud no power to make a record of something some-thing that did not happen and Insisted that the minutes bland as originally entered en-tered VAt V-At this tlmo somebody moved to reconsider recon-sider and Sneaker Gliisnmnn bought to explain that ho put the question correctly on tho veto but that the House got mixed t Ywta 1 I ofttto I ife at j6 nw to I ttp i m f VOT 4 1 ottoittDt rcto trntr Then the Gpvcrnors veto was sustained sus-tained Smith declared S Mr Smith then asked the chief clerk as to Ito message whlqh ho transmitted to the Senate und the reply was that It was tho same ns appeared In the corrected minutes Tho chief clerk said further that ho did this under the direction of lie Speaker and Mr Smith then asked tho Speaker why ho mado such an order Mr Glasmanns reply was that he knew tho Honso Intended to vote the other way Mr Hewlett moved after somo further discussion to lay the motion to reconsider recon-sider on the Inplc and tho motion prevailed pre-vailed by 1 a vote of 16 to It It Is understood that a motion will bo mado today or tomorrow1 Id lake the bill up and pass It legally as so far nothing but tim vote has been acted upon and thof who favor the measure fear that the action complained of may result In the defeat of the bill |
