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Show Into detail on the bill, and that he -at In favor of postponing action. He also said that Roberts had Insulted a Senator Sena-tor on the floor of the committee-room when the bill was up for consideration. Roberts rose to a point of personal privilege and said that he had not insulted in-sulted a Senator, but that the commit-tee commit-tee had insulted him and the Governor. He explained by saying that when the committee met he had gone before It expecting that his bill would be considered, consid-ered, but that the committee had taken up a similar bill by Senator Walton, end that he had objected. He also Intimated In-timated that Miller was not particularly particular-ly anxious to report favorably on his measure. The motion to make the bill a special crder -for next Tuesday was lost, and discussion started. An amendment by the committee making the board a pari tisan one, by striking out the non-partisan clause, was lost. Cottam, one of the minority side of the House-, made his maiden speech In support of the non-partisan clause. McCre was busy looking up the law, and in the records of 1903 discovered that the bill had been amended and that no mention was made of this in the Roberts bill. Roberts then moved to amend the title on the floor at once, but the motion was lost and the bill referred re-ferred back 10 the Committee on Public Lands. Roberts thn -asked that the bill be taken from the Committee on Public Lands and given to the Judiciary committee, com-mittee, but Miller objected, and the motion was lost. LIVELY TILT ON THE FLOOR 07 THE HOUSE OVER LAND BOARD BILL. There was an Interesting: tilt on the floor of the House between McCrea and Miller on one side and Roberta on the oi her, Tuesday, over Roberts' H. B. No. 62, regulating: the power of the Land board and fixing the number of commissioners. com-missioners. The bill was a special order and when It was called McCrea moved to postpone post-pone action until February 14, as he said he did not believe the bill had been sufficient examined by the committee or House. Miller, chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, took the floor and said that the committee had not gone deeply -N |