Show IWHO WHO IS GOVERNOR GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE Two Claimants for Office Vacated Vacated Vacated Va Va- by Senator Senator- Senator Elect Elect Frazier I Nashville Tofu Tenn Jan Jun l 1 12 n A An a unusual un tin- usual situation has las arisen in Tennessee Tennes Fennes see Sec temporarily Involving time the governorship govern govern- 1 I p as ns well veli us 9 complicating om II III I mu state affairs Senator H g. G. G Toilette Tollette I speaker claims that b by virtue of hl his h he is acting governor go of or the state and as such th the affairs of ur state are nae in his hands hand until the new governor governor gov gov- o M. M II IL Patterson son is l Ina Inaugurated January 17 Tennessee's constitution mines does not for a lieutenant ut I nant governor but ul I makes makl's the speaker of the thc senate next in lii II line DUll Dining ng t the lie h last legislature la ture Governor Go James I D D. Frazier Fraxier I et was wa elected elect elect- ed II to lo the United States senate enal to lo succeed sue suc c cd General Hate Bah leaving the chair chall of the governor JO vacant Now ett l' l Speaker p ul I Wants Jol lob oh p John I. I Cox was as thou then speaker of the lie senate all and amid heir to the governor u ernOl Friends 1 o of Speaker Toilette roliette now con con- tend that since the senate ha has elected a in new the speaker alter new ite I speaker I I ls is now iio acting 10 until Senator Patterson Patter Patter- son is Inaugurated and that Governor Go Cox has hns no state stale position at niL all The Time state stale has recently bought large large- bodies of or coal lands for which was vas paid and Governor GO Cox Is to sign signa a n check or om warrant Monday lol a It is understood un un- that an Injunction restraIn restraIn- In lilt Int 11 him hit from from frum a acting as ns will I be applied for ur or 01 |