Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-10-31

| in the Senate 1887, was !hc Bank of Nicks-
burg.
At the commencement OF that session, a. G.
McNUTT was elected President of the Senate
At page GO Of the Senate Journal, January
1897, is the following record:
"'fhc President gave notice that he would,
on monday next, ask leave to introduce II bill
10 be entitled ian act' to incorporate The Bank
| Of UckSbWg"
At page SO, is this record:
"Mr. MNUIT, according to previous no.
tice, asked and obtained leave ofthe Senate to
introduce bill to be entitled San act" to Moor
porate the Bank Of Nicksburg, which was read
the first time"
Mpogc 10, on motion Of Mr.. Lore, (lemocra)
the rule was dispensed with, and tho bill was
read second time, By its Hic
At page ~, Rr Bate, (democrat,) moved that
said bill be committed to committee of the
whole and made the order of the day for
tomorrow; but Mr. Sharpe, (dcmocrat.) mo-
we'd that the bill lie on the table, which pre-
vailed.
At page SO, MI, Maury, (Whig) called the
said bill from the table, aud it was placed on
the orders Of the day, for tomorrow.
At page 88-Dr. Boie, (democrut,) moved
that the rule be dispensed with and the bill be
read by its title but the motion failed, and the
bill read al large. Mr. RamelS, (democrar,)
moved its commitment to the committee of the
whole; but MI Sharpe, (democraD moved that
fit lie on the table, which motion succeed
ed.
At page 1IG.--Jh Van N,rman, (democrat,)
called tor the consideration OF the said bill;
and on motion Of Mr. Cooke, ''dcmocral" the
said bill was committed to committee Of the
whole and made the order Of the day, for to
morrow.
At page l27.--On motion OF Mr.. -iLsJcrrG
"democral" the committee Of the whole was
discharged from further consideration of said
bill. lie also moved tina; Ii lie ON the table, but
the motion failed.
On motion Of MT. Van Norman, "dcmocral''
the rule was dispensed with, and the said bill
was read third time, by its title, and pas.
sed.
This is the record Of the procca lings in the.
Senate, on the Bunk of Vicksburg,-introIuce
by Gov. MNUTT; fosterod and conducted
through by his democratic friends and supper
tiers.
No vote is recorded against it, in a Dem
ocratic Senatc- lis it not, so far as the Senate
is concerned, Il democratic measure? But let
Is follow it Ito the other branch Of the Lcgs.a-
lure.
The bill 10 incorporate the Bank of Vicks
,urg, reachedlhe House Of Representatives on
LIST Jan uary, 1887.
LSce House Journal, page 1877
At page III, it was read the first time; and
N motion Of MI King, (Whig,) it vas laid on
he table until the second Monday in MAY !
ext
But at page Ia, Mr.. King moved 20 recon.
idcr the vote laying said bill on the table,
which motion was adopted. But no action was
lad thereon.
So the bill remained until the called session
n April, 1887 At that session. Tsee journal
fthe House, April and Nay, 1887, page IS,
he bill to Incorporate the Bank OF Vicksbu
as read second time and on motion OF Mr..
'racn (whig, who lives At Vicksburg.0 the bill t
as referred to select committee OF thrc,-to }
1t:
Mossrs. Green, Armat anl augustus, two
hgs and one democrat
At page 81, Mr.. Green from the select com t
ttce, reported the bill with suadry amend. q
tents, which were agreed to, and the bill pla- /
I'd on the order Of the day. '
At page So, the vote was taken on the final
assoge Of the bill, and is as follows:
Ayes, Mr.. Speaker, (Vdncrson,) Adams, Ar.
rat, Bay'ey, BHgg. Garter, ChamJHss, Cole
IAN, Cunningham, Dale, Dunlap, Jamcs Ellis, &
arrar, Filler, Fryar, Green, Hopes, JAYNE :, {
lyle, Leighton, DacM Mckinney, James Nc,
iinney, Middleton, Henry Phillips, James Phil,
ps, Pickett, Roberts, ALIEN Walker, F. H.
walker, Warren, Wilson, and TTrigM--33 {
otos for the bill, Seventeen were democrats,
nd sixteen whigs.)
Those who voted in the negative were,
Messrs augustus, Barnes, Bell, BROWN,
}uckmer, Coffee, Bearing, Dodd, DUR, Samuel
ellis, For, HaUis, King, LINDSEY, Ragan, Ram
ey, Thomas, and NOheS,-l8, Sixteen demo-
rats and two whigs,)
The bill thus passed with its amendments,
nd was returned to the Senate, and he amend
nons concurrcd in, without opposition.
[Scc Senate Journal, April aud May session,
'age 40
This bank has been paradcd before the people
If this State as wing bank Yet the Journals
show that it was Il measure introduced by Gov.
VIC Mutt, carried through the Senate by demo,
rats alone; and even in the House mjre Demo.
ratS than wings voted for it, Although the
vote OF the House has been relied on TO prove
hat it was wing Bank
TWELFTH BANK.