New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-02-27
THE TRIBUNE.
Legislative Fun ina Miss rssrn,1r . ,s..

Legislative EOS, Miss. February 8, 1871
70 the Editor Of e Ne''. ossns ,,enber of the
a. ~. evening session, every member OF !, LUG
~ 'ne IN his place, and crowd OF ladies
l--o.sd The gallery. Some rare 1nn was expec'eo
g - s,as known that Lindsay, the RePrese Ih
tive from Itawamba county, was 70 spear. voc
~ rupudiating Loco-Foco, is, or was d
PSJotbodist Preacher, uncouth IN his manners
,,ngainIy in his person, and illiterate IN n's os
conrse. Some of this mans fitness LOT p's posi-
4;o, NAV be gathered from the following vefoatl'h
renort of his speech on the motion to reduce the
eaIar;es of the Judiciary, a Loco-Foco measure
introduced few days since, and opposed oy the
respectable of both palsies. Where was
ra;se6. IN Old Alarbarm, we never gin Judge
of any sort more nor fifteen hundred year
and # / may be allowed to conjecture, | do reck-
on that we had Jest as good judges in Alaroarm
as you can raise in Masseysap. My const'-che~-
ents sent me here to practise 'conomy-thar1ore'
7 Docs for economy; and sorry am to observe
that MANY which thought knowed better, are
strainin, and a reachin' 0rter the high Pas'-
(purse.) r
This learned legislator on this evening, Thurs
dav, introduced bill, which the Clerk OF the
House several times attempted to read, but was
prevented by his own fits ct laughter and the
tumultuous examinations of the members
"a Bill to relieve the Free Citizens of Mis-
sissippi and Travellers. Be it hereby enacted
that it is lawful for any white citizens OF Mis-
sissipp to sell alcoholous vinous, and other Ter
nenting liquors in any quantity over quart,
provided he keeps order in the house when the
same is drunk"
Amid the heartiest laughter, the Speaker left
the chair, and the House resolved itself into
committee of the whole, to consider the Bill,
which was again and again read over by the
Clerk. DR.. L. was desired to explain soho was
to keep order and who was to be drunk He
rose and uttered the following speech
'Well, rally amt no objection myself, TO
splain the bill, becas 1 think the bill 'splains
itself We all on us like leetle drap o. sutthin'
ardent-some genelmen carries Eottle-some
genelmen DON'T allus carries bottle myself,
and | knows many genelmen now standln' and
sittn round me who takes drap whenever they
kin-and these genelmen, well as myself, IS
now by law obliged to buy gallon when we
onev wants half pint, which is contrary to the
Constitution, contrary to human natur, and
contrary to the rights of all free white citizens Of
the Statu Of Masseysap, and travellers in ginlral.
g knowed geneman-a right genteel genel-
man too he was, do assure you, gentlemen,
who was travelin in this State with his wife and
hull crowd O. leetle ones in Vaughn, and his
lady was tuck with the shakes, and his bottle was
run out There was fix to be in, genelmen :.
he didn't want to buy gallon of ardent 6ecdS 1t
zua,,at conpenient-so he asked the landlord to
6ll his bottle at fair price-and the landlord,
who was a clever teller, and knowed what it was
tn have the shakes and be out o licker why he
filled the genelman's bottle at a fair price, when
another genelman who was standing by, says
'voure gon contrary to the laws Of Massey
sap,', and then this geneman goes out and IN
forms agin the landlord for selling Ticker to the
gentleman whose wife had the shakes by less
than gallon, and if they hadn't knowed him
well all round them parts he'd a been fined and
imprisoned for dom as any genelman would like
to be done when is bottle is run out, which is
contrary to the rights Of any white man, traveller
or not.
|" knowed another genelman whose horse was
tuck right sick, and he was told that little
brandy and haaf pint o. campfire would cure
the beast Now, he was temperance and never
drinked--but for all that he was obliged te buy
gallon when he oney wanted drap to mix with
the campfire. Is this law for any white man to
live by?
"Why, /, myself, genelmen, were once travelin'
down there by the Yellerbusher, with a friend,
beside myself, when l felt like takin' small horn
havin' been movn right smartly through the
swamps the hull day, which my friend said was
correct and unanimously agreed with me in the
same Well, l, myself was obliged to pay for a
gallon when l oney wanted to fill three half
pint botte-which is my size as it fits well into
the sde-pocket OF my top coat, though some gen
elmen's bottles is larger, but | never knowed a
genelmen carry bottle big enough to hold
gallon,''
This speech was loudly cheered throughout,
and Mr.. LIS solemn earnesness of manner con-
trbuted materially to highten the effect The
best Of the joke is that his bugbear, the gallon
law" as it is called has been repealed for some
considerable length of time.
A member moved to strike out "alcohoous
and vinous," and insert I" table beer.
An amendment was moved and seconded, and
put on paper-the Clerk read it aloud and it
proved to be parody on Russell's song, I" A
Life on the Ocean Wave" beginning "a day in
muddy swamp
Another amendment" introduced the cpl
gram now going the rounds of the papers about
the marriage of n Mr.. Bee to Miss Fowler,
ending with
And soon there will, if heaven pleases,
Be aswarm of little Beeses.
Here the fun grew fast and turlous-the ladies
left the gallery--the chairman raped in vain,
and MIR. Balfour rose in great heat and said
/" Mr., Speaker, look at the chandelier look
at this splendid pile of building-look at every
oGuy ABOUT us--ls tllls pace 10 play the iool
look upon the bill proposed as disgrace to the
nation-a disgrace to the State--a disgrace to
the house of Ged!'
The committee reported progress-the bill was
orderedto lay upon the table, and the House adj
Journed about ten O'clock at night. d. V. M.
Mr.. WHEAroN.-The Paris correspondent of
the National lntelGgencer, gives this account of
the recent visit of Mr. Wheaton to the French
metropolis: