Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-28
Correspondence of the Register and Journal


 | ln my last, gave you few specimens of legisla- live wit and hunour. I will now give you one of ur effective legislative speeches. bill was before lhe House to chat ter Botanical Medical Collage at Weluirnka. allowing the Professors to confer de- srees, diplomas &c. Afier Speaker Moore and others had nude able sneeches in support of the bill, hr. Morriseu from Monroe, took the floor. You know him. He is an odd genus, and wiiliall has good hard horse sense. Gas his colleague, Mir. Howard calls t,J a"d often speaks to lhe point and win ef feet. With an imp,rturable gravity, he addressed the House in substance as follows:-"Mr. Speaker. l cannot support lhis bi unless am assured that dstng gished acquani of mine is made one of ihe Protessors. He is what that College wishes to make for roof doctor, and will suit lhe place sractly He became doctor in two hours and it only cost $20 to complete his C elucation. He bought book |, sir. and read the chapter on levers, and that was enough He sent for to see sick woman-a uery sick woman. With his book under his arm, off he went. Her husband aud their son John were in the room wth the sick woman. The Doctor felt of her wrist and looked in her mouth and then took off h,s hat. Has yo. got" addressing the husband, a sor,eI sheepP No, never heard of such A thing
 
 doctor very knowingly. Has you got then, sorrsl horseP 'Yes, said John quickly q rode hin. to mill today Well, he must be k filed immediately, , said the doctor, 'and some sou must be made and given to your wife, The poor womon turned over in her bed, John began to object, and the husband brought n stand. Why, doctor he is tine only horse we've got, and he worth Sl00. and will not some other soup do as well?' No, the book says so, and there is but two questions you kill our horse or let your wife die? Nothing will save her but the soup Of surrel sheep sorrel horse. If don't believe me l will read it to you.' The doctor- took up the book, turned to the chapter on levers and read as follows :-'Good for feverssheep sorrel. or horse sorrel. Why, doclor,' exclaimed husband, wife and son, you mistaken, that don't sorrel sheep, Il sorrel horse; but'-'Well, 1 know what l am abeut,' interrupted the doctor, 'thai's the way we doctor's reads il, and under stands it. Now, said Mir. Morrisett, with an earn estness and gravity that were in striking contrast with the laughter of the House, unless the Hon.. Speaker and the friends of this bl will assure me that my sorrel doctor will bo one oI the Professors, must vote against the bill" It is unnecessary to add that after this blow, the bill never kicked It was efectuay killed,
 2P. M.-The House has just ordered, by large vote, the Bank bill to third reading. The bill reg ulatng the Planters and Merchants Bank has passed. The election precinct at Wilkinson's, in Mobile county, abolished, and two new precincts, one at Seals and the other at Andersons, were estnb- lished. The bill for the relief of Chas. Bancroft, your Sheriff, allowing him compensation for keeping prisoners, &c. was also passed. The House has al- passed bill exempting the real and personal of the Banks from taxation. The preyioas ques. ton called hefore all the amendments on the Bank bill were offered On tomorrow will be offered by some of your delegation, increasing the compensation of the Cashier and Clerks m your Bank. It will probably pass the House but will be rejected in the Senate. The committee of conier- ence, in relation to the apporonment bill, will, informed, probably agree. The House, by ve- ry large vote, passed the bill reported by Mr. Cham dler, the chairman. The Senate will probably yield and the bill become law. think it will be impos- sble for the Legislature to adjourn befnre the 18th or 29h and even then much important business will be left undone. The Revenue bill will be taken up this evening The anxiety of the House to adjourn and the unwllingness of many increase taxation, idea it will pass reported by the committee. If the taxes increased at all, will be some 25 or 30 Der cent.