Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-03-03
JEFFERSON CORRESPONDENTS.
JEFFERSON CRY, }
February Is, 1853. (

working week since the disposition Of the
Jackson Resolutions. You will discover
that the Wings most generally cast their
votes to lay them on the table. The policy
Of that course, on the score of the vast
amount Of important business pressing ac-
tion, if for no other reason, / think could
be justified. A good many bills OF gen
eral nature have been passed.
The constitutional amendments in regard
TO the formation OF new counties was read
q third time, and failed by vote Of 81 tc
52. BY this, great injustice l think has
been done to large class Of people i'll many
parts of the State, who happen TO be so situ-
ated as actually TO require the formation o!
new counties, and under the present consti-
tuition they are like little territory.
The School Bill, one among the most i'm
portant measures Of the session, las at
length passed TIE House. Among other
provisions it provides State supcrintel =
dant at a salary Of $1,000 annually, besides
perquistes, commissioner for each coun-
ty at pay of 81 per day for the time he is
engaged; also provides that one fourth OF the
revenue Of the State shall be set arart for
the support Of common schools; or in effect
it raises the taxes % per cent. for school
purposes, 10 be distributed 10 the organized
schools in the State. will not now attempt
TO say more about the bill which has re-
celvcd the sanction Of the House; but if it
passes the Senate without amendment |
may have more TO say about it hereafter.
Bill passed incorporating the town Of
Roanoke, and authorising appeals TO be ta-
ken 10 Randolph Circuit Court. An act,
also, providing pay for petit jurors, ard
judges and clerks Of elections in Randolph.
The bill which passed the Senate last
week laying off the State into Congress-
ional Districts, passed the House to-day bv
a large vote, after various amendments wei
offered and voted down. The bill also pro-
v.deS for the election of one member Of
Congress at the next August election from
the Third and Seventh Districts. The dis
tricts on the north side you will discover,
are toIerabIy compact, but en- the south side
1t is a little on the gerrymandering order.
A bill passed the House giving the
swamp and overtlowed lands in the south.
east, together with the $4,000 heretofore
loaned TO them, TO the counties in which
they lie. This, | believe, is the best that
could be done with them, for application
would be coming in for years asking uppro-
priations, for their reel; nation, &C., until
tn; State would no doubt eXpend more than
their worth. Bill extending the limits Of
the city Of St. Louis passed the House; it
extends the limits eight miles in length and
three III breadth. Thus you see they have
provided for London in the West.
The Huuse had up bill Thursday, and
discussed it for some time, appointing revi-
sors for the laws OF the State. After vari-
Gus amendments being offered and disposed
OF, the bill was indefinitely postponed. In
this think the House has acted wrong; for
it seems 10 me that there is certainly a great
necessity for the revision Of the laws. They
are SO numerous, and SO many special acts
making exemptions from general laws, that
it is impossible for any one, who does not
make the statutes his study, to understand
them. Indeed, il Is a considerable study
where the laws are collected and revised,
and arranged under proper heads, much
less when forty books have to be ransacked.
A bill has passed the House approprialmg
an additional $4,000 to the Luatic Assy-
lum for building purposes. 1t is not more
than it ought 10 be, for if any class of hu-
man beings deserve sympathy and charity,
1t certainly is those who are deprived Of
their reasoning faculties, and who have TO
be shut up and confined in walls without
being able 10 appreciate the blessings If
Lie, even where we afford them everything
we can TO render their situations tolerable.
Constitution amendment offered striking
out the 10th section of the constitution, and
making it constitutional for man to vote,
who has the other requisites, after being in
the State six months, and county three
months;-rejected by large vote. Amend
ment offered 10 constitution authorizing the
next legislature TO organise the county of
Bourbon, upon certain conditions, which
created ,n,derable discussion; and as
IN my of your readers were interested in
that matter, | send the debate and action Of
the House on the amendment. Mr.. WiGHT,
of Randolph, intended to have spoken on the
subject, but was deprived the privilege from
indispositicn. The measure was inmedi-
ately characterised as tending TO make the
no more than common statute,
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