The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-22
Legislative Summary.


introduced bill to incorporate the Hiw"ssee
College. Senate resolution raising acommitiee
TO ~ lit the accounts of the Comptroller and
Treasurer, and report the amount OF DIVIDENDS
received by tie Governor from tie State
stock in tire Union and Planters Bank, and how
diebursed, was adopted. House Bill 70 amend
the Attachment Laws, providing for the issue
Of attachments on debts not due, passed I'd
reading. House Resolution addressed to our
Representatives in Congress in favor OF the
Pacific Road through Texas, was adopted.
House Bill Incorporating the Memphis Fire
Co., No. 6, was rejected, and a motionto recon
slider entered. Several House aud Senate Bills
were acted upon ia their intermediate stages.
The Conventional Interest Bin was taken up,
and the Senate went into Committee Of the
Who'e, aud after short session. reported pro
gres@. aud asked leave to sit again.
In tie HOuse, tie greater portion OF the
morning session was tsken mp in the dscuseipn
of u resolution to again invite the clergymen
of the CITY 10 open the daily sessions of the
House with prayer, which was laid on the Ia
Bile and the resolution introduced a few days
ago by Mr.. Meek, to appoint committee Of
three To confer with the Governor in regard
to appointing day of general thanksgiving
which was rejected by strict party vote. we
believe.
In the e, eninp, Mr. Carter introduced bill
70 restrict and regulate the business Of shaying
The resolution requiring The Committee on the
the P,nitentiary to enquire into the eXPediency
of radical changes in the management of Tie
Pententiary, was adopted. Senate bill to in
crease the salary of the Attorney Ienerai and
Reporter for The State to $500 per annum.
passed third readirg. House Till 10 ttach
portions 81 Blrd~oe aud Marion counties to the
county Of Hamilton was amended and finally
rejected Tue Senate again thea went int"
Committee of the Whole OH Senate bill 10 reg
ulate the rate Of interest, aud subsequently,
rejected the bill and recommended its rejection.
The report and bill were laid on the table.
1t is to lie regretted that so many questions
which have no connection with politics Whist
ever, should be made to assume a partisan as
pect when they are brought up in the House.
If the members were rs sensitive in regard
10 the interest OF the State and to whatever
concerns the people in civil and social point
OF view, as they are whenever measure
comes up that LOOKS or smacks, however super
parties of the day, there would be but little Use
for that species of legislation popularity known
as BuacombiSing, aud for which every member
of our Legislature chershe5 an inveterate d,
like, while the State, both in character aud
finances, would unquestionably be the gamer
II a measure is right in principle, it ought to
be adopted, bul il it is Wrong, it ought to he
rejected, irrespective of its supposed bearing
upon parties or their parisans.
The Court OF CLAMs-A. 0. p. NIoHoL-
soN.-The Court of Claims, a few days since,
had before it the case of a. 0. P. Nicholson,
the proprietor of the Washington Union, the
organ. This is a claim for extra
compensation, amounting TO several thousands
Of dollars. Mr.. Nicholson is al present the
Public Printer; and, rs the proprietor of the
otfie al organ, tie Union, is selected by the
heads OF the Departments Ms one of the papers
in that city 10 WHICH is given the Government
advertising, amounting, probably, to $4,000
annually.
The Union has, time and again, says the
OrgdH, laylshed upon The administration aud
It's subo d!uates the most iul>ome adulation for
their integrity and rigid economy in managing
The unances OF the Governments; aud yet it iusti
tutes proceedings in lac Court of Claims to OBJ
tain All amount of money which Those very
officers have rejected We have almost been
led To heleSe, from reading some of the
LhiOa's enlogIee upon the Secretary OF the
Treasury and hls assistant, who is well known
a. the gatherer oil the "black mail" TAX, that
So rigidl, economical aud scrupulously frugi |
" ere these high funclionaries, that even lME |
Was required h. pay toll 10 The excheqoer, yel |
he Union suys Tor that whic' they have de- |
,ided ii Ladno legal CLAIM to. Tie Jteion re-
N nds us vI hungry coup sltor, who search
rs among The ''tak,s' for the FIAT, aud, even /
though he gets all the Tat" is eager Tor al,
hat remnius; aud, no matt er what amount OF
ayors hs foreman may bestow upon him, lie .
cannot he satiated, aud will even colupla thar !
ls patron has robbed him at that which was
by right his. Hel, pap is u dietetic winch acts |
peculiarly upon the human race. SUule Will, !
~ er beng ueIl ted upon IL, growl and snarl;
some grow sycnphantic; some crouch before I
.heir master aud beg for more; some crook
he pregn nj hinges Of the knee, that thrift ,
may follow awning' some, a. Is the case with
The Union, grow bold, and, ever though their /
master l. by them held up ~ u paragon of /
purity, Justice and right, ia AL things aud TO
All men, they institute legal proceedings To
prove him To be the reverse. Democracy, thou /
ART jewell
PIuEE AamoULrURAL EssAY.-We notice that
DR.. ALEX Jackson, President Of the West Ten
lessee Agricultural Association, delivered the