The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1867-02-28
Proceedings Of the Legislature
SENATE JOURNAL.
SEVEN O'CLOCK, P. NJ.

SEVEN O'CLOCK, p. M.
THURSDAY, Feb. 81, 1867.
Mr. Lyles offered tho following resolu ton
which was adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of the Senate
are due and are hereby rendered TO Hon
Seal for the able, dignifed, and impartial
manner in which he has presided over our
deliberations during the present session.
Mr. Hooker offered the following resolution,
which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of the Senate
are due and ara hereby rendered to For
ter, the prompt and efficient Secretary of the
Senate, for the satisfactory manner in which
be has discharged his laborious duties.
Senate insisted on ID, Sd, 4th and 6th
amendments to House bill raising additional
revenue, and receded from the LIST and 9Th
amendments to said bill.
Senate indefinitely postponed bill to incor-
porate the President and Directors Of the
Orphans Homo Association.
Senate insisted ON amendments to House
bill making appropriations for repairs on
public buildings, and appointed q committee
of Conference.
Senate agreed to committee of Conference
asked for by the House to consider the disa-.
greeting votes of both Houses to bin making
certain appropriations for repairs on public
building.
Senate agreed to committee of Conference
asked for by the House to consider the disa-
greeting votes of the two Houses, to bill to
amend an act to raise a revenue to defray
the expenses of the Government of the State
of Mississippi, approved December 5, 1865.
Senate passed House bill to suspend the
collection of taxes upon lands purchased by
the Board of Levee Commissioners, of Boil
var, Washington and Issaquena counties, for
non-payment of the levee tax.
Mr. Hooker, from committee of Confer
ence, reported to the disagreeing votes of the
two Houses, ON bill making appropriations
for repairs on public buildings, and asked
that the House recede from the first and Sc
cond amendments and the Senate from the
fourth and fifth amendments to said bill
Report agreed to. u
Mr. Martin from q committee of Confer
ence reported amendments to bill to amend
an act to raise revenue to defray the ex-
penses of the Government of the State of
Mississippi, approved December 5, 1865, and
asked that the TWO Houses concur and pass
said bill. Report agreed to.
The President of the Senate then delivered
the following address:
Gentlemen of the Senate:
Having been unexpectedly called upon to
preside over your deliberations in the alb
sence of the distinguished parsonage whose
duty it would have been to fill the place, and
to occupy the position you have elevated me
to, it becomes my duty and pleasure, feeling
as do the honor you have conferred upon
me, to tender to you individually and cOllec-
lively my earnest and sincere thanks for the
uniform aid and support received by myself
at your hands since this body convened on
the third Monday in January last. Legisla-
tive proceedings at this time. when our rela-
tions to the United States Government and
the world can hardly be said to be known
to us, and surrounded as we are by those
conflicting elements and sentiments that we
daily see and hear expressed, is perhaps at
tended with greater difficulties than it has
ever been our duty to combat and to contend
against yet, with all the conflicting causes
that were calculated to sway the Judgment
and influence our action towards each other
in debate, and to make reference to the Chair
in order to continue that calmness which
alone can insure the careful deliberation and
mature consideration of all questions that
were brought before this body necessary. it
will be a lasting satisfaction to me to know
that though we may have differed at times,
in that difference You have shown by your
action you were prepared to say, as / have
reason to believe you felt, that it was but an
additional evidence of the fallibility of hui
man Judgment.
Having on all occasions been the recipient
of the courtesy which ever characterizes the
actions of those who have the ability to leg
islate for confding constituency, and a
disposition to discharge that duty with a
knowledge of the responsibility resting upon
them, at a time when our political horizon
is dark indeed, when our affairs are of a
more complicated nature than any we have
ever before been called upon to consider;
when the sun of Constitutional liberty seems
destined to rise no more, and even the star
of hope glimmers but family Ia the distance
and may soon disappear from our view
Nov that we are nnss the eve of soparatior,
and about to retire from our legislative la
bors, it may be to meet no more in this
chamber, cannot return to my home with
out again rendering you my thanks for the
honor you have done me, and to express the
wish that each and all of you may realize
through life those blessings which it is but
reasonable to expect as the result of an hon
est effort to discharge the various duties in
cumbent upon you; and to hope that that
reward may be yours which is secured only
to consciousness of having endeavored to
do your duty-the approval of those whose
welfare, prosperity and happiness you have
endeavored to promote. stire hi. NJ
The Chair then declared the Senate adj
journed sine die.