Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-18

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tpeky Railroad, TO The JoA4I Comnitte
on Internal improvements. Adopte
under a suspension Of the rules.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
House bill to establish an agriculture
college in Tennessee IVES taken up.
Mr. WIsener moved 10 recommit th
bill 10 the Judiciary Committee, will
specific instructions to report q bill loes
ting the college st the Hermitage. Til
motion was lost, and the bill then passe,
on its second reading.
The Senate then adjourned until IL
O'clock AM, tomorrow.
House..
The House was called to order at Il
am, with Speaker Richards in til,
Chair, and sixty-six members present.
NEW BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.
BY Mr.. Williams: Bill to enforce thu
collection Of taxes on stock Of incorpora
ted bodies. The bill provides that sec,
tiOn 500 Of the Code be SO amended, 81
that "share Of stock and other moneyee
capital shall be assessed as the property
Of the owner, whether resident or non.
resident, and shall be held and deemed
to be locally situated at the place where
the principal Ctllcer of the corporation i.
located" and making the taxes levied
on such stock q lien on it for payment.
By Mr.. Mason: Bill empowering
towns and cities, incorporated, to levy
an unlimited tax on the sale of intOxi.
eating liquors. Passed and referred tC
COMMITTEES on Tipping Houses.
A House joint resolution by Nj. Moore
10 appoint a committee to look after the
Clerk Of the Supreme Court OF West
Tennessee. Laid over.
By Mr. Ryder Bill to amend the ex-
emption laws of the STATE exempting
law books owned by p~rscticing attoF-
nsys, physicians books owned by doc.
tors, and theological works owned
by preachers to the amount of $1,000.
Passed and referred to the Committee on
Judiciary.
Mr.. Singletary called up Senate bill
Amending the Militia Laws, giving the
Governor the power to call out the
militia and to proclaim martial power.
The amendment proposes 10 strike out
all that portion of section 4, requiring
the Attorney General, the Senator ana
representatives and ten Union men 10
make representations TO the Governor
that their laws cannot be enforced, leav-
ing it discretionary to proclaim martial
"a " nACA2CNG4 AC CAOOoccs A0G 6n6uu-
ment also proposes to erase the entire
section 5, thereby giving into the hands
Of Gov. BToWnloW supreme power.
Section 5 is Is follows:
Be It further enacted, That upon the
application OF the sworn statement Of
ten or more known unconditional Union
men of good moral character, or three
Justices of the Peace of any county IN
this State, setting forth that the civil
laws cannot be enforced in such county,
and that the law abiding citizens cannot
be protected in their rights and liberties
without the aid OF the military Guthori-
ties, it shall be the duty Of the Governor
to furnish such number Of troops as may
be necessary to enforce the laws and pro-
tect the citizens from violence.
Mr.. Hacker favored the proposed
amendment in 8 speech Of ONE twenty
minutes, during which he asserted, be-
ing heartily sick of the indiscriminate
butchery CT loyAlists, and that ne for
one, would willingly accept g commission
60 raise and march s regiment Of militia
to the protection of Union meC.
MI. Roach was opposed to the amend
ment. 1t gives too MUCH power to the
Governor. He cOntended that it gives
MIN the power to do what he wishes
with every dollar Of property in the
State. 1t places the lives and property
al every citizen in the State at bis dis
Uoss!. He could not gee that good could
come from the establishment O. 50 much
nan power. To give the Governor
power over the property, lives and inter-
eats If every man, woman and child in
the State, is one which could not safely
be placed in the hands of shy man until
the curse which fell on our common hu-
manlty by the fall of Adam should be
renewed. He, himself, would tremble
to hold such q power in bis hands. He
then dWeit at large upon the testimony
which the Governor bears to the eff
cheney Of the United States troops In
saving that "he found them fully equal
to his expectation" and this, too, at q
time CT great political excitement, at q
tins when two parties weso 6ErGysd
against each other on q NEST important
political question. He c0ntendea that
as the Law ROW stands the Governor has
amIls power to protect the citizsns of
the state il he CHOOSES 10 do so. Any
county that is in trouble, IN social an
srchy, ia hanger OF having its govern
meDt disrupted, the people, nay, any ten
loyal and respectable citiz7rs Of any
county, have the means to secure them
selves frcla their internal enemies By
merely stating 10 the Governor that they
wants militia 10 pf0te5. them. This IS
very plain, very obvious and very sina.
pie, and no such sweeping messuTts as
that contemplated in the proposed
amendment 20 the militia bill was ut all
necessary to preserve the reign OF law
and order In the State, If this measure
passes, the Legislature viii have placed
IN the hands of one man the power to
suspend every judge, every court, every
sheriff in the State, and supply their
place with dTum-head c~ourt-Iaartisl. l.
will h2ve given him the power to set
aside allsg anu to perpe.uats himself q
dictator 2 the people. Can place an
armed soldier at every door and compel
the owner of every house to pay for the
support Of its jail0r. He 8 keep you
all time. He can say to this man, |
you shall go; and to that, you shall
stay and 90 another, you shall die and
NJ man in the whole State can call his
soul his own.
Mr., Murray took 8 different view Of
the question fTom tbst OF his colleague
from Carroll county. He would say
nothing on the nature OF the government
uader which vs. live, as throwing light
upon the questions at issue.
Before Mr.. Murray entered the gist OF
his argument, 8 motion TO adjourn to 2
p. IA. prevailed.
Afternoon Session.
Mr.. Murray resumed his remarks on
the Militia Bill. He ssi1 that on the &C
ton OF the House OF this bill depended
the safety of the loyal men Of the State.
The time had come, he said, imperative
ly demanding the State authorities to
take decisive action in suppressing the
Ku-Klux. A government don't deserve
the name, which disregards the welfare
Of is citizens by not taking effective
measures for the suppression OF laWless-
ness. If the Legislature did not act
promptly in the premises, the loyal
men Of The STATE, acting on the fact thst