Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-14
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
Resolutions In Answer TO the Memorial Of
our Radical congressmen.
Passage Of the Tax BilI---important 70 Tax
payers.
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.

NASHVILLE, January I3.-In the Senate
to-day resolutions were offered by Mr..
Etheridge, expressing the gratitude of the
people of Tennessee to the President of
the United States for the liberaIity and
Justice of his course toward them since
the commencement of his administration.
They were unanimously adopted.
In the House a bill Incorporating the
Pamela Oil Company, of Memphis, passed
on its third reading.
The bills incorporating the Safe Deposit
Company of Memphis, and the Hunting
don Masonic Aid Society, passed first
reading.
A resolution was adopted instructing
the Committee on Ways and Means to pre-
pare bill to raise the revenue to pay the
expenses of the State Government, and
interest on the State debt proper.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH.
NASHVILLE, January 13.-Mr. Caldwell
offered the following preamble and reso-
luton in the House to-day:
WHEREAS, The presentent condition
of the State, the opinions of the people
lation have become the subjects of gross
and unworthy misrepresentation by a
hireling press, by resolutions of partisan
assembiages, and more recently and nota-
bly,, by memorial, presented to the Con-
gress Of the United States by certain per-
sons recognized as being the representa- I
tiyes of the people of Tennessee, in the
National Congress, though accredited to
that by a popular minority, insignificant
in numbers, and entering upon high I
trust in disregard of the wishes and in de- /
hance of the well known Will of disfran- ]
chised but submissive majority; and, /
Whereas, in the opinion Of this General /
Assembly, these wiiful perversions Of the /
late history of the State, and flese !
persistent misrepresentation of her pres /
eut attitude are calculated, as they are no 4
doubt designed, to mislead the Congress |
OF the United States and excite distrust /
and pref jUdice in the minds of our fellow
citizens of other States; and
Whereas, we regard il as a solemn duty
TO the Inhabitants of Tennessee who Yearn .
for peace, order and equality under the
laws passed, administered and executed
by public agents chosen By the governed,
irrespective OF race, color, previous CON
diion, or Of former political opinions,
that the truth Of history be justified by
an authoritative presentation to the Ma
tions, +,1rVArnmenE and to ?UC tssIow-citi-
zens OF other States, Of the facts wnicn
have been With sceh ingenious malice tor
tured into evidences of disorder and dis
to the Federal authority; there
fore,
RESOLVED, That a joint committee be ap-
pointed by the Speakers of the respective
Houses, who shall be charged with the
preparation of an address to the President,
and memorial to Congress, in which
shall be set forth the late political history
Of the State Government and the present |
of the people and their agents,
to the end that their attachment and re- 4.
spect for law and order, and the character
and purposes of their legislation may be
vindica5ed from the aspersion to which
they have been subjected by those whose
claim TO public confidence rests mainly
upon a defeated effort to perpetuate the
political enslayeEent of their country
men.
Resolved, That said Committee be re-
quested TO report said address and memo
rial at an early day for the approval of
this General Assembly.
Mr.. Caldwell supported his preamble
and resolutions in a speech of some length
in which he referred to the peaceful con
iition OF affairs in Tennessee, and the
character of legislation repealed by the
present Legislature. He said the com
without respect to race or color
was resping the good fruits of what had
been done, and said ne anticipated the
lappiest results from the labors of the
Convention.
Mr.. FIemming offered an additional
as allows:
Resolved. That it is the sense of this
seneral Assembly that the rights of all
persons now entitled to suffrage in this
state, should be forever guaranteed in the
organic law Of the State, that all male citi-
sens not convicted of crime, should be en-
titled 10 the elective franchise.
Mr.. Agee indorsed the memorial TO Con-
zress in its chief features, and referred TO
he election in his county for proof
The whole question, after some further
liscassiGp, was referred to the Committee
IN Federal Relations.
The House then passed, on It's third
,eading, the bill fixing the State tax at
j0c., having first adopted an amendment
providing that the notes OF the bank of
ne State of Tennessee, of the old issue,
nay be received in payment of taxes; but
he taxpayer may compromise his taxes
oy paying one half of the amount
assessed in gold, silver, legal tender notes,
National Bank notes or Comptroner's
warrants, and payment 50 made of Qne-
,alf, shall entitle him to receipt for the !
whole.
The provisions for funding the interest
If the bonded d ebt of Tennessee, and the
notes of the Bank of Tennessee, were
,tricLau ont