Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-05-25
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SPECIAL DISPATCHES.
NASHVILLE.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Thirty Ballots for Secretary of state.
Howard within One of Election.
Col. JnO. Baxter Asks for Investigation.
NASHVILLE.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Thirty Ballots for Secretary of state
Howard within One of Election,
Col. JnO. Baxter Asks for Investigation

Special Dispatch to the Chronicle
NASHVILLE, Nav 17-Several new bills |
were introduced. The House bill direct !
DRY to the Cashier of the Deposit Bank of
Knoxville, in reference to the assets of the
Mineral Home Railroad, was referred TO
the Judiciary Committee.
The bill to restore the old lines between
White and Putnam counties, passed.
A bill repeating all laws taxing marri
age licenses, passed.
A bill to establish the new county of
Etheridge, West Tennessee, passed and
sent to the House.
A resolution abolishing the office of AS
sistant Doorkeeper, and making w. II.
Mccall principal Doorkeeper, vacated by
Blackburn, adopted. Mccall was in
stalled
Mr.. Rhea introduced resolution to re-
district the State, limiting the Judicial
Circuits to fifteen.
A bill protecting people on railroads and
preventing discrimination in freights,
passed.
A bill exempting soldiers wounded in
the late war from working on roads and
paying poll-tax, passed DAMON.
NASHVILLE, May 1S.-The Judiciary
Committee reported adversely on the bills
to amend the registration laws, to make q
new form of court practice and pleadings,
and to authorize County Courts to take
stock in fairs. The bills failed.
The bill to make permanent insanity a
cause for divorce passed first reading, and
was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The resolution directing the Capitol
grounds to be repaired and improved was
concurred in.
Senate resolution directing the Treas
urer to ascertain the amount of assets of
the Mineral Home Railroad Company, now
held by the Deposit Bank of Knoxville,
was adopted, in lieu of House resolution.
ho
cial Joint Committee appointed to settle
with the Comptroller, made lengthy. re-
port, showing the amount and character OF
bonds and coupons in possession of that of
ficer.
The amount in the Treasury on the 18th
instant, less Legislative expenses, was
S424 $50. The report closes with a compli
mentary reference to the official honesty
and integrity of Comptroller BLACK
burn.
The Senate adjourned at II o'clock, t.
meet in the House, in convention, to cleo
State officers.
Neil S. Brown, Jr., Clerk of the House
and Geo. A. Howard, Clerk of the Senate
and others were put in nomination TO
Secretary of State From the first to tn
eighth ballot the vote stood with little va
~ ration, Brown, Al Howard, 81; fremont
continued to the twentieth ballot withou
an. election, wheh the convention took re
cess until tomorrow. DAMON.
NASHVILLE, May 20.-Both Houses an
in Joint Convention. The morning wa
spent in balloting for Secretary of State
At noon they adjourned TO visit the FAN
On the thirty-first ballot Howard lacl<e
one vote of being elected The ballotin
will be resumed in the morning.
In the Senate, Mr.. Cooper, at the reques
of Col. Jno. Baxter, of Knoxville, CAV
the Senate information that he desire
the suit contemplated by the joint resolu
ton, as to his connection, and the EN
change and Deposit Bank, with the sale {
bonds issued to the officers of the Miners
Homa Railroad.
A bill to exempt $3.50 of mechanics ms
terial was read first time. DAMON.