Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-26
NASHVILLE.
Proceedings of the House and Sen
ate Yesterday.
Synopsis of the Action Of The Con.
vention.
MurderOus Outrage by Negroes in
Carroll County.
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.
NASHVILLE, January 25.


.Sendte.-A bill was offered by Mr..
LuttrelI relieving railroads from the
payment of the four per cent. sinking
fund, provided they will furnish the
Comptroller with evidence that they
will retire their entire indebtedness.
Passed first reading.
House resolution to inquire into the
solvency of various railroads was laid
on the table.
House resolution authorizing the
Comptroller to borrow $4,000 of the
Fourth National Bank of New York,
with which to pay Ward & Briggs,
was concurred in.
House bill to punish masked ma
rauders passed first reading.
House bill for the benefit of the
Mediterranean and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company Of New York,
passed third reading.
H0uSe.-The bill reported from the
Judiciary Committee regulating tolls
In Shelby county passed first reading.
The bill to aid the preservation OF
public morals by imposing fines for
adultery, ETC., was rejected by vote
of 42 to %.
Senate bill to make the penitentiary
self-sustaining, being the special order,
was discussed, amended and passed
third reading by a vote of 80 to 26.
The amendments adopted provide
that one of the inspectors shall be a
physician and one a skilled mechanic,
and authorize inspectors to designate
storahouses "a sell wares made at the
prison at any points in the State they
think proper.
Constitutional CoaUention-1uesdGy.
The time of the Convention was
again wholly employed in the discus
sion of the suffrage question, for and
against a proposition 10 submit negro
franchise to a separate vote of the
people. The delegates who spoke in
favor of the proposition were Messrs.
Campbell, Bate and Carter. The
speech of the latter gentleman was
somewhat significant, as coming from
an East Tennessee Unionist. He
took strong and decided ground
against negro suffrage IN any form.
Those who spoke against the propo-
sition and in favor ofoontinuing color
ed suffrage as now accorded, were
Messrs. Gibbs, Burton, Kyle, Key,
Sample, COarner, Gibson and Blizzard.
The discussion had not closed at the
time of adjournment, but a vote will
probably be had on the question to-
morrow. The Convention will doubt
less sustain the majority report of the
Committee; which will settle the ques-
tim in that body in favor of univer-
sal suffrage.
Saturday night four disguised men
visited the house of Colonel Coleman,
an old and respected citizen of Carroll
county, whom they shot and killed.
The negroes suspicioned as the
guilty parties were arrested and an
examination had yesterday at Hun
tingdon. They established the fact
beyond all doubt by the leader of the
gang, a notorious bad negro named
Matt. Brown, who made full confess
sion, duplicating three accomplices.
The citizens of the town held a meet
ing, and while moderation was ad-
vised, The impression Is that the cul-
prits have been surrendered to sons o.
neighbOrs ofthe murdered man. Nu-
merops outrages lately perpetrated in
Carroll county, by body of masked
men, are now attributed to the gang
who killed Col. Coleman. Confessions
of negroes and other circumstances in
dlcate that this gang embraced nearly
all the guilty parties.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH.
NASHVILLE, January 25.-COnsid-
cradle stir wasca4sed by the arrival
at l pm. to-day of the excursion train
containing business men from Cincin-
natl and Louisville. The excursion
lists number about seventy-fve, and
were conveyed to the Maxwell House,
where they were privately enter
tanned. They spoke in highly COM
plimentary terms of their trip from
Louisville and the cordial greeting re-
ceived here. They were Joined by 8
delegation from Nashville, and left at
$40 pm. on their journey to Savan-
nah, with the good wishes of hun
dreds of spectators, who cheered them
as they parted.
The House to-day passed on the
final reading of the Senate bill to
make the penitentiary sslf-sustaiping.
The bill provides for the Ohio system
of management.
DEDOOAlAI