The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-10-19
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
SENNE
SENATE.
"WEDNESDAY, Oct 1.-THE Senate met
ut 10 "a. IN, Speaker Vaughn IL the chair.

enquire and report rs TO the probable
cost Of purchasing a site and building
an Asylum for the Blind. Adopted
under Il suspension of the rules,
b. Speaker Vaughn; That our Scna-
tors in Congress be instructed, and our
Representatives requested to procure
sach Congressional euactments MS will
place the widows Of pensioners who were
married after the war upon the same
footing us those who We're married be-
fore the war, and such Legislation us viii
prevent any discrimination against pen
sioners ON account OF their sympathy in
the late war between the States. Lies
over.
NEW BILLS.
The following bills were introduced
and passed II first reading;
BY Mr.. Coulter: To repeal section
3,lG3 OF the Code, and to regulate up
peal cases,
by Mr.. Windle: To repeal section
2 OF IAN act to amend the road laws OF
the State" passed oath February, 1870,
BY Speaker Vaughn: To modify and
construe an act passed March ~, 1860.
BY Speaker Vaughn: TO abolish the
Office OF Tax Collector, and to provide
for collecting the taxes by county Sher-
ills and their deputies.
REDUCTION OF TASEs.
Senate resolution flvoring II roduc-
ton of taxes was taken up.
Mr.. Gibson (Rcpublicm) sud the one
great financial problem to be solved by
tins Assembly was whether they should
levy sufficient taxes to pay interest ari-
sing on the State debt. For his part,
he was in favor Of postponing that pay
mcut for the present, and merely col
lccting sufficient to meet current cX-
pcmscs. He was no rcpudiutor, but the
~pustponinS OF the payment OF this III
tercst would injuro no one, and was
nothing more than the holders of the
bonds had to expect. These bonds were
issued by authority Of the first Legisla-
turr assembled after the war. The Re-
publicms we've then i'll power, but there
was also, ut the time, another party III
the State numerically greater. The
Democratic party, through It's papers
and speakers throughout Tennessee, con
stantly, repeatedly and openly declared
that they would consider the question
of repudiating these bonds when they
came into power. The purch rscrs knew
this, and that Il time would come when
the Democratic party would get int
power. He had always opposed the Is
suauce OF these bonds, and i'll TINS re.
Spccr stood aloof from his party. Now
it WIS u well known fact that the pur.
rhaslrS Of these bonds discounted then
by looking forward to their reputation
at II future day, and thus obtained then
ut from 80 TO 90 cents on the dollar
Those bondholdyrs, then, had no JUS
ground of complaint ii, III view Of tn,
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After some further discussion tbc re.
CLINTON was odortad
Uogo,e R,,cc Clarke Cou1te
, DuBosa Gibson. Hn%hes. Merritt, PA
terson. Pope. Porter, Ridley, Sewer, To
lev, Warren. Windle, Young and Speal
cr Vaughn-17.
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