Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-29
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

TUESDAY, Nov. 2S.-The House met at
! 10 A. NJ, Speaker Richardson in the chair.
PETITIONS.
By Mr.. Crews, from citizens of Benton
county, praying for the repeal of the tax on
merchants. By Mr.. Guild, from proprietors
Of liquor saloons of Gallatin, praying for an
| amendment of the laws relating to tippling,
so that liquor saloons may be kept open on
election days. By Mr.. Vaughn, from the
County Court of Davidson, praying for the
abolition of the Law Court.
NEW BILLS.
By Mr.. Lewis: For the more efficient
management of the State prison. By Mr..
Snipes: To regulate the tax on town halls
and theatres in towns and cities having not
over fifteen thousand inhabitants. By Mr..
Huston: To amend an act to declare the
Tuscumbia river navigable. By Mr.. Frier-
son: To amend section 622 of the Code in
regard to tax sales. BY Mr.. Samsell: To
amend the act to regulate the elective fran
chise. BY Mr.. Frierson: To amend the act
to change the line between the counties of
Wilson and Rutherford. BY Mr.. McGau-
ghey: To authorize the corporatOrs and
commissioners or their successors named in
the 41st section Of an act passed May "a,
1866, to turn over the funds in their hands
to the GreeneviIle and Paint Rock Road
COMPANY. By Mr.. EnlOe: To define the
manner of procedure in changing county
lines. By Mr.. Leach: To allow the towns
of Charlotte and White Bluff in Dixon
county an additional Justice of Peace for each
town. By Mr.. Vaughn: To amend the
Revenue laws of the State, by levying a
rate of 500 on brokers. By Mr.. Lewis:
To appOrtiOn the Senatorial and RepreSen-
tative districts in the State of Tennessee.
By Mr. McGaughey: To amend section $50
of the Code and give further time for Clerks
of County Courts TO make out and deliver
tax books to collectors. By Mr.. Leach: To
change the line between the counties of
Dickson and Hickman. By Mr.. Dick: For
the encouragement of the growth of fruit,
and timber and retaining exhausted lands.
By Mr.. Crews: To establish a Bureau Of
immigration and for other purposes.
THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE
STATE.
Mr.. Chester offered the following resolu-
ton, which lies over:
Whereas, for more than year past there
has been persistent and studious effort on
the part of certain partisan leaders and par
tisan newspapers to misrepresent the feel
ing and conduct of a large majority of the
people of Tennessee, evidently for partisan
purposes and with the hope of inducing the
Northern mind to such a belief as would
warrant it to influence the General Govern
ment to displace the present State Organiza-
ton, and to erect in its stead an oppressive
and expensive military rule; and whereas,
the present Legislature, the first elected
since the war by the votes of an enfran-
chised people, has earnestly and honestly
inquired into and striven to learn the tenn
per, sentiment and condition of the whole
people of the State and especially to learn
whether there exists among thema disposi-
tionto disobey ''the law of the land" 3" tOinjure
and do violence to persons and property;
and whether there exists within the limits |
of this State an organization secret in its |
operations and having for its object the viO |
lation of law and the disturbing, because of |
their color and their political opinions, any |
citizen of the State; and whereas, the men, |
bers Of the present Legislature, believing it |
to be a duty they owe TO themselves, to |
their constituents and to the friends of con- |
stitutional government, to give expression |
of their opinions and conclusions from such |
enquiry; therefore,
Rosolved, that in the opinion of the Gen
eral Assembly of the state of Tennessee
that while in this as in every other State of |
the Union personal difficulties and infrac- |
tions of the law, not superinduced, how
ever, by political considerations, OCCASION |
ally occur, there does not exist