The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-09-21
The Penffemfiary haf
fhe Conservatives Voted For
and what the Radicals
EDlmwaA.

When the bill to lease the PenitentIary
which had passed the Senate, came up
for action in the House, it was confronted,
as our readers have seen, by a PROPOSE
ton from Peter B. Starke to provide the
necessary materials, DC, for operating
the Penitentiary and besides to pay into
the Treasury an actual bonus of 50, 600
per annum or s75, 900 for the whole peri
cd of the lease. For this bill every
Democratic and Conservative member roted.
While nearly all the Radical members
voted for the Richardson bill pledging
the State to pay the lessee s27O, 600 IN
monthly lnstallnents and to fur
nish him with 1920, 900 worth of machi-
merry to run it with.
As matter of dollars and cents, the
case may be thus stated
The proposition of Starke for which
the Democrats and Conservatives voted
Payment into the treasury. $50, 900
Purchase of machinery,.......-- 12O, 900
1896, 900
The proposition of Richardson, which
the Radicals passed, as against the fore
going
Payment monthly installments
to lessee from the State Urea
......--...-..--'.-....-'. SZfV,VVV
Cost of machinery, ...........-... 12O,O
Actual loss, -....-.....-.--.-....-.. $500, 900
BY what process of ratiocination, or by
what sort of influence, the adventures
were induced to vote for the latter prop
osition in preference to the former, when
one contemplated an actual saving to the
State of S195, 900 and the other involved
an actual expenditure of $500, 0O0-each
reader will determine for himself.
But the practical question for the peo-
pie now to consider is whether it is not
worth all the energies they are capable
of expending in the coming election to
drive from power the venal and corrupt
party whose conduct is thus exposed
In order that no misapprehensions may
exist as to the proposition which was re-
iected by the Radicals, we will quote
again as follows from the Journals
Mr.. Catchinngs offered the following sub
stitute for section fve-House journal
page 971:
SEC. ). Be it further enacted, That the
State Penitentiary is hereby leased for the
term of fifteen (l5) years, from the 1st day
of November, 1871, subject to the conditions
and specifications herein provided for, to Z.
b. Starke, or his assigns; Provided, however,
That he shall first make with the State Treas
urer, in United states currency, deposit of
ten thousand dollars, as an earnest that he
will file the bond herein required, and COM
ply with the other provisions of this Act
and on his failure to file the bond herein re-
quired, the said deposit shall be forfeited to
the State, and be paiu into the State Treas
ury; And provided further, That the said
lessee, in case the State shall put in the in
stitution the machinery herein named, shall
oblisate himself by bond and good security,
to pay to the State an annual OF fire thousand
dollars, and shall pay the rent OF the first tlCo
years in G1Udnce.
The following was the vote-Conserva-
tives in italics
YEAs-Mr. Speaker, Messrs. Alexander,
Bolton, Cabell, Collins, Cdtchings. Foster
GiLIiS, Graham, Hatch, fairfield, HenlnairaO-
,oQy, Higgins, Holland, Hant, Jones of YalO-
busha, Lewis, LOOMS, Lynch, Mckenzie.
Mister, Mitchell of Pontotoc, PittmdR, Roane
of Pike, Stewart Stiles, Street, Walker of
NAYs-Messrs. Barrow, Bowles, Buchan-
an, Bradford, Darlington, Charles, Cogges-
hall, Everett, Foote, French, Griggs, Handy
of Copiah, Handy of Madison, Harrington,
Harrison, Heal, Hodges, Holmes, Howard,
Hudnall, Jacobs, johnson, Langford, Man
ming, McNees, Mitchell of Holmes, Moore,
Morgan, Nabers. Newsom, Norris, Osborn,
Parker, Phillips independently, Ross, Scar
Snowden, Spellman, Sites, Stone, |
Vaughan, Wade, White, WIFI |
ting, Williams, willing, Wilson-52.
All Radicals except one member who |
classed himself as an Independent"