The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-03-21

MONDAY, 11th.-In our last issue
we failed to note under this head that
the House by partisan majority agreed
to the report of the Committee advising
against the passage of the bill that the
counties of Perry, Sunfower, Green,
jackson and Jones should be entitled to
representation, thus perpetuating the
wrong committed by the last Legisla-
ture in the infamous apportionment act
upon these COUNTIES in depriving them
of their voice in the Lower Branch of
the present Legislature.
TUESDAY, 12th-Senate-The reso-
luton appointing Committee to en-
quire into the management of the Mobile
& Ohio Railroad, passed, also, several
local bills. House-A bill to encourage
internal improvements in the State,
which means for the benefit of Railroad
Companies, was passed. The majority
report of the Committee upon the bin to
reduce The number of Circuit Judicial
Districts, which recommended the pas
sage of the bill, was rejected.
WEDNESDAY, Understandable. Sui
livan Republican, gave notice that he
would introduce a bill to suspend the
operations of the Subsidy act. A reso-
luton to pay the postmaster was offered,
and Mr.. Hardy moved to amend by dis
pensing with that official. A motion to
table the amendment failed to carry, and
the whole subject was referred to the Com
mittee on Claims. The bill to encourage
the establishment of factories in the
State was considered, and after the re-
lection of an amendment offered by Mr..
Allen, providing that no planter should
pay taxes unless he had Melted eight per
cent, the same encouragement" that
is given factories in the bill, it was passed.
The bill to facilitate the building of
Memphis and Selma Railroad was passed.
House.-The recommendation of the
committee which was averse to the crea-
ton of Colfax county was, upon motion
of Mr.. Mcintosh, agreed to, but the vote
was afterwards reconsidered and farther
action deferred. A bill for the relief of
purchasers of real estate at Probate
Court sales, was passed. A message
from the Governor, vetoing the act to
aid the collection of delinquent taxes,
was received, and the bill failed to pass
over the veto. The act to change the
name of the Ripley Railroad passed.
The Conservatives and Democrats en-
tered upon the journal an able protest
against the action of the House in deny
ing Messrs. King and Afford, the legally
elected members from Copiah county,
their seats, and seating Messrs. Willing
and Handy, the defeated candidates.
THURSDAY, 14th.-Senate.-A reso-
luton by Mr.. Allen, providing for adj
iournment on the 9th inst, was amend
ed by inserting April 9th, and adopted.
Mr.. Morgan introduced resolution pro-
viding for the letting out of the public
printing to the lowest bidder for a period
of two years, was lost. Yeas, IA, all
the Democrats and Conservatives, except
Mr.. johnson and Messrs. Morgan, Sulli-
van and Smith, Republicans. Nays, all
Republicans and Mr.. johnson, Conserva-
tive. Mr.. Cassidy offered a resolution
which was adopted, calling for the report
of the Superintendent of Public Educa-
ton, which should have been made on
the 18th of January. House.-The bill
to create the Office of State Engineer
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