Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-15
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

NEW BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr.. Gibson: A bill TO repeal the act
to revise the rules of Chancery practice.
Mr.. Tolley said the bill could not be act
ed upon under the proclamation of the
Governor converting the Legislature in ex-
ira session. He therefore moved TO lay the
bill on the table.
Mr.. Gibson contended that the ninth sec
ton of the proclamation authorized the leg
islation proposed in the bill. His object
was to repeal the recent changes made in
the rules of practice in the Chancery
courts.
After some further discussion, DIR. Rid
ley contended that the Speaker should de-
eide questions of jurisdiction under the
Governors proclamation.
The motion to lay the bill on the table
was lost, ayes 4, noes 10. The bill then
passed on first reading.
By Mr.. Windle: Bill to repeal the act to
revise the rules of Chancery practice.
Passed.
By Mr.. Windle: A resolution to appoint
an additional member of the Senate to re-
present the State at large on the Joint Sc
lect Committee to lay off the State into
Congressional districts. Adopted under a
suspension of the rules.
By Mr.. Gibson: A bill to insure the more
prompt and efficient collection of revenue
received BY clerks and justices. Passed.
By Mr.. Mcconnell: A bill to amend sec
ton 10 of the act passed Dec. 81, 1871, for
the sale Of the States interest in delinquent
railroads. Passed.
By Mr.. DuBose: A bill to more effectual-
ly secure the public revenue. Passed.
By Mr.. Merritt: A bill to authorize the
Governor to appoint an agent or agents to
settle all claims between the United States
and Tennessee. Passed.
REDIsTRICTING COMMITTEE.
The Speaker announced the following
appointments to the joint committee to re-
district the State: Messrs. DuBOse, Coulter,
| Windle, Mcconnell and Greene.
RESOLUTIONS TAKEN UP.
House resolution requesting the Comp
! troller to furnish a comparative statement
! showing the cost Of publishing the reports
/ of the Supreme Court under the recent act
and under the old law. Concurred in.
Senate resolution to refer the commune
cation of the Governor of Virginia, on the
subject of the boundary line between Vir-
ginia and Tennessee, to a special commit
tee, was taken up.
! in lieu a resolution to refer the communica-
ton to joint select committee.
Messrs. DuBose, Coulter, Hughes and
| Tbarpe expressed surprise at the action OF
Virginia in reOpening this boundary ques-
| ton, which had been settled in 1902.
Mr. Ridley said the question had not only
| been settled then, but in 1859 the decision
arrived at seventy years ago had been af-
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| been closed forever. He approved of the mo-
| tion ofthe Senator from Campbell (Gibson),
and hoped it would be adopted.
Mr.. Gibson explained that in surveying
the line between Virginia and North Caro-
lima, before Kentucky and Tennessee were
erected into independent States, there was
a difference of seventeen miles be-
tween the surveyors representing the
two States. In 1920, after Tennessee
and Kentucky became States, this boundary
dispute was revived, and settled by a joint
commission appointed by the two States.
The northern line was adopted from Cum
berland Gap to the Tennessee river, where
the southern line was followed to the Mis-
sissippi river, thus cutting off strip of
seventeen miles off this State from the
Tennessee river 10 the Mississippi. This
settled the question between Tennessee
and Kentucky. Virginia now claimed that
the southern line was the correct one, and
that a strip of Tennessee territory seven
teen miles wide extending from Cumber-
land Gap to the North Carolina boundary
belonged to the Old Dominion.
Mr.. Hughes offered the following resolu-
ton in lieu Of the other two:
That the Governor be directed to send
an attested copy Of an act of the General As
sembly Of Tennessee passed 1902, and all
subsequent acts bearing upon the
subject of the boundary line be-
tween the States of Virginia and Tennessee
to the Governor Of Virginia, expressing the
determination of Tennessee to adhere to
| the boundaries as settled heretofore by com
missiOners duly appointed by the States OF
| Virginia and Tennessee. Laid on the ia
| bic.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Gibson was
| then adopted, and Messrs. Gibson, Earnest
! and Greene were appointed to the commit
tee on the part of the Senate.
SENATE BILL ON SECOND READING.
To amend the common school laws.
Passed.
THE RE-DISTRICTING COMMITTEE.
The Speaker announced that in accord
ance with the resolution adopted to day, he
would appoint Mr.. TOlley on the Re dis
tricting Committee to represent the State
at large.
Adjourned till 10 A. NJ. tomorrow.