Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-18
The Liquor Law Defeated in the
Tennessee LegiSlature-The
Funding Bill Hailed
with Joy.
The Policy Of Governor Baxter
Why he is Regarded with
Favor by True and Lib
reral Democrats.
Vanderbilt Donates $5OO,O0O for
the Purpose of Erecting an
University in Ten
neSSee.
TEN NESSEE .

TENNESSEE.
Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, March 1.-THE house
made the resolutions in reference to ad
jouTnment the special order for FRIDAY
next. The same subject was made the
special order in the senate for the same
day.
In the house on third reading was the
house biiltO amend the tipPling laws,
by prohibiting The sale Of Intoxicating
liquors in any district or ward, unless
10y consent Of a majority Of the voters ol
such district or ward, which bill was the
special order. D.. .#
Mr.. Preston spoke in advocacy of the
measure. ----
BIr Jeup addressed the house in oppo-
sitiOn, making an argument that the
bill was anti-Tepublican, and would do
more harm than good.
Mr.. NOblitt spoke in support Of the
bill.
Mr. McAdoo moved TO amend so as to
avoid frequency Of elections for tippling
privileges, and allowing Others besides
druggists to sell liquor, upon the certifi-
cate of physician. The amendment
was adopted.
The bill failed by want of a constitu-
tional majonty-yeas 81, nays 81.
Mr. Tate entered a motion to recon-
slider.
House bills on third reading: For the
benefit Of West Tennessee Agricultural
and Mechanical association, passed; for
the protection Of stock raisers, passed:
10 preserve the peace and prevent homi-
eide, rejected; TO facilitate the settle
ment Of estates of deceased persons,
passed; 20 regulate the practice in con-
tested election cases in circuit and chan
Gerry courts, passed; to amend the stay
laws, rejected.
In the senate the tippling bill, re-
quiring a msiority of the people Of a
ward or district TO consent to the estab-
lishment therein Of a Gpplinghouse,
passed third Eeading-yess IS, nays ).
The senators voting against or not
voting on the resolution censUring the
members of congress for voting them
selves extra pay, explained their reasons
for 50 doing by saying that while they
personally condemned the action of
congress in voting an additional COM
pensatiOn to themselves, they felt that
they bad mo right TO adopt the reselu-
tiOn. Mr.. Smitbson said he did not
know the provisions Of the bill, and
would not vote in the dark.
The senate devoted most of the day to
the discussion of amendments to the
senate privilege-tax bill. The question
Of filling the blank by fixing the rate of
the Gd UdlOTcm tax being called, it was
finally settled by adopting the propo-
sitiOn to make it fifty cents on the one
hundred dollars.
GIr. Mcdonnell (Blount1 offered as an
amendment to the tax bill provision
prohibiting tax-cOllectors from receiving
IN payment of taxes the notes of the
Bank Of Tennessee, issued on or after
May, 1861; also, making il the duty of
the encouragement to resist the pay
ment of said notes by all legal defense
through the courts. Agreed TO.
Mr.. Morgan offered an amendment
subjecting the property Of railroad CON-
Ianies 70 taxation after limitation of
exemption from taxation shall have ex-
pined.l Agreed 10.
Mr. Warren offered the following
amendment: That taX-cOllectOrs shall
receive in payment Of taxes, gold, silver,
| nited States currency, national bank
notes, old issue Bank Of Tennessee and
State warrants. Agreed to.
The question being upon the passage
Of the bill on third reading as amended,
was passed by the following vote. Yeas,
Allison, Brandon, Coulter, Hughes,
James, Mcconnell (BlOunt), Mcconnell
(Trousdale), Morgan, Patten, Richard
son, Robertson, 1illman and White, IA.
Nays, Messrs. Hamilton, Mccall, Nc
kenna, Melton, Moody, Smithson,
Snipes, Warren and Speaker Lacey, 8.
Mr.. Mcconnell, Of Trousdale, moved
to reconsider the vote just had, and i'm
mediately moved 10 lay the motion on
the table.
The motion to lay on the table was
agreed TO.
Mr.. Smithson, in behalf of
himself Morgan, Melton, Warren,
SDipes, Hamilton, Lacey and McKen-
ma, presented a lengthy protest to the
privilege tax bill as passed.
The senate resolution censuring the
members Of congress from Tennessee
FOR voting for the increase Of their own
salaries was discussed. The vote showed
the following result:
Yeas = Brandon, James Melton,
Moody, Patten, Richardson, Tillman,
White; Speaker Lacey-9.
NOes-Allison, Robertson, Smithson,
Snipes-4.
No quorum voting.
TheOffeT being made with fair show
Jug Of success for the establishment here
OF a railroad car mandatory with suffi-
cient capacity 70 supply all the demands
Of the roads centeriDg here and south Of
this point The friends OF the enterprise
claim that cars can be made here as cheap
il not cheaper, than at points further
north, and OF better material. Railroad
men ard merchants hereabOut general
" favor the proposition, aud liberal
subscriptions to the stock are being
made.
There is much satisfaction expressed
I'm official circles over the passage of the
funding bill, which it is felt will place
the State credit at once on q solid basis.
Governor Brown, who has been especial
" anxious concerning it, is Of course re-
jOiced. AndS0are nearly all the officers
OF the State, those especially who know
ANYTHING Of the difficulties encountered
i'm New York in eifecting monetary ne
g0tiatlOns. 1t is unquestiOnabiy the
best work Of the legislature, and
must gladden. the hearts Of all classes
of business men. There is some railing
and no little of offensive misrepresenta-
ton in circulation concerning the pas
sage Of this measure. But there is no
word Of il true. 1t was carried by dint
of hard work and persistent labor on the
part of Mr.. James and other friends of
the bill. Time will vindicate them fully,
and they eau afford TO wait Our bond
holders can now feel that provision will
he made for the interest 10 fall due, and
that hereafter Tennessee credit will be
maintained as high as the best.
MISSISSIPPI
Special 70 the Appeal
JACKSON, March 1.-THE senate to-
day passed the bills for the relief Of the
hospital at Nicksburg and the relief
OF the hospital at Natchez,
necessarily follows. Both hospitals
have been abolished by the legislature,
but few more relief bills viii cost the
State as much as running them.
The house passed a resolution memo
rializing congress for aid in assisting
Mississippi in the construction of
great inland canal from the Mississippi
river to the Atlantic. Mr. Davis,
of Noxubee, who introduced the reso-
luton, spoke briefly and very forcibly,
and procured its passage. The canal