Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-20
Proceedings Of the Legislatures
Of Arkansas and Mississippi
Yesterday.
No Swamp Lands for Arkansas
RaiIrOads-The Baxter I'M
peaehment Squelched.
The Arkansas RailrOad-Aid Bill
Passed-GOTernOr Powers Be-
fore the Legislators of
Mississippi.
ARKANSAS.

Special to the Appeal
LITTLE RooK, April 19.-In the SEN
ate, the senate bill passed supplement-
ary to the railroad Incorporation act Of
1865. A bill making sn appropriation
to the State agricultural fair association
was killed. The senate bin to establish
an insurance bureau passed The bill
donating swamp lands to railroads was
indefinitely postponed. An act passed
to prevent members of the legislature
from holding Office during their term
of service. A bill passed exempting
persons deprived of a limb from
working on roads. Quite a number OF
appointments of supervisors were con-
firmed. The house opened a new era
in its history to-day, and passed a bill
appropriating fifteen thousand dollars
for the publication and distribution Of
Henry's Resources Of Arkdnsds. Mr..
Thrower arose to a question of privilege
to introduce Mr. Brooks petition in his
contest with Baxter, and moved that
the petition be received. The prayer
was granted. He delivered a written
speech setting forth Brooks grounds OF
contest. Mr.. McGehee called Brooks
a carcass, and the damnedest crea-
ture on earth, and moved that
both the petition and prayer be rejected.
Mr.. Fox thought this was death strug-
gle of certain bad men to crafty per-
sonal ends, and force the passage of this
infamous legislation. Mr.. Erwin fa-
vored the rejection Of Mr.. Brooks petit
ton, and says there is lying under the
question another: whether thieves
should control the government, or the
government the thieves. / believe the
people have got the thieves down, and
Governor Baxter will hold them down.
Mr.. Ried said Brooks had returned to
Clayton's ring. Let him go. Mr.. J. n.
Berry opposed the contest as most inop-
perfume and unwise. McVeigh dis
cussed the constitutionality of the ques-
ton as a matter of expediency; said
Brooks carried the constitution by
smotheriDg thepOpular voice; baited the
trap and luckily he was the first one
caught in the desd-fall. have but one
ambition, so help me God, and that is
to remove the shackles from the fettered
limbs of an enslaved people. Governor
Baxter has pursued the course that has
secured the homage of the people, and
this contest is simply to destroy the only
man who is the last hope of oppressed
Arkansas. Under the rule of the house
members were allowed bat ten minutes
to speak. -Four members yielded their
time to McVeigh, something never done
before. His speech is recognized as the
best effort in the legislative halls
this session. Mr.. Furbush says
Mr.. McVeigh shall go to congress or he
will fight somebody. Messrs. Tillar,
Fhornburg and other Democrats, with
the consent of Mr.. MeVeigh, adopted
his speech as expressive of their views.
Upon vote to reject, Messrs. Thrower,
Cunningham, Pindall, Bridenthal and
three other Democrats and two Repub-
Iicans favored granting the petition,
while twenty-three Democrats and
forty Republicans opposed the petition,
and Mr.. Brooks's prayer was rejected
Nineteen Republicans, including Tank
ersly, were pledged to stand by Thrower,
aut ignominiously backed down. Anti
Baxterites, learning their weakness,
hid their heads in shame. Baxter is in
vulnerable to the attack of these politi-
cal desperadoes, and to-day will live as
the brightest figure in our dark history
since the reconstruction.
Associated Press Dispatch.l
LITTLE Rock, April l9.-Mr. Thrower
(Democrat) to-Fay presented the petition
of Joseph Brooks asking the right to
contest the place Of Elisha Baxter as
governor OF the State of Arkansas. A
motion was Immediately made to reject
the petition, and 3 long discussion
ensued, after which vote was taken,
and the motion to reject prevailed by a
vote Of 63 to S-of the latter five were
Democrats and three Republicans.