Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-21
NASHVILLE CORRESPONDENCE.
Important Bill.
NASHVILLE, Feb. 10.

T. Important Bill.
NASHVILLE, Feb. 10.
EDITORS CHRONICLE Hon. II. z T..
Iouk has just presented to the House a
lrery important bill, and / think it will un-
IloubtedIy become a law. It is to the effect
hat the President and Directors of the
Eastern Division Fair be authorized to
ell that portion of the grounds belonging
o the State and to re-inyest the proceeds
more eligible point, if they should de-
ire to do 60. One provision requires them
| complete the matter in two years. o.
| was, myself, instrumental in causing
his bill to be prepared, believing that the
| interest of the concern demanded 1t. For
che have never been an advocate of To-
citing the fair grounds where they now
axe, and shall always believe q great blum
der was perpetrated in putting them there.
Eour-fifths of the citizens of Knoxville
and of East Tennessee would so decide if
submitted to them for their decision. 1t
isthis very reason that has superinduced
such profound apathy on the part of the
stockholders in relieving the institution
from its present embarrassments. They
have no interest in it whatever, and will
take none. THERE'S no use to kick against
the pricks," or to prosecute an impractica-
BILE undertaking. You can never
make success Of the present fair
grounds if you work at it for the
next hundred wears. The barriers in the
way are insuperable. Every one knows
how inconvenient and expensive it is to
get there. First, you tax the people on
the railroads to get to Knoxville. Then
YOU subject them to hotel bills, which are
fearful, and, finally, you compel them to
nav from fifty to seventy-five cents day
to the livery men to get out to the grounds.
No people can stand this for any length of
time. These complaints, bitter and pro-
longed, will reach every valley and noun
tain gorge in East Tennessee. We have
never yet held fair but what this was the
case. A great many think that the whole
object is to throw money into the pockets
of the citizens of Knoxville.
Another matter. L contend that we can
take the grounds belonging to the State
and sell them at figures that will place the
institution upon much sOunder financial
basis. If iudiciously laid off into small
lots of an acre or more, they could be sold
at fair prices, and thus sum sufficient
gfohhds bGt 10 af ret tnA ally Rfbbad nsN
and to consummateall your improvements.
1 know Of property OH the Knoxville and
Ohio Railroad, about two miles and a-half
from the city, admirably suited to the pur-
poses of fair, which could be reached
every half hour at q cost of ten cents the
round trip. There is where the concern
ought to go, and will go if you let the
people act in the matter. .#i
AGRICULTURAL BILL.
This bill passed the House to-day by
very marked majority. 1t provides for an
of ten thousand dollars for
The purpose of completing o thorough and
accurate complication of the agricultural
and mineral statistics of the entire State |
md of putting them in proper form for
circulation, outside of the State. 1t is an
measure, and the House deserves |
great credit for its passage. 1t has yet to !
20 to the Senate where, have no doubt, it |
will meet with the same generous fate. |
This begins to look like business. There |
IS no telling whaL amount of actual bene- |
it will accrue to Tennessee by the passage |
If this important measure. 1t has been |
our misfortune that we could not inform |
he world of our agricultural resources. |
We have never had any aggregated facts |
With regard to this mater. All this will be
,bviated by the bill in question.
ADJOURNMENT. ~
To-day, there was good deal CT excite
nent in the House upon the question
If adjOurning from next saturday until ten |
lays thereafter. After considerable ma
1euvering it was carried. 1t is thought |
he Senate will not concur. The members
ire to receive no pay, and the ten days are
lot included in the seventy-five.
THE CENTENNIAL.
Thursday, the Goth, the Centennial Elk
,cutive Committee will meet at II, NJ, at |
he Capitol. Bailie Peyton will deliver
IN address on the occasion. The object of |
t is to inaugurate measures whereby Ten
nessee may be fully represented at the
Centennial gathering at Philadelphia. We
IAN not aoverestimate the Importance of |
Ibis movement, and our people throughout /
the State ought to take profound interest |
in it. Your correspondent has the dis
tinguished bonorl of being Chairman of
the Executive Committee of East Tonnes
see, and as soon as he returns to Knox
Vile, he will Immediately call the men,
bers together and proceed to organize for
work, ALoNZ0 DANTE.
Eas; Tennessee Notes,