Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-19
LEGISLATIVE.
The Mississippi Body in its Death
ThrOes - RailrOaders and
Educators Active.
The Arkansas Election Bill-The
COntesters and Impeaehers
Dying a Natural Death.


HISSTSsIPPE.
Special to the Appeal
JACKSON, April 1S.-As the last hours
Of the legislature draw near, the ex-
piring agonies Of that body are fearful
to contemplate. The house is in glory.
Portly-looking gentlemen representing
railroads are making better time be-
tween the senate and lower house and
back than some of their trains ever
made. Slim, seedy-lOOking gentlemen,
wishing to serve the country in the ca
pacity Of school superintendent, feel
gloomy over their prospects. The clerks
and messengers reap rich harvest from
the mOneyed ones who have axes to
grind. The house held a session last
night until midnight, and the only bene-
fit derived by any one was by the gas
company; who make profit on the gas
consumed through the pipes" am
indebted to the Jackson Clarion for q
peep at the most rare and racy docu-
ments, which will appear in its next
issue, being very cOnfidential-a letter
addressed to the friends of the President,
soliciting funds to reimburse Jay
Cooke for money loaned to defrsy the
expenses incurred in the last election.
The letter extorts ten dollars from each
recipient, and recommends remittance
to be made in a single ten-dollar bill, as
drafts, postoffice- orders, registered let
ters or anything bulky, might give pub
licity; remittances to be sent to Rev. j.
Hale Barney, Washington. The "Rey-
erend' is specified so that the unini-
tiated may suppose that the correspond
ence tends to the conversion of the hea-
then. The circular is dated April 5,
1873, and fully shows the disgraceful
means used by the President to gain
his selfish ends. 1t is considered per-
sonal now to sing in the presence of
officeholders, ~ lay ten dollars down."
The house in its lniquity passed the
bill which gives the Pearl river naviga-
ton company the lands, as mentioned
in former dispatch. 1t is but justice
to the members to state that they must
have been ignorant of the merits of the
bill, or it would not have passed.
If the governor signs it, he
commits an outrage on the people of
Mississippi, which will long be remem-
bered. Governor Powers is invited by
q Joint resolution to address the legisla-
ture in the hall Representatives to-mor-
row. A bill giving the use of portion
of the school fund to facilitate the con-
struction of the Memphis and Vicksburg
railroad was defeated in the senate, but
a bill passed giving lands, as specified,
to the same road. The fee and salary
bill finally passed; also bill appropriat-
ing twenty-three thousand dollars to
Keary & Stanton for lunatic asylum re-
pairs was passed. The Vicksburg and
Ship Island railroad bill, which takes
up the Chickasaw school fund, stops all
further squabbling on that subject. The
house was engaged on railroads all the
day through, and passed the following
bills: Vicksburg and Memphis rail-
road bill, as it came from the senate;
an act amendatory of an act ineorpo-
rating the Granville and Birmingham
railroad company and granting lands;
an act explanatory of an act consolidat-
ing the Jackson and Great Northern
railroad with the Mississippi Central
road; this bill provides that the road
shall not be exempt from taxation; an
act amending an act authorizing cities
and towns to subscribe 10 the capital
stock of railroad companies. Both
houses have night sessions tonight.
Breakers ahead.