The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-06
Tennessee Legislature.
Especial Correspondence of the Courier
journal /

Especial Correspondence of the Courier
Journal
Outside the domains of Brigham
Young, the present House of the Ten
nessee General Assembly is the most
extensively married body of mortaIs in
the United States. The average age is
thirty-nine: and thIee-fOuTths OF the
members are married men. Including
the clerk and his assistants and the
doorkecper, this body numbers eighty,
tO-wit; lcifty-seven married, three Wild
overs anxious to marry, and twenty
with great expectations in this regard.
The youngest member is j. Z. Latin,
aged twenty-one; the oldest, Peter
Pearson, fifty-eight. Ceres is ahead,
there being thirty farmers, Next in
rank are twenty-One lawyers, five
merchants and farmers, three physi-
Clans, three of no occupation (fOr short
called gentlemen), two millers, two
cotton brokers, one farmer and survey
or Speaker McGoughey), one barber
(kelly, colored), one eonfectioner, one
surveyor, one editor (Jeup), one real
estate agent, one postmaster, one teach
er, one mechanic, AMI one planter.
The next youngest are Hon. lee
Head and Hon. J. K. Blood, each TWEEN
ty-threc years of age. A strih ing fea-
ture is the large number of native Ten
nesseeans; the roll in this regard, stand
ing: Born in Tennessee, 80; Alabama,
{; North Carolina, 4 Kentucky 3;
Virginia, 3; Ireland, 2; Ohio, 2; New
York, /, and Germany, /. No other
Southern State can show such record.
OF the whole number, eighty, three
fourths are native and to the manor
born, with but three, and that three
old settlers in Tennessee, born north of
II. a.
of the members are married and as
there is, without doubt, virtue in matri-
m0ny, the State is safe in the hands of
her present General Assembly, and es-
pecially since the Senate foOts up quite
as well as the House.
TIE STATE FINANCES.
Notwithstanding the almost absolute
necessity OF funding the past-due debt
and interest of the State, there is great
diversity of opinion on this subject
among members of che General Assem-
bly,. Said prominent member of the
House yesterday, "Iou may set it down
as matter of certainty that no funding
bill can pass this session :" while Hon.
j. NJ. Coulter, OF the Senate, a shrewd
and intelligent financicr, is confident
that his bill for that purpose will be
adopted 70 say nothing of the fact
that tire honor, the credit, and the
good name of the state are pledged,
and the only way to redeem this
pledge is to fund the matured over
due debt, she viii suffer in her financial
interests by refusing to fund the debt
as recommended by Gov. Brown in his
message. The entire debt, principal
and Interest, is 50 600, 000-tive millions
of which is unpaid interest. This might
be funded in ten-fOrty six per cent.
bonds and relieve the state OF further
embarrassment. since she is not able To
= pay il all at once. No interest has
been paid on her bonds for four years,
and creditors are entitled to some tangi-
bic showing. But it seems the safety
of the State requires the passage OF the
bill referred 10. Besides the outstGnd-
ing Legitimate bonds, there are many
that are spurious and Illegal which have
not, in any article L have seen, been
taken into account.