Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-22
TENN ESSRE.

! NASHVILLE, March 21.-The senat
to-day rejected the joint resolution pro
viding for the appointment of com
mittee TO inquire into the constitution
ality of the passage of the tippling bill
as finally passed the house. =
The following house bills are on thir,
reading in the senate: To amend sec
tions 1880 and 1880 of the revised code
rejected; to compel a settlement witt
county superintendents of instruction
failed; to sell the States interest in tn
turnpike roads, passed; to improve pub
Tic roads, rejected; to provide for tn,
sale of lands sold for taxes due munich
/ pal corporations and purchased by sail
corporations.
The house concuTed in the senate
amendment TO the house bill extending
/ the charter of the bank of Memphis ter
instead of fifty years.
House bills on third reading in the
1 house: To entitle purchasers of real es-
( tate to ten per cent. for money paid for
real estate sold for debt and subsequently
redeemed by the original owner. Re
jected.
At ten o'clock this morning the house
| took as special order the senate revenue
bill to provide revenue and sustain the
credit of the State.
Mr.. McCampbell moved to take up
section by section. Carried.
Mr. J. r. Bond moved to strike
out all but the first and last sections of
the amendment. Lost by yeas to 26
nays.
Mr.. Hughes moved TO amend by sub
stituting forty for fifty cents in the
first section, exclusive of schOOl-tax.
Carried-yeas 3S, nays %.
The senate cOneurred in the house
amendments to the senate bill for the
benefit of the lunatic asylum.
The following are house bills on third
reading in the senate: A bill to give
two years more time for perfecting land
titles; a bill to define the liabilities of
municipal corporations was rejected; a
bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors within four miles of a college or
university was passed; bill declaratory
Of the jurisdiction OF county courts was
passed; bill to make uniform testimO-
ny in cases where the State is party
was rejected; bill to repeal the act to
protect aud encourage manufactures
was rejected; bill to regu
late assignments of homesteads
and doweries in lands was passed;
bill to change the time of
holding the chancery court in Upton
county was passed; to authorize the
organization of corporations was
amended and passed; to further prevent
and punish duelling was rejected; to
increase the jurisdiction Of the county
courts was passed; for the protection of
cemeteries was passed; lowest the power
TO change county lines in the county
courts was passed.
House bills passed on third reading in
the senate: To amend section 3035 Of
the code; to punish any one maliciously
killing or manning the beast of another;
10 change the name of the jackson in-
surance company to Jackson bank; for
the benefit of Madison county agricul-
tural society, passed. Mr. Patton gave
notice that he would enter a protest
against the passage of a bill to amend
the charter of the Odd Fellows mutual
aid association Of theS State of Tennessee:
relative to the appointment OF students
to the agricultural college of East
Tennessee, was amended so as to fix
the number OF students educated at the
expense Of the State at two hundred
and seve0ty-hye, to be appointed
throughout the State according To pOpu-
IatIon-three to each representative and
two to each senstOr-and passed; to
provide for the removal of county sites;
to amend an act for the protection Of
farmers and stOck-raisers was passed;
to properly VentilRte and heat the
county Jail was passed.
a message Was received from Cover
nor Brown, vetOing the act repeating
section OF the act Of June 9, 1855, and to
repeal the act of March :, 1867, to amend
the charter of the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad. the grounds Of such disap-
proval being that the bill embodies two
distinct subjects, which Is contrary to
the constitution. The message Of the
governor was made the special order for
ten O'clock Tomorrow morning.
The senate resolution to adjourn sine
die on Thursday, the twenty-seventh, at
twelve O'Clock, was amended by the
house by strieing out Thursday, and in-
serting Tuesday, the tWenty-fifth. The
amendment was cOncurred in.
City News.
w. II. Wilkinson, q well known mag
A0AaAO VI NeI5uNAAo u+sllAtEi ulcu Suu-
denly to-day Of pneumonia, in his sixty
fourth year.
A meeting of colored people will
be held tomorrow to express
their indignation because Patrick Bell
(white) was convicted in the criminal
court and sent to the penitentiary for the
alleged violation OF the Tennessee law
to prevent the intermarriage of white
and colored people, il appearing that he
was living here as the husband of a
negro woman, to whom lie was married
in Mississippi.