Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-19
$4,000 Voted the Governor OF Missls-
sippi-The Appointment Of Mis-
Sissippi Delegate TO Vienna.
jake Wonders, the Anti Civil Rights COl-
Ored Barber, Arraigned Under
the Civil Rights Act.
TENNESSEE.

't'..l.tt % lhe Appeal
NASHVILLE, March 1S.-Senate bills
passed third reading in the house: To
establish an additional hospital for the
insane; TO amend an act incorporating
the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad
company, to authorize the payment of
the Hunt school fund for Dickson and
Humphreys counties.
House bills on third reading: To es-
tablish a bureau of immigration, reject
ed; 10 amend the charters of all ineor-
porated towns and cities, passed !;
20 limit the jurisdiction of the
circuit court at Bartlett, passed.
The vote rejecting the house bill to give
county courts the power to change
county lines, was reconsideTed and
passed third reading; to change the
name Of the National insurance COM
pany, originally located at Lebanon, to
the Commercial bank of Memphis,
passed; TO repeal sections 1TSl to I7S9,
inclusive, Of the code, relating to con-
tracts between attorneys and Htigants,
failed by want of a sufficient vote.
J. r. Bond was added to the commit
tee on federal relations.
The house passed on third reading the
senate bill changing the time for hold
ing the chancery court at Trenton.
In the senate, the resolution of Mr..
James, censuring the Tennessee repre-
~entatives in congress for voting for an
increase in their pay, was adopted by a
vote Of i to 9.
The senate bill to establish bureau of
Immigration, and appropriating seven
thousand FIVE hundred dollars for immi-
grafton purposes, passed third reading.
The senate bill TO establish a State
normal school was rejected-l2 to g; to
purchase a governors residence was re-
iected-l4 to 8; TO amend section 1892 of
the code was rejected; to repeal the act
lDr the encouragement of manufacturers
was rejected TO amend section 1856 of
the code was rejected; to amend the
mechanics'-lien law Wa rejected.
Mr.. James offered a resolution direct
ing the governor to sign no land grant
that may have been entered in the
cutry-tlker's Office in the State.
The resolution was advocated in a
speech by Mr.. James and opposed by
Ir. Coulter, and finally adOpted-yeas
II, nays 10.
Mr.. Snipes presented the following
personal explanation:
" The undersigned, as a personal ex-
PLANTATION of their vote against senate
Joint resolution No. So, in relation to
the increase of pay of congressman, de-
sire that they do not be understood by
said votes as approving or indorsing the
action Of the congressman therein refer
red 10, but voted against the passage Of
the resolution for the reasons that they
did not know the provisions of the act
of congress under which said pay was
drawn. They believe that the action
Of said congressman, in taking in
creased pay, was q question for the peo-
pie whom said congressman represent
ed, and not for the legislature"
The above explanation was signed by
Y. Smithson, 5. i. n. Patton, James
Hamilton, W. p. Jones, J. A Mccall,
Robert McKenna, +. b. Snipes, T. +.
Allison and r. w. Robertson.
The following are senate bills on third
reading: To restore tne corporate linn
its Of Memphis; rejected. To protect
ex-federal and ex-confederate soldiers
who have been tried and acquitted for
offences committed during the war;
passed. To repeal an act OF January 2,
1870, which permits railroads Of the
State to buy any legally issued six per
cent. bonds Of the State, and to return
them TO the comptroller in liquidation
Of their obligations to the State;
passed.
The house made slight amendments
10 the senate assessment bill on the
third reading, not getting beyond the
sixteenth section before the hour for ad-
i0urument.