Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-16
SENATE RTIIs ON THIRD READING.

/ 10 create new civil 0iStrlch IN the cOun-
ty Of Chatham. Passed.
To regulate the practice in change OF
venue. Passed.
To register two bonds of the State and to
fund their coupons. Rejected.
To make defendants competent witnesses
in certain cases. Rejected.
To regulate appeals to the Supreme
Court. Rejected.
To amend the Constitution. Passed.
To provide for the publication Of the
opinions Of the Supreme Court, requiring
the Supreme Court clerks TO furnish copies
Of decisions to Jas. Browne, editor Of the
Commercial Reporter.
To suppress drunkenness. Rejected.
To protect farmers and others from dep
relations from fence breaking cattle.
Passed.
To provide means 70 pay off county in
debtedness. Rejected.
To amend the charter Of the town Of
| Milan, Tenn. Passed.
To define the fiscal year to be observed
by the State ofhcers in making their reports.
Passed.
VETO MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR,
A message fom the Governor vetoing
Senate bill to repeal section q Of the act
passed March 3, 1869, entitled "an act to
amend the revenue laws Of the State, " was
submitted and read.
The Senate took a recess uutil 7:30 P. N.
Night Session.
The following Senate bills passed second
reading:
Directing tax collectors to pay the poll
/ tax to County Court Clerks; to limit the
time in which to recover usuriOus interest;
TO extend the limits Of the town Of POrters-
vile, and change its name to AtOks; to
| authorize back school tax TO be paid teach
ers holding warrants; to amend the charter
Of the town Of Milan; requiring trustees to
give bond; to defray the current expenses Of
| the Thirty-ninth General Assembly; to
amend the law in regard to the oath Of tax
payers; for the protection Of married
women, and children; and TO amend the
exemption laws.
MONSIEUR TONsON CONE AGAIN.
Senate bill to amend an act passed Feb.
| %, 1870 and making the conventional rate
Of interest per cent, came up on second
reading.
Mir. Haynes made the following point of
order on the bill:
The Senate has rejected already bill to
repeal the conventional rate Of interest, 1t
! being fixed as high as 10 per cent. Now
| 10 repeal the 10 per cent. and fix the rate
at Z per cent. cannot be entertained, as it
! is impossible to fix the rate al z per cent. |
without first repeating 10 per cent. The
object is really to repeal the 10 per cent. |
and not to establish Z per cent.
Mr.. Logan said he was prepared to argue |
that question and cited Cushing's Practice |
in Legislative Assemblies. He said We |
took our constitutional provision from the |
English Parliament, and read from author |
tiles to show that the bill was different in |
subject matter from those rejected, and, |
therefore, within the rule. The rejected /
bills were to repeal all laws allowing |
cOnvential rate of interest, this one to allow 1
a conventional rate up to Z per cent. Those /
rejected proposed to annul, repeal and wipe /
out the act of 1870; this was to modify only. /
The Speaker said: The Chair has de- /
cided that, in accordance with section 70, |
Of article 2 Of the Constitution, as well as
the various authorities On Parliamentary |
law, when a bill has once been rejected, |
the same in substance cannot be inserted |
into a law during the session; but be does
not think this bill strictly in substance to
these rejected heretofore; therefore, he de-
cides tie point Of order not well taken.
Mr. Logan moved then to pass the bill
over informally, WhereUpOn Mr.. Haynes
moved TO table the motion, upon which the
yeas and nays were.Ordered. The motion
to table it was lost-yeas Z, nays II.
NORMAN SCHOOLS.
Mr.. Hodges moved to take up the motion
entered to reconsider the vote rejecting Sen
ate bill to provide for the establishment of
normal schools, which prevailed, and the
Senate reconsidered its action and pro-
ceeded to the consideration Of the bill, on
third reading.
Mr.. Marye moved to amend by striking
out all after the word "whereaS" in the
eleventh line, and insert a new bill, the
provisions ofwhich are that a normal school
or schools may be located wherever in the
State the most eligible grounds and buildings
shall be offered gratuitOusly; it authorizes
the donation of money by the Peabody
fund, and by educational institutions and
private persons. & State Board Of six is
to be appointed by the Governor, with the
latter as President eI-OficiO. Pupils are to
be received between the ages Of 10 and 80.
The other features Of the bill are the same
as of the other normal school bills. Moth
ing is asked Of the State. The amendment
was adopted and the bill passed by a unan-
imOUs vote.
/
For the benefit Of the Tennessee School
FOR the blind. Passed.
SENATE BILLS or SECOND READING.
The following were all rejected: To
allow sherilis commissions on executions
when compromised; 10 exempt certain
property from execution; to regulate the
erection of wooden buildings in cities and
towns; to perfect the law in regard to mort
CAGES; to increase the school fund by a tax
on bachelors.
The Senate adjourned to 10 a. NJ. to-
morrow.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
MONDAY, March l5.-The House met at
10 a. NJ, Speaker Bond in the chair aud
ffty-fiVe members present.
NEW RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr.. Harris-Directing the Comptrol-
Ter to suspend settlement with G.. G. Dib-
brell, Bnder an act passed by the present
General Assembly until further instruc-
tions. Rejected.
By Mr.. BOWers-TO adjourn sine die on
the first day Of april (All Fools Day.) The
resolution was amended by inserting March
p, and was then rejected.
NEW BILLS.
By Mr.. GieTs-PrOyiding that the sale
Of beer and wine on Sundays shall not be a
misdemeanOr.
By the same-TO provide means fol
having Tennessee represented as the Cen
tennial Exhibition commencing at Phila-
delphia on May /, 1876. The bill contains
the recommendations Of the committee, as
published recently in the UNION AND
AMERICAN.
BY Mr.. Bower-To create an additional
notary public ia Giles county.
By Mr. Harriss-To repeal an act passed
March 6, 1876, authorizing the Comptroller
to settle with @. q. Dibbrell, receiver, etc.
By Mr.. McAIillan-To prevent public
drunkenness. The bill repeals the law
giving grand jurors discretionary power to
make presentments for drunkenness.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To release delinquent taxi payers from all
penalties on all aTearages for 1874. Re
jected.
Providing that hereafter magistrates shall
not be required to reduce testimony to
writing. Rejected.
To amend the charters Of turnpike COM
panies. Passed.
To amend the laws in regard to personal
representatives. Passed.