The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-04
THE LEGISLATURES.

BCA0la al county cISCJlOu, anu majority
OF all the voters voting in said general
election, voting in favor of license, then
license shall issue as provided by law.
A bill was introduced making the ne
cessary appropriations for the Insane
Asylum. Senate bill to the fraudulent
appropriation of property under fifty
dollars a misdemeanOr, after being dis
eussed the greater part. of the day, final
ly passed.
In the House, Mr.. Finlay procured
the adoption OF a resolution to have
speedy official report of necessary ap-
preparations. Mr.. Brooks offered a res
olution providing for adjournment sine
die March 20. The bill "for the redemp
ton of the bonded Indebtedness of the
State" was discussed very FULLY, and the
motion to strike out the enacting clause
was lost by vote of 10 ayes, Al noes.
On the Goth in the Senate Mr.. Quarles,
from the Judiciary Committee, reported
Senate bill providing for tax on dogs,
with amendments, recommending its
passages also Senate bill to protect the
rights Unmarried women. Considerable
discussion was ELECTED, partly of hui
mOrous character, after which the bill
passed, ayes 10, noes 8. The bill, as
passed, provides that all personal prop
erty belonging to any married woman,
whether acquired before or after mar
riage, shall be exempt from the debts
contracted, and other liabilities of her
husband, made or incurred by him be-
fore marriage; but nothing in this act
shall be so construed as TO affect or inn
pair the marital rights of the husband
in the wife's personally, other than as
above provided.
In the House Mr.. Gates offered a reso-
luton looking to a consolidation of all
financial schemes by joint select COM
m!5tee. Another fever for new bills
made itself manifest. The House bill
restoring the per cent, legal interest
was passed under a quick call of the
previous question, by a vote of AZ to 20.
The bill abOlishing the office of Revenue
Collector, and imposing the duties of
the office for State, county and NUM-
cipal taxes upon the County Trustee,
was passed on its final reading by a
clear majority. The reformatory spirit
Of the House found further vent in the
adjustment of the Quorum Courts, and
was on the eve of reducing the term and
membership of the County Courts, when
an adjournment interviewed.
In the Senate on the 9th Mr.. Turley
introduced joint resolution, which lies
over, to appoint a joint committee to
nancial relief of the people, and report
as early as practicable. The following
new bills were introduced: By Mr..
Quarles, to authorize back school tax
now in the hands of the proper account
ing officers, to be paid to teachers hold
ing warrants for teaching, to pay for
which said tax was levied. By Mr..
Alden, to repeal the law providing for
the sale of lands which have been sold
for taxes due State, and bought in by
Collectors of Revenue. Senate bill to
establish a Bureau of Agriculture, Sta
tistics and Mines, passed third reading
unanimously. Senate bill to encourage
and protect wool growing by tax on
dogs, passed third reading. 1t provides
for a yearly tax of 81 on each dog or
speyed bitch, and $3.50 on each unspey-
ed bitch, one-half to go to the State, and
the other half to pay for sheep killed or
manned, etc. House bill to repeal the
conventional interest law was taken up
on its first reading. On putting the
vote the bill was rejected on a division
by one majority. Subsequently a mo-
ton to reconsider was entered by Mr..
Haynes, and a motion on the table fail
ed. Then the matter was passed over
informally, leaving the bill rejected
with a motion entered to reconsider the
vote.
In the House, the House bill to pro-
vide for buying State bonds and past
due coupons, at price not higher than
sixty cents with all surplus funds, after
paying the current expenses of the State,
was tabled on second reading. Senate
joint resolution relative to the improve
ment of the mouth of Mississippi was
laid OH the table. Mr.. Heads resolution
declaring it as the sense of the body
that a 25 cent tax was sufficient to meet
the requirements of the State, was dis
cussed nearly all day and during the
night session, without coming to vote.
In the Senate on the 9th Mr.. Hodges Of
fered a bill abolishing all the Chancery
Courts in the State except those of Nashville
and Memphis The question of conventional
interest came mp egaIn on a Senate bill on
third reading, which provides, as did the
House bill, for O repeal Of the conventional
interest. Ike bill was the subject of pro-
longed discussion, and finally failed for want
of a majority, the vote standing ayes IL, noes
II. II is claimed by the friends Of the bill
that they can pass it, with the twentY-ffth
man present to vote.
In the House a long list of bills was ad-
vanced on the calendar by being passed on
second reading without discussion, with the
understanding that they would be discussed
on third and final reading. Mr.. Ledgerwood
and Mr.. Gibson spoke on the subject of fl
nances, Mr.. Ledgerwood insisting that the
present tax burdens must be lightened, and
Mr.. Gibson urging the importance Of his
coupon tax" bill which was aiterward or
dered printed.
On the 2sth in the Senate Mr.. Logan's res
olutIon, pledging the honor credit of the
State to the payment of the interest on its
bonded debt, and the payment of the just in
debtedness of the State, was taken up. The
Committee of Ways and Means recommended
the rejection of the resolution, on the ground
that the subject was 3 matter OF too great
moment to be disposed of by resolution.
The resolution was rejected, ayes 3, noes
Ii. The following is the vote;
Ayes Messrs. Alden, Blizzard, Jordan,
Logan, Marchbanks, Quarles, Trotter, Wade,
and Speaker Paine--9.
Noes-Messrs. Boyd, Buchanan, Ellis,
Emmert, Haynes, Hodges, Jones, Mayre,
MOsely, Overton, Polk, Smith, Turley,
Wilson-14,
Two or three Senators explained their
votes to the effect that they opposed the res
olution not because they were against sus-
tanning the State credit, but because mere
resolution was not worth more than the pa
per it was written on. The House resolution
looking 70 the investigation of the Trustee
ship Of the Bank of Tennessee was laid on
the table, Mr.. Blizzard enter d motion. TO
reconsider the vote by which Senate bill re-
pealing the conventional interest law failed
of passage. The fact is something like u
In the House bill passed on its third rea-
ding reducing the number # magistrates
who shall sit in quarterly county courts oae-
half, one from district at a time alternate
ly. The bill was discussed on its consti-
and passed by more than two
thirds vote. In the afternoon Mr.. Heads
resolutions were taken up
as the special order. After considerable de-
bate q motion to table the resolution failed,
and tho resolutions in lieu, of Mr.. Hurt,
adopted, which expressly disolsim any idea
of population, and refer the whole subject o f
finance 70 the Committees of Finance, Ways
and Means Of both bodies. The vote on the
adoption of the resolutions in lieu, when first
taken, stood: ayes 81, noes 50, which would
have killed the resolutions in lieu, but three |
changed from "no'' to "aye," Mr.. |
Noblitt changing in order TO move to recon
slider.
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