Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-03-13

rails to every yard; each rail on the
| fence costs two and half cents, OF
+ ten cents for every yard, and to fence
one twenty-ive-acre field will cost one
/ hundred and thirty-eight dollars. Now,
/ taking the population OF the county by
/ the last census, and the amount Of taxa
[ ble property IN the county as laid down
/ IN Colonel killebrew's Resources Of
I tennessee, and the rate Of taxation
1 seventy five cents on the one hundred
/ dOllars-We find the State and county
/ tax amounts to about one dollar and
| eighty cents per capita. The fence tax
! Is more than the State, county and school
! tsX combined. But this is for new
fence entire, aud this tax will
be upon them only once in
about eight or nine years; this is
a tax of over five per cent. on the mar
ket value Of our fSrms-a tax that would
be considered oppressive il that amount
were levied for State and county pur-
poses. There is no doubt but we eXpend
four times as much money in fencing
our stock out than would be required to
fence it i'm
Mr.. Greer, of Shelby, said he claimed
to be an original granger, and said this
bill is one OF the most important before
the legislature. He claimed that the
actual amount Of money now invested
in Shelby county will not fall short OF
three million dollars.
The bill passed third readip"
TOBE THOROUGHLY ~ hSlIu uAIED'
Tbo Non, O.J,ans Times having re-
itarat,j rus charge that the Shelby cOun-
~ delegation had been bribed to support
Mr.. johnson in bis senatorial race, those
members demanded to-day full and
complete investigation Of the matter,
or at least Senator'S Haynes and Over
ton did, and it is understood they were
acting on behalf of the entire delegation.
At the request of Mr.. Overton, Mr..
QusTles drafted the following:
WHEREAS, The senate recently ap-
pointed a committee to Oinvestigate ceT-
tain general charge originating with the
New Orleans lanes, duplicating the
members Of this general assembly rep
resenting the county of Shelby in a We
nal and corrupt exercise of their official
duty; and whereas, said charge has been
repeated with aveTment of the specific
evidence of the alleged improper con-
duct, be it therefore
ResolUed, That a Joint committee,
consisting of three on the part of the
senate and - on the part Of the house,
be invested with power to send for per-
SONS and papers and to administer Oaths,
to the end that a searching examination
may be made, and that they make their
report to this general assembly.
The resolution was discussed at length
and with considerable feeling by the
members OF the senate, and was finally
adopted, Senators Quarles, Wade and
Blizzard being appointed on the COM
mittee. No douBt a visit to Memphis
will be made soon in. accordance with
the New Orleans TinleS's suggestion.
HELP FOR THE DESTITUTE.
There was some discussion in the
senate to-day over the house bill author
izlng the counties of Montgomery,
Stewart, Houston, Benton and Dickson,
to issue bonds to the amount of ten
Thousand dollars each for the purpose of
purchasing supplies for destitute citi-
zens of those counties. Mr.. Quarles
moved to amend by striking out Mont
gOmery county, and then urged the pas
sage OF the bill. He said that the dis
tress in Stewart and Houston was
caused by the closing of the iron works
in that section, most Of which sus-
pended operations last January in con-
Of the low price Of iron. The
sufferers referred to are the employees of
the iron works and have heretofore de-
pended upon them entirely for support,
raising no crops whatever. He said the
generous people Of the counties in which
the works are located bad freely con.
tributed OF their substance, and are
willing to continue such contributions,
but wish to do it through the county
court, by the issuance of bonds, and
now ask the authority to do so. The
discussion was based upon the alleged
unconstitutionalityro the bill as drawn,
but it finally passed second reading as
amended by Mr..Quarles.
THE RATE OF TAXATION.
Heads resolution declaring it to be
the sense of this general assembly that
the rate of taxation for the ensuing two
years should not exceed twenty-five
cents on the hundred dollars, having
been rejected by large majority, the
author Of the same, taking it for granted
that the members of the house do not
know their own mind on this subject,
introduced bill to-day fixing the rate
of taxation at that figure.