The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-02-16
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
SENATE-THIRTY SIXTH DAY.


matte Asylum, and TO report whether the
| contracts were carried out properly; anu Ii
| not, whether any bonds were gwen lot the
performance of the contracts, ana Wnetner
the securities on said bonds are not llaole
| for any. failure e perform sald contract
| Adopted.
Mr.. Gray (col) moved to reconsider the
vote bv which the bill to change the name
| of the seat of justice of lssaquena was
passed; tabled; yeas, p; ays-Messrs Al
/ bright Gray, Shirley, Smith, stewart, Iut-
| tie and White-7.
! Mr.. TAYLOR moved to reconsider the vote
| bv which III. B., to authorize Union county
| to pay to Lee county certain school taxes,
was passed.
Mr. TAYLOR asked to be excused from the
| Committee on Corporations.
By Mr. Chalmers: That Messrs. Barry
and Griffin be substituted on the Committee
| on Corporations, for Messrs. Taylor and Ev-
erett; adopted.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. TAYLOR. chairman, reported II. B. to
| amend section 1891. Code OF 1871, in relation
| to dover; Ii, 3. to amend section 2297, Code
of 1871 in relation to mortgages, ETC., with
amendments; 5. B. TO amend the laws in
Il reference co quo aodrrdnt0, recommending
| that they do pass; also, ). Il. to pre-
vent the buying and receiving of sto-
len goods at night; 5. b. 10 change
the fees for marriage licenses; 5. B.
TO amend section 1891, Code OF 1871, in rela
ton to malfeasance of Supervisors; S. 3.
regulating the recording of mortgages, ETC.,
with the recommendation that they do not
pass.
Mr.. Furong, chairman, reported Senate
bills: To repeal the law transferring the in
debtedness of the Mississippi Central Rail-
road to the Greenville q Columbus Rail-
road and relating TO the carriage of pas
sengers on freight trains, with the recon-
mendaton that they do pass.
Mr. Sims chairman, reported ,. b. TO en-
courage immigration, with amendments,
and recommending that it do pass.
Mr. Chalmers, Chairman, reported House
bills: To incorporate the Marshall County
= Manufacturing Company; to repeal the act
t extending the limits of NatcheZ; to repeal
the Rankin County Masonic Institute anti
liuuor law; to amend the charter of Green
: vile: to sell the poOr-hOuse of Madison
county; 20 reduce the corporate limits of
Oxford; to reduce the corporate limits of
Taylor's Depot; TO repeal the anti liquor
law of Louisville; to incorporate Whitfield :;
also, S. b. to incorporate the Stansberry
Manufacturing Company, recommending
that they do pass. Also, House bills to
amend the charter of OkolOna, and to incor-
porate the French Camp Educational Asso-
citation, with amendments, recommending
that they do pass.
9 SENATE BILLS
!, To prevent the buying or receiving of
t to indefinitely postpone; lost. The bill lies
over.
s Mr.. McCaskill moved to reconsider the
: vote whereby the Senate refused to put on
its passage the bill to prevent the sale at
o night of cotton, corn, ETC., and the motion
n lies over.
SPECIAL ORDER.
The Senate salary bill. with House amend
j ments was taken up. Mr.. Chalmers moved
= TO concur in the House amendments as IA
whole. Mr.. FurlOng moved to table; car
q ried. Mr.. Reynolds moved to consider them
9 one by one; carried; and the following
. action was taken To reduce the salary OF
s the Governors Private Secretary from
j., $1,000 to $780, the Senate refused to concur
9 The salary of Lieut-Governor from $500
e to 'shall be the same as the salary and
per diem of the Speaker of the House"
concurred in. The State Treasurer to be
4 ear oficto treasurer of the educational and
! charitable institutions, etc, and to have a
I clerk to perform the additional duties, at
! 81 900 per annum-concurred in; Attorney
General, from $4,000 to $4,000; the Supreme
: Judges from $1,000 to $500; Circuit
o Judges, from $4,000 to So 500; District At
, torneys, from 81 $50 to $1000-concurrence
q refused; to insert for Superintendent OF
q Education, ST 800 - concurrence refused
Librarian, from 500 to $500. and Superin-
e tendent of Pententiary, from $4,000 to
+ $1,000, were cOncurred in; TO consolidate
the offices of Superintendent of Blind, and
n Deaf and Dumb Institutes, at 81 ,200--con-
currence refused; also refused to concur in
the amendment relating to the salary OF
members of the Legislature.
] LIEUTENANT-GoVERN DAVIS IMPEACHED
Y The Committee of the House, Messrs
White, Hall and Jayne, entered the bar OF
the Senate, and presented the following:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AS select committee
q appointed by the House of Representatives
for such purpose, we now appear at the bar
u OF the Senate, and as directed, do i'm the
V name of the House of Representatives and
OF all the people of the State of Mississippi
e lmpeach Alexander IA. Davis, Lieutenant
!. Governor of the State of Mississippi, ofhigh
crimes and misdemeanOrs, and we do ac-
e quaint the Senate that the Honse of Repre-
sentatives will, in due time, exhibit partic
ular articles OF impeachment rganst him
r and make good the same; and in the name
] of the House of Representatives we
= do demand that the Senate take or
t der for the appearance of the said Alexan-
der *. Davis TO answer said impeachment
BY Mr.. Taylor; Resolved, That the mes
D sage of the House of Representatives. re-
o latlnS to the impeachment of Alexander
n Davis, Observation-Disclosures of the State
y of Mississippi, be referred. to Select Com
, mittee of five, to be appointed by the chair.
to consider and report thereon; adopted.
g Committee: Messrs. Taylor, Chalmers, Few
ell, Reynolds and Smith.
, EXECUTIVE SESSION.
: The Senate spent some time in executive
session,
a LAWS BY APPROVAL.
The Governor informed the Senate that
, he has approved the following Senate bills :
l TO amend the charter of Baldwin, Lee and
PrentiSs counties, in relation to certain
State bonds in the Treasurer's office, and TO
+ amend the act re-establishing the records
6 in the office of J. s. Morris, Justice of the
Peace In Lauderdale county, approved,
Feb. 10 1875.
, SENATE BILLS.
To amend the law in relation to quo acqr-
rGnt0 passed.
10 change the fees for marriage license
was indefinitely postponed
MT HOOKER chairman, reported the pres
! entation of large number OF bills TO the