Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-13
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
NASHVILLE. TESS.. March u. 1877.
1t is understood that the legisla-
ture will adjourn on or about the
t~wenty-sixth day of March, that
being the time when the four dol
lars per diem will cease. A major
ity cannot be found in this or any
other legislature to stay longer than
seyenty-fve days and board them
selves and work for nothing. There
remains two weeks more of actual
time. Only eight bills have become
laws. In the house very few SEN
ate bills are pending on third read
ing, and not a great many are
likely to get beyond a second read
ing. The last legislature passed
one hundred and forty laws this
one win not pass forty. In the
house one hundred and seventy
four resolutions have been intro
duced about thirty Of which have
passed. The senate has passed a
smaller number.
EXTRA SESSION.
There seems to be a general i'm
preston that it will be necessary to
convene the legislature in extra
session early in the summer. This
depends greatly upon the success
OF failure of the committee now in
New York to confer with the bond
holders. Colonel Savage, the
chairman, was in the late canvass
the most emphatic and pronounced
low tax man in the State, and occu-
pied an extreme position. He is
in his element now, and if success
full will make a bigireputation. He
said before leaving here that he
might agree to settle at 33t per
cent. on the dollar, but Cd the
man who said $780," What a ire
mendous change has taken place
in public sentiment, even since
1875, when we had a few men in
the Legislature who favored any
rate of taxation necessary to pay
interest and principal Of the debt.
Now there is not such a man heard
of. The last interest in full has
been paid out. The $500, 900 paid
out last year by Governor Porter,
under a severe and as l think mis-
taken sense of duty, IS gone, but
such an action is not likely to
be repeated by this or any future
governor, even if the opportunity
presented. The governor seems as
anxious as anybody else to
see an honorable compromise ac-
complished, and has indicated that
if necessary he will convene the
legislature in extra session. The
expectation that this will be done,
and that the call may embrace cey.
eral subjects and some of the un.
finished business of the present SEES
sion, may account for the tendency
to retard and defer the work 0
practical legislation SO apparent
This is not a fixed purpose of course
but a vague, intangible and une1
pressed feeling which has grown u
into almost living, moving EMIT
almost an accomplished fact. S
l think the prospects Of twent
days session in the spring, or abou
the time crops are laid by, highl
promising.
SPEAKER TALIAFERRO.
This young man is one of tn
best speakers that has ever PR
sided over a legislative body in Ter
nessee. lie is from the town {
Pulaski, Giles county, a localit
that has produced SO many gre,
men. This youth is the "ta
sycamore" Of the Richland. Il
is somewhere between six and eigl
feet high; certainly not less than 81
feet five inches in his stocking
His age is only twenty-seven. Z
is a lawyer, and married. Seem
him for the first time one would
impressed by a modest, difider
and rather awkward manner. H
face is beardlesS as a boys, his hal
complexion and eyes rather ligh
and he appears to be about twent,
two years old. But when he risr
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