The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-01-17

Employees of the Senate 40 ~
Secretary of Senate - Tle M M
One Enrolling Clerk, ~ ~
Oae Journal Clerk. .i.........,-...o w
Total. ..~......,.,....:.. F1o W
One Sergeant alarms .......... 20 W
Two Pages, 81 so each. w
Three Porters, 81 80 each. .......-... oo
Nj, SIG so !
One Door Keeper. w
Report received. f.-....--.--.,
Mr.. Spight moved to take up Senate Joint
Resolution to provide for salaries OF onlcers
and employees of the Legislature. Cartied,
Mr.. Tison offered an amendment, when
was taken up item by item. First ITEM
For the Clerk of the House, $40. Mr.. Nets
moved to strike out and insert $l4. MI
Gibson moved to table. Carried. Mr.. NETS
moved to insert S12. Mr.. Tison moved 20
out $40 and insert So. Mr.. Pegram moved
| to table, and the item was adopted. Secono
| item: For Journal Clerk, So. adopted.
Third item: For Enrolling Clerk, $6. Al
opted. Fourth item: For Assistant En-
rolling Clerk, 81. Adopted. Filth l.em:
For Sergeant at Arms, So Adopted. Sixth
item: Three pages at ST each. Mr.. Nets
moved to insert ST. so. Lost. Mr.. Spight
moved to make the mum Der four. Adopted,
/ and the item was adopted. seventh ltet III
One messenger for the speaker at 9i'
| Eighth item: Three porters at So. Adopted.
Ninth item: For Door-keeper, 81. Adopted.
Mr.. Gibson.moved to strike out $l5 for SER
| geant-at-Arms of the Senate and insert $lo.
Adopted and the joint resolution was pass
/ ed.
ing the Librarian to furnish stationery TO
| members. Passed. -,
Mr.. Tison, chairman of the Ways and
| Means Committee, reported two bills, Win
substitutes, that they do pass. The report
| was takenrup. q
Fl. b. to authorize the paymeut of inspec-
tors and clerks OF the late election. SUB
stitute adopted. Mr.. Street moved to insert
s.that clerks and inspectors at future eiec-
tons shall receive no pay" Adopted.
/ Mr.lMiller of Copiah, offered an amend
menu, which was tabled, and the bill passed.
j Mr.. Moore moved to suspend the rules to
allow him to introduce bill. Lost.
i FL B. for the relief of Caleb Collier, of
Jefferson county; substitute adopted, and
the bill passed.
Mr.. Street, chairman OF special commit
tee on coditication of the laws, reported re-
commencing the appointment OF joint
standing committee on the chapters OF the
| Code. with Instructions to examine all acts
amending and changing the SAID chapters.
The report was made the special order for
Monday, January 18th, at l0a o'clock
AN IMPORTANT INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
i By member from one of the "North-
western" countless:
Whereas Rev Henry Ward Beecher and
other distinguished divines. by the an
nouncement that there is no he'll, threaten
to undermine the foundations of the earth,
and of society, thereby leaving an aching
| void in the material and moral universe and
at the same time greatlY increase the labors
of this Legislature in devising schemes for
the punishment of the guilty; and,
Whereas, We feel satisfied that an imme-
diate abolition of hell. before Beecher, Ben
Butler, Kellogg and Patterson of S. c., and
others too numerous to mention, have had
i their eases finally adjudicated, would be
abhorrent to that sense OF justice so deeply
seated in the people of this nation; there
fore, be it
| Resolved, That the Committee on Propo-
sitiOns and Grievances be instructed to con-
slider whether in truth there is hell, and il
t so, whether it is not better to bear this
grievance than fly to others we know not
of; and il said committee shall determine
that there is no hell, to inquire Of the afore-
said Beecher, in the classic language OF
Boss Tweed, "what are you going to dc
. about it 90
| Resolved, Thatsaid committee have power
to send for persons and papers, and thai
they be specially Instructed to summon the
devil, if there be devil, and demand tC
know of him, if there be no hell, what, in
spite of hell, he is driving at, and that his
! Satanic Majesty be required to appear at the
bar Of this House, and upon his corpora
. oath true answers make to all questions tha
may be .propounded to him, and especially
, to explain for the information of this Hous,
if there be no hell, with fire and birthstone
!, the true inwardness of that expression 81
common among the menbers-''Gen Jack
son, hell and bazes."
Resolved, That said committee do 90 +,
hell, and thence report by bill or otherwise
Il Mr. Applewhite moved to strike out tn.
. committees nam ed in the resolution and
insert the names Of the gentleman ferine
the resolution as a special committee @
one. Adopted, and the resolution was re
o ferred to said committee.
Mr.. Baker, chairman of Committee n,
Fees and Salaries, reported one bin. will
amendment, do pass, and one do not mass
ID. d. to regulate the salary of count,
treasurers. Committee amendment-Strik,
out 100 and insert 81 900. The amendman
was lost. Mr.. Cooper offered a snhst;,,aa
+ MT. Applewhite moved to recon M th,
Y Dill and substituted Carried.
n. b. TO reduce the fees Of sheriffs in 90 :.
tain cases 1.-THE allowance for feeding nris
|, oners,) do not pass. Mr.. Miller of ConiaI
!, moved to strike sout 80 cents and insert n
: cents. a-Ad frE On" i"soi' q
: Mr.. Lusk MOVED to re-commi.. carr;oa
!, Mr.. Street moved to take m tho Sa,eel
:, message on Joint rules. Carried. and. ON
!, MS further motion, the Senate amenlment
10 the report was rejected .......1.7s~- :,
, Mr.. McSWine, Chairman Of. the Commit
, zee on agriculture, reported two hills. dc
. pass; one with amendment, do pass. and ons
w not pass. The report was taken up
II. b. to amend section 1921 of tho IA. -
1911 In reference to trespasses OF stock. Dr.
, pass, and the bill passed.esf2 l4e -
> n. p. For the protection of fences. with
amendments, was rec0mmitted. - = :. : :
; n u. 70 husband certain fertilizers n,