Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-14
CanitOI Notes.


NushNlllc American l3,I
Thirty-two new bills were intro.
duced In the house yesterday. making
the total number introduced this SEES,
sion 436 bills.
The judiciary committee of the
house has fifty bills before it for in.
vestigation.
The buncombe manufacturers have
about turned their last wheel in the
house. Only two or three struggling
resolutions are now offered daily,
Petitions asking the passage of a
local option law were presented in the
house yesterday from the following
counties: Marshall, Jefferson. War
rem, Coffee, Cannon, Lincoln. Mont
gomery, Henderson, Monroe, Loudon.
Dickson, Cheatham, Greene, Bradley,
Washington, Smith, Cooke, Maury'
Lawrence, Upton, Carter, White, Bed
ford, Gibson, Sumner, Obion, Hardin.
Carroll, Williamson, Trousdale, Hay-
wood, Crockett, Roane, Franklin.
Granger, Hamblen, Weakley, Robert
son, Grundy and Wilson.
There are now 267 bills in the house
on their second reading.
The election of the following named
county superintendent Of public in
struction was yesterday reported to
State Superintendent Trousdalo
Dyer-Rev. A. j. Hall, Newbern.
Cumberland = VIM. A. Hawley,
C~rossville.
Bledsoe-Thomas o. Brown, Pike
vile.
0verton-L. H. Carlock, Oakley.
Decatur-W. H. H.. Mcmillan, De-
~caturville.
T~hirty-one counties have, so far.
failed to make a report.
The following bill, to amend sections
1861 and 1863 Of the code, passed its
third reading in the house yesterday:
That nc licensed grocer, or drug
gist, or other person in this State,
shall retail spirits, vinOus fermented
liquors, wine, ale or beer, or any
other intoxicating liquor, on Sunday,
either by himself, agent, clerk or
other person, except by way Of pre-
scription Of some practicing physician;
and, if any physician shall give a GER
tiicate to any person, except for
medical purposes, he shall be guilty Of
a m%isdemeanor and subject to such
fine as the court may fix.
That section 1863 of the Code be
so amended as to read, that any person
who sells, gives or delivers to any
minor or to any other person, for the
use of said minor, any of the liquors
specified in the preceding section,
without a written permit from the
parent, guardian or other person
having the care Of such minor, is
a misdemeanor, except as provided for
in the first section, and that as the
penalty for a violation of this act
or any part Of it the parties so offend
ing shall Be find S25 and imprisoned
in the county Jail for ten days"
In introducing his tramp bill yes.
terday, Senator Roberts stated that it
was, with one or two slight changes,
the same as the New Hampshire tramp
law of 1873, which he had cut from
the American yesterday morning.
Apropos to this important question,
the following from the Madison (Wis.)
Democrat is suggestive:
There is a strong bill in the legisla-
ture, In which professional tramps
have some Interest. 1t contains some
stringent and perhaps wholesome
measures, one of which being public
logging of the worst victims of vaga-
bondage. This bill was before the
committee of the whole of the assem-
bly, yesterday morning, and received
about three hours attention. Many
and the most varied opinions were
expressed, regarding the whipping
business, All the members were in
favor of adopting some measures to
break up the professional tramp sys-
tym-that regular cooperative branch,
the members of which have secret
signs of communication, and has
been noticed in our own city.
The opinion appears to be that
there is nothing too stringent or swift
in its operations for such fellows.
One thing was demonstrated in the dis
c%ussions, yesterday, that the honest,
law-abiding, thrifty people of Wis
consin intend TO make make matters
lively for tramps hereafter. This class
Of humanity will do well to Jump
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