The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-04-03
The Legislature.
THURSDAY.

Senate.-Mr. Byrd offered {
resolution providing for a settle
ment at fifty cents and four anC
five per cent. interest.
Mr.. Savage moved TO suspend
the rules and submit the bond
holders proposition to the people
The Senate refused to suspend
the rules and Mr.. Byrd's resolu.
ton went over.
Senate bill to provide revenue
was amended so as TO fix the
State tax at ten cents and limit
the levy by counties, to thirty
cents and then passed third read
ing.
The following House bills pass.
ed third reading to change and
fix the time of holding: the
Chancery Court of Knox county,
to require Supreme Court clerks
to pay to the clerks of inferior
courts money and fees upon Ger
tilted orders; to prohibit specula-
ton in witness fees and to de-
clare Clinch river navigable.
House.-The regular order,
Senate bill to settle the State
debt at forty cents and four per
cent. interest, came up, with Mr..
Stovall's amendment to substi-
tute fifty cents.
Mr.. Butler spoke at length in
favor of fifty cents and arraigning
the Democrats.
Mr.. Stovall moved the previ.
Gus question on the adoption of
his amendment. Agreed to, 80
to 81.
Mr.. Fowlkes offered an amend
ment that railroads be assessed
to pay one hundred thousand
dollars annually. The previous
question was called and the
amendments adopted, forty-nine
to sixteen.
Mr. Anderson offered an amend
ment that no proposition be sub
mitted to the people, nor that the
Legislature be convened until
the Governor had communicated
with the bondholders and obtain
ed the acceptance of said propo-
sition from an equal number to
that amount as now proposed to
take sixty cents. Adopted, fl to
80. The bill as amended passed
second reading, 81 to 81.
SATURDAY.
Senate.-House bill to repeal
the charter Of Athens finally
passed.
Senate bill appointing a Regis
ter of the Land Office, and for the
sale of certain lands on the Hol-
ston river, finally passed.
After a great deal oftillibuster-
ing and exciting discussions, the
House amendment to the bill to
adjust the State debt at fifty
cents, was concurred in by a vote
Of Is to 10.
The following appointments Of
the Governor were confirmed: Su-
perintendent Of Public Instruc-
ton, Leon. Trousdale, Of Shelby !;
Superintendent Of the State Pris-
on, Nathan Bond, Of Lincoln /;
Commissioner of Agriculture,
Statistics and Mines, j. b. Kill
brew, of Montgomery Trustees
for the Hospital Of the insane,
Geo. w. Jones, Of Lincoln /; T..
Nixon VanDyke, of McMinn W.
NJ. Wright, of Carroll (; Warden Of
the Penitentiary; Lon. Blizzard OF
McMinn; Deputy Warden, Fred.
Cross, of Rutherford. Arbitration
Court for West Tennessee, John
l.. Il. Sneed, of Shelby, j. w.
Cochran, Of Obion; Howell l..
Jackson, Of Madison Middle
Tennessee, w. z. Hickerson, Of
Coffee, Thomas NJ. Jones, OF
Giles, John L. Gardner, Of Rob
ertson; for East Tennessee, j. B..
Cook, of Hamilton, Jas. Shields,
of Grange, Henry IL. lngersoll,
OF Knox.
House,-Mr. Beasley desired to
enter a protest characterizing the
State debt bill as the offspring of
an unholy alliance between the
Democrats and Republicans. Oh
,jections were raised to the Ian
guage it contained, and it was
withdrawn, to be offered at ano-
ther time. 1t was reported that
there were over $4,000 volumes
in the State Library. Senate
bills to levy a tax Of ten cents for
1879, and succeeding years, and
prohibiting the levy of a greater
tax than thirty cents by counties;
to repeal the charter of Greene
vile; to reduce the bonds Of Reg
listers; passed third reading. Most
of the day was consumed in the
consideration OF appro priation
bills.
MONDAY.
SENATE.-The appropriation bill
was returned to the House for
amendments.
House bill to abolish corpora