Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-20
SaVGge's Savage Personalities - The
Upon q Plan of Settlement of
the State Debt-The TOrbett
Issue Committee to Re-
port To-Day.
Special to the Appeal


NASHVILLE, March 19.-The twenty Re-
publicans of the legislature in caucus ap-
pointed Mr.. Wilt to draft bill to accept the
proposed compromise of the bondholders.
1t is generally rumored tonight that the
governor will send In special message to-
morrow recommending the adjustment of
the debt.
August Thompson, a representative of the
Pennsylvania bondholders, has forwarded a
bill here proposing to compromise the debt
at par in ffty-year bonds bearing two per
cent. interest for the first five years, three per
cent. for the next succeeding five years, three
per cent. for the next succeeding FIVE years,
and four per cent. thereafter to maturity
Of the bonds.
1t is intimated that the comm ittee on Tor
belts issue will Tomorrow report that the
State is liable for its payment, and that some
bill, like Leagues bill, will be passed.
Mr.. Leagues bill passed second reading
in the house to day. 1t provides for ex-
changing the Torbett issue into non-interest-
bearing treasury warrants, of denominations
from one to one hundred dollars, the entire
Issue not tC exceed eight hundred thousand
dollars; one-fourth TO be stamped on the face,
"For taxes, 1879" and so on for each year to
and including 1882; all notes taken In to be
Cancelled.
.Senate.-Mr. Savage occupied the floor
throughout the day feebly attempting to Ie
spond to Mr.. Clapp's incontrovertible and in
disputable arguments. 1t was full Of passion
and prejudice, and did not address itself to
reason or common sense. The only thing IN
it worth dispatching was the following col
loquy:
Mr. Savage said he was not to be i'm
pugned, maligned and slandered without
making defense.
Mr.. Clapp-If the senator says that 1
impugned him, or mahgned him, he is mis-
taken. If ANYTHING | said was SO interpreted
l wish to disclaim such intention.
Mr.. Savage-I said had been impugued
and criticised. l cannot understand what
the gentleman means.
Mr.. Clapp-The gentleman charges some
body with misrepresenting and slanderlng
him. l wish to know to whom he refers. l
spoke yesterday, and l remember that the
gentleman's reply was personally offensive.
| wish to set myself right, and TO set the gen.
tleman right, from the beginning.
Mr.. Savage said he supposed it was all
right for the senator from Shelby to refer to
the people as gang of assassins. He de-
sired to treat the senator respectfully, but he
intended to defend tie people. He had
right to believe that a gentleman who had
lived in State ike Mississippi, after leav-
ing it had no right to chandler this people.
Mr.. Clapp-I emphatically deny and chal-
lenge the senator from Warren on that point.
l lived for twenty years in Mississippi, and
| can go back there at any hour to be re-
man says l slandered that people, l deny and
denounce the charge as utterly without foun-
dalton.
Mr.. Savage-He repeated that old, worn
out song about Mississippi. Who is Missis-
sippi? She is this day educating thousands
of negro children, and Is now out of debt.
To criticise her is only matter of taste. The
senator had no right to dispute a matter of
taste.
Mr.. Clapp-It is not matter of taste. 1t
is a matter of fact.
Mr.. Savage-Very well. I'll get you di-
rectly. As matter of taste though, he had
rather be one of those hireling negroes of
Mississippi, working for life and education,
than the proud senator who had fed from
her borders and now abused her. The gen.
tleman had no right to object to that as a
matter of TASTE.
Mr.. Clapp- And you have no right to mis-
state my position.
Homse-Mr. Mathes, from the committee
on finance, reported that the committee not
having found it practicable or expedient to
consider the various bills pending for the set
Element of the State debt, l herewith return
the same without recommendation.
The senate bill to provide for the organi-
cation of corporations for the purpose of con-
structing sewers aud drains, referring es-
pecially to the Taxing District, passed third
reading.
The motion to reconsider the vote reject
ing the local option bill was taken up, and
a motion to table, the object of which was to
kill the bill, was lost.
Mr.. Snodgrass, from the majority of the
committee on the State debt, said he desired
to submit supplementary report.
Mr.. Lester said 1t would be an extraordi-
nary proceeding.
The speaker ruled the question out of order
on the ground that the committee had been
discharged.
Mr.. Snodgrass offered to withdraw the
words supplementary report. which was
also declared out of order. He then APP
pealed from the decision, when two-thirds of
the house rose TO their feet and excltedly
called for the yeas and nays, when Mr.. Snod-
grass withdrew it.
The house was Overwhelmingly in favor of
sustaining the speaker. This report is re
garded as an answer of the majority to
Messrs. Clapp and Smiths telling minority
report.
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