The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-02-20
SENATE.
THURSDAY, February 10, !.
THIRTY NINTH DAY.

THURSDAY, February ~, lSoO.
Senate met pursuant to adjournment, Lieut..
Gov. Sims in the chair. Prayer by Rev
DR.. Hunter.
The journal of yesterday was read and ap'
proved.
Several of the standing committee made re-
ports. 80
was unanimously adopted:
A Joint Resolution in relation to the yellow
fever epidemic of 1878.
Whereas. The assembling of the Legislature
of Mississippi for the first time since the fatal
endemic of yellow fever by which our citi-
zens were scourged in the summer and au-
tumn of 1878, suggests the proprety OF some
nermanent memorial of that affecting calaml-
Nv and of some official recognition Of that
xorld- wide charity which it worked. Seldom
in recent history has the human family been
smitten by disease so sudden, so widespread,
80 fatal aud which SO successfully baftied the
researches of science, alike as to its origin and
its cure Originating, so far as the United
States is concerned, in our nelghborlng city
of New Orleans it leaped at single bound to
the town of Grenada, II distance OF more than
900 miles, and Frustrated more than NIFTY We
tins before the wisest of the medical profes-
sion suspected its existence. Thence rapid
lv ooreading to many towns and cities IN our
~ State and in Tennessee, il made its way
az nm endemic as far North as Paducah, KY,
and in sporadic form to Louisville, Cincin-
natl and St. Louis. In the brief space OF four
montbs more than q hundred thousand per-
cons we're stricken down, of whom
twenty-fiye thousand died. Our own
neople were called upon to mourn the
deaih of thousands Of our best citizens IN
every rank and condition Of life: 1t attacked
rich and poor lofty and lowly alike. NO
-. rda off
no poyerty or obscurity escaped its attack.
Such was the terror eddy its approach
that cities and towns were depopulated by the
outbreak of single case, while the places that
esraped its ravages guarded their avenues OF
onnroach by armed men who pitilessly re-
nailed the flying victims from less fortunate
localities Business suspended the lines OF
travel and Of commerce we're broken up ana
thronoh q large portion of our territory ioI
rnaU months, men had no other occupation
sove 70 care for the sick, and no other thouL hi
Than how to stay The ravages of the plague
In the hours Of darkest gloom, there came
nm outhurst of spontaneous charity-world
wide and all-embracng. Wherever TIM
t;d;nos of our ealamities Travelled, the heart
ofmen were touched, and their purses opened
for our relief From England and France, anC
Germany and Russia there came contrlDu
t;ops for our fever stricken people Our Sis
tor
on and waiting in hourly dread of being them
selves attacked. forgot not our distress, Will,
our more fortunate Northern brethren seemed
O. determined that the memomory OF our mis-
wv should be forgotten in the magnitude o
ssir bounty, that the future historian vii
IN, whether the year 1878 must be charac
uouo. 5 as darkened by the direct ealamlt.
ter iiIs; asted by the most splendid charity
OF Hum! ,es. From everycity AID town an
.1aff MQI ms n a.
village anu r. l. 'da line to the Ohio river
rom from 'he ~anI ,ut steady stream 0
there poureu 'eh swelled higher an
consripu,,JhL9 o," No cessation or abatemen
higner, ana - nv" feVered brow to b
80 coo ,T or dead body to be buried The rlGl
gave their thousands, the CO SaiIars ,v .I
hundreds, and the poor their "l"'S, VIZ
little children and bsggar won, ..;Sppif;o
their dimes and pennies into the con. 49,,
boxes which in every public place apl GOV
for the relief of the people of the South. :,
was no short lived charity, which died as sud
denly as it had sprung up, but through all the
weary DAYS grew larger and larger and ceased
not until the enormous sum OF one mliilol
three hundred thousand dollars had beef
poured in upon us, and we ourselves begge'
them to desist.
The Legislature of Mississippi feels that.
will not do its duty if it fails to put upol
record some fitting memorial Of this unparal
eled charity, and give expression to the near
felt gratitude which then stirred the hearts
our people, and which grows deeper with Tn
lapse of time; therefore, :
BE it resolved, BY the Legislature OF tn
State of Mississippi, That to the friends OF NJ
manity throughout the world, who, during IN
dreadful epidemic with which our peopi
were afflicted in the summer and autumn
1875, heard our cries of distress and 50 gel
erously poured out the offerings OF their chsl
ity in our behalf, we return the heartfe
thanks of a grateful people, and to our fellow
citizens of the Northern States who nobiy lie
the way in this work of mercy, we desire in q
especial manner to express our gratltud
They have shown themselves as noble In gel
erosity as they were powerful in war, an
they have convinced the world that despl
the unhappy differences of the past we al
one people in heart as well as in nationalit
Be it further resolved, That the papers
the State and of the country at large be 7
quested to publish this preamble and resol
lions.
The following House concurrent resOluti'
was passed:
Resolved, (the Senate concurring) That t
Joint Committee on Code be and they a
hereby authorized to incorporate such amen
ments to the various Chapters OF the Code
NAV be adopted BY both Houses, so as to ear
out the spirit and intent of said amendmen
and at the same time preserve the symmet
of the law; and for that purpose they may ma
such verbal changes in said amendments
win best serve to accomplish the emu
view
The following was laid on the table subj
TO call:
Resolved. hy the Heuse, 1.-THE Senate Gomez
ringl That the Speaker Of this House and
President of the Senate do adjourn their T
pective bodies sine die on Saturday, the
day Of February, 1880, at4 e'clockp P. m
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr.. Cowan offered joint resolution In
gard to pay Of Senate employees Referred
: select Committee of three.
xKw Bills.
By Mr.. J. P. Carter
An act to amend paragraph ga Of Code