Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-08
Closing Scenes of the 42d General
Assembly Of Tennessee.
Both Houses Wind Up Their La
bors and Adjourn.
The Finishing Touch Given to the
One Hundred-Three Bill
By Providing The Revenue to
Meet the Payments.
Special Dispatch to the Chronicle.
NASHVILLE, April 7.


... NASHVILLE, April 7.
SENATE.-House bill to provide
for the ventilation of coal mines and
colhefies of this State, so as to por>
tect human life, was taken from the
table. The vote rejecting this bill
was reconsidered, and the bill pass
ed third reading.
House bill to provide revenue for
current expenses and the payment
of interest on the State debt was
passed.
A resolution returning thanks to
Mr.. Speaker Morgan for his impair
tial and courteous manner of per>
forming the duties of the chair,
was adopted unanimously.
A resolution by Mr., Perkins ex-
pressive of sympathy with Mr.. Par
nell and the suffering Irish in their
struggle for liberty, was adopted.
A similar resolution was adopted by
the house.
House bill ratifying the organiza-
ton of the Mississippi Central Rail
road Company and its consolidation
with the New Orleans, jackson and
Northern Railroad was passed third
reading.
Mr.. Smith, of Fentress, had an
article read criticizing her vote on
house bill No. 600, and denounced
its anonymous author as liar and
a scoundrel, and defended his action
inssvoting for the 1908 bill, stating
that three-fourths of his constituency
favored it.
Several Senators rose to express
their belief that MIR. Smith was in,
fuenced in voting solely by his con-
science and the wishes of his con-
stituents.
A resolution was introduced by
Mr. Barrett declaring the circular
attacking Senator Smith, Of Fen
tress, scurrilous and false, but was
withdrawn, the circular being con-
sidered beneath the notice of the
senate.
HoU8E-Senate bill making body4
snatching a felony, passed third
reading.
Senate bill to prayent discrimina
ton by railroad companies relative
to passengers who pay irst~clasS
fare for the violation of the same.
Senate bill to amend chapter 2OI
of the acts of 1879 to allow counties
to fund their Indebtedness passed.
Mr.. Butler rose to a question q
privilege and sent to the clerk desl
to be read the following extract
from an anonymous pamphlet whicl
was found on the desks of the mem
bers of the house this morning
"Butler can never be elected to the
office of even mad dog killer, be
cause his constituent would believ,
that he would go in cahoot with th
dogs Be assured that / know wher
he lives. [ am after him with sticks
slaves and stones, successfully uset
in our family for many centuries
and the keen arrows of truth, anC
he will go whirling, pell-mell
with the shivered planks O.
his platform, down, dowr
through the central vault to the YER,
''bottom of the bottomless pit" II
the esteem of his constituents, leav
ing the lash ef his party whi,
changing on a hickory limb" MI
Butler denounced the author of tn
above as 'lying, dirty vagabond,
who was ashamed to sign his name
The proceedings of the hous
wound up with general Jolly, clos
ing with q sort of love feast
Speaker Ramsey was presented will
gold-headed cane.
Sional Oh8oo D,,.