Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-15
NASHVILLE,
Progress Of the Redistricting
Committee.
A Majority of the Districts
Agreed Upon.
Resolution to Expel Senator
Barrett
The Grand Lodge of the Knights
of Honor.
Special Dispatch to the Chronicle.

Whereas, charges of bribery and
corruption have been publicly made
against Senator VIM r. Barrett, and
a special committee having been ap-
pointed to investigate such charges
has reported. to this Senate that sat
one time he was given fifty dollars
which, while it was spent during the
evening in dissipation with the par
ties and was never repaid
or agreed to be repaid,
and was given by persons to influence
his vote and under the circumstances
he must or ought to have known
was given because of his being leg
islator, having right to vote on
said bill
Whereas, the committee report
other facts and circumstances tend,
ing to show that VIM. R. Barrett
acted in manner unbecoming and
unworthy of a Senator, therefore be
it
Resolved by the Senate, That VIM.
r. Barrett has forfeited his right
and privilege to occupy seat in
this Senate, and it is the Judgment of
this Senate that he be and is expelled
from this body and his seat in the
Senate is declared vacant. Lies
over.
Senator Morgans bill to
provide measures of re,
lief for those rendered destitute by
the drought of 1881 and the over
flow of 1882, by authorizing coun-
ties to borrow money and authorizing
bonds to secure it, passed third
reading.
Speaker Morgans bill to provide
for the payment of costs in cases
removed from the State courts to
Federal courts, lost on the house
calender by not being reached at the
last session, passed third reading.
The bill authorizing the State su-
perintendent of public instruction to
employ clerk at 5000 per annum,
passed third reading
/ The bill to allow sherlffs five cents
for each juror summoned, passed
third reading.
HoUsE-Joint resolution, urg-
ing members of Congress to sup>
port and influence the passage of
House bill 4,319, to declare the iu,
risdiction of the United States over
certain ship canals and other naviga-
BILE waters, was adopted.
House bill to provide for the
organization of corporations, and to
provide for the incorporation OF
cooperative associations, passed
third reading.
The redistricting committee, SO
far, have agreed on the following
Congressional districts /:
First district-Johnson, Carter,
Unicoi, Washington, Sullivan, Haw-
kins, Greene, Cooke, Jefferson, Ham.
blen, Hancock. Voting population
150,486.
Second district-Anderson, Blount
Campbell, Claiborne, Knox, Grain
ger, Union, Scott, Sewer, Morgan,
and Roane. Voting population 153,
906.
Third district Hamilton, James
Bradley, Polk, McMinn, Meigs
Rhea, Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Van Blu,
ren, Fentress, Overton, Monroe
Loudon, Cumberland, White, Pick
EFT. Voting population 1861
Fourth district-Clay, Jackson
Putnam, Macon, Smith, Trousdale
DeKalb, Warren, Sumner, Wilson
Robertson. Population 158,O73.
Fifth district-Rutherford, Bed
ford, Moore, Lincoln, Marshall
Grundy, Franklin, Coffee, Cannon
Voting population 100000.
Sixth district-Davidson, Cheat
ham, Montgomery, Stewart, Hous
ton, Dickson, Humphreys.
Seventh district-Giles, Maury
Williamson, Hickman, Lawrence
Wayne, Hardin, Lewis. Voting
population 154,964.
Eighth district-Hardeman, Nc
Marry, Madison, Decatur, Henderson
Perry, Carroll, Benton, Henry. Vot
: ing population 158,192.
A motion was entered to recon
/. slider the vote on this district. TIL
Republican members desire to hav
the eighth district composed c
. Shelby, Fayette, Upton, Haywood
/ To this end it is proposed to detac
: Hardeman from the tenth and add
g to the eighth district, and to allo
every Middle Tennessee district SUI
t. plies. The Democrats will endeav6
q to revise the apportionment, begin
is ming at the tenth and workln
r, toward the east.
d The Democrats of the House bel
a consultation on redistrictino. wit