Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-29
THE CALL FOR TIE LEGISLATURE

THE CALL FOR TIE LEGISLATURE
is NOT APPROVED OF BY ALL THE PLANTERS
IN THE MISSISSIPPI BOTTOMS.
Occasional Correspondence Of the Appeal
CoAHoMA COUNTY, Miss, May pa see
from the Greeuvill- Times an attempt is be
ing made to revive r hsrdson's dead scheme
to induce Gov. Lowry to call an extra session
of the Legislature TO organize the Y,slo
Delts into one grand Levee District again.
The Times says there has been great ch auge
in Coahoma and all the upper and lower
counties on this subj-et, so much so that
'some OF the largest lsndholders" have petit
toned the River Com mission to tske charge
of the grand project and become a Levee
Commission Themselves; provided they 1.-THE
"large landowners") shall be taken into the
Lsvee Board, and Be allowed 10 hold office snd
to help control the grand affair, when they
get it organ zad. Now, SO far as Coahom a
aud the upper counties are concerned The
Times ia greatly mistaken. The meeting al
Friars Point, held on the 18th inst ant, plainly
proves it. We have it from reliable author
Ity that there were DOT dozen Coaboma men,
living outside of FIiars Point, that at
tended it. This whole thing, We be-
lieve here, is now bsing secretly agiia.ed
by ricn railroad corporation, bscked by q
fe such Landowners" as tie Times speak g
If, who are trying to feather their own nests
al the expense OF an Impoverished people.
And hence these hastil gotten up meetings
10 induce Gov. Lowry to call an -xtra session
of the Legislature. There may be a few
good men who for want of reflection favor
this grand scheme. Ii there are, they are
like Sancho Pauz1's good doctors, very
sc,rce, "and heavens choicest blessings
.hould be invoked upon their heads" We
are not inImicsl to Mr.. Wilson and his rich
corporation Ia proof of that, you know,
we, through our Legislature, have granted
them liberal charter, exempting them from
taxation for Il think) twenty years. And
now, we think it very unfair and unjust in
them 10 try 10 rope us into this grand
scheme, which is teniold more Objectionable
than Richardson's project was. True, Mr..
Wilson proposes TO give Us 81 ,000,0 If
We will only go with him into this grand
project. How lorg, if W, should be 80 silly
as 10 be led inio this trap, before he, Mr..
Wilson. u uder prelezt of mending his borke
levee) could, through his Lsvee Board, SIS
as it would then be constituted, get all his
money back and ten times ss much more ?
He could easily do so, because he could sell
levee bonds to his hearts content, and by
letting fat Jobs and contracts TO his pets and
favorites make as much money as he wants,
and all al Inc expense 0l ueluucu ptOpit.
We all want the levees repaired, and il Gov.
Lowry will refuse to grant the petition for
an extra session, which think h. will do,
this rich corporation will be compelled to
use some of their S30,000,0O0 10 keep their
road from being washed away by next win
tens oysrhow. They will soon have their
road done, or 80 nearly done, they will be
compelled TO mend the levees at their own
expense or lose all the money they will have
expended on their road, and We all know
they can't afford TO do that. Then WIZ call
al extra session al SO much expense to all
the people of the State, when nobody here
Except the tTicks,ers and few deluded
people, want il? There are Two factions in
This bottom country, each sgitatipg its own
scheme. Ooe of these factions fayors getting
the whole Ysz5o Delta into one grand organ.
ization; the other, more modest, wants Dis
trict No. l reorganizsd. We think, here,
Wilson would accept either proposition, to
enable him to get mis- extra session called
btc iuse he mi, hi then BE- manipulating the
committees, and get biz project through the
Legislature 10 shape TO suit him. We
have lssed through one Twelve yesr4 leUe.
sseat, and Gov. Lowry may rest assured the
people here need and want resting spell.
C. W. Il.