The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-05


JSo. Y. MURRY,
JOHN Z. BELL,
W. A. NABERs,
Committee on part of House.
A message was received from the Gov
ernor communicating his approval of the
following Senate bills:
No. lsl-To regulate the finances of
Simpson county.
No. ls5-To amend section 2004 Cod, in
relation to county administrator.
No. 42-Appointing commissioners of
the hatchez Hospitai with power to sell
and convey the property thereof.
No. l09-To amend the charter Of the
Gulf and Ship Island railroad Company.
No. l62-To authorize the board of su.
pervisors of Harrison, Hancock, jackson.
Perry and Greene counties to employ a
civil engineer or other competent person
to make plans aud specifications for any or
all bridges to be hereafter built in said
counties and 10 inspect and report upon
same.
No. l49-For relief OF W. B. Wright, er-
sheriff of Tate county. and T. c. Dockery.
sheriff of DeSoto county.
No, ll9-To amend an act to incorporate
the town of Eudora, in DeSoto county.
No l9s-For relief of T. T. Lee, of At
ITALIA county.
No. l94-To provide for the refundino
of the Kemper county debt, and for other
purposes.
No. 26O-For relief of certain piece of
property known as the North Mississippi
Cotton and Wooden Mills in Corinth.
No. 1910 change the time of holding
circuit court in the eighth Judicial district.
No. 1910 amend section 826. Code.
in relation to how damages obtained.
No. 97-To extend the time for the com
pletion of the Memphis, Selma and Bruins
wick Railroad.
No. 205-For relief of T. G. Bennett of
Jefferson county.
No. S5-To authorize mining or manu-
featuring companies to construct, own and
operate railroads, tramways and canals not
exceeding fifteen miles in length.
No 1910 amend section $50, Code, in
relation to aale of land for taxes.
No. 2l6-To require the trustees of GER
tain institutions to whom money is appro-
priated to make biennial reports to the
Legislature of the manner in which said
money is expended.
No. l5S-To incorporate the Aberdeen
Street Railroad Company.
No. 192--To provide for the payment of
books required to be used by public Offices
in certain cases.
No. 2O3-To change time for holding
circuit court in Tunica county.
No. l44-Empowering the board of su-
pervisors of Wilkinson county to levy taxes
for county purposes and fixing the limit
thereof.
No. l9l-To incorporate the town of
Eureka Springs in Panels county.
No. 1910 prohibit the sale of iutoxi-
caticating liquors in NJ lrion county.
No. 24-To enlarge the powers of the
corporate authorities of the city of Aber-
deem.
No. 204-For relief of B. B. Cross of JEFF.
ferson county; and Senate Joint Resolu-
ton No. s.
Mr.. Marshall called up
House bill No. 583-To amend the char.
ter of Vicksburg and to reduce into one all
the acts in relation thereto.
The Committee on Corporations recon-.
mended the following amendment:
Strike out of section 10, the words: ssFor
any absence from the city court or regular
meeting of the board without good and
sufficient excuse, the mayor shall be fined
by the board in the sum of SO 90, and the
same shall be deducted from his salary"
Strikeaout of section IL, in line 20, the
words: into the county treasury to the
credit of the common school fund"
The amendment was adopted and the bill
was passed
The Senate took up
House Joint Resolution 13-Making a
constitutional amendment to provide for
holding State and county elections every
four years.
The resolution was lost on its first read.
ing by vote of II for, to Ii against it, re-
quiring two-thirds vote to submit any
question to the people:
YEAs-Messrs. Burkitt, Eaton, Gage.
Gayles, Hamilton of Kinds, Hamilton of
Holmes, Henderson, Marshall, Martin,
Packwood, Reynolds, Simonton, Smith.
Sykes, Terry, Whitney and Wilson.
NAYs-Messrs. Boone, Boyd, Brennan,
Dickson, Dillard Guyton, Harvey, Hyer,
Keith, Kyle, Luse, Powell and Walker.
10 provide by constitutional amend
ment for biennial elections, lost on its
first reading by vote of s for, to 20
against:
YEAs-Messrs. Boone, Gayles, Guyton.
Harvey, Jeffords, Psckwood, Terry and
Wilson.
NAYs-Messrs. Boyd, BRENNAN, billiard.
Eaton, Gage, Hamilton of Holmes, Hender-
son, Hyer, Keith, Kyle, Luse, Marshall.
Martin, Powell, Reynolds, Simonton, Smith.
Sykes, Walker and Whitney.
Mr.. Hamilton of Holmes offered the fol-
lowing resolution, which was adopted:
WHEREAS, The French Metric System is
sought to be made the universal system of
weights and measures and is in perfect &C.
cord with our system of estimating cur
rency, and has already heen adopted in
more than twenty-eight nations of the
earth; notably, Great Britain, the provinces
OF Spain, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Sweed
en-, Norway, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece,
Turkey, Brazil, the South Anne rican Re-
publics, Mexico, and others; therefore,
Resolved, That it be the duty of the
Superintendent of Public Education to re-
quire the county superintendents and the
teachers of the public schools of this State
to give especial attention TO this branch of
arithmetic as contained in the text books
IN use without mourning further expense to
patrons.
Mr.. Martin called up the motion hereto
fore made to reconsider the vote passing
Senate bill No. 81, to create and establish
an Educational Institute in the State and
a college for the education of white girls
IN the orta Al sa,o-oz-