The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-02-13
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DAY.


Ano oenhte met pursuant 10 adjourn
ment, Governor Stands in the Chair.
Prayer by Rev. Alex. Watkins.
All members present except Mr.. Roane OF
Webster.
Mr.. Hyer presented the credentials OF Mr..
Martin Marshal, Senator elect from the
18th District and introduced him to the
Senate. The Senator then took the oath Of
office, which was administered by the It..
Governor.
The privileges Of the Senate we're eI.
tended to the following gentlemen: Messrs
r. @. Patty, J. g. Williams, Jacob Halberg
and j. M. Boone, of Noxubee; W. G. Bes
sonnet and DR.. r. g. Connolly, of Lee
Hon. David Johnson and DR.. J. NJ. Walker,
OF ltavamba; Hon. N. B. Augustus, of Nox
ubee, Hon. r. p. Bowen, of Marshall Hon.
]. W. Fewell, of Lauderdale; and Hon. B
+. Collins, ex-senator J. T. Griffin and
Capt Frank Burkitt, of Chickasaw; Hon
]. H. Nevills, Of Kemper; d. Mitchell, OF
Holmes; W. s. Patton, of Lee; Hon. j. l.
Collins, OF Yalohusha, and Mr.. A. l.. jack
son, of Calhoun.
Mr.. holland presented petition from
sundry citizens of the State asking the re.
psal of all laws imposing a tax on privi-
loges. Referred to Committee on Finance
INTRODUCTION OF HILLS
Bills were introduced and referred az
follows:
To the Committee on Corporations:
Mr.. Martin--To amend an act to consol-
idate and reduce into one the several acts
Incorporating the town of Port Gibson
and for other purposes, approved April
| IL, 1876, so as to provide for the filing oil
vacancies in the Offices of Mayor and Al
dermen, and for otherNpurposes.
To the Committee on Counties and County
Boundaries:
Mr.. Gage-To authorize the board OF
supervisors of Grenada county to have tn,
record of deeds indexed.
To the Committee on Universities:
Mr.. Powel-To require the trustees ~
certain institutions to whom money is APP
propriated to make biennial reports to thu
Legislature of the manner in which sale
money is expended. y
To Judiciary Committee:
Mr., Burkitt-To change the time o.
holding the circuit court in the counties o.
Winston and Clay. This bill gives the fol
lowing as the new schedules In Winston
| first Monday in January and second Mon
day in July and for twelve days or less
In Clay third Monday in January and fol
twenty-four days or less, and fourth Mon
day in July and for eighteen days or less
Mr. Reynolds-To provide for the max
ing of an abstract of the land titles Of
Monroe sounty.
To Committee on Railroads:
Mr.. Sykes--To incorporate the Tombig
bee Railroad Company, aud to declare its
powers and privileges.
To the Committee on Public Health and
Quarantine:
Mr.. Roane, of Calhoun-To prohibit the
sale of intoxicating liquors in the town OF
Airmount in Yalobusha, and within five
| miles thereof.
Mr. Guyton-To prevent the sale OF
vinous, spirituous or malt LIQUORS in the
town of Carthage, Leake county, or within
five miles thereof.
Mr.. Dickson-Prohibiting the sale OF
giving away of intoxicating liquors in the
county of Simpson and for other purposes
To Committee on Registration and Elec.
tons:
Mr.. Hyer-For relief of J. A. Higgins OF
Marshall county.
To Committee on Corporations:
Mr.. Reynolds-Tol enlarge the powers OF
the corporate authorities of the city of Alb.
erdeen.
Mr.. Reynolds-A joint resolution to pro-
vide for the publication and delivery OF
memorial addresses ON the life and services
ohGeneral Samuel ]. Gholson, by Hon. ]. +,
H. Claiborne. This resolution was read a
third time and passed 10y unanimous
vote.
The special order for the hour:
Senate bill No. 70-To continue the De-
partment OF Immigration and Agriculture
In pursuance of the constitution.
The Committee on immigration and
Agriculture recommended the following
amendments:
/. Amend section so as to read as fol-
lows: That the salary CT ssid commission
or shall be two thousand two hundred and
nifty dollars per annum, and actual travel
and nifty dollars per annum.
:. Amend section s by filling the blank
with "nine thousand"
3. Amend by additional section, to-wit:
That the Board of Immigration and Agri-
culture shall aid and cooperate with the
exposition exhibition at New Orleans and
out of the appropriation heretofore
made may expend such an amount as to
them may seem proper under all the cir
cumstances.
The two first amendments were adopted.
MIR. billiard offered the following amend
ment to said third amendment:
Amend the additional section by striking
out the last clause after the word New Or.
leans.
This amendment was adopted and the
third amendment as amended was adopted.
Mr.. Hyer offered the following substitute
for the bill:
Strike out all after the enacting clause
and insert;
Section LIST. That section II Of an act to