The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-03-08
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
JACKSON. March 8, 1883.

AZ usual, as the session draws
near the close innumerable schemes
and jobs to beat the Treasury are
presented. How many claims Oi
q doubtful character have been
worked through the two Houses
this week It would be difficult to
determine, but there can scarcely
be a question, that the State has
been beaten out Of several thousand
dollars, Notwithstanding all the
vigilance a few Of us can exert.
When the appropriation hunters
start out for raid upon the Treas.
ury, he invariably begins with the
Senate, and almost as invariably
succeeds IN getting his claim
through that body, and thus he
has the prestige of an endorsement
of one branch of the law making
power 10 help him "snake his steal
through the House." which body
in this Legislature, has the credit
of trying to protect the rights and
interests of the taxpayers, and as
3 consequence is the mortal terror
Of the cormorants.
Several measures of Importance
passed the Legislature this week,
I trust viii promote the public
veal, but some of them are to my
mind full of iniquity. Among this
latter class is an act TO quiet tax
titles in the Delta, the effect of
which is the giving away of the
States title to 100000 acres Of
land to a railroad corporation aud
a land syndicate and tbe conse-
ouent robbery Of the former own
ers and the children in the com
mon schools. I Iregret to say some
of the advocates of this measure
could not be led TO believe that it
was the proper thing to give our
manned Confederate soldiers a
homestead of so acres of the public
land, as provided in a bin intro
Inced by this writer In the early
part Of the session. Such is leg
islative Inconsistency.
A bill to require railroad cor
porations TO assess their property
as individuals has passed the Senate
and viii pass the House ] think
on Monday, but it may not do SO,
for Of course the corporations
don't like it and they are "a power
in this land" which seems TO be
equal to, if not superior to the
people. OF course | shall work
and vote for the bill and / hope it
will become law.
A bill passed the House to-day
reducing the number of Circuit
Judges 10 eight, and Chancellors
10 six, and it bids fair to 90
through the Senate. It will save
the Treasury s16,5Oo per annum,
and will not impair the efficiency
Of our courts. Should this meas
ure become a law Judge Rogers
will preside over our courts and
Judge Houston will be transferred
to the Holly Springs District.
Chancellor Mcfarland, l am glad
to say, will be retained, but Of
course bis district will be doubled
in size.
Quite a lively interest was mani
tested in the House on Friday
night over what is known as the
Robinson school bill, which is a
practical solution Of our school
troubles and which, if 1t should
g become law, viii save about s4O,-
600 yearly to the common schools
Of the State and rid the present
system Of the superabundance Of
red tape which now attaches to it.
Il would cut the political wires
which lead out from this State
House to every community IN Mis-
sissippi and would give the chill
drsn the benefit of the taxes col.
ieeted for school purposes instead
ofan army ofuselesa oiace-holders.