The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-01-19
EprroRIAL ooRREsfoNDENcK.
J.eKsox. Jan. l4th. lsss.

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Mitchell, afler expending much
patience, thought and labUr in the
arrangement Of the committees an.
nounced then. 70 the House, and
forthwith everybody assumed a
cheerful air, for the membership,
almost TO q man, recognized the
fact, that our able and pains-taking
presiding officer, had exsrted him
self 10 make the best possible SCI
leetions, by avoiding any sem
blance Of partisan feeling, or fac
tional bias, and at the same time
recognizing the merit Of his friends,
to whom he owed bis preferment,
and keeping in sight the principle
involed in the contest, which re-
suited in his election. In truth
and fact, Col. Mitchell makes an
excellent presiding officer and is
winning golden opinions from eve
ry quarter.
Since the organization Of the
committees the House has assumed
a business aspect, and the indioa-
tons are chat We are 70 have an
active, working session. / trust
we may pass the constitutional
convention bill, and If so, the Leg
islature will likely adjourn about
the 18th Of February. I hope so
at any rate
The Governor IN his message
makea bis stereotyped reo0umep-
dations concerning the District
Attorneys salary the Chickasaw
school fund and the State Instltu-
tons, which Of course surprise no
body, but bis admission-that Mis-
sissippi has to-day only 26l ,629
acres Of public land subject to en-
try under the swamp land and To-
ternal improvements acts, is as
founding. What has become Of
tho millions Of acres Of land in the
Yazoo-Mississippi Delta aud the
.PiDsfy Of soath Mississippi, which
was owned BY the state IN IssOH
Who ownes these lands to-day Z
And who is responsible for their
loss to the bona Jide eitizens Of the
StateY Among the many wrongs
perpetrated upon the tax-burdened
people of this State. during the
past decade, this land business
stands out conspicuous as a monu-
ment of inefieiency, incapacity or
downright contempt for the rights
and interests of Mississippi and
Mississippians.
The Senate has passed a bill cut
ting down the interest on the
Chickasaw school fund from 8 to
5 per cent. don't know what the
House win do, but / presume some
action will be taken 10 settle this
much vexed question. If the gen.
tlemen advocating this reduction
will recognize the fact that simi-
lar reductions should be made in
official salaries and appropriations
to State institutions, /, for one, am
ready 10 concede the necessity for
the move, although it effects sa-
cred fund dedicated to the cause Of
public education in twenty three
counties Of this State. But If the
purpose is to reduce the interest on
this fund $4,000 or $50, 900, which
goes to defray in part the tuition
Of $4,000 children in the common.
schools, in order to have more mon
ey TO lavish on five or six hundred
boys and.girls at the State colleges,
the iniquity Of the proposition
must be imagined by the readers Of
the MESSENGER, for language would
fail me in an attempt to describe
It.
The Ledger and Clarion consoli-
dation has been effected upon a ba-
sis of 10 per cent reduction in the
price of public printing, hence
the public interest is subserved
to that extent, by this arrange
ment. One ofthe Representatives
from Chiekasaw was in part In
Stramsntal in psrfectihg tins con.
solidatiop, and congratulates him