Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-01-27
LEGISLATIVE NEWS.

n ulll mas passed. DOtn HOUSES al
lowing wife TO testify as to all ex-
cept confidential matters, for or
against her husband.
Gov. Buckner has approved and
signed the bill for the taking of the
sense of the people on the expediency
of Constitutional Convention.
A bill Incorporating the Cumber-
land Valley Bank, at Barboursville,
with an amendment prohibiting the
bank from holding real estate pur-
chased in satisfaction of debt,
judgment or decree, longer than five
years, has been passed as amended.
In response to the resolution ask
ing where are our convicts and by
whom and how employed, il was re-
ported that $40 are at work outside
the prison walls, all under contract of
the Mason-Ford Company, except
ninety-two at work on the Branch
Penitentiary. OF this number 272
are at work on the Louisville South
crn railroad, eighty-seven on the
Cumberland Valley Railroad and fif-
ty-nine on the Maysyille and Big
Sandy. A bill Is now pending pro-
viding for the working of400 short
term conVicts on railroads, under
state management, the State to re.
ceive in return therefor an interest in
said roads. The bill provides that
convicts shall in no case be leased
outside the walls of the penitentiary.
That the convicts will get the usual
attention from the Legislature is GER
tain.
The following bills are pending: A
bill to incorporate the Bowling Green
Steam Gable Railway Company; a
bill prohibiting the sale of liquors on
election days, in the Common wealth
bill defining what constitutes vag-
rant, and providing for the proper
of them by the authorities in
Louisvilleand Jefferson county; q
bill amending the act incorporating
the Louisville Passenger Railroad
Company. The object of this amend
ment is to strike out the clause fixing |
he capital stock at 100000 and leav-
ng the limit to be fixed by the COM
pany, and change the name from the |
City Passenger Railroad Company TO |
.he City Passenger and Transporta-
ion Company and asking the authori-
Y to construct double and single
rack lines encircling the city. A
I'LL incorporating the Louisville Dis, J.
riot Telegraph Conn,-- - COMPANY b
ornns-... sor replacing by the State 81
ulI set of Court of Appeals decisi- Il
S, destroyed by the recent burning v
the Graves county courthouse. O
Under the revenue law Sheritfs are s
quired to make a full settlement ?
it'll the Auditor of Public Accounts 8
Y November l, and on whatever t
oney is due and not paid in by that Il
ate six per cent. penalty is i'm t
osed. This must be met with funds t
ON the Sheriffs private purse. All a
heriffs were amply forewarned to c
lis effect by circulars addressed TO t
hem from Col. Hewitts Office, but it |
Gems in many instances no notice {
1as taken of the recruitment. The
esult is that several officials, not
outstanding they completed collec-
ions In due time and in the full {
mount, are now delinquent to the {
or two of them to the eX-
ent of as much as 5000, but the ma {
GRITTY for smaller amounts. A num-
'er Of the Sherifls, when notified of
he penalties they had incurred and {
.sked to make good the deficit with
nut delay, replied that all the money
vas in their hands at the time speci-
led, but that they presumed that
here was no great haste to be made
n turning 1t over to the State. I'M
or the law, this is no excuse, but
here is loophole through which
everal members of the Legislature
ropose to help their SherifTs to es-
ape payment of the penalties. In
Their words, bills will be introduced
Of their beneft.-Frankfort Cor. G.