The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-20
MISSISSIPPI S0L0NS.
CONDENSED REPORT OF THE DO
INGs OF THE LEGISLATURES.
The Bill to Amend the Charter
of Brookhayen Signed by
the Governor.
Other Items of General and LO-
cal Interest.

Trustees of Whitworth College to is
sue bonds for the erection of central
building and close the street between
the old and new buildings.
The bill to prohibit the sale of seed
cotton in Lincoln county has passed
both houses. The house has also
passed the bill supplemental to the
act to remedy some of the evils arts
ing from the destruction of the rec
orls of the counties of Pike and Lin
coin in the burning of the court
houses of said counties, approved
March 9th, 1886, so far as the same
concerns Lincoln county.
The Senate and House have passed
separate bills abolishing the office of
Public Printer and letting the State
work out to the lowest bidder. The
Senate bill looks to letting all the
work to one firm, and the House bill
provides for letting it out in five
classes, so that no publisher can Sc
cure monopoly of it unless he makes
the lowest and best hid for each class.
Neither bill is to go into effect until
1892.
The House passed the insurance de-
post law by a vote of 81 to y, and it
now goes to the Senate. The bill re-
funds all deposits heretofore made
and provides that i'll future they shall
not be required. The balance of the
law concerning admission stands sub
stantially unchanged.
Bills to abolish the Office of Superin-
dent of the Penitentiary have been in
definitely postponed in both Houses.
A lively fight occurred in the House
over the proposed appropriation to
the A. and NJ. College-$33, 900 for
1890, and $4,000 for 1891, including
the $50, 900 received on the land script
fund from the government, also -, 900
for library and $4,000 for presi-
dents house. Mr.. Terry, of Leake,
moved to strike out all of the appro-
priations except the money derived
from the land script fund. This was
lost, but there is an element in the
Legislature who favor killing the Col
lege outright by withholding all APP
preparations. Several speeches were
made and amendments offered with
out any results being reached. The
library and presidents house apprO-
priations it is certain will not pass,
and from the tenor of the speeches
and from votes on various amend
ments it looks like there would be
compromise on about $25, 900 per
year. Those favoring the College say
it must be either decently sustained
or abandoned altogether. Those OPP
posed to it are trying to destroy its
usefulness by giving it inadequate APP
preparations. Strange to say, the
warmest friends the College has are
among the lawyers, while its most
bitter opponents are among the farm
ers, for whose advancement it is in
tended.
The House after an animated dis
cussion passed the bill making nu-
merOus changes in the judicial dis
tricts of the State. A new circuit
court district, consisting of the cOun-
ties of Warren, Issaquena, Sharkey
and Claiborne, is created, for which
new judge will have to be appointed.
The same counties, to which are ad-
ded Jefferson, Franklin, Amite, Ad-
ans and Wilkinson, are made new
chancery district and Judge LAUGH
McLaurin, who was legislated out by
the bill of two years ago, but whose
salary goes on, and whose term will
not be out for some time, is assigned
to it. This bill was killed by the Sen
ate Tuesday.
The charter of the South MISSISSIPPI
pi Railroad Company, recommended
by the Railroad Convention at Brook
haven, has passed both Houses and
goes to the Governor for his approval.
The bill of the last Legislature,
which became operative under the
reserving all State lands
for homestead purposes, was repealed,
only lacking the Governors approval
to become law.
The bill creating Pearl River coun-
ty out of parts of Marion and Han
cock, has passed both Houses and
goes to the Governor.
A bill has passed the House making
sundry changes in the school law, the
principal change made being that the
trustees of each school, on petition of
the majority of patrons, shall fix the
months in which the school shall run,
provided the date shall always he on
the first Monday of the month select
ed. The bill further provides that
county superintendent shall not issue
any warrant unless there are funds in
the county treasury to meet it.
The Senate bill appropriating $10,-
400 tn comnlete the Confederate MON