The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-21

felony; conierring police powers on
conductors; providing for the cleo
ton of cotton and tobacco weighers
by the people; defining and limiting
the jurisdiction of the circuit and
law courts: making lien in favor
of attorneys in suits successfully de-
Tended; to authorize notaries public
to collect State and county taxes.
On Tuesday the Democratic eau
Gus nominated the following land
registers:
For the middle dis,rict-R, D.
HARDWOOD: Western district-John
W. Gates; Eastern district-Thos.
Jones; Ocoee district--W. D. Hem
derson; Mountain district-R. D.
Brown: Hiawassee district-A. J.
White.
A committee was appointed to
settle with the State Treasurer.
FRIDAY.-As on other d .ys dur
g the week, the main feature Of
tn" proceedings was the introduce
ton of bills. A bill endorsed by
the Nashville city council gran ing
ths city the right to issue six hun
dreh thousand dollars of bonds for
the purchase or erection of gas
plant was presented in each branch.
The joint resolution providing
for n Worlds Fair committe, of
fifteen has now been adopted by
both branches.
A bill that will strike terror to
the hearts of the hopeful applicants
for the position of coal oil inspector
atthe four cities in the state was
introduced in the Senate this MORN
ing by Mr.. Hearn and in the House
by Mr.. johnson. The bill provides
that in cities of over fifteen thou
sand inhabitants, two-fifths of the
inspectors fees shall be turned into
the State treasury. This would
make the Office worth only about
$4,000 at Nashville and Memphis.
Mr.. Johnson also introduced in the
House a bill appropriating all fees
thus paid into the treasury for the
use of the Confederate Soldiers
home.
Bills were also introduced in each
body to extend the time in which
to collect the taxes assessed for last
year. DIR. Hearn proceeded little
further with his joke about the sal
aries of the judges and offered {
bill to-day reducing the remunera
ton of the supreme judges to $4,000
The fight that comes up every
session over the question of provid
ing uniform system of text book
in the public schools will be missed
as the Senate knocked in the heat
such a proposition made by Mr.
Reed.
The handful of Republican mem
bers in the Senate and House arr
of course in favor of repeating thu
election laws and especially thu
one requiring separate ballot boxes
for federal and state elections
They say the law is almost deat
letter in some sections of the Stat
and that the expenditure of nearl!
one hundred thousand dollar
every two years is unnecessary.
A bill was introduced maxim,
justices of the peace ineligible I,
all Offices in the gift of the count,
: court.
A memorial was presented thi
morning from the Knoxville cham
Der of commerce, urging an appro
priation of two hundred and fit,
thousand dollars flor the World
Fair.
A resolution " as offered favorin,
the election of United States Sena
tors by the people.
Among the other new Hous
bills that arc worthy of mentor
are the following:
To establish a conventional rat,
of interest. The bill provides tina
the legal rate of interest shall b
six per cent. but contracts may b
E made in writing for the payment @
a rate of interest as great as tel
per cent.
To confer on abstract cOmpanie
the power to guarantee titles an,
the payment of mortgages on res
estate.
To prevent the State punishin
misdemeanors when the same hay
been punished by incorporate
4. towns or cities.