Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-03-31
The Gavel to Fall in Both
Houses Next Saturday.
The State Tax for the Next Two
Years Fixed at 3 Mills.
The Appropriation Bills all
Passcd-a Big School
Budget.
Scientific Temperance Instruc-
ton at Last Granted.

objection, appropriating $4,000 for
the free schools of the various counties
for each of the years 1929. This
amount includes the poll taxes. 1t is
estimated that the amount to come
from the State treasury will be about
100000. AS pointed out by Superinten-
dent Preston, many of the white coun-
ties will receive much less than the
necessary amount to run their schools
four months, the constitutional period,
while many of the black ones will re-
ceive much more than they require.
The constitution will have to be amend
ed before the manner of distributing
the fund can be remedied, and the
House refused to consider favorably a
constitutional amendment at this
time.
The total amount of appropriation
by the Legislature for the next two
years will be s3,20O,OOO. The item for
free schools is perhaps the largest ap-
preparation ever made by the State for
any one purpose. The State tax levy
was raised from 3 mills to mills for
1928, which with the $4,000 now in
the treasury, it is thought will suffice
to meet the increased expenditures.
County taxes, added to the State tax,
shall not amount to over 1913 mills,
except in case of counties having
outstanding Indebtedness, when the
total tax is not allowed to ex-
coed 1715 mills. Municipalities are al
lowed to levy in addition to State and
county taxes four mills on banking
capital and other solvent credits
In the House Saturday the Senate
bill appropriating $4,000 to the code
commissioners for their work on the
new code was reduced to 81 800, which
gives them $500 each. A strong effort
was made to reduce the figures to $500
each. The appropriation made carries
with it the additional labor of prepar-
ing the new code for the printer and of
indexing the same. A conference com
mittee of the two houses finally agreed
that the three commissioners shold be
paid $500 for preparing the Code and
Mr.. Thompson an extra thousand for
indexing and preparing it for the
printer alone The conference report
was agreed to. A bill also passed
appropriating $4,000 for printing the
new code.
The House indefinitely postponed
the bill appropriating $500 for the
survey of Ship Island harbor; also the
one providing for the appointment of
commission to investigate the State of
ficers and appropriating $500 therefor.
Senate bill appropriating $1,000 for re-
pairs on the State Capitol passed.
The general appropriation bill was
reported and passed, with no material
changes as reported by Chairman Var
daman, except that the appropriation
for Supreme Court reports was reduced
from $500 to $4,000
House bill to appropriate $4,000 to
have Mississippi suitably represented
at the Columbian Exposition was
killed by an overwhelming majority.
The bill allowing cities and towns to
tax themselves for the exhibit at the
Worlds fair was loaded down with
amendments that practically killed it
and then indefinitely postponed.
On Saturday the House by vote of
SO to 45, indefinitely postponed the
Senate bill designed to meet the con-
stitutional requirements establishing
a penitentiary farm. This settles the
matter for the session, and the leasing
system continues for at least two years
longer and the old penitentiary will re-
main in the city of Jackson.
The bill accepting the provisions of
an act of Congress to establish agricul-
tural experiment stations, ETC., passed.
The House bill to repeal all acts and
parts of acts heretofore in force by
which board of supervisors of any
counties are required to pay money to
any city or town or other municipality
in another county for keeping up roads,
turnpikes or bridges, passed with
amendments.
Conference committees and the re-
concilement of the two Houses on
various bills, has been the main work
of the Legislature this week.
A large number of bills have been
passed during the past week for the
relief of banks which had been re-
quired to pay double tax under the
operation of the Act of 1890.
Two thousand dollars was appropri-
ated to repair the Governors man
sion.
The first Monday in November was
fixed as the date when the new Ammo
tated Code goes into effect
+ The bill to appropriate sS4 to L.
Strauss for repairs on the executive
mansion, killed in the early part of
the session, was reconsidered and
passed.
The Senate refused to concur in the
House amendment to make the State