The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-02-15
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

/ first meeting next Monday night, when
organization will be perfected.
1t is pretty generally conceded that
Senator Caldwell, of Weakley, will be
chairman. The committee will sit at
Nashville for some days and will then
divide into three sections, one each for
Middle. East and West Tennessee.
HOUSE.
Among the petitions was one from
Crockett county, favoring local option
| laws.
Mr.. King, Democrat, introduced a res
olution, reciuing that the question as to
how much money may be appropriated
out of the State treasury by this Legis-
lature for the erection of new peni-
| entiary has not been settled that the
conclusion may be reached that it is to
the best interest of the State to not
only refuse to appropriate more money,
but to change the present plan entirely;
that the money which is now being
spent in the building is in contempla-
tion of larger sum than there is in the
penitentiary fund to expend, and that
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all work on the main site be stopped
until it is determined by act what kind
of building or buildings shall be erect
ed. Upon Mr.. Kings motion the rules
| were suspended, and after considerable
debate the resolution went to the peni-
! tentiary committee.
! Among the new bills were these:
! By Mr.. Travis: To amend the game
| laws; also to prohibit superintendents
of schools teaching while in Office.
| BY Mr.. HARRISON To sentence to the
county workhouse all persons whose
maximum sentence is three years.
| BY Mr.. Cooper: Regulating compen-
| sation of justices of the peace serving
on committees also providing for the
support of INDECENT orphans and aged
persons by contract with the poorhouse
commissioners.
BY Mr.. Akin: To protect elections by
shareholders in associations, corpora
tions, e to-; also to regulate the issuance
of poll tax receipts, requiring that they
be written in ink and fully filled out,
preventing their issue in blank or filed
out in pencil, violation to be felony,
punishable by one to five years in the
penitentiary.
BY Mr.. johnson: To provide for the
working of public roads by persons sem
BY Mr.. Robertson: To protect hotel,
inn and boarding house keepers, MAX
ing / t a misdemeanor to beat them.
BY Mr.. Frost: To regulate the inspec
tion of Illuminating oils, requiring in
spection in the county where finally
sold.
To change the line between Hender-
son and Carroll counties. Rejected.
To authorize Selmer, McNairy county,
to establish system of graded schools.
Passed.
To give justices final jurisdiction
where not more than S5 is involved.
Rejected.
10 authorize Humboldt to issue bonds
for water-works and electric light pur-
poses. Passed.
To make service on petit jury within
twelve months preceding a cause for
challenge. Rejected.
To incorporate the Farmers Mutual
Benefit Association. Tabled.
To repeal the act making women
eligible to the Office of county superin-
tendent. Tabled.
To provide for the sale of articles of
less value than S. at the end of twelve
months where left with artisans for re-
pair. Passed.
To exempt from taxation school build
ings and property used exclusively for
school purposes. Tabled.
To require that conVicts, at the ex-
piration of their terms, shall be taken
back to counties from which sent Re-
jected.
To make it a misdemeanor to post ad-
vertisements on another's property
without consent. Rejected.
To allow process to be issued under
original attachment suits where the
defendant resides outside of the county.
To make it unlawful to employ child
under IA years of age in any mine.
Passed.
SENATE.
There was only one session of the
Senate today, but that was a busy one.
Among the new bills were these:
BY Mr.. Webb: To release the Selma
& Tennessee River Valley Railroad
Company from the payment of taxes for
BY Mr.. Caldwell To permit husband
or wife to testify for the defendants in
criminal as in civil cases, when intro
duced by the defendant.
BY Mr.. Scales To create board of
State charities, which shall have a SUI
pervisory power over charitable institu-
tions and an advisory power over the
erection of public buildings.
Resolutions lying over were taken up
and disposed of as follows:
To pay T. w. Griffin, of Fayette
county, 81, ,245 for the arrest of two muir
derers. Referred to committee on claims
To direct the State printer to print
all reports submitted to the assent bly,
from officers and institutions. Referred
to the committee on printing
The house bill to make June Con-
federate Memorial Day and also legal
holiday was rejected.
Senate bills on third reading:
To change the practice in circuit and
criminal courts by providing the juries
trying cases req uiring punishment not
exceeding five years may not be put un-
der the rules, but dispersed as in civil
cases. Referred to the judiciary COM
mittee after some debate and an amend
ment had been offered, providing that
the Jury be allowed 20 disperse on the
consent of both State and defendant.
To provide for the organization OF
corporations to carry on the business OF
mercantile and collecting agencies.
Failed for want of a constitutional ma
iority and a motion TO reconsider was
entered
To authorize the administrator OF an
insolvent estate to bring suit in forma
pauperis in certain cases. Re-referred
to the judiciary com mittee.
A SwindIer Arrested.
A well-dressed swindler, giving his
name as Oscar Sherlock, and his native
State as Pennsylvania, was nipped by
the police of Chattanooga last week for
SHOWING the queer" He had been
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