The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-04-16
THE LEGISLATURE.

Nashville, April s-The action Of the senate
and house in declining to restore the tar rate to
Is cents, and the alarming condition Of the treas
ury, caused the Introduction OF bills in both
houses this afternoon, amending the present
revenue bill by increasing the rate to so cents,
IS cents to be for State purposes. Ad valorem
tax on merchants is placed at 80 cents, with
privilege tax Of 20 cents, half for the State and
ha!f for school purposes. The bills were intro
duced by Messrs. Gillham and Brandon Of Stew
art
Tho Senate.
The house peuitentiary bill passed the senate
this morning by a vote of II to II. number OF
others the following: Striking out The provision
for assistant or deputy wardenS at branch
prisons; making it the duty of prison commits
sioners to manage all farming operations con-
Quoted by the State; reducing salary at the main
prison from $1,000 to S1.000j requiring prison
commissioners to buy all the coal and coke used
in the conduct of the prison and its various
branches from the State, provided the same can
be done at an equal cost as elsewhere; giving
commissioners power to hire out such convict
labor as can not be used within the prison walls,
provided that this shall be done in manner to
conflict as little possible with skilled labor.
Senate bills on third reading were disposed OF
as follows:
To require trustees to make out a certified list
of all legal voters who have paid their poll tax
at least thirty days before any general election,
and to submit the same to the officers OF cleo
ton; passed, with an amendment providing that
the trustee shall receive 10 cents for each hun
dred names he makes out.
To authorize Crockett county to issue bonds
Tor funding its debt; passed.
To limit the time for taking appeals and writS
of error from the Court of Chancery Appeals to
ten days; passed.
To make the conversation OF attorneys-g gen.
eral in criminal districts composed OF only one
county of less than $4,000 Inhabitants $1,000 per
annum passed.
To abolish the office OF additional chancellor
in Shelby county; rejected.
To compile the road laws into one act; passed.
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of schools by making them cents per capita on
scholastic population; rejected.
To authorize the sale OF the old BROWNSVILLE
Male Academy property; passed.
To provide that no interest or principal should
be paid on certain bonds held by the United
States until certain claims are paid; passed.
To authorize the people OF Nashville to sub
scribe for stock in railroads by two-thirds
vote; passed.
House bills on third reading were disposed of
as follows:
To pay experts examining books and affairs of
building and loan associations $40 per day in
stead of S25 and $50 day; passed.
To make it a misdemeanOr to dispose OF prop
erty under a landlords lien; passed.
To facilitate the collection Of Industrial statis
tics by the bureau of labor; rejected.
The house resolution indOrsing President Nc
hlnley'S action in sending aid TO flood sufferers
was cOncurred in.
A resolution was adopted calling on standing
committees to return all bills i'll their hands DY
10 O clock tomorrow morning.
The resolution authorizi ing the closing up OF
the old penitentiary was adopted.
The House.
Mr.. Rogers introduced a resolution in the
house today thanking President Mckinley Tor
his efforts in aid OF the flood sufferers. The res
OlutiOn was adopted
The senate amendments to the penitentlary
bill were concurred in, and the senate substitute
for the Mobile & Ohio compromise was also
agreed to.
The conference committee on the Estes fee
bill reported they were unable to agree. and a
new committee was named.
The bill authorizing Brownsville to Issue
bonds; passed.
The senate bill giving abstract companies
power to act as trustees passed.
The appropriation bill consumed the balance
of the day. A great many amendments we're Of
fered. The aggregate amount appropriated by
the bill was considerably increased. The vote
on the bill will be taken tomorrow.