The leader., 1897-03-24
LETTER FROM THE CAPITAL.
Things That Were Done, Seen
and Heard Last Week.
dial Correspondence of The IeaderI

and Heard Last Week.
Special Correspondence of The Ieader.l
JACKSON, MISS, March o.
The Governor has gotten a step
nearer the extra session of the Leg
isIature during the week by calling
the Committee on Ways and Means
to meet him here OH the 23d day of
March Tuesday, for a prelimi.
nary conference, addressing to each
committeeman the following letter:
DEAR SIR: - Before calling
the Legislature together ] would
be pleased to have meeting of
the members of the Ways and
Means Committee, that | may lay
before them the present and pros
pective condition of the finances
OF the State and ask that they al.
low me to suggest some measures
OF relief which occur to me. If the
members of the committee agree
upon bill in advance of the as
sembing of the Legislature it will
expedite the business of the ses.
sion, as otherwise the members of
the Legislature who are not of the
committee would have nothing to
do while the bill is being consider.
ed by the committee. To the end
that the business of the session
may be expedited. | request that
all the members of the committee
meet me here in jackson next
Tuesday, the 23d day of March. /
have written this request to all the
members of the committee.
Faithfully Yours,
a. j. MCLAURIN.
This is one act of the Governor
which all men, whether friend or
otherwise, will be pretty apt to en-.
dOrse. II strikes me as a money
saver, as scheme which will great
ly expedite the business of the ses.
sion, and there is no doubt but
that the shorter the session the
smaller the cost. In the event the
Ways and Means Committee agree
on revenue bill thereis no reason
the extra session should last more
than ten days or two weeks. This
invitation to the Ways and Means
Committee has put a quietus on
those who have been predicting
that there will be no extra session.
L hold to my former prediction that
the "extra" will be called for about
the middle of April-not later.
The most interesting event of
the past week to the average Jack
sonite was an affair that happened
2OO0 miles away - the slugging
match between Col. Bob Fitzsim-
mons and Col. James Corbett, at
Carson City, Nevada, the only
State in the Union. where such ex-
hibitions Of the manly art are le-
galized by the Legislature. From
ii a. m. till 3 p. IN. the day of the
fight a great crowd of men and
boys blocked the side. walk and
street in front of the Clarion-Led.
ger office where bulletins from the
ring-side were posted every few
minutes. On the announcement of
each round there was lus.y cheer
ing from the champions of the man
who seemed to be getting the best
of it, and when the news came that
Corbett was whipped, the shouts
that went up made the old capitol
tremble. There has been no such
excitement here since the surren-
der, unless i1 was the day, about
10 years ago when Jim Liddell and
a crowd of his friends came down
to help the Jackson Democracy i'm
press the negro with the idea that
we were going to have fair elec-
ton. Prize fight day was also st.
Patrick's Day, but the Jackson
Irishman was so re-Occupied with
the Carson affair that he forgot
all about the snakes being run out
of the ould country. There was
not shamrock on the street aud
very few green ribbons and crayats
were out.
A few days ago Police Justice
Lewis had before him a couple of
little cOons who had "tout" on
their way from school, one of them
nsing a brick with telling effect on
the other. The evidence was that
the wounded boy was the agrees