The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
THE LEGISLATURE.

Nashville, March 1s.-The Democfatie Ssueea
this afternoon renominateG the present State
o1leers-Messrs. w. s. Morgan for secretary OF
| State, james A. Harris for comptroller and E.
B. Craig for treasurer.
1t required eight ballots in the comptrollef'a
face; and the victor only Won Sy one vote. Mfr.
Brandon OF Stewart voting for him whea tbs
Ballot stood A to A: MIR. Brandon had stepped
out in the hall when the ballot vas being taken;
and just before it was announced came walking
up the aisle Comptroller Harris and his friends
got around him and urged him to vote for Har-
fis. He did SO and the fight was over. On all
previous ballots Mr.. Brandon had voted for
either Wallace or King. Wallace was withdraw
on the seventh ballot.
The scene when Harris was nominated was
indeacFibabe. His friends were largely In the ma
36ritS In tbs gallery and In the hall, and they
sh0wered him with cheers and congratulations.
He was virtually carried out OF the hall ON the
shoulders of his adherents.
1t was a most desperate fight and the opposi.
tion lost because they were not as thoroughly
organized as they might have BEEN
The Senate.
Tho second conference committee on the con-
stitTttOna1 CONVENTION bills submitted Its re-
port to the senate today but the senate again
refused to recede from its ame1dmant f1xing the
also that the senate recede from Its amendment
making the session Seventy-five days. The re-
port was not presented in the house, and so far
no further action has been taken.
p, Fhf senate passed the bill refunding to cigar
cite dealers the money paid In for license before
the passage OF the anti-cigarette bili; .,. .;,.s
In the senate tile more important new bills
were:
BY Mr.. Hammer: To provide for publication
OF the acts Of the assembly in newspapers at 40
!. BY Nif. Dabbs: To require FIRE escapes on all
buildings now erectedj or to be erected, over TWO
BY Mr.. Canada: TO authorize municipal cor:
porations adjoining or situated near one another
70 contract between them for the use Dy the one
OF the sewer DiDal and QVafpm Of the other.
BY Mr. Waddell: To prevent foreign insurance
companies from reSOrting to United states
courts In suits against them in Tennessee.
By Mr.. Canada: TO amend the charter OF
Memphis in respect of the conditions Of bonds
in the police court; to provide that appeals shall
be from said police court to the Second Circuit
Court OF Shelby county. and to transfer to said
in the First Circuit Court of Shelby county.
BY Mr. Canada: To amend an act authorizing
shelby county to purchase an electric light plant
by authorizing the issuance Of 500, 600 in bonds.
BY Mr.. SmithSon: TO exempt property OF law
yers, ministers and surgeons to the amount
Bills were passed to prevent the export OF
quail, dead or alive, Outof the State; to prevent
physicians; when drunk, from prescribing Tor
patients; to allow Martin TO issue bonds for
waterworkS purposes; to compel counties to
promptly pay Jurors; to protect game in LAUDER
dale and Henderson counties.
The House.
In the house this morning Mr.. Craig intro
ferers in West Tennessee, and Mr.. NOrfleet a
bill for like sum for the relief OF refugees from
0verflowed districts.
Other bills of interest were:
BY Mr. Monteverde: To prevent the killing or
capturing OF doves
BY Mr. Chambers: To make chancellors,
judges and justices Of the peace incompetent
when related to the attorney of either party ia
the suit.
BY Mr.. Toney: To provide for ascertaining
the true boundary line between this State and
North Carolina. &
BY Mr. Estes: To provide for the inspection
analysis and test OF commercial fertilizers.
By Mr.. Boyle: To amend the act by which
Shelby county was authorized to operate an
electric light plant
BY Mr.. Norieet: To amend the charter of
given on appeals from judgment rendered In
police court
House bills on third reading were disposed of
as follows:
To appropriate $4,000 to erect new building
at the Lyons View hospital for the insane at
Knoxville; passed.
TO allow one policeman u every 750 inhab
itants In Memphis tNorfleet's ill); passed.
The senate bill Incorporating the Centennial
City passed.
Mr.. johnson introduced resolution to refuse
to accept the compromise made by Comptroller
Harris with the Mobile & Ohio railroad The
hAance, ways and means.
The senate centennial committee met this
afternoon and unanimously decided to recon-
mend Senator Houk'S resolution providing for
of the session to April g. for adoption. This
will give the assemblymen a chance to partici-
pate in the opening exercises of the centennial.
Nashville, March 1s.-The senate and house
have finally agreed on the constitutional conven-
tion bills and they now go to the governor. The
convention is to sit only seventy days, and
hers a rn N mi mar o.