The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1898-01-08
COWS MESSAGE.
THE PAPER TO THE LEGISLATURE
Briefly Reviewed From an Impartial
View by Outside Source.


| The Times-Democrat review of
the governors message is impair
tial and comprehensive, as fol-
lows:
"The message of the governor
of Mississippi to tho legislature
OF that state, now in session, is
reproduced in full elsewhere. The
document is an exhaustive one.
and embodies II greater number
OF recommendations than is
usually found in such document.
Throughout tho governor shows
his friendship for the farmer, and
his hostility to combines and
trusts, but he also takes ground
that is indefensible-for instance,
his recommendation that trains,
and especially freight trains, be
not permitted to operate in Mis-
sissippi on Sunday.
"After discussing the finances of
the state the governor calls upon
the legislature to see that the
railroads are compelled to bear n
larger proportion of the cost Of
government than they have been
accustomed to bear, and also to
repeal a number of acts permitting
the consolidation of railroads.
The governor argues that there
is no danger Of breaking faith in
repeating the parts of acts under
which exemption from taxation n
is claimed by the railroad com
panies.
"1he message urges liberal
pensions for confederate veterans
who are disabled and needy, but
adds that all possible safeguards
should be placed around tho dis.
tribution of the fund.
"The governor insists upon
the construction and repair or
levees by the federal government,
and ably assures the equities ofthe
case; repeats his previous plea
for liberal appropriations for
education, and felicitates the peo-
pie of the state upon the excel .
lence of their educational institu-
tions. 1t is urged that the state
should own all the farms worked
by penitentiary convicts, and at
tention is called tothe fact
that these farms we're operated
with better results than ever
before.
The case of Williams against
the state. now pending in tire
supreme court of the United
States, and which involves not
only the title to office of all the
officials of the state, but of the
validity of the constitution itself
is declared TO be the most impor.
tant that has gone up from
Mississippi in its history. Will
liams has denied the power of {
court organized under the present
constitution to try him, because
the constitutional convention wa,
illegally organized. The governor
has employed special counsel tc
conduct this case, which, If i
went against the state, would
practically leave the people ol
Mississippi without government
"The message recommends tn,
election of the judiciary and O
United States senators by tn,
people; that congress be petition
: ed to remove the quarantine
station from Ship Island, and t,
defeat all bills committing tn,
matter of quarantine to the fe
deral authoritie to the exclu
: sion of state officials; a uniform
local registry Of convicts, and tn,
improvement, by the federal gov
ernment, of Ship Island harbor
I and the dredging of a nayigabl
ship channel to the mainland.
/ "rrouts and combines, especial
, ly cotton seed mill and railroad
: combines, are denounced and th,
J Legislature is urged to make tn,
present laws referring to then
more stringent.
The message concludes with
a reference to the low price O
notion u,.1I 81,