The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-04-07

iIS d0II- cigarette bli, WHICH udu ueeucu
by Mr.. Seay. The motion was tabled, which
kills the bili
The house went into committee CT the whole
for the purpose OF considering the revenue bill
Mr.. Edringtoh offered an amendment striking
out the S. privilege tax on merchants. Re'
iected. Mr.. Finley offered an amendment that
the minimum privilege tax of $ on merchants
be divided between the State and county.
Adopted.
MAFCH %.
The house has consumed two days on the rev.
enue bill and has reached the middle of it. Two
more days will perhaps be taken up before it is
finally passed in this body. The principal amend
ment adopted this afternoon removes the tax OF
1 per cent. on all purchases by retail liquor
dealers.
The senate passed the bill, TO prohibit the play.
ing of cards or any other games for any purpose
in any room or house in which liquor is sold by
retail. motion to reconsider was entered.
The house joint resolution, commencing the
sentiments expressed by President Mckinley in
his Atlanta speech, was adopted.
Mr.. Kelley introduced a bill in the house to
prevent the attachment or garnlshment of wages
earned or payable in another State.
Mr.. Wade introduced a bill to reduce the
charges of express companies to 662s per cent. of
what they are now.
Itdeyeloped this afternoon in the senate that
there would be fight over the bills introduced
by the committee on judiciary reform to abolish
certain courts. The bill to abolish the nine
teenth circuit came up. and a motion was made
by the opposition to postpone consideration OF
the bill until Thursday. This motion was dis
cussed until dark and no final action was taken.
Mr.. Boyd's bill making il a miSdemeanor for
county court clerks to issue license for the mar
rlage OF persons under the age of Is years, with
out the written consent of the parents or guar
dans, was approved by the governor.
MARCH 20.
The senate postponed action on the committee
bills to abolish certain courts until tomorrow
at IL O'Clock. when the fight will be resumed.
Messrs. Cole and Meeks spoke in favor of the
committee bills, and Messrs. Gilmore and Hobbs
opposed them.
The bill to provide for the examination of
witnesses as to the truth or falsity Of the af-
idaVits for continuance in criminal cases passed.
Mr.. Chambliss, chairman of the special COM
mittee to which was referred the bills in ref
erence to reducing the price of school books,
submitted report from majority OF the COM
mittee. The committee finds that school books
in Tennessee are sold at price from % to 90 per
cent. higher than they ought to sell.
The bill to abolish the Office of assistant
librarian was rejected.
The bill to make the second Friday in May
Confederate Decoration Day a legal holiday
passed final reading.
Among the new bills introduced were:
Senate-ChambIisS: To authorize cities and
towns to regulate the prices of water supplied
to such municipalities. Morgan: To increase
the appropriation to pension Confederate SOL
diers TO 100000 per year.
The revenue bill was taken up in the house.
Several Intellectual attempts were made to amend
the item relative to liquor dealers. Only one
amendment was adopted. This was an amend
ment by Mr.. Finley to add to the definition of
liquor dealers those selling medicated or adul-
terated cider" The tax of S. on lawyers, DOC
tors and dentists was stricken out after a warm
debate.
Mr.. Coston moved to amend the street car
company item by raising the tax as it was in
the revenue act of 1897. Adopted
At the afternoon session the tax on sleeping
car companies was increased from 81 800 to 81 900
ayes So, noes 81.
MARCH 80.
This was day of OratOry in the legislature.
The bills to redistrict the judiciary caused
heated and mpassioned debate in the senate.
Bills to abolish the nineteenth judicial circuit
(Judge Grigsby) and the third judicial circuit
(Judge Rogers) were passed, as was also the
bill to abolish the office of the following attor
neys- general: Knox county, Montgomery coun-
ty, eleventh judicial circuit, nineteenth judicial
circuit and the third judicial circuit The vote
on the first bill was, ayes 20, noes 5; on the
other two, ayes "a, noes ,
The house spent almost the entire day dis
cussing the matter of placing privilege tax on
railroads The outcome of the discussion was
defeat for those who opposed the tax. In its
original shape the bill provided for tax of S.
per mile for roads of less than 135 miles and $50
per mile for roads of more than 135 miles in
length. This tax was in lieu OF all other taxes.
The bill was finally amended so as to strike out
the line "in lieu of all other taxes and to make
the tax 81 so for roads less than 135 miles and
$3.50 per mile for roads of more than 1876 miles.
Under the original bill counties and municipali-
ties were not allowed to tax the roads for a
privilege. Under The bill as amended, counties
and municipalities place privilege tax on the
roads running through them
MARCH g.
The senate today passed the bill to abolish
the second chancery division (Judge Lindsay.
This was not committee bill 1t was intro
duced by Mr. Slack, and was substituted for the
committee bill to abolish the twelfth chancery
division (Judge Kyle. 1t will take effect thirty
days after the adjournment of the legislature.
The contest over substituting Judge Lindsay
for Judge Kyle was renewal of the fight made
on Judge Lindsay some time ago, when the
Sneed bill was under consideration. The bill to
apportion the counties in the several divisions
went over until Wednesday, after an amend
ment distributing the counties in Judge Lind
says division between Chancellors Kyle and
Smith had been adopted.
In the afternoon the senate took up the house
bill to require street car companies to place YES
tibules on the cars during the winter. After a
heated discussion the committees recommended
tion to reject the bill was voted down. 1t was
then made special order for next Thursday.
the new hills introduced is Mr.
Mann, to provide for inspectors of beer The
bill makes it unlawful TO corn, grape sugar,
aloes or other substitutes for barley, malt or
hops. The commissioner of agriculture and
assistants are charged with carrying out the
provisions of this act. He is to visit the brew
cries or agencies every ninety days and inspect
the beer and procure samples; to have same
analyZeA by the State chemist, also procure
sample from real dealer for inspection and
analyzation. For each inspection the whole
saIer is to pay $40 and the retailer 81.
Late this afternoon the house passed the reTe-
nue. bill. An amendment to the railroad privi-
lege tax item strikes out the clause which pro-
vides that in calculating the mileage for taxa
tion the whole system of road is counted in
stead of branches separately. The tax on
sleeping car companies was reduced from 81 600
to $500 An amendment was adopted taxing
press associations selling news to papers in
counties over So 900 $3.50, and $3.50 in counties of
less than $1,000.
Have Not Given Up Hope.
The friends of Hiram Hall, the con-
demned man who wastaken from Nash
vile to Crossville recently to await ex-
ecution on April Is, have not altogether
given up hope; it is understood they are
making a strong fight for the coumuta-