The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-12-09
OUR NEXT LEGISLATURE.

hlst monday IN January, lHOO
The coming session will DO one q
great interest, 1t has much to dc
and from all accounts its member
will set about their lSbors at one
and work for the best interest O
state and people,
The organization or the hous'
always attracts more interest thar
the organization of the senate FOL
the reason that the lieutenant gov
ernor, who has already been elect
ed by the people presides over
the senate, while the house choose
one of its own members to preside
over that body. 1t is true that
the senate elects a president pro
TEN, but he has no patronage like
the speaker of the house, the lieu
tenant governor naming the COM
mittees, pages and porters, MS does
the speaker of the house.
Under the new constitute y, It
is several weeks after the meeting
Of the legislature before the in
stallation of state officers. All the
state officers, as first pointed out
in the Picayune, except the gov
ernor, will be installed this time
on Jan, 18th next, thirteen days
after the meeting of the legislature.
The governor will be inaugurated
Jan. Is.
The new constitution brought |
about some queer things. For
instance, the out gong lieutenant
governor, who names the commit
tees of the senate, as well as the
pages and porters, remains in
office two weeks before his success
'or, under the constitution, can
lualify. But the custom has been
or him to appoint the choice of
lis successor, the taking of whose
eat is procraStinated until a week
.fter the legislature sitting us an
lectoral college counts the vote
or state officers and ascertains the
esult, Of course, everybody !
nows the result, but the consti- j.;
Ition tells how things shall be +
one, and the constitution is the
lpreme law of the state, unless it &
ONES between friends, a thing !
lat Tim Campbell, of New York, G
as quoted as regarding prepos- c
rOus.
The president pro TEN of the G,
nate, as we'll as the secretary of n
lat body and the sergeant-at-arms !
I'd doorkeeper of that body, are q
ected on the day the senate q
eets. :,
The speaker of the houses and v
| OF its officers are elected y,
e day the house meets. The r.
'eaker appoints the pages and &c
e porters, HI
Within the recollection of the n
dest inhabitants, neither house II
IS failed, on account of a dead
OK, to organize the day the leg
allure met. Many times the
ntests for house and senate Off
rs have been long drawn out, OF
It the organization has always -
en- completed the day of meet HI
2, at least since the memory of tn
IN rnnneth not to contrary. 1t +
not now recalled what might nc
We happened when the carpet a Jp
ygers held sway, for they were ar,
bic to do anything, while the ch
payers liquidated the freight. sol
After the organization of both GU
Use. a joint committee is APP ios
nted to wait on the governor an,
inform him that the two are
Uses are ready to receive any me
lmunication he may desire to my
NIT to them, when the gov =
or's message follows. This tur
sage is taken up by the private ing
'etary of the governor. 1t is his
in the senate by the secretary we
hat body and in the house by Fo,
clerk. ma,
he announcement of the regu- can
committees in the two houses hne
lilly follows, just as soon as t vi y
can be made up by the lieu bea
mt governor and the speaker nice
ne heuse. case
Or president pro TEN of the All
te, the only name mentioned III ~;
lie public press is that Of Hon, A
/ R. Dinsmore, of Noubee, busi
seems to have no opp osition. unn