Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-02-02

a man taking a fee to lobby with The
legislature. if he is a private citizen
The question of the propriety Of
such a thing, in morals, is debatable
and every one must decide it for
himself.
But reiterate, if any one of nv
brothers ever received anything for
lobbying with the legislature never
had the least knowledge or intimation
of it. In any event | can't see how
can be held culpababls. refrain
from an appropriate retort which
really think mcrited by one in am
bush. 1t is said Mr.. Weathers assist.
ed me in the dissection of Mr. Cor
don's specifications. This is not true,
ard have 80 stated in the public press
Mr.. Weathers never saw the specifca.
tions from the time Mr. Gordon put
them in my hands until sent them
to the house Of representatives., il hs
ever saw them. at all. Except Will,
he was before the committee explain.
ing his plans, all the conversation
had in my life with Mr.. Weathers
put together, would not amount to
twenty minutes, except while he was
before the committee.
After vetoed the capitol bill it was
referred by the speaker OF the house to
a house committee on the capitol, com.
posed of twenty-f five members, and
am informed by Mr.. Williams, mem
Der of this committee, that, on tina,
evening, the committee unanimously
agreed to recommend that the veto b
sustained.
GORDON'S JOB.
The next morning, however, the com.
mittee made a report, recon mending
the passage Of the bill over the Veto
Now. if any one will read that report
and the specifications carefully he will
see that Mr. Gordon was putting a job
| on the house committee. Evidently
from that report he carried different
specifications before the committee
from the ones he gave me- L sent tie
ones he gave me with my veto messag:
to the house and they are in the jour
nal, and in them not word is said Of
house OF representatives, senate cham
Der, supreme curt room, governors
room. or of the dimensions of the
building; or of the entire superstruc-
ture Of marble. Yet that - rt says
these are in his specific; Eons. 1t
must have been then that Mr.. Gordon
presented to the committee on capitol,
after the veto, different specifications
from these he gave me when | asked
him for the specifications rnentientd
in the bill, and upon this it may be
the committee changed it's mind to
recommend next morning. Ii Mr..
Gordon had these different speciica-
tions who would have known, if the
bill had passed, what set was men.
toned and intended in the bill? II
would have left it to him to have fixed
what he pleased.
The house sustained my veto by a
majority vote.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR SCHOOLS
AND COLLEGES.
1 l approved the appropriation for the
Industrial Institute and College and
approved the provisions g equal dor
mitory privileges to q is, whether
tilkisg industrial or aca i'courF
singly or together. l
think now, all pupils
equal treatment In t
said
1.-The spirit of the law
NIT any discrimination
favor of any pupil or
attending the institute
IDaL part OF I0e Dill
to take from the trust
the president the man
college that the law give
tees, necessarily changes
can only he done by Il
and think vioatiye of
the constitution, which
support, and support as
il after a faithful consid,
|, therefore, under sectio
constitution disapproved
the bill One of the SUPP
Judge Terral, than whom
upright judge ever grac
agreed with my views on
tutional question
After a divided supreme
decided that the appropri
not be made then available
to the board of control who
thousand dollars which ii
need and there is no law
into The state treasury, and
idle, and the board of cont
to let the college have
thousand dollars of this m
the next session of the Ii
when the appropriation
available under the decisi
supreme court on conditio-
board of trustees would com
every condition of the legislal
to which the trustees agree
money would not have cost
any interest, but Mr.. Smi
bill of injunction against til
treasurer, who is exoflicio
of the board of control and he
money for the board-paying
of the board to the trustees
lege, and the state was there
PEELED to pay about twenty -fiv
dollars interest to get the mo
there is fifty Thousand dol
money in the treasury of tn
control, and out of ii the
rowed could have been
interest.
When the state treasr
money to cash warrants
the same arrangement wi
of control for the Asylum
jackson, and the money
to the board when the
was repleted, and Mr.. Sil
tered a word against it
| heard Mr. Smith oaoe,,,