The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-01-14

,apers said-l do not quote the exact
anguage as the card is not before me
that he had boy oversight done me
IN unintentional Injustice
ABOUT LOBBYING.
MIR. Smith said some one told some
Gentleman that he paid one Of my
irothers $3.50 10 lobby for the Wealth
IT'S plan, and that he can give the
lames of the gentlemen whom the
anne one told. Like the fellow who
mid he saw man throw an elephant
,yer the fence aud IL YOU didn't be
ieve 1t he could show yau the elephant
| know nothing about that, l never
1enrd Of II before. He doesn't desig-.
,ate hny one of my brothers. Walter
NrI aurln wrote to Mr.. Weathers and
,slked him II he had paid any one OF
ny brothers and he emphatlcally SAID
5e had not, and his letter was pub
.ishpd. Ii is shocking to an attorney
If the Y. a NJ. V. railroad company
that one should receive a fee to LOBBY
with the legislature. And yet great
tnrt Of tins war is because OF an effort
OF that corporation to shlrk taxes On
der statutes lobbied through the legis'
lpture. Yet the time was when even
Mr.. Smith didn't act as If he thought
it wrong TO receive a fee to lobby.
There is no law in this state sgain sl
man taking a fee to lobby WITH the
legislature, il be is private citizen.
The question If the proprlety OF
such thing, in morals, is debatable'
and every one must decide 1t FOL
himself. .
But reiterate, if any one of my
brothers ever received anything fol-
lobbying with the legislature | never
had the least knowledge or lntlmatloL
of it. In any event can't see how.
can be held culpabable. | refraiI
from an appropriate retort which
really think merited by one in am
hush. 1t is said Mr.. Weathers assist
ed me in the dissection of Mr.. Cor
don 8 specifications. This is not true
ard have so stated in the public press
Mr.. Weathers never saw the specitiea
tions from the time Mr.. Gordon pu
them in my hands until | sent then
to the house Of representatives, u ne
ever saw them at all. Except whll'
he was before the committee explain
ing his plans, all the conversation
had in my life with Mr.. Weathers
put together, would not amount tc
twenty minutes, except while he wal
before the committee.
After | vetoed the capitol bill 1T wa'
referred by the speaker of the house u
a house committee on the capitol, com
posed of twenty-five members, and
am informed by Mr. Williams, mem
her Of this committee, that on tha
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, recommendlns
the passage of the bill over the veto
Now, if any one viii read that repor
and the specifications carefully he wal
see that Mr. Gordon was putting Jos
on the house committee, EVIDENT.
from that report he carried ditferen
specifications before the COMMITTEES
from the ones he gave me. l sent th'
ones he gave me with my veto nessag
to the house and they are in the jour
nal, and in them not word is said o
house of representatives, senate cham
Der, supreme curt room, governor
room, or of the dimeneions of th
building; or OF the entire superstruc
ture of marble. Yet that report say
these are in his specifications /
must have been then that Mr.. Gordol
presented to the COMMITTEES on capitol
after the veto, different specification
from these he gave me when L asked
him for the specifications Inenticne'
in the bill, and upon this it may b
the committee changed its mind t.
recommend next morning. III Mr.
Gordon had these different specitica
tions who would have known, if tn
bill had passed, what set was men
toned and intended in the billY l
would have left it to him to have ike
what he pleased.
The house sustained my veto by
majority vote.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR SCHOOLS
AND COLLEGES.
| approved the appropriation for tn
Industrial Institute and College and
approved the provisions for equal dor
mitory privileges to all pupils, whethe
taking industrial or academic courses
singly or together. thought, AM
think now, all pupils ought to hav
equal treatment. In that message
said:
1.-THE spirit of the law will not per
NIT any discrimination against or j
favor of any pupil or class of pupil
attending the institute and college.
That part of the bill which oiiere'
to take from the trustees and give t
the president the management of tn
college that tho law gives to the trus
tees, necessarily changes the law, wfic
can only he done by the legislature
and | think violatiye of section 69 G
the constitution, which | am sworn t
support, and support as | nndertsan
il after faithful consideration OF II
[, therefore, under section 73 OF tn
constitution disapproyed that part {
the bill. One of the supreme judges
Judge Terral, than whom not NOR
upright judge ever graced court
agreed with my views on this constr
tutional question.
After divided supreme court ha
decided that the appropriation coul
not be made then available, apl lie
to the board of control who had fit
thousand dollars which they did nc
need and there is no law to turn
into the state treasury, and it is layin
idle, and the board of control agree
to let the college have twenty fv
thousand dollars OF this money unit
the next session of the Legislature
when the appropriation will becom
available under the decision of th
supreme court on condition that th
board Of trustees would comply wit
every condition Of the legislative bill
to which the trustees agreed. III
money would not have cost the stat
any interest, but Mr.. Smith filed
bill of Injunction against the stat
treasurer, who is exofficio treasure
of the board Of control and holds tn
money for the board--paying the ord'
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