The leader., 1900-01-24
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

The Legislature is making a good
start and is creating good impression
thus far.
Senator Dulaney has introduced a
resolution petitioning congress to take
entire charge of the levees on the Mis-
sissippi river. The resolution is forci-
bly, worded and passed the Senate with
ease.
Senate bill No. %, appropriating
100000 for each of the years 1900 and
1901 for the maintenance of the com
mon schools of Mississippi, was passed
by vote of SO to IL. This bill carries
$4,000 more than has ever been appro
priated for common school purposes in
the State of Mississippi.
The Senate committee on peniten-
tiary has unanimously reported that
the bill introduced by Senator Dins-
more, which removes the penitentiary
from Jackson, do pass. 1t has since
passed.
Senator Georges bill to make all
county and municipal offices elective,
even when vacancies occur by death or
resignation, or from any cause, has
passed the Senate by vote of 2S to 4.
Senate bill 81 to appropriate SS6,23O
to the A. & M. College caused quite a
discussion, but it was finally passed by
a vote of % to IL. The Senate passed
the appropriation for the Agricultural
and Mechanical College at Starkville
without the dot of an or the cross of
t. The bill was drawn by the Hon. }.
M. Stone, president of the college, who,
by invitation, explained to the Senate,
the necessity for each item therein
contained. The bill appropriates S25,-
1928 for each of the years 1900 and
1901, as we'll as the interest on the ag
ricultural land scrip fund, 1t also ap-
propriates $4,000 for a new dormitory
and chapel, the necessity of which was
pointed out by Governor Stone in his
remarks to the Senate. Five thousand
dollars were appropriated for farmers
institutes; S1400 for new dairy build
ings and $500 for new reservoir for
water supply, together with few minor
appropriations for repairs. Governor
Stone said that the present enrolment
of the college was 375, which is the
heaviest for the past fifteen years,
A concurrent resolution to make the
amendments for an elective Judiciary,
voted on at the polls last November, a
part of the constitution passed the
Senate Saturday afternoon by a vote
of % to II If passed by the House,
the question of their legal submission
and adoption will be carried before the
Supreme Court.
Representative Cox's bill for the
adoption of uniform series of school
books in the State was made the special
order in the House yesterday,
Senator Adams has introduced bill
In the Senate which conforms to Gov.
Longino's recommendations on the
subject of mob law, and Representa-
tive McCafferty has introduced one in
the House in line with the Governors
recommendations on the subject of
primary elections. Mr.. McCafferty S
bill provides that all political parties
in the State shall nominate their can
didates by the primary system, and
that no two parties shall hold their
primaries on the same day, but that
one party shall hold its primaries in
all of the counties of the State on the
same day.
Representative Brooks, of Noxubee,
has introduced bill to make the un-
lawful retailing of liquor felony in
stead of misdemeanor, as provided by
the present statutes. This means that
the punishment shall be fine of not
less than $50 nor more than $500 and
Imprisonment in the penitentiary not
more than five years or in the county
Jail not less than six months.
The bill introduced in the lower
house by Mr.. Ellis making void all
mortgages or trust deeds given on
growing crops or crops to be grown,
and to amend the common law on this
subject and to prevent the mortgaging
of personal property exempt by the
laws of the State is attracting a great
deal Of interest among the members of
that body. The bill in brief provides
that all mortgages or trust deeds here
after executed on crops to be planted
or grown shall be void from the execu-
ton of the same and shall not have val
idity after the said crops are grown.