The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-04-12
FORTY-NINTH pAY.


culture, which passed the senate, and which
was understood to have the support of the pres
ent agricultural department officers is meeting
with some opposition from that direction on the
ground that it cuts the salaries of certain Of
ncers.
Bills on third reading were acted upon as
follows: TO require the supreme court to hear
cases appealed on writs of error passed; 10 re-
peal the charter OF Gadsden, passed to provide
for the assessment OF damages against concerns
operating plants held to be public nuisances,
passed.
Senate bills on third reading went off as fol-
lows: To abolish the charter OF Monterey,
passed; 20 authorize Gallatin to issue electric
light bonds, passed. to validate charters &C
knOwledged before nOiares public or commits
sioners of Tennessee, and contracts OF such
corporations, passed; to incorporate LaGrange,
Bluff City and SweetwateT, passed.
In the senate the bill to modify the present
Law of libel was called up out OF the regular
order on third reading. The judiciary COM
mittee recommended the bill for rejection Upon
motion of Mr.. Elridge the bill was rereferred to
the Judiciary committee in order that the news
paper men of the State might be heard on the
proposed measure.
The report of the joint legislative committee
on needs Of the State library was submitted to
the senate. The report declares that most of
the shelving, furniture, etc, is in ''unsatis-
factory condition and not in harmony with the
dignity and standing of the great State of Ten
neSSee among the sisterhOod; :" that 81 800 be ap-
propriated for expenses for the next two years;
that the Cord system of cataloguing be adopted
and that permsSiSFrb be given the librarian, in
conjunction with other State officers, to remove
each duplicate and other unnecessary rubbish
as now cumbers the library.
FIFTIETH DAY.
The general assembly started on the last three
weeks of the session today with barely quorum
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awaiting action. The meeting of the quarterly
county courts throughout the State kept some
of the members at home.
There was a long discussion in the senate over
the house bill preventing the insurance OF chill
dTen under Is years of age, and although it
passed the house almost unanimously, the senate
rejected it by an overwhelming vote.
Bills on third reading in the senate were dis
posed of as follows: To increase the pension
rate for total disability from Sl5 to S25 passed;
TO require railroads to keep up crossing signs,
tabled; to prevent the substitution of other
medicines in physicians prescriptions, passed;
to allow county courts to establish free ferries.
passed; TO require Incorporated companies to
use the word "incOrpOrated' their signs,
tabled; to protect wild turkeys in WeakIey,
Montgomery and Robertson counties, passed.
Third reading bills in the house went off as
follows: To declare lien in favor of parties
cutting or threshng wheat. rye, oats, etc,
failed; to authorize Warren county to build
turnpikes. passed.
Bills passed the house authorizing Ripley to
issue bonds, authorizing Shelby county to bOr
row 900 from Bolton College, placing Harde
man county in the Eighth chancery division,
authorizing Union City to borrow money to re-
pair schools and preventing hogs running at
large in Hardeman county.
FIFTY-FIRST DAY.
The house settled the fate of the constitu-
tional convention bills, the dog law and the
Estes fee bills when it killed each of them in
turn without much discussion. After lively
fight, it passed the legislative and congressional
redistricting bill as it came from the senate.
The constitutional convention bill went down
to defeat by vote of 47 to Il. The vote on the
Estes fee bills, which sought to put the clerks
in the four large counties on salary. was SO for
10 46 against. The redistricting bill had large
majority.
The house passed the senate bills providing
for jury commissions in Shelby and Davidson
counties.
The senate passed the bill creating the office
of State live stock inspector, to be appointed by
the commissioner of agriculture, at salary of
$1,000 per annum and again refused TO pass the
bill giving the State board of health power to
control the matter of quarantines in the coun-
ties.
A bill was introduced in the house requiring
the regulation of telephone rates by the rail-
road commission.
as follows: To repeal the charter of Hunting
don, passed; to make three wires lawful fence,
rejected; to prevent the shipping of quail dead
or alive IN the State, passed; to authorize the
Memphis board of education to issue bonds for
school purposes passed; to authorize Gallatin
TO issue waterwOrks bonds, passed; to require
stamping on life policies of facts as TO cOndt-
tiOns and to prevent misrepI passed.
Senate bills on third reading were thus dis
posed Of To prevent chancellors from borrow
ing money from Office of clerk and master, re-
jected, to incorporate Dyer, passed; to incOr-
porae Petersburg, passed: to incorporate Halls
passed; to fix the reward for taking up floating
lumber and timber, passed
FIFTY-SECOND DAY.
The only feature of Importance in tOday's ses-
eion of the legislature was the overwhelming |
defeat of a bill in the senate to make the Jarvis
law imperative in counties of 900 and less.
Both houses agreed to the conference report
the appropriation bill, and the act now goes |
TO the governor for his signature.
The Tiilman bill, applying the election laws !
10 all primary elections and prohibiting betting !
on primary elections, was rereferred, consider |
able opposition developing
The bill creating the office OF State entomolO- |
gist gave way 10 the house bill on the same SUBJ |
1ect. after being amended so as to take the con-
troll of the entomOlOgSt from the University OF |
Tennessee and placing him under the bureau OF |
agriculture.
The Warfeld road law passed the senate by . |
vote of - to 3, but as the house has passed |
differeat BILL road legislatiun is in n compli- !
Gated condition, and there is more than an even |
chance that neither of the bills will get to the |
governor because of the close proximity of the |
end of the session.
The house devoted the greater part OF its two |
sessions to the revenue bill, many amendments |
being offered to the bill as it came from the
senate. Quite a number of changes were made, !
and it is certain the bill will have to go to con-
ference committees iu the end.
The senate rejected the bill to repeal the |
charter of Bellbuckle, although the people voted |
neSriy two to one for such repeal.
The governor sent in a message vetoing the |
bill providing for the continuance Of the Second
Circuit Court Of Davidson county.N
Illegal Use of Mails.
d. c. Snoddy was arrested at McKen-
zie q. few days ago. charged with using |
the mails for illegal purposes. Snoddy. |
1T is charged had been sending out cir
culars proposing to sell counterfeit Con-
federate money, claiming that it could !
not be detected from the genuine. The |
secret manner in which this attempt to |
float the Confederate currency was |
made caused the officials to take action.
A decov letter was sent to the address |
given in his circulars, the inspectors |
following il up and making the arrest |