Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-11-30

sending out the biennial report Of At v
torney-General McClurg to the men, e
bers of the Legislature. 1t is very r
document Of 1875 pages of I
BREWER type, and one Of the most com I
plete ever sent out from that office. I
1t shows that the Attorney-General, '
between the 18th of January, 1900 and |
October 1st, 1901, tried 154 cases in {
the Supreme Court, of which 135 were
criminal and q civil, besides quite a
number in circuit and chancery courts
Of Kinds county and in the United
States court at Jackson, and that 7o
per cent. Of all of these cases have
been decided in favor of the State. A
tabulated list Of the cases is given,
showing name of the parties, county
from which the appeal was taken,
Judgment and sentence of the circuit
court and whether affirmed or re-
versed by the Supreme Court.
The report contains about $50 writ.
ten opinions given by the Attorney
General to boards of supervisors, State |
officials and State institutions, but
does not include a much larger mum
ber given orally to the State officers,
or those given boards Of supervisors by
telegraph mad telephone.
1t shows that the Attorney-General
examined and passed upon the legality
of 500 applications for charters OF in
corporation, 200 applications to have
refunded taxes enormously paid and
the purchase money for land where the
States title failed and more than
twenty applications for exemption
from taxation by manufacturing enter
prises.
The Attorney.General is also an ac-
tive member of the Board of Peniten-
tiary Control, Board of Public Educa'
ton, Board of Election Commissioners,
Board of Public Contracts, Special
Heat, Light and Water Supply Com
mission, Special Board of Health Com
mission, Penitentiary Farm Commits
sion. State House Commission, and
I trustee for the State Library and Is
: required by law to meet with these
9 several bodies as well as to ADVISE
! them touching the law respecting tlell
D several duties.
Q In his report the Attorney-Genera
recommends revision of the statute
laws of the State, showing that thu
g averaged life of a code in this Stat
:. is eight years, while the present cod
will be twelve years old when tn
t Legislature meets in 1904. He is OF
'. posed to too many laws, and the few
l. est possible changes in the presen
statutes, but thinks the State will b
greatly benefited by pruning out all G
the repealed laws and those declare
unconstitutional by the Supreme Cour
= and to collect from the sheet acts a
~ live laws enacted since the code wa
ID adopted. He also recommends a
A amendment of the antitrust law
making them less severe, compellin
parties to pools, trusts and combine
as to testify as witnesses and to produ'
IN their books for inspection by the cour
ed and all parties interested, and that di
II trict ATTORNEYS be authorized to pI
y, ceed against these concerns in the
respectiye districts. 1t has some 9th
suggestions of minor Importance. I
cd report has been distributed to t
all members of the Boards of Supervise
lk, and county officers.
ed The Attorney-General certainly h
i'm as many official duties to perform
any of our State officials, if not mo
and he has assiduously applied hims
:, to the faithful discharge of the mum
~. I Gus requirements which the law
n mands at his hands.
the It is not often that wet town &C
:. plains of the "wetness" But there
varieties of wetness and the partl
-. lar kind from which the town
~ ~ Charleston is now suffering calls
a,,, the sheriffs immediate attention.
or. water from the artesian we'll has
tremendous a flow that 1t cannot
utilized. and so floods the streets.
ie' supervisors recently ordered the she
ling to turn the waste water into the co
cof house well. which he did, and the
IN was overfowing in less than I'll
ON hours. The people seem to be II
ouandary, but to one who is loof
ON it would seem simple matter
nn, nina the waste water to the Charles
yo homes. where it would save the
,icb. housekeepers many weary steps
GOAL small charge could be made, and
the extra water be made help ins
of a hindrance.
-, The progressive new town, Nj
W. Olives. boasts of an unusual loa
u u, cotton which was sold there last "
:" This was an eightwheeled wa
'9'' loaded with twenty-eight bales Of
ton and drawn by two yoke of
No, According to our way OF tnlnl
ality that was not oh'y " pii1o iu, n,a ~ W.,
'ered prize yoke OF oxen W oe "'io W
day. such a burden.
That the City Council Of Colul
Col &c a progressive body is eyineed b
one appointment az recent inoo'i'
'oyed a competent committee 70 appea
10. fore Gov. Longino and urge him U
body in his message to the Legisi
e.. a request that they pass bill 6
,ros Columbus authority to issue bon
,o,,re. the sum of $25,O0O for the purpc
building a new city hall, extel
tho sewerage system and mi
: other necessary improvements, Z
ny - bus deserves all the good that con
'iooA. her. because of the splendid mel
% " women who form her citlzenshll
The parties who are interestt
W ,.o. boring for oil at Wilson Springs,
ing OF OF ocrailon' ~ ,,antrra as The
Ark VIII a''enu 'ne ,,.,o hrsh femh,
good luck) growing directly ov'
spot set apart for the boring
Tenn. we'll. We hope their high hope
who ~ Ms' roo,,ved and that they will
silver ~ 80 Il, .
Biloxi's City Council has decl