Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1901-01-25

| interest.
! The error Of an eagrossing clerk in
inserting in an act Of the last legis-
lature a phrase which both houses
had explicitly stricken out will figure
largely in the settlement of the cele-
brated Winemann suit now pending
in the circuit court OF this county.
The enrolled bill is the law, in spite
of the fact that the record shows the
expungation by both houses. The
bill referred to is an act authorixing
the auditor to issue his warrant for
the purchase money to patentees Of
| land where the states title failed and
where the lands were sold by the
land commissioner ''or the secretary
of safe" The quoted phrase, or the
secretary Of state" was inserted and
stricken out by both branches Of the
legislature, and, notwithstanding all
this, it appears in the enrolled bill,
thus seemingly opening the way for
refunding the Winemann and other
cases where land was brought years
through the office of the secretary Of
state, a contingency which the legis-
lature was studious to provide
against.
The attorney general holds that it
was not the intention Of the legisla-
ture to insert the phrase, and for this
reason, although admitting it is tech
nical law, he is prepared to resist the
attempt to recover the purchase
money from the state on other
grouds.
A petition addressed to President
Mckinley, asking for the pardon Of
young Eugene Standby, now in Sing
Sing prison, was Gs.sSsa by the gov
ernor and all Of the state officers.
Standley formerly lived in Carroll
county, and has respectable family
connections there. In 1893 he was
sentenced to fifty-fve years impris-
onment by the Federal court at Fort
Smith, Ark. under three charges Of
robbery and one Of manslaughter.
He was then only eighteen years Of
age, and was sent to the House Of
Correction ut Detroit. The petition
in extenuation of his offense states
that the robberies were committed in
spirit of lawless adventure, and that
the crime Of manslaughter was sur
rounded by many qualifying circum-
stances. The object Of the punish
ment, it is commended, has already
been accomplished.
The publication to the eff
feet that State Revenue Agent
Writ Adams had in contemplation
bringing series of gigantic back tax
suits in several towns and counties of
the state for the recovery of various
amounts overdue on solvent credits
struck that official with considerable
establishment as no such program of
litigation is contemplated and no
statement has been made by him to
such an effect. He says he did not
authorize the announcement and that
the statements are wild and exag-
gerated. The report that Mr.. Chiles
had unearthsd about $500, 900 worth
Of these solvent credits at Columbus
which had never been turned in for
taxation, is entirely without founda-
ton, he says, as no discoveries Of the
kind were made at that place. The
revenue agent say tho wants no credit
for projecting such enterprises of
great pith and moment when he is in
no way connected herewith.
The state press of Mississippi is
commenting very favorably on the
able speech delivered by Congressman
Spight, of the second Mississippi dis
trict in the lower house several DAYS
ago ON the apportionment bill. Cap
tain Spight's speech was undoubtedly
the ablest defense of Mississippi 3
constitutional suffrage plank that has
been made since the mem orable argu-
ments before the United States SUI
preme court.
The reports Of taxes collected for
the month of January in the seventy
five counties Of the state have been
received at the office of the state
treasurer, and they show total Of
$751; 600. So, including both state and
privilege taxes. Treasurer Showers
states that there is now in the vaulti