The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-03-22
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
THIRTY-FOURTH DAY.

lion or delegates and the nolding OF a conStltu
tional convention. An effort will be made t.
secure early action on these measures.
| Representative Piper introduced bill pro
viding for dog law.
bill was introduced providing for so amend
| Ing the sinking fund law as to give the State
power to buy bonds at any time during the year
without restricting such purchases to the frs
| day of each quarter. The State now has about
$4,000 with which to purchase bonds, but under
the law cannot purchase them until April 1.
The senate passed the bill regulating the
operation OF beneficiary orders, making them
| subject to the rules regulations and inspections
of the State insurance department. 1t also
passed the bill imposing a penalty of 25 per
cent on insurance companies, over and above
the amount of the policy, when payment of loss
Is resisted.
The senate also passed the bill making 1t a
misdemeanor for a person or corporation TO
make or publish false statement in order to
secure laborers.
Bills on third reading: To prohibit the throw
ing Of sawdust into streams, failed to provide
for the appOrtiOning OF the school fund among
white and colored children in proportion to the
amount of taxes paid, rejected; to prevent the
sale Of cider on election day, failed.
THIRTY-FIFTH DAY.
The senate passed a bill pensioning all ex-
Confederate and Federal soldiers over 20 years
OF age who are disabled and in INDECENT circum-
stances and not now drawing pension. Aid is
not to be extended, however, IL the disabilities
of such soldiers have been caused by dissipa-
tiOn or immoral habits.
The house rejected the bill creating the office
OF State immigration agent, and reconsidered
and passed the bill prohibiting the selling or
giving away of cider on election day or Sunday
Resolutions authorizing the Knoxville Power
Company to build dam across Little Pigeon
river were adopted.
Resolutions were adopted inviting President
Moore Of the National Good Roads Association
to address the general assembly.
Gov. McMillin sent short message to the as
semby, urging the prompt passage of the ap-
preparation bill, as the appropriations under
the old act will end on the 18th, and the judicial,
executive and departmental officers and the
State Institutions Will have to go without
money unless a bill is passed. The message
also called attention to the fact that DR.. r. A.
Gattinger had prepared a most valuable manu-
script in regard to the flora of Tennessee, which
lie offered TO the State without cost, provided
the State would have it printed for distribution
to the libraries of other States and the general
public. 1t will make volume of about 800
pages, the governor said, and 1t covers 2, 100
species of plants spontaneously growing in
Tennessee. The governor also recommended
that steps be taken for the preservation of the
records and archives OF the State now in the
basement of the capitol. He says many valua-
BILE documents are piled up in a heap. and that
only recently the manuscript of the first consti-
tuition of Tennessee was discovered in this heap
and restored. Other papers OF great historic
interest and value are there now.
The house went record favoring dog
law by passing the bill to allow no exemptions
from seizure in cases where sheep have been
killed by dogs.
The bill to prevent child life insurance passed
by a large majority.
The house agricultural committee recon-
mended for passage bill providing for a State
board of agriculture, to be composed of seven
members, these to be appointed from the three
grand divisions, and giving this board power to
select the secretary of agriculture.
THIRTY-SIXTH DAY.
The constitutional convention bill failed in
the house for the want OF a constitutional ma
jority, the final vote resulting in tie, As to 4s.
The senate passed the congressional redis-
tricting bill, with an amendment restoring
Hardeman county to the Tenth district. The
had so drawn its bill as to place
Hardeman in the Eighth, but the people of
Hardeman objected, and the amendment was
easily adopted.
The senate passed the bill allowing the fund
Ing board to purchase bonds at any time in
stead of quarterly, as now provided.
The house resolution permitting the damming
Of the Little Tennessee river by the Knoxville
Power Company was ,oncurred in.
THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY.
In the house resolution was introduced pro-
vlding for the appointment OF a committee to
investigate as to whether or not there is an as
sistant adjutant- general, If he is paid for his
services, and by what authority.
The committee appointed to investigate the
office of the State board of pension examiners
its report, which showed that there
have been filed with the secretary of the board
Of pensions 3,2l4 applications for pensions, and |
hat there now 97O men the pension rolls, |
irawing sos. $50. Ninety one pensioners have |
lied since the organization of the board in 1891,
and the State has expended s595, ,28s. 49 in this |
direction. The committee recommended "that |
he appropriations for pensions be increased to |
;15O,0O0 annually; that the board be continued |
Is now fixed by law. and the secretary's Incl |
iental expenses remain as heretofore; that the |
ecretary use every precaution to rigidly guard !
he rights OF those who come under the pro- !
'isions of the law that applications favorably |
passed upon shall be added to the roll as entered
lpOn the roll book; that the law remain as it is
low constituted to the eligibility of pension
RS; that the law be amended so as to have but |
wO classes of pensioners, leaving out the Sec
md class as now provided by law
THIRTY-EIGHTH DAY.
The feature of the house proceedings today |
vas the refusal to reconsider the action of the
previous day in killing the constitutional con-
entiOn bill.
The senate devoted most Of its session to an
fight over the bills repeating the
harters OF Lexington and Bolivar. The house
lad tackled an amendment on to the Lexington
Ill submitting the question to vote of the
eople, but the senate refused to concur, after a
ong debate An attempt was made to attach
imilar amendment to the Bolivar bill, but Mr..
cay and others attacked it so vigorously that
failed.
Bills were introduced in both houses requiring
Eomen bringing suits for divorce to secure the
osts. and authorizing county courts to elect
i've stock inspectors.
Pipe Works for Chattanooga.