The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-02-15
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
rwENrY-sECoND DAY.

| TwENTY-sECoND DAY.
| The Peeler bill was considered by the ju-
dietary committee who, after some debate
| recommended its passage by vote of to 6
| with an amendment by Senator Seay. The
| amendment makes the Peeler bill a virtual ex.
| tension of the present statute. which extends
the provisions OF the fOur-mile law to towns OF
1000 inhabitants hereafter Incorporated, in that
| it makes the four mile law, prohibiting the sale
| of liquor within four miles of a school house,
| applicable to towns of 5000 Inhabitants by the
| census of 1900, any subsequent census, that
may hereafter be Incorporated.
| The senate new bills of Importance were those
! authorizing counties 10 issue bonds for the
| building of levees and the reclamation OF swamp
lands and allowing them the use of the increased
! taxes from such reclaimed land; creating the
| office OF State immigration agent at a salary of
| $1,000 per year and allowing him an equal sum
| for clerical help.
In the house the principal new bills were: To
| require county superintendent to ersign
| warrants for teachers salar3es; to increase the
salaries of certain coal oil inspectors from sl2O
| TO $3.50 per annum; to appropriate $3.50 TO be
| used in securing cases for the preservation OF
| The Tennessee flags used in the Spanish Amer
| lean war; to transfer the office of live stock
commissioner from State board of health to
Memphis to issue Sl5O,oOo of bonds for school
purposes.
TWENTY-THIED DAY.
The senate was not in session.
The house again refused to give the State
board of health power to better control conta-
gious diseases where county and city boards
fail to do their duty.
The house refused to repeal the jury law en-
acted at the last session by which the reading
of a newspaper does not make a man ineligible
for jury duty.
resolution was introduced providing that
Confederate soldiers could elect whether they
would go to the Soldiers Home remain in the
care of friends and receive their per capita al
lOwance.
Other new bills were as follows: To abolish
the State board of equalization; to punish pis-
tol carrying by fine and imprisonment, and to
make the drawing of pistol felony.
Bills on third reading: To make kidnapping
capital offenSe, amended so as to make the pun
ishment ten to twenty-five years Imprisonment
and then re- referred; to prevent the sale of soda
water and ice cream on Sunday, tabled.
TwENTY-FOURTH DAY.
The senate passed the house bill prohibiting
the sale of cocaine except upon the prescription
of physician.
Senator Tilman introduced a bill to repair
Lewis, in Lewis county.
The house passed the bill to prohibit the use
of impure illuminating oils in coal mines.
New bills in the house were: Providing for
amendments to the assessment and revenue
laws; TO allow no exemptions for damages for
sheep killed by dogs or for fines and costs in
convictions for keeping sheep killing dogs; to
provide the terms upon which sales in bulk of
stocks of goods, wares and merchandise may be
made; to prohibit the fraudulent purchase
sale of goods, wares and merchandise; to allow
justices of the peace to give judgment for dam
ages In repleVin suits.
TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY.
The Peeler bill, which has been the center of
one of the btterest attacks ever made by the
whisky men in Tennessee, was defeated today,
the senate rejecting the measure by vote of 1s
to 10. The vote on the bill was follows:
For the bill-Messrs Byrnes, Caldwell, Clai-
borne, Cochran, Erwin, Gambell, Houston,
Seay, Swa1ord, Thorp, Thompson, Tillman,
Turner of Gibson, Turner of Humphreys and
WaTfeld-15.
Against the bill-Messrs Bean, Butler, Cox,
Davis of Hancock, Davis of Morgan, Dreanan,
Eldridge Fryer, Greer, Howell johnson, Lasa-.
ter, Leech, McCOrkle, Peake. Vandeyenter
Williams and Speaker White-1s.
Messrs. Byrnes, Tillman, Cochran and War
field explained their votes by saying that they
could not vote against a measure which gives
local self-gOvernment TO the people-the very
elemental theory OF Democracy.
Mr.. Lasater explained that he was instructed
to vote for measure extending the four-mile
law to towns of 5000 inhabitants, but as
amended, extending it to cities of 10i, 900, he
must vote no.
Mr.. Speaker White said that although he had
been threatened with political extinction on ac-
count of this measure, yet lie consulted no guide
but his conscience in voting mo"
There were no new bills of Importance in the
senate
The senate devoted some time to the consider
alton of the assessment bill, Which is really an
amendment to the present law. An amendment
was adopted exempting the bonds of corpora
tions located in Tennessee from taxation.
House bills on third reading: To prevent the
netting OF quail, rejected; to repeal the uniform
text book law, rejected; to prevent bird dogs
running at large in Fayette county, passed; to
require county superintendents to counterSign
warrants for teachers salaries, rejected; to
protect female boarding schools, academies and
colleges from the ''jOhnnies,'' rejected; to pay
the travelling expenses of the trustees of the
Confederate Soldiers Home, tabled; to require
publication of the receipts and expenditures of
the States money with the acts of the assembly,
failed to prohibit hunting on the inclosed land
of another without written consent OF the
owner, failed.
TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY.
The senate was the scene of a lot OF SPELL
binding over the resOluti on providing for an in
vestigation of the rumOrs of bribery in connec-
tion with the defeat OF the Peeer bill. The
as adopted authorizes the invesfgat-
ing committee to issue subpoenaes and send for
persons and papers, in order that a thorough
may be made
The senate considered the assessment bill at
some length and passed it by large majority.
The senate killed the bill to exempt cows and
horses from the operations of the no-fence law.
This bill would have allowed horses and cows
to roam at Will in the large counties and cities.
TWENTY-NINTH DAY.
The general assembly adjourned today until
March IL in order TO give the special committees
tricting committee time to draw up bill for re-
districting the State.
The senate cOncurred in the house resolution
to invite David Bennett Hill to address the gen.
eral assembly, but not until after there had
been considerable opposition from some of the
Bryan men. The vote was 16 to IL.
The house again refused to express itself on
the question of dog law, although the COM
mittee on agriculture had recommended the
for adoption
Bribery Charged.
The special legislative committee to
the allegations of bribery
in connection with the defeat of the
Peeler bill, organized by electing Sem
ator Seay as chairman and Representa-
tive Adams as secretary. 1t was de-
cided that sessions of the committee,
which will begin on February Is, should
be secret, and that all accused parties