The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-04-19
THE LEGISLATURE.
FIFTY-FOURTH DAY.

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The house passed a bill to prevent prize light
Ing. but it is not thought 1t will ever get through
the senate.
The joint legislative committee appointed to
investigate the charitable institutions OF the
State submitted Its report. The report takes
up the several institutions, states the result OF
the Investigation into their condition and makes
| such recommendations as are necessary. AS 4
rule the committee says the institutions are all
well and economically managed.
For the eastern hospital for the insane at
Knoxville. an appropriation of $1,000 for repairs
and improvements and sufficient funds to carry
| 500, 900 insurance is recommended.
| An appropriation OF So 500 for repairs and i'm
prOvements at the Tennessee school for the
deaf and dumb at Knoxville is recommended.
For the West Tennessee hospital for the in
sane at Bolivar, an appropriation OF $4,000 is
| recommended for repairs and improvements, the
| restoration of the electric light plant recently
destroyed by fire, and to insure the property for
| five years. The committee says it examined
into the excess of expenditures at this institu-
ton over like institutions, and gives good rea-
| son why this is so. There are more patients to
| care for, the freight bills on goods bought are
necessarily higher 1t costs moro to get coal to
the asylum and the farm is composed of poor
| lands.
The central hospital for the insane at Nash
| Vile, the committee says is very much crowded
and more room is needed. An appropriation of
5000 for new building, 5000 for repairs and
| improvements, and $4,000 to insure the property
for five years is recommended.
For the Confederate veterans home. near
! Nashville, the committee recommends an APP
| preparation of So, 800 to pay off deficit caused
| by drouth and the failure of crops for the past
! two years; that $50 per capita be allowed for
burial expenses when necessary to bury the
| dead, and that an appropriation OF 5000 per an
he nf two truS WI no
| have TO visit the institution and pay for their
| own conveyance.
Appropriations aggregating SIS, $50 are recon
mended for the school for the blind at Nashville.
! in order to provide more room for cOlOred and
/ white children, for furniture, for plumbing for
| new buildings. for musical instruments, grad
| ing grounds, etc. Appropriations aSgregatins
| s25, 1885 are recommended for the Tennessee In
| dustrial School, which, the committee says,
latter a careful and close investigation" they
| believe TO be one OF the best managed inStitu-
| tiOns OF the kind In America. These approgrIa-
tiOnS'are for deficit incurred for supplies for the
! past two years; for tract OF Ian for the farm
for crematOry for the refuse of the institution,
| which mas and can have no sewerage: for the
insurance of the property for the next five years,
| ami for an additional building for boys.
| 1t is recommended that for all the institutions
! the per capita appropriation remain the same
| as for the past two years.
| FIFTY-FIFTH DAY.
The senate adopted a resolution providing for
final adjournment on Monday. April o.
| For several weeks it has been difficult to get
| quorum in the house and the Skidmore reso-
luton, adopted today seeks to correct this evil.
] 1t makes it mandatory on the finance, ways and
means committee not to include these members
| in the list for full per diem, and the house has
ordered that list of those who have been alb
! sent and the number OF days they have not been
present 10 be made out and given to this COM
| mittee.
The senate killed two more bills aimed at the
Jarvis law. These bills had passed the house.
1t is safe to say now that all efforts to cripple
| this law Will prove unayailins.
The house worked on the assessment bill
nearly all day. Only two amendments to the
! bill of general interest were adopted, althou Oh
| there were quite a number offered. One OF the
| accepted amendments does away with the re-
] quirement that the circuit court clerks shall
cOuntersign merchants licenses at so cents each,
! and the other makes the action OF county boards
| or equaliZers final in the assessment OF prop
| erty, in effect doing away with the State board
| of equalization, which under the act of two
years ago raised assessments about $40, OOO, 900
The bill requiring the railroad to take dupli-
| cate receipts for passes given legislators and
| judges and file list with the secretary of State
! for publication, failed to pass the senate, Il
| voting for it and II against.
FIFTY-SIXTH DAY
| In the house Mr.. Smith of Shelby introduced
| n resolution to amend the constitution so as to
allow the general assembly the power to enac
! laws permitting the qualified voters Of any town
| city, taxing district county, by vote at q
special general election held once in foul