The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-09-19
The Extra Session Scheme.


sippi legislature than the mere ad
justment of the insurance laws
The agitation originated with /,
combination of trusts and selfish
interests and has been insisted
upon from the first on grounds
claiming exigencies that never ex.
listed, but were ooncocted as a pre-.
text upon which to make the ex-
traordinary demand. This pretext
alleged that the insurance compa-
nies would refuse to insure cotton
under the present valued policy
law. that cotton would be driven
into other States for market and
that stagnation would result to the
business interests of Mississippi.
The situation was magni6ed, dis
tor:ed and held mp as portending
such disaster that it alarmed the
commercial centers and actually
won a few adherants. The fact is
becoming evident. however, that
the alarm is but a subterfuge en-
ployed to coerce popular sentiment
and move Governor LOngino to
call an extra session. When this
has been effected. legislation in
volving other questions than those
pretended will be attempted in the
interest of the trusts and those
who have joined fortunes with
them. There are several elements
of this extra session rabble, among
whom the convention trickster is
not least prominent. The Noel
election law has despoiled him of
his trade and he contemplates flu
rious onslaught, to the end that
the law be modified and afford him
sta lding room or else be stricken
frL the statute books. Next ap-
pears the bowling back tax dodger,
who schemes to have the revenue
Jaws punctured with loopholes |
through which he can escape taxa
ion and dcfraud the State. These
selfish interests and the trusts will
,old high carnival at saekann -
Governor Longino calls an extra
session. They will squander $4,000
# the peoples money (the cost of
he session) and undo all laws that
protect the people against them
md which were enacted at a cost
# thousands of dollars to the State.
{ is now time to divest this extra
ession combine of it's pretext and
expose the insurance plea as sub
erfuge pure and simple. 1t will
all entirely to hoodwink the peo-
,le or coerce the Governor. Cot
on is pouring into the various
markets of the State and there has
'een no scarcity of buyers. It has
lot gone begging for either pur-
hasers or insurance. The Mis-
issippi Fire Company and other
insurance concerns have arranged
o write blanket policies and pro-
ect cotton in the old way. If they
ad not, no disastrous results would
ave followed. Expedients ade-
uate to the situation would have
btained to protect the product
ither in the hands of the producer
r the buyer.
Then no cause has ever existed
or an extra session of the legisla-
are in Mississippi this year. The
eople have known this all along
nd have given little heed to the
lamor Of the trusts and their al
es. Let these plotters now an
ounce openly what laws they want
hanged and what jmmunities they
,heme to secure exclusively for
,emselve-the sovereignty of Mis-
ssippi would know.
Further, what concessions of the :
tate government have embolden-
1 these octopi to threaten the bus
less interests of Mississippi and
emand trust legislation to avert
What persuasion are they
sing to coerce or decoy the Exec
tive and members Of the legisla-
ire into an outrageous scheme
!, dominate the will of the people
nd promote their own unholN iu-
,rests? II
The manhood of the State anx-
'uely await the answer, and, il
comes to them in an extra ses-
on. then will they know, and then
ill they demur. II