The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-01-23

years Ola QGdIn DV hanging.
By Mr.. Bowden-To establish sys-
TEN of drainage of lands.
By Mr.. McFarland-To amend the
code in so far as it relates to car
rying of pistols to make the punish
ment fine and workhouse or Jail SEN
tence.
NINTH DAY.
The first bill to pass final reading
in either house got through the SEN
ate, but as Speaker Tyson announced
the house committees, and as some of
the committees in both houses are
already at work, there will soon be
plenty of action in the sessions of
the general assembly. The bill
passed was introduced by Mr.. Cox,
and provides for the extension of con-
tracts or the making of new contracts
for the use of convict labor at the
main prison. Under existing law
all the contracts now outstanding will
expire in March next. Bills were
introduced in the senate by Mr..
Bright, and in the house by MIR. Cock
rill, providing for an annual appro-
priation of $4,000 per annum for a
State fair. Mr.. Cockrill also intro
duced bill to reorganize the State
agricultural department by the crea-
tiOn of board of seven members to
be appointed by the governor This
board is to choose secretary, who is
to be the executive officer of the de-
partment. Mr.. Stewart introduced a
similar bill in the senate. Senator
Jones introduced q bill to repeal the
dog law of 1901, and Senator Garrett
another to raise the standard test
of Illuminating oils from 120 to $50
degrees. Two other senate bills of
general Importance were: Mr.. CoX's
bill seeking to expedite chancery prac-
tice, and Mr. Cathes' bill to limit costs
of magistrates in criminal cases 50
as to prevent fee grabbing. The en-
balmers' bill providing for the licens-
ing and registration of embalmers,
was introduced in the senate by Mr..
Stewart. The usual postage stamp
resolution providing for giving each
member $5 worth of stamps, was intro
duced in the house and a joint resolu-
ton providing for the investigation of
the State board of health was intro
duced in the senate by Mr.. Bright.
Jim Crow Law.
Senator Hancock introduced a bill
to require street railroads to provide
separate cars for white and black pas
sengers. This bill will bring on a
serious fight, but it is hardly possi-
bic it will pass.
House Committees.
In the house Speaker Tyson an
nOunced his committees, the titles and
chairmen of the most important ones
being as follows:
Agriculture, Cockrill; claims, John
son; education, Romine; internal i'm
prOvements, Sturdivant; military af-
fairs, Cooper; new counties and coun-
ty lines, Crawford; banks, Collier;
federal relations, Stone; roads, Nc
Rec; enrolled bills, Veatch; public
grounds and buildings, Morton; char
liable institutions, Sidwell; elections,
Crestnut; commerce, Birdsong; emf
grafton, Lewis; retrenchment, Will
son; sanitation, Courtney; public
printing, Brown; labor, Nolan; insur-
ante, buildings and loans, Laughlin;
manufactures and mining, Hickman;
pensions, Warren.
Other committees il full are as fol
lows:
Finance, Ways and Means-Tyson
of Madison, chairman; JettOn, Hunt
of Dickson, Frazier, Stratton, Adams,
Hickman, Osborne, Morton, Wigle,
Sidwell, Peay, Abernathy, Johnson,
Pope, Cleage, Collier, Stone, Mad
doX
-Cleage, chairman;
SidwelI, Frazier, Romine, Cockriii,
Fonville, Luna, BirdsOng, Ritchie, Mel
son, Thomson, Best, Gamer, Preston,
Morgan, Bell, Hunt of Gibson, Stur-
divant, Warren, Nolan, Crawford, Nc
Donald, Jackson, Love.
Judiciary-Greer, chairman; Laugh
lin, Peay, Chestnut, Osborne, Cooper,
Stainback, Moore, Morton,
Wilkerson of Smith, Hickman, Frazier,
Thomson, Mcclure, Tyson Of Madi-
son, Abernathy, Oglesby, Jetton, Col
lier, EdgingtOn, WiIle, Carter, Adams,
Kelly, Wilson, Lamol, Miller. Harlan.
porations-Frazier, chairman;
Osborne, Cooper, Nave, Fuqua, Collier,
Fonville, Stainback, Ritchie, Edging-
ton, Askew, Wikle, Hunt of Gibson,
HUM, Jackson, Love.
Railroads-Jetton, chairman Nc
Clure, Cooper, Sidwell, Brown, Adams,
Peay, Bradley, Greer, Hickman, Ro-
mine, Cleague, Stainback, Ritchie, AL
len, Abernathy, Carter, Laughlin, Nc
Rec, Pope, Stone, Love, Miller.
Liquor Traffic-Thomison chair
man; Osborne, Pope, Allen, Ritchie,
Straub, Hickman, Hum, Jetton, Nc
Clure, Brown, Nolan, Carter, Lips
comb, Kelley, Mcdonald.
TENTH DAY.
While the one session of the SEN
ate and the two sessions of the house
were devoid of feature, there was ple1-
ty of work in both houses.
The senate bill authorizing the pen
itentiary commissioners to enter into
new contracts for the labor of con-
victs for six years from next March,
passed the house, this being the first
bill to become a law.
The senate passed a bill making
a capital offense, punisha-
BILE by hanging.
The senate concurred in the house
resolution urging congress to expedite
the passage of the Appalachian Park
bill.
Senator Jones introduced a resolu-
ton providing for a joint committee
to investigate the eXpediency of pur-
chasing a governors mansion.
Olly three bills were introduced in
the senate, but long list was intro
duced in the house, all, however, be- |
ing of minor Importance.
The senate referred the papers in
the Tuten-Jackson contest to the COM
mittee on privileges and elections, and
steps were taken in the house to in
yestigate the Lewis-KnowleS contest |
from White county.
Resolutions to investigate the Peak
charges, to give each member So !
worth of postage stamps and to count |
the vote for governor next Monday |
were agreed to in the house.
MuzzIe for Magistrates.
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