The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-02-18
FRIDAY.


The Uniform Textbook, which pass
ed the Senate yesterday, has gone
over to the House, and is now before
the Committee on Education. Some
objections are made to the bill, and
though the bill will pass the House,
some important amendments will be
made to it by the lower branch.
The lawmakers will leave tomorrow
for Vicksburg, so there will be no ses-
sion tomorrow morning or afternoon
by either House or Senate.
A bill has been introduced in the
House by Mr.. Millsaps, of the Judia-
ry Committee, raising the salary of
the Adjutant General to $1,000. This
measure will receive the favorable
consideration of the members of the
Committee, and will likely pass. The
Adjutant General is the lowest-sala-
ried official in the Capitol, and to
maintain the State National Guard
at its proper standard will require all
OF the time of the Adjutant, which he
cannot be expected to give at the sal
airy which is now received, 5000 a
year.
The Senate spent all the morning
In discussing, section by section, the
Hightower Road Bill, and at the af-
~ternoon session the bill, as amended,
was passed by a vote of 20 to s.
The House Committee on Universe
ties and Colleges this afternoon
agreed to adversely report the bill in
troduced by Representative Ellis, for
bidding Greek letter f~raternities at
the State University and other State
Colleges. Mr.. Ellis, the author of the
bill, who is a member oof the Com
mittee, will bring in a minority re-
port.
In the House this afternoon a reso-
luton was introduced by Representa-
tive Cody, of Yazoo, setting forth that
$4,000 was needed for the Exposi-
ton Bureau, and expressing the sense
of the House that the appropriation
should be made. The resolution was
adopted by a vote Of As to 81. 1t
takes, under the Constitution, 81 af-
hrmative votes to pass an appropri-
ton bill, and this would seem to fore
shadow that the bill now pending for
an additional appropriation of $751;
900 will be beaten, though there were
a number of members absent from the
session this afternoon, who may be
present when the bill somes up, and
will vote f%avorably on it. But it APP
pears the appropriation will be beat
en- in the House.
A delegation of physicians Of Vicks-
burg, headed by Major Trowbridge,
on the part of the city, arrived in
Jackson this afternoon and was met
by Representative Foster at the de-
pot and conducted to thee Capitol,
where it went before the Committee
on Benevolent Institutions of the
House in regard to the future of the
Vicksburg Charity Hospital. The fol-
lowing composed the delegation that
went before the Committee: Mayor
Trowbridge, Drs. H. A. Quin, H. H.
Harrison, B. f. Martin, Myers, Holly,
Wilson, Ewing, Howard and Bell,
Mayor T~rowbridge, on behalf of the
City of Vicksburg, stated to the state
the house and grounds upon which
the hospital is at present located for
a charity hospital so long as it was
maintained for this purpose, and a
proposition was laid down for the fu-
ture management of the hospital. 1t
is proposed that the hospital be man
aged by a surgeon, under a board of
directors appointed by the governor,
and that the physicians of the city are
to have certain days for visiting the
hospital, and to have a schedule of
visits. They are to give their services
free. The Committee did not take ac-
ton on the proposition, but took it I'M
der advisement.