Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-03-04

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a soldier to his Cabinet; therefore be i
| resolved, That the House now invit
Hon. w. j. Bryan to deliver an ad
) dress on the Sin of Secession
: The House this morning passed th,
bill appropriating $22,5OO for the sup
, port of Beauvoir as home Of Confed
crate soldiers. The bill gives $4,000
for 1904 and $l2,500 1908. 1t pro
vides for the management of Beau
voir by board of six trustees, to bt
appointed by the Governor, with tht
Governor as an ex-officio member.
The Senate spent the entire morn.
ing and afternoon discussing the
Moore bill to abolish the county con.
vict leasing system. The bill was
read and adopted section by section
Tomorrow it will be placed on final
passage.
The subcommittee appointed from
House and Senate Committee on the
rc-districting of the state has COM
fletsd its works, and the Groom bill
has been adopted by the committee
unanimously. This bill does not pro-
vide for an increase in the number of
Circuit Court district in the state, but
re-arranged the districts more equally.
| The bill, as drawn, will be adopted
by the committee of the whole, and
will, doubtless, be adopted by the
House and the Senate without change.
The chancery districts have not yet
been touched upon by the committee,
but the indications are that there will
be an increase of the Chancery Court
district.
The following are the Circuit Court
districts as mapped out in the Groom
bill:
Firts District-Alcorn, Chickasaw,
Itawamba Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Ok
tibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tishomin-
go.
! Second District Green, Hancock,
Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Per-
ry, Marion, Wayne.
Third District-Benton, De Soto,
Lafayette, Marshall, Pamela, Tate,
Tippah and Union.
Fourth District. Bolivar, Lefore,
Sunfower, Washington and Holmes.
Fifth District Calhoun,
Choctaw, Clay, Carroll, Grenada,
Montgomery and Webster.
Sixth District Amite,
Franklin, Jefferson, Pike, Wilkinson
and Lincoln.
Seventh District Kinds, Yazoo,
Madison and Copiah.
Eighth District Leak, Newton,
Rankin, Scott, Smith, Simpson, Gov
ington, Jones and Lawrence.
Ninth District Claiborne, Issaque-
ma, Sharkey and Warren.
Tenth District -Kemper, Lauder
dale, Neshoba, Noxubee, Winston,
Jasper and Clark.
Eleventh District Coahoma, Quit
man, Tallahatchie, Tuntca and Yalo-
busha.
The times and terms of the holding
of these courts will be decided upon at
the meeting of the committee tonight.
IS FRIDAY.
The state will get no remedial legis-
lation on insurance this session of the
legislature. The House has defeated
the bill repeating the anti-compact
clause of the present insurance laws,
which would allow the Southeastern
Tariff Association to operate in the
state; the bill repeating the anti-com-
pact clause was defeated by vote of
55 to 40. 1t is now predicted that the
passage of the bill repeating the val
ued policy clause, whether it passed
the senate or not, will have little effect
on the insurance rates in Mississippi.
The house this morning passed the
bill providing for the future manage
ment of the Vicksburg Charity Hos
pital, which authorizes the appoint
ment of body of trustees of seven,
five to be selected by the governor,
one by the City of vicksburg and one
by Warren county. 1t also provides
for the appointment of surgeon by
the governor. Appropriation bill will
be passed in the next few days. In
the senate this afternoon a resolution
was introduced by Murray F. Smith
and passed authorizing the appoint
ment of committee to investigate the
affairs of the benevolent institutions
in Jackson and the affairs of the board
of control, the committee to report to
the next Legislature. The senate this
afternoon killed the bill allowing wo-
men to practice law in-Mississippi and
refused to concur in the house amend
ment to the uniform text book bill,
which means there will be no uniform
text book legislation. =
SATURDAY.
The Senate this morning held mem