The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1904-03-18
Letter From Dr.. Hoyle.
jackson, Miss, March s, l9O4

Dear journal We received
your paper this morning aud was
like receiving letter from home.
We are moving on as usual and
are unable to say at this time when
we can adjourn. Bill after bill
still continues to come in but many
Of them can never be acted on,
some meritorious bills will also
fail to ever be passed. We have
a committee who 60 over all bills
and selects the most important and
puts them on the Calender and
they are taKen up according to date
of instruction and acted on, thus
you can see how a meritorious bill
may fail on account of its late
introduction. It is estimated by
the Revenae Committee that the
receips will like about six hun
dred thousand dollars Of meeting
the necessary amount to meet the
appropriation for these two years
and it will be necessary to sell
bonds, raise taxes, or comefout in
eeot. 1t is not the fault, altogether,
of this Legislature for you know
we started in with an empty
Treasury, and had several balances
to provide for. One was two hun
dred thousand dollars for balance
on the Capitol building and grounds
l don't know which will be done
yet. We, the house, vote on issu-
ing one million dollar bonds and
1t carried by one vote .nly-don't
know feeling Of Seua'- ( have
been trying to get the state to is
Sue state interest bearing warrent.
to meet the deficit when the emer-
gency occurs, only let them bear
5 per cent and payable 10 bearer
and receivable for taxes aud issued
in small amounts SO our home
people could handle them, but |
don't think | can hardly succeed
in this. | think the ultimate re-
suit will be bond issue Of one
million dollars. We are trying
hard to inahgurate some much
needed reform in our institutions
trying to make them nearer self
supportlng-by having some of
them located On farms and let the
able bodied ones work aud help
support themselves. There is no
reason why they should not do
this. Many in our hospitals, as
sylums etc are able to do light
work and raise on the farm such
things as they now buy, aud be-
sides it would benefit them to do
this work. The Deaf and Dumb
institute will be removed to the
country On farm, also many of
those in the asylum able to work
will be put on one of our farms
and do such work as they are
able to do, these are the colored
people and they will be greatly
benefited by this change and it
will separate them from the white
people and it will make room for
those who are unable to work but
have to be confined and treated
This was my program and l am
glad to see it carried out.
Arrangements have been made
to sell our State property in town
and it will more than pay for the
Improvement to change them on
! the farms. There are absut twelve
hundred inmates in the State Asy-
lum at Jackson-seven hundred
J white and five hundred colored
There are about four hundred white
! at Meridian. One hundred aud TT
! ty deaf and dumb white at jackson
ann sixty or more blind. Aboat
twelve hundred in the penetenti-
ary on the farms. Thus you SEE
we must support and work fol
more than three thousand unfor'
tunates, besides all our charity IN
stitutions, State Colleges aud Uni
versities. So yon can see the ne
lcessity for making all who can
help us in this heavy burden
! Your Lee county delegation ar
= all we'll and at their post Hoping
to see you all soon, am