The Grenada sentinel., 1904-01-16
Gov. Longino. The bill Is In two Sec
tiOns, as follows:

flee under any promise, expressed or
implied, that such person shall cleo.
tioneer. use his influence or vote for
said governor as candidate for Unit.
ed States senator, or any other Office
to be filed Immediately after the ex.
piration Oh the term OF office of said
governor. he shall be guilty of a mis-.
demea 1or in Office and shall be sub.
ject to impeachment, and shall, upon
conviction. be removed from office.
Section 2. If any judge of the Su.
preme Court, circuit judge or chancel.
lor, while filling a judicial Office, shall
electioneer or become q member, of the
campaign committee of any candidate
or shall in any way endeavor to in.
fluelce the vote of any elector for any
candidate for office, such Judge or
chancellor shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor in office and subject to i'm.
parchment. and, upon conviction. shall
be removed from Office"
In the House.
Speaker Thomas called the house
to order at 10 o'clock and
it was led in prayer by Mr.. Duncan
| of Tippah. Roll call showed a quorum
present.
o. motion of Mr. Coleman of LIE.
fore the clerk was authorized to cast
one vote for the officers nominated
in committee of the whole yesterday
which was done.
Messrs. Bynum and Ethridge ap-
peared before the bar of the house
and took the oath of Office. not hav-
ing been present the day before.
The committee on rules was an
nounccdl by the speaker as follows:
Mr.. Thomas, chairman; Brown of Ad.
ans. HOyle of Lee, Ste mis- of Lauder
dale and Miller of Sharkey
A resolution offered by Mr.. Tolbert
was adopted inviting all the ministers
of the city and visiting ministers to
open the house with prayer.
On motion of Mr.. Greaves the fol-
lowing committee on the part of the
house to cooperate with like COM
mittee from the senate 20 notify the
governor that both houses were ready
for business was appointed: Messrs
Sheffield, Stevens, George, Kyle and
Dulaney.
After the election of Miss Miller of
TishomingO as postmistress of the
taken.
In the Senate.
Lieut.. Gov. Harrison called the SEN
ate to order at 10 o'clock, after which
Bishop c. B. Galloway invoked the di-
vine blessing. A roll call showed that
there was quorum present. The min
utes of the previous day were read and
approved.
The first business of the morning
proved to be a very lively resolution
introduced by Senator w. B. Walker
of Monroe cou1 u1ty, expressing the sense
of the legislature on the Panama canal
proposition.
The Walker resolution instructs the
United States senators to vote for the
Panama canal treaty. The resolution
caused a great deal of discussion.
The resolution was discussed by
quite number of senators both for
and against. al amendment and SUBJ
stitute offered, which were both voted
down, and the resolution as offered
was finally passed with but
one dissenting vote-that of Senator
kendrick, who explained that he did
not feel himself competent to instruct
United States senators. Following is
the resolution in full:
"Appreciating the tremendous i'm
portance of an itshmian canal to the
commerce of the world and especially
the benefits that it will be to the whole
South from the construction of such
a waterway between the Atlantic and
the Pacific oceans, which would make
of Mississippi an open gateway for
worldwide commerce and traffic; re-
alizing that conditions have so shaped
themselves that the country must
choose between the Panama route
and indefinite and probably permanent
pOstponemeEt of the elimination of the
canal at any point across Central
America; and waving all questions Of
right or wrong in the recognition of
the government of the republic of
Panama, for which we of Mississippi
are In no way responsible, all of which
is now an accomplished fact, present
ing a condition which must be met by
this country. Therefore be it
"Resolved, BY the senate, the house
concurring, that it is the sense of the
legislature that the treaty touching
the construction of this canal now
pending beween the government and
the republic of Panama should be-
speedily ratified, AID thereby make
ceftain the only apparently possible
opportunity presented to this country
for the construction of an isthmian ca
nal.
Second. That Senators Money
and McLaurin be and are hereby urg-
ed to use their best endeavors to &C.
cure the ratification of this treaty"
A concurrent resolution indorsing
the action of the recent levee conven-
tion at New Orleans and urging con-
gress to take action on the levee Ques-
tio1 was tabled subject to call.
BY resolution the senators over six
ty years of age were given their
choice of seats.
The following bills were introduced:
BY Senator Smith-To divorce the
judiciary from politics.
BY Senator Walker-To create and
establish a department of agriculture
and statistics.
BY Senator Walker-To empower
the city of Aberdeen to build and own
its own waterworks and sewerage sys-
tenn.
BY Senator Dun1-To empower tue
supervisors of Lauderdale county to