The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-03-26
FIFTY.SEVENTH DAY.

The senate met at 8 o'clock with
| Lieut.. Gov. Carter presiding.
Senator Clinton called up H. B. 306,
authorizing counties to issue bonds
| for buildings roads. passed.
Senator Groom called up H. B. 233,
in reference to registration of voters
in municipalities, SO as to allow books
to be kept open at all times. Passed.
Senator Thrasher called up H. B.
18, for the protection of birds other
than game birds, their nests and eggs.
Senator Weaver moved to indefinite
ly postpone.
Senator Greaves moved to table and
the same was done.
The bill was read a third time and
passed.
H. B. 34S.-Requiring life insurance
companies to deliver with the policy
copy Of the application and pro-
viding penalty for default; also pro-
viding that reinstatement of age shall
not invalidate the contract of life in
surance. Passed
The house informed the senate that
it had adopted the conference commit
tees report on the pension bill.
The senate adopted the report of
the conference committee on the pen
sion bill.
Senator Magruder called up the I'M
finished business from the day before,
the merger bill, and resumed his ar
gument The amendment offered by
Senator Groom on that day was the
pending question. There were three
systems, he said, affected by this bill,
the Frisco system and the Mobile &
Ohio and the Southern system. These
latter two roads, he contended, were
in no way parallel or competing lines,
and he gave facts and figures to bear
out his argument. The law, he said,
provided that no parallel or competing
lines could consolidate, but this was
a judicial question and could easily
he settled by the courts.
Senator Dunn said this was a ques-
ton in which the whole State was
interested. His district would be the
one to Immediately suffer by this
measure. He said there was now
case pending in the courts of his
county to decide the question of COM
petition, and thought 1t was strange
that the friends of the bill could not
wait for that decision. He read
letter from ex-Attorney General Mon
roe McClurg strongly condemning this
kind of legislation.
Mr.. Belk said we should not care
about who or what was individually
benefited by this law. The only ques-
ton with him was whether the bill
carried into effect the intention of
the constitution. He believed it would.
He did not care anything about local
interests, or the fight in East Mis-
sissippi The bill required that these
consultations must be made under
the laws of the State, and he believed
the bill should pass.
Senator Moore, of the Thirteenth,
said he could not vote for the meas
ure, regardless of the feeling Of the
people who pay the freight" Who
is it who are asking for the passage
of this bill? Certainly not the peo-
pie Of the section affected by 1t. These
people who are derendent upon these
roads for transportation and freight
rates are not asking for it.
Senator McLaurin, of the TWEEN
tieth, said there was no comparison
between the bill putting the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley and the Gulf G
Ship Island under the supervision of
the railroad commission and this bill,
The bill was left pending when the
senate adjourned.
The house met at $3.50, Speaker
Thomas in the chair.
s. B. 332-Exempting all property
maintained by taxing all notes or evil
dence of debt on property sold in this
State on installment plan; by sewing
machine companies, typewriter COM
panies, piano and organ, clock and
stove and range companies, not resi-
dents of this State. Failed to pass.
The report Of the conference COM
mittee on the pension bill was adopt
ed, which makes change in the board
of examiners, instead of the board of
sheriff and chancery
clerk, it makes five Confederate sol
diers the board. Adopted.
Mr.. Lopez offered a resolution al
lowing the clerk ten days additional
pay to complete the journal of the
house and furnish copy of same to
printer and secretary of State. Adopt |
ed.
The committee appointed to inves-
tigate the State offices reported that |
the several offices we're correctly con-
Quoted and the books and records cor
rectly and neatly kept. Adopted.
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