The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-03-01

Der of said committee, and has since
been an active member thereof, and
his right to sit as a member OF SAID
committee is fully sustained by this
committee.
"Second-Tha through inadvert-
Iance the journal of the senate fails to
note the appointment of fSenator High
tower as member of said committee
and that his name as member of said
committee was omitted from the print
ed lists Of such committee at both the
1904 and 1906 sessions of the senate.
"We further find that Senator
Franklin made all proper and dillgent
inquiry to ascertain whether or not
Senator Hightower is member OF
said committee and that he was ad-
vised that Senator Hightower was not
a member of said committee.
because of the omission OF the
name of ex-senator Hightower from
the journal proceeding sin reference
to said committee, as well as the omls-
sion of his, name from the printed
lists of said committee, Senator
Franklin after making inquiry as
stated above, was warranted in chal-
longing the right Of Senator Hightow-
er to sit and advise with said COM
mittee if he desired to exercise
his right to make such challenge.
Third, neither the record nor the proof
disclosed any fact even remotely re-
hecting upon the conduct of either
Mr.. Senator Hightower or Senator
Franklin, and we fully exonorate both
senators from all wrongdoing, as well
as from all conduct unbecoming SEN
ator.'
Another matter of general import
ance was the action Of the senate i'll
amending the code chapter on employ
ees to provide that where an employe
contracts for employment and receives
money or goods on the strength OF
such contract and fails to perform
same, he shall be deemed guilty OF
larceny unless he makes return OF
such money or goods. This amend
ment is aimed to prevent the practice
of "crop jumping" in the delta by
negro tenants and to prevent frauds
and faithful failures to comply with
labor contracts generally
The bill for the support of the Beau
voir Soldiers Home was passed, car
rying $4,000 for support for two
vars and additional Improvements.
The sum of $4,000 is allowed for inn
provements repairs, etc. The i'm
provements contemplate large increase
of capacity.
Claiming the Jones County bill to
have passed both branches OF the leg
islature unconstitutionally, the cltlz-
ems Of that section are to use every
endeavor to have it so declared. The
bill is as yet unsigned in the office OF
Governor Vardaman and the first at
tempt to kill it will be in the nature
Of an appeal there.
Should the governor deem 1t pro-
per that the bill should be signed
the matter will then go to the courts,
where final relief will be sought.
This bill created the new county
# Jones and furnished one Of the most
bitter fights in this legislature. 1t
went through the house in the first
days of the session without opposl-
ton, Representative Hilburn making
the statement that he thought it the
unanimous verdict of his people that
the bill was favored.
The House Committee on the. Liquor
Traffic believes that it has solved the
&c. o. d." liquor traffic trouble. 1t
has at last devised a plan which seems
most likely to meet the case, and
| which at late hour this afternoon 1T
took up and discussed from every
point of view.
The solution that this committee
proposes is to place privilege tax on
every express office that allows liquor
to pass through its doors. The privi-
lege tax is proposed to be set at ST.
900 per annum An express company
operating inthis state, with its numef-
GUS offices, it is claimed, would refuse
any liquor shipments rather than at
tempt to pay the privilege tax.
The senate this morning passed the
bill creating the Yazoo and Mississip-
pi Delta Branch Experiment Station
in Washington county. Senator w.
w. Stone, the author of the bill, ex-
planned that it was no new matter, as
the act to authorize the preliminary
steps had been passed at the first ses-
sion of the present legislature. His
people had gone to work and put up
money to buy the land necessary, and
now everything is finished except the
launching of the station with a pro-
perly qualified branch.
New York, Feb. 25.-All steamers
entering port report being struck by a
heavy sea and terrific winds. Six
passengers of the Touraine, coming in
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