The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
Mississippi Legislature
Senate.

Senator Yarbroungh, of Pamela, intro
duced a concurrent resolution to amend
| the constitution, which reads as follows:
Resolved, by the Legislature of the
State of Mississippi, two-thirds of each
house of the Legislature agreeing there
| to, That the following proposed amend
ment of the Constitution Of this State be
submitted to the qualified voters thereof
at the election to be held therein on the
| first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, 1907:
"sThe Legislature shall nave full
power to provide by law for the estab-
lishment, maintenance and operation OF
cotton factories in any county or subdi-
| vision thereof designated by the Board
of Supervisors of such county, with the
| proceeds of a tax levied on all cotton
produced in the territory designated
each year for Is years or less; and may
enact all laws deemed proper to establish
and operate such factories by organizing
into a corporation for that purpose, each
| holder to be entitled to stock in such
corporation to the amount of the re-
| ceipts held by him for such taxes. Full
power may be vested by law in the
Boards of Supervisors of the several
| counties to carry into practical opera
| ton the scheme contemplated by this
amendment"
Mr.. Boyd, chairman of the joint com
| mittee to visit Beauvoir, then sent up to
| the desk the report of that committee,
| which was read. The committee, after
complimenting the management of the
home, makes the following recommends
tions:
"Your committee earnestly recon-
| mends that a sufficient allowance be
| made at this session for equipping a
hospital at the home, and we think the
hospital should be established without
delay.
after carefully investigating the
home and it's needs your committee re-
s%pectfully recommends that the follow
ing appropriations be made therefor:
For a thirty-b bed general hospital,
having a small but modern operating
room with needful accessories, u par
lor for convalescents, several small
rooms for patients about to die, lavato-
ries, diet kitchens, room for nurses, drugs
and surgical supplies, modern plumbing,
steam or hot water heated, all outside
| openings to be screened, $500.
"For a spring and winter uniform for
each inmate, $4,000.
"For an artesian well or for such con-
nection with the Waits Home artesian
| well as will furnish an ample supply of
water for domestic purposes and fire pro-
lection, $1,000.
"For additional dormitories, wharf,
laundry. repairs, etc, the sum unexpend-
ed of the appropriation for 1904 and
1905, $5,9s2.92.
"For support fund for 1906, $4,000.
"For support fund for 1907, $17,5OO."
Under the head of committee reports
Mr.. Dunn, from the Committee on Con-
| stitution, reported unfavorably on the
Senate concurrent resolution suggesting
a change in the present II OF work
ing the public roads, and that it do not
pass.
Mr.. Dunn offered a concurrent resolu-
ton providing for the striking out of
| Section 211 of the Constitution, provid-
ing for the handling of the sixteenth
section school lands.
The chapter on revenue was then
called up by Mr.. Farley, who moved that
"the same be and is hereby adopted as
amended" Mr.. Dunn offered an amend
| ment that Section 3744 on exemptions,
| which had been stricken out in commit
tee of the whole, be included, the speci-
| fed clause being subsection 5. He
would not make a fight on the question,
but would like to hear other Senators
| discuss it, as he believed the best inter
ests of Mississippi demanded its reten-
ton.
Mr.. Groom wanted to be consistent,
and as he had voted to exempt money,
he would vote to exempt factories.
The question then REQUIRED on the
| adoption of the Yarbrough amendment,
| which was adopted by a vote of 20. to s.
By a vote of % 70 IA the Senate
| agreed that the exemption of money on
deposit from assessment was the best tor
all the interests of Mississippi. This
is the result of one of the stiffest fights
of the session and after all the arts and
twists and turns known to parliament
| ary tactics had been r~esOrted to. Ever
since that section was first reached 1T
has been fruitful in provoking debate,
first on the amendment striking out the
| clause exempting industrial enterprises
| and later on the amendment taxing
money on deposit.
The fight over the division of Jones
| county was renewed on the Senate floor,
| and under the twenty-minute rule sew
eral Senators addressed themselves to
the subject. Mr.. Belk spoke against the
measure in strong and impressive terms,
| and Mr.. Mclean for it, in terms equally
as vigorous and emphatic.
1t appeared from the remarks of Sen
| ators who were on the committee that
| there was a division, two being. IN favor
and two opposed, with n member, Sen
| ator Harris, absent.
After threshing over the subject for
| two and a half hours, Mr.. Heidelberg
| moved the previous question, which was
on the passage of the bill and the adoP--
| ton of the amendments thereto. All
| the amendments were then put to the
house and all voted down, and then the
| question required on the bill itself,
| which was passed by the vote of 20 to
Is.
The Judiciary Committee reported un-
| favorably on the Glover concurrent reso-
| luton providing for a constitutional
| amendment to make the children OF par
| ents not paying poll tax and between a
| certain age limit ineligible to attend the
| public schools of the State. This dis
| poses of the matter at present.
Mr.. Farley, chairman of the Finance
| Committee, asked unanimous consent to
| call up chapter 116, on revenue, as the
committee wished to propose a couple OF
| slight changes. The committee wished
to introduce a new section providing for
stating the time in which assessors may
report. In brief, the intent OF the
amendment is to provide that it shall