The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-10
Mississippi Legislature
Senate.

u new circuit court district, to be know
as the Thirteenth. The bill was take,
up and passed. 1t creates a district on
of the counties of Lawrence, Lincoln
Covlngton, Simpson, Smith and Jones
likes the time for holding courts an,
provides for judicial oversight.
MIR. Franklin, of Pontotoc, offered
concurrent resolution, which in effec
will reopen the elective judiciary matter
The resolution was referred to the com
mittee on constitution.
Senator Magee requested that the bill
to provide trained nurses and medicine
for the INDECENT inmates of the blind in
. %stitute, something that is badly needed
be taken up. 1t was agreed to and tn,
bill passed. 1t carries an appropriation
of S 1,0O0 each for the years 1906 anC
1907, to be used at the discretion of the
trustees The bill received the vote Of
all the senators present.
Nix. Simpson called up the House bill
to authorize the county of Quitman tC
hold an election to determine whether
the county seat shall be removed from
Belen to some other part of the county
The bill specifies the manner of holding
the election, and if the question is car
ried and a new site chosen, the manner
OF carrying out the provisions of the act,
The bill was passed without any oppo-
sition.
The following bills were introduced:
By McLaurin, of the Twentieth Dis
Also by McLaurin-To differentiate
lynching from murder.
trict-To regulate the speed of automo-
biles.
Also by McLaurin-To authorize GER
tain officers to search persons for con-
cealed weapons.
BY Mr.. Hebron-To authorize the
board of supervisors of Washington coun-
ty to clean out Black Bayou.
By Mr.. Thrasher-To appropriate the
sum of S., 1000 to be used to build a mon
ument to Gen. Earl Van Dorm in the
Confederate Cemetery at Port Gibson.
BY the narrow margin of two votes
the Senate of Mississippi killed the bill
for support and maintenance of the In
dustrial Institute and College for girls at
Columbus. 1t was the insertion of an
amendment to provide for the erection
of a dormitory and the appropriation
therefor of 100000, or as much thereof
as may be necessary, that killed the
measure. The bill carries the following
amounts:
For support fund, two years. $4,000
Student labor fund, two years. 10000
Trustees meetings and printing. 1000
Books and periodicals ......... $500
Insurance premiums, three years 10000
For a new steel ank.......... 1900
Pavements, drainage and the like $500
, Total S13S, 900
Added to which is the sum of $751;
rrC a. f4r ooa,,1l .tro 49, o.~r,
from lands sold that were donated by
the United States government for school
revenue purposes.
The fight did not materialize on the
bill itself, but rather on the committee
amendment providing that there be add
ed after the item S., 500 the sum of
500, 900 for the erection of a new dor
and other buildings additional to
those already on hand.
Eventually, after much general discus
sion, the previous question was moved,
and the vote taken on the amendment,
which was adopted by a vote of 21 to Is,
but that amendment killed the bill, as
practically the same vote was recorded
for the bill on final passage, and as it
an appropriation, it required a
majority vote of all the Senators to
pass it.
The Industrial Institute and College
bill was taken up on the motion to re
entered by Mr.. Glover. Mr..
Moore stated that it had been settled
by more than a respectable minority of
the Senate that the only obstacle to the
p~assage-of the bill was the item for a
new dormitory, and the friends of the
as a whole, in Difference to the
of that minority, were ready to
withdraw that item and submit the bill
the Senate as it came from the House.
Accordingly, the motion TO reject the
prevailed, and then the bill
vas put N its passage and received the
vote of every Senator present.