The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-02
Letter From DR.. HOyle.


Letter From DR.. HOyle.
Jackson, Miss, Jan. 20, 1906.
DEAR JOURNAL:
think we are getting on well
in legislation work for last week.
We on Friday adopted five or six
chapters of the Code with all
their amendments and have it
now ready for revision. This
kind of work is very tedious and
painstaking, especially as we
have to bring all the laws &c,
forward that have been enacted
for fourteen years and put into
one volume. No laws of a gen
eral nature have been passed the
last few days, except a law Gre
ating commission to erect a.
monument at Vicksburg to place
in the National Park to the men,
ory of Confederate dead. This
is the forerunner of an appropri-
alton of one hundred thousand
dollars, but | am induced to think
that the legislature will cut that
amount considerably, notwith-4
standing every effort that can be
used is taken to carry it through.
But there is a disposition not to
exceed last years appropriation,
and these new enterprises will
be very carefully watched. Quite
an exciting and spirited debate
was had in the House last Thurs
day on the cotton future bill; by
fixing the privilege tax at twen-
ty-five thousand dollars. Fif-
teen or twenty speeches were
made pro and con, but it finally
went down to the table, and there
will sleep the sleep that knows
no waking. There is some talk
of trying to amend the present
statutes, but many think it can
not be done so as to be effective
to prevent it. The Senate has
been engaged for the last two or
three days on adopting the Rev.
enue Bill in the dummy Code,
they passed it with number of
changes from those recommen-
ded by commissioners. They
make real estate aSseSsable in the
year 1906, and every two years
thereafter. They reject the prop
osition to tax mortgages and
deeds of trust as real estate and
leave it as it was on the Revised
Code. They make money on de-
posit taxable, and several minor
changes. But all this will have
to pass the House and don't know
the final result. All is conjec-
ture as to what will be the fate
of the County and District Court
Bills, as no test has ever been
made of them also as to several
other important measures. Char
ity, Industrial, Reform School
all are resting quietly in the
committee rooms. There are sew
eral bills for new counties and
new court districts, but it is none
of our fight, as they are all from
the southern part of the State,
which. seems to be taking the
lead in progress, population, etc.
II believe this is about the status
| of things here at present. We
will not probably get through
before March 10th, or later. Your
Lee county delegation are get
ting on very well and are doing
what they can to hold down
things and we are encouraged be-
cause others are daily joining
our ranks, and we are, of course,
hopeful of others coming to the
rescue in time to save the State.
Wife and / took a stroll over the
capital building and grounds Sat-
urday and it is a wonderful build
ing. We found one Of the most
handsome rooms to be on the
ground floor in the northeast cor
ner of the building the Hall of
Fame. It's about 60 feet capac-
lity, circular in form, has classic
columns, arranged in a slope to
suit the building, the sheen of
which will rival the sparkling
dew drop in a morning sun. 1t
is til ! most handsome and elab-
orats''y furnished room | ever
saw. All around its base and