The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-02-10
Mississippi Legislature
Senate.

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the constitution, which reads as follows
RESOLVED, by the Legislature of .th'
state OF Mississippi, two-thirds of eacl
mouse OF the Legislature agreeing there
70, mat the following proposed amend
ment of the Constitution of this State b.
submitted to the qualified voters thereoi
at the election to be held therein on thu
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, 1907:
The Legislature shall have full
power to provide by law for the estab'
llshment, maintenance and operation oil
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"
Mir. Boyd, chairman of the joint COM
mittee to visit Beauvoir, then sent up to
the desk tie report of that committee,
which was read. The committee, after
conplimenting the management of the
home, makes the following recommends
tons:
"Your committee earnestly recon-
mends that q sufficient allowance be
made at this session for e~quipping a
hospital at the home, and we think the
hospital should be established without
delay.
after carefully investigating the
home and its needs your committee re-
spectfully recommends that the follow
ing appropriations be made therefor:
For a thirty-bed general hospital,
having a small but modern operating
room with needful accessories, sun 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 lire pro-
lection, $1,000.
"For additional dormitories, wharf,
laundry, repairs, etc, the sum %unexpend-
ed of the appropriation for 1904 and
1905, $5,0S2.92.
"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
q change in the present manner of work
ing the public roads, and that it do not
pass.
Mr.. Dunn offered q 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
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fed clause being sub section 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
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 or the
adoption of the Yarbrough amendment, |
which was adopted by a vote of 20 to 8.
By a vote of 22 10 IA the Senate
agreed that the exemption of money on
from assessment was the best for !
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
AIRY tactics had been resorted TO. Ever
since that section was first reached it
has been fruitful in provoking debate,
irst 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
,ral Senators addressed themselves to
he subject. Mr.. Belk spoke against the
Measure in strong and impressive Terms,
md Mr.. Mclean for it,. in terms equally
Is vigorous and emphatic.
1t appeared from the remarks of Sen
tors who were on the committee that
here was a division, two being in favor
ind two opposed, with one member, SEN
ltor Harris, absent.
After threshing over the subject for
;wo and a half hours, Mr.. Heidelberg
moved the previous question, which was
N the passage of the bill and the adop-
ion of the amendments thereto. All
he amendments were then put to the
louse and all voted down, and then the
required on the bill itself,
which was passed by the vote of &c to
g.
The Judiciary Committee reported un-
avorably on the Glover concurrent reso-
ution providing for a constitutional
amendment to make the children of par
nts not paying poll tax and between a
age limit ineligible to attend the
,ublic schools of the State. This dis
,oses of the matter at present.
Mr.. Farley, chairman of the Finance