Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-02-24
SENATE.

was taken up and the sections called
oil by the clerk, and were adopted with
out material change, In section 2256
the term Cocaine, opium or morphine
eater" was altered to read "habitual
user" of these drugs, so as to make 1t
more specific. This is the section which
gives authority to the Chancery Court
to appoint Il guardian for one who Is
addicted to the morphine, cocaine or
opium habit.
The anti-child labor legislation forces
won out in the senate, and as far as
that body is concerned it is not likely
that there will be any further attempt
to legislate on the subject.
Mr.. Dunn offered a concurrent resolu-
ton for the appointment OF a Joint com
mittee of members of each house to in
vestigate along the lines of the house
bill which seeks to create several more
court districts and to increase the terms
of holding court to three times a year
in each district. This created OPPOSE
ton from the start, as several senators
stated that they could see nothing in 1t
except a plan TO make a few more Judges
and district attorneys; there we're very
few counties with dockcts SO congcsted
that the business could not he cleared
off under the present system. The prop
ostion was defeated by decisive vote.
Senator kcndrick sent up senate bill
1O2, to donate money to take care OF
the old and infrm women of Mississippi.
The report of the Judiciary committee
was favorable to the bill to provide for
other legal holidays, and mfayorabIe on
the bill to fix lines Of liability for GER
tam hotel keepers, and the bill proyld-
ing for the payment Of costs in certain
criminal cases.
Senator IIightowcr, under the unani-
nous consent rule, called up house bill
Ne. Z. which is to amend the acts rcla-
tive to preserving the crops of Tate
county 50 as to extend the same laws
to the counties of Lafayette, Panola and
DcSoto The bill was passed without
objection.
Senator Smith then called up senate
bill no. g., being bill to authorize
the mayor and aldermen of NickSbmg
to donate TO the State bv deed. to be
dulv oyncutpd tho propcrty known as
the 'Vick.bura State Charity Hospital, to-
gcthcr with the lands and improvements
thereon IN be used as a General State
charity hospital. The bill passed by Il
vote of IS to 10.
Air. ATornoer then called ND his motion
TO reconsider the vote by which the bill
IN rcneal fine laws relative TO the RIGHTS
of trgmway operators under the law
ia eminent domain, lie thought that
they are operating as much in the in
tcrest of the public as any other com.
mon carrier This brought on consider
able argument.
After defeating the efforts of Mr..
NIouuppr to oct reconsideration of the
hin ronoolinG fine law allowing the own.
crs of t,omways and causeways the RIGHT
Of eminent domain proceedings. by
adontino tbo motion to Inv ON tho table,
+bc eon9tn nrorcoded in committee of the
whole to consider the code chaptor ON
district attorneys Tbcre was only one
chanoo made but that was a very i'm
nort6nt ono CONSISTING If tbp strikino
out of clause from section 1856, which
defines the relationship of the the dis
trict attorney ia tbn GRAND in.v The
committee found the following addition
to the old law inserted nv the commits.
sion. "But in no case shall he advise the
grand Jury to ilnd or not to ma a true
pI'' [oI Nio"loi Is VI ,,''S VISION ,s n9
ON Convict ion NAV ho fncd n"t loss them
500 and removed from Office"
The committee considered this too
wide a departure from the present law
and thc proposition TO cut il ont was
agreed to.
Quite a tilt was caused over the bill
of Senator Henry to make an appro-
priation or donation of $500 for the
Confederate Park at Jackson for the
years 1906 and 1907. The measure might
have gotten through without objection
had not an amendment been tackled on
to provide for the appropriation of a
similar amount for the Confederate Gem
ctery and monument at the state Uni
yersity grounds at Oxford, which was
too much for the bill to carry against
the constitutional objections raised. AT
any rate the adverse vote on the amend
ment preceded BY the general debate
covering ITS introduction, mad the effect
OF dividing the question SO that there was
not enough votes in favor OF it, or the
required two'thrds for the passing OF
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