The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-02-16
House.

Under committee reports the following
were submitted:
, Committee on liqour traffic. Hous'
bill No. 1853, making it unlawful TO sci
intoXicants in newly created COUNTIES
: until an eSression has been obtained
: by local vote. Title sufficient and bill
do pass. This committee reported ad
rersely on a similar measure.
Committee on agriculture. House bill
No. 1876, to protect horticulture by pro
hibiting the importation or sale OF any
infected plants in the State, and ex
GLIDING crop pests. Title sufficient and
bill do pass.
Committee on judiciary. Chapters OF
the code Nos. 81, IS and 40, as amended,
together with senate concurrent resolu.
ton, ready to be taken up by house.
Committee on humane and benevolent
institutions. Bill to create and maintain
an industrial and humane reform school
for the Incarceration OF criminal minors,
as amended, do pass.
Committee on manufactures. Report
adopting chapter No. IA of the code
and recommending its adoption by the
house.
The Judiciary committee of the house
was authorized to take up chapters
) and Is of the code, and cndeay0r to
remove certain obstacles which stand
between the upper and lower branches.
The house tackled amendments of minor
provisions on the chapter on appeals,
and the senate sent the chapter back,
refusing to concur. The house must
! either yield all the material points, or
its judiciary committee must act az
mediator and endcavor to effect com,
promises.
The subject Of immigration was
brought to the house under the reports
OF committees, both agricultural and
appropriation committees having in
dorsed the Brown bill for the creation
OF a department of agriculture and inn
migration, As chairman of the appro-
priation, Mr.. Brown OF Adams called
up the bill. He explained the purposes
of the new state department that was
to be created and set forth in plain Ian
guago the benefits of the several amend,
mcnts that had been acquicsced in by
the two committees.
Much opposition developed, and after
a considerable debate, final action on the
bill was postponed.
Tic bill to diminish the acceptable
grounds for divorce in this State to a
minimum was reported on adversely by
the Judiciary committee.
Cutting the original appropriation
from 5000 to $500, the house passed the
bill r]cimbursing Lawyers Smith and
Tottam for some prosecutions ordered
by Gov. Nardaman in Tate county.
The house passed the bill appropriate,
ing $4,000 for the Vicksburg monument,
the money to be expended by the newly
Mississippi Nicksburg Park com.
mission.
The Holly Springs experimental sta.
ton appropriation passed, but it was not
without a hard contest, and one through.
which Mr.. Mahon of Marshall &C.
Quilted himself with credit. The bill ap
propriatcs Sl7 900 for the carrying out
Of this work during the next two years
MIR. Ethridgc introduced a bill pro,
yidlug for the better enforcement Of
the laws of the State against merger!
and unlawful combinations or control Of
'aiIroads and other common carriers Of
.ho state, and appropriate money ia
'0y the expenses OF same"
The committee on local and private
ogI,lation submitted an extended re
'ort, giving its approval to the following 4
measures: Authorizing jackson county
o build shell roads; authorizing the
'o''" OF SUPERVISORS OF 9ultman county
j" I"E lor certain STOCK Killed by It's
'fu't authorizing the payment Tor a
I'anIi'y "i nay burned IN transit near
ne insane asylum authorizing Chicku-
county 10 Spehu Il sum IN lhcloSlng
confederate celnctery; authorizing
county to pay for medicines ]
'S'd IN Il smallpox epidemic and to re
Tor" lost records. The following were
'porlro on N the negative: Authoriz' /
NJ laIlahatchlo county to allow hogs
o run Wild; authorizing Pamela county
o pay for certain repairs on public y
uiidlngs; authorizing Clay county to !
pend $1,000 ON a monument authoriz-
NJ the creation Of the new county Of
eff Davis.
The committee on universities and col .
'gcs submitted both a minority and :
Majority reports in the matter Of an. |
ropriations. The majority report dealt ',
lthcr literally with the institutions :
nd recommended almost everything
for in the regular reports to the 1
legislature. {
The committee which bos ho5 ,,,5or /
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