The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-03-24
Mississippi Legislature
SENATE.

constitution, which reads as follows:
"A concurrent resolution proposing al
amendment to the constitution OF tn
State of Mississippi relative to an APP
portionment to the senator's and repre-
sentatives in the Legislature.
Resolved, by the Legislature of tn,
State of Mississippi, two-thirds of tn.
house agreeing thereto, That the follow,
ing amendment to section ESQ of the
constitution of the State of Mississippi
be submitted to be voted on by the
qualified electors of the State of Missis-
sippi at an election to be held on the
hrst Tuesday after the first Monday of
November, 1907, viz: .
Section 1910. The Legislature shall
at the first session after the Federal
census of 1910, and may decennialiy
thereafter, make a new apportionment
of Senators and representatives. At
each a%pportionment each county then
organized shall have at least one repre-
sentative. The counties of Tishomingo,
Alcorn, Prentiss, Lee, Ittawamba, Tip
pah, Union, Benton, Marshall, Lafayette,
Pontotoc, Monroe, Chickasaw, Calhoun,
~Iallobusha, Grenada, Carroll, Montgom-
cry, Choctaw, Webster, Clay, Lowndes,
Oktibbeha, Attala, Winston, Noxubee,
hemper, Leake, Neshoba, Lauderdale,
Newton, Scott, Rankin, Clarke, Jasper,
Smith, Simpson, Copiah, Franklin, Lin
coin, Lawrence, Covington, Jones,
Wayne, Greene, Perry, Marion, Lamar,
Pike, Pearl River, Hancock, Harrison
and jackson or the territory composing
them shall together never have less than
lightweight representatives, nor shall
the remaining counties of the State or
the territory now composing them ever
have less than forty-four representa-
tlves. A reduction in the number OF
senators and representatives may he
made by the Legislature if the same
be uniform i'll each of the two said di- |
visions, but the number of representa-
tlves shall not be less than 100 nor
more than 1873, nor the number of sena-
tors less thar 80 nor more than As, pro-
vlded, that new counties hereafter ere.
shall be given at least one repre-
until the next succeeding ap-
p~ortionment. Laws 1904, chapter
172.)"
The senate, by unanimous vote,
adopted a concurrent resolution offered
by Mr.. Dunn, fixing Saturday, March
81, as the date for final adiournmentsof
he Legislature, there being no discussion
IF the proposition.
The code chapter on public health and
quarantine was called up, and after a
changes was adopted. One amend
nent provided that each member of the
State board of health be a practicing
physician, with license from the State.
Another amendment by the committee
provides that all practicing physicians be
equIred to report directly to the coun-
Y health officer all cases of contagious
lseases as soon as discovered.
An amendment providing that in the
vent of a physician failing w%ilfully to
eport any case of contagious disease his 1
be revoked~by the State board c
t health created strong opposition, led
y Senator Smith, who, in forcible and
terms, pointed out that the
roposition savOred of despOtism, if
worse. Mr.. Kendrick argued r
nat the general good of the greater G
lmber would be subserved by adoptin; a
Ich a course. The motion of Mr. o
NTH to table the amendment was car 4
ed. o
The Agricultural and Mechanical Col Il
&c bill was taken up. b
Mr.. Farley, chairman of the finance CO
'mmittee, yielded the floor to Mr.. cl
'eaver to speak on the Hightower c;
nendment, which he had accepted in S,
III of his own. = This original OF m
'eaver amendment cuts the support Ii
nd down about $4,000 annually, and sc
+. Hightower's reduces this by the lii
rther sun of $46.36 annually, making b,
e reduction $4,000. The support fund
now standing is $SO,546.36 a year.
Finally, when the matter had been
well threshed out, a motion to dc
BILE the Hightower amendment was re
lde, which resulted, yeas IS, nays IS. co
The bill was then put on it's passage CO
d received a practically reverse of the st
tie above, the count showing 10 to co
those voting for the bill being the lal
me, with one or two exceptions, as an
ose who voted to table the Hightower wa
lendment. This lost the bill, owing ST
the failure of the workers to com
nd a two-thirds vote of the senate.
is was history repeating itself, as in
case of the bill for the Industrial Mi
'titute and College. pa