Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-02-17
THE LEGISLATURE.
big Bud Tells Of the DOings at the
State Capitol,

and providing that the revenue agent
could not go but for six years for back
taxes after 1905 l hope the House
will also pass it and make it the law for
l. nothing would help our people more
z than cheap money. I had about des-
t paired Of ever being able to get this bin
t passed for it has been before the House
5 from time immemorial
e We had a big fight over the Vicksburg
= monument bill and the amendment pro-
viding for ST., 900 for markers and $685.
600 for the monument passed by vote
, Of 6S to 81. had intended voting only
for the $4,000 for markers and de
ferring the question of the monument
for a few years, but when some Of the
old Confeds speaking on the bill referred
, to Gen, S. D. Lee (who was sitting in
the House by invitation) as lobbyist
and sitting at the federal pie counter, it
rather riled me and concluded to wade
in and give the boys a rap a two, you
know when | get little mad and am
talking about the war, my foot is on my
native heath and my name is McGregor'
| was indignant that men who said they
wore the gray should insult as good
soldier as Stephen D, Lee had been.
who had fought on one hundred battles
for Mississippi and not one against her
and who was now the honored head of
| the remnant of the grand old soldiers of
the Confederacy, sitting at the federal
| pie counter3 Who furnished the pie at
this counter2 His southern people. l
told them they forgot that this bill
creating this Military Park was done at
the request of the southern people Of
our own State and voted for by our own
senators and congressman and the bill
especially provided that one Of the com
missioners should be an x-Confederate.
So Gen. Lee in accepting this place was
las he had always done) representing
the southern people and the Confederate
soldiers and that the park was now es-
tabished and was there to commemorate
American valor and if we did not erect a |
monument to the brave Mississippians
who fought so well there that we would |
be casting arehectionon them ourselves
| will not weary you with giving all of |
my speech suffice it to say that as soon
as | concluded Brooks of NoXubee saw
it was the opportune time, moved the |
previous questionand had the roll called |
thus ended the fight The governor
the speaker and a host of the members
including Hardin we're very compli-
mentary, and said the bill would have
failed to pass had it not been for nv
speech ] hope my readers will pardon
this reference to myself but am your
representative and Your chronicler of
the doings and sayings of the legislature
and thought I could tell about this.
We were invited to a reception at the
Deaf and Dumb institute last Friday
night. | append an extract from the
facile pen Of the editor of the Clarion
Ledger telling of our visit there:
The elegant new building was bril-
liantly lighted with several hundred
electric lamps, pendant from ceiling
arches, columns and walls making the
road halls, spacious parlors, ample IL
braries, large museum, beautiful chapel.
elegant dining room, royal rotunda and
magnificent dome almost as lght as
day-a scene to be compared only to
fairy land, and wood fires in the wide
chimneys added warmth and glow to
the occasion that seemed to say Wei
! come to all
After being shown over the first floor
Of the building, which is always omen
to friends and visitors, and informed
as to the plans and methods EMPLOYED
to teach the Deaf and Dumb to read
speak and be prepared for the duties of
lie, and admiring the many attractions
OF the beautiful building, which is one
OF the grandest and most substantial in
the State, the guests were invited into
the main dining room, where an ele- |
! CANT and sumptuous warm supper was
ready and served by the Young LADY,
teachers and pupils, which, il is unnec-
essary to say, greatly enjoyed. And
such asupper such service and cherry |
smiles to give zest and appetite
The repast over, the guests returned
to the cheerful rotunda and INVITING |
halls, and were favored with exhibi |
tons by some Of the smaller pupils |
among them little Maud Scott of cal
hoon county who is Doth blind. deaf |
and drmb, and a youthful Helen Kel- |
Ter. Though bereft of sight, hearing |
and speech, she is able, bv the keen
sense OF touch, to read the names of |
objects and persons, and repeat them |
to her teacher, whose hands, in the Won
deriul sign language, which the little |
one can only discern by touch, tell the |
patient pupil Of the wonderful things |
otithe world, and brighten and beautifv |
her sweet and holy life,
Many of the visitors tarried till |
late hour, so completely enraptured were
they with the magnificent building, and
the cordial entertainment extended bv |
Superintendent Dobyns, his wife and |
associates in the great work they are
doing for the afflicted
| Too much cannot be said in praise of
the new Dea; and Dumb building. for
with the exception of the capitol il IS
the. best State building in Mississippi
and another evidence Of honest work
and faithful execution of contract. and
that without cent Of expense to the
State, for the sale of the lots Of the