Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-02


note the appointment of Senator High
tower as a member of said committee
and that his name as member of said
committee was omitted from the print
ed lists Of such committee at both the
1904 and 1906 sessions of the senate.
eve further find that Senator
Franklin made all proper and diligent
inquiry to ascertain whether or not
Senator Hightower is a member of
said committee and that he was ad
vised that Senator Hightower was not
a member of said committee.
Because of the omission of the
name of ex-senator Hightower from
the journal proceeding sin reference
to said committee, as well as the omis-
sion of his name from the printed
lists of said committee, Senator
Franklin after making inquiry as
stated above, was warranted In chal-
lenging the right of Senator Hightow-
er to sit and advise with said COM
mittee if he desired to exercise
his right to make such challenge.
Third, neither the record nor the proof
disclosed any fact even remotely re-
fecting upon the conduct of either
Mr.. Senator Hightower or Senator
Franklin, and we fully exonorate both
senators from all wrongdoing, as well
as from all conduct unbecoming SEM
ator."
Another matter of generalaimport-
ance was the action of the senate in
amending the code chapter on employ
ees to provide that where an employe
contracts for employmentsand receives
money or goods on the strength of
such contract and fails to perform
same, he shall be deemed guilty of
larceny unless he makes Sreturn of
such money or goods. This amend
ment is aimed to prevent the,practice
of "crop jumping" in the delta by
negro tenants and to prevent frauds
and faithful failures to comply with
labor contracts generally
The bill for the support of the Beau
voir Soldiers Home was passed, car
rying $4,000 for support for two
vars and additional improvements.
The sum of $4,000 istallowed for i'm
repairs, tetc. The inn
provements contemplate large increase
Of capacity.
Claiming the Jones County bill to
have passed both branches ,of the leg
islature unconstitutionally, the citiz-
ems of that section are to use every
endeavor to have it so declared. The
bill is as yet unsigned in the office of
Governor Vardaman and the first at
tempt to kill it will be in the mature
Of an appeal there.
Should the governor deemeit pro-
per that the bill should be signed
the matter will then go to the courts,
where final relief will he sought.
This bill created the. new county
f Jones and furnished zone of the most
bitter fights in this legislature. 1t
went through the house In the first
days of the session without opposi-
ton, Representative fsHilburn making
the statement that he thought it the
verdict of Shis people that
the bill was favored.
The House Committee on the Liquor
Traffic believes that it has solved the
&c. o. d." liquor traffic trouble. 1t
has at last devised a plan which seems
most likely to meet the case, and
which at late hour this afternoon it.
took up and discussed from every
point of view.
The solution that this committee
proposes is to place a privilege tax on
every express Office that allows liquor
to pass through its doors. The privi-
lege tax is proposed to be set at ST.
900 per annum. An express company
operating inthis state, with its numer-
Gus offices, it is claimed, would refuse
any liquor shipments rather than at
tempt to pay the privilege tax.
The senate this morning passed the
bill creating the Yazoo and Mississip-
pi Delta Branch Experiment Station
in Washington county. Senator w.
W. Stone, the author of the bill, ex-
planned that it was no new matter, as
the act to authorize the preliminary
steps had been passed at the first ses-
sion Of the present legislature. His
people had gone to work and put up
money to buy the land necessary, and
now everything is finished except the
launching of the station with pro.
perly Qualified3branch.