The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-03-22

tional $4,000 is needed to properly
develop and maintain the oyster IN.
dustry of the State OF Mississippi
and
"Whereas the Board Of Oyster Com
missioners have demonstrated that
the State can make no better invest.
ment in the way of revenues than the
development of this industry; and
Whereas, this additional appro-
priation of $4,000 together with the
appropriation. now pending in the
legislature, exceeds by only $4,000 the
amount of revenue now paid in the
State Treasury from the oyster indus
try and that in one year twice this
amount will be more than paid back;
therefore
"Be it resolved, That the Legisia-
ture is respectfully and earnestly re-
auested to appropriate the additional
sum of $2OAO to be made available
for the piAaiAg Of new oyster beds
to the end that this important indus
try may be properly developed"
The bill appropriating money for
the Insane Asylum carried the sum
of $15O,OO0O for the two years, of $45,
900 more than last year, or the bill
of 1904. A provision to increase the
expense fund per cent, or $4,000 a
year, was stricken out after some de-
lay.
The house considered the privi-
lege chapter all day and made some
further progress. An amendment was
adopted imposing an additional tax
of $1.O0 per mile on sleeping ears and
imposing $1.00 on each express office
that does money order business.
Another bill making an appropria.
ton of the sum Of 100000 for the
erection of hospitals, one for white
and one for negroes, was also passed,
as it was fully shown that these inn
provements are needed and as soon
as they can be had.
The senate concurred i'll the Cow
edan resolution offered in the house
and adopted for the appointment OF
committee to prepare a memorial
to be submitted to the rivers and har-
Dor committee of the National House
of Representatives when it meets al
Gulfport to secure immediate aid for
the harbor of that port. The chair ap-
pointed Messrs. Smith, Farley, Hous;
ton, Brandon, Moore and Bolivar, and
to which was added by resolution sub.
sequently the lieutenant governor
The joint committee will leave for
Gulfport tomorrow.
1t was a thoroughly delighted
crowd of legislators and state officials
who returned to Jackson from Gulf
port after delightful two days OUT
ing at the young city opposite Cal
Island on the Mississippi sound. The
individual members could not say tod
much of their praise of their whole.
hearted entertainers, wh ssumed
charge from the time they left Jack.
son to their departure for the cap
itol again. To many of the party II
was the first visit to the metropolis
Of the seacoast; and was educational
in its effects, an eyeopener to the rap
id development of the southern sec-
ton Of the state, and, as one gentle
man remarked, it is a further demon
stration of the greatness of Missis-
sippi and the diversity of her re-
| sources. Too add to the pleasure af-
forded by the trip in general way,
the weather was perfect, a feature,
that could not be reckoned on with
any certainty when the invitation was
extended.
In the senate Senator McNeill of
Copiah, called up the majority report
Of the special committee appointed to
investigate into the lumber trust alle-
cations and made a great effort to
have the report considered. He in
sisted that it was due the committee
in fact, both sections, mojority and
minority-that some actin be taken
on the whole proposition. There are
charges and statements in the major
ity reports that make it incumbent
on the legislature to take some ac-
ton, or if not, to take action that
will relieve the committee, or let the
assertions he placed in the hands Of
the Attorney general for investigation
and action. That there is combina-
ton and in disregard Of the anti
trust laws of Mississippi is fully es-
tablished in the minds Of the major
ity of the committee, and the fact
should engage the attention Of the
| law officers of the state.
The senate after debate decided to
reject the house amendment which
provides that the county health offic-
ers shall be appointed by the board
of supervisors instead Of the state
board of health as now. This is like
/ ly to cause some delay as the, house
seems welded to the proposition. The
senate also struck out of the law the
provision that works a forfeiture of
| license in cases where physician con-
cadns carSnc of infactinus diseases