The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-02-17
Mississippi Legislature
House.

Committee on liqour traffic. House
bill No. 1873, making it unlawful to sell
intoxicants in newly created counties
until an exression has been obtained
by local vote. Title sufficient and bill
do pass. This committee reported ad.
vcrsely on a similar measure.
Committee on agriculture. House bill
No. l35, to protect horticulture by pro.
hibiting the importation or sale OF any
! injected plants in the state, and ex'
Guiding crop pests. Title sufficient and
bill do pass.
Committee on judiciary. Chapters OF
the code Nos. "a, 81 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 10 of the code, and endeavor to
tpIllONe - tt1ldlu ODSltCItS WllCH SldiIu
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 as
mediator and endeavor 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
guage the benefits of the several amend
mcnts that had been acquiesccd in by
the two committees.
Much opposition developed, and after
a considerable debate, final action on the
bill was postponed.
The 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 reimbursing Lawyers Smith and
Tottam for some prosecutions ordered
by Gov. Nardaman i'll Tate county.
The house passed the bill appropriate
ing $4,000 for the Nicksburg monument,
the money to be expended by the newly
oro,xAJ 1I.u.. N;.l-chlrn pa RI nnn,-
mission.
The Holly Springs experimental sta
ton appropriation passed, but it was not
without a hard contest, and one through
OFT which Mr.. Mahon of Marshall ac-
Quilted himself with credit. The bill APP
.propriates ST. 900 for the carrying out
of this work during the next two years.
Mr.. Ethridge introduced a bill pro-
vidinc for the better enforcement OF
the laws of the State against mergers
and unlawful combinations or control of
railroads and other common carriers of
the State, and appropriate money to
pay the expenses of same"
The committee on local and private
legislation submitted an extended re-
port. giving its approval to the following
measures: Authorizing Jackson county
to build shell roads; authorizing the
board of supervisors of Quitman county
to pay for certain stock killed by its
order: authorizing the payment for a
quantity of hay burned in transit near
the insane asylum; authorizing Chicka-
saw county to spend a sum in inclosing
a Confederate cemetery; authorizing
Harrison county to pay for medicines
used in n smallpox epidemic and to re-
store lost records. The following were
reported on in the negative: Authoriz-
Tallahatchie county to allow hogs
to run wild; authorizing Pamela county
to pay for certain repairs on public
buildings; authorizing Clay county to
spend 81 900 on a monument; authOrlz-
the creation of the new county of
Jeff Davis.
The committee on universities and col
leges submitted both a minority and
majority reports in the matter of APP
preparations. The majority report dealt
literally with the institutions
and recommended almost everything
asked for in tie regular reports to the
The committee which has had under
Investigation the charges against Chan
cellor Fulton and the faculty of the Ok
ford Institute reported through its ma
lority. 1t exonerated the chancellor and
refuted the charges that had
been made by d. H. Chamberlain, and
stated that there was not just cause
for the action of investigation ever he"
mo taken. Chairman Maer, in making
This house report, said that the testI-
rony was being printed, and that under
4 probable minority report, the mat
ter might again be brought to the atten-
ton of the house. Chancellor Fulton
mad admitted to the committee that
he might have unintentionally wronged
Student Morris, but that it was
fully established that nothing but
simple error existed, and that this error
nad been corrected at the earliest pos
,ible moment. Morris had been before
he faculty and a difference in impression
the action taken had caused tie mis-
lake.
Mr.. Ethridge sent in his resolution
demanding an investigation iuto the al
eyed change in ownership of the Illinois
railroad. The resolution was re-
'erred to the committee on railroads
through the consent of the author.
The following new bills were pre-