The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-02
Mississippi Legislature
SENATE.

The senate became involved in a
stormy and somewhat sensational de-
bate, the text of which was furnished
by a resolution offered by Mr.. Glover
of Coahoma, with reference to the
funds of the .Yazoo and Mississippi
Delta Levee Board deposited in the
Merchants Bank and Trust Company
of Memphis.
After going over the subject for two
hours and a quarter, and when some
dozen or so of the senators had ex-
pressed themselves quite freely on it,
the majority voted adversely to any SEN
atorial action in the matter, and the
resolution was lost.
After the resolution had been voted
down, Mr.. Glover offered as a substitute
or compromise measure, a resolution to
the effect that the house of representa-
tives be requested to investigate the
Yazoo and Mississippi delta levee board
and report to the senate the result OF
such investigation. This resolution
was also lost. Il
The committee on pensions reported
favorably on senate bill No. 81, to au-
thorize payment of pension for 1904 to
Mrs. M. L. Rives, as it seems her name
vas enormously left from the roll for
that year. The bill passed.
The following bills were introduced:
BY Mr.. Graves-To empower the
capitol commission to have certain
necessary repairs made on the grounds
and structures of the executive man.
sion.
BY Mr.. Sanders-An act to require
all solvent creditors to give In as
security for taxation and prescribing
penalty for violation thereof.
BY Mr.. Smith-An act to authorize
the a and aldermen of Vicksburg
to cede to the State the grounds on
which the present State charity hos
pital at Vicksburg now stands, to au-
thorize the State to accept the same
for the purpose of establishing there
on a general State hospital.
Senate bill No. %, to provide for a
geological, Typographical and economic
survey of the State passed.
The committee on local and private
legislation reported on senate bill No.
5. the bill to authorize boards of super
visors to levy a per capita tax on dogs.
The title was found sufficient, but the
committee recommends that the senate
postpone action indefinitely. Agreed
10.
The bill introduced by Senator Nc
Laurin, entitled a bill to provide for
alternative punishment in misdemeanor
cases-in other words, the whipping
post" bill-received an unfavorable re-
port, and that it "do not pass"
After a stubborn debate the senate
passed the Mississippi Vicksburg mill
tary park commission bill as it came
from the house by a vote of 10 to
il.
The senate disposed of four pages
of the code chapter on revenue and
about a dozen Sections, practically the
entire day being devoted to that specific
work. Out of those sections two of
them were responsible for four out of
the five hours time devoted to the dis
cussion and consideration of the sub
jccts involved.
The judiciary committee reported on
senate bill No. 81, for the creation of
county courts. The committee eco
mended that the bill be passed, but
with committee amendments.
Two reports from standing commit
tees were presented. One was senate
bill No. II, providing for the setting
aside of 5000 a year to be paid to the
widows and orphans of Confederate
veterans of the army and navy and
their dependent servants; favorable.
The other was senate bill providing for
the enumeration of surviving Confed-
crate soldiers. Do pass.
The Judiciary committee reported IA
vorably on house bill No. %, to pre-
vent the working of convicts on lands
not owned by the State. The same
committee also reported favorably on
senate concurrent resolution on the
same subject.
Two bills on the calendar passed by
the house for the payment of balance
due on bonds outstanding, principal and
interest, amounting respectively to
SIG, $50 and $3.50 900, were taken up and
passed by unanimous vote.
Mr.. Glover sent up senate bill No. 68,
being an act to prohibit any officer of
the State or of any levee board to place
the public money in their hands in
banks outside the State.
Mr.. Magee called up senate bill No.
25, to create the county of jeff Davis,
and provide for it's organization. The
bill provides that the new county shall
be composed of parts of Lawrence
county lying east of certain described
line and parts of Covington, situated
west of the old Choctaw line, the center
of the proposed county to be at the
boundary of Covington and Lawrence
as at present constituted. The bill
passed by a vote of 20 to 7.
Senator Gordon, one of the Confeder-
ate veterans of the senate, called atten-
ton to the death of Gen. Joe Wheeler,
and moved that the chair appoint
a committee of three to prepare suita-
BILE resolutions to his memory.
The finance committee reported favor
ably on house bill No. 1919, providing
for certain expenses In connection with
the furnishing of the capitol, and the