Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-12-13
THE UNWISDOM OF
New County Legislation Discouraged
BY THAT SAGE JOURNAL
N. 0. Picayune in Its Mississippi
Current Comments.

the assembly of our state Solons will |
arrive, more and more pronounced
becomes the discussion against new
county legislation at this convening
of Mississippi's lawmakers. So much
hard feelings and dissatisfaction has
grown out of the muddles created in
this line by the last legislature, that
the sentiment generally both of legis-
lators and commoners is strongly
averse to any more experiments,
without the, unequivocal consent of
all interested. Even so sage and con-
sentative journal as the New Or
leans Daily Picayune, which is famed
far and near for its keen perception
of public matters, has woke up to
the gravity of the situation ON this
point, and taking our own case and
some others as instances makes some
wise remarks:
The joint debate now in progress
between certain people and papers of
Greene and Jackson Counties over the
proposition for new county, to be
created from parts of the two named
is significant of the fact that such a
measure, if started, would have a
a rocky road through the Legisla-
ture. The Lucedale Plaindealer is
very much in favor of it, and seems
to represent a considerable number
of people in it's opinion. while the
Leakesville Greene County, Herald
is strong in opposition, and appar
emily voices similarly pronounced
sentiment. Another paper, in anoth-
er county, viz, the ElliSville New
South News, also joins issue against
any new county legislation, or the
creation of any new judicial districts,
and it is suggested that the last
Legislature did enough in this line
to fulfill all conditions and all the
territorial needs and improvements
that could in reason and logic be ex-
pected. This last named paper init
mates that the Legislature should
sit down, and that very hard on any
measures that might be introduced
with the view to increasing the num-
Der of counties or cutting out new
courthouse districts. TIE last Legis-
lature, it intimates, went wild on the
subject, causing more trouble, ex
pense and pickering, as well as litiga-
ton, much of which is still unsettled,
than any Legislature had ever done
| before at one session.
There are others, who are not
resident in or apparently have no in
| terest in the section in controversy
who agree on the general prososi
ton that unless such measures come
to the Legislature with the unani
nous and undivided consent of all the
people interested, they should b.
quietly but firmly ignored, as wa:
the case with the George County
proposition, which never emerged
from the committee room. There i
| an impression prevailing that so far
as the Harrison County SeconC
Courthouse District is concerned,
fight will be made to keep the actua
carrying out of the provisions of tn,
act IN allegiance until after the mex
} Legislature is convened, in which
measures looking to the repeal of tn
act can be introduced, and posSibl,
enacted into law The same opiniQ
prevails in regard to the Jone
] County squabble. but that, too, j
only speculative. The situation il
Jones County is more complicated
now than ever, since there is n,
courthouse for either district, tina
: at Ellisville having been torn down
! with a view to the building of
larger and more modern temple q
justice, and now the financial compli
cations have arisen, and the publi
are in the position where under tn
, law they have two court districts bu
no suitable county building in eithe
and are altogether, apparently, il
the middle of bad fix.
These conditions render it pro
J bable that the next body of solon
may be called upon, for the good o
the communities interested to und,
some of the work of their predece5s
ors along the lines of local and count,
| legislation.