The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-01-17
MaIcon1 M Patterson.
INAUGURATED GOVERNOR TODAY.

they are getting in line" on every
thing that is going on.
The present legislature will do some
thing about the care of juveniles. The
present Tennessee juvenile law is a
failure, and in Davidson county little
attention is being paid it. Here in
Nashville q society has been formed,
having as its object the care of juve-
niles. The ladies of this society will
have introduced a bill early in the ses-
sion. 1t will provide for the establish
ment of a state reformatory for the
care of neglected, INDECENT and refrac-
tory children, provide a court in which
they shall be tried and otherwise care
for them. This seems to be the most
important measure that has been pro-
posed and nearest the point. 1t is a
knotty problem and one which the leg
islature will have to wrestle with for
some time.
Just what will be done as to passes is
another question. The majority Of the
members in the legislature came here
with bad taste in their mouths be.
cause they had to pay their railroad
fares. They had to pay it because the
legal headquarters of the different
roads did not mail the members passes
in time. When they did come, they
were found to be in strict accord will
the interstate commerce law, which
makes them good in the state alon,
and limited only to May /. Some o
the members have sent them back
Gov. Cox, in his message, recommend
that railroad passes be done away will
for public officials. AS the republican
state platform included a provision
against passes, it is thought that tn,
measure will be one of interest before
the present legislature. Again, the fac
the prejudice of the people is agains
passes, it is thought that even this viii
have much to do with legislation to thu
end that the use Of passes be prohibit
ed.
Railroads will come In for their share
of troublein this Legislature. The large
number OF wrecks, the alleged negli
gence of train officials and railroad
employees has created a peculiar senti
ment. A number of bills will be in
troduced to regulate the speed o.
trains, to cause them to run on time
and to cause them to be more RESPONSE
bic to the public 1t is thought thaT
one of the railroad measures that will
be prominent will be bill for the re
duction of railroad fares from cents
to cents per mile. Whether or not
this can be done constitutionally is 6
latter consideration, but the bill is sure
to come.
Appropriations will also be asked for
patriotic purposes. The Vicksburg bat
tlefeld commission will ask that the
legislature appropriate sum sufficient
to establish memorial at the Vicks
| burg battlefield park, also markers fol
the graves of Tennesseans who fell in
battle. Massachusetts took the lead in
this respect number of years ago, and
as Tennessee had twenty-nine com.
mands in the battle of different char.
acter it is thought that the approria-
tion will come. A measure of some
sort is sure to come up in regard to
jamestown, but in just what form it is
not known.
Education will fare we'll before the
legislature. The measure to appropri
ate $250,0O0 for the Peabody college
here will be paramount. The workers
for this have ramifed the state with d
good sentiment. The city of Nashville
| nhs lSSuOu pOhNb III bu6 Hlllu VI 1S0Us
000 Davidson county in the sum OF
500, 600; the old Nashville college prop.
erty worth many thousands, and all
have been given on the condition that
Tennessee give $250,0 The last leg
islature appropriated this sum to be
paid in ten installments. A million
dollars can be secured if the money is
all paid at once. The measure stands
good chance to be put through. The
University of Tennessee wants 800,
900, But the university movement is
not organized like the Peabody move
ment. In.Nashville every man talks
of the Peabody Normal appropriation.
The newspaper men leave their desk
and lobby for it; ladies come to the
capital and talk about it. The Uni
versity of Tennessee is only mentioned
in the newspapers aud among its old
students in the legislature. But the
sentiment in favor of three agricultur-
al stations is strong. 1t is thought
that something will be done toward
establishing them. The Toilet fund