The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-04-19
THE LEe1sLATuRE ADJoURNs
Customary Scenes on the Floors Of
the Two Houses.

1
the Two Houses.
The Fifty-ffth General Assembly
of Tennessee adjourned last Mon
day night without day. The scenes
during the closing hours of the ses-
sion were similar to those witness
ed during the same period of pre-
vious Legislatures-practically all
of Monday being devoted to the
consideration of conference reports,
passing bills which we're not reach
ed earlier, and to which there was
little opposition, much of the day
both in the Senate and House be-
ing in recess, in order to enable the
clerks to enroll bills for transmits
sion to the Governor.
But one general law of note was
added during the day to those here
tofore passed, and that'was the bill
to create State Reformatory for
the correction OF juvenile offenders.
The bill passed the House by just
the constitutional vote required,
and was Immediately enrolled and
sent to the Governor, by whom it
was approved. The bill carries an
appropriation of $4,000.
Conference committees on the
Clarksville charter bill, and the
general revenue bill, and amend
ments to the mining inspection law
of 1903 reached agreements the
reports were made the action of the
two Houses, and the bills became
laws. The Senate receded from
many of the amendments to the
revenue bill, the srloon tax at La
Toilette being reduced to $500, and
the telephone taxes put back to the
figure in the original bill. A COM
promise was reached on the Clarks-
vile charter bill, and that munici-
pahty will not be subjected to the
inconvenience of doing business
without charter.
At the Governors recommends
tion the House passed the bill to
repeal the appropriation tor an ex-
hlbit at the jamestown Exposition,
but the Senate refused to consider
the measure. For the second time
the House rejected the bill to cre-
ate a State Good Roads Commission
to frame general law for submis-
sion to the next Legislature. The
House also rejected the bills to cre-
ate Geological Commission and a
State Free Library Commission
The members were in no humor to
create new offices or appropriate
additional funds, and it was only
by the hardest sort of work that |
fifty votes were mustered for the
State Reformatory bill.
Gov. Patterson vetoed four bills
during the day. One provided for
a new school district in Sullivan
County another increased sheriff's
fees for boarding prisoners from
forty to fifty cents per day; the
bill and the fourth pro-
vided additional compensation for
the State Attorney-General in cases
of escheats and revenue.
During the day two commissions
provided by recent laws were ap-
pointed by Gov. Patterson-the
Election Commission and the I'M
migration Commission. The for
mer consists of E. r. Richardson,
N. G.. Robertson, Leb-
anon r. A. Raht. Tullahoma. The
immigration Commission is John
Thompson, Davidson County H.
:. Burnett, Gibson ~. c. Patten,
Hamilton #. C. Guthrie, Davidson; /
Savage, Montgomery; H.
L. Higgs, Weakley; !. f. Peters, I
Shelby w. L. Ledgerwood. Knox
R. L. Burch, e. A. Lindsey, w. L. /
Dudley, Davidson. {
In the Senate Speaker Tollstt /
Turing the morning session was
presented silver service by his
and Chief Clerk Ed
Thomas gold watch. Other pre-
'entations we're also made.
In the course of the day Senator
Weber offered the following resolu-
ion, which, however. was declared
'ut Of order: Z