The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-02-21
THIRTIETH DAY.
Senate.

THIRTIETH DAY.
Senate.
The Senate adopted a resolution pre-.
sented by Mr.. Hebron providing for al
investigation OF an allegation of misar.
propriated funds of Yazoo-Mississipp
delta leyee board, to be made by a spe.
cial committee of both houses.
The most interesting piece OF new
legislation proposed was the introduc.
ton Of a bin in the House by Mr., Frier-
son of Claiborne, for the creation OF a
new circuit court district, to be called
the fourteenth, Should il pass it means
the appointment Of another Judge and
another district attorney.
In the Senate the hour having ar
rived for special order, the prohibition
bills and the lobbies and galleries be.
ing, despite the very inclement weather,
filled with interested men and women,
who have, many Of them, spent years in
struggling for the achievement about to
be compassed by the passage of the
prohibition bills. Mr.. Lcftwich. the
chairman Of the temperance committee,
presented the case, giving briefly the
history of the bills, both House and
Senate, and their position before the
committee.
Mr.. Rowan, a lifelong advocate OF
prohibition, was the next speaker, and
he pleaded for the bills passage. Mr..
Mcdowell also spoke as the represen'
tatirc of the young manhood of Missis.
sippi,
Mr.. Tucker moved the adoption of the
following amendment: Amend by add
ing the following before the enacting
| clause: "This act shall take immediate
fleet as to each and every county in
the State where there are no open
| saloons duly licensed under the provi.
| sions of chapter 40 Of the code Of 1906.
and shall not take effect as to those
counties where there are duly licensed
saloons, except as hereinafter provided,
"The board Of supervisors of those
counties where there are now licensed
saloons shall order a local option cleo
tion without any petition being pre-
| sented therefor, to be held under the
provisions of sections l7S0.17S5 code
| of 1906, and any county in which the
| election is carried against the sale, shall
come under the provisions of this act
Immediately. The said election shall be
held at a date to be fixed by the board
of supervisors, but not later than the
second Tuesday of October. 1908. In
| the event of failure to carry the coun
| ty against the sale in the election, an
other shall be ordered for one veal
hence. Hereafter no article, the sale OF
which is prohibited under the first see
ton of the act, shall be shipped OF
transported from any county in which
| the sale is licensed into any other corn
ty where such sale is prohibited"
In presenting his amendment and urg
ing its passage, Mr.. Tucker stated thai
though representing a prohibition PEG
pie, a prohibition county and a prohibi
ton family, and that never had his voic,
been raised in defense of whisky, hi
amendment made clear his views ant
principles.
Mr.. Englc was the next speaker. I'll
had the task of presenting the side OIL
the counties desiring to do their owl
voting. This he did in a very e%frectiv,
speech.
The hour had gone almost fifty min
utes beyond adjourning time when Z
vote was taken on the Tucker amend
ment, which was defeated by a vot,
Of 80 to 10. The bill then passed amiC
wild applause, with only four opposin.
votes-Messrs. EngIe, Baird, Mcdonald
and Gibbs.
Before adjournment the other prohibi
ton bills were also passed.
House.
The House was called to order BY
Speaker Street, with a good attendance
considering the fact that about one
, fourth of it's members are suffering
with attacks Of the grip in one stage OF
another, the weather and the super
heated atmosphere of the capitol beinl
very trying to most constitutions thai
are used TO the more orthodox methods
Of house warming.
The Senate message transmitting th,
amended Boddie bill as it passed wa
laid before the House by the speaker
The amendment, as explained by Mr.
BOddie, did not affect the measure ma
t~crially, and he had been with the Sen
ate committee and had accepted its al
teration, and he now moved concurrence
in the amendment. The roll was called
on the concurrence, and without n nay
vote the bill was completed that vii
outlaw the bucketshop and future gam
bling from and after June /, 1908.