Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-02-21

DC cumpassed Dy tine passage of the
prohibition bills, Mr.. Leftwich. 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, lifelong advocate of
prohibition, was the next speaker, and
ne pleaded for the bills passage. Mr..
Mcdowell also spoke as the represen-
tative 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
effect as to each and every county in
the State where there are no open
saloons duly licensed under the proyi-
slons OF chapter 40 of the code of 1906.
ana snail 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
ton without any petition being pre-
sented therefor, to be held under the
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 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 year
hence. Hereafter no article, the sale of
which is prohibited under the first sec
ton of the act, shall be shipped or
transported from any county in which
the sale is licensed into any other coun-
ty where such sale is prohibited"
In presenting his amendment and urg-
ing its passage, Mr.. Tucker stated that
though representing a prohibition PEG.
pie, prohibition county and a prohibi-
ton family and that never had his voice
been raised in defense of whisky. his
amendment made clear his views and
principles.
Mr.. Engle was the next speaker. He
had the task of presenting the side of
the counties desiring to do their own
voting. This he did in very effective
speech.
The hour had gone almost fifty min
utes beyond adjourning time when
vote was taken on the Tucker amend
ment, which was defeated by vote
of 30 to 10. The bill then passed amid
wild applause, with only four opposing
votes-Messrs. Engle, Baird, Mcdonald
and Gibbs.
Before adjournment the other prohibi-
ton bills were also passed.
House.
The House was called to order nv
Speaker Street, with "a good attendance.
considering the fact that about one.
fourth of its members are suffering
with attacks of the grip in one stage or
another, the weather and the super-
heated atmosphere of the capitol being
very trying to most constitutions that
are used to the more orthodox methods
of house warming.
The Senate message transmitting the
amended Boddie bill as it passed was
laid before the House by the speaker.
The amendment, as explained by Mr..
Boddie, did not affect the measure ma
terially, and he had been with the Sen.
ate committee and had accepted its al
teratlon, and he now moved concurrence
in the amendment. The roll was called
on the concurrence, and without a nav
vote the bill was completed that will
outlaw the bucketshop and future gam
bling from and after June 1, 1908.