The Kemper herald., 1908-02-20

no reason why the legislature should
not reach an ADJOURNMENT thirty days
hence.
~ have served many terms in the
Mississippi Legislature, - continued the
speaker, "and / cannot recall any
session where legislation was so well
advanced within an equal period as at
this session. The opinion of Col.
Street is amply verified by an exami-
nation of the house calendar. The
committees have performed volume
Of work during the past two weeks
that is nothing short Of phenomenal.
True a very large majority of the
bills introduced have been returned
with adverse reports, but it was gen.
orally understood at the beginning
that this would be a Legislature for
the killing of proposed new laws, and
the repeating of old ones, instead of
the enactment of more statutes.
Removal of Welborn.
Governor Noel has received tele-
gram from President Roosevelt grant
ing the request filed several days ago
for the removal of Capt. Ira c. Wei
born, former commandant and mill
tary attache at the Mississippi Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College.
Two Roads Offer Rates.
Col. E. l.. Russell. Of the Mobile &
Ohio and Southern railroad and rep
resenting the Southern railroad, act
ing under instructions from President
Finley, submitted to the house COM
mittee on railroads voluntary offer
to establish fiat passenger rate Of
2 1-2 cents per mile on interstate bus
mess, and to issue interchangeable
mileage books in 1000 and 1000 mile
form at agents per mile. The expert
ment to be tried for period Of II
months from April LIST, with the right
to abandon the same if it should
prove unremunerative to the railroads.
"These rates embody our basis of
settlement with Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee and North Carolina" said
Col. Russell, "and think Mississippi
is entitled to obtain by peaceful
means what these states acquired by
lighting" The heads of the other
railway systems, including President
J. 7. Harahan, of the Illinois Central,
president j. Y. Jones, of the Gulf &
Ship Island; President F. L. Peck,
of the Mississippi Central; General
Counsel J. w. Buchanan, of the Fris-
co, and representatives of other rail
way lines, who appeared before the
committee at the same time, oppose
Col. Russell s plan ana favor stand
pat policy.
Price of Code Reduced.
The House reduced the price of the
Code of 1906 from $5 to So.
Prohibition Pen.
Governor Noel will sign the prohi-
bition bill with the same pen used by
Governor Lowry in 1886 in signing
the local option law on the statute
books. The pen has been in the Gus
tody of Bishop Galloway for twenty
two years. After the prohibition bill
is signed the pen will be presented to
the Hall of Fame.
Cumberland Lobbyists.
A red hot debate occurred in the
Senate over resolution offered by Mr..
Engle declaring that the chamber-was
infested with lobbyists Of the Cum
berland Telephone Company, asking
that the Sergeant at Arms be instruct
ed to summarily eject such persons.
Mr.. Engle called lobbyists by name,
referring to counsel of corporation
and declared undue influence was be-
ing used to defeat the bill pending
requiring, telephone companies to
make physical connections. Other mem
bers Indignantly denied this, AMI said
the alleged lobbying was merely in
structive, and not pernicious. Res
olution was finally referred to COM
Iulttte Oll cOllStllullOl.
Cost $4,000.
i A committee appointed by the Sem
ate to examine the Governors man.
sion reported that it will cost $50, 900
to make necessary repairs. No mea-
sures of general interest were passed
by the House.
Needed Reforms.
The new State Board of Health APP
pointed by Gov. Noel proposes to
strike out at once for needed reforms
in the medical system of the state,
and among other things is going to
fight at once for these measures. An
executive committee to act in emer-
gencies was named, with Secretary
Mclean as chairman and DR.. ID. j.
Williams and B. A. Sheppard.
A resolution was adopted asking
the Legislature to provide for the es-
tablishment of laboratory in Jack
son, in charge of an expert bacteri-
ologist, to whom persons who are too,
poor to employ physicians can apply
for meteorological tests to determine
the existence or non-existence of tu-
berculosis or any form of contagious
or infectious disease.
Governors Message.
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