The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1908-01-30
APPROPRIATION
BILL PRESENTED
GENERAL MEASURE CARRIES
$3.50, 900.
CUMBERLAND ON ITS KNEES

1AVUS-v vACtciy Ava NAhAu ASvVA
Bill-Saloons To Die With This
Year.
The general appropriation bill
carrying appropriations for Che bien'
nial period, aggregating $S50,3l6.14
was introduced in the lower house by
Mr. Foster, of Warren.
This measure carries with it only
salaries of state officials, expenses OF
the judiciary department, the Chick
asaw schol fund, interest allowance
and other current expenses of gov
,.ernment that are usually unvaryine
in character. 1t does not, Of course
include the common school fund APP
preparation, which for the preceding
biennial period, was $1,250,000 pei
annum, or the pension appropriation
Of $25O,000 per year, or any allow
ances for any of the state educational
and eleemosynary institutions.
The salaries of all state officials are
placed at what they have been in for
mer years, and in event the legis-
lature should decide to increase the
compensation of officials it will be
necessary to do so through special
acts.
Some Of the c:2.:c.:-@- c:..:.@ -. forth in
the Foster bill are as follows: gov
ernor $4,000; private secretary to
governor 81 500; executive contin-
gent fund $4,000 per year; audito,
$4,000; superintendent of education
$4,000; librarian $500; adjutant
general $500; insurance commissioner
$500; railroad commissioners ST.
600 each; supreme court judges $4,-
500 each; superintendent of peniten-
tiary $4,000; chancellors $3.50 each
circuit judges $3.50 each; attorney
general $500; prison trustees $2,-
600 each; commissioner Of agricul-
t,re and commerce $1,8O0; prison
dispatch sergeant $500.
Other Items.
The bill carries $4,000 for the pay
ment of assessors for the year 1908,
aud $95, 900 for assessors for the year
1909. The interest on The Chickasaw
school fund is placed at $61 ,693.07. A
total of $59,120 for other interest pur-
poses is also carried by the bill.
1t is expected that efforts will be
ID I., tho 10 - n
/. of the state officials, owing to the
greatly increased cost of living and
the fact that goodly number are
now receiving very small remnera-
tion, as compared with the amount
of labor performed.
The appropriation bills for all the
state educational institutions have
been introduced ana the bills carrying
allowances for the eleemosynary III
stitutions will be submitted within a
few days. In neither house, however,
has there been disposition to take
up these masures for consideration
and report.
Chairman Saennis, of the house ways
and means committee, and Chairman
Stennis Of the senate finance commit
tee, are holding frequent conferences,
and it is expected that they will frame
joint plan of finance, or, at least,
reach satisfactory agreement con-
cerning the general financial policy
within the next few days.
Cumberland Wants Probe.
The Cumberland Telephone & Tele-
graph Company, against whom Attor-
ney General Fletcher recently insti-
tuted proceedings to cancel authori-
ty to do business in Mississippi, on
the ground that the ANTITRUST laws
have been violated, has appealed to
the legislature to make thorough
investigation of its affairs.
The lengthy petition of similar i'm
port, filed with the railroad commits
sion some time since, has been sub.
mitieJ to the legislature in the form
of memorial. The Corporation ex-
plains that "the railroad commits
sion, feeling no doubt, that ii had no
adequate means to make thorough
and sufficient investigation, declined
to enter upon it, and therefore the
company now appeals to the legisla-
ture to cause such investigation to
be made by committee of your hon
orable body, or by the commission, or
both acting together.
The memorial is lengthy one, set
ting forth in full the financial affairs
of the company, and earnestly urges
that the investigation be held with the
purpose in view of determining wheth-
er rates and charges have been fair
and just; whether there has been un-
just discrimination, whether the re-
turns to the stockholders have been
equitable, and whether the charges
Each Limited.