The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-30
APPROPRIATION
BILL PRESENTED
GENERAL MEASURE CARRIES
$3.50, 900.
CUMBERLAND ON ITS KNEES
Phone Company Asks Legislative
Probe-Victory for Child Labor
Bill-Saloons To Die With This
Year.

The general appropriation bill,
carrying appropriations for the bien-
NAL period, aggregating $3.50, 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
eminent that are usually unvarying
IN character. 1t does not, of course,
include the common school fund, ap-
preparation, which for the preceding
biennial period, was ST, 100000 per
annum, or the pension Appropriation
of $250,000 per year, or any allow
ances for any Of the stale 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 &C the s:cll@.-:cc- 80 forth in
the Foster bill are as follows: gov
ernor $4,000; private secretary to
governor 1900; executive contin-
gent fund $4,000 per year; auditor
$4,000; superintendent of education
$4,000; librarian $1,000; adjutant
general 5000; insurance commissioner
$500; railroad commissioners g.
600 each; supreme court judges 81
800 each; superintendent of peniten-
tiary $4,000; chancellors $3.50 each !;
circuit judges $3.50 each; attorney
general $500; prison trustees 3d.
900 each; commissioner of agricul-
tTe and commerce $1,000; prison
dispatch sergeant $4,000
Other Items.
The bill carries $4,000 for the pay
ment of assessors for the year 1908,
and $95, 900 for assessors for the year
1909. The interest on the Chickasaw
school fund Is placed at SOL ,693.07. A
total of $685. for other interest pur-
poses is also carried by the bill.
1t is expected that efforts will be
made to increase the salaries of some
of the state officials, owing to the
greatly increased cost of living and
the fact that goodly number are
now receiving very small remnera-
ton, as compared with the amount
OF labor performed.
The Appropriation bills for all the
state educational institutions have
been introduced and the bills carrying
allowances for the eleemosynary in
situations 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 Stennis, 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 a satisfactory agreement con-
corning 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
mittel to the legislature in the form
of a memorial The corporation ex-
plains that "the railroad commits
sion, feeling no doubt, that it had no
adequate means to make a thorough
and sufficient investigation, declined
to enter upon it, and therefore the
company now appeals to the legisla-
ture to cause such investigation to
he made by committee Of your hon
orable body, or by the commission, or
both acting together.
The memorial is a 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 fail
and just; whether there has been I'M
just discrimination, whether the re
turns to the stockholders have beer
equitable, and whether the charges
Each Limited.