Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1908-02-01
Letter From Big Bud.

UANhSON, VI ISIS. Jan. -.
We are getting down to work in earn
est and having all the work we can "a
The House meets at 10 a. m. and con
tlnues in session until about 6 .. m.
and then the committees meet in TIN
afternoon, and generally continue H.
session the greater part of the even
ing. Our Prohibition committee ha
found 1t necessary to hold night meet
ings, and these generally last until T.
P. m. have not had time to call
meeting of the Committee on Irsur
anee, of which | am chairman bu.
hope to do so this week.
| We passed the bill. almost urari
mously. appropriating 81. 100000 ev.
elusive of the poll tax. for the supror.
Of the public schools for the wear loo,
and the same for the ;year 1909. This
IS the same amount that was appro-
priated for the last two wears. Prof
Powers, the State Superintendent, un-
ike most of the heads of our State
Institutions, did not ask for an increase.
The Constitution provides that we shall
appropriate enough money to run all Of
The public schools of the State fo11
months, and Prof. Powers said this
vas sufficient 1t was shown that
bout $1,000 of this fund was not
Xpended last year, but held as a sur
illus by the various counties. Mr.
Iones, of Union, has introduced a biz
o appropriate $3.50, 900 additional t,
De held in the State treasury. to make
Up any deficit in any county and to try
and equalize the distribution.
Profs Whitfield and Kincanno7 were
before the Committee on Appropris.
lions last week, and had Whitfield or
the gridiron. He was explaining his
report and why he asked for an in
crease in his support fund, and when
ne came to the musical department be
turned to hincannon and said: 'Yog
know, Professor, that this department
cannot be made self-sustaining, and II
will have to ask the State to buy
pianos and to supplement the salaries
If the teachers"
! arose and said ; IF you and Prof .
Aincannon say that this department
cannot be made self-sustaining. IT
shows that neither of you know how to
un this department, for | hold in NV
hand letters from The Blue Mountain
College, Meridian Female COLLEGE
and Grenada and Whitworth Female
College, stating that these departments
were not only self-sustaining, but that
they were a source of revenue" We /
showed trat these colleges had teach.
ers from the leading Conservatives. /
ana DO not charge any more thar
does The l., |. & G. Whitfield asker
me i Miss Evelyn Windham was not
worth $500. the amount paid her. and /
sad yes, for the scholars pay $40
session. and twenty scholars would nav
ler tins $500, and as they only give two
lessons a week, | thought Miss VIII l.
nam could teach twenty-five scholars
and get $1,000. asked him what thew !
pad The lady violin teacher. and he
sand $500. Then | asked how many
scholars this lady had last year. end he
-urhed TO hlncannon and asked how
many The Professor said he did not
snow, and ! said that had heard she
mad one, ard they could not deny this.
lsKgd low many she had this Y ear, ard
lle ana not know, but thought twelve :,
l sad | hear only two of the dor u
hlIory girls. But say she had twelve. .
'ught we to pay $500 for this, and hard al
one glrl IN a hundred will ever make m
lVlng giving violin lessons. 1t seem \,
TRANCE to me that any department oil NJ
'ur state institutions is not made ne
'elf-sustaining, tr
Dr. Hamilton asked that small
lumber Of the unclaimed manner dead
me various hospitals should be to
urheu over to his college, but DR.. JC
Gathers, OF the University, was Ii,
promptly before the committee and q,
aid they needed them ALL or the State q
you'd have to buy cadavers. He said n
nat this department was not self NJ
ustainlng, although they charged the u
anne tuition as does the Meridian -
ledical school and the State furnishcd al
ooms and the cadavers. m
We have splendid chairman of fine
appropriations committee, and we will
)ok into all of these matters and trv tr
0 have all of these depar tments put on
business basis.
The Judiciary committee reported !,
n amendment yesterday relative to 81
he act forbidding any person, except R
lawyer, to draw any trust deed or pl
Their legal paper and charge a fee for
anne. They said that under the pres
Mt law no one except lawyer could W
0 this, even where no fee was charg- m
], and they offered an amendment to Of
How any person to do this, where no
&c is charged, and this brought OH y
lie fight all of the lawyers on one iit
de and the laymen on the other. One al
the lawyers said that this bill was m
ot for the protection of the lawyers, !,
ut for the protection of the people. 8
asked him If he had ever heard that \
lille Bryan had said that it scared him cl
} hear man say that he was laying
wake at night studying his interest,
I'D that the people all got scared when 10
] of the LAWYERS in the House were ar
! one side legislating for the dear
sople. We loaded 1t down with
nendments, and finally one Of their