The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-02-22
THIRTIETH DAY.
Senate.

The Senat adopted a resolution pre-.
sented by Mr.. Hebron providing for an
investigation of an allegation of misap-
prOpriated funds of Yazoo-Mississippi
delta levee board, to be made by a spe-
cial committee of both houses.
The most interesting piece of new
legislation proposed was the introduc-
ton of a bill in the House by Mr.. Frier-
son of Claiborne, for the creation of a
new circuit court district, to be called
the fourteenth. Should it pass it means
the appointment of another Judge and
another district attorney.
In the Senate, the hour having ar
rived for special order, the prohibition
bills and the lobbies and galleries be-
ing, despite the very inclement weather,
filed with interested men and women,
who have, many of them, spent years in
struggling for the achievement about To
be compassed by the 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.
MIR. Rowan, a lifelong advocate of
prohibition. was the next speaker. and
he pleaded for the bills passage. Mr..
Mcdowell also spoke as the represen-
fatlve 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
'lause This act shall take immediate
fleet as to each and every county in
he State where there are no open
saloons duly licensed under the provi-
3ions of chapter 40 of the code of 1906.
and shall not a effect as to those
where there are duly licensed
saloons, except as hereinafter provided.
The board of supervisors OF those
where there are now licensed
saloons shall order a local option cleo
ton without any petition being pre-
'ented therefor, to be held under the
provisions Of sections 17SO-17S5 code
1906, and any county in which the
election is carried agains: the sale, shall
come under the provisions of this act
The said election shall be
held at a dato 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-
against the sale in the election. an
other shall be ordered for one wear
Hereafter no article. the sale of
is prohibited under the first Sec
ion of the act. shall be shipped or
transported from any county in which |
The sale as licensed into any other coun-
ty where such sale is prohibited"
In presenting his amendment and urg-
nc its passage, Mr.. Tucker stated that
,hough representing a prohibition PEG.
a prohibition county and a prohibi-
ion family, and that never had his voice
Ieen raised in defense of whisky, his
amendment made clear his views and
principles.
Mr.. Engle was the next speaker. He
lad the task of presenting the side OF
he counties desiring to do their own
This he did in a very effective
peech.
The hour had gone almost fftv min
ties beyond adjourning time when a
-ote was taken on the Tucker amend
nent, which was defeated by a vote
# 30 to 10. The bill then passed amid
Wild applause, with only four opposing
'otes-Messrs. Englc, Baird, Mcdonald
nd Gibbs.
Before adjournment the other prohibi-
ion bills were also passed.
House.
The House was called to order BY
peaker Street, with a good attendance,
onsidering the fact that about one
ourth of its members are suffering
18th attacks of the grip in one stage or
mother, the weather and the super
atmosphere of the capitol being
cry trying to most constitutions that
re used to the more orthodox methods
f house warming.
The Senate message transmitting the
Boddie bill as it passed was
id before the House by the speaker.
he amendment, as explained by Mr..
eddie, did not affect the measure ma
and he had been with the Sen.
te committee and had accepted it's al
and he now moved concurrence
the amendment. The roll was called
I the concurrence, and without a nav {
'te the bill was completed that will &
ltlaw the bucketshcp and future gam ,
inD frn,, nnI offa- T.o 1nnO I