The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-18
GOVERNOR NOEL
 Is TURNED DOWN
Legislature Votes Against the
 Governors Wishes
REPORT ON SOLDIERS HOME
Joint Committee Reports to Leeisla- ture That Conditions Are First
 Class at Beauvoir But Recom-
 mend Removal of Capt Price

Jackson, Miss, February 17.-(special)--
 Governor Noel went down in defeat to-
 day. The house was discussing propo-
 sition to make the Judiciary elective, according to a plan suggested by MT.
 Quinn of Hinds county. The plan is
 to elect or nominate by primary just as
 Mississippi now does United States sen
 ators, and for those thus nominated to
 be appointed by the governor. MT. Quinn
 was speaking of his bill when message
 from the governor arrived.
 It was known that it was coming and
 his friends insisted it should be read. It
 was, and gave the Quinn bill particular
 fits. The message demanded a straight election for judges with no half-hand
 doings. The bill reached a vote in course
 of time. however, and was passed in spite
 of the governors message of protest, by
 vote of 63 to 26. In the event it should
 pass the senate, which Is doubtful, Gov ernor Noel will veto it.
 The joint committee on pensions which visited the Soldiers Home at Beauvoir. submitted a report today in which they say they found everything well kept, sleeping apartments clean, food nicely prepared and served, there being no com plaint on those scores. The attending physician, Dr. H. NJ. Folkes of Biloxi,
 and Trustees T. M. Henry of Jackson, T.
 R. Henderson of Greenwood and J. H.
 McGeehee of Little Springs, were con- graduated on their, good and faithful ! services. The trustees call for large appropriation, so that 40 or 50 more may be admitted to the home. They ask for
 a house of worship and compliment Miss Wallace, the matron, as the right wom-
 an in the right place, and recommend
 the removal of Capt. W. T. Price, not
 because he has not attended to his duties,
 but because he has enforced the rules to the letter of the law and is too rigid.
 He has become a persona non grata to a great many of the inmates of the home and will be relieved as soon as a suitable I man for the place can be found. W. J. Bryan telegraphs Representative Adair, author of the resolution adopted two weeks ago. inviting him to address
 tho Mississippi legislature, that he will be here February %. This will be MT.
 Bryan's fourth visit to Jackson. The city l and state were with him on his first ! campaign and are yet.
 l Chief Justice Whitfield has handed | down a decision in the case of Arthur ! Ferrer vs the state, today, that is of | far-reaching interest and importance,
 especially in those states where the ne-
 gro has been eliminated as political
 factor and never placed on juries.
 Ferrer had killed a white man in Tate l county and was tried and convicted and
 sentenced to be hanged. The defense | had made motion to quash the indict-
 ment and also the venire on the ground | that the jury was composed entirely of ] white men and that negroes were pur- l posely excluded. The court sustained the | motion to quash the special venire, but 1 overruled the one to quash the indict- ment, which the supreme court says was a fatal error.''
 1 This is the first time this question of | mixed juries has been decided here on | it's merits, though some feature of 1t l was passed on in Warren county case | some time ago.
 The republican executive committee of 1 the Eighth district met at a theatre here 1 today, every county being represented, 1 with l.. k. Atwood presiding and M. $. l Love, secretary. March 25 was selected l as the date for the congressional con l vention to nominate delegates to the na- tional convention, and resolutions were l adopted indorsing MT. Foraker for Presi- | dent.