The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-23
NEARLY 400 BILLS
ARE OFFERED BY THE
SAPIENT SOLONS
RECORD BREAKING PRESENTA'
TON or NEW LAWS IN GEN
ERAL ASSEMBLY.
TWO PROHIBITION MEASURES
Senator Holiday Offers resolution
Permitting Erection OF carmack
Stature on the Capitol Grounds.
Reelfoot Lake Purchase.
Special to The Herald.

9 Special to The Herald.
9 NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 20.-U
3 to noon today there we're a sum tots
3 of 3S5 new bills on the calendar of tn
3 two houses of the general assembl
as the record of the first two days
B session after the recess. In the hous,
217 were introduced for the two day
and in the senate 10 or more. Among
the important general bills were al
act prohibiting Sunday theatres; ap
propriating 100000 for the purchase Of
Reelfoot lake; requiring hunters tc
secure licenses.
The Memphis charter amendatory
act passed before the recess was re-
introduced in the senate, and an effort
will be made to repass it so as to rem
edy any possible irregularity in con-
nection with the passage of the bill
by the house.
Included in the general bills intro
duced in the house were two prohibit
ton bills, both intended to aid in the
prevention of violation of the temper
ance laws already passed One pro-
Evides that search warrant may be
ISSUED on sworn information from any
person that he believes liquor Is being
sold at certain place, The other
provides that no drink shall be sold
/ which contains more than one-half of
| l per cent alcohol The dealer must
give bond of $500 in addition to regu-
r lar license and may have license re-
voked for violation of the law.
The prominent feature of the recon.
vening Monday of the Fifty-ninth Gen
eral Assembly of Tennessee, after a
six weeks recess, was the establish
ment of new world records by both
houses in the matter of new bills In
troduced. In the senate, body com
posed of thirty-three men, there were
131 new measures introduced, and the
house went the upper branch thirty |
better by having introduced for its
consideration 161 new bills.
While a very large majority of the
bills introduced are of local nature,
there is quite number of them of
general character. Just how the wise
and delibefaJive solons expect ever to
reach more than small proportion of
-htse measures for final action can't
De mathematically figured out. Be ]
sides the rev bills there already are I
IN the house and senate calendars
ome hundred of proposed new laws t
Which have not been finally acted t
Don. More than 300 of these are on 9
he house calendar and nearly 200 on a
he senate calendar. D
Senator Holiday introduced the fol S
,w.ng resolution which was adopted b
der a suspension of the rules: II
Whereas, the Carmack Memorial D
ssociation of Tennessee has been or d
lntzed for the purpose of erecting a
litable monument TO the memory of in
dward Carmack and m
Whereas, the noble life, the unself- pl
h devotion, the lofty character, the m
erling worth and the wise and pa by
lotto public services of this brilliant in
id distinguished Tennessean have dl
lded great and honorable fame to ga
e name of Tennessee and are justly re
Id in dear and grateful remembrance cl,
his fellow-countrymen therefore OF
BE 1t resolved by the general as ap
mbly of the state of Tennessee, that
e purpose of said association is COM tai
ended and that permission is hereby be
ven to said association to erect said tht
upon the grounds of the ifs
ite capitol and be
BE 1t further resolved, that the nu
pOlntment OF committee De ana is the
reby made for the purpose Of Sc
ting the site for said monument, of
d that said committee consist of the
, speaker of the senate, the speaker wa
the house Of representatives, two pa,
lators, to be selected by the speak uol
of the senate, three representatives,
be selected by the speaker of the MI
use, and the members of the execu. Az
e committee of the Carmack Me-
rial Association of Tennessee, and
Be 1t further resolved, that said
nmittee hereby provided, be and Ka
hereby given full power and author. ant
upon the-lecision of majority apr
reuf IN OBSTINATE and IN set anart tire