Macon beacon., 1910-04-15

WrlLe one from accounts OF veterans 4U
years after the war was closed. We
will try and have resolution adopted
that Will authorize the correction Of
mis- axes, but do not wish 1t to be in
the nature of a censure of DR., Rowl-
and. He and Governor Vardaman are
not good friends-had a tilt over the
Battle Ship fund, and | fear that some
of his partisans are desirous of giving
the Doctor a lick in the resolution. l
don't. mean that Gov. Vardaman has
anything to do with this whatever, but
the lines are tightly drawn and both
sides have partsans that will not hesi-
tate to try and injure one or the other
sides.
see our county is disposed to take
active measures to eradicate the tick,
and as the bill has passed appropriat-
ing $40, 900 hope they will begin work
at once. | see that opponents of the
stock law on the west side Of the river
won out. What are they going to do
about fighting the tick? They all say
that it is almost impossible to eradi
cate the tick when cattle are allowed
to run at large. One old poor cow or
calf belonging to some careless person
can breed enough ticks to infest all of
the cattle. When a county agrees to
eradicate the tick we have strict law
enforcing their orders and all must
obey whether they are in favor of the
eradication or not.
| was so hard to hold quorum that
we were compelled to adopt a resolu-
tion appointing a committee of five of
which am member to pass on the
requests for leave of absence and to
notify all absentees to report at once
or they would be fined $500 day for
each day they were absent without
leave. this has had a salutory effect.
We would have finished up all of the
business last week but for the investi
cation of Bilbo's charges by the Sen
ate. I am afraid they will not get
through this week.
| see John Allen was before the
grand jury in the Dulaney case, and
had to plead guilty to gambling and
was indicted together with several of
the members of the legislature. l
thought that John told Col. Street in
his letter last fall that he had grown
in grace and had quite his youthful
indscretions.
We will be compelled to issue
$500, 900 in bonds as we have spent
more than our income, but Gov Noel
says we ought to issue enough bonds to
pay for all the permanent improve
ments. 1t seems that this is the pop
ular thing to do as the Nation, State,
counties, cities ard towns all are issu-
ing all the bonds that they are allowed
to. The chairman of the Ways and
Means committee introduced a bill re
ducing the cost Of fertilizer tags to
1Oc a tag, 1t had been 30c, and was
direct tax on the farmer, and especial
ly on those owning poor land, but the
House voted it down. Prof. Hardy
stated that this tax of Soc a tag
brought a revenue of some $35, 600
more than enough to pay for inspec-
tion, and as this never was intended
for a revenue measure l thought we
ought to reduce it.
We passed through the House a bill
taxing dogs, or at least empowering
the Board of Supervisors to do so. The
people living in the district where the
boil weevil are were unanimously in ia
yer of it, They said that the dogs not
only killed their sheep, but broke up
the birds nests. l hope the Senate
will pass it The Legislature is always
willing in a question of this kind to
place the responsibility of enforcing the
act on the Board of Supervisors.
BIG BUD.
Thursday, April 14th
l know the bribery Investigation
case" is the one the people are the
most interested in and | wish | could
give your readers some definite infor-
nation about this, but neither the SEN
ate nor house committees have made
report. The senate will vote on the
resolution to eXpel Bilbo this afternoon
at o'clock. predict that 1t will fail
by strict partisan vote-that is the
Vardamen men will vote against eXpul-
sion and the opposition to Vardaman
for expulsion. The lines are tightly
drawn but | hear that several Varda-
man men will vote for expulsion. BilbO
has not proved himself 20 be a gentle
man sans peur.et sans reproche." and
that is the very kind of man likely to
accept bribe. l can't see how any
man can believe the Vardaman men
furnished this money, bnt the opposi-
tion without scarcely an exception be-
lieVe this. 1t is my opinion that BilbO
started out to trap the men offering the
bribe but as he could not get witnesses
to the transaction, concluded after he
got the money just to hold on to it.
The package of money that the sheriff
producer before the senate had several
bills that had been issued by the Poplar
vile bills in the roll. Some think that
as Bilbo lives at Poplarville that he