The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
LEGISLATORS ARE Y NOW IN A HURRY MiSsissippi Laws Are Being
 Turned Out Rapidly
NEW COUNTY DEFEATED
Insurance Biil--solons Vote Favor ably on Submitting Income
 Tax Amendment to People

Jackson, Miss, March 11.-(special)- The Mississippi legislators have begun to hurry at last and two or three sessions per day are now held.
 Time is short and innumerable i'm portant matters are yet pending in both houses. Representative Yates won a sig nal victory today in the defeat of the proposition to create Walthall county out of portions of Marion and Pike. The bill had been passed by the senate and was favorably reported by the committee to the house, but MT. Yates turned it down 45 to 34 Motion to reconsider was en- tered. Advocates of George county of parts of Jackson and Green feel discour- aged.
 Speaker Street carried outaits threat to- day not to sign the interinsurance bill if passed, and when it was presented by the enrolment committee he stated that he would not sign it for the reason that it was unconstitutionally passed, not being recommended by the governor. Later in the day the governor sent in a message submitting the proposition. However, tSpeaker Street and President ProTem Hebron of the senate did promptly sign the income tax resolution and Mississippi thus places herself on record as favor ing another amendment to the federal constitution The governor is in hearty accord and will take pleasure in sign ing the resolution.
 The temperance committee of the senate held interesting meeting today to dis cuss the Bilbro bill to prohibit the sale of coca-cola and all other drinks of that nature. Several prominent prohibitants were before the committee, among them Mrs. Marietta B. Kels, president of the state w. c. T. U. No action was taken the bill being too drastic for some of the members of the committee.
 A strong delegation of the Jackson board of trade was before the senate finance committee on a proposition to have the legislature vote s75,000 to a state charity hospital, provided Jackson raises s25, GOO, as promised. The matter was discussed at great length and it was finally agreed that the proposition should be held in abeyance till it is found for certain whether a bond issue shall be ordered or the state levy increased to meet the large Appropriations already voted.
 The oil mills of Jackson, the greatest in- dustry here, taken collectively, there be- ing four of them, will shut down for the season next Saturday. In fact one of Them, the Jackson Oil mill has already Astopped It's ponderous machinery and banked it's fires till another crop of cot ton shall have been made.
 The season has been disastrous one, as a whole, but the four mills at Jack al<~4 other places, some of them having gone into the hands of receiver and others having closed down several weeks ago because of the high price of seed. Because of this early shutdown of mills in other places the Jackson mills were enabled to keep going even after they had exhausted their supply of seed They bought up the seed the other mills had on hand, one of the big mills here having received four carloads yesterday During the season just closing the four mills at Jackson have used 42 GOO tons of seed, as against 50,000 tons the previous season, which, considering the very short crop in this section, is considered good and is accounted for on the ground that a great many seed have recently been shipped here from out of the usual ter ritory. But for these distant shipments Jackson would not have used 10000 tons this season. Prices this season have av- eraged between $2S and S29 per ton, as against $14 per ton last season, which is about double. and has been the means of distributing great deal of cash among the farmers.
 However, the price of the products of the oil mills has been good. From ton of seed the mills have squeezed about s1720 worth of oil, $1260 for meal. S3 Sor hulls, making $32. 80, and this does
 pot take into consideration the linters And other small products
 Thus the farmers have received about
 1 .176o00 for the raw material that 50 years ago was thrown in the creeks and de- stroyed as a nuisance around every old horse gin. while the oil mills have re- ceived in the neighborhood of s1, 1,5oO. .OOO for the finished product, and most of which has gone for labor