The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1910-03-08
POLITICAL DOINGS AT THE CAP
ITAL.

tive circles. The General Assembly is
on the home stretch and is trying to
make up lost speed. Bills are coming
out of the hoppers via the Rules Com
mittees every day and are rapidly get.
ting into shape TO become laws. The
threatened bolt of the temperance re-
publicans, after the Senate democrats
had passed the Louisville Ripper bill,
failed to materialize. The County Unit
bill gasped its last in the Senate late
Friday and was quietly laid away for
another two years Two measures had
up to Saturday received the Governors
signature and are now laws. They were
the bills to legalize the negotiation and
transfer of tobacco warehouse receipts,
and bill affecting the schools in Lou
isville.
Amid much applause on Saturday the
Senate passed the Literal bill provid-
ing for the pensioning of Confederate
soldiers who live in Kentucky. The act
grants them an allowance of $3.50 year.
Licut. WV OoA odiu rum thS Shah
that he regretted that he did not have
a chance to vote for the bill. Several
republicans spoke for it, and old FEEDER
al soldiers: land lifelong republicans like
Capt. Ed Farley, State Treasurer, got
out and electioneered for the bill. The
''bloody shirt" will never wave in Ken
lucky when such instances are seen of
amity between the once bitter enemies
and evidences. of such good feeling are
shown by men who took part on the
opposing sides of the internecine strife.
Governor Wilson is sure to sign the
bill, and one more step will be taken to
make more easy the pathway of those
heroes who gave lup their all for this
Southern cause; and who are now fast
fading from the land.
HUBBLE HELPS BOYLE COUNTY.
Senator Took" Hubble did the good
county of Boyle good turn when he
got through the bill appropriating $780,
4OO for improvements at the State
School for the Deaf at Danville. II
now goes to the House.
Senator Hubble and Editor W. V.
Richardson, of the Danville Advocate,
made the corridor of the Capital Hote
buzz for short while Thursday night
last week, when they were unable to
agree on the question of whether or not
Hubble had told Richardson he would
faver the County Unit bill. The Sena-
tor demanded that Richardson cease
tae uncalled. for Attacks on him in his
paper. The retort courteous soon be-
came the statement strenuous, and
would have been worse still had not
Joe Embry stopped right swing that
Senator Hubble made for Richardson's
jaw. Mutual friends held the combat
ants until angry passions had suhsided.
Both gentlemen were urged by friends
to consider the incident ended. and it is
believed that they will see the wisdom
of such a course.
REPORT ON PENITENTIARIEs.
The long-expected report of State
Examiner and Inspector M. H. Thatch- |
er on his investigation of conditions at
the State penitentiaries was made last
week. 1t proved the bursting of big |
bubble. Sensational charges had been
made by a former warden of cruelty to
prisoners, conniving with contractors
on the part of commissioners and mis-
management Of affairs in general Mr..
Thatcher says that he found there had
been some irregularity under former ad-
but that the present ad-
of the prisons affairs had
improved conditions wonderfully. He
says that the charges against officials
of the penitentiaries were much exag-
gerated. George Chinn, the former
warden who made the charges, is a
splendid fellow in every way, but his
friends here say that he was inclined to
be too lax with the prisoners when he
was at the helm and did not realize that
the character of men who make up the
convict population, soon overleap all
bounds and override all authority unless
restrained with a vigorous hand and
taught the force Of discipline. And
nothing has proven as efficacious in ac-
comprising this as a goodly taste of
the strap now and then. The State
penitentiary cannot be run on Sunday
school plans and good behavior cannot
be secured with gum drops and pretty
phrases. AS Thatcher is a republican
and the three Prison Commissioners
democrats. the report can be regarded
ms turning up the raw edge of every
thing that could be found not up to
taw. There was no chance for a
"white- washing"
HELM A SURE WINNER.
The meeting of the Eighth District
Committee at Nicholasville attracted
interest here last week. After action
WAS taken. Will Price. of Bowie. and