The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-08
LEGISLATURE is
GIVEN MORE TIME
Governor Noel Extends Session
Until April 16
MUCH WORK TO BE DONE
More Time Is Necessary to Investigate
the Senatorial Bribery scandal
As Well As to Transact
Other Business
MUCH WORK TO BE DONE

| Jackson, Miss, April 7-(Special)-
Governor Noel has extended the session
of the legislature till April 16 in order
that the senate may conclude the in
vestigation of the Bilbo-Duaney bribery
investigation and conclude the business
of the state.
| A number of bills were introduced or re-
ported from committees, and the business
of the session seems about as crowded
as ever before. The general appropria-
ton bills have been passed, but there are
q number yet to be acted on increasing
the total appropriation nearly sl,Ooo00O.
Bills prohibiting minors from pool
rooms, providing for the payment of the
salaries of judges chancellors., ETC., that
county attorneys shall not practice law
in certain cases, that one board of trus-
tees shall act for all state colleges were
passed by the house,
The bill providing that one board of
trustees shall represent all of the state
colleges was adopted by the house.
The Agricultural and Mechanical college
appropriation bill went through with
flourish, as did the bill giving Arkansas
and Louisiana jurisdiction on the river in
certain cases. The agricultural lien law
bill was indefinitely postponed, thus per-
petuating the practice of mortgaging
crops before they are planted.
Capt. J. F. Merry, general immigration
agent of the Illinois Central Railroad
company is in Jackson in the interest
of the state of Mississippi, and it is pos
slbe that the legislature will give him a
hearing on a proposition to assist the
railroad he represents in advertising the
wonderful resources of the statey
Captain Merry would have the legis-
lature appropriate $1,000 or $1,000 to be ex-
pended in the way of advertising by
sending men through the regions of the
north and west every year to tell about
what the state has for sale in the way
of cheap and desirable lands. He states
that during the past year he printed and
distributed more than a million copies of
pamphlets bearing on Mississippi. and de-
clares the results have been great, as
many western families have been in
duced to settle in this land where they
get homes at from IS to 10 per acre.
He was sorry to state that at the
Omaha exposition Mississippi was not rep
resented, nor were her resources shown,
save by the display of farm products ex-
hibited by the Illinois Central railroad.
1t is little late in the session, but
Mississippi always listens to Captain
Merry, and he may be able to get what
he wants
Governor Noel has pardoned Armine
Weber, a young white man who was
convicted in Yazoo county a year ago on
the charge of receiving stolen goods. A
couple of weeks since the governor
granted Weber a reprieve on the show
ing that his innocence could now be
established through and by the confess
sion of another party. The proof was
made and Weber was discharged from
the custody of the sheriff of Yazoo coun~
ty. His appeal to the supreme court
had kept him from going to the peniten-
tiary at all. though he is registered at
the office of the prison authorities as
having been convicted and ordered there.
John F. Mckay, secretary of the Mis-
sissippi State Fair association, urges that
oil persons interested in live stock breed
ing meet with him at his office In this
city on April 10 for the purpose of going
over and improving the premium list TO
be offered by the Fair association this
fall. the idea being to lend every pos
sible eneoura cement to that branch of
agriculture in this state. The poultry
breeders have already held similar
meeting and are well organized for the
fall compaign.