The Hattiesburg news., 1910-01-04
lElGISLATURE READY
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pre-, IS any personal preferences.
81 am going to do my best to pre-
side fairly and impartially, and givel
every body a square deal, both while
the senatorial contest and during con-
slider alton of all other matters" was
the declaration made today by the
Lieu t-Governor.
Sp eaker Street, according to prog
nostic cations. will support his home
cand idate, Hon. c. c. Dunn, so long as
he lay be in the race, and the
frien DIS of Mr.. Dunn declare that he is
going to be in until the finish. How
ever. Speaker Street and Ex-Governor
varda man are warm personal friends,
and Il ne venerable presiding officer
will dc )ubtless gravitate to the Varda-
man oeolumn in event Mr.. Dunn is
not in at the finish.
A gaoodly number of members of
both hSouses spent a portion of Mon
day ats their desks in the legislative
chambe rs writing letters, getting book
and pa. pers in readiness for the ses
sion, an I'd studying departmental re-
ports. f
Govern or Noel's message will be in
readiness for transmission to the two
houses t. ,day Immediately after the
two bodie convene. The usual form
ality of ap pointing committees to noti-
fly the Gov ernor that the two houses
are in rea diness to receive his COM
munication will be followed, and it is
quite likely that the message will be
received al I'D read prior to the ad-
journment.
In the sc ,nate three new members,
Messrs. Th open, Pierce and Hibbler
were .prese lnted at the presiding Of
ficer's desk to take the oath of office.
There will be no preiiminaries of this
character / n the house, as there have
been no vacancies within it's member
ship during the past two years.
Governor Noel's message will be
much brie fer than the document usu
| ally sent + rom the executive office to
the bienni al session. 1t consists OF
about thir ty typewriter pages, OF
practically 5000 words, and the read
ing should not occupy much longer
, than an hour. II is plain, conserva
tive docul nent, devoted chiefly to q
I discussion of departmental matters,
{ revenue and appropriation measures
: and contains a rather small number o.
' recommend, at ons for new legislation
J, During the session, however, the Gov
ernor will fsend a goodly number o
i messages from time to time submit
q ting special subjects for consideration
In acco'rdal.ce with the time-honor
; ed custom. the first bill introduced
A and recommended by committees fo
f pa ssage will be measure appropriat
e ing sufficient funds to pay the mileag.
g md per diem of members. The law
9 ma kers never overlook this import
! ant question. They may forget othe
4 matters at times, but it is not on rec
. ord that the bill to pay salaries AM
q expenses Of members has failed t
. pass during the first week of the ses
Il SION.
a How long it is going to take the leg
= isla ture to settle down to business i
), an interesting subject Of speculation
It Sonic members express the opinion
- that there is no reason why both
8 houses should not settle down imme
"a diately to hard work and get a ma
jority of the revenue and appropria
tion bills out of the way before thu
u Senatorial contest is taken up on tn
- 18th! Many others contend, however
IN that the complication of politics Il
going to prevent the serious consider
alton of any important work until
after the Senatorial fight is dispose,
Mt of.
'n The situation to-day is too nebulou
% to forecast with any degree of accu
je racyl the general trend of legislation
ar The various departments of state gov
ce ernnSent, and the big educational an
eleemosenary institutions, would lik
u very much to get their appropriation
bills disposed of within the next fort
40 night, if possible, and they will doub'
# less make diligent effort to this enc
IN whether they will succeed in doing S
n, depends, in a very large measure, O
he the probability of the Senatorial figh
~ coming up in a Democratic caucus
M agreed to by all candidates, prior
10 the 18th. If this should be the cast
st the political battle is going to be fas
mt and furious from the start, and con
or. mand practically the entire time an
sn attention of the lawmakers.