Macon beacon., 1910-04-15
BIG BUDS LETTER

Our entire delegation was, and L
know the whole county will be very
much disappointed when the governor
appointed Hon. Tom Carroll, Of Oktlb-
beha, Judge Of our district instead OF
Hon. A. T. Dent Of our county, tor we
certainly understood that he would ap-
point Dent Judge and chat no endorse
ments were necessary, consequently
we did not go around and get the bar
of the different counties to endorse
Dent. which we could easily have done
as he Twas the first to apply and was
we'll and favorably known to all of the
attorneys in the district. Carrolls
friends proceeded to get this endorse
ment and to our astonishment the gov
ernor said tn at as fOur-ffths of the
LAWYERS had endorsed Carroll he would
have to appoint him. We felt that we
had not beeL fairly treated and our
delegation talked right plain to the
governor, especially Senator Price, as
the Governor had as | was informed,
first made the promise to him. The
Governor claims he did not promise this
outright We all so understood him.
We were disposed to have Tatum de-
cline the position of district attorney
which the Governor offered to him, but
after we had cooled down we thought
better of it and insisted and finally
prevailed on him to accept 1T and he
will make a fine official and with For
rest Allgood now county attorney ought
to have our laws enforced better than
ever before,
There was a bill introduced in the
House this last week repeating the act
making it lawful to give lien on
growing crop. Mike and l both voted
against it, and the bill was killed.
Hightower the President of the Far
mers' Union was very much in favor
~of the bill, and took Mike to task for
making a speech against the bill. but
Mike held his own with him. think
if this bill were to pass and the poor
man could not give crop lien 1t would
be a hardship on him. 1t may be best
for HIM in the long run not to have
credit, but with the boil weevil moving
in on us his credit is not likely to be
too good anyway.
About ten days ago we had under
consideration the bill establishing the
Reformatory School for young crimi-
nails to avoid sending them TO the pen
itentiary to mingle with hardened
criminals A very worthy measure.
The opponents of the bill seemed to
be getting the best of it when Miss
Butt and Mrs. Bailey (nee COrrinne
Dupree) came in Miss Butt is the
lady who has taken it. upon herself to
teach the young white convicts in the
penitentiary, and is very much inter
ested in the passage of the bill. Mrs.
Bailey called me over and asked me to
get permission of the House for Miss
Butt to make talk for the bill, and
did so, and she proceeded to make
most admirable address, and this
speech carried the bill, but there was
motion made to reconsider, and the
next day it..was re- considered and
substitute adopted that practically does
away with all of the best features of
the bill. The bill as passed provides
that the sergeant in charge of the
penitentiary shall set aside a separate
camp for young criminals and they be
kept to themselves and be taught an
English education. Miss Butt wanted
it SO that if they reformed they would
not be ex-convicts, and young persons
guilty of a misdemeanorS could be sent
to the reformatory school, and they
would not and ought not to be sent to
the penitentiary. She said she had
gotten one young boy pardoned and she
believed reformed. but he tells her
that he will always be an eX-convict.
l told Mrs. Bailey that we gave
Whitfield of the |. La C. a liberal
i support but killed his item for model
House, building he wanted to show
the girls how to build one. We
thought we would let him educate these
girls and then let them find boys who
could build houses for them. We also
cut out the item asking $4,000 to have
his Womens Aid Society go abroad and
instruct the women of the land how to
beautify their no -nes. / told Mrs. Bal
lev that one reason / voted against
this was that her mother was one of
the high officers and that while she
had raised a most admirable child she
had only raised one, and l was afraid
she did not have experience enough.
We had fight up on the publication
nut out by DIR. Rowland, the Director of
Archives and History Reg
ister of Mississippi and Military Histo-
rv of the State of Mississippi. There
has been some complaint made by two
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