Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-04-08

people certainly want it. We had let
| ters and kilograms from all parts OF
the stnte asking US to pass this bill
l think with this bill in force l can get
our farmers to put in $1O0 for each
mule he has, get about $1,000 paid in
and if mule dies pay the owner the
assessed value of the mule. This would
hely many a poor man buy another
mule or horse, and hurt no one for all
of US would be willing to contribute
81 90 to help neighbor when he lost a
mule.
We also passed a bill prohibiting
drinking on the trains and empowering
the conductors to put off the train any
one 50 doing, but the members Who op.
posed both of these bills resorted to
filibusting to defeat them, and when
their tactics were exhausted they
Droke out of the House and we did not
have quorum, and had to adjourn un-
til Monday. This is the first time such
tactics have been resorted to, and l
think it very unfair. When a majority
is in favor of a bill and all parlimenta-
ry tactics are resorted to, to defeat a
bill the minority ought to yield and
content themselves with having their
votes recorded as voting "No." Since
the members of the Senate have got
ten fully acquainted with Senator
Price, he has grown greatly in their
favor and influence. One of the Col
lege Presidents told me that he had
rather have Price for his bill than any
other two Senators. Miss Kate Power,
the accomplished correspondent for the
Clarion-Ledger, says all have absolute
confidence in his integrity and that he
always commands the attention of the
Senate and what he says carries great
weight. have members of the House
come to me nearly every day and ask
me to get him to help pass their bills
at that end of the Capitol. l could
not get him to help us pass our bill ex-
empting money loaned at 6 per cent,
and reducing the rate of interest to s
per cent. He has been paying inter-
est all his life, and thought he would
be on the side of the borrower, but he
is not. I reckon he is like John Nc.
Innis said he was; that he was afraid
we would get it fixed so he could not
get money at all, that sometimes the
rate did not bother him, the question
was could he get it. That he was
afraid the man who had the money to
loan would be like little Jew who had
a grocery on the corner at Meridian. A
man asked him what he asked for his
sausage, and he said 20 cents, and the
man said "why the fellow on the other
corner only asks Is cents a pound"
and the little Jew said "Vell Wy don't
you buy from him?' and the man said,
che is out of sausage now, and the
Jew said, yes don't ask but Is cent
for mine when l am out" See?
told my colleagues that when Wal
ter was elected living in the coutry and
never having travelled much that l
often, and now he had gotten so he
got mad when he could not vote me.
Walter claims to be teetotaler, but
he is the only member from our coun-
ty at least, who has seen snakes. He
was taking o'clock dinner with a
friend and says he saw a cabbage
snake run out of his lettuce. He de-
clared he did, but we all think he had
taken little Three Feather, the
favorite brand of the delta boys.
Well, Noxubee has a pretty indepen-
dent delegation, and each fellow does
his own thinking, and sometimes 1 be-
lieve if question had four sides to it
we, each would take side.
We had passed the l. I. & C. bill and
A. & M. bill, and left off the appro-
we thought this ought not so to be, so
Walter put through two bills IN the
Senate appropriating money for this
purpose, and our committee has just
passed the bill, so | reckon we will
have the summer schools at both plac-
es.
We passed a bill appropriating $1O.O
to pay DR.. Krause, an eminent pa
biologist and Dean of the Medical
School at Vicksburg, and to establish a
labrotary. When it is es-
tablished physician anywhere in the
'tate can send specimen of bloOd or the
sputa and have it examined and there
by tell exactly what disease the patient
IS suffering from. hope it will be of |
great benefit to our people.
1 learn our Board of Supervisors
agreed to cooperate with the State
Live Stock Sanitary board and to have
he tick eradicated at once, So our
farmers will have to prepare to have
wn nastnreS or learn that this Is