The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
.DR, J, M, BUCHANAN
 SUCCEEDS HIMSELF. Superintendent of Asylum at
 Meridian Reappointed. HEAVY BILLS PASSED
HEAVY BILLS PASSED
Mississippi Legislature Sets Aside Large Sums for Various State In stitutfons-Another New County
 Is to Be Created.

Jackson, Miss, March 11.-(Special.)-In
 confirmed the appointment of Dr. J. M.
 Buchanan as his own successor super
 intendent of the East Mississippi Insane
 hospital at Meridian; also J. L. Haley and
 F. K. Holloway as members of the up
 per levee board.
 By unanimous vote the senate passed
 the live stock sanitary board appropria-
 ton of sJo00O. to be used in fighting ticks
 and contagious diseases, so as to get the
 quarantines raised.
 The day was devoted largely to appro-
 priation bills, and several heavy ones were
 passed.
 Four hundred and eight thousand dol-
 lars goes to the state insane hospital 'here
 fifty thousand dollars to the ViclSsburg
 hospital, ninety-two thousand dollars to
 the soldiers home at Beauvoir, two hun
 dred and sixty thousand dollars to the
 state university, which the legislature will visit Saturday.
 The senate adopted almost unanimously AIr. Rocllefeller's foundation proposition for the encouragement of teachers and | care for the superannuated.
 The Potter city depository bill passed the house. This provides that any city or town may place its funds in the bank | that pays the best interest. and prac- 1 tically does away with the city treasurers | The bill creating a second assistant at | torney general passed the house without opposition
 l The bill creating George county of parts | of Jackson and Greene passed the senate l Ior itv nd Ia n ma e | 1t through the house, though the oppo
 rents of the measure have not surren- dered.
 l During the past week or two Governor | Noel has received a great many letters of 1 congratuIation on having appointed Col | James Gordon United States senator, and | since his very remarkable speech in the I senate the letters have showered in from over the north and east showing that Colonel Gordon has made more friends in that section of the country than any
 man ever sent to Washington from the south.
 MT. C. c. Dudley of Sykesville. Md, writes the governor as follows: "As a Mississippi Confederate soldier from Canton, I wish to thank you for the appointment of Senator Gordon. He has simply electrified this part of the country.
 and has done more to bring about good fellowship between north and south than any other one person in the land It is almost impossible for our southern peo- pie to fully understand the wondrous re- cults of his farewell address in tho sen- ate Percy will make a good senator, no doubt, but he will never make such an impression as did llumble-minded, big hearted Jim Gordon."f
 Colonel Gordon is expected in Jackson ill day or two. He has already been invited to address the legislature. and will be given great ovation by his old friends at home. They all appreciate the fact that tho old man has made more than good" in the Senate of the United States, and simply because of the good hess and the tenderness of his heart-a rart of his anatomy that has always been in the right place.
 There Is a movement on foot here to