Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-18
BIG BUDS LETTER
Says He Has Forgiven Everybody and
Wants Everyone to Forgive HIM

as Sam Jones said once eff L have
hurt anybody's feelings if they will
come up will forgive them"
Our re-districting committee has
lust had their bill re-districting the
state passed, and too much credid can
not be given our young representative,
Iva Dorroh for getting US into so good
a district-which is composed of Nox-
ubee, Lowndes, Clay, Oktibbeha and
Kemper No one out those on the in
side can appreciate the conflicting IN
terests to be concliated. While this
bill gives US four new districts,
thought two enough, still there was
such clamor for these districts that
it could not be avoided. Some of the
larger counties claimed that 1t was at
solutely necessary to have the tour
new districts, which makes IL IN all.
It is virtually conceded that Noxubee
is to fur nish the Judge in the person OF
Hon. A. T. Dent. 1t is the first time
our county has been recognized IN this
way since Judge Foote held that posi-
ton. While am not in favor of the
state giving Noxubee any more money
l am very much in favor of having onr
loyal sons appointed to fill our respon-
sible state Offices for we have capable
men and we have been passed over for
a long time. AS the district attorneys
for all the new districts are to be cleo
ted we are confident we can elect Hon.
H. H Brooks to this position in ours,
and l want every loyal son of Noxubee
to constitute himself a committee of one
to see to it that Harden is elected. l
don't know a man in the district that
can beat him.
Knowing that voted for Vardaman
Tatum wrote to Iva to see the govern
or about his appointment. but told
Noel that he had to tell the boys that l
had pull with him too-that L did not
propose to cut loose from every one
who did not vote as l did, and did not
want any such line drawn with me. l
told him that had called the attention
of the house to the fact that he Gov
ernor Noer had in one trip to Wash
ington saved over 500, 900 to the state,
and had the house to thank him by
rising vote. He said he would ac-
knowll dye that still had PULL.
Iva has just had another good bill
passed by the house, viz: A bill con-
stituting board of regents con listing
of seven members to manage all our
educational institutions, instead of
four boards of trustees as at present.
He also introduced and had passed the
bill adopting the amendment to the U.
S. constitution taxing incomes. He is
member of the Judiciary committee
which has done great deal of hard
work this session, and he has, as shown
above, done his share.
O'Byrne was absent from roll call on
Monday on account of being at home
sick 1t was the first time this session
that he has been abseut.
We had good joke on our senator
this week. On Monday morning the
post mistress of the senate called the
presidents attention to the fact that
there was a letter in the basket with
no address on it, Walter called out
that it must be Harper's letter. (Har-
per is the butt of all the jokes in the
senate) and suggested that it be opened
to see whose it was. So the post mis-
tress opened it and it was signed
yours, Walter" AS our senator was
the only Walter in the house he had to
admit it was his. He proved, though,
to the satisfaction of the senate, that
the letter was intended for Mrs. Price,
but they certainly had the laugh on
him.
We passed bill the other day max
ing the selling of cocaine penitentiary
offense. as it is said that this is more
injurious to negroes than whiskey.
Our committee thought We could af-
ford to vote but $35O,OOO year
($7OO, 900 for the biennial period) for
the old Confeds as we did not want to
raise the levy, but the house won over
US and voted an increase of $2OO,OO
FOR the biennial period, or $500, 600 for
the two years, so we will have to get
the money somewhere. We gave
Beauvoir about $4,000 and as this,
with the Vicksburg Confederate hos
pital, makes over million dollars for
the care of the old soldiers. If we
could purge the rolls of all upworthy
men we could take good care of all the
needy soldiers. At Beauvoir there is
not a man of the first or second class
pensioners, but the place is filled up
from the ranks of the fourth classes.
Men who get $125 will not give this
up and go there, but when they receive
only $28 they go to Beauvoir and it