The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1911-10-21
GOVERNOR NOEL CALLS SPECIAL SESSION
OF the Legislature Proclamation Orders Con-
vening of the Body on November |.

Whereas, in my judgment, the public
interest requires that the Legislature
shall be convened in extraordinary ses-
sion:
Therefore, I, Edmund T. Noel, gov
ernor of the State Of Mississippi, do
hereby issue this my Proclamation to
conxene the Legislature Ct the State OF
Mississippi in extraordinary Session,
and designate Wednesday, the first day
of November, 1911, at Ii o'clock a. M,
as the tl.Lc u convene, at the Capitol,
! in the city of Jackson, Mis-, to consider
the subjects of honorably and adequate
ly meeting Mississippi's moral obliga-
ton to comply with the terms OF the
issue of 1910, or else the refunding to
the purchasers their purchase money;
and also the payment of the services
and other expenses incurred In ordering
out the National Guard at the request OF
local officials to assist those local Off
cials against lawless acts beyond local
control.
AS declared by our State Supreme
Court, the bond issue was sold at the
highest available price, in perfect good
faith. with the concurrence OF each OF
the three officers representing the state,
and upon the understanding OF all par
ties concerned that the terms "face val
ue'' and spar" were interchangeable,
and that the purchasers were to receive
the interest accrued from July lst- TO
the date of the purchase. No 4-per-
cent state or municipal bonds were sold
during that period for better price
than that realized by our state for this
issue, most of which was sold to our
own citizens, whose chief motive in pur-
chasing was to save Mississippi from
the discredit of the failure OF its bonds
to find market, and to provide funds
imperatiyely demanded to pay Confed-
crate pensions and other maturing state
Indebtedness. The newspapers kept
the public informed of every step in the
bond sales. Our present Legislators
we're written to and asked to make OBJ
iections then. if they had any, to the
methods and terms by which the bonds
were being sold, and not a single OBJ
lection was made In 1910, nor until after
every bond was paid for and the date OF
payment of coupons had passed, and
then only one objection. No legal
sale of a single bond could have been
made except py concurrence OF each OF
the three officers in the terms OF sale,
each OF the three having an equal power
of vote. No bond sale would have been
made. and an extraordinary session
would have been called in 1910 to pro-
vide the $500, 900 needed, obtained and
used by the State, had objection been
then raised by any one of the three
officers refusing to concur in the terms
of sale. or by any legislators.
Before the National Guard was Or
dered out. hundreds of shots had been
fred in riots at McComb City and at
Water Valley. The State should give
immediate response TO the guards, for
these men are but meeting the obliga-
ton resting upon each good citizen to
do his share to protect life, property
and the peaceful pursuit of a livelihood,
guaranteed 10 every person, high or
low. within our State borders. But for
the prompt and effective action of the
National Guard much blood might have
been shed, and, probably, one of our
leading railroads. with al of the agri-
cultural. industrial, commercial and
domestic necessities dependent on its
prompt transportation, would have been
for an indefinite time suspended, to the
great public and private loss, suffering
and Inconvenience.
In testimony whereof have heTeunto
set nv hand and Caused the great seal
of the State Of Mississippi to be affixed,
at the Capitol, in the city OF Jackson,
this the 10Th day Of October, A. D. 1911.
EDMUND Fl NOEE