The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-20
LITTLE OF INTEREST
 DONE AT JACKSON Legislative Proceedings of a
 PrOsaic Nature BREWER KEPT BUSY
Yallobusha County Courthouse Fire Will Be Investigated-Jackson Bank Elects Officers-Mrs.
 Charles Parish Dead

l Jackson Miss, January 19.-(Speclal.)- The legislative proceedings were of pro- saic nature Thursday, and but for reso- lution by MT. Streatman to increase the pay of house stenographers, two young | ladies', from $350 10 s per day, woulo have been devoid of interest. The resoiu- tion unlimbered the oratorical guns like unto the day the postmistress and the librarian were elected, and tributes to the fair womanhood of Mississippi came from different directions. MT Montgomery and MT. Edins came to the support of the ladies very effectively, knocking the How pressure" fellows clear out of the box, the resolution passing 65 to 49.
 Another Advertisement was rendered at noon, when the speaker announced that the special order of the day was addressed by Frederick Gaston, president of the Grand Fraternity of Pennsylvania, and
 udge Roane, formerly of this state, but now chief counsel for the Columbian Woodmen, with headquarters in Atlanta. They spoke for half an hour, both declar- ing allegiance to the 'St Louis bii and opposed to the Mobile bill" as the two measures for the management and con- trol of fraternal insurance companies are termed. The difference was explained to mean that under the Mobile plan the com panies were robbed of individuality and made to conform to rules and regulations that would prove disastrous to thousands of policyholders, while the St. Louis plan gave ground for enlargement of the fields O. usefulness of the individual com panies. They stated that the Mobile plan had been introduced in 8 states, but the legislature of but 13 had adopted the plan and some ot those that had were trying to get out of it.
 Several new bills were offered in the house, those of most importance being one by Mr. Davenport, creating board of pardons, and the parole system, by MT. Morrison creating a state board of veterinary surgeons, and another by MT. Womack, regulating the employment Of children in factories.
 From the appropriations committee a bill appropriating s34000 for the mainten- ance of troops at Water Valley and Mes Comb, reported on favorably, was called up and passed unanimously. This pays expenses till January To, and counting what was appropriated at the extraordi- nary session, means the strike on the Illi- nois Central, and maintenance of order at the towns named, has cost the state alr eady about sSO,000 with the end not in sight according to reports of fresh law lessness at McComb.
 The insurance department has been re- eIested to investigate the recent fire that destroyed the Yallobusha, county court house at Water Valley. the opinion of some of the citizens being 1t was incen- diary, and that the guilty parties will be easy to locate.
 
 Adjutant General Fridge and Captain Fassett U. s. A, attached to the Mis- sissippi war department" went down to McComn today to personally investi- gate the outbreak there, in which one ne- gro was killed and others wounded by fuslade of shots said to have been fired by white men.
 At meeting of the stockholders of the Jackson bank the old board of direc- tors were retanied, and Mai. w. R. Mill saps added oscar Newton, jr., was re- elected president; T. McClelland. vice president, and Sidney Craft. treasurer. The net earnings Of the bank for the year were 21 per cent.
 The friends of the Parish family were shocked Thursday to learn that Mrs. Charles Parish of Pearson, three miles over in Rankin county, died Thursday morning, a few hour safter the death of her husbands father, MT. New Parish, and before his body was consigned to the grave. Mrs Parish was well known and popular In Jackson. [.
 This has been busy day with Gov ernor Brewer applicants for office and their friends having besieged him from all sides. It is understood that Governor f-I1 %t.- pie set by his predecessors in determin- ing who to appoint to office by the strength ana volume of the personal in- dorsements and petitions filed in their favor but will name them on his own re- sponsibility. after sizing up the candi- dates, This will save a vast amount of work.