Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-03-27

COnfeQeraCo veterans at GreeH-
wood, asking for this appropria-
ton, but all in vain, for the ap-
preparation was voted down.
However, we will pass a resolu-
ton empowering the Governor to
appoint a Commission and to ex-
tend an invitation through the
Governors of the various states
to invite all the veterans of the
Civil war, both the Blue and the
Grey, to attend this great jubilee.
The Federal government will be
asked to establish a camp. as it
did at Gettysburg. and we hope
to have as successful a reunion
as we had at that famous place.
Apropos of reunion, Gen.
Montgomery asked me to accept
a position on his staff as Lieu
tenant Colonel and go with him
to Jacksonville, but | told him |
was already commissioned as
Colonel on Gen. Bennett Young S
staff and did not want to be re-
duced in rank. I see he has
made my old comrade, Ed Hib-
bier, Lieutenant Colonel and Aide
Camp on his staff and | know Ed
will go and reflect honor upon
his county, and if he will carry
Mrs. Ed Hibbler with him, the
reunion surely will be we'll writ
ten up, for she. wrote the best arti-
Gle on the reunion at Chattanoo-
ga that | saw anywhere.
Sixty senior girls in the Uni
yersity of Minnesota Farm School
are to wear gowns costing $500
each at the graduating exercises
this year. What is more. they
will themselves make the gowns,
this being one of the useful
things they are being taught to
do.
Why can't the girls of the Nox-
ubee County Agricultural High
School make their own dresses
for the commencement this sum-
mer, to show the Noxubee people
what they are being taught to
do? | believe they are smart
and as pretty as any girls in any
state.
Mr.. Stennis, the sble chairman
Of the Ways and r ttieans Commit
tee, reported a bill this morning,
making a tax levy of seven mills
for 1914 and six mills for 1915,
same as it is now. Mr.. Morrison
offered an amendment. making
it 912 mills for 1914 and six mills
for 1915; said this would pay the
one and a half million deficit and
he thought it better to do this
than to issue bonds and place a
debt on posterity. But the House
refused to adopt this amendment
by an overwhelming vote and q
tax levy was made just the same
for 1914 and 1915 as it is now.
| think this very wise in view OF
the fact that some portions OF
the state are over-run by the boil
weevil and the taxes in our towns
and cities are almost unbearable
now. This means that we will
issue one and a half million [ onds.
The Senate has already passed
bill providing for this amount OF
twenty-year bonds, bearing five
per cent interest. But the next
legislature will be compelled tt
adopt some measure to equallze
the taxes and collect more mon
ey, or raise the tax levy.
We were in session last night
until ere o'clock, as this was the
last day that revenue and appro
priation bills could be passed
We finally passed the bond bill
amended so as to provide for the
issue Of one and a quarter millior
of bonds, bearing four and hal.
per cent interest. to be issued il
serial form, the first series t.
fall due in 1919. | am afrait
this will make it hard to sell th'
bonds, for capitalists prefer loni
time bonds.
We had a hard time holding
quorum; had to send out ant
wake up members and brin!
them back to the House, but
am glad to say that Noxubee'
three members were on hand a
the time.
We tried to pass the Senat
bill appropriating 100000 TO
the salary of the Adjutant Ger
eral, but could not get the sixty
nine votes necessary for its pas
sage, but Henry Minor ha
charge of the bill and he wcrke
a little "rabbit-foot" on the boy
and called up the Senate bill pre-
viding that the salary of the Ac
iutant General should be So, 000.0 0
and as this could be passed by
M q inrit1r of untpS we naSSad