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

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course, was unable to take the
floor. | gave the bill my hearty
support, as think the Adjutant
General ought to be paid enough
to live on in Jackson. While we
could only appropriate 81, 10000
to pay him, he will finally get the
other $SO0.0O as it is due him by
the state.
have had letter from Sena-
| tor Vardaman who wrote: You
may rest assured that | shall do
all within my power to defeat
the confirmation of the negro
Terrell for Judge in the District
of Columbia" | hope that ne
will get enough Southern sena-
tors to vote with him to defeat
this nomination.
| Mr.. Charlie Strong, Of our
town, came down Sunday night
in the interest of District One of
our county, asking the passage
of a bill authorizing them to sell
their road bonds at par, by
giving accrued interest, He got
in touch with Henry and they
prepared a bill and our efficient
Senator, Hon. Walter Price, intro
duced it in the Senate Monday
morning. 1t was referred to the
Committee and was reported on
favorably, and got over to our
House that evening. The Sena-
tors, without regard to faction,
are very considerate to Walter
and rarely ever fail to pass a bill
he asks them to pass. AS Henry
is chairman of our Local and Prl-
vate Committee and has been
able to favor great many OF the
members, he had no trouble in
getting his committee together
and getting a favorable report
am satisfied that a great
many people in Noxqbee county
read my letters, for when make
mistakes or omissions some one
invariably calls my attention to
lit. | thank my correspondent at
BrooksvilIe for calling my atten-
ton to the fact that, in mention
ing the names of the living mem
bers of the famous 11th Missls-
sippi Regiment. | left out the
name of my good friend, /. j..
Wilkins, Sr, wl1t waf a member
Of that444gils@ar, salonging to
the Prairie Guards, who made a
record that his children and
grandchildren may we'll be proud
of. Tom not only did his duty as
soldier, but he has made Noxu-
bee county a most honored citi
zen and | am proud to call him
my friend. Like my good friend,
John Deupree, Tom went into
the multiplication business after
the war and unlike John, who
only multiplied once, having only
one daughter, he has multiplied
a good many times and raised a
family that any state or county
might be proud of, John wrote
a letter to The Beacon soon after
the war and said there was only
two ways of restocking our
country -one by immigration and
one by multiplication, and he
was going into the multiplication
business.
We had Mr.. Harvey Jordan, of
} Georgia, address us last night on
the subject of rural credits, as
, provided in a bill drawn up by
himself and the other Commits
sioners, with the assistance of
President Wilson, that is now in
the hands of the committee and
: will be acted upon by the Federal
: Congress some time in April.
President Wilson says they must
act upon this bill before adjourn.
: ment. Congress appreciated $685..
1 10000 last year to pay the ex.
penses of a commission of sever
I men to visit European countries
0 to investigate their systems Of
rural credits in those countries
e Mr.. Jordan was one of these anC
2 Mr.. Brooks. of the A. & M. Col
lege, was another. Mr.. Jordan
a explained at some length the ben
d eft of this proposed Legislation
2 and claimed that it would be pu
| in effect this year. Presiden
S Wilson insisted that the bill
Il should provide that persons coulc
borrow fifty per cent of the valu
e Nof their lands at four per cent in
r terest and could pay one per cen
l. more, which. compounded ant
: paid for thirty-fve years, woul'
j. ''amortize" the loan, that is pay
d off. He also stipulated that thi
d money could be used to pay Of
s existing indet tedness on lands
y IN hl1v more land mr. to imnrov