Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-01-09
Letter from
Big Bud.


a Short Session Exp ecfed-A
Drastic Liquor Bill Passed BY
the House.
Editor the Beacon
Although ara still suffering with the
attack of shingles" and can hardly
write. will send you short letter just
to let your readers know that / expect
to inflict weekly" on them during
this session of the legislature If l am
physically able to do so.
We met with a full house at the ap-
pointed time. twelve o'clock Tuesday.
All of the Noxubee delegation in the
House answered 'here" to roll-call,
our beloved Senator, Walter Price be-
ing absent. but will join us later.
Lieut.. Gov Bilbo and Speaker Quinn
both delivered patriotic addresses, urg-
ing the members to eschew politics and
partisan strife and to get down to BUSH
ness. but Bilbo had to do little mean
thing when he had the naming of the
committee to notify the governor that
the senate was ready for business in
naming Hobbs as member of the COM
mittee, and, strange to say, the an
nouncement of his name as member
of the committee was greeted with APP
plause by the senate. This does not
look like the truce will last. but it is to
be hoped that it will. Gov. Brewer de-
livered business-like message replete
with good recommendations, and he,
too, avoided any reference to the late
Investigations and trials. All of the
members seemed determined to finish
up the needed legislation and go home,
and think the fact that we are paid by
the session will go far toward making
us stick to this intention. If we were
paid by the day expect we would be
here until summer. During the black
and tan regime the members of the
legislature were paid eight and ten dol
lars per day, and it was almost impos-
sible to get an adjournment. To reme-
dy this, Col Street, then member
from Prentfss county. introduced bill
to pay each member 5000 per session.
While it Was Under discussion, negro
member from Bolivar county arose and
said, MAY ak the gentleman from
Prentiss question:" Col. Street re-
piled, estate your question, Sir" The
negro member said, "Don't the gentle
man from Prentiss think he is worth
more than $5O0.O0 year," and the
Colonel promptly replied, eyes. the
gentleman from Prentiss thinks he is
worth many times more than $4,000,
but he don't think the MEMBER from
Bolivar is worth a damn and he wants
to even up matters" Street is grand
old man, has rendered great service to
our state and am sorry that politics
deprived us of his great services, for
it was conceded that he was the most
efficient legislator in the state.
We have prohibition hill up for pas
sage that will pretty effectively put a
stop to shipsing whiskey into our state.
think it will pass without much oppo-
sition.
We adapted joint resolution to JUS
tify appointing a committee OF two
from the Senate and three from the
House to go to Pass Christian and in
vite our beloved president, Hon. Wood
row Wilson to visit our capitol and ad-
dress the legislature. A goodly num-
ber of this House tried to get our junior
member, Hon. Henry Minor. appointed
on this committee, but the speaker said
he had already named the committee
We took the ground that Henry had
claim to be member of this committee
over the majority of the members for
the following reasons:
/. Henry and the President are both |
alumni Of the University of Virginia.
Q. Henry advocated the nomination
of Mr.. Wilson in the BEACON as early |
as 1910, and for the greater reason that
Mr.. Wilson himself, in an article in the
"World's Work" said that Prof. John
B. Minor, of the University of Virginia,
(who was grand uncle of Henry, had
profoundly influenced his whole life, and
/ would have been glad to have seen the
gentleman from Noxubee thus honored,
and l feel assured that Mr.. Wilson
would have been pleased to have met a
relation Of his great preceptor on this
committee.
My good wife, known to you as "Sal=
lie," win not be with me this session,
SO will ask the prayers of your read
ers that your Big Bud will not yield TO
the many temptations that beset the
average legislator.
Goodbye until next week.
Yours,
RIC RIJD.