The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-12
POLITICAL POT IS
BEGINNING TO BOIL
IN MISSISSIPPI
Patched Truce Broken by
Brewers Veto and Pa!iti-
cal Factions Prepare
for Clash

jackson, Miss, January 1.-THE polit-
zeal pot has begun TO boil in the legisla-
ture and the chances are that in a few
days the white winged dove of peace that
mas been lowering about the capitol Will
fly as far away as possible. At the be-
ginning of the session a kind of truce was
patched up between Governor Brewer and
Lieutenanf Governor Bilbo, and the gov
einor said nothing of political nature
In his message, nor anything else calcu-
lated to start a row with his enemies.
Both sides declared they had come TO
jackson to transact the business of the
state and not to punish any of their po-
litioal enemies They had gotten along
very well until the governor sent in a
veto message on bill that was passed
two years ago.
Tie law requires that in the event bills
are not returned by the governor in three
days after the beginning of the session
they become law without the signature of
the governor He sent IN this bill on the
afternoon of the third day of the session,
hut the two houses had adjourned for the
day out of respect to the memory Of ex-
Congressman Charles e Hooker, who had
died that morning, and there was a ques-
ton a to whether the bill had become
law or not.
Late in Sending Veto
The house took the position that the bill
had become law. the governor being a day
late in sending in his veto or in getting
II acted on, and the house refused to date
II back as of the previous days proceed
ines, the governor having raised the ques-
ton of unconstitutionality. This was the
first jolt for the governor, but 1t seems
that he is destined to get a few more and
harder ones in the near future
Frday afternoon the governor sent N
supplemental message dealing with pen
itebtlary affairs ana giving an account
of the work he had done during the past
year investigating its affairs. Incidentally
he lambasted the trustees for errors OF
omission and commission and held the
old board responsible for the shortages he
has found in the accounts of Secretary
Yerger and for swindlns in the sale of
cotton. He claimed that the state had lost
SaAoo0 ON account of the false weights
aid grading of the cotton raised on The
convict farms and nearly all of which
was sold to one firm during the siX-year
period covered by the Investigating he
had conducted at a cost of about $4,000.
five men in the penitentiary and jails.
Saturday Col. w. A. Montgomery. the
oalA member of the old board of trustees
lef, in the service of the state and he
unoei conviction for malfeasance and out
III der bond pending an appeal of his case
to the supreme court. distributed circular
letters in the senate and house in which
he handles the governor without gloves.
He not only questions the accuracy of
the overnors figures as to the cotton
crops raised. but declares as false the
charge that there was any conniVance be-
tween the trustees and the purchasers of
the states cotton lie appeals to the
members of the legislature TO now inves-
tigate the governor of the state so to
get at the animus of his investiga ton,
all of which he charged to politics and
the governor of the state is declared an
UNIT associate for decent and honorable
men.