Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-06-25


the payment OF the lawyers fee to
the legislature. II was two hundred
and fifty dollars, and It was worth
two thousand dollars. II passed the
house and went to the senate finance
committee, and was never reported at
all. Was there ever a more honest
debt of the state? Your lieutenant
governor says, mo, | will take ad-
vantage Of the power | have and de-
feat t." Today they are putting up
the money to make his campaign. and
Pat Henry Is backing him over the
State and cussing the State admin
istration and vilifying and slandering
the governor. Why should this be? !
have been his friend In the past. No
reason for It, except that he is repre-
| senting the whiskey interests OF this
State.
Those were some Of the obstruc-
lions | encountered. | found that u
certain man had run off a tremendous
amount Of cotton, sold It In the night
time, sold 1t in the name oil negroes
employed a firm Of lawyers TO prose
cute these men. | referred the pay
ment of these fees to the legislature
and It met the same fate as the other
two, There 1t died.
Well. not only was that true, but
the acknowledgement took a notion
that he would turn out really as the
attorney OF these people and he would
pull of a whitewash. Well, an In
y~estigating committee would not do.
Why? Because a majority OF the com
mittee would come from the house,
and the speaker OF the house was a
gentleman. Would 1t do to let the
standing committee on penitentiary al
fairs in the senate or house, or both
combined. make this Investigation
No. thai would not do, because an
overwhelming majority OF these men
are gentlemen. Then he had to in
vent a scheme whereby he can pull
off a w%hitewash. one morning, before
arrived at the capitol, found that
a resolution had passed quicker than
any other ever before, The resolu.
ton was this: That the chairman OF
the committee on penitentiary affairs
in the senate appoint three men, ano
49, A. oloJ,p,np pf thn lnmH Dnm-
mittee in the house appoint three
men. and this committee Of eight, in
GLIDING the chairmen, should visit the
State farms, have power TO call wit
nesses and compel them to give testi
mony, employ a s~tenographer and re
port the findings to the legislature
said. They are trying to pull on
a whitewash for Boyce & Company
said, Lets look to the house OF rep
resentatives and see who the chair
man from the representatives Is
Jaw that Sam Majors was chairman
OF the committee. and 7 knew that hi
had found out In another investiga
ton that Boyce & Company had re
ported things about the companies no
paying for the States cotton; ant
soon after that Sam had seen thu
light. Something struck him, and
soon learned Sam was a candidate TO
the chairman Of the board on tn
Bilbo co~at-tail, but | took a swipe o
two, and Sam amt nj longer a cand1
date. Senator Mcfarland, who too
Senator Broyles' seat, had the RICH
to appoint the committee. A neN
senator occupies the same seat an
place as the deceased senator whor
, he succeeds: but the president Of tn
, senate put Senator Mcdonald OF Ha
\ tiesburg on the place. saw some
/. thing was dead. | told Mr.. T.
Wainwright, who happened to be 1
I my office. to ask Senator Donald I
y come over to the Office, land | wal
q you to stay here and hear the co
h versation.' So he stepped over an
o asked him, and the senator came owe
q and said, Senator, | understar
9 that Senator Mcfarland has been 81
A aside and you have been put In h
place as chairman OF the penitential
n committee" | said, II understand Il
q ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is trying to GOV
up these matters, and I want you
10 be informed what he is fixing TIC
ia and show you about IT. He sal
you were never so much mistake
n. You will see they have nothing to
3. with the Boyce natter | said, wv
yoa agree to 20 in there and appoi
>. such men on the committee as Senat
NJ Martin OF Natchez and Senator he
a drick of Alcorn?" He said, "Govern'
IA would love to do that, and you are
n. good friend Of mine. but | have pro
ised the lieutenant governor OF
ia State | will let him name that co
no mittee. This committee will not ha
he anything whatever to do with t
Boyce matter" | said, II want
90 warn you what the lieutenant-goverr
~ Ia going to do. Let him stock I
Mt committee and all your people "
IN. need to know to defeat you for C,
Mt gress is to know the facts. and
m. will let them know It," He went ba
as and appointed the committee; I
zee first man named on the commit
lid was Senator Myers of DeSoto coun