Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-02-15

borrowed it the night before" Miss
Galloway said the nurse WAC got in the
car the night before was said TO be Miss
Mitcheil-she reported back to the hos
pltal that night between 1890 and II
O'Clock.
1t takes two thirds of the mem
bers voting to impeach Batter, but
| believe we will get the number
in spite of political influence that
is being used in his behalf. Ger
tainly he has been guilty Of mis-
teasance and gross mismanagement
of this institution.
| was glad | was a member Of.
this body one day last week-a
concurrent resolution endorsing
Wilson's administration had been
passed by the Senate, and was
called up in the House for passage
Hewitt Of Pike was making q fine
speech in favor of it, and some of
the members were plying Irrelevant
questions at him, asking the aim
of the war, etc, and this had
rather nettled me, 50 directly a
member moved to indefinitely post
pone the resolution. At once |
jumped to my feet, (dressed in my
old Confederate gray, took the
floor without asking for it, and
said, "Mr. Speaker, the gentleman
wants to know what our war aims
are, and | want to state that our
aim is to whip Germany to stand
still, and the way to do it is to up
hold the hands Of our splendid
President, and if the motion to in
definitely postpone this resolution
is insisted on, | want the ayes and
nos on it, iOr if there are any
ID traitors in this body, /
want to know who they are. y The
motion was put and not vote for
it; even the man who offered it
did not vote, and then the motion
to concur and adopt the resolution
was put and adopted unanimously !
amid cheers for the members. !
Speaker Conner and a lot of my
congratulated me and
said my speech came at the right
time, and was from the right
source-an old Confed. A Mr..
Boyd, who had come to Jackson 70
have this resolution adopted, came
up and congratulated me and said
he found the old Confed alrighJ
everywhere he went.
We have had the Superintend
ents of Education with us, aud
they were a fine looking body of
men, and our Superintendent
looked as well as any Of them.
Lipsc0mb had him over to supper
with us, and we enjoyed meeting
him. After seeing this body of.
men, / am more than ever con
WINGED that we can let well enough
alone, and still elect our Superin
tendent OF Education.
/ thought once | would vote for
compulsory education, as the bill
for this has been greatly modified,
and only cOmpeis children between
the ages OF seven and fourteen to
60 to school, but since the govern
ment has adopted all between y
and 81, and all say we need labor
so much that | will vote against it,
as | know that the boys from
twelve to fourteen will plough
more than a man, and will wait
until The war is over TO force this
measure.
/ saw Commissioner Thompson
and asked him by wnat authority
he ordered McHenry's assessmcnt
reduced, and he said he did not do
it; had no power to interfere in
the county assessment, but the
Board of Supervisors had this
right, and when he was shown
that they had reduced it, he only
confirmed it. They had the sole
ripht to raise or lower individual
assessments. He said that Noxu
bee or no other county could have
a special assessment Of the lands
this year; that the Supreme Court
had decided this, but he was going
to try to have a measure passed
empowering the Boards OF Super
yisOrs to regulate and equalize the
assessments Of their counties, and
we will try and pass this.
Ny colleague, Prince Hubbard,
introduced a very worthy and far
reaching resolution asking for the
appointment Of a special commit
tee to try and better the govern
ment of the state, and to have a
more economical management Of
all the state institutions, and it
passed the House as it did last
session, but was killed again in
the Senate. Prince is a good loser,
and SAYS il is ALRIGHT. that reforms