The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1918-01-17
PROH| AMENDMENT
PASSED BY SOL0Ns.
MISSISSIPPI HAS HONOR OF BEING
FIRST STATE TO CHANGE
FEDERAL BOOZE LAWS.
BILB0 READS LONG MESSAGE
Longest Message Ever Delivered by .
Mississippi Governor Read by Theo.
G. BiIbo at Opening Of Present
Session Of Legislature.

G. 6ilbo at Opening Of Present
Session Of Legislature.
Jackson.-Fifteen minutes after the
subject was presented In Gov. Bilbos
message to the Legislature, both
houses ratified the proposed prohibit.
ton amendment to the Federal con.
stitutiOn. Only eight dissenting votes
were cast. ~
Mississippi is the first state in
which such action was taken.
After devoting one hour and thirty
minutes to listening to the address OF
Gov. Bilbo, which was heard in joint
session of the houses of the Legisla.
ture. each branch began a real race
in order to adopt joint resolution to
.ratify the proposed national prphibi.
ton amendment to the constitution.
Although the larger and as gener.
ally held to be the most unwieldy Of
the two bodies, the House outstripped
the Senate in reaching vote. The
result of the roll call showing only
three negative votes out of So men
voting. =
Recommendations for large mum,
Der of legislative enactments was con
tanned in the long and carefully pre-
pared message. Gov Bilbo began by
pointing out that the work of the
Legislature at it's previous sessions
has met with universal approvals. and
reviewing the constructive work it
had done
A bond issue to provide funds to
equip and operate the new Mississip.
pi Industrial and Training School was
the first recommendation in the mes
sage.
1t was recommended that funds be
provided to employ a landscape gar
dener to care for the shade trees on
the campus of each state school and
institution. The. necessity OF good
roads was pointed out.
Gov. Bilbo asked that not only the
full amount, heretofore provided for
pensions for Confederate veterans and
widows be made, but that the amount
be increased. He urged that $4,000
be appropriated to build a hospital at
the Jefferson Davis. Other buildings
and equipment to increase the effici-
ency of the state tuberculosis sanitari-
UNI were also recommended. s..
Liberal appropriation for the work
of the state board of health was
urged. Appropriations were asked to
complete the South Mississippi Char
ity hospital at Laurel to provide an
annex to the State Charity hospital in
Jackson, to erect an East Mississippi
Charity hospital at Meridian, the Mat
tye Hersey hospital there being called
inadequate, and to provide a North
Mississippi Charity hospital, as well
as one in the Delta.
The eradication Of the cattle tick
through enforcement of the statewide
dipping law was triumph for Missis-
sippi, and the governor recommended
that $4,000 year be provided for
the state board of health to make
hog cholera serum for free distribu-
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Gov. Bilbo recommended changes
in distributing the school funds, and
urged legislation to permit the people
to elect the county board which shall
employ a superintendent of education
with an eye solely to whether he is
well qualified for the work and not
whether he is a voter in the county
where employed. The position Of
superintendent should be divorced
from politics, said the governor. Laws
permitting boards of supervisors and
mayors and aldermen to provide
books for poor school children, and
to provide homes for school teachers
were urged. An appropriation for the
establishment of school for cripples
and the feebleminded was RECON-
mended. 49, y
A censorship board for the moving
pictures was advocated by the gov
ernOr.
Gov. Bilbo closed his address by d
personal appeal to the patriotism. OF
everyone present. VS..
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