The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-03-08
GRENADA, MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY. MARCH 8, 1918.
BRIEF RESUME OF LEGISLATIVE
DOlNGS AT JACKSON.
The States Finances Most Puzzns Thing Body
investigations Have Consumed Much Time. Il Is
a. H. Proposed to Put Ladies on School Boards
~ Sundry Other Matters

] The Mississippi legislature has bees
in session now for two months. I,
was thought that inssmuch as the US.
iual appropriation budgets were pre-
pared and submitted when the law.
making body convened, that the work
of the session would be greatly ab-
breviated, especially was this thought
to be true when it is remembered tina.
only last fall there was a special SEA
sion that got out of the way a numbcf
of matters that would have claimed
attention this session. The over
shadowing question Is begin with this
session was that of providing for a
deficit in the states revenue and the
tprovision of means to keep from ship
ping any further into the hole. Quite
a large contingent realized that there
was great dissatisfaction with the
State Tax Commission and wanted to
! repeal the law creating that body,
still it was seen that the only anchor
that could stop the revenue hole was
the Tax Commission, hence many who
do not endorse the Tax Commission
voted to allow that body to live on,
at least its execution, if to be at all.
must be had by the succeeding legis-
lsture. Then came the investigation
of the Insane Hospital which investi--
cation developed the grossest immor-
atty among the nurses of that insti-
tuition and the Superintendent, DR..
Butler, was directly connected with
both the immortality and the pelf.
The Doctor was show'nsto have taken
over 500 chickens and 400 dozeE
eggs besides butter and milk,
&c. The !. House voted to i'm
peach the Superintendent but rathe,
than stand a trial before the. Stst4
Senate, le resigned. : He iseAed -
statement practically denying every
charge made against him. The Doc
tors friends charge politics as be-
ing at the bottom of the investiga-
ton.
The lower house has agreed upon
a bond issue of $3,o00,000 and has
also agreed to raise the tax levy to
s mills in order to try to cure the de-
felt. A committee has been named to
investigate Beauvoir where some
charge that conditions parallel the
Insane Hospital, however. IT is very
doubtful about the old soldiers talk
ing much to any committee. The
legislature is in an investigating
frame of mind. An audit ordered by
Gov. Bilbo of the funds handled by
Attorney General Ross Collins claims
to show that General Collins has not
by any means tracked the law and
that he misused moneys in his hands.
Mr. Collins answered the publication
of the audit by request for leg1s-
lstive committee which committee is
now looking into the affair.
In the senate resolution has been
possed looking to making women ell
pible to serve on the boards of trus-
tees of schools and colleges and an
other resolution seeking to substitute
the classification property list for the
genera Hist of taxation.
The senate refused to accept the
amount fixed by the house, $46z,ooo'
for Confederate pension and made the
amount $55S,999 Now the bill Will
go to conference.
A resolution has been introduced
by representative Darden from JeHef-
son county which seeks to have the
state department of history provide
an official roll of the soldiers and sail
ors of Mississippi beginning back IN
1912. :,
The lower house voted favorablv
on a proposition 20 pay
Will purvis of Lamar county $4,000.
but as the Speaker ruled that 1t was
a donation and not an approprlation'
II lacked few of getting the requr-
ed 90 votes. Purvis was tried ana
to be hanged for murder
about 25 years ago. When the sher-
IF went to execute him, the rope |
broke, the crowd interferred and an
other day was set. Later Purvis'
sentence was commuted to the PEN
itentiary and still later he was par
doned. Only two or three years ago
another man confessed on his death |
bed that he committed the crime.
A special committee named to IN
gestigate the state highway commits
sion reported that the engineer, 4.
A. Kramer, had collected altogether
since the creation of his Office about
20 months ago, $32,218.35, which |
:ame as commissions as an architect,
B4,o12.42, and $2l,laa.71 as COM