Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-06-03
HEMINGWAY EXPL AIMS
100000 APPROPRIATION

nay vote. Of the bills passed in
the House, the largest nay vote was
not over 35 out of 140 members, and
it would average less than Is. We re-
ported approximately 35 bills do not
pass; IS do pass. Only one was de-
feated on roll call, one indefinitely
postponed, one left on motion to re-
consider, having received large ma
jority Of those present and voting
but being nine short of the required
constitutional majority of II. IMAM
unity must have some reason. These
Legislators did not spend the money
foolishly. They knew the taxpayers
must be reckoned with, and nothing
but necessity forced this action upon
them.
| will give just a few instances of
neglect before going into detail as to
the various departments.
There was no appropriation for the
mansion made in 1918 for the year
191819. The state furnished con-
victs to keep the yard and do odd
jobs, but nothing for repairs. The
end of planks in the cornices became
loose as the nails failed to hold, and
the ends stuck out and the birds made
nests in the openings. Over two
years ago dOwn-spout from the
roof gutter broke on the second floor.
and the walls are black with water
marks. The foundations have been
weakened by the water discharged
upon them, and water has seeped in
to the cellar. This gutter could have
been repaired for SIS or $1O-now it
will take several hundred. In at least
four rooms, the plastering has fallen
from the ceiling. and there are many
other repairs needed.
| $50 to Maintain Capitol.
Take our new capitol, the beauty of
which is the admiration of all. 1t oc-
lcupies, with it's ground, four blocks.
The appropriation for janitors and
help to keep up the grounds was $50
lper month. AS the oil mills were pay
ing at that time $3.50 day and other
Industries about the same, labor could
not be secured, and the only way the
keeper of the capitol could get the
lawn moved was to give farmer the
hay if he would cut it. So it was cut
three times with a two-horse mower;
and then hay press was moved on
the grounds, and the hay was baled
on the northwest corner of the capitol
grounds. Visitors from other states,
seeing this, wrote to the governor and
the postmaster and others, inquiring
why the state permitted such neglect.
| was explaining an appropriation
bill to the House one evening during
a hard rain, and had to move several
times to avoid leak from the roof.
This building was completed in 1904,
and now, according to Mr.. Link, needs
SIC, 900 for repairs.
I The Alcorn A. and M. College for
negroes has 600 in attendance. They
are taught blacksmithing. shoemak-
ing, cabinet-making and other useful
trades. The pupils are polite and
make useful servants. Several years
ago the dormitory burned and it has
not been replaced. This is one of the
items Of permanent improvement to
be provided for by the bond issue.
This institution is partly supported
by interest on federal land grants, but
for the last two years certain part
of its work would have been aban-
Edoned except for the iberality Of q
Chicago philanthropist There ought
never 10 have been 8 condition where
anyone should contribute to an insti-