Abbeville progress., 1921-03-26
PRESIDENT READS
ASSIGN lent LIST
HEAVY CALENDAR is UP AS THE
CONVENTION RESUMES
ITS WORK.
ASSIGN IMPORTANT POSTS
Nlnety-four Ordinances Have Beer
introduced and Referred to the
Proper Commttees-Wo
Regulate Public Utilities.

fronts the Constitutional Convention
when ii rec0nveHes. Nincty-fOur or.
dnances have been introduced and
referred to proper committees When
the standing committees were an
ROunCed, these subdivisions Of the
convention had their hands full. Pub
lie hearings will follow each other in
rapid order when the committees get
into action.
Another flood OF ordinances dealing
with taxation. retrenchment and re-
ductiOn Of public expenditures, which
top the list Of big issues before the
convention, Is expected Among the
ordinances looked for are those coy
ering the program OF the State Texa-
tiOn Commission.
Next in important ordinances due
20 be introduced are those relating to
reorganization OF the judiciary sys-
TEN. Embraced in this list is the
plan of the State Bar Association for
judicial reforEI
Ordinances designed to revise the
doubt will make their appearance
within the next week or ten days.
Former Governor Pleasant will Iffer
a substitute for the grandfather"
clause, declared invalid by the Fed
eral Supreme Court. Up TO date but
one ordinance touching this phase of
the suffrage question has been intro
duced That was by Mr.. Hardin of
Vernon, carrying what is known as
the Mississippi understanding"
clause, the validity of which has
been sustained by the United States
Supreme Court.
p. M. Miner of New Orleans and
Senator T. l. Dowling or DeSoto,
both of whom have plans for the con-
struction and maintenance Of sys-
tenn Of state highways, have been in
vited to address the convention. IN
PRODUCTION of highway ordinances no
doubt will follow.
Incorporation in the new constitu-
ton of the present system Of educa.
tiOn, with a few changes, seems 10
l. the program in dealing with the
educational question.
No definite plan has been agreed
upon in regard to drafting ordinances
for safeguarding the states natural
resources. Conferences on this sub
jeCt are TO be held.
Regulation OF public utilities, in
Guiding railroads and public service
corpartiOns generally, is receiving the
attention of many OF the delegates,
but no concrete plan has been WORK.
ed out Some OF the delegates favor
two commissions, one to deal with
transportation lines, telegraph CON-
panies. and another commission to
regulate street railways, electric
lighting concerns, gas companies, etc.
Other delegates favor one commits
sion, clothed with constitutional au-
thority to regulate all utilities and
public service corporations
Revision OF the recall provision in
the present constitYion to make it
more workable is 10 be undertaken.
1t is understood that an entirely new
ordinance is to be 'framed and in.
troduced,
The announcement Of the commit
Crowley Woodmen are
getting ready To go to Lafayette in
large numbers for the meetings soon
TO be held Of the head camp. Recent.
ly ipi of a pl =
of at least 1000 candidates.
lota.-Robbers supposed to be pro-
fessioual yeggs. broke into the Iota
depot office recently and robbed the
safe of SEQ In currency and coin, be-
sides abstracting some valuable pa
pers. The thief orthieves gained an
entrance through the window of
closet In the rear of the office. broke
of the knob of the safe door and
worked the combination and opened
the door
Iota.-Road grading in preparation
OF building ! gravel highway to Grow.
ley is progressing. The culverts are
being built and gravel will be put on
the different links of road as soon as
the grading is finished.
Thibodaux-The PoStoffice De
partment supplemented the conven-
fence OF local free delivery recently
by placing a number OF mail boxes in
different parts OF the town.
Crowley.-The Greek citizens Of
Crowley entertained their fellow
countrymen from several cities In
Louisiana for the past two days. The
object OF the meetings, so Nick John
son, the chairman. said, was to pre-
pare petitions addressed to President
Harding asking for timely aid in re-
heving the sufferings of the Grecian
people because of the war.
ThibodauX.-There is talk OF the es-
tabiishment here Of another whole
sale grocery house. thus providing the
town with three such places.