Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-04-07
AND VIEWS FROM
THE STATE CAPITAL
BY =. r. BirdsalI

up, II may be hard TO pass revenue
and appropriation bills which have not
yet been introduced, in some in
stances, by that date. The constitution
provides that no revenue or a%ppropria-
ton bill shall be passed within five
days of the adjournment OF the legis-
Until these bills are passed
ii is impossible for the ways and
means committee to know how much
money the state may expect to receive,
or how much money it will have to
pay out. And until this Is definitely
no bill fixing the state tax
levy can be prepared.
The effor. on the part of about half
the members of the legislature to de-
stroy or abolish the office of state rev.
agent seems to have delayed all
legislation, and the matter Is not yet
settled. A motion to put the
evenue agent on a salary of $4,000,
with 80 fees, which went into the
general salary bill, has proven a bone
OF contention by both houses, resulting
in a conference committee, and the
matter is being banded back and forth
with all sorts of parliamentary mo-
to reconsider, and the like, some.
times one side having a majority Of
Two or three, and the next timo the
other side having a majority OF three
or four.
The Kinds County Gazette, owned
and edited by Edgar S. Wilson, is be-
ing handsomely compilmented by the
Mississippi press upon the celebration
Of its 10Th birthday. 1t is the third
newspaper in Mississippi which
has never changed its name OF domi-
Gle, the Woodyille Republican, 81, and
Lexington Advertiser, 81, being
the other two. The Kinds County Ga
zette is the oldest business institution
in Kinds, the capital county Of Missis.
sippi.
Perhaps never before in the history
Of the Mississippi legislature have the
state officers, their deputies, clerks
and stenographers, together with the
six supreme court judges, the II cir
judges, the II chancellors, and the
II district attorneys, been without a
up TO April /. Not only has no
appropriation been made for the sala-
ries of these officials and employees,
but up to the beginning Of the week
no bill had been passed fixing the SAL
aries of the same.
The bill approved by Governor Rus
sell inflicting a 80 to 90-day Jail sen
tence on any person convicted OF hay.
ing more than II quart of whiskey
Or other intoxicating drinks in their
possession and also imposing a Jail
sentence of not less than 80 days, is
causing much inquiry. Housewives are
if homemade wine, cordials,
peaches and the like are in.
in intoxicating drinks"
The tax delinquent list being pub
lished by the tax collectors of the va
counties of the state is being
commented upon by newspapers in dit.
parts Of the state as abnormally
In many counties, it is report
ed, on account of drouth conditions,
were very short, and the people
have had a hard time raising tax
money.
The bill providing for a heavy fire
Jail penalty for issuing checks,
drafts or orders on banks or other in
st|itutions, where there are not suf1i-
cient funds to repay the same, has
been approved by Governor Russell.
The law seems to be SO drawn that
guilty parties are absolutely certain
Of conviction.
The race for United States senator
is warming up. Miss Kearney and Mr..
stephens are speaking in many places,
and Senator Nardaman expects TO take
the stump in Il few weeks. S. w. Mul,
Inns of Holly Springs, chairman of the
Nardaman campaign committee, re-
addressed the Nardaman club at
Jackson.
Gov. Russell asserts positively that
he will veto any bill which puts the
revenue agent on a salary, or cripples
the effectiveness of that department,
which, it is asserted, puts around $780,.
600 in the state treasury annually, that
has escaped taxation, without a single
cent Of cost to the honest taxpayers.
1t seems certain now that the legis.
lative effort to reapportion the II cir
cult court districts and reduce them to
IA, has failed. This being true, candi.
dates for circuit judge and chancellor
as we'll as district attorneys are an
nouncing all over the state.
There seems to be a very strong in
dication that Governor Russell will
veto the bill providing for fees for the
county officers other than assessor,