The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1922-03-09
IMPORTANT MATTERS
BEFORE LEGISLATURE
Gist Of Business Transacted by the
Lawmakers During Week Ending
Today.

ESCAPE from the burdens Of the
present tick eradication law was pro-
vided for yesterday afternoon when
the Senate of the Mississippi legisla-
ture passed a bin permitting counties
TO vote out from under the 1916 en-
aetment This measure further pro-
vides that such counties as take ad-
vantage Of the voting out privilege
shall be placed under a strict quaran-
tine and that no cattle shall be shipped
out except with thorough disinfection
The House voted down a proposed
appropriation Of $4,000 for the dred-
ging of Gulfport harbor. The bill had
been favorably reported by the COM
mittee.
The Senate passed the bill providing
Sll,5OO for vocational training Of dis
abled civilians, the federal govern
ment to provide a like sum.
A concurrent resolution amending
the constitution to provide for the re-
call of all officers, except judges, in
special recall elections, passed is
third reading in the House.
The House adopted a resolution CEN
surfing the Yazoo-M Mississippi Levee
Board for spending $500 in sending
represent tives to Washington in 1919
and 1920 to attend the Rivers and
Harbors CONGRESS-. An amendment by
Mr.. Owen OF Union, "censuring all
junketing trips by all boards since
1913" also was adopted 1t is said
ex-senator Vardaman and Mayor
Hays of Vicksburg went on this trip
at the expense of the state. Nicksburg
officials, however, declare that the city
betrayed the expenses of Mayor Hays
The House passed a bill authoriz-
ing the Prison Trustees to build a
school house on the Parchman convict
farm.
The House passed measure prohib-
iting the setting of seins in running
streams and regulating fish traps.
Without a dissenting vote the Mis-
sissippi House Of Representatives
yesterday adopted the Stone resolu-
lion declaring its noliey to be that it
would enact no laws during the pres
ent session which might interfere
with pending antitrust suits.
The Senate put more strength into
he anti-liquor laws by passing the
House bill which provides Jail sem
fences for possession of more than
quart Of liquor or for the sale of Ii
quor, the right Of suspending these
prison sentences being Specifically de-
lied to judges and justices Of the
peace.
TheH ouse passed a bill providing
or the casting Of ballots at special
election by absentee voters, was pass
ed The present law allows such abb
sentee voting in case of primaries
and general elections.
The House passed alb i'll providing
for cooperative selling and buying by
PRODUCERS, and forbids the use Of the
cord cooperative by any concern
which has not met the provisions Of
the bill.
Monday the House unanimously
passed a resolution instructing the
Speaker to wire the 35 absentees if
not too i'll to travel to get back to
ackson n order that some appropria-
tion, bills might be passed.
The Senate passed a bill making
radical changes in the present bank
ing law along the lines suggested by
he State Bankers Association.
The governor vetoed the bill redue-
ng the salary of the governor from
$500 to $4,000.
The Senate passed the House bill
providing for Imprisonment from
three to six months for conviction on
charge Of having a quart or more liq-
uor in possession.
The Senate voted down a PROPOSE
ton to establish a medical college in
he state.
Governor Russell signed the Stone
bill abating the billion dollar anti
rust suit recently filed in the cham
eery court Of Covington A. j. Brown
ng against the life, casualty and in
demnity insurance companies doing
business in the state. This was the
final day for action by the governor.
therwise the bill would have become
law without his signature.
Appropriations for the session will
total a l;ttle more than eighteen mil
ion dollars, and Of this sum the
House has disposed Of about thirteen
millions.