Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-23
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM
THE STATE CAPITAL.
BY =. r, isIrdsaII


two months, and members are hopinl
that it will finish Its work not latel
than April 10. To do this, however
they admit that they will have tc
speed up and exclude all extraneoui
matters. The general belief now il
that instead OF reducing the state tar
levy which La now mills, that II
may be necessary 70 increase It t.
10 mills. Interest on the $1,000, 00C
OF bonds voted by the legislature OF
1920 TO be expended by the bonding
commission, must be taken care OF
for the next two yearS, which will
necessitate an appropriation Of q
! quarter Of a million dollars. So far
no general revenue bin, or general
appropriation bill has bedn passed
by either house. -.
Representative Winter OF Grenada,
has introduced bill appropriating
5000 to provide marker for the grave
OF General Samuel Dale, Mississippi'S
noted pioneer statesman and law
maker, with an appropriate inscrip-
ton. 1t is stated that the only monu-
ment Of honor ever erected out Of
money voted out of the state treasury
of Mississippi by a legislature, was
that for James Lynch, negro carpet
bag secretary of state. This is said
to have been for $1,000, and the monu-
ment to Lynch marks his grave in
Greenwood cemetary at jackson. Five
hundred dollars was voted by the legis-
lature before the Civil War for a mon
ument for Adam Rum, which is erect
ed at Fayette, Mississippi, but this
was part of lot Of money of Mr..
RUNS which has escheated to tho
state.
The senate disapproved the propo-
sition of the house to put the state
revenue agent on a $4,000 salary
with per cent commission. This
amendment was voted in the general
salary bill when the house was cut.
ing and slashing that measure two
weeks ago, some of the advocates Of
retaining the office of state revenue
agent joining with others in cutting
and slashing, seeming to regard the
whole matter as a joke. Members of
the house who are unalterably oppos-
ed to abolishing or gripping the rev.
enue agents office do not think that
the house amendment will be voted
back in the bill, over the senate's
striking it out, The general colsen-
sus of opinion is that if a bill
should pass Gripping the state reve-
nue. agents office in any way, that the
governor would veto the bill.
The senate amended the house sal
airy bill which cut the pay OF ell
state officials and employees as we'll
as all judges, chancellors and district
attorneys, from 10 to 70 per cent,
and restored the salaries of each on
an average of 10 per cent below the
salaries voted by the legislature OF
1920. The house may concur in some
of these amendments of the senate,
and refuse to concur in Others, and
a conference committee of the houses
will doubtless result in an effort or
efforts, to reach final agreements.
The absence of talk about the race
for governor at the state capital, is
being commented upon as little re-
markable, since it looked for while
as though the interest in the guberna-
torial race, where democratic nomi-
nee for that office is to be chosen, in
the primary Of August 1928, would run
concurrent with the senatorial pri-
mary which takes place next August.
The race for the Williams succession
in the United States Senate has actu-
ally begun. Miss Kearney and former
Congressman Stephens are filling APP
pointments and Senator Vardaman
authorizes the statement that he will
begin speaking campaign in a few
weeks.
Deep regret is expressed in Jackson
and throughout the state over the
CTlJNCdI lI1HCoS Vi LII. y. N. 1VO5UOu.
Mr.. Preston was for ten years the
we'll known superintendent Of educa-
ton of Mississippi, having been chosen
to that position while superintendent
Of the public schools Of Water Valley.
There are only 4 members OF the
house OF representatives out Of lao,
who were confederate soldiers. These
are Representatives Lee Mcmillan Of
Carroll, w. H. Griffin of Amite, s. C.
Trammell OF Kemper, and W. R. Den
ton Of Lauderdaie,
Chancellor Tam. has postponed. the
Southern Railway, Mobile and Ohio
and associated lines cases, for three
weeks. The cases were brought by
the attorney general who alleges Vio-
iation of the antitrust laws Of Missis-
sippi. EmM
Lieutenenat Governor Homer Cast
eel, whose life was despaired of for
some time, Is strong enough to be a
visitor to the capital city but not able
to preside over the senate, at this
session.