Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-03-31
NEWS ANDavTEwSl FROM r..
Il srTHE STATE CAPITAL


r. AhChC 10 Soou uoAl Oh bpSCuldliOu
among the Imembers of both houses
| of the Mississippi legislature when an
/ adjeurHment may be reached. The
Il legislature has been here now nearly
4 two mpnthsI and members are hoping
! that it, will finish its work not later
\ than April TO- To dc this, however,
| they admit that they will have to
\ speed np ahd exclude all extraneous
4 matters. The general belief now 10
thai instead of reducing the state tax
levy which is now mills, that 1T
may be meecessary to increase 1t to
duo mills..N Interest on the $5,e00, 900
of bonds voted by the Legislature OF
I'192e to be sexpended by the bonding
1 commissloni must be taken care of
| for, the next two. years, which will
neoessitate an appropriation of a
| quarter OF "a million dollars So far
no general revenue sbiil or general
appropriation bill has been passed
by either house.
| Representative Winter Of Grenada,
has introduced a 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 chat the only monu-
ment of honor ever erected out of
| money voted out Of the state treasury
Of Mississippi by legislature. was
| hot To, - I
bag secretary of state. This is said
l to have been for $1,000, and the monu-
4 ment to Lynch marks his grave in
I Greenwood cemetary at Jackson. Five
hundred dollars was voted by the legis-
j lature before the Civil War for mon
4 ument, for Adam Rum, which is erect
j ed at, Faystte, Mississippi, but this
was a, part of lot of money of Mr..
RUNS, which has escheated TO the
state. > "
4 The senate disapproved the propo-
sition of the house to put the state
4 revende agent on $1,000 salary
with 2 pet cent commission. This
i amendment was voted in the general
salary bill when the house was cut
ing and slhsliing that measure 'tSv
weeks. ago. some of the advocates of
| retaining the office of state revenue
! agent Joining with others in cutting
and slashirig, seeming to regard the
whole matter as joke. Members of
the, house Who are unalterably ,oppos-
ed to aholishing or ,crippling the rev.
-enue agents office do not think that
the house amendment will be voted
back in, the bill, over the senate's
sstriking it out. The general consen-
.sus. of opinion is that If bill
SHOULD pass Gripping the state reve-
,nue agents. Ioffice in any way, that the
I-goyernor would veto the bin.
i The, senate amended the house sal
ary bill which cut the pay of all
state officials and employees as, well
tas all judges, chancellors and district
! attorneys, from 10 to 70 per cent.
and restored the salaries of each on
ancaveragei Of 10 per cent below the
salaries voted by the legislature Of
1920. The house may concur in some
Kof thses, ,aR eAdAents I9FlthA senate
and refuse to concur in Others, and
conference committee of the houses
will doubtless result in an effort or
efforts, to reach final. agreements.
The absence oftaIk about the race
for governor at the state capital is,
being commented upon as a little re-
markable, since it, looked for "a, while
as though the interest in the guberna
torial race, where a democratic nomi
| nee for that office is to be chosen, in
the primary. of August 1923, would run
concurrent with the senatorial prt
mary which takes place next August
The race for the Williams succession
| in the United States Senate has aotu-
ally begun. Miss Kearney and rcrlmen
Congressman Stephens are filling ap-
pointments and Senator Vardaman
authorizes the statement that he will
begin a speaking campaign in a few
weeks. (" III ~
vnssn- }duitW .
Deep regret is, expressed in Jackson
and throughout, the. state over the,
critical illness of pr. j. r. Preston,
Mr.. Prestoh was for ten years the
well known superintendent of Ieduca-
tion of Mississippi, having been chosen
to that position while, superintendent
Of the publit schools OF Water Valley.
Thera are ,oniy, 4 fmemPfrs OF the
house Of representatives out of 140,
who were confederate soldiers. These
are Representatives Lee Mcmillan OF
Carroll, w. H. Griffin Of Amite, s. c.
-Trammeii" or -f<emper, and~tW IN. .~Dens
ton, of Leaderdale. r-
Jhheateaenat lGS4elnJri AoAer Cast
eel, whose life was despaired Of for
sunasi time. Isl strong enough to be