The vidette., 1922-03-30
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM
THE STATE CAPITAL
BY r. r. HIrdsalI

ng up, 1t may be hard to pass revenue
md appropriation bills which have not
yet been introduced. in some in
stances, by that date. The constitution
provides that no revenue or appropria-
ion bill shall be passed within five
lays of the adjournment of the legis-
lature Until these bills are passed
t 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
settled, no bill fixing the state tax
evy can be prepared.
The effort on the part of about half
he members of the legislature to de-
stroy or abolish the office of state rev.
snue agent seems to have delayed all
egislation, and the matter is not yet
lnally settled. A motion to put the
With so fees, which went into the
| General salary bill, has proven a bone
# contention by both houses, resulting
conference committee, and the
natter is being banded back and forth
With all sorts of parliamentary mo-
ions, to reconsider, and the like, some
| lines one side having majority of
.wo or three, and the next time the
other side having majority of three
Dr. four.
The Kinds County Gazette, owned
and edited by Edgar S. Wilson, is be-
ng handsomely compilmented by the
Mississippi press upon the celebration
| If its 18th birthday. 1t is the third
,ldest newspaper in Mississippi which
las never changed its name or domi-
;ile, the Woodville Republican, 81, and
the Lexington Advertiser, "a, being
the other two. The Kinds County Ca
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
cult judges, the IL chancellors, and the
Ii district attorneys, been without a
salary up to April l. Not only has no
| appropriation been made for the sala-
ries of these officials and employees,
out up to the beginning of the week
10 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
.ence on any person convicted of hav-
ing more than one quart of whiskey
)r other intoxicating drinks in their
possession and also imposing Jail
| sentence of not less than 80 days, is
causing much inquiry. Housewives are
| asking if homemade wine, cordiais,
brandy peaches and the like are in
eluded in Intoxicating drinks
The tax delinquent list being pub
ished by the tax collectors of the va
rious counties of the state is being
| commented upon by newspapers in diff
erent parts Of the state as abnormally
large. In many counties, it is report
ed, on account of drouth conditions,
crops were very short, and the people
have had a hard time raising tax
money.
The bill providing for a heavy fine
and jail penalty for issuing checks,
Traits or orders on banks or other in
3titutions, where there are not suffi-
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 Vardaman expects to take
The stump in few weeks. s. w. Null
Inns of Holly Springs, chairman of the
Vardaman campaign committee, re-
ssntly addressed the vardaman club at
Jackson.
wv AucSSll dooSIlS pOSbif6ly IQdL
be will veto any bill which puts the
revenue agent on salary, or cripples
The effectiveness of that department,
which, it is asserted, puts around $780,
900 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 tc
a. has failed. This being true, candi-
dates for circuit judge and chancellor
as well as district attorneys are an
aouncing all over the state.
Contrary to the general belief there
s only one supreme court judge to be
elected this year. This is the success
sor to Judge Cook of the southern
district.
| There seems to be a very strong in
iication that Governor Russell will
feto the bill providing for fees for the
county officers other than assessor,
whose compensation is contained in
separate bill, for the so counties OF
aississippi
Some o. the Mississippi congress
aen whose friends express the HOP
lat they win be renominated withol
ppoeitinn are boing cDnfrf,1tad vii