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J^Z OOH'^3 w	MERRIMENT IN ^SSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
AT DEBATE AND PASSAGE OF "McINNIS1 FERR' BILL OF GREENE COUNTY AND McJNNIS REPOR ON HARRISON COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE JOHN J. McCAUGHAN's "LAWYER BILL"
March 3> l8*+6
From the Vicksburg Daily Intelligencer in N. 0. Daily Delta of March 11, loLf6 -pi col 6
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
There may be readers: who will suppose the annexed recital to be an exaggeration; but at least 300 persons who were in the Capitol of the State of Mississippi (Jackson) on the 3d day of March, 1&M-6, can testify that this account falls far short of the reality. The Clerks of the House, as in duty bound, entered the report of the member from Greene County on the journals; but, on the next morning, it was expunged by the House at the request of the member himself.
Charter for MeInnis* Ferry
The best subject which came before the Legislature during the session of 18^6 was the all-absorbing one in regard to the charter of "Mclnnis1 Ferry."
The owner of the ferry was a member—himself being the Representative of his county of Greene--where the ferry is located; and through all the trying scenes of getting the charter through, that honorable Representative bore himself in a manner and with a spirit which, to say the least, was remarkable.
Opposition and Defense
Cn the fi-rst broaching of the subject, some opposition was~ made. The representative from Clarke County, an adjoining county, conceived that the charter interfered with the rights of other citizens who had ferries on the same river (the Chickasahay), and, on the first reading of the bill, this same representative (Mr. Moody) moved its rejection.
This motion brought Mr. Mclnnis to his feet. He had never spoken before; but in this one effort (his maiden speech) he more than compensated for his former remissness.
"I hop 9" (said he, adurer;r-r- ng i he Mouse, but not the Speaker),
"I hope you'll not reject my ft-.cry bill. Gentlemen, 11 m b.ound ;t_o keen a ferry. Them other men that's got ferries near me ain't bound at all. They've got some little trifling flats to sit across the