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Show Tiii:ii.NMsiii:)iiMMiiit()uiii.r. IiAllldlapatcheafroni tho ecrue of thu recentclvll war In TenucvMee atato that ejulet now prevail. Tho mllltla, howevver, aro on tho ground, and cannot can-not lie withdrawn for rouie time. There aru over 1030 convict In thu Htalu af Tenucsree. A lurgu percentage per-centage of thesu aro Itoaed to tho Tenue-Meo Coal aud Iron eomiauy. Tin act under which trie feaiu waa entered Into jiunol the State firgla-latum firgla-latum In 1939, nud went Into (.fleet ou January Itt, 1895, to run until January 111, Jh9l. Dluatlafaoilou haa for a long time been ruinlfeetod n;almt the Ienlng tytli'in. In 1VJ0, wing to trouble theuexlttlng, the contractor eurreuderud their lease, and tho matter waa settled by a board ofarbl-trallon. ofarbl-trallon. Tboipictllon at luuo lu Tennceaoo la really the employment ol con-vlcla con-vlcla a rouipetltort of free miner. The crlala which haa been brought nt out to tragically will havo tho (fleet of bringing, thu truu tltuatlou before tho whole Aruerlcun pe-ople, nnd attempts at-tempts nt a tolullon will bo thu rwult. The minimum talk of a conTlct la said to be four tout of coal er day, and hi rest for feeding and guarding 110 rent. The le-raeee Ay little more than this cold, therefore at $-L5u per ton the contractor make $10 on an outlay of llttlo morn than 20 cent. 1'roni thlt It ran bo easily aeen that In time prlton coutiartora could own nnd 0urate all the coal mliiea In Tcnno.ee. Compe. tlllonout ih term la out of the ejues. tlou. Thero U still another rerrchcu-elblefeiture rerrchcu-elblefeiture about tills ojii vlet bualne. There uro cotitrictore an I tub oon-tractor, oon-tractor, and u liost of other middle mi u. They nr all political hue ler of tome kind. Their Intrreat It to kee p as largo a number of oonvlcta in poaalb'o lu the prUone, In fait, It n a i roved lnoiKii court ashoit tlmeago that a convict le-Meo had ottered n bonut to several district attorne) a for each conviction. con-viction. To thu rroJit of the Tennttaee Coal and Iron Company, however, it must bo ttated that it ollrrod to surrender Ita leave at thu iclal lemlou of the I.eglihtiiro held last winter. It waa not accepted. Without entering Into party ilitlcn, It I n fact that the record re-cord ahovra that all thu Itopiibllcan iiiembers of thu legislature voted for acceptance, while the Demoerala voted the other way, At a couteejuenco thu contractor hal to hold on to their lease, hIiMi does nut expire, noeordlng tulbitsnus, until lbou. Que year agotheru waa trouble at the mine. At that time the HocUJn, were burned and thu oonvlut ret nt lilwrt), ns vtaatheuaeea week eg j. |
