Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-03

road and Bank Charter-FInaI
Paragraphs-But Few Appropria.
! tIOns.
ATLANTA, August MY last letter having
| turned up this morning among some papers
taken from my desk. I shall strike out the
dead matter, supply some new paragraphs
and send it along, hoping it will prove to be
better late than never. Now that the rush OF
new bills is over, shall be able to resume my
regular letters
Either the telegraph operators or the print
ers make numerous errors in my telegraphic
reports. The last is in regard to discharged
| convicts- 1t should be "a suit of citizens
clothes. five dollars in money mot a five dollar
suit and a railroad ticket home" The bill
was introduced by Johnson, the colored mem
Der from Lee. Several other errors have oc-
CURED, some OF which entirely changed the
meaning of my kilograms.
The Columbus Enquirer seems to have been
mised by Coles lobby as to wherein lies the
opposition to his charter, for, after advocating
the granting of his and all other charters
asked for, it says: 1T Is not contemplated
that the Legislature will grant any charter
with unusual powers and privileges The peo-
pie expect them to look closely into that. "
And this is just what the Legislature is doing
with Coles charter and the charter of the
Rome Southern Railroad, that wants to spread
oil OFOI TIC SJdJc.
MINOR TOPICS.
Nearly all the summer resorts and pleasant
towns around this city are full of visitors the
most OF them women and children, escaping
from the heat and dust of cities. The husbands
and fathers go up on Saturday and stay over
Dr. VIM B. Jones, proprietor of the ceIe-
brated Birdsville Seed and Stock Farm in Burke
county. is in the city, and reports that the
drought has injured the fruit crop and some
Ilr fC Of >
ablest writers and most interesting speakers on
agricultural topics in the State, aud will attend
the State Horticultural Society meeting here
this week, and the State Agricultural Society
meeting at Rome next week.
The New York General Assembly adjourned
without making any provision for a State
representation at the Yorktown Centennial,
and 1t is probable that the General Assembly
OF Georgia will follow her example, thus put
ting the Empire States Of the North and the
South on the same footing. Members say the
Chatham Artillery propose to go and pay their
own expenses, and that all other companies
should do the same A strong effort is being
made by some person to secure an appropria-
ton, as the January and February numbers of
the M6gGzIne of american History, devoted
to Yorktown" and Washington" have been
freely distributed to the Senate and House
These magazines sell at fifty cents each, yet
the members generally fail to value them.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
The following House bills passed the Senate
number of bills on second reading, overlooked
them in my telegraphic report of that days
proceedings:
A bill to change the oath of claimants in this
State By substitute
A bill to amend section 4,1s1 of the Code of
1873. With amendment.
A bill TO amend the charter of the Gaines
vile, Jefferson and Southern Railroad. With
amendment
A bill fixing compensation of the Solicitor
General OF Western Circuit.as to certain costs
in Clarke county.
A bill to authorize the Commissioners of Ba-
ker county to provide for the Indebtedness of
that county.
A bill fixing the compensation of the County
Court Solicitor of Richmond county.
The Senate now has in hand full supply of
house bills, and as soon as they come back
from the respective committees to which they
have been referred, the Senators will no longer
be obliged to hold only brief morning sessions
or ADJOURN for want of something to occupy
their attention.
LIMBS FOR MANNED CoNFEDERATEs.
In response to a resolution Governor Colquitt
mas sent to the Legislature a list of manned
Confederate soldiers who have drawn money,
under General Toombs' constitutional pro-
war.
Chatham county makes a very modest de.
mand upon this fund, only the following names
appearing: VIM. II. Patterson, leg, 500; VIM
Haas. Henry L. Davis, David Waldhauer
and X Montgomery, arms, $50 each; Edwin
A. Castellaw and T. j. Rogers, legs,
$75 each; Fred. A Fink arms $40 Fulton
Richmond, Troup. Fannin, Pickens and Pike.
have the longest lists in Upper Georgia, while
Lowndes takes the lead in South Georgia, Her
list includes Powhatan B. White, J. @. Mar
tin, L. Q. Dawson and p. H Ponder, arms, 500
each; Josiah H. Liant, w. c. Landrum James
Z. Balm, T. E. Morse and r. L. Pierce legs, S75
each; Henry Wilson. J. Calhoun Thomas and
} p. Duncan. legs. 800 each
The object in calling for this list and pub
Ilshlug it, is to enable the Legislature to trace
out and punish the frauds that have been prac,a
used upon the Comptroller General in th{b
matter Several parties are now in jail ( a. a.
under bond-One, think has been sent to n III
penltentiary-for forging the papers necess to
to secure the amount to be given a mato th
Confederate soldier. This list will be seer III
each county. and it is possible that still N
frauds may be discovered. u
PERSONAL MENTION. Al
The friends in Florida of Hon. w baaitb | W
ham will regret to learn that he is inecr will h
40 GAINESVILLE, and should a relapse is with | n
1im. and he is receiving every at ''''- f''- u u
Die. - ~, L
Capt. Phil F. Brown has resg1n,or r1ori hoIel o
MARI q, ham "a. House and goes to he season. The e
1t Blue Ridge Springs, Va, f., FVnoSition Is a
Director General OF the Ca,, gu - 6pteI OF the :
rying to get bin to run - Ho" '40'0- :
Fears are expressed irlegard to the recoy- 1
.ry OF Senator B. II. H4, as II Is very uiin uiin q
uit matter to eradic1e cancer Iroih .tnt Sn4 |
ongue or mouth. sal 1t is 10 De hoPeu UIaU nc; I
his eminent Georgl1n will be spared tnG sI, nu- i
,ering and terrible decay that usually follows
On an attack as he is now suffering from.
some PdltinOred1l of the %, 20 CohITtlns T manu-
3t,e,tcb Oh ~ bisc Vi AIS accompanied by nae
liant soldier in titary ana clVH career. SO" |
most useful public q var. he has aiso Deen aoe a
and his adopted State has sleonaTtly IN bonored
him in the past, ana will homo him Still more
in the future. uiiA ''-'-
RAILROAD AID BANK CHARTERS.
Several bills are eafore the Legislature to
on its passage yesterday But good members
opposed it unless new and more stringent
security clause was put u, and the bill was
sent back to the committee to be thus
amended.
No one raised howl over his. and said that
an effort was 10 be made to keep capital out |
was this? Because no paid LOBBY, in the in-
terests of the banks, is here to cam lis reward |
by crying wolf, wolf, " when there isuo wolf
And yet Coles case is no more Vorhy of |
howl about persecution.
In the first place, it is not charter fora road |
to Rome, as the papers seem to think, bat is
to run alongside of the State Road, but tper-
patuDl charter for the Atlanta and Cincinnati
Railroad, with branches from the main lin, all /
oUeT the State and steamship lines from dLbthe |
ports on the coast. And whenever the rightof |
way granted is no longer needed for a pubic |
highway it can be gobbled up by the surviving
Spectators of the syndicate, who seem to b.
reaching after a very soft thing" indeed il |
this The Senate amended Gordon's bill and
struck out the clause allowing future sale of !
Georgia Pacific under its provisions
In order to defeat the proper amendment of
this dangerous bill, a paid lobby on the part of
Coles syndicate have been bowling themselves
hoarse in an appeal to the people not to allow
Northern capital to be driven from the State.
But the frantic howl has been Of no avail as the
Railroad Committee met and amended the
bill, striking out its dangerous and obnoxious
features. Only one member then opposed its
favorable return to the House This fact
proves that the lobby was all On Coles side
The present General Assembly is not COM
posed of fools or knaves, and there is no dan
ger that they will drive away capital or op-
press capitalists. They do propose, however,
to protect bank depostors and landowners,
and hereafter charters for banks and railroads
will be closely Inspected and safety clauses put