Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-20
THE STATE CAPITAL.
MATTERS LOCAL, PERSONAL AND
GENERAL.
Excitement Overload Weather
Local Etems-LegIsIaGive Gossip
Things so be Agtempted-WinOr
TOpics-PeFsOnal and General
Final Paragraphs.

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ATLANTA, November lS-After a strain of
excitement for two weeks or more, Atlanta and
the General Assembly are having "a rest y
| Candidates and lobbyists have gone home, and
the pressure is removed.
might also add that the hotels and streets
are rather dull today With three large com
mittees away on duty, and thirty leaves of
absence added. it is evident that few members
are around these parts at present. Free
passes on the railroads can clean out any Lsgis-
lature on Saturday.
we are having damp. chilly day. with
prospect Of rain tonight and tomorrow, so
that the members who have gone of will pro-
baby find better weather at home. They GER
tainly will be more comfcr rtable at their own
tiresides than in our deserted hotels.
Speaking of hotels reminds me of the death
or Amos, so long and pleasantly knowR to
the travelling public as the faithful porter at
the Markham House. position he occupied
from its opening TO his death, which occurred
missed.
OF course there was great excitement here
during the Senatorial contest and Just at its
close Large sums OF money were lost on Gov
ernor Coquitt's failure to 60 in on the first
9alot. one member of the House kno o-ked
Gown a We'll known citizen for rejecting on
Colqultt's character and success
governor stephens spends most Of his time
IN ms office at the Executive Mansion, on
Feachtree street, where he is assisted by c W.
SeldeIl, ESQ, one of the department clerks,
and gentleman OF ripe experience as a &c
retary.
Colonel Isaac W. Avery and Major ]. W.
Warren are at the Executive Department as
usual, and the public generally are elad to see
them retained at their old desks. They are al
ways polite. prompt and efficient, and in the
absence OF the Governor are prepared to trans
act properly great deal of routine business
thus saving visitors considerable delay and
trouble.
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.
Whenever a member of the House backs up
his arguments by an Endorsement from Judge
BleckteY or Bob" Toombs, or some other dis
tinguished outsider, he generally gets de-
feated Few members pay any favorable atten-
ton TO such attempts TO influence legislation.
The Wesleyan ChristiGn Advocate, of Ma
con, announces the election of l. A Bush as
Judge OF the Albany circuit This is an error.
as the final contest resulted in the choice of
Hon. Byron B. Bower for that position Mr.
Bush made handsome race, but did not win
the prize.
It has now become a common thing for a
member Of the General Assembly, if he is
otherwise unprOvided for, to secure the Chair
manship of a committee by his own action
He moves the appointment Of special com
mlttee, and OF course custom makes him its
Chairman.
The matter of a summer session is now set
tied. think the Legislature will adjourn two
weeks from to day and meet again ia July. It
Is now impossible TO finish the work on hand,
under the present schedule, and then an ad-
Jourped session is always popular
Speaker Garrard has never been excelled in
the matter of pushing business ahead. In
fact, the reporters have seriously considered
the proprlety of an Injunction to prevent him
from ordering a roll call for new business
whenever there is lull in the dailV proceed.
ings He is perfect wheel-horsa to work, but
he can't always infuse his spirit into the
House.
THINGS TO BE ATTEMPTED.
An increase of the salaries of the Supreme
and Superior Court Judges.
Raising the pay of the Secretary of the Rail-
road Commission from 81, 200 to ST, ,50O
Giving the Railroad Commissioners greater
power and more security in their decisions
Compelling railroad companies to pay more
taxes In every county through which their
roads run.
Improving the fence and road laws of the
State so that we shall have fewer bad roads
and poor FENCES, and the agricultural interests
be promoted thereby.
Covering the whole State with general tenn
perance law of some restraining character a
movement that viii have to be accomplished, l
think, through local measures
Redistricting the State into ten Congressional
DISTRICTS job of no small importance, ana
one that will be over' for discussion at length
by the adjourned session in July,
Amenul1g the new CODE just issued In auout
hundred or more of its sections. some
changes for the public good and others to suit
the private purposes OF interested parties.
Submitting to the people a half dozen
amendments to the new constitution, some of
which were defeated by the previous General
Assembly and few of which will succ sed in
the present one on the final VOTE
MINOR TOPICS.
Our cotton receipts have improved during
the past week. and we are now less than eight
thousand bales behind last year, and may vet
greatly reduce this deficiency.
Great regret is expressed at the decIination
ct Prof. w. b. Bonnell, of Covington es Presi.
dent Of the Middle Georgia College, at Mi.
ledgeville. as be was elected with the exnress
understanding that he would accept the posi-
tion.
The Mormon Missionaries have always suc
ceeded in gathering small crop of converts
from Georgia every year. This season they
carried on about f1fty-men, women and Chi.
dren-from this and the adjoining States
mostly ignorant backwoods people
Texas and Arkansas are also making their
usual yearly drain upon our population and
the waiting room at the union depot is daily
filed with emgrants to those States They
come from Georgia and the Carolinas and
some of them have large families. There ia no
places in this State
Atlanta is the only Southern city in which
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has not been given public
reception. His advent here to-day has hoan
very quiet. AS it is a damp, CLOUDY dav. II ia
not probable that his lecture tonight win he |
largely attended, And yet Atlanta owes him
deot OF gratitude FOR his fine Memorial Day. |
address some two years ago.
There is growing feeling in favor of giving
back to the Governor the appointments or
Judges and Solicitors General Ever since the |
new constitution went into operation we have
had very unseemly scramble after these Of |
fees and for two weeks the General Assembly
is kept from giving attention to matters of |
legislation.
n.1rfv fba
Trustees Of the State University, held al tha |
Executive Mansion in this city, an effort was |
m 9de to secure the election OF Captain John |
Milltedge ana non. 3. r. Hill, Jr., to fill vacan-
John Milledge. and the latter to fill his fathers
vacancy. But the Trustees wisely decided |
that the office Of trustee did not descend from /
father TO son in this free country.
Our new United States Senator for tha sbort
term, nae our Congressman at large, the Hon /
% Thomas Hardeman, has dropped the first |
L maj from MS name, and is now called Hon. /
(M) Pope Barrow. He is a graduate OF the /
State University; is great grandson Of ils la 1
mented President the Rev. Dir Church: il the |
head Of its law department; is trustee: the
in the institution. In view of all these facts IL
Is safe to say he is in every sense "Univerity
man."
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Ex- Governor COlquitt has rented an office in
this city until the first Of March next for bnsi-
ness purposes.
Second Lieutenant J. W. Pinder (of Savan-
NAM OF the Eighth Cavalry, has resigned. to |
axe erect on June l. 1883, until which tine he
has leave of absence.
The Supreme Court has decided that our
Atlanta merchants can't run half dozen diff /
.sreA5 departments" under one license but /
pay separate license for boots and shoes. far h
millinery, for carpets. etc. wise decision.
There were half dozen aspirants for the
solicitor Generals position in the Atlanta cir
3ult during young Ben Hills Candidacy for
United States Senator, and their greed for
'ffice was properly rebuked in his defeat.
General George P. Harrison, Jr., Of Opelika,
Ala, has many friends ia Atlanta, and they
ire much reioiced over his election to the
Presidency Of the Alabama Senate, an honor
naI only foreshadows his future elevation to
he Chief Magis racy of mis- adopted State. Sc .
'annah may well feel proud of his public rec
)rd
Gath, " the noted correspondent, is ia error
Is to Gen. Ben. Butler having been student !
It Methodist college in Maine. Mrs. Butler.
hen widow, was deYout Baptist and sought
o educate Ben for the ministry. She sent him
o Baptist college at Waterville, Me. nov
,nown as the Colby University. hnt noncb -