Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-06
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
POLITICAL AND GENERAL TOP
ICS OF INTEREST.

us OF- INTEREST.
The General Temperance BilI-The Aid
for the Manned Confederate Soldiers
The Candidates for the Judgeship-A
Revolver ReckIessly Fired in the
KimbalI House.
Correspondence cftae Morning Neaos.
ATLANTA, August 4.-As this is an .soff
day. with the General Assembly, L can
devote myself to little gossip about mat
ters and things in general, as there is no
excitement prevailing either in or out of
the capitol building.
Now that the election of an Associate
Justice is over, we have few visitors.
When the redistricting bill first came up.
there was a rush of Congressman and
Judges { a wicked reporter said that the
Judges wanted to be Congressmen), but
the firm course of the Senate soon sent
them home with big flea in each ear.
1t has been said that the present Legisla-
ture has a head of it's own, and Congress
siOnal aspirants can't smash its redis-
tricting slate in hurry.
The friends of a new capitol are lust
now hard at work to secure a favorable
influence for that project. A compromise
is talked about by which the cost is to be
| reduced to one million dollars with IRON
clad provisions against any future in
crease. Atlanta is very anxious to COM
mence the job this year. but fear she
VIII have to make pretty large contribu-
tiOn to the fund for laying the foundation
before the work is inaugurated.
While there is a strong feeling in favor
OIL school OF Technology, there is already
cropping out sectional feeling IN regard
10 the matter of its location, as | sug-
gested might be the case. Augusta,
Macon, Columbus and Atlanta, with
their numerous manufacturing enter
! prises, could easily establish preparatory
schools for technical instruction as feeders
/ to the proposed higher institution. This
! done, 1t would matter little to these cities
/ where the School of Technology was
! located. There must be harmony of
action to secure the final passage of the
! bill.
! THE FATE OF THE GENERAL TEMPERANCE
BILL
| is still in doubt. The truth is, to speak
| plainly, the friends of temperance are di-
! Nlded among themselves, and for the past
! four years the General Assembly has been
| badly Informed as to the real purposes
and wishes of the true temperance people
| OF the State. Divided counsels and the
| detection OF some of the temperance adj
| VOcateS nave resulted in no progress to-
| wards securing any kind of healthy
| genera temperance legislation. 1t is
| a singular fact that some of the local
! temperance bills for several years past
! nave been introduced and advocated by
/ members who not only were drinking
| men, but who got drunk the same daY
! they introduced the bills. 1t is said that
| these are the men who feel the need of
some restraining temperance legislation.
! That may be true. but the only safety for
! n p.afc Hi IL
| power to be able to pass twenty barrooms
| day and not be tempted to 90 in and
| drink. 1t is the desire for whisky that
needs to be suppressed frSt, otherwise
/ that unsatisfied craving will sooner or
| later Overleap all legal barriers and find
its qualification in illicit whisky.
! Speaker Garrard well says: at is never
| too late to correct an error and | ac-
| cept the proposition. In the report of the
stephens Memorial Services, which were
held separately in the Senate and House.
the m memOrial of the joint committee was
printed in the MORNING NEWS as having
been presented in the House by Hon. n.
II. Harris, of Bibb, when it should have
appeared in the Senate proceedings
as presented by Senator S. B. Hoyt, of
Fulton, the author. 1t is due Senator
Hoyt and his friends in Savannah tomake
this correction, which l do at the request
OF Representative Harris, who does not
desire to receive the complimentary
words of cOmmendatiOn that justly be-
long to Senator HOyt The memorial of
the late Gov. Herschcl V. johnson. also
an elaborate tribute, was prepared bv
Hon. IL. q. Wright, member from Wash
lngton county, and not Richmond or JEFF
terson, as some reports state.
The seating of Anthony Wilson, from
Camden, gives the House five members
by the name of Wilson, who are from
|
Mcintosh. There are four members
named Jones, from DeKalb, Barlow.
Twiggs and Ebert. Then we have the
Barksdales, from Lincoln and Wilkes:
| the HudsOns, from Jackson and Webster:
| the Johnsons, from Lee and EchOls: the
Moores, from Hancock and Talia-
ferrO; the Paulks, from Berrien and
Crawford; the Riches, from Paulding
and Wayne; the Russells, from Clarke
| and Decatur; the Smiths, from Bryan and
Wllklnson; the SWeats, from Clinch and
Pierce; the Wrights, from Floyd and
Washington. There is a Greer in the
Senate and Geer in the House, but the
printer Will make them both Greer. Peek.
OF Kockdale, is also made to read Peck
WaldroOp is printed WaldrOp and Flynt
is changed to plain Flint. Avary also
becomes plain Avery, while Johnston is
changed to johnson and Johnson to john
stOn.
The Senate has passed a bill giving
manned Confederate soldiers new artif-
clal legs or arms every three instead of
five years, as now provided under the
constitution, by the act September 90,
1919. As about $50 manned soldiers have
drawn the money for artificial limbs, in
sums varying from $40 to 500 each.
should this bill pass the House, and be
approved by the Governor, it will cause
quite little sum to be distributed to the |
manned veterans of the State. Chatham
county, however, will get only a
small proportion, there being but |
fiVe soldiers who have as vet drawn |
money from this fund. They are: VIM. |
II. Patterson, leg, 500; David Wald- !
hauer arm, $50; 7. j. Rogers, leg, $75; r. !
Montgomery, arm, $50; Fred A. Fink,
arm, $40. The act does not provide for !
furnishing the artificial limbs, but the
money with which to supply them, so
that of the $50 who have taken advantage !
of the act all have drawn the money, while |
put very few have procured artificial |
limbs.
OF THE RECENT CANDIDATES
for Associate Justice of the Supreme |
Court of Georgia, to fill the vacancy |
caused by the death of Justice Martin j. |
Crawford, who graduated at neither the |
state University nor Mercer University. !
there were three candidates from the |
former and one candidate from |
the latter institution. Colonel W. II. |
Dabney graduated from the State |
University in 1889, Judge E. HI. Pottle in |
1913, and Col. VIM. S. Basinger in 1876. |
while Col. Nj. ii. BlandfOrd graduated at |
Mercer University in 1874. Two of Col. |
Dabney's classmates have been on the |
Supreme Court bench-Justice r. p |
Trippe and Justice A. NJ. Speer. Col |
Baslnger's class Of twenty-three members
has as yet failed to turn out Judge of |
any kind although Col. Basinger and Col. |
w. A. Lotion would make excellent |
Judges tor our highest'legal tribunal.
Judge Politics. class gave to the Supreme /
Court Associate Justice Linton III.
Stephens, and the Superior Court his own
services. Although a member of the |
Confederate Congress for a time. Col. |
Blandford has been little in politics. but |
a good deal of a soldier and LAWYER. brave |
as lion and gentle as a dove. he mas
drawn around him a circle of friends |
whose fidelity and zeal have placed him |
at last on the Supreme Court |
bench. OF a jOvial disposition
he has been the life of the social Gather,
ings in his circuit for years past. and no /
lawyer could be more missed, How we'll |
do remember the group of genial Column |
bus lawyers that made the Chattahoocbee
circuit the most pleasant and ENJOYABLE in
the State. Ingram, BlandfOrd. Benninp
and Crawford were the central figures
The latter two are dead, and the absence |
of Blandford will leave the witty Ingram
lone figure among the younger LAWYERS.
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