The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-14
OLIVES BILL PUT ASIDE.
THE COMMITTEE TABLES 1T BY a
VOTE OF 10 100.

A New Bill to be Prepared and Sub
mitted by Mr.. Bern er-Mr. Rankin
Concludes His argument on His
/ Amendment-The New Road Law.
ATLANTA GA, Aug. l3.-The Olive bill
/ got quietus in the House railroad COM
/ u.ittee this afternoon. This much talked
/ of mea ure has been under committee con-
sideration since last December. aud no kind
/ of amendment or substitute has sufliced to
make it acceptable. The bill and the substi-
tute were before the full committee this
afternoon, and after some discussion were
! tabled by a vote of Is to 0. 1t is under
cd tina, on straight vote the bill would
have been killed by a much larger ma
| jOfity The members of the committee
gave notice that new bill would be pre-
pared and be submitted before any report
/ is made to the House This bill will prob
/ ably be prepared by Mr.. Berner.
THE RANKIN AMENDMENT.
| The House spent an hour or two on the
/ Rankin am ndtue L to-day. Mr.. Rankin
! conclud his argument in support of it.
/ In his line of argum eut and tone toward the
! House he see Led almost to stand IN the stead
| OF the lessees, and pleaded their case with
| all the force and elJquenc at his com uand.
/ He and his friends seem to realize that
/ ere Is no chance for the amendment. A
motion was male that debate on bill cease
| at II o'clock tomorrow, but the motion
/ failed of adoption.
STATE PROHIBITION.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
! Union submitted memorial through Mr.
! Mcdonald of Ware to-day, asking the legis-
lature to pass state prohiOitory law. The
memorial was accompanied by a petition,
signed by hundreds OF men and womeI.
A NEW ROAD LAW.
The joint committee to draft new road
law reported new bill to-day, which was
intr duced. The bill proposes 10 amend tie
road laws of Georgia so as to provide for
tax in lieu Of road work, and to provide
al val0ren tax by the county
autho tiles for the purpose ofsE more
efficient work. g of the public roads in this
| ate. The ordinarles and road com mis-
sioners are given authority to emf rec the
road work in their respective counties. All
persons now subj ct to road duty remain SO
subject, but auy person when summoned
for road work may commute this work by
a payment of 80 cents for each day he is
subject 10 work. The receipt of he road
overseer for this sum will constitute full
release from road duty.
POWER OF APPOINTMENT.
The county authorities shall appoint road
| commlSslp Eers for eacn district, as now
| provided by law. The commissi JnerS shall
have full authority to punish defaulters
| They shall also select and contract with an
| officer, to be known as the Overseer of the
| district. The overseer shall be furnished
| by the commission with a list of persons in
his district su ject to road duty. The COM
| mls1oners Shall inspect the roads from
| time to time The road overSeer shall
| receive 81 day for actual service. He
| shall inspect the roads and have charge of
them, and report to the commissio. lers.
He shall summon the hands. If they, or
! any of them, paw the Communication tax, he
shall summons others to supply their place,
and so on until he has a force sufficient to
work the roads The taxes received in
| communication he turns over to the commits
| sioners.
THE NUMBER OF DAYS
As soon as they can determine it. the
county authorities shall notify the road
commisSio le;s as to the number of days
which shall be required to work the road -,
during the year. At the time they
assess taxes for other county purp SEES
taey shall also assess an ad valorem
tx against the property in the county
| sufficient To raise Il sum equal to the
! road capitation assessed for that year,
to be collected as other county taxes,
and be paid by the tax collector to the
treasurer as q read fuld. This fund shall
be pr rated according to the character OF
the several roads in the districts. In coun-
ties that have no board of commits sioners
the clerk of court, the sheriff and the ordi-
nary shall constitute a board, and prorate
the fund as provided for.
FURNISHING OF TOOLS
The county authorities shall furnish the
| necessary tools where chLn-gaugs are
worked. They may be continued in road
work, aud the county authorities may hi Q
| out mlSdemeanor cOnvictS to any other
chain-gang. The money received for such
hire shall so to the road fund. The law will
not appl} to persons living 10 incorporated
towns and cities on or besore Dec 81
of each year, the road commissioners shall
make a full tabul.ted statement Of the
amount Of money expended on the roads
now many hands have worked, etc. ETC.
Work shall begin at Z in the morning and
continue until in the evening, with one
hour intermission at noon.
CRUELTY TO CoNvICTS.
The House penitentary committee re-
ported favorably tue resolution to investi-
gate the reports of the cruel treatment of
convicts in various camps.
MIR. Clark of LaureAs introduced bill to
authorize Dublin TO donate land to the EN-
pire a d Dublin railroad
bill w IS introduced in the Senate and
House to repeal the act establishing Ha vk-
insvile as the head of navigation on the
Ocmulgee river. The purpose is to make
Macon the cad of navigation as before.
and ask congress Tor an appropriation for
the river to That poi t.
The following bills pissed in the Senate:
incorporating the Augusta and West
Florida railroad.
Incorporating the town of Brewton in
Laurens
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