The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-08
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
MATTERS WHICH THE LEGISLA.
TURE is DICUS- ING.

w Aidb GON. NOILlSn says ABOUT sum-
mer Sessions Twitty and Calvin
Bills s-Members Not Easily Imposed
Upon by Smooth-Tongued Place
Seekers-A Great Grievance Shown
Up-other Things of General Interest.
ATLANTA, GA, Dec. THE members of
the legislature are speculating about the
probable fate Of their bills, principally the
local ones, With over 500 bills on the cal
endar, and hardly 95 reported enrolled, there
is reason for many Of them TO feel that for
a season their constituencies will be disap-
pointed. Among the meritorious measures
offered Friday, that by Mr.. Calvin of Rich
mond, providing for the creation of boards
of equalization, commends itself to earnest
thinkers. The practice OF evading correct
returns TO the tax receivers is too common
This bill belongs to a class Of legislation
that Is being more imperatively demanded
every day. Diverse interests and obscure
relations require Of our legislature remedy
for an evil the source of which is not clearly
understood. The Twitty bill belongs TO this
class. That grievance exists has not been
questioned, but the antidote proposed is
more potent than the trainers or its friends
contemplated. y thought asserts itself here
Would not our laws be more comprehensive
If In some manner their enactment was OF
slower growth Only last week a bill
that relating TO Sunday excursions-was
"railroaded" through the Senate, and one
of the Senators afterward admitted
that he mad understood that
action was to be delayed, and he himself
while favoring somo features of the bill
regarded it as 1t stood as "a piece of ill
advised legislation" Therecommitment of
this bill, together with that from the House,
to the railroad committee, shows that there
is great danger in hasty and nl-considered
legislation.
ATTACKING THE COLLECTING AGENCIES.
Mr.. Craig of Pickens hos just introduced
bill that probably on its face will, by it's
very plausibillty, win the support of farm
ers 1t provides for exacting a license Of
800, III every county in which they do
business, from collecting agencies, CONNER
cial agencies and the like The bait is that
this money will 90 toward the school fund
The bill, if 1t should become law, would
be great inconvenience to merchants and
manufacturers, as such agencies have en-.
abled them, at comparatively little expense,
to transact business and maintain necessary
relations with their customers. IL the
agencies find the tax oppressive they may
abandon the field, aud then travelling
agents will, of necessity, have to look after
this same class of work. The consumer
will pay for it. A travelling mans ex.
pense account must in all cases be affixed
to the goods. This bill is merely cited by
way Of illustration.
MAI. RYALs' POLICY.
Maj. j. W. Ryals has indorsed and i;
urging the appointment OF s. B. Morse, a
GavavYp1h Oolnrad nF tt,s
eos of the new college for colored people,
to be established under the pro-
visions Of the act passed by this
legislature creating such an institution.
He says he favors the policy which will
throw on the shoulders of the colored people
the responsibilities Of conducting this ccl-
lege. Such procedure, no says, will have a
| two-fold advantage. IL will bring out the
executive ability of the blacks in a channel
which will please all their friends as the
sense of the trust begets the noblest fru.-
! tions. On the other hand, tho chances are
largely In favor of the school being con-
| Quoted in essentials more agreeably with
black men at the helm than il the board Of
trustees was composed Of white men. The
major feels thai the interests OF education
and of the state would in no measure suffer
| if colored men were given supervision of
| this college.
| A CHARACTERISTIC OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The present legislature has to a large ex-
| tent, a characteristic that might have been
| borro u Ell of John Chinaman. There is
10 human being who can approximate that
| vacuity Of sense or expression which q
| Chinaman will affect when the interroga-
| tories take direction not agreeable to
him. | have seen candidates circulating
about on the floor and brooding confidingly
| the nhQIF of 81 nnAmbpr give him q
| quiet little set speech and then move on in
| the work of securing votes A roll Of the
| House would be checked Off, and the candi-
date wonld bring 10 bis breast the satisfac-
ton that he had 'the ma ejority of the
| House." But when tho voting tune came
some evil gnome would appear to have
whispered some sianderous tale in
the ear Of that majority. Be
that as it may, the silent
delegation would "say nothing, but saw
wood" and when the total would be an
nounced head eager for the laurels Of
office would be found IN the basket of de-
! feat. Several Of these little surprises have
been sprung on candidates, and they have
| gone homo puzzled over the personnel Of
| the farmer legislature. There is one thing
in connection with the farmer Legislature
that is to be discountenanceod.
| This is the temptation to play on the
|
credit Of the members to say that the title
''brother' affixed TO their names does not
| insure to those who make use Of the title all
| they seek. You will hear on tho floor in
connection with some bill that no one has
listened TO when being reed such expressions
as the following: ut is for the benefit Of the
farmers of Georgia" " "TEe farmer hes bur
dens enough" etc. This 'playing TO the
! gallery is not as frequent az it might be,
and its efficacy is questionable, and when q
speaker drifts into such talk quiet little
smiles play about the corners Of several
members mouths.
Flening's story the other day, aDropos OF
! the bill Of Hill of Meriwether making q
| lump sum payment Of legislators, about the
member Of congress who talked with an eye
to his constltuency-'for buucombe"-has
placed that expressive term among tie
| choicest in the sententious vocabulary for
such occasions.
THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
There is one subject on which the farmer
members have decided to be heard from In
no uncertain way. The general appropria-
| tions act may not come up for action until
| the middle Of this week. When IL does
| there viii be some lively discussions on the
several headings Of the bill Jackson Of
| Heard is sharpening a knife for the higher
educational appropriations. and whatever
can be SLICED Off 10 will add 70 his state
school fund bill, which he WAITS TO swell tc
81 go, 900. lie is a "hustler," and has urgof
| bis measure in a way that will bring to has
| etaudard strong suDuOrt Wheeler. Oi