The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-07-16
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.

to widows OF Confederate soldiers.
The estimate was too low, and the
number who have applied will cause
the State to have to pay out s45O,>
GOO, or raise taxation to repeal the
bill. The state also has to pay $780,
600 for the State Road taxes due
the old lessees, and if the Legisla-
ture remains in session longer than
sixty days, an unexpected expense
of 81 300 day will have to be met.
1t looks now as if the present Legis-
lature will have to raise taxation.
1t is hardly probable, in view OF
the surprising large number of Con-
tederate widows entitled to pensions,
that the pension will remain 500
each. The finance committees will
estimate what income may be expect
ed from new sources and adopt a
pension law to the size of the state 8
bank account, making as liberal an
appropriation for confederate widows
as circumstances Justify.
Mr.. Sibley, of Cobb, introduced a
bill fixing the rate of fare on rail-
roads at two cents per mile. He
also introduced a bill to prevent
persons from entering horses at
races under fictitious names, or
falsifying theifrecords.
Mr.. Rainey, of Cobb, introduced
a bill to the effect, that he tdesires
the s25, 900 already appropriated for
the encampment of the state troops
in 1892 withdrawn and put to acc
count Of the school fund.
The committee OF Congressional
apportionment stands as follows :;
Dunwody, Kemp, Bush, Baldwin,
Chappell, Sears, Gilbert, Atkinson,
Goodwin, Broadnax, Whitfield, Bar
rett, Sibley, Tatum, Morton, Lewis,
Peoples, Witzell, Williams, and
Harris, OF Washington.
The Alliancemen in the Legisla-
ture, 100 strong, hold every week a
secret caucus, discussing measures
and men.
| Mr.. Monroe, bill to abolish all
public hangings, and providing that
they be private.
| Mr.. Ryals, to sell the salt marsh
lands along the coast at cents per
acre, and if phosphates are found a
royalthy of 81 per ton be paid the
state for all phosphates removed.
In the Senate the "Twitty bill''
passed. The bill provides that the
clause in notes and other obliga.
tions requiring the maker to pay
ten per cent as attorneys fees, shall
be null and void. The bill now goes
20 the Governor for approval.
| Martin, representative from Full
ton offered resolution in the Legis-
lature relative to furnishing counsel
to the railroad commission, that
they might prosecute complaints
against railroads before the inter
state committee.
4 Everett of Stewart put in a bill
making the punishment Of bigamy
not less than four nor more than
twenty-five years in the peniten-
tiary.
Trammell of Whitfield introduced
bill "to provide that all garden,
field or grass seed sold in this state
shall have branded or printed on
the sacks or packages in which sold
the year in which said seed were
grown"
Faust of Oglethorpe put in bill
to make drunkenness a crime. A
first drunk is to be fined SO to $50,
the second $40 to 800; the third
ten days to six months in Jail.
The same author had another pro-
hibition bill "to prevent the viola
ton ofthe spirit or letter ofthe pro.
hibltion laws in counties that have
legally adopted the same" 1t is
aimed at COMMON carriers, persons,
railroads or express companies max
ing them ''the agent Of the seller Of
said intoxicating liquors and pun
ishable rs such under the laws OF
the prohibition county into which
they carry LIQUOR.