The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-02
SESSION OF THE HOUSE.
THE CONFEDERATE HOME BILL
COMES UP TO-DAY.

The Senate Resolution on the Hatch
Bill Passed Lively Discussion Over
the Appropriated for the Technolog.
zeal school-The Military Put Down
for $4,000 in the General Appro-
priation Bill
ATLANTA, GA. Dec. The confederate
home bill. which was taken up as q special
order last week and considered by the House
in committee OF the whole, but which was
allowed to go over undisposed of, will come
up In the House again to morrow and be
finally acted upon, unless something not
now anticipated occurs to put of the vote
again
In the House to-day the Senate resolution
calling upon Georgia's delegation in con-
gress TO support the Hatch bill was taken
up and passed after being amended and I'M
dergoing a heated discussion, which was
generally participated in. The memorial
IS amended aud passed is as follows:
Be it resolved By the Senate and House. that
IL is the sense OF this general assembly that the
bill now pending in the United states senate, be
ing House bill No. 7S4J, and known as the Hatch
bill, or some other law should be enacted at
the earliest possible date, whereby the prac-
tice of selling farm products by persons VINO
are not owners thereof, and commonly known
as ''short selling" shall be SO regulated and
restricted that the value Of the actual products
of the soil shall not be beaten down, and. in
large measure, destroyed by the imaginary and
fictitious products continually offered by those
who own little or none Of the articles offered,
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCHOOL
A fight was precipitsted over the tech
biological school appropriation Mr. Martin
OF Fulton had asked for $50, 600 with which
to equip the machine shop of the school
which was burned out last May. The
House went into committee of the whole
with Mr.. Mcbride of HARRISON in the
chair.
Mr.. Rankin Of Gordon questioned
whether all of the $50, 900 was needed, stat
ing that the building had been originally
equipped at a cost Of Sl7,500. He wanted
90 know why $4,000 was asked.
Mr.. johnson, in reply, stated that $1S,-
900 had been gotten from insuran- COM
panies on account OF the thoughttulness of
the officers of the school, who insured the
house on their own responsibility. This
money had been expended for rebuilding.
and SIS, 700 worth of machinery had been
bought on credit, but 81, 300 more was
needed with which TO buy additional
machinery.
Mr.. Rankin wanted TO know if Supt.
Hopkins had not stated that the school was
supplied with better machinery than it had
before the building was destroyed by fire.
Chairman Hall Of the finance committee
explained that DR.. Hopkins had said that
what machines he had were better than the
former ones. but ne did not have enough of
them.
Mr.. Rankin offered an amendment max
ing the appropriation $751; 45 TO-
Mr.. MeWhorter OF Greene amended by
substituting $4,000.
Mr.. Rankin was willing to give the exact
amount necessary to pay for the machinery
purchased, but regarded the institution as
one Of local benefit and a "leech upon the
treasury hard TO get rid Of"
The House adjourned without disposing
of the appropriation.
THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
The general appropriation bill has been |
made the special order for Saturday. 1t |
calls for $50, 900 for the military. The milf |
tary committee went before the finance |
committee and endeevored to secure an ap- |
preparation of SAC, 900, and although backed |
up by number Of the COMMITTEES, the ma
Jor1ty cut it to $4,000. Representative
Guerard OF Chatham, a member of the |
finance committee, took an important part |
for the military. He said he considered il |
iudicious economy to appropriate $4,000 |
for the military. If Georgia should go |
Through the experience of Pennsylvania in |
having a lot of property destroyed |
for which the state would have |
TO pay the legislators would then forcibly |
realize that their policy of economy with |
the military had been niGgardly and at the |
same time the grossest extravaganza. His |
speech was applauded, but Immediately aft |
erward the majority voted to cut the appro- |
priation. There will be some lively debates |
over the appropriation bill. and it will not |
be voted on until next week. All the branch |
colleges are left out in this years appropri- |
alton. and as these institutions have many
friends their elimination from state recogni- |
ton is bound to bring about q lively fight
on the floor of the House.
Representative Doolan to-day Withdrew
bis bill amending the charter of Warsaw
on account of some inaccuracies, and intro
duced another in its stead.
Representative Osborne by request has in
PRODUCED one in opposition, which, if any
thing, is calculated to make Thunderbolt
affairs worse than now instead of remedy
ing them, as is the aim of Representative
Doolan's bin. Mr. Osborne, however, is
not fathering the measure but introduced it
by the request of those interested In its
passage, whose sole object is keep the Sa-
vannah and Isle of Hope railway from ex-
tending its line along the bluff in accord
ance with the grant already made
Representative Doolan presided over the
House to-day for about half an hour.