The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-29
CUERARD HITSBACK AGAIN.
FraSCI'S Card Net With a RGitCTltiOn
Of the Charges.

The Representative VIII Take No
Notice of the Solicitors Statement
Unless He is Named Personally-He
Admits That the Bill viii Protect
the Gamblers, if Passed Through
Their Pull in Politics.
Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 2S.-Solicitor Gen
eral Fraser's card, published here to-day,
jumping on the Savannah members of the
House, was the subject Of serious consid-
Grafton by the delegation, especially by
Representative Guerard, who stands
sponsor for the charges against Solicitor
Fraser and others of what he calls the
"court-house clique" In speaking Of the
card, Mr.. Guerard said to the MORNING
News correspondent: las long as l am
not personally named in the attack l shall
take no notice of Mr.. Fraser's card.
There is no need for man
70 hunt up trouble, but if he ad-
dresses his challenge to me personally
! will go for him then" Mr.. Guerard
stands pat on everything contained in the
dispatch which was the cause Of Solicitor
Fraser's card, and has been busy all day
reiterating his charge of corruption TO
memb ers whose attention has been drawn
TO the peculiar fight that is being waged
by the Chatham delegation
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE STORY.
Mr.. Guerard was not quoted in Thurs
days dispatch, but as the entire delega
ton &cquiesced in his account of the
alleged corruption of the court house
clique. " the responsibility for the story
was allowed to rest on the three mem bers.
He, however, does not object to being
~ al Iyr
published, but when it was sug
gested that Mr.. Fraser would call
him down personally when his name APP
peared as authority for the charges, he
expressed doubt that the solicitor or any
one else would do anything of the kind.
''Why." said he, 1.-THE affair has been
local scandal for months. Everybody
has talked about it, and yet Mr.. Fraser
never kicked. Why did he not say some
thing when Alderman Dixon first raised
the charge in the council chamber?h
A PROTECTION TO THE GAMBLERS.
Then referring to the bill itself, Mr.
Guerard said: The fact is if the bill
passes, it will really be q protection to
the gamblers 1t will put them in the
hands of the CITY authorities instead of at
the mercy of the state court, which in
diets them every time they make a little
money. How will it protect them? In
this way. / do not say it would be so I'M
der Mayor McDonough, for he would
enforce the law, but others who
want to succeed him in Office
would soon learn to wink at the gamblers
in order to get their support in politics
So you see, instead of paying fines into
the pocket of the solicitor general, they
would go into the city treasury, if they
got their men into office"
Mr.. Guerard has received a letter from
City Attorney Adams containing citations
of legal authorities in support of the bill.
Mr.. Doolan introduced the bill, and will
be its especial champion.
Mr. Osborne will very probably vote
for it, but is not as enthusiastic as his
colleagues.
Mr. Guerard claims that the bill is
backed up by the city council, and the
statement that that body demands its
passage is the strongest argument being
used in the House.
THE ANTI-CIGARETTE BILL.
The motion to reconsider the cigarette
bill, which passed the house yesterday,
failed by vote of "a to Al this morning
after n warm debate. The amendment to
the bill, which is intended to stamp out
the cigarette habit in Georgia, excerpts
indicated cigarettes and cubebs to the
general prohibition. 1t is well known
that the dangerous cigarettes are those
containing drugs. 1t is this kind that
makes the cigarette tiend Such an
amendment is regarded as ridiculous. It
not only protects the drugged coffin
tacks' and encourages their use, but
leaves loophole in the act by which any
kind Of cigarettes could be sold through "a
claim that they are medicated.