The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-23
Is the Reason a Good onep

The inference from the statement in
our Atlanta dispatch yesterday, relative
/ to the action of the special Judiciary com
| mittee in the matter of the county regis
/ tration bill, is that one of the reasons
why the committee decided to report the
/ bill favorably was that it was thought that
an unfavorable report might be construed
as meaning that the charge that the citi-
| zens' committee of Chatham county had
not been treated fairly by the Chatham
delegation had been sustained, and that
! therefore is was thought advisable to let
the bill 60 to the House with a favorable
report, and to the Senate judiciary com
! mittee. if it should pass the House, where
all parties could have a hearing. If that
was one of the reasons why the bill was
reported favorably was it a good reason2
Was it such a reason as ought to have in
/ huenced the committee,
If the judiciary committee did not base
its report upon the merits of the bill,
ought it not to have done so? The people
place their trust in the committee They
| know that the House is influenced by
committee reports. A great many men,
bers have neither the time nor the in
clination to go into the merits of the diff
ferent bills. They depend upon the com
mittees to say whether the bills are
meritorious or not.
There is no good reason to doubt that
the sentiment in this county is against
the bill to take the control of the regis
tration in this county from the county
commissioners and give it to the ordin-
airy. and no good reason in support of the
bill has yet been made public. II the spe-
cial judiciary committee, therefore, based
its action in making a favorable report
upon something else than the question as
to whether or not the bill is a meritorious
one, did it discharge its full duty to the
people of this county, If the committee
believes the bill to be a good one, then
there is no fault to be found with its ac-
ton, but if it ignored the question Of the
merits of the bill, then the people have a
right to complain.
A dispatch in the Evening Press says
that the supporters of the bill had much
to say about rumors derogatory to Capt.
Dillon's handling of the registration.
From this it is to be inferred that the
proposed registration legislation is aimed
at Capt. Dillon, the clerk of the county
commissioners.
And so a good law is ito be repealed and
a bad law enacted because there are some
who don't like the work Capt Dillon
performs in connection with the registra-
ton Have any charges ever been made
against Capt. Dillon, in connection with
the registration? There certainly have
not. At the last county election some of
the candidates for county commissioners
went over the registration books very
carefully. Did they find anything wrongl
They did not. On the contrary, they dis
covered nothing upon which to base a
charge
And, after all, what responsibility has
Capt. Dillon in connection with the
registration He doesn't control it,
The county commissioners are responsible
for it, and they would be quick to correct
any irregularity of which complaint
might be made.
Surely the legislature does not intend to
fasten a bad registration law upon
! Uli4o NOuubJ SIMPLY D6CduSc
there are people who are not satisfied
with the clerk of the county commission
| ers. According to this there is no fault
to be found with the present registration
law, even by those who are asking for its
repeal, and the fight, from this point of
view, is not against that law, but against
a man who discharges certain duties I'M
! der il We submit that the leCicIa +,,ra
would not be acting wisely by substitute
ing bad law for good one, and thus
| injuring a whole community, to get rid of
the clerk of the county commissioners
who doubtless has his share of political
| enemies.