The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19
.SOLONS On TO THE SCHEME.
The Object of the Registration Bill
Understood.

Understood,
The other Members of the House Now
Convinced That the Measure is In
tended to Give Faction Control of
the Elections - They Also See
Through the Effort to Rush the Bill
Through Before the Opposition Could
BE Heard From-Another Important
School Bill.
Atlanta. Ga. Nov. 1S.-The correspond
ence between the Chatham delegation
and the citizens committee, with Gen.
McGlashan's communication to the special
judiciary committee, to which the Doolan
registration bill was referred, as pub
hshed in the Morning News that reached
the House this morning, was the subject
of large amount of comment. None Of
the Chatham delegation were present in
the House. and the members who read
the article had poor chance to give it
proper digestion The opinion prevailed
that the Chatham members did not act
fair with their constituents, but
took advantage of the con
idence reposed in them by
the citizens committee, in order to get
their bill through the House. This action
by the delegation will prove boomerang
1t has already been shown that there is
much more behind the registration bill
than a simple desire by the delegation to
serve their constituents. If the bill was
not designed to serve a personal or pOlit-
ical use to the delegation, and any fac
ton with which it may affiliate, the log
ical members wonder why they were
anxious not to let the other side have
hearing.
CHAIRMAN PIKE AROUSED.
Chairman Pike, of the special judiciary
committee, has been thoroughly aroused
to the situation, and may be relied upon to
give the citizens committee fair deal IN
so far as he can when the bill, which, as
already stated, has been recommltted
through his efforts, comes up before the
committee on Tuesday next. Mr. Pike
says he thought Representative Osborne
was acting with an understanding with
the citizens committee, or the bill would
never have been permitted to 90 through
as it did. The idea seems to have been to
get the bill through the House in
the hope that it would be carried
along in the rush of business toward tn
latter part of the session in the Senate.
ANOTHER SCHOOL BILL.
Another important bill for the schools
and teachers of the state was introduced
in the House this morning by
Mr.. Fleming, of Richmond. First
there was the Ham bond bill. When that
bill was up for discussion, it was sug-
gested by a prominent member of the
House that this bill would require an
amendment to the appropriation bill.
Mr.. Fleming drew an amended bill, so as
to meet that objection. Then some
members of the House stated that they
would vote against the bonds
but would vote for a direct tax. Mr..
Fleming drew bill for direct tax to
meet that objection. All these bills are
now ready for passage and Mr. Fleming
SAYS he hopes to get them all put down
for a special order on the same day next
week and then every member can take
his choice and vote to suit himself.
TITLE OF THE NEW BILL.
But whether any additional money can
be raised or not the bill which Mr.. Elem
ing introduced this morning will be
pressed to its passage. 1t means a great
step in advance for the schools
The title, which is as follows, gives a
good idea of its contents:
"A bill to be entitled an act to sys-
tematize the finances, and increase the
efficiency of the common schools by pro-
viding for direct payment into the state
treasury of all moneys belonging to the
common school fund, and the use of the
for quarterly appointments and dis
bursements of the common school fund
for quarterly payments to teachers; for
making the school year cOincident with
the fiscal year; for postponing the openiny
OF the school year for 1894 until July Il of
that year and for other purposes If
this bill becomes a law every county in
the state will have placed to its credit on
the books of the treasurer, at the end of
each quarter, all the money then in the
treasury belonging to that county, so that
quarterly payments will thus be secured
to the extent of the money on hand
When this machinery is once put in oper-
alton it will be plain sailing for the
future; the teachers will get the money
that has been voted them, and if
this money should be sufficiently
increased the teachers can be paid
as other servants of the state are paid
MIR. Fleming has submitted the bill to the
school commissioner, as well as Assistant
Quinn, and both of these gentlemen
heartily approve it.
HUSBAND AND WIFE AS WITNESSES.
There is at present law on the statute
books prohibiting man from testifying
against his wife in court, and vice versa.
A bill introduced by Mr. Graham allows
either husband or wife to testify against
the other in criminal cases, but does not
make it compulsory for them to do so
The Joint committee from the House and
Senate, which has just returned from a
visit to the Asylum for the Deaf and
Dumb, submitted its report this morning
recommending the appropriation of
s., 500 additional to the institute for erect
ing building, in which these unfortu-
mates shall be taught something that will
be useful for them to know.
MIR Bacon, of Bib, got in a new rail
road bill to-day, to enlarge the powers of
the railroad commission, authorizing it to
frame rules and regulations in regard to
COMPRISING cotton.
The bill to appropriate 500, 900 for a,
at Athens has been reported favorably
by the committee.
Senator Wright, of the First district,
has been absent from his seat during the
whole week on account of sickness.