The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-06
Fun IN The LEGISLATURE.
MT. BTannOn Tries 10 Pass a Substitute
Registration Bill.


Left-Two Reports Made on the Con-
stitutionality Of an Appropriation for
an Exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition.
Atlanta, Dec. 5.-The general registra-
ton bill received the finishing touches in
the House this morning, and after being
printed with all the amendments which
the House has been talking on since last
Saturday, it will be taken up as a special
order tomorrow morning and put upon
its passage.
There are only seven more working days
of the session remaining. and both Houses
will have to act promptly, or some Of the
important measures now pending will not
get through.
The appropriation bill is yet to be dis
posed of. and with the controversies over
the military, the university, girls normal
school, and several other appropriations.
a good part of the time will be consumed.
The venable insurance bill will also be
pressed in the House. to say nothing of
the many local bills that meantime will
want to get through or bust along toward
the close.
the legislators was shelved to-day for the
session. This is the Bush anti-barroom
dispensary bill which was to have come
up as the special order in the Senate. 1t
was postponed indefinitely, at the request
of Senator Mercer, who is one of the
leading advocates of this form of temper
ance legislation.
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the House this morning when the regis
tration bill was disposed of, Mr.. Brannon
of Fulton, being the star entertainer. Mr..
Brannon had had printed a copy of the
Fulton county registration act, and offer
ed it as a substitute for the committees
bill In doing so. he took the floor to
make a speech. Under the rule adopted,
he was allowed only five minutes time,
but not to he thwarted. Mr. Brannon
moved that the House hear him longer.
In a spirit of good nature, the House
agreed to the motion, accompanying the
announcement Of the vote with a round
of applause. The member from Fulton
then went on with his speech, which was
delivered in a style of vehemence and eX-
element that would have well befitted
case where the cause was one of life and
death Mr.. Brannon was frequently ap-
plauded. He declared that his substitute,
of which he had had third edition printed
and distributed was absolutely perfect,
and he offered reward of 81 to be paid
TO the girls industrial school, If any mem
Der would point out a defect in his bill |
Dodgers had also been distributed on the
desks, offering prizes in clothing and
furnishing goods to any member finding
a flaw in the bill which Mr. BrannOn
wanted the House to adopt. These dodg
ers were issued by a well known clothing
house. Nobody, however. undertook to
claim either the 1000 Of
fered by Mr.. Brannon or
any of the clothing store prizes, but when
the vote was taken Mr.. Brannon's bill
was buried clean out of sight. The popu-
lists were about the only members who
voted for it.
After the disposition of the registration
bill, the resolution to appropriate $4,000
for state exhibit at the Cotton States
Exposition was taken up. The resolution,
which was introduced by Mr. Hall of |
Coweta, gets around constitutional diff
culties by simply increasing the appro-
priaton to the department of agriculture
So. 900 and directing that department to
use the money for the exhibit. The eX-
hibit, however is to be supervised by a
board composed of one member of the
legislature from each congressional dis
trict and the governor, attorney general,
school commissioner, treasurer and con-
troller general After being reported IA
vorably by the finance committee, the
bill was sent to the general judiciary COM
mittee for a report as to its constitution
ality. This committee returned a majority
report in favor of 1t and minority report
against it. This minority report, which
was made on the ground of unconstitu-
tionality. was signed by Messrs. Fouche,
Nell, Bailey, Hodson, Rowlings, Farmer,
Worley, Bush, HUMPHREYS, McWhorter,
Spence, Taylor, Hodge, Reagan. Willing
ham, Wilkins, Harrison and McCurry.
Chairman Boynton of the finance COM
Ial,v ,Irs- orfxr
made speeches in favor of the appropria-
ton.
Mr.. Fouche, who headed the minority re-
port, had just begun his speech in oppo-
sition, when the House adjourned to con-
tinue the discussion over the exposition
appropriation at the night session.
The report of the joint committee, which
investigated the Northeastern railroad,
was read in the House to-day, and ordered
printed. The report recommends the sale
of the road. under the plan provided for
in the bill already before the Senate.
At the night session speeches were made
in favor of the exposition appropriation
by Messrs. McMichael, Hall, Gray and
Holland Messrs. Fouche and Morley
spoke aginst it. The bill was not put to
a vote tonight, but goes over until to-
morrow.
The eligibility of women to appointive
Offices in the gift of the governor is a
bone of contention that may prove troub-
lesome to the legislature. Two reports
were submitted in the Senate to-day on
the bill of Senator Roberts, making wo-
man eligible TO these offices. The ma
jority report was against the bill, and the
minority report for it.
Senator Whitley to-day introduced a
bill that is important 1t provides for
special terms of court to give speedy
trials to rape, murder and arson cases.
The Broughton bill, which incorporates
benevolent institutions and invests them
with full powers of guardianship, passed
to-day.
1t originally gave these institutions
a portion of the school fund, practically
making state reformatories of them but
this section of the bill was stricken out
After something of a debate over it the
Senate passed the bill amending the char
ter of the South Georgia Bank of Way
cross, allowing it to reduce its capital to
$4,000 in a savings department
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