The morning news., 1894-11-22
A NEW REGISTRATION Law.
Dir. ReddiGg Introduces a Bill TO Make
Il Uniform.


stitutional-rhe FOuche Bill for
Board of Medical Examiners Passed
With the Aid Of the Speakers Vote.
Atlanta, Ga, Nov 2l-In the lower
house Of the assembly this morning Mr.
Redding Of Pike county. chairman Of the
special committee on registration. intro
dUced the bill providing for a uniform reg
istration law prepared by his committee.
This bill viii be one Of the most important
measures with which the present session
Of the legislature viii have to deal
Speaker Fleming. who is devoted 10 re-
form in the elections. and the foremost
champion in the house Of the purity
Of the ballot drew the bill at the
request Of the special committee. If it
becomes a law all the local registration
laws viii stand repealed and elections in
every county will be conducted upon the
same basis. The courts have already de-
cided that these local registration laws are
unconstitutional, which makes the neces-
sity for the passage Of a general law i'm
peratve. Under the bill introduced this
morning repeating and other forms of
fraud in elections win be impossible. The
main feature or Lile Dill IS InaL lne mana
gers in each district or precinct shall be
furnished with a list of the voters in that
precinct only and that every man must
vote in his own precinct instead of any
where in the county, as Is the general Gus
tom in the state. BY this new method no
precinct could possibly poll more votes
than are registered in It, and the acquain-
tance of the managers with the voters in
their respective precincts would prevent
other fraud. The bill has been ordered
printed for the use OF the members
Speaker Fleming to-day cast the vote
which pasesd the Fouche bill, which pro-
vides for the establishment of a state
board of medical examiners the board
TO be composed Of tive members of each
of the three schools Of medicine, and ap-
plicants for license to practice to be eX-
amined b. the board Of their own par
ticular school only, The bill, on its pas
sage, had received only 81 votes, but be
fore the result was announced the speaker
cast the SSth vote, and il was saved. A
motion to reconsider viii be made to-mor-
row
Mel Branch, the populist member, made
one Of the speeches in favor of the bill
and was roundly applauded for his stand
Mr.. Worley Of Ebert opposed the bill
IN a speech in which he said it would be
a hardship on the poor boy who wanted
to become a doctor. Mr.. Fouche of Floyd
the author of the bill, in speaking in sup
port Of it,, said the papers are filled with
advertisements from mOuntebanks and
medical butchers, and this bill was in
tended to stop such practices, and to
elevate the standard of the profession in
Georgia. Under the present law anybody
with a diploma from a . edical college
or school could practice ia the state. He
said it mattered.nOt where he came FROM
he could practice if he had a diploma.
1t might be that he knew nothing at all
about medicine, but that did not matter
as long as he had diploma, and under
the law that entitled him TO practice.
If there is any one thing that will
arouse the Georgia Legislature it is
a discussion of lawyers. This morn
ing the House had 1t hot and
heavy for couple of hours over the bill
by Mr.. Wright of Floyd, requiring appli-
cants for admission to the bar to stand
an examination in the rudimcnts of Eng
lish and common school education as
we'll as law. 1t provides for the appoint
ment Of a commission of three by the
Judge of each circuit to whom candi-
dates for admission to the bar shall be
referred. Each candidate must answer
at least 70 per cent of the questions, and
he must have a reasonable knowledge of
the rudiments of an English education.
Mr West of LownGes wanted the section
referring to the examination in the rudi-
ments of an English educauon stricken
out.
MIR. Hogan, the long-whiskered popu-
list from the wilds Of Lincoln county,
wanted the examination to apply to
every lawyer admitted during the past
twenty years, as well as those yet to be
admitted
Mr.. Vests amendment was defeated
and Mr.. Hogan came near precipitatine
a row. The speaker finally ruled it out
of order, but Mr. Hogan would not sit
down until he fired a tinal shot by declar-
ing that he wanted to get rid of the jack
legs already in the profession. and he
was sorry to see that nobody in the House
objected to his amendment but lawyers
Mr.. Rockwell of Chatham started to
roast Mr.. Hogan, but was ruled out OF
order
The bill finally passed by a vote of 50
10 80.
The House also passed the bill max
ing it a penal offense to injure the good
name of woman, either by written or
spoken words.
Among the bills read a first time to-day
were two by Mr.. Rockwell of Chatham
to prescribe a penalty for maliciously
setting fire to any ship or boat near any
wharf in the state and to amend the code,
making it unlawful for any but a bonded
otf1cer to serve civil or criminal writs.
Mr.. Mansfield of Mcintosh introduced a
bill to repeal the act requiring the voters
of Mcintosh TO be registered.
The Senate this morning passed the
Mercer bill providing for a revision of the
geological department, and making an es-
Innate of the cost of draining the swamps
iu South Georgia, the idea being to have
the work done by the convicts at the ex-
piratiOn Of the present lease. All reference
10 having the work done by the Convicts
was stricken out of the bill before il was
passed.
Senator Harris of the Twenty-second dis
trict introduced bill this morning to off
set the one introduced by AIr. Nenable.
Nr Harris bill provides that hereafter
insurance companies shall be required to
deposit only 5000 for the privilege of
doing business in Georgia, instead of S25,-
GO. as is now required.
Senator McGrcgor introduced bill this
morning to amend paragraph ., section ],
article 2, of the constitution. so that il
may read: Every male citizen Of the
United states, q years of age, who has re-
sided in the state one year next preceding
the election, and shall have resided six
months in the county In which he offers
10 vote, and shall have paid ali taxes re-
quired of him for the next year preceding
the election, and which he may have had
an opportunity Of paying agreeably to
law, except for the year Of the election.
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