The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-18
SAVED THEIR DAYS SALARY.
LEGISLATORS WOULD HAVE SAT
ONLY 40 DAYS SATURDAY.

They Reluctantly Vote to Accept
Pay For Only the Actual Time of
the Session, But at Night SCOOP i'm
the PAY For the Full so Days by
Merely Taking Rccess-The Vote
AGAINST an Exhibit at Nashville
Rd,onsidered.
AHnta. Ga, Dec 1.-THE joint commit
teel.9polnted to consider the time of adj
5oJ nment of the general assembly made
i'll -.port to both Houses to-day. The re-
n stated that the fifty days session
Ia expire on next Sunday, but recon-
l lded that adjournment be taken on Sat
! dav but the members to receive their
per diem only for 40 days. AS they could
not hold a session on Sunday, the commit
tee thought that day, although it came
within the session, should not be paid
for
In the Senate the committee report was
agreed to without debate but in the House
there was quite lively debate on account
of the proposition to pay for 40 days only.
Mr.. Fogarty of Richmond offered an
amendment to the report substituting 50
days for 40 and upon this there was lot
of talk. Most of it, however, was in hui
morous vein, some of the members SEEM
ing to think it was good joke on them.
MIR. johnson made two speeches in favor
of the amendment on the ground that the
members ought not to be asked to give up
their per diem just because it happened
that the last day of the session was sun
day, but when it came to vote Mr.. john
son turned tail and voted for the 49 days
pay.
Tonight. however, the debate was made
a useless waste of time by decision to
merely take a recess until the hrSt
Wednesday in February, instead of ad-
1ourning. At the February sitting the
Carter charges against Judges Reese and
Sweat are to be disposed of.
Upon the assembling of the House this
morning Mr.. Johnson of Hall made mo-
ton to reconsider the resolution introduce
ed by him making an appropriation of
5000 for a state exhibit at the Nashville
exposition, which was lost last night and
mis- motion was adopted.
The Senate has added an amendment to
the general appropriation bill for the ex-
hibit and the House will have chance to
vote on that when the bill comes back
from the Senate for concurrence In the
several amendments.
The Senate amendment gives 5000 for
the exhibit proper, and $1,000 for wo-
mans exhibit.
The House followed the example of the
Senate in tabling the bill allowing the
graduates of the Girls Normal and Indus
trial School to teach in the public schools
without further examination. The senti-
fnent of the House is that there should
be no exemption from examination to
teach in favor of any school and bill Of
this kind will be reported by the commit
tee at the next session. The idea of Mr..
West of Lowndes in introducing the bill
exempting the graduates of the Milledge-
vile school was to put it upon an equal
footing with the school at Barnesville and
other places which now enjoy this ex-
emption.
ing 1t a misdemeanor to solicit for the
sale of liquor in any prohibition county,
and also the bill requesting tax collectors
to render monthly reports to both the
state and county of all collections made
by them.
The House also passed the resolutions
allowing the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad to acquire a certain part of
the right of way of the state road at
Marietta, and requesting the state of Ten
nessee to permit the recently completed
maps and surveys of the right of way
of the Western and Atlantic railroad
W4AAH SIlOM lAlG property VI the Sldlt
Tennessee, to be filed in the office of the
state and made official.
In the Senate this morning Mr. Hop
kins made an effort to have the Kilpat-
p rick resolution providing for a joint COM
mittee to investigate plans for the dis
position of the convicts, which passed last
night, reconsidered. He objected to the
expenditure of money for travelling over
the country by this committee, and was
lighting that part of the resolution. The
resolution was not considered, however,
the point being raised and sustained by
President Berner that the bill has already
been considered once and could not be
reconsidered the second time.
The Senate completed the general appro-
priation bill tonight, with the exception
of the section over which there is to be
a fight. These are the military State Uni
verslty common school, state normal
school, lunatic asylum, chronological
school and Nashville exposition items,
which will be debated tomorrow. If the
appropriations and tax bill can be com
pleted Tomorrow night the legislature will
adjourn then. instead of Saturday, to re-
assemble on the first Wednesday in Feb
ruary, on account of the judicial invesH-
cation.