The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
LAST DAYS OF LEGISLATION.
HOUSE VOTES TO EXTEND THE sEs-
SION A DAY.

Uhe Action Taken in order to Grant
the senate More Time and Ensure
the Passage of the Convict BiII-At-
tendance in the House slim and
Slight Opposition Sufficient to Pre-
vent the Securing of the COnstitu-
fionaI Majority.
Atlanta. Ca Dec. 11.-When the House
met this morning Mr.. Perry Of Whitfield
asked for a reconsideration Of the action
o. yesterday by which was defeated the
Senate resolution providing that Saturday
and Sunday be not counted as legislative
days. and thus extend the session two
days. The Senate wanted this resolution
passed so that more time would be given
10 consider the convict bin ana the failure
OF the House TO grant the request yester-
day was regarded as endangering the pas
sage of the bin in the upper house. This
fact put the members TO thinking, and
when Mr. Berry put his motion this morn
ing it was adopted by a vote of 70 to s.
Upon taking up the resolution Mr.. Cal
win of Richmond moved TO amend by de-
claring Sunday and Monday non-legisla-
tive days thus extending the session
through Thursday and Friday next.
Mr. Fielder of Fulton offered to amend
this by making only Sunday a non-legisIa-
tive day. which would extend the session
one day.
Mr. Calvin's amendment was lost, but
that of Mr.. Fielder was passed, and the
resolution, as amended was adopted.
This gives the House one more working
day.
A bill by Mr.. Halves Of Warren to re-
quire that county schools commissioners
shall not charge for recording orders, was
voted down, as was also a bill providing
that registrars in serving summons TO tax
defaulters should state the year for which
the tax was not paid. Both measures
were favorably reported and should have
passed. On account of the small atten-
dance. however, slight opposition was able
10 prevent the passage of both of them.
Another bill by Mr.. HAYES to provide
healthy apparatus for all county jails fail
ed of a constitutional majority.
The House took up bill by Senator Tur-
ner to allow the use Of registration lists in
regular elections to be used in intermediate
elections, and this was passed by a vote of
lis to 5.
bill by Mr.. Bennett Of Jackson county,
to authorize suits against the state for
acts of the Northeastern railway was pass
ed. This places the Northeastern in the
category with the Western and Alabama
railway.
Mr.. Bush secured the reconsideration this
morning Of the refusal Of the House yes
terday to disagree with the adverse report
on Senator Walkers bill to require militia
districts adopting the stock law to erect
fences.
The Senate sv,o,+ ., q -,,l.r,,t,,~~ A., ,, H.
and passing local bills. and sat up tonight
doing the same thing
One general bill which caused discus
sion, was Mr.. Berner's limiting the fees
OF receivers to a scale ranging from 10
per cent, according 10 the amount of
money brought into court. II was sup
ported by Mr.. Berner and Mr. Gray, ana
opposed by Mr. Golightly. The favorable
committee report was adopted, but the bill
was tabled temporarily because Of the
slim attendance.
The convict bin viii probably come up
for passage in the Senate Monday. day
or two viii be required to hear the
speeches of the senators. il is quite sure
that there VIII be a determined effort TO
change the bill In several particulars. and
Senator DunWody VIII try to have stricken
from the twelfth section the words Pro
vided said convicts are not worked in iron
foundries, cotton factories and machine
shops, where the products of their labor
are offered in competition with that OF free
Tabor" Mr.. Dunwody's position IS that
AZ conyicts are to be worked at turpentine
stills, saw mills and on farms they should
be worked elsewhere, and that any excep-
ton is class legislation and an unjust dis
elimination.
Senator Cook has an amendment to the
sixteenth section, putting aside the net hire
of convicts, after paying all salaries and
expenses, for a prison fund, to be used
for the erection of a permanent peniten-
tiary when a sufficient amount shall have
accumulated.