The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-06
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SALOONS NOT TO BE SHUT.
SENATE KILLS TURNER'S PRoHI-
BITION BILL.

Eighteen Votes In Favor OF the
Against 1.-THE Outcome Kills All
Chance of Prohibition LegisIation
mt This Session - Anti-bnrroosn
Bills Now Before the LOwcn
House Likely to BE Dropped.
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 5.-By a majority OF
five the Senate to-day killed the Turner
prohibition bill. which has been under dee
bate for the past three days. Two mems
bers only We're absent when the vote was
taken, one OF these being Senator Gieger Of
the First district. and the other Senator
Hudson of the Fifteenth.
1t was "a clean victory for the opponents
of prohlbitory liquor legislation. Every
man had made up his mind unalterably
and the result kills all similar effort for
the remainder of the session. No prohi-
bition bill can be passed through the Sem
ate. and for that reason the anti-barroons
bills now in the House will probably be-
dropped, as time devoted to them would bs
wasted.
The Turner bill, as II was originlly of
fered by its author, was a copy OF the
Bush bill, abolishing barrooms, and hav-
ing dispensary feature, this being the
issue made throughout the state by the
prohibitlonists In the last campaign. Ii
was so emascuiated by the Senate, how
ever, that when voted on to-day. 1t bore
no resemblance to the original, except as
one senator said, it's number and the nama
Of the author. II meant the total aboli-
90 tE1
short of 1t. Therefore the Senate had be-
fore 1t both the anti-barroom issue and the
prohibition issue without the dispensarv
clause and the result means that neither
can be passed In that body, although some
voted against the Turner bill who would
vote for an anti-barroom bill. on the
other hand straight prohibition received
votes that would have been against a dis
pensary measure. The vote which killed
the bill was as follow:
Ayes - Messrs Atkinson, Brinson.
Brooke, Culver Everett, Llewellen, Flint.
Gray Kemp, Fitzpatrick, Mcfarland.
Starr, T. d. Stewart, Thompson. Turner.
J. Y. Walker Witcher and wooten-1s.
Nays-Messrs. Allen, Battle, Blaiock.
Carter, Comas, Cook, Dunwoody, Goldln.
Golightly, Ham, Hopkins Hudson, Mann.
Redwine, Sheffield. Shropshire, stevens.
,. A. stewarts Strotlier yanburen. &. TIT
walker, Westmoreland and Wilcox-23.
Senator Hopkins was permitted to read
an explanation Of his vote, which in sub
stance was that HIS people instructed him
to support an anti-barroom measure, but
not straight prohibition, therefore he voted
No" but would Loyalty support an anti
barroom bill II presented.
Senator Dunwoody made the leading
speech against the bill to-day, and Sena-
tor Atkinson, the one for It,
Mr.. Battle was, however, the recognized
leader OF the opposition, and Senator Tur-
ner the champion of the bill An effort was
made to have It postponed until next Ties-
day, but Mr.. Battle opposed this and de-
clared that he would disregard the time
honored custom senatorial courtesy and
call the previous question to bring the
question to vote. Justice to the interest
OF the state demanded, he said that no
more time be DEVOTED to speech making
on the bill, which bad already consumed
three days, as every man had his mind
made up, and eloquence would not alter
their convictions.
The galleries were full. and many promi-
nent people, including a large number Of
the members of the House, crowded the
Hobbies of the Senate chamber during the
debate, and voted to-day. The Senate adj
journed till Monday.