People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-12

agricultural lines. President of college
stated not his intention to endow {
chair OF practical agriculture and the
school q mere pEetense and not in com
pliance with the laws OF congress
Committee sees no hope of having suct
a college. The Model Farm" is E
sham; no diversified crops, no care dis
played and pronounced by all a failure
not visited for years by trustees, fac
ulty nor students therefore the claim:
in University catalc que are fictitious
committee recommends college be es
| tablished, separate from University tt
comply with congressional laws tt
maintain good ia tn and located at OF
near the present experiment station
and in connection herewith expert
ment station complimented. Commit
tee recommends a purchasing agent
be appointed for purchase of sup
plies for departments and also that al
officers be required to keep books
showing receipts and vouchers for ex
penses. Recommends all off sers make
quarterly settlements with comptroller
general; minority member Mr.. Little
made report.
To Regulate Messages.
McLsrty of Douglas, introduced q
bill requiring telegraph and telephone
mpanies to give al messages origi.
mating with another or competing line
the same attention as its own.
Other Bills offered.
A dispensary for BlaSely: public
schools for McRae; repeating the act
making permanent the income of the
State university. This repeats the
funding act of the land scrip fund;
sbolishing the state geological depart
ment; reducing the salaries of oil in
spectors in the department of agricul-
ture; reducing the salaries of railroad
commissioners; reducing salaries OF
supreme court stenographers; provid
ing for the uniform auditing of al
state accounts; selecting eleven men,
one from each congressional district in
state. with authority to divorce the
agricultural college from the state
university and establish it elsewhere,
If in their judgment that would be best
for all the interests involved; repeal
ing the law which permits Chancellor
Boggs, of the State university, to re-
ceive 5000 for the Savannah colored
college; settling the alleged claim Of
the state against the HArdeman estate
to give the state and defense an equsl
number of challenges in murder trials
amending the code so as to allow q
defendant in any indictable offense to
be sworn as any other witness pro
viding penalty for tax defaulters; rs
Ia blishing a new CITY court in Carroll
creating prison commission for Geor
gia; appropriating 81 GIT 43 for the
expenses of the Sweat Reese investiRa
tion To axamj ma O r,'>li0:er-ts for -taaeh-
| ers' places in higher stud es; providing
for division of surplus waite from mills
and fac, cries; to organize new judi
cial circuit of the superior court of the
state to be composed If the counties o.
Carroll, Heard and Troup; to make
football and all slmilar games misde
meanor in Georgia A.; to prohibit anC
punish any attempts to damage any
kind of buildings; making penal the
purchasing or dealing in contracts by
coun Y school commissioners; allowing
farmers to mortgage their crops before
the same shall be planted requ rims
the state memoirs al board to make ar
Investigation and report on confeder
ate cemeteries; preventing the keeping
of bee stands within fifty feet of public
citizens asking that the court house q
Deca ur be rot removed; authorizing
school commissioners to buy books anC
furnish to pupils at cost; making run
ming excursion trsins on Sunday 1
pc III offens; for a straight lease o
pepitentiary convicts and election o
principa keeper by the people; max
ing misdemeanor to wear or disp q,
about The person any badge or device
used as an insignia Of membership b.
any order or obtaining aid without thu
authority of the order; requir ng com
mission merchants to keep registe
showing from what transportation com
panies produce is received and to whom
Id; exempting county school com
missioners from examination ate
passing once.