The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
STEERING COMMITTEE SCORED
MOORE OF CARROLL FEELS THAT
HE HAS BEEN BADLY TREATED.

HE HAS BEEN BADLY TREATED.
He Complains That His Bill in Ref
erence to Life Insurance COmpn-
mics Was Not Put on the Calendar
DeSpfte the Committees Promise
That 1t should Be-Mr. Fielder
Makes a Peppery RetOrt to the
CharEe-SteerinG Committees Pro-
rramme Thrown Out Entirely at
the Afternoon Session.
Atlanta, Ga, Dec. ANT. Moore OF
Carroll created a breeze in the House this
morning by arraigning the steering com
mitee." which fixes the order of business
from day to day Mr. Moore had bill
In reference to life insurance companies,
which he said ne has made many efforts
to have brought up. lie declared in his
arraignment that several members of the
committee. whom he called by name, had
promised him to put the bill on the calen-
dar to be acted upon, but had never done
so. He thought he was being treated IN
fairly.
When Mr. Moore sat down Mr.. Fielder
rose TO a question of personal privilege and
said that if Mr.. Moore intended TO say
that the steering committee, of which
he was member had acted in bad faith
with Mr. Moore it was a cowardly and
unparlamentary imputation, or words to
that effect.
AT the afternoon session the row over
the steering committee, which has been
under the ban of the rural members for
several days, bobbed up again and was
finally overridden entirely and the pro
gramme of the committee of which Mr..
Calvin of Richmond is chairman, was
thrown out and a whole batch of bills not
chalked up at all were taken in hand and
acted upon.
The bill to repeal the university funding
act of 1881 was reconsidered this morning.
Mr.. Swift of Ebert. the author of the
bill, moved for reconsideration and car
Tied his point by a good majority.
The chief interest in the morning ses-
sion centered in the Turner bill to further
exempt church and educational property
from taxation. There was a lengthy de
bate on this measure, which was up for
passage. The majority of the speakers ad-
vocated the measure, but there were
strong speeches against it and the bill
failed by fourteen votes of the requisite
majority. 1t being a constitutional amend
ment, III votes We're necessary for its
passage. The object of the bill was to
amend the constitution so as to
empower the legislature to ex-
empt from taxati9n all prop.
erty of any college, incorporated academy
property of any church or any property
cd r ri a
vided the property so exempted be not used
for private profit or income.
Several more appropriation bills were
passed by the House, which disagreed to
an adverse report on the bill of Senator
Battle, which gives the state the same
number of strikes in murder cases as de-
PENDANTS have.
Mr.. Whipple of Dolly, came to the front
with rather delicate resolution. 1t was
designed, he said, to put the House on re-
cord formally as opposing charges in the
expense accounts of committeeman for any
person other than the committeeman them
selves. 1t appears that some members
charge the state with the expenses of 9TH
er persons when they go off on committee
work, and as Mr.. Whipple, who is a mem
Der of the auditing committee said 1t was
delicate matter to pass upon these items,
he wanted the House to vote its sentiment
which it did by adopting the resolution.
extras" will continue to be charged by
junketing members just the same.
There was a lively discussion over the
joint resolution to compensate the peniten-
uary committee for services in advance of
the legislative session in the Senate this
morning. Senator Hopkins thought it was
dangerous precedent to sanction the ac-
ton of the chairmen of those committees
in calling extra sessions without legisla-
tive authority. He thought their failure to
agree on any plan was sufficient evidence
of the unwisdom of such sessions, but the
assumption of authority to sit between ses-
sons, if approved, would encourage every
chairman to call his committee together
when he thought there might be impor-
tant legislation ahead.
Mr.. Cook, chairman of the Senate peni-
tentiary committee, made q statement to
the effect that he made the call because
the governor requested him by telegraph
to come to Atlanta and confer with the
officers of the penltentiary department, and
after comforting with the governor and the
principal keeper, and at their suggestion,
he called the committee together in order
to save time in the consideration of the
question. He said the House committee
was called without consultation with the
governor, but the governor thought that
inasmuch as the House committee had
been called, the Senate committee should
sit with it. The resolution then passed.
The bill dividing the eastern circuit was
not reached in the House tonight. II
will come up tomorrow, and the indica-
tons are that it will pass Friends of the
measure say tonight they have more than
enough votes pledged to pass it.
The House passed the Blalock bill. pro-
viding for three grades of fertilizers in the
state
The Senate spent the afternoon and
night discussing the convict bill, but did
nnt 7fc1,f 4 l. min -,
tomorrow, practically as it came from the
committee.