The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-22
GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S WORK.
PASSED 1872 BILLS SUIT OF 700
THAT WE'RE INTRODUCED.

Governor Gambler Disposing of Them
RauidIy-AI Read over by the
Governors Secretary-AtIanta :
Court House scheme Strikes An
other Snag-LOwcst Bid $4,000
More Than the Fund on Hand.
Receiver for Fire Insurance Co.
Atlanta. Ga. Dee 21.-(SpeciaD.-T
enrolling committees of the Senate and
House. who remained over to wind up
LEGISLATION. have finished their work, and
ali The bills are in the executive Office
awaiting the action of the Governor, who
still has several days in which TO pass
upon them.
An bills are carefully read over by the
Governors secretary, Maj. Mark Gambler,
and also partially read by the Governor
himself. before they are subjected to the
executive signature.
The General Assembly passed q bills
and s resolutions Of the JIG introduced in
the Senate. and 157 bills and resolutions
of the 5s4 introduced in the House. The
total number Of bills and resolutions
transmitted to the Governor is 1872
The total number of bills and resolu-
lions introduced in both houses Of the
general assembly was 700. and of these 1872
passed.
Those which were not defeated are
either in committee Enacted on, or are
ready for a second reading All measures
which were not put on their passage or
killed on the report of the committee, will
go over to the next session as unfinished
business.
Court House Hits IA SnnE.
The county court house improvement
which has been in prospect for several
years past, and which was announced
several weeks ago as being upon the point
of realization, struck another snag to-day
When the commissioners of roads and
revenues met to open bids for the erection
of the wing or annex it was found that
the lowest bid was $4,000 more than the
county has money to invest. Therefore
all bids were declared off, and the plans
for the building will have TO be modified
Two years ago the county commission
ers levied a special tax for court house
purposes, intending to raise enough mon
ey to build an entirely new building, one
that would be an ornament to the city,
A deal was engineered with the city by
which the present Old court house bulld-
ing was sold to the city for municipal pur-
poses, but this deal was fought and de-
feated In the courts by Alderman James
G. Woodward who will step into the office
of Mayor the first of the coming year.
That trade was Illegal and after 1t fell
through, the county commissioners decid-
ed to use 100000 that they had raised in
improving the present court house, but
they set their plans too high, the lowest
bid to-day being $l29000.
Receiver for Insurance Company.
Application was made this afternoon for
a receiver for the Southern Fire Insurance
Company of Atlanta the claim being
made that the company is insolvent, and
that to further conduct its business, would
result in fraud to the policy holders.
The petition was filed by attorneys rep
resenting Mr. Orville II. Hall, who owns
stock in the company to the amount of
$1,000 The petition was presented to
Judge Lumpkn, who granted a temper
airy restraining order, ordering that the
assets be held intact, and setting the case
for hearing on Dec. "A.