The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-24
BARS PROTEST A BOOMERANG.
SENATORS PRONOUNCED 1T A SLAM
DER AND AN INSULT.

The senate Resented the Insinuation
by Passing the Substitute Measure
by Vote of 20 to 7-SenntOr Nc
Ghee Particularly severe in HE
Arrnignment of the bar Commit
tee, and Declares He Has Absolute
Confidence in GOV. Gambler.
Atlanta Ga, Nov. 2S.-To-day's session
of the Senate was about the warmest
that has agitated the solons of the upper
house in many a day. The weather out
side the capitol was freezing, and there
was little or no steam on in the radiat-
ors. but the heat In the blood of the SEN
ators was sufficient to make the atmos-
phere of the chamber sultry.
1t was al about the fractional hght over
the election of the Atlanta City Court
judges and solicitors. The details of this
fight have been stated in these columns
from time to time, and last night story
was sent out giving the latest phase in
the form OF an address to the general as
sembly from a committee of local bar as
ISOLATION. At the opening of the session
the Fulton representatives, in the House
introduced bills giving the people the
right 10 elect the successors to the
present judges. in accordance with a vote
of people cast at the last city primary
Immediately factional politics developed
another bill in the Senate this one max
ing the election of City Court judges by
the people a general law for the state.
I.
ure this way, and thus Gov. Gambler would
have to appoint Atlanta judges, but the
Senate general bill was abandoned
week or more ago and its advocates un-
dertook to accomplish their purpose by
securing an amendment TO the House, bur
by the Senate committee, which allows the
Governor to appoint these successors and
postpones the election by the people until
1900.
The success of Howell or opposition fac
ton in the Senate, is what brought forth
the protest from the bar committee above
referred 10. Hoke Smith poses as leader
on one side. in favor of the House local
election bill, while Albert Howell was the
recognized leader of the other side whose
object was to keep the appointment in
the hands of the Governor. The address
of the bar committee charging that oppo-
sidon was coming from the railroads and
other corporations, who seek to put a cor
poration judge on the bench through APP
pointment by Gov. Gambler, and insinu-
ating that members were unduly infiu-
enced by railroad passes and other courte-
sizes fairly threw the Senate into a panic
of angry resentment. If there had ever
been any chance to pass the House bills
the bar committees address swept it
away like so much dust in the crater of
NO., =, = fo,.
action there We're dozen senators ready
to launch forth in fiery reputation of the
charges of the bar committee. 1t was pro-
nounced a Islander and an insult to every
member of The legislature, and rallyng
under this sort of resentment the Senate
showed its reputation by passing the sub
sttute by vote of % TOT
Senator McGhee was particularly severe
in his arraignment of the bar committee.
He declared that there was politics all the
way through the case and laid much of
the responsibility for the accusation at the
door of the observation-disclosures He
said the Atlanta Journal was opposed to
Gov. Gambler, and it was this paper that
was leading the fight TO take the appoint
ment of the judges out of his hands. Mr.
McGhee and the other senators who made
speeches declared that they had full con-
fidence in the integrity of the Governor.
and said he 81 would rather trust him
to make these appointments than to trust
the election to be influenced by men who
would adopt such methods to deprive him
of this appointive power"
Besides Senator McGhee, speeches
against the House bill, and all repudiating
emphatically the accusations of the bar
committee, were made by Messrs. Steed.
Terrill Mann Nesbtt and others. Messrs.
Fouch. Brannan Reddlng and Blalock
stood by the House bills, but were in a
hopeless minority.