The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-23
TO LEAVE TOMORROW NIGHT.
GALATIANS LEGISLATIVE DELEGA-
TION WILL BE ON HAND EARLY.

senator GrOvenstein VIII Join Them
at GuytOn and Go Up on the Same
characterization Taken by Senator
on Matters of Local Legislation a
surprise and disappointment 10
Leaders of the Liberal Side-Fac-
lions VIII Fight for fills influence
in the Matter of City Court Solicit
tor-Figures Showing Revenues OF
SOLICITORS Office to Be Prepared.
The State Legislature convenes Wednes-
day morning and the representatives from
Chatham will leave Savannah to-m1rrow
night so that they may be in the Capital
city bright and early and in good time for
the first days session. Senator G oven
stein will join them a Guyton and win 90
on to Atlanta on the same train.
There is no manner of doubt that the
stand taken by the Senator from this dis
trict on the subject of the pending looai
legislation was a matter of great surprise
10 the members Of Chathams delegation
and TO other prominent members of the
Liberal Club. These gentlemen had been
confident that the Senator would support
of all or almost all Of the bills, and when
he said in the Council chamber and sub
sequenuy in the newspapers that those Of
the bills that ne favored were the eXcep-
ton and not the rule, the Liberal Club
people were much perturbed in mind and
body and spirit. They we're prone to con-
fess that the Senator was too many for
p m
understand him.
The Liberal Club leaders expected that
when the Senator appeared before Coun-
Gil and expressed his views, at Councils
invitation, there would be woe and grief
inexpresslble in the councilmanic cham
Der. They had been predicting that the
Representatives from this county and the
Senator from this district would be a unit
on ell matters of local legislation, and
that a spirit of peace and harmony would
brood over all their common delibera tons
What was their surprise, then, when Sem
ator GrOvenstein declared that he was OPP
posed TO the repeal Of the bill making the
city officers elective by the incoming
Board of Aldermen on the ground that
he had helped to make the law what it
now is, that the last outgoing board had
had an opportunity to elect a set of city
officials that the same thing ought 10 be
true of the present board, and that what
was sauce for the goose, was sauce for the
gander." They were further surprised
when the Senator said that he was in har-
mony with the positions taken by the Cit
liens Club peop.e on almost every bill
that has been advertised for Introduction
at the coming session. He favored the
bin making the clerk and sheriff of the
City Court elective by the people of the
county, and as to one or two OF the others
he had not yet made up his mind.
When the bill providing fer the separate
solicitor for the City Court is put upon It's
passage, there win be warm fight for the
support Of Senator Grovenstein. As the
Senator states his position on this matter
it is to the effect that if the revenues of
the office, as it is at present constituted,
are sufficient to secure two thoroughly
competent men, he would favor the bill
providing for the election of another So
hcitor general. On the other hand should
it be shown him that the revenues are not
sufficient to tempt two good men to offer
for the Office, after it has been divided,
then he will oppose the bill.
The Libera al Club leaders say that il this
is his trouble and his only trouble they
win soon rectify It. They claim 10 be in
possession of official statistics, demonstrate
ing that the office of solicitor general pays
now something like sl4,000 a year. They
contend that if the judge of the CITY Court
receives $500 a year and the judge of the
Superior Court, but S2OC0 a year, and that
neither judge is permitted to practice law,
that $4,000 a year is too much for the so.
licitor general, who is permitted to get
and profit by an the legal practice TO which
his learning and ability entitle him. 1t is
asserted that figures that demonstrate
clearly just what the income of the solicit
tor general is viii be submitted to the Sen
ator, and that these facts ought to con-
vince him that the Office is big enough and
profitable enough to be divided in two,
without danger of its being occupied by a
less learned or competent man.
The other local legislation win furnish
plenty of excitement in the Legislature.
When it is 10 be submitted or the matter
is to be argued in committee, there VIII be
the usual assortment of Savannah polite
ians around the lobby of the KimbaN, who
viii carry their arguments and grievances
to the cars of the members Of the House
and Senate, and endeavor TO prove abso-
lutely that their side of the case is the
only one which can in any way he occu-
pied by those who espouse the right
IN THE NEW BUILDING.