The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-10
FILIBUSTERS WON THE DAY.
THEY PREVENTED CONFEDERATION
OF PROHIBITION BILL.

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cox County Court House Bill Re-
cOnsidered-HaII's Bill as to Rail-
road Suits Lost in the Senate.
Atlanta. Nov Elm order to stave off
the consideration of the Willlngham pro-
hibition bill to-day. the opponents of the
measure resorted to dilatory TASTES that
consumed the entire session from the
reading of the journal until the hour of ad-
journment al l o'clock, and for the last
ten minutes of the session Mr.. Brandon of
Fulton held the floor on a motion to ad-
journ until 3 o'clock, when the House was
adjourned by limitation.
To describe the scenes enacted to-day as
farcical is only putting it mildly. There
were motions and counter motions, points
of order that created more disorder; ques-
tions of personal and collective privileges
all sorts of fantastical motions, and reso-
lutions, and an intermnable call for the
ayes and nays.
1t was surprising the number of men,
bers that wanted the requisite three min
utes to explain their votes when all the
parliamentary aids would be exhausted
and roll call finally begun.
It took fully a half hour before the
drift of things dawned on the prohibition
cohorts and then Mr.. Willingham, in a
| spirit of retaliation, moved to adjourn. on
which the ever-ready flibusters called for
the ayes and nays, and when Mr. Will
| ingham sought to withdraw his motion.
chorus of objections greeted the request.
Speaker Pro TEN. Blalock appealed to the
members in vain.
Messrs. Hardwick of Washington and
Johnson of Barlow spoke to the circum-
ambient air when they declared that the
| action of the House was a shame on the
state of Georgia. Although Mr. johnson
declared the members were acting more
like pigmies than men, the flibusters kept
hlibustering, and the Speaker pro TEN. got
visibly madder and raped the harder with
his gavel, but all to no avail The Speak
er pro TEN. had said that the prohibition
bill would be considered to-day and the
hllbusters decreed that it should not, and
the hlibusters carried the day.
Wilcox Court House Bill.
lnnocently enough, Mr.. Moore of Carroll.
and Mr.. Moore was very much in earnest
about what he did moved to reconsider
the action of the House yesterday in de-
feating the bill TO remove The Court
House from Abbevllle TO Rochelle. He
made very calm, cogent speech in favor
of his motion, and sat down Mr.. Sloan
of Hall made an impassloned speech
| against the motion. Very attentivelv The
members listened and when he sat down,
| Mr.. Johnson of Barlow called for the pre-
| Vlous question, and on that Mr.. Rose of
| Camden called for the ayes and nays
| which was sustained. Then Mr.. Overslreet
| of Scriven moved to table the motion to
! reconsider and on that Mr.. Slaton of Full
| ton called for the ayes and nays, which
was also sustained, and then Mr.. willing
ham got mad and moved to adjourn and
| on that Mr. Mitchell of Thomas called for
| the ayes and nays, which was likewise
| sustained, the House having three separate
! aye and nay votes before the matter was
effectually disposed Of an hour and a half
| OF the two and half hours of the session
| remaining Then the flibusters adopted
| new tactics to help fritter away the preci-
| GUS moments, and all sorts of freak mo-
| tions and points or order were instituted.
| Speaker Pro Tenn BlalOck looked q per-
/ feet picture of despair Mr.. VIII ingham
did not try to disguise his disgust. Mr..
Tatum of Dade asked leave Of absence
for the members in the rear of the hall
| because they could not hear. Mr.. Morris
| wanted TO declare the session non-dies and
deduct the pay of the member, but he was
| all by his lonesome" Motions Of a triv-
| ial nature were put viva Voce and declar-
ed lost, the speaker ignoring calls for
division.
After much delay the roll was called on
the motion TO adjourn and it was lost. The
| speaker then sustained a point Of order by
| Mr.. Alien of Baldwin that a motion TO re-
| consider could not be laid on the table and
that the vote would recur on the motion
Of Mr. Moore Of Carroll 10 reconsider. Mr..
! Overstreet of Screven appeael flon the
decision Of the chair which was lcst on
aye and nay vote of 1877 to g. Only five
| stalwarts exhibiting the nerve to go on
record with Mr. Overstreet
Finally at 1870 p. m, the vote was had
on the original motion and reconsideration
carried by a vote of so TO GA. The remain
ing half hour of the session was aiken up
in diatory tactics on the motion 20 ad-
journ until O'Clock in the afternoon.
Mr. PAGES special order, the college lex
enlpticn Bill, was entirely lost in the shut
fie.
The Day in the senate.
In the Senate Mr.. Clifton's bn providing
for uniform system Of text DO ks for the
state, was recommitted for the purpose
of making some changes in the measure.
Tie following bills were passed:
| By Mr.. GroVenstein-A bill placing the
| solicitor Of The County Court Of Efhngham
county upon salary
BY the Samoa bin to amend section 9,
of the act providing for the appointment
OF a clerk of the County Court Of Eting-
ham county, for paying the fees Of said
| clerk.
BY Mr. Mama bill 10 fix the term of
the state geologist at two years, commence
ing Jan. /, 1901.
BY the Same-A bill to amend section 1895
Of he code Of 1898, volume 3, by striking
out of the ninth and tenth lines Of said
section, the following words TO wit;
when such recommendation is approv-
ed by the Judge presiding on the trial"
The House bill by Mr.. Hall of Blbb
which provides for the bringing of suits
against railroad companies in the county
in which the plaintiff resides came up
with an unfavorable report of the COM
mittee The report was adopted. and the
bill was lost.
The following bill was introduced and
| read for the first time:
By MIR. Clifton-To enlarge the powers