The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-14
-uc SMALLPOX SITUATION.
M LOOKED INTO BY SUR
~ cFoN WERTENBACKER.

ne Will GO to Southwest GeoFsi" for
"s Purpose TO-dny-BiII Under
Iteration to Create IA State
If Hcalth-Biu to Put n Fine
ro,egraph Companies for Fail
70 Deliver Messages-QuestiOn
-.,.ed as to Rewards.
Nov. 13.-Past Assistant Sur
~ C. Wertenbacker of Wilmington,
naval officer in the United States
&c with the rank of captain, has been
.,e.d by Gov. Gambler to investigate the
.r.rox epidemic in Southwest Geor>
-,,+ Wertenbacker will leave for his
4 of operations tomorrow. He will be
aged in this work for a month. This
,,-..rieatfon will extend as far east as
T-,oss and as far west as Stewart coun-
=. He has made a speciality of small
~ cases all his life, and is one of the
h.tnosred men in the medical profession
On that disease.
can't Wertenbaeker went before the
t,o,sa Committee on Hygiene and SAM
,,ton this afternoon by special invitation
anil gave them the benefit of his long and
r.rable experience. This committee had
,,isr consideration the bill of Mr.. Speer
n sumter for the creation of a state
lo9rd of health.
The committee has determined upon a
,sqsure that will be reported as a sub
siute for the Speer bill, which entirely
changes the plan proposed by that gentle
nan. Instead of a state board compris-
Il ing some seven or nine members, who
must be selected from different sections of
The state, the substitute measure will pro-
vide for the creation of a new department
If. f1e state to be known as the health de-
n,rment to be presided over by health
4 commissioner to be appointed by the Gov
er0r and confirmed by the Senate, who
i will receive a salary of 5000 per year.
4 A local health officer is to be chosen by
tsa ordinary, or County Commissioners.
sthe case may be. who will be under the
n direct supervision of the state health Off
Ger and who Is charged with reporting
\ uumptly all contagious diseases that crop
4 ort in his county. The state officers is to
f be clothed with plenary powers and Will
have absolute control of all quarantine
regulations.
This measure has been determined upon
BY the committee and is being prepared
4 and as soon as completed, will be reported
1 totie House.
Or. Rudieal a member of this commit
Zee said tonight that this was the best
solution of the question and gave as his
oanion that the means inaugurated by
Cant Wertenbacker and the expenses al
ten5ant upon his investigation would cost
the state nearly as much as a years SAT-
ary for the health officer under this pro-
posed measure.
Fine on Telegraph Companies.
The general judiciary committee of the
House this morning voted favorably on
Hadwicks Lin imposing a fine of $50 on
telegraph companies failing to deliver
messages but not without resistance from
The companies attorneys, Albert Howe 7
. Jr. and Thomas B. FEEDER, representing
rsrectively he Western Union ana, Post
al telegraph companies. A similar law
vas first enacted in 1887, the penalty be-
l1g 500, which was reduced TO so in 1882
and wholly repealed in 1891.
The appropriations committee passed
hy0rably upon several measures, the most
important being the bill of Mr.. Blalock of
Fayette to increase the invalid pension
lsl for 1900 by $500, making an aggre-
gate of S195, 900, and the INDECENT
list by $50 go. aggregat! ting S26S co., Mr.
demanded this increase and the commit
tee voted them the money.
The deaf and dumb institute, at Cave
Springs, asked the committee for S33, 900,
4 IS follows For a dining room, etc, and
Industrial department for the white pu-
pills $4,000; for erecting a building for
PHYSICAL training, $1,000; for an addition
10 the negro department, $11 900. This
committee may send a subcommittee 10
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and, meanwhile, the bills were referred to
subcommittee. President Felix Corrupt
Of the board of trustees and Profs. Conner,
Harris and Dempsey of the institute APP
peared before the committee and urged the
4 appropriations.
Where Are the officers:
y The bill appropriating 800 reward to
Foster Sherlock of Augusta for the cap.
"a ure of Dan Dunn, noted desperate. was
N nssed The reward was promised by
Il iov Gambler through the telephone to
81 augusta to Solicitor w. H. Davis, but be-
a ause of his failure to make a formal Of
"a !cial request the Governor could not is
Xue the proclamation nor pay the reward.
n representative Lindsay Johnson of Floyd
Bounded a warning to the committee THAI
b seemed 10 him that criminals could NOT
e captured in Georgia unless there was
tSNdIu Oh S-JU OF S6UV, ana ne WdHteu u
1noW where the officers were.
The bill appropriating $4,000 to main
am the prison department for 1900 was
aoied until the committee could get more
information on the subject. 1t will be re-
Inemoered that the recent report of the
commission said that the department had
been sef-sustaining and perhaps vague
memories of this were in the minds of the
committeeman when they very promptly
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