The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-12
TO KEEP OUT CIGARETTES.
uoVsE PASSED A RESOLUTION d.
RECTED TO CONGRESS.

UaiIroad Commission, Was Lost.
savannah City Court Bill VIII
come Up for Action To-day.
Atlanta Dec. 1l.-Mr. La Roche Of
r-.tbam. offered resolution to pay s256
10 Manning White for mis- services in re-
,..-tiag the case of Jack White, against
p p. Blount, sheriff of Mcintosh county.
.syi0g been employed by Solicitor General
"a W. Osborne, upon consent of Gov. At
kinson.
Mr.. La Roche said he had received
rrmber of letters from his constituents,
relative to the Vernon Shell Road bill.
15s substitute merely seeks to empower
tbt company to operate with electric pow
- and to withdraw the right to use the
nub.c roads of Chatham county.
THE CITY Court solicitorship bill win
come up again tomorrow. and, if it passes,
will he acted on Thursday or Friday, in
the Senate.
The house defeated the Bower bill to put
sleaping cars and telephone companies I'M
der Inc supervision of the Railroad Com
mission
The Knowles resolution to pay the city of
Atlanta. $3,4OO for street paving and sewer
sps on the states property was tabled
The House passed the Blalock resolu-
ZION appropriating 81, 200 for a clerk for
Adutant General Kell.
Cigarette Resolution.
The Howard resolution fer the Georgia
CONSERVATIVES to urge Congress to grant
the state authority to prevent the impor-
ta,ion of cigarettes into the state, was
passed - JAIN
The Howard resolution is as follows:
Resolved by the House of Representa-
tives. the Senate concurring, That the
senator's and congressman from Georgia
he requested to introduce and support a
hill authorizing the state of Georgia to
enact legislation looking TO the interven-
ton of the importation of cigarettes in
this state"
Under the ruling of the courts the pass
age of the Howard bill, which has been
p6nding before the House, would have
stopped the manufacture of cigarettes in
this state, but under the interstate COM
merce law they could have been brought
to Georgia from other states.
The resolution by Mr.. Morris of Cobb
to appropriate $500 for each of the years
1899 and 1900 for incidental expenses in the
Office of the Railroad Commission, was
defeated The vote stood 81 to 80 in favor
OF the resolution, but having failed to re-
ceive the required majority, ii was lost.
Mr. Morris gave notice he would move TO
reconsider
Mr. Ellis of Bibb moved to reconsider
the bill passed Saturday to abolish the
dispensary in Appling county. MIR. Ellis
made the point that the bill had never
been reported by a committee. The bill
vr-sa and ROT rod to ha
Committee on General Judiciary.
A License to Fish.
A bill by Mr.. Brown of Bryan to re-
Quire non-residents to take out a license
for $25 before they will be entitled to catch
oysters or fish in the public waters of
the state was passed. Violators of the
law are to be punished as for a INSIDE
meanor. Where river is a dividing line
between counties the privilege can be
granted by either counties.
The bill by Mr. Johnston of Barlow 10
provide that in the dscre ton of the judges
OF the Superior Court the jury lists may
be revised triennially, instead of biennally,
was passed by vote of 115 to /.
There was next considered a joint reso-
luton by Mr.. Knowles of Fulton to pay
the city of Atlanta $3,463.S3 for expenses
incurred for paving and sewerage around
the states property in this city, the
money having been advanced by the city.
Speeches in favor of the appropriation
We're made before the Committee of the
Whole House by Messrs. Knowles, Chappell
and Copeland. Opposition developed from
Messrs. Post of Coweta, Blalock of Fay
cite and Swift of Ebert. The commit
zee reported the appropriation favoraby.
On the motion to agree to the report
the vote stood 45 to As. The speaker vot-
ed aye, and the report was agreed to- II
became evident that the bill would be lost
j paced ON its passage. BY vote of 81
70 H. 1t was tabled, on motion of Mr..
Hardwck
Mr. Chappell of Muscogee, offered reso-
unions 10 pay SIS to the clerk of the House,
ana $50 to the secretary of the Senate, for
preparing and mailing to members an alb
stract of all business pending at the end
o, last session, and $3.50 to the journalizlng
clerks of both Houses for indexing the
journals.
Storm Inside and Out.
Two storms ragged about the capitol this
afternoon, one within and the other with
OUT and seemed for a while that the roof
would be lifted by either. The tin roof
La,ted like tinnery in full operation. and
Tor a time quelled the heated discussion
gong on underneath. AS soon as the
members forebodings were disspated,
lhey went at it again, hammer and tongs,
ana wrangled till $50 o'clock
Mt. Halls resolution to restore the right
III MAJ py jury by preventing judges from
aFectng verdicts, was under considera-
uol and when the author saw that it
dcAed the requisite constitutional major
ny ne moved TO table it before the result
was announced.
me point was raised that motion to
lao.e could not be entertained, after the
previous question had been ordered. The
speaker, MIR. Bower of Decatur, sustained
The point
Mr. Han appealed from the decision and
gtel this mornings action, when Speaker
!Li!e allowed the Kell resolution to be
.aoed Just upon the completion of the
aot' but before the announcement, which
vas taken up again this afternoon, several
onahses being recorded, and its passage
Announced
ar Blalock made the nice distinction
, ,Io' IN The Kell cases, the previous cues-
~ EOl mad not been called. while in this case
N, me Speaker, Mr.. Bower, agreed with
he he