The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-09
WITH STATEHoUsE OFFICERS.
MILITARY ENLISTMENTS ARE TO
BE For TWO YEARS.


to New Orleans to Attend Agricul'
turaI MeetinE-Checks Are Being
sent to state Teachers and Pay
ment of Pensions VIII soon Begin
Savannah Banks Charter Amend
ed.
Atlanta. Jan. S-Gov. Gambler to-day is
sued the following military commissions
Capt W. F. Clarke Of the Americas
Light Infantry. Second Regiment; Capt
Robert Lee Cotter of the Perry Rifles,
Second Regiment; First Lieutenant 7. J.
Howard and Second Lieutenant J. J. Har-
rison of the Home Light Guards, Fifth
Regiment.
The following order was issued by Act
Ing Adjutant General Byrd to-day:
In compliance with a recent act of the
general assembly all enlistments or rein
listment hereafter made. viii be for a
period of two years. Regimental and I'M
assigned battalion commanders will pub
fish this order to the companies of their
command"
1t was under this order that the King
ston detachment of the Barlow County
Guards enlisted.
Acting Adjutant General Byrd is busy
getting ready for recognizing the militia
and the election of officers on Feb. /.
stevens Goes to New Orleans.
Commissioner O. 3. Stevens left this af-
ternoon for New Orleans to attend the
first annual convention of the Cotton
States Association of the Commissioners
of Agriculture, which convenes in that
city Wednesday. Jan. 10.
Ex-Secretary Wilson, of the national
AGRICULTURAL department, has been invited
to attend, and will probably be present.
Commissioners Leon Jastremsky, l. r.
Culver and Frank Hill, of the states Of
Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas res
pectively, will be there. The object of the
meeting is to discuss means of reducing
the acreage of cotton by giving stmu-
lus to grain culture. to lessening the fer
tilizer bills, and ascertaining each month
the actual condition of the cotton crop of
the South
The meeting will arrange for monthly
bulletins and the sending out of figures
giving indications as to the crop.
Among the other matters to be discuss
ed will be the Jordan fertilizer bill against
which Representative Morris of Cobb took
such a decided stand in the last House.
and which failed to receive a constitution
al majority. 1t was given out then by the
introducer that it was one of the results
OF the convention Oh AHTlculluTdl COtl-
misSioners that assembled in Atlanta dur
ing the State Fair, and that the commits
sioners of each state would endeavor to
have it adopted in their states. 1t is very
probable that the bill will be introduced
at the next session of the Legislature.
Paying Teachers Salaries.
State School Commissioner Glenn, and
his able assistant Col. Walter Woodall,
were busy to-day mailing checks to the
installment of the state teachers sala-
ries for the year 1899. The amount will be
in the neignborhood of 1925 900, and repre-
sents two-fifths of the entire school fund
for the past year. The other three-fifths
was paid the first and second quarters of
the year. The payments to-day, are in
advance. and If the commissioner keeps
up his good work it will not be long be-
fore complete justice will be accorded this
class of the states servants, who will
receive their salaries monthly like the
balance of the states officers.
Payment of Pensions.
Pension Commissioner Lindsey is also up
to his ears in work preparing for the pay
ment of INDECENT pensions, which begins
next Monday, the 18th, and these will
reach nearly $780,
There seems to be a widespread misun-
Outstanding over the state as to the Bla-
lock bill relative to pensioning widows OF
Confederate soldiers, who, by reason of
poverty and sickness, poverty and blind
ness, or poverty and intirmity, are unable
20 earn a livelihood. The general impress
sion is that the bill is already law, when
in point of fact it is only an amendment
proposed to the constitution. which must
be ratified at the next election. Every
day the Secretary of State receives in
quiries on this subject, the Ordinary OF
Henry county, who wrote to-day being
Abe latest W wanted 10 no or iubt in
the matter.
In addition to the letters received by
the secretary from all parts of the state
there have been for several days numbers
of personal callers who were seeking In
formation on this subject.
Supreme Court Convenes.
The Supreme Court reconvened to-day,
but there was no call of the docket as
the judges will sit this week in consulta-
tions. On next Monday the criminal dock
ct will be taken up, and it will occupy
the major portion of the week, although
"a few civil cases will be heard. Among
the important decisions to be rendered soon
by the court are those in the Central
Railroad case, the Spalding county pro-
hibition contest and the right of Fulton
county to establish a county police force
supplementary to the work of the sheriff
and his deputies.
Amendment to Bank Charter.
Secretary of State Cook to-day granted
an amendment to the charter of the Sa-
vannah Bank and Trust Company, so that
there might be incorporated in its special
charter the provision of the general law
for the Incorporation of banks as set forth
In section 1909 of the code. This section
relates to the issue, increase and diminu-
ton of capital stock and coufers upon the
board of directors the power to prescribe
how and In what sums, and at what
times and places, any unpaid part of cap
ttal stock shall be paid in. 1t gives the
directors the privilege of either suing or
selling at auction the stock of any de-
faulting stakeholder, after proper public
advertisements for thirty days and any
deficiency in the sum received Is to be
made good by the delinquent, the surplus,
If any, to be paid 10 him. 1t gives the
power of Unlimited increase and mini
mum decrease to not less than $4,000. A
majority vote of the capital stock is neces-