The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-11
BLALOCK RESOLUTION FAILS.
LACKED FIVE VOTES OF CONsTI-
TUTIoNAL MAJORITY.

Means Short RatiOns for Public
school Teachers Next Year and
Nothing for INDECENT widows
Pensions-MinOrity Report on
state Sanitarium Charges Super
intendent With Being DereIiet in
His Duty and Permitting Cruel
Treatment Towards Inmntes-An
investigation Recommended.
Atlanta, Dec. 1O.-The House to-day
failed to pass the Blalock resolution
the second time, the vote being 50 to
So. The resolution received five votes
less than a constitutional majority.
There was a sharp debate on the sub
ject as before the opposition contend
ing that it was unconstitutional.
This action of the House means that
only part of the salaries of the school
teachers can be paid next year and
none of the INDECENT widows pensions.
The situation must remain as 1t is un-
til next year. with the hope that an
other General Assembly win do some
thing to remedy it.
Two reports relating to the state
Sanitarium were made to the House
The majority report, signed by Messrs.
Foster, Park, Allen, Underwood, Swift
and McAfee. praised the institution
highly. The minority report, signed
by Messrs Bush, Blue, Crumbley, SAN
ders and Parker, charged that the su-
perintendent was dereliGt in MS ouly
and permitted cruelty on the part Oh
the assistants towards the inmates. II
recommended a joint committee OF hNe
TO investigate between now ana the
meeting of the next General Assembly
and Mr.. Rush introduced a resolution
To this effect, 1t will come up to-mor-
row.
The bill b. Mr.. Hardwick OF WASH
tnetOn 10 make drunkenness in puonc
places a misdemeanor, was killed py
the House, the vote being a TO oZ.
The bill by Mr.. George of Morgan 10
make it a misdemeanor for any lanor-
er to make a false statement about
contract he has entered into was hliieu'
the vote being 55 TO 80.
bill by Mr. Stubbs of Laurens pro-
viding that county commissioners ot
the ordinary, as the case may be, must
furnish stationery, fuel. etc, TO all the
county officers, was passed by bare
majority of IS.
aPriEOn Made" Bill hllleus
The bill by Mr. Wright of Floyd, re-
curing that all prison made goods
shall be marked prison made, was
killed in the House after a warm de-
bate, the vote being 63 to S. Mr..
Toomer of Ware made a strong speech
gainst the bill, contending 1t would
greatly lessen the value of Georgia S
convict labor. by depreciating the
products of such labor.
The House continued in session un-
I'll after o'clock tonight.
INDECENT Pensioners Must Wait.
The resolution by Mr.. Miller of Mus
cegee to appropriate an additional $751;
500 to pay INDECENT soldiers pensions
was defeated or rather when 1t was
seen it had received only sc votes 1t
was tabled on motion of the author.
This additional amount was needed to
paw those whose applications nave
been approved this year.
The resolution would probably have
passed had there been more members
present There were just SO in the
House when it came up, though half
an hour before, when the Blalock reso-
luton was acted on, there were $50
members present.
The House held a short session to-
night but only passed uncontested To-
cal bills and read Senate bills a sec
ond time.