The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-03

slonal district of the state, using for
the purpose of maintenance the fund
arising from the inspection of fertil-
lzers. 1t is estimated that $4,000 a
year Will maintain one of these insti-
tutlons, and the inspection of fertiliz-
ers now yields about $4,000 annually.
counties desiring these institutions
WILL no doubt gladly give the neces-
sary land, and the fund will be more
imam ample to maintain them. The in
creased hire which will be secured
from convict labor will more than
doubly make up what this amount will
take away from the common school
1und. The plan commends itself to
many members of the Legislature, who
nave already commented favorably
upon it.
GOV. Terrell will devote considerable
attention to the subjects of taxation
and appropriations. He believes that
both can be materially reduced and
that there is no time like the present
to begin the good work
The Legislature will probably take
day off this week for the purpose
OF visiting the State Fair at Valdosta
The members were to have gone last
week, but it was impossible to secure
the cars for transportation. 1t is ex-
pected they will leave the city We'd
nesday night and spend Thursday in
Valdosta as the guests of that hospi-
table city and of the Fair Associa-
ton, returning to Atlanta in time for
business Monday morning.
Little New Legislation.
At least one-half of the bills already
introduced in the House are purely To-
cal in character. Perhaps even more
of them apply only to particular sec
tons or communities of the state. All
of these, except where there may be
local factional fight, will be report
ed back favorably and passed without
discussion.
Many of the general bills introduced
will have hard fighting for life, while
others will die from adverse report.
The Legislature has given pretty fair
indication of it's composition; it is con-
sentative throughout, and it is evident
that radical legislation will have a
hard time fighting it's way to the stat
ute books.
So far no really new general legts-
lation has been proposed in either
House. Practically every general bill
of any consequence introduced so far
is a counterpart of or similar to some
measure that was before the Legisla-
ture last year or the year before. The
same amendments to the constitution
that were proposed last year and which
were thoroughly discussed before
joint committee of the House and Sem
ate are now finding their way before
both bodies. This year, however, these
proposed constitutional amendments
will be considered by the regular
standing committees of both houses
and reported on separately and in reg
ular order. There will be no joint
committee as last year, when it was
found that this committees work oc-
cupied so much time that it was i'm
possible at the close of the session to
give the proposed amendments proper
consideration.
There are some few unimportant
amendments to the code which may be
considered new, but it is one of the
privileges of the new member to pro-
pose amendments to the code, partic-
ularly when he has nothing else to
bring to the attention of the General
Assembly.
A Police COnstabuIary.
One proposed general bill proposes tc
put about 10000 additional police off.
| GERS in the field in Georgia. 1t pro-
vides for a police patrol, consisting Of
a captain and six patrolmen, in each
of the LOO militia districts of the
state; provides a method of compen-
sating them without any material drair
on county treasures, and defines theil
duties. They are to be appointed by
the grand jury, and required to patro
! the district at least once week. They
are to arrest all idle persons, Migrants
and criminals, and receive the same
| fee for making an arrest as does the
| sheriff. Service on this patrol is COM
pulsory, the penalty for failure being a
| fine of S. but the patrolmen are reliev-
| ed of road duty.
There are some new measures on ed
no ~ no1 nfc n 10
vent bribery in primary elections
which will doubtless receive serious
| consideration. However the session
| has only begun, and many other meas
ures of interest will doubtless appear
| in the course of the next week or two