The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-13
THEY LOCKED HORNS.
House and the Senate Could Not
Agree.

Atlanta, Dec. 1.-THE House and
Senate are hung up tonight, and adj
journment is delayed on account of the
dispute between the two bodies on the
disposition of the remainder of the pub
lie property fund. amounting to $122,-
600.
The Senate says It must be used to-
wards paying interest on the bonded
debt in order to bring down the deficit
in the treasury; the House says II shall
not be so used, and on this proposition
they have locked horns, both bodies
declaring they win sit until daybreak
before they will WAIVER.
The House seems to be the more de-
termined of the two. and the chances
are the Senate Will give way before
morning. About two-thirds of the
members Of the House still here are
opposed to this use of the funds.
Practically every other item in the
general appropriations bill has been
agreed upon as the result of the work
of the Conference Committees. Mr..
Stovall of Chatham served on the part
of the House on the Appropriations
Conference Committee to-day. re1iev-
Ing MT. 1leeQ Campbell.
The most important action of the
conference was the reduction of the APP
preparation to the State Sanitarium to
$925,000. The House and Senate split
the difference on this item. the House
having fixed it at $4,000, and the Sem
ate at $340 900.
The Senate receded from its amend
ments on the Soldiers Home fund, and
came to the House figure of $12,500.
The Senate also receded on the mill
tary appropriation, and put back the
original figures, as inserted by the
House, 500. 900.
The House carried its point in re-
moving from the bin the Senate amend
ment, giving $500 to the South Geor-
gia College at Thomasville.
The Senate carried its point in maxi
ing the bill applicable for two years.
Quite a squabble was had over por-
ters and pages for the two Houses, with
the result that each House finally got
all it wanted.
All the other items in the bill remain
practically as fixed heretofore. PEN
sions get $4,000 and common schools
100000 in addition to the $750,000 from
specific taxes and other sources.
The appropriations bill carries a to-
tai of $3,052, $50. not including the $780,
900 for common schools from the
oOui1t0 dOOFt ilitiiliOut0. All out
about 100000 of this must be raised
by the general tax rate, aud II has
been figured that a general lax rate Of
five mills, which has been Nxed as the
limit by both houses, win yield only
about $2,200000. The deficit will be in
the neighborhood OF $1S7. 900. There is
a like deficit from last year amounting
to $1S7 900. making a total deficit Of
$374.000. This does not include the
amount which the state is behind In
Its payments to teachers, this being
about 100000 and for which the teach
ers have 10 wait under the present sys-
TEN until the taxes are collected in the
fall.
They Locked Horns.
The Senate Mt 10 O'Clock tonight
adopted unanimously a resolution by
president Howell. that II is the sense
Of the Senate that Il would under no
circumstances recede from It's posi-
ton on the use OF the public property
20 pay interest on the bonded debt. Ia
view Of the necessity OF such use with
present apDrOpria tons. and IN view Of
the Legality ~ such use AZ decided BY
the Supreme Court.
wen whip them out before mid
night" remarked n prominent member
1T the Senate. referring 20 the House.
Tho last vote on the subject ia the
House WAS ~ ~ A. against the uae Of
the fup1, and nsmDefs of the House