The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-12
HOUSE AND SENATE
DISAGREE ON FINANCE.
The Two Bodies May Not Get To-
Eether on Appropriations Bill.

The Two Bodies May Not Get To.
Eether on Appropriations Bill.
Atlanta, Dec. 1.-THE general appro
priations bill is now in the hands of
Conference Committee, which is in ses
sion behind closed doors. The commit
tee appointed on the part of the Hous
is composed of Messrs. Davis Of Meri
wether. Hall of Bibb and Reid o
Campbell, and on the part of the Sen
ate of Senators Davis. Comas and Hop
kins, the hardest fighters in boil
bodies.
After the House had acted on tn,
measure this afternoon. it came to thu
Senate tonight and the Senate prompt
ly refused to recede from all thu
amendments it had made, with the ex.
ception of that one about the salary OF
the superintendent of the State SAM.
tarium. The Senate agreed that this
amount should come from the appro'
priation for the maintenance of the in
stitution. The Conference Committed
was then appointed.
The House spent very nearly the
whole day on the bill, as it came
back from the Senate. but practically
completed work on the measure to-
night. The House disagreed to almost
every Senate amendment, and it will
take the hardest kind of work on the
part of the Conference Committee.
When the bill came up in the House
this morning that body promptly dis
agreed to the Senate amendment pro-
viding that the salary Of the superin-
tendent of the State Sanitarium shall
come out of the treasury and insisted
that it should be paid out of that in
stitutions funds. The House also put
the sanitariums appropriation back
from S940, 900 TO 1910. 1000.
The Senate cut the number of House
porters down to five; the House put it
back to eight. The Senate appropriated
1923 to buy chairs for it's committee
rooms. the House cut it out. The
House also refused to give the Senate
81 day for doorkeeper for the cloak
room. The Senate gave itself FIVE
pages; the House cut the number to
three.
BY vote of rs to Sc, the House put
the appropriation to the Soldiers
Home back TO sl2.500: the Senate had
given $4,000.
The Senate inserted an amendment,
authorizing the use of the remainder of
the public property fund to pay inter-
est in bonds: the House struck it out.
The Senate gave 81. 800 to the South
Georgia College at Thomasvile; the
House killed that appropriation.
The warmest debate was had over
the Senate amendments making the
bill applicable for two years instead
of one. and the public property fund
feature. Mr.. Hall of Bibb held that
the Senate's action in making the bill
cover two years. was tantamount to
originating an appropriations bill in
the Senate, which is prohibited by the
constitution. and he threatened to make
that s~lnt in the courts by Injunction
to prevent the payment of the public
school fund or some similar fund for
the year 1904.
The House. however. took the other
view and adopted the Senate amend
ment, making the bill hold for two
years. In referring to the Senate's ac-
ton on this point. Mr.. Hall declared
1T was revolutionary, and said the Sem
ate ought to be abolished. Mr.. Hall
succeeded. however. in carrying his
point as to the public property fund,
and the House will hold to its stand on
that. This means an increase in the
treasury defioH of something Hike $685.
900.