The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-13
WRANGLE IN HOUSE
SPEAKER MAKES DECISION THAT
CAUSES DEBATE.
BLOCKS UNANIMOUS CONSENT
AND OBJECTS TO ESTABLISHING
COMMITTEE PRECEDENT.

Taken and the Chair Is Sustained
by IA TwO-thirds Vote-The Cues
ton One of Making Changes in
Standing COmmittee-Many Bills
Introduced in Both Houses-Be-
ginning Monday the House VIII
Meet One Hour Earlier Each Day.
Atlanta. Nov. 12.-After a wrangle
lasting for nearly two hours, the House
| this morning upheld Speaker Morris in
a decision on a point of order. to the
| effect that the Speaker has the right
| TO object to a unanimous consent. and
| can refuse to grant it, even when there
is no other dissenting voice The vote
| in the Speakers favor was liz to "a.
! The dispute came up over a request
from the Committee on Education,
| through Chairman Holder, that Mr..
! Darlington of Madison be placed on
the committee. Mr.. Carrington's name
had been published in the newspapers
as member Of the committee, but was
not in the official lists.
| Under the rules Of the House the
standing committees cannot be changed
when they are once appointed. except
| by change in the rules of the House,
| 1t was for this reason that Mr.. Hall
or Bibh. asked unanimous consent that
| Mr.. Darlington be placed on the COM
| mittee. There was not a dissenting
voice in the House THE Speaker OBJ
jects," said Speaker Morris. from the
chair. and viii refuse to grant the
| unanimous consent. because he does
| desire n fah
with reference to changing the COM
mittees."
MIR. Fielder Of I3ibb called attention
10 rule 2, which says the speaker shall
not vote on any proposition except an
election, or when his vote will break
a tie or change the result. He made
| the point that under this rule the
speaker could not object to a unani-
| nous consent.
Mr.. Folders point was overruled by
the Speaker and Mr.. Fielder appealed
| TO the House. There was a warm, dis
cussion, In which Messrs. Aiken of
Barlow, Slaton of Fulton, Stoval Of
Chatham and Others took the side of
the Speaker holding that the Speaker
had changed result by objecting to q
unanimous consent, and that he came
within the rule. Speaker Norris also
took the floor on the proposition He
was sustained by nearly two thirds
vote when the roll was called.
The action of the House in defeat
Ing the bill of Mr.. Gambler of DeKalb
TO amend the constitution so as to au-
thorize the Legislature to exempt from
taxation church, school and college
property. was re-considered on motion
OF Mr. Gambler, who was then allowed
to withdraw the measure. II is under
stood that Mr., Gambler will make some
changes in the bill so as to remove OBJ
jectionable features and will then
probably introduce 1t again at this
session
The House. by vote of hfty-eight
to fifty-seven, adopted a joint reso-
luton by Mr. Harden of Chatham pro-
viding that no session of the General
| Assembly shall be held on Thanksgiv-
ing, Thursday. Nov. 81, and that the
day be declared dies non.
DO / understand that resolution pro-
vides for dies non?' asked Mr. Hall
of Bib.
The Speaker replied in the affirmative.
II don't object to adjournng,' said
Mr.. Hall. but l don't want no more
| dies non"
Under unanimous consent the bill by
| Mr.. Gambler of DeKalb, providing for
revision of the tax laws of the state,
and the appointment of a state board
| and of county boards of tax assessors
were ordered printed for the use of the
| members, and others.
resolution was passed providing
that, beginning with next Monday
| morning, the House shall meet at
o'clock. or an hour earlier than at pres
ent and adjourn at l o'clock.
The following new bills were intro
duced in the House:
BY Mr. Bush of Miller-To prohibit
any one from buying seed cotton at
any time without keeping a record OF
same, showing who ii was bought
from, number of pounds, price paid, etc,
BY Mr.. Deal of Bulloch-To prohibit
drunkenness in certain places, and to
provide a penalty thereof
BY Mr.. Evans Of Washington-To
! appropriate from the educational fund.
$4,000. to be known as the Common
| School Library Fund" to be used in
the establishment and maintenance Of
| Libraries in the common schools of this
| state, and to provide how said money
shall be expended each school to re-
ceive not less than $50, nor more than
800.
BY Mr.. Spence of Ware-To amend
the act establishing the City Court Of
Waycross.
By Mr.. Shannon of Walker-To
amend paragraph of Section 1896 Of
the Code of 1895, which relates to the
| Stuec DOdih VI pndtHldcy, so as 10
grant licenses without examination
only to those graduates of medical coll
leges who have practiced medicine for
five years prior to Jan. /, 1903, instead
| of Oct. rs. 1899.
BY Mr.. Howard Of Baldwin-To ap-
! propriate $4,000 for the building OF a
new recitation hall and dormitory for
the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College at Milledgeville
BY Mr. Howard of Baldwin--To
amend the act of 1899. defining the
| composition and appointment of the
board of trustees of the University OF
Georgia by providing that the presi-
dent of the Georgia State Agricultural
Society and the president of the Geor-
gia State horticultural Society shall
be ex-ofticio members of said board.
In the Senate to-day a number Of
measures were introduced. four Senate
bills were passed. and one was lost.
not having received the requisite con-
stitutional majority.
Senator Jordan of the Twentv-
eighth. introduced one OF the most i'm
portant bills that has been submitted
at the present session. II is a meas-
IRE which provides for the appoints
ment Of commission 10 investigate
the feasibility OF locating an agricul-
tural and industrial school IN each
congressional district In the state.
The commission Is TO be COMPOSED OF
twelve memberships Governor being
the chairman. and one of the remains
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