The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-24
KILLED MUCH TIME
BUT DID NOTHING ABOUT STATES
CONVICTS.
HOUSE TALKED VERY MUCH
BUT MERELY AGREED To TALK
MORE NEXT TIME.

After IA Morning spent I'm Discussing
the Disposition of the COnvicts
the House Agreed Upon "A Motion
to AdjOurn-Less FiIibusterIng Ex-
pected To-day, When the Steed
Bill Will Re Under Consideration.
Legislation i'm the Senate-Legis-
IRtiVe News Notes.
Atlanta, July 23.-This was a day of
f1libustering in the House. It remind
ed Mr.. Hall of Bibb so much of the
days of the depot fight that he asked:
"Mr. Speaker, seeing all this row, I
would like to know if the depot bill is
under discussion"
The proceedings were enlivened some
what, too by the speech of Mr.. Tigner
of Muscogee, who charged that there
was a lobby in favor of the Steed DILL
providing for a renewal of the present
convict lease system.
The Steed bill was the special order
when the House convened.
Mr. Fielder of Bibb moved to re-
consider the action of the House in ie-
feating his bill the day before, and
Speaker Morris ruled the motion out of
order. Mr.. Fielder appealed from the
decision of the chair. and two hours
were spent discussing this appeal. Mr..
Fielder held that under the House rules,
unless this motion were entertained to-
day, 1t could not be made at all.
Speaker Morris held that it could be
made whenever the order of motions to
reconsider was reached.
Several other speeches were made,
and finally tn speakers ruling was
sustained by a vote of "A to 81. The
lines were drawn about as they were
in the vote on the Fielder bill.
Then Mr.. Fielder moved to postpone
consideration of the Steed bill until
next TUESDAY morning, in order to give
the opponents of the measure oppor-
| tunity to prepare a substitute. Consid-
cradle further discussion went along
on this line, until Mr.. Tigner of Mus
| cogee moved that the Steed Dill De
| Indefinitely postponed, the effect OF
which would be, If carried to Kill the
| measure.
.'The state is tired of this infamous
| lease system, with all its attendant
| horrors" Mr. Tigner declared. He
charged that there was lobby at the
Capitol in favor of the Steed bill That
lobby is here. he declared. ito per
petuate the system that stinks IN the
nostrils of Georgia
Mr.. Bower of Decatur then moved
| the previous question on the Steed Dill
and all amendments. Mr.. Fielder moved
| to table the bill, and that took prece-
| dence. The motion to table was lost by
| q vote of SO to so.
Then Mr.. Fielder moved to adjourn
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whe motion was ruled out of order, and
/ after motion to adjourn had been de-
/ feated, Mr.. Fielder appealed from the
chairs decision. 1t was at this point
| that Mr.. Hall wanted to know If the
| depot fight was on.
Another motion to adjourn was lost
| and after a little further discussion
the House finally decided to adjourn
| by a vote of "a to g..
| Tomorrow the Steed bill will come up
| under the call for the previous dues-
| ton, which will. to a great extent.
prevent further filibustering.
Work OF the senate.
| In the Senate this morning NUM-
Der of local House bills were passed.
| The Senate passed the bill by Mr..
! Stovall of Chatham, ceding to the May
or and Aldermen of Savannah certain
| land in that city for the building of
| City Hall. This bill now goes to the
| Governor for his signature.
The bill to elect Railroad Commits
sioners by the people, which recently
| passed the House. was made the special
order for next Wednesday.
/ Resolutions relating to the death of
| Senator Rountree were read and unan-
| imously adopted.
Among the bills passed were the fol-
lowing:
Bills That Were Passed.
BY Mr.. Henry of Liberty-To change
| the time of holding the Superior Court
| of Liberty county.
BY Mr.. Spence of Ware-To amend
| the act creating the City Court Of
| Waycross.
BY Senator Comas-To provide for
the designation of a state depository
| in Jesup.
BY Senator Jordan-To amend the
laws relating to the inspection and
sale of fertilizers.
BY Senator Smith-To provide that
all property without a lawful owner
shall belong to the state.
| BY Senator Matthews-To provide for
the registry of transfers of bonds for
| title.
Bills to change the method of issu-
| ing marriage, licenses and to raise the
| age of consent were killed by the Sem
For Torrens Land system.
Gov. Terrell sent a message to both
branches of the General Assembly to-
day, recommending the appointment of
a commission to Investigate the Tor
rens land system. This is in accord
ance with a recommendation from the
Georgia Bar Association made at It's
recent convention at Tallulah Falls.
The system provides for the making of
titles to land by the state.
AIlcu Ii 20 Spenk
Private John Allen, government COM
missioner for the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, and former Congressman
from Mississippi, win address the Gem
eral Assembly in joint session to-nor-
| row on the subject of the st. Louis Elk
position. He will urge Georgia to be
well represented.