The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-19
NEWS OF ATLANTA
HAPPENINGS OF A DAY IN THE
CAPITAL CITY.
BOOK COMMISSIONS WOES
MAY BE INCREASED BY AN APPEAL.
TO THE COURTS.

1t Is Hinted That an Injunction May
he Secured-This Would Prove Il
still Further COmpIicntiOn-FOrm
er News Butcher Charged with
Railroads in Georgia Must Pay to
the State.
Atlanta, Nov. 1S.-The uniform
text book situation appears to be in
a middle. The State School Book
Commission does not know just what
the outcome will be, as the result of
its rejection Of all bids, and call for
new ones, but there is an opportunity,
some say, for an injunction to prevent
the enforcement of the law, should
any dissatisfied book concern be in
clined to make the fight. 1t is true
the law permits the commission to re-
ject any or all bids, but the law re-
quires that all books shall first be
passed on by the sub-commission. Now
the sub-commission has already made
its report, has about exhausted the ap-
preparation made for it, and has gone
out of existence. There is a question
whether the books would not have to
be passed on by a sub-commission
again when the new bids are received,
even in the event no books not here
tofore offered are presented. The call
for new bids opens the competition to
any new books that are likely to be
brought forward, and the situation is
somewhat of complicated one. In
tho Of no Low
were enjoined on some such similar
technicality. The commission hopes,
however, to pull through without SER
ious trouble.
Charged With Forgery.
Ralph Price, formerly a news butch
er, was sent to Jail to-day in default of
81, 900 bond on the charge of forgery.
Price was arrested yesterday for try
ing to pass a forged check for $40. Nu-
merous other forged checks were found
in his possession.
Conference Is Over.
The annual conference of the South
ern Unitarian Church came to a close
tonight. Only routine business was
transacted during the conference, and
addresses were made by prominent IN
itarians.
Few Women SuTrngists.
There was a very small but enthu-
Siastic attendance at the fourth annual
convention of the Georgia Womens
Suffrage Association held at the Cen
trail Congregational Church here to-
day. The feature of the meeting is the
presence of Rev. Anna Howard Shaw,
vice president at large of the National
Women's Suffrage Association. She is
quite a distinguished woman, and quite
crowd heard her tonight when she
discussed the Relation of the Ballot
to the Home in the hall of the House
of Representatives The convention
will continue in session tomorrow.
The County Commissioners of Ware
county have notified the Prison Com
mission of their desire to withdraw
their application for felony convicts to
tied to twelve convicts.
Harris to Be Examined.
Judge Sampson w. Harris, the new
ly appointed adjutant general, will
appear before the field officers ex-
aiming board tomorrow to stand the
examination required under the new
law.
Taxes on Corporations.
Taxes for the year 1903 on corpora
tons in the state of Georgia amount
to 1866, 722.40. Controller General
Wright has finished computing the
taxes to be paid and announces that
the corporations have returned total
franchise values, $13,799,319; total
tangible property, $59343, 1872. The fol-
lowing are the amounts of taxes to
be paid by each railroad: Central of
Georgia, $77,0S2.91; Atlantic Coast
Line $53,202.4O; Southern, $59,969.16;
Seaboard Air Line, $42.542.72 miscel-
laneous railroads, $S2,644.49; street
railways, $25,547.20; gas, water, palace
cars and electric plants, $11,21464;
telephone, telegraph and express com,
panies, $13,51SS9. These taxes will be
collected at once