The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27

grants all persons who are able to
work but who live in idleness, with
no property to support them, persons
VINO lead idle, immoral or profllgate
lives without property to support them.
persons without visible means of sup
port, persons who live by stealing or
Irauing IN stolen goods, professional
gamblers and professional beggars.
MI calvin proposes to amend the
law especially with reference to those
VINO nave no visible means of support
py dennlng such characters under the
IolloWing; THE term visible and
known means of a fair honest and
reputable livelihood as used in this
section, shall be construed to mean
steady, daily employment at some law
1ul occupation for reasonable COM
pensauon or a fixed and regular in
come from property or other invest
ment, the income from which is sutfi-
clent for the support and maintenance
OF such Vagrant.''
Mr.. Calvin has given the vagrancy
Dill much thought and has sought
counsel of other members of the House.
He provides in the bill for hiring out
persistent Migrants, but he proposes
to amend the bill by striking out this
feature and providing that those found
10 be Migrants shall give security for
their good behavior for a year, and
in the event of refusal they shall be
punished as for a misdemeanor.
The next special order for Thursday
is Senate bill No A, which has al
ready passed the Senate, and which
proposes to repeal the present law
which makes it unlawful for one rail-
road to build a line within ten miles
of another and parallel to it. Mr..
Underwood of White, had the bill fixed
4 arn ion, hot DO Il,
the idea is to give electric trolley lines
the right to build wherever they can
most conveniently do so.
The House also gave thirty minutes
to the bill by Messrs. Fields of Dooly
and McCurry of Hart, to amend the
alternative road law, Immediately after
the foregoing Senate bill is disposed
of. This bill provides that the ques-
ton of adopting or rejecting the alter
native road law. shall be submitted
to a vote of the people. 1t was de-
feated some days ago in the House, but
this action was reconsidered.
With all the foregoing measures up
for consideration next week, the House
calendar will stand little chance. 1t is
expected the House will provide for aft
ernoOn sessions in the course of the
next few days, in order to dispose of
as much of the business before it as
possible.
Senate Up With Its Work.
The Senate is practically up with
its work. 1t will have before it this
week, however, the large number of
local bills passed by the House on
Saturday, in addition to which two
special orders have been fixed for con-
sideration.
On Tuesday the Senate will consid-
er a couple of railroad bills which
propose to confer additional powers
upon the Railroad Commission relative
to requiring railroads to furnish cars
promptly for the transportation of any
freight that may be offered. These
bills received an adverse report at
the hands of the Railroad Committee
but will be threshed out on the floor
of the Senate.
On Wednesday the special order in
the Senate is the measure by Mr.
Rankin of Gordon, which has passed
the House, providing for the election
of railroad commissioners by the peo-
pie. The House passed this bill in
spite of an adverse committee report
The Senate committee, however, has
reported on it favorably. The dis
cussiOn is expected to be an interest
ing one.
Other than these measures and the
local House bills, which will go over
tomorrow, the Senate has nothing
before it.