The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-09
NO PICTURES ARE
TO BE ON BALLOTS
HOUSE HAS so DECIDED.
DAY GIVEN TO DISCUSSION OF THE
BALLOT REFORM BILL.

Debate Was Upon the Several Sec
tions of the Measure They
Were Reached-Amendmen Were
Proposed Appointments Reach
the senate for COMMUNICATIVE
Bills IN the senate.
Atlanta. July S.-There will be no
pictures and symbols on the official
ballots to be used under the ballot re-
form bill This was decided when
vote was taken this morning on the
amendment of Mr.. Gross of McDuftie.
The sections of the ballot bill pass
ed to-day with slight amendments, but
there was considerable discussion. Sec
ton was adopted. Section was
adopted without discussion. Section
was amended slightly and passed after
a debate.
Section s was then taken up. An
amendment by Fielder of Bibb that
booths be six feet apart was carried.
An amendment by Stanford of Harris
10 restrict voters to the district in
which they reside was carried.
Hall of Bibb and Wilson of Clay
discussed who should pay for the cree
ton of booths. Mr.. Wilson's amend
ment to strike out the section COM
polling counties to stand the expense
was lost.
Considerable discussion grew out of
the Whitley Douglas amendment re-
garding where a man shall vote in
case of his moving from the ward or
district in which he lived at the time
of his registering. Fielder of Bibb was
in favor of allowing the voter to vote
in the district or ward in which he
might be residing at the time of cleo
ton, providing he was regularly regis
tered.
Miller of Muscogee opposed the
Whitley amendment. Fielder of Bibb,
who offered an amendment to the
Whitley amendment, carried his point.
When the Fielder amendment was
passed it was discovered that ii was
in direct conflict to the one passed
offered by Stanford of Harris. Fielder
wished to have men vote i'm the pre-
cinct where they reside, while the
Stanford amendment called for voters
to vote in the precincts registered
from.
Gambler of DeKalb moved TO recon-
slider the Stanford amendment. The
motion prevailed. He then offered
motion to reconsider the action on the
Fielder amendment
Lee of Coweta moved that the House
as committee of the whole rise and
report progress. Akin of Barlow NOV
ed as an amendment that they re-
port and meet again Monday after
the reading of the journal This was
passed.
Brown of Houston moved to adjourn,
the motion prevailing.
To-morrow's business will be regard
ing the Senate bills for first and sec
ond reading.
The Day in the senate.
The Senate to-day passed one local
bill and received the three following
appointments;
j. f. Burch, to be Judge of the City
Court of Dublin for four years, begin
ming Dec. 6. 1904
G. H. Williams. to be solicitor of
the City Court of Dublin for term
of two years, beginning Dec. 6. 1904
H. H. Boyer. to be solicitor of the
City Court of Pulaski for a term of
two years, beginning Dec. l. 1904.
The following new bills were intro
duced in the Senate to-day:
BY Tisinger. of the Twenty-fifth Thy
request: An act to enlarge the powers
of the Railroad Commission of this
state so as to confer upon that COM
mission the power to require railroad
companies to make physical connec-
ton of their own with the railway
tracks of any other corporation hav-
ing the same guage, and to prescribe
the terms and conditions under which
the railroad company shall be required
to transport the cars of another to de-
scribe method and means of inforc-
ing its orders with reference thereto,
to provide a penalty for non compli-
ance and for other purposes.
BY Davis. of the Seventeenth:
bill to be entitled an act to prescribe
the time of the visit of board of visi-
tors to the University of Georgia
BY Davis, of the Seventeenth. A
bill to be entitled an act requiring the
treasurer of the state and the Com
troller General and the Secretary of
State to give bond and security to the
state of Georgia for their faithful per-
Torrance of duty in their several Of
noes, in the sum now fixed by law for
their several offices, provide for the
summary collection of said bonds in
default thereof, and for other pur-
poses.
On Bucket shops Bill.
A special hearing will be held before
the General Judiciary Committee
Tuesday afternoon on the bill which
prevents the operation of bucket shops
In Georgia. Representative j. r. Brock.
representative from Dade county. the
author of the measure. will appear for
the bill, and several wel-known attor-
neys will make arguments against il.
On Repudinted Bonds.
The bill by Butts of Glenn, providing
for the payment of bonds issued by the
state in 1889 to secure the payment
Of debt for small arms and ammuni-
ton, was discussed by the General Ju-
dietary Committee this afternoon and
arguments heard. There were fifty
bonds Of $500 each, and when an effort
was made in 1869 to collect them il was
unsuccessful on account of the unset
tied conditions. In 1888 the Legislature
refused to become a party to the suit
in court. The bonds are now in the
hands Of Robert E. Mattingly of Wash