The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-26
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
PENSIONS FOR 1904 PAID.
COMMISSIONER LINDSEY COM
PLETED THE WORK.

The Pension Commissioner Thinks
an Increase of About 100000 VIII
BE Needed to Pay Pensions in 1909.
Blanks Are Being Sent the Cor
pOrntiOns on Which They Are to
Make Their Tax Returns-Fifth
Regiment Considering a Worlds
Fair Trip. !,
Atlanta. March 25.-Pension Commits
sioner ]. w. Lindsey to-day completed
the payment of pensions for 1904. He
has paid out total Of sSS1,215. The
total number of pensioners paid has
been $4,571.
OF the pension fund of $4,000, $1,000
will be used to pay the expenses of
the State Roster Commission. This
leaves an unexpended balance of SO, 1856.
Commissioner Lindsey says it will re-
Quire all of this to pay a number of
stragglers, who have not yet been To-
Gated but whose applications have
been approved. Last year there was
turned back into the treasury about
$4,000 out Of the same amount appro-
priated.
Commissioner Lindsey estimates
roughly that it will be necessary to
have $500, 900, or an increase of about
$4,000, to pay the pensions for 1905.
He will not have his applications in
when the Legislature meets, so will
have to base his estimate upon past
experiences.
Blanks for Returns.
Controller General w. A. Wright is
sending out the blanks upon which
the corporations of the state will have
to make their annual returns. These
are the same as last year. The law
requires that the returns must be in
his hands by May l, though there is
no penalty for failure. The Controller
General looks for increases this year,
particularly in the franchise tax re-
turns. The indications are that the
same arbitrations will have to be gone
through with as last year. The arbi-
tratiop system at present employed is
considered quite defective, and the
Legislature will no doubt go into the
matter of remedying it.
WingfieId Solicitor.
Gov. Terrell to-day appointed Hon.
S. T. Wingfield of Putnam county So
licitor of the County Court of that
grand jury. The law provided that
there should be no solicitor until the
grand jury recommended if. Mr.. Wing
field is a well known member of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, and a brother of Judge w. b.
Wingfield of the same court.
Supreme Court Report.
The 118th Georgia Supreme Court re-
port was received from the printer to-
day by State Librarian j. j. Welborn,
and will be sold at 50, the cost of pro-
duction. Upon receipt of price it will
be sent at the expense of the purchaser.
Fifth Wants to Go to st. Louis.
At a meeting of the officers of the
Fifth Georgia Regiment last night the
matter of going to st. Louis during
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
and encamping there for ten days was
discussed, and it was decided to take
the matter UP with Gov. Terrell and
see what can be accomplished in this
direction. The regiment will try to
get funds from the state, but if that
cannot be done it is said the members
will pay their own expenses.
On Estate of Bridge.
! Gordon F. Mitchell has applied for
letters of administration on the estate
of the late James Bridge, who died
suddenly in his room at the Jackson
Hotel. At the time of his death Bridge
was paying SIS per month temporary
alimony to his wife, who was former
" a Miss Mitchell. In her appliGl-
ton for divorce and alimony Mrs.
Bridge claimed that her husband had
refused to acknowledge her as his le-
gal wire and attempted to treat her
as a mistress. The estate is said to be
worth $4,000.