The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-04
HOUSE CRIPPLED
BY BASEBALL
MEMBERS WON'T BE GOOD.
aUoRUN CoVLn HAVE nEEN POUND
At nAsEHAIL PARK.

Win rtnal Ad1ournment oniS
Hisht nass o.. House Couid Not
rransart nustues. tn Afternoon
m.rause ot Rail Gam~-Resolution
Adopted m~,oLtng Leaves Of An
s~n~~-foants onicers' Biii Was
knocked $40 HiRh.
Atants. Aus With final ad-
sourrmenf only cirht DAYS OF. the
House oouId NOT transact business az
this afternoon session Tor lack Of "a
quorum.
Tho baseball park seemed 20 b. ne
attraction. and u WAS suggested that
quorum might easily be found
there
Ths House adopted "a resolution ty
Ar Guce. ~ PaaskL revokng oil
leaves 81 absence. ANA refusing to
grant amy more except for providen'ial
causes
On account 81 the small attendance
this afternoon. thcre beins only seven
ty-two members present. consideration
of the boi weevil hif an important
measure which had been hXed 49, q
special order. had % be passed and an
EFFORT uiIl De made 20 get il up again
tomorrow.
The General Tax Act.
A the morning session. the FIRST mat
ter of Importance considered was me
general tax act. which the House took
Or for The purpose of passing in Senate
amendments Several minor amend
nerts were greed o. then. The pack
iue house amendment fixing sliding
scale 81 taxes. WAS taken up.
After some discussion this amend
meut Was agreed 20. and later the acc
tion was reconsldered. The House j.
now Inclined Goo insist on the straigh
5000 tax on PACKING houses throughout
the state.
The amendment reducing the tax on
coca-cnla from 81 600 90 $500. was agreed
g. by : close vote Of a. 10 a. Before
the patent medicine amendment was
reached the House laid the general
tax aside for the purpose 81 taking up
the special order the county officers
County omcers' Bru RiddIed.
The House knocked an sorts Of holes
in the county officers bin which pro-
posed 10 amend paragraph ]. section
Z. article ~. 81 the constitution so as
% make term Of AN county officers
four years instead OF two as at pres
emit
After less than an hours discussion.
the House killed the bill by a vote
Of So for. 70 S. against II. This de-
feat Of the measure is the greater,
when II is considered that a consti-
sutional amendment requires two
thirds vote and IN the House this
means IL votes.
The bin was by Senator McLain OF
the Second district. and had already
passed the Senate. The county Of
ncers association OF Georgia had
strongly urged the passage Of this
measure by the Legislature. Mr..
Flynt Of spalding spoke ~ favor Of
the bill. and Mr.. Hall OF Bibo spoke
against ~.
An amendment providing that the
bin should not so into effect until
Jan. ]. 1901 was adopted. The roll
was then called and the measure was
Overwhelmingly defeated as stated.
sent HACK 90 senate.
The House refused TO accept the
Senate substitute for the governorship
succession hill and sent the measure
back 10 that body. The Senate sub
Etitute proposed that the president OF
the Senate and speaker Of the House
should continue 20 hold their Offices as
such until their SUCCESSORS were elect
"a and qualihed. and that IN the event
OF the death or disability OF the Gov
ernor between October Of an election
year and the June following. one of
them as the case might be should sue
coed 20 the governorship.
The constitution al present simply
provides that the president Of the SEN
ate and the speaker Of the House shall
exercise the executive functions in such
AN event until a Governor can b.
elected The first conference commit
tee ~ the session was appointed on the
measure and reached agreement this
afternoon. accepting the Senate substi-
tute with an amendment making Il IN
accord with the present constitutional
provision. This report will be sub
mitted % the House tomorrow and
adopted.
IN the meantime the advertisements
have been sent out by the Governor,
% that this amendment may be sub
mlited 10 the people at the October
election.
An EFFORT was made 20 pass Just be-
fore the adjournment of the morning
session the bin correcting the error
IN the fish and game law with regard
A. the time ~ seining. This bill pro-
-cses % prohibit seininE from March
] 70 June l5. during the spawning
season. the dates IN the present law
being June I 20 Sept l. The same
trouble WAS met with as az the after
noon session. the hack Of "A quorum and
action on the measure had 10 be
passed.
The Roll weeNiI BiII.
The boil weevil bill was taken up as
the special order ~ ~ o'clock noon
7'his measure provides for an appro-
prlauon ~ $4,000 20 the State Depart
nent ~ entomology Tor the purpose Of
extending the departments scope and
powers BOB Fuprressing fruit and plant
pests. ard particularly ~ prevent the
introduction of the Mexican cotton boil
weevi into the state Stringent laws
are provided ir the bin TO prevent the
bringing ~ this insect pest into Geor-
ga After n brief discussion the bill
went over ~ the afternoon session.
In the afternoon speeches IN favor
81 the hili were made by Messrs
OConnor az Barlow. Steed of Taylor.
Miller ~ MuscoEce and Calvin ~ Rich
mond II soon become apparent that
there was ne use 100 acting on the meas
ure. because OF the absence Of a quo
rum The House then adopted the res
olution revoLimg leaves Of absence.
frn mnnrfad : Little routine huainene ana