The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-11
HOUSE NOR SENATE
WILL bulge AN INCH
EACH STICKS TO ITS VIEW
aF IMPORTANT MEASURES THAT
ARE PENDING.

Atlanta. Aug. 10.-To-day the stua-
ton between the House and Senate is
acute The two houses have disagreed
on three important bills which they
have passed and ali of these measures
are now in the hands of conference
committees.
In the first place the House and
Senate locked horns on the general
appropriations bill, the three main
items about which there is disagree
ment being the common school found,
for which the House wants $1,000, 900
and the Senate $9O0,OOO; the state sani-
tarium fund, which the House put at
S33OOOO and the Senate increased to
SS5OO OO and the item of $500 for con-
Quoting farmers institutes, which the
Senate inserted in the bill and to which
the House refused to agree.
The House completed it's work on
the bill this afternoon. This morning
the Senate amendments were disagreed
to, and this afternoon the House re-
fused to recede from its disagreement
as to these items. The Conference
Committee, which now has the matter
in hand, is composed of Senators Da-
Wis Duncan of the Tenth and Jordan
for the Senate and Messrs. Davis of
Meriwether, West of LoWndes and
Steed of Taylor for the House.
Hold Out for School Fund.
Members of the House say they will
yield in everything else, before they
give in on the school fund, and that
they will stay here a week before they
will permit the Senate to reduce that.
The next serious disagreement is on
oil 70 fr
bill, as passed by the House, provid-
ed for only three assessors to be APP
pointed by the controller general, who
should assess all railroad and corpora
tion property such as is now by law
returned to the controller general. The
Senate substitute provided for state
board of three assessors to be appoint
ed by the Governor to assess corpora
ton property and county boards of
assessors of three members each, to
be appointed by the grand jury, to
assess the property of individual tax
payers.
Mr.. Hall objected to the substitute
on the ground that it allowed the as
SCISSORS merely to accept the returns
of corporations, if they saw fit, while
his bill required that the assessors
should examine the property and assess
it Independently of returns.
Both bodies are obstinate also on
InlS measure, ana the senate appointed
Senators Hopkins, Mathews and Skel-
ton, While Messrs. Hall. Gambler and
Akin represent the House on the Con-
ference Committee.
Australian Ballot.
The Australian ballot bill is the other
measure which is in the hands of a
Conference Committee. The House re-
fused to agree to the main Senate
amendment to the Australian ballot,
which provides for submitting it to the
people at the coming October election,
at which time each county should de-
clare it wanted the law enforced in its
borders. Mr.. Kelly of Glascock Of
fered substitute for the Senate
amendment, providing that the Aus
tralian ballot bill should be general and
peremptOry with respect to primaries,
but that the counties should vote as
10 whether or not they would apply 1t
to general elections. This amendment
was defeated, and the House then re-
fused to concur in the Senate amend
ment and sent the bill to Conference
Committee. The House Conference
Committee on this bill are Messrs.
Kelly of Glascock, author of the bill;
Fielder of Bibb and Stovall of Chatham.
Senators Davis, Taylor and Smith of
the Eighteenth represent the Senate.
The House concurred in the Senate
amendments to the general appropria
ton bill which added $4,000 to the bill
TO continue the work of the Confeder-
ate Roster Commission. The Roster
Commission is preparing a roster of all
the Georgia soldiers and sailors in the
Confederate army and navy to be kept
as a permanent record and to aid the
pension commissioner in defeating and
suppressing fraud.
How the Pensions Go.
In urging the foregoing amendment,
with view to preventing fraud in
the Pension Department, Mr.. Grice,
OF Pulaski, presented some startling
figures regarding the distribution of
slonal district, which probably sent
more soldiers to the army than any
other district in the state, receives
only $25,700 in pensions, while the
Ihlrty-third Senatorial district, COM
posed of counties of Banks, Jackson
and Hail. receives $685. 425. Banks coun-
", which has about one-eighth the
population of Chatham county, gets
SlO 465 in pensions, while Chatham,
which sent more soldiers to the war
IMAM any other county in the state,
gets only $5,755.
The Second Congressional district
gets in pensions only 1876, and the
eleventh only $56,S55, while the Ninth
congressional district, one of the least
populous, and one that sent, perhaps,
me tewest soldiers to the war. gets
$ll6'l35, twice as much as the Second
ana Eleventh receive, and more than
Iour times as much as is paid in the
lrst district. The conclusion is there
something wrong somewhere, and
me official roster is needed to aid in
me suppression of evident fraud.
To Pay Pensions 10 Estates.
The House concurred in the Senate
amendment to the bill by Messrs.
UIyedVldson, of Green, and Underwood. of
Whlte providing that where pensions
nave accrued and are due, and the
pehsloner dies before payment can be
udGe, the pension money shall be
paIa 10 the Ordinary of the county in
"nlGh such pensoner dies for the use
vi me widow or children. or to pay the
expenses of the last illness and burial
~ such pensioner. The Governor will
ign the bill, IL is stated, and the re-
nu,i VIII be that the General Assembly
VII not be called upon to pass any
ioIe individual pension bills in cases
Nhere pensioners die after their pen
tIoHs become due, but before they can
me Wooten BILL providing for sue
Desslon to the governorship at times
neI there is no president OF Senate or
,1lpeaher OF the House, was tabled, and
ms Kills II for the session. It provid-
"a Tor constitutional amendment. and
wing TO failure OF the Conference