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.


tionx of the Measure as They
Were Reached-Amendmen Were
Proposed Appointments Reach
the senate for COnfrmntiOn-New
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 Z
was amended slightly and passed after
a debate.
Section was then taken up. An
amendment by Fielder of Bibb that
booths be six feet apart was carried.
An amendment by Stanford of Harris
to restrict voters to the district in
which they reside was carried.
Hall of Bib and Wilson of Clay
discussed who should pay for the cree
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 it was
in direct conflict to the one passed
offered by Stanford of Harris. Fielder
wished to have men vote in 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-
motion prevailed. He then offered
motion to reconsider the action on the
Fielder amendment.
Lee of Coweta moved that the House
as a 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.
Tomorrow 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. E. Burch, to be judge of the City
Court of Dublin for four years, begin
ming Dec. 6. 1904.
G. II. Williams. to be solicitor of
the City Court of Dublin for u 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 We're intro
duced in the Senate to-day:
BY Tisinger. of the Twenty-ffth (by
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-
tion 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 a method and means of inrorc-
ing its orders with reference thereto,
TO provide a penalty for non compl-
ance and for other purposes.
BY Davis, of the Seventeenth: A
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 Con-
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
fees, 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 win be held before
the General judiciary Committee
2 Tuesday afternoon on the bill which
In Georgia. Representative j. r. Brock
representative from Dade county. the
author of the measure, will appear fol-
the bill, and several well-known attor.
neys will make arguments against it.
On Repudiated Bonds.
The bill by Butts of Glenn. providing
for the payment OF bonds issued by the
state in 1859. to secure the payment
of debt for small arms and ammuni.
ton, was discussed by the General Ju,
dietary Committee this afternoon anc
arguments heard. There We're fit,
bonds of $500 each, and when an effor
was made in 1863 TO collect them il wai
unsuccessful on account of the unset
tied conditions. In 1883 the Legislator,
refused to become a party to the sui
in court. The bonds are now i'm tn,
hands Of Robert +. Mattingly of Wash
ington, d. c., who holds $4,000 o
them. Action was postuaOued till We'd