The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-29
LEGISLATURE IS
 WORKING SLOWLY Georgia Lawmakers Plan to Go
 Junketing
MANY BILLS ARE KILLED
Members Are Reserving Fighting Not Now Using Up Their Qualities Fr Certain Bills and Are
 Surplus Energy.

Atlanta. June S.-(speciaL)-Ex treme lethargy is eharacterizing the opening session of the legislature. What was run-a ay-legislature last year has reversed and is now a hold back body.
 Instead of passing laws. it now seems that this body is bent upon kill ing bills.
 Before the general assembly had been in session two days. and before a sin gle bill had come up for second 1T third reading in the house, a plan had been devised whereby the entire legis lature. representatives and senators, pages and porters, were to go to Chat tanooga to spend the third and fourth of July inspecting the state road and the property there.
 Just how they will get there is a question.
 If the legislature accepts free train they wiu be violating the "anti-pass' order of the railroad commission.
 If the state pays for the train the state will be plunged even deeper than it already is into debt.
 And it a 100 to 1 shot that the solons will not pay their own way to visit Chattanooga, not even if it is city filled with the things which this same legislature legislated out of Georgia
 On the opening day of the session. before the message from the governor had been read, the house adjourned, after receiving five new bills, the ma jority of which were local out of re- spect to the memory of the deceased members.
 Thursday a similar procedure took place out of respect to the memory ot the late rresident John ". Akin.
 It was the same afternoon the trip 9 Chattanooga was proposed.
 The most active members in the house last year seem to have sorter let things go.
 One prominent leader said in con- versation with friend: T am going to kill a lot of this legislation, all ready introduced, and am not going to pile any more up"
 His plan of procedure seems to De adopted by a majority in the hou , which will insure happy time for all.
 The members seem to be reserving their fighting qualities for the convict l bills, soon to flood both branches of l the legislature. This bill like the gen eral tax act and the general appropria tion bill, must be passed. It has to oe passed this year, for the present leases run out next year.
 That they will be released seems Co | be beyond doubt a certainty. With hign taxes and low revenues and increasing 2 demands for money this source of rev enue will hardly be cut off. That the present system is not in high favor $ also an assured fact, but how to better i it is a mooted question. | As an evidence that the legislature ! is now about to reform" is evidenced | by the fact that alredy six bills have been introduced in the house to retur1 l to the old system of paying pensions annually and it seems this will become l a law before the new administratio ! l gets a chance to have it enacted, fol- ! lowing up the recent state platform. With State Senator James J. Flynt i as president of the senate, named So, without oposition, tn ough it Is knowi that he is not and never was a sup porter of the governor or his policies 1 those measures in the Macon platform which the governor is so anxious "a have crystalized into laws seem to be | in a bad way The senate is far more conservative than the house and the house more conservative this veal than last.
 Unless both branches wake up the session will be devoid of interest eX- cept for the convict question and the | Joe Brown dismissal.