The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-08-07
EVEN IF II TAKES
TILL CHRISTMAS
LEGISLATURE STILL ENGAGED
IN DISCUSSING THIS IMPoR-
rANr SUBJECT.
Now Generally Believed That Cover
~s~nor Smith Will Call an Extra
- session Of the Legislature
to ,.NA 1t.
Att,~ -

Atlanta, Aug. 6.-The fight - tie
convict question is now centered in
the upper house. 1t began by con-
sidering the Fielder bill, which pro-
yides for the continuation of the lease
system for eighteen months, the mon
ey derived to be used in purchasing
farms to be turned into penitentiary
| establishments in future.
Many substitutes have been intro
duced. One Of them is the Holder
bill as adopted by the house. and an
other provides that the convicts shall
he placed on The public roads. Many
amendments were introduced, but only
few were adopted, the main one in
the latter class being for the purpose
! of excluding from the bill feature
to prevent the production of manufac-
tured prcducts for general sale.
PeoplekAre Heard From.
When the Question was called up in
.g..- aslarge number of rcsolu-
NSais Ited at mass meetings in
~ y Atfaties and towns of the state
NJ sby the clerk. One from
\ NYlfn ca. led for the ending of the
Sfease systelnl at once AID for the inn
parchment NJ the prison commission
and it's atta.&hes involved in recent
disclosures f9r "corryb btion in office
and incompetency toF discharge the
duties of theA same, and for barbarous
cruelties perpetrated and condoned by
them on persSns confined in prison in
violation CT the constitution of the
state" ~
Another from Norwood declared
that the system should be abolished
in tie entirety because under great
number of leases it shows horrors and
inhumanities greater than the Siberi
an prisons, the Spanish inquisition
and the march of the Duke of Alva
through the Netherlands They call
Tn the general assembly to abrogate
nd abandon the system at once.
zone set from Rising Fawn, Dade
hoanty. was to the effect that convicts
were worked in the immediate locali-
ty and at Cole City, in the same coun-
ty. and that the interests in the mat
Ter was therefore personal and vital" ;"
he petition resolutions declared that
he investigation now on shows be-
ond doubt that the system is
ot upon the fair name of the state
I'D E. menace to her people, and have
ought the state to the bar of shame
tore the world
Immediate Cessation.
he resolutions called fer the i'm
Sate suspension of all lease con-
Icts and abolition of the prison
omission.
Dne from Greensboro said: The
IA that the state is not able to take
T. of her convicts is refuted by the
Iossal fortunes made by the les
rs since 1866, and by the "sky scra-
pdrs" that have been erected from
the profits of contcact labor
Resolutions adopted at mass meet
ibg held in Winder. said that the
lease system should be abandoned as
early as practicable to do so.
one from Baconton urged the adop-
ZION Of the original Fielder bill.
Senator Peacock made motion
that the convict question be side
tracked and other matters be taken
nm and that the governor be asked to
call an extra session of the general
assembly Immediately upon the clos
ing Of the regular one.
senator Fielder spoke in favor of
tbe motion. He said that while he
thought his own bill the best on the
calendar he was becoming inclined to
oppose it.
1T provides for the continuation of
he rlison commission said he, "and
am inclined to think it would be
letter to abolish the whole business.
X Senator Knight said the move was
- Unnecessary.
Il have heard talk of abolishing the
lnate and of doing other fool things.
said. IF you change the system
Nv are you to operate it without
ison commission" He wanted to
- Tow if they were going to abolish the
xlroad commission, too.
!, Senator Wilkes became sarcastic IN
,cussing the great system by which
state had become a dealer In
j and human flesh and by which
R stands disgraced in the galaxy o