Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-10

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Case Now Concluded Before the
General Assembly.
The suspension of S. G. McLendon as
railroad commissioner was confirmed
Thursday evening, in the house, by a
vote of 129 to 40.
This verdict, coming after McLendon's
dismissal by the governor and senate, is
the final legislative word.
Not only did the house find the dis
missed railroad commissioner unworthy to
retain his Office, but it found him guilty
of the specific charges made in Governor
Smiths report. One hundred and twenty
one of the legislators who voted to GUST
the commissioner first put themselves on
record to this effect by voting against
the resolution of Anderson of Chatham
to disapprove the governors report.
FEATURES OF THE BALLOT.
The following men voted to disapprove
the report, but then voted to suspend
the commissioner on evidence outside that
report. principally on account of the now
famous bond deal:" Anderson of Bull
loch, Childs. Evans. Kicklighter, Near
thur, Vinson, Wasden and Woodliff.
That the house would vote for suspen-
sion by heavy and probably overwhelm-
ing majority was a foregone conclusion
early in the day, and became more and
more evident as the debate progressed
McLendon's defenders consuming most of
their time attacking the motives OF an
action which they felt themselves power
less to prevent and impugning the politi-
cal honor of the men whom they expect
ed TO vote contrary to their own opin-
IONS
Hundreds of spectators thronged the
gallery and rear aisles of the legisla-
tive hall throughout the entire day, but
the crowd was unusually quiet, and little
excitement was manifested when the final
votes were taken. 1t was only a ques-
ton OF how heavy the majority would
be.
PREVIOUS QUESTION CALLED.
The previous question had been called
for 4:3o p. m, but it was a quarter of
an hour later when the reading clerk
began calling :he roll on the Hall i'm
parchment resolution. It was lost by a
vote of 90 to 119.
Next the Anderson resolution disapprov-
ing the governors report was lost by a
roll call vote of Al to 1n.
This brought the house face to face
with the main question, the suspension
Of the commissioner in accordance with
the Hardeman resolution, with the result
of confirming the suspension. as above
stated, by an aye and nay vote of 12s
to 40.
The lineup on the Hardeman resolution
was as follows:
VOTE ON SUSPENSION
Ayes-Adams, Alexander of DeKaIb,
Allen, Alley. Anderson of Bulloch, Ath-
erton. Atkinson, Bagley, Bailey, Beas-
ley, Bell, Berry. Booker, BTinson OF
Decatur. Brinson of Emanuel, Brown OF
Henry, Brown of Murray. Butt, Burton.
Calbeck, Cannon, CarsweIl, Chandler
Childs Cooke. Cordell, Couch. Cowan
Cureton, Daniel, Dickson. Edwards
Elder, Ellison, English. Evans. Fair
cloth, Fender, Fields of Crisp. Ford
Darlington, GastIey, Gillies, Graddick
Guyton, Hardeman OF Jefferson, Hard
man, OF Jackson, Harrington, Harvey
Hatfield. Helms, Henderson of Irwin
Henderson of Turner, Hendricks, Hub
/ bard, Hullender. HUE. Johnson OF Bar
tow. Johnson of Jeff Davis, Johnson OF
! Towns. Joiner, Jones of Laurens, Jones
| Of Mitchell. Kelly, Hendricks, Kick
| lighter, Kidd, Kirby, Littleton, Lord
Iovejoy, Marshall. Meadows Of Telfair
Meadows of Toombs, Middlebrooks, Mil
Ter of Ware, Millilkin, Minter. Mitchell
Moss. Mcfarland, Macarthur, McCon-
nell, McCrory. McCurry, McElreath. Nc
Michael of Butts. McMichael of Marion
McWhorter, Oliver, Parker of De-
1 catur, Parker OF Talbot. Paulk, Pea
/ cock. Persons, Pierce. Pope, Porter
Price, Proctor, Reaves Reid of Macon
Reid Of Putnam. Rentz. Rodgers. Shep-
pard. Shirley, slade, Smith of Tatnan
Smith OF Walton. Stovall. Tarver. Trip
pins. Tracey, Tuggle. Turner, Turnip-
seed. Upshaw. Vinson, waddell, Walt
ers. Wasden, Watkins. White of Screw
en-. Wright of Grady, Wood. Woodlif
Wright of Floyd. and Wright Of
| Stewart-129.
Nays-Alexander Of Fulton. Ander.
son of Chatham, Armistead, Ault
Barksdale. Baker, Beacham. Boyd
| Brown of Carroll. Brown of Fulton
Burch, Converse, Davis, Drawdy, Ellis
Fullbright, Griffin of Twiggs, Hall
| Heard, Hill, Holtzclaw, ones of Meri
weather, Lawrence, Lewis, Miller Of
| Calhoun. Moore, MacIntyre. McCutch'
con, McMahan. Redding, Reese, REID
of Campbell, Roberts, Simmons. Smitl
of Gilmer. Strong. Stubs. Whitley
/ Williams and Wohlwender-40
Not Voting-Field of DeKalb. God
| ley, Griffin of Sumter, Holder of Floyc
Howell, Keith, Mccarthy. Rosser and
Simpsons.
| The vote on the Anderson resolution
| showed the same lineup, reversed, Win
the exception of the eight men, whose
names are recorded in foregoing para
/ graph, who voted aye on both questions
THE IMPEACHMENT VOTE.
On the Hall impeachment resolution,
the vote was as follows:
For impeachment resolution-Messrs.
Alexander of Fulton, Alley. Anderson OF
4 Bulloch, Anderson of Chatham. Armis-
tead, Anterior, Ault. BarksdaIe Baker.
| Barrett, Beacham, Boyd, Brown of Full
| ton. Burch, Butt. Converse, Daniel. Da-
Wis, Drawdy, Ellis, Evans, Fullbright,
| Griffin of Twiggs, Hail. Hardman of
| jackson, Heard. Hill. Holder Of Floyd,
! Holtzclaw, Howell. Jones of Meriwether,
| Lewis, Miller of Calhoun. Mitchell,
| Moore, MacIntyre. Macarthur, McCutch-
en-, Pierce. Redding. Reese, Reid of Camp
bell. Reid. of Macon. Roberts. Smith of
Gilmer, Strong, Stubs Turnipseed, Vim
son. Wasden. Whitley, Williams, Wohl-
wender, Woodliff-55.
| Against the Impeachment resolution
| Adams. Alexander of DeKalb. Allen, At
kinson. ,Bagley, Bailey, Beasley. Bell.
| Berry, Booker, Crimson of Decatur,
| Brown of Carroll, Brown of Henry, Brown