Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-06-17
MEETS ON
WEDNESDAY, JUNE z
Governor Now Working on
Message-It Contains Moth
ina New or Startling

The Georgia legislature will meet on
next Wednesday the fourth Wednes-
day In June, and will remain in session
for so days, or until August 10.
Those committees appointed at the last
Sc ssion to report to the legislature are
either worrying on these reports, or have
them ready to be submitted.
1t will be we'll towards the end of next
week before the legislators get down to
work. New committees will have to be
appointed ard the preliminary working
forces of the body arranged
REACTIONARIES AT WORK.
The Brown forces will not go to sleep
in the forthcoming session. ]. Randolph
Anderson, of Chatham county, who may
be considered spokesman of the admins
tration. in a recent interview in the Sa-
vannah Press is quoted as saying that he
hopes the biennial sessions bill, requiring
the legislature to meet every two years
instead of annually, as at present, will be
PASSED.
Under such a provision the governor
would be given added power, since should
an extra session be necessary, he would
dictate to the Legislature what form OF
legislation it should consider.
Another fight in the legislature will
come over the proposition to increase
the salaries of the judges of the court
of appeals. In this connection Mr.. An
derson is quoted at some length. He
says that when such bill was passed
at the last session, an amendment by
Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb county,
was adopted, which kept the salaries TO
the present figure. Mr.. Anderson said that
no objection was raised to this amend
ment because the senate could amend the
measure and place the salareis higher.
Then, Mr.. Anderson suggested, the
amendment would be returned to the
house, where 1t could be passed by ma
jority of "a of the quorum, instead of
SO votes, the number the original bill
would have required.
BETTER GO SLOW.
But" said Mr.. Alexander, in reply to
this statement, the house would then
have the power to cut these salaries.
Friends of the judges of the court of
appeals had better not trust too much
to this condition. Instead of having
their salaries increased, or kept at their
present figure, they might have them
cut"
Mr.. Alexander says he did not intro
duce the amendment, in question, al
though he is opposed to the increase Of
salaries.
Mr.. Anderson is quite frank about
what he hopes the legislature will &C
complish. For one thing, he wants the
railroads to be given the right to dou-
ble-track their systems. and to condemn
property for this purpose. He also
wants to increase the membership of
the senate, making the larger counties
each a senatorial district.
One OF the most important measures
to be introduced will be a measure by
Mr.. Alexander, known as the right Of
recall, which would permit of an cleo
ton at any time to discharge a man
from ofice, provided he was not At for
ONCE.
There will be no election for speaker
of the house at this session, John NJ
Holder having still a year. He, how
ever, is understood to be a candidate for
reelection at next years session.
John NJ. Slaton, president of the SEN
ate, will be a candidate again at the gen.
eral election next fall. but so far no op-
position to him has developed
BROWN PREPARING MESSAGE.
Governor Brown is now at work on his
annual message to the legislature. It
VIII be i'll the governors characteristic
vein-brief and not startling 1t is not
believed he will recommend anything new,
or anything not definitely outlined to him
by the convention
AS was the case last year, he will urge
g change in the registration laws, pro-
viding that the registry lists shall be
closed within a month of the elections, in
stead OF on April !, as is now the case.
He may also recommend the issuance
OF 100000 of bonds for the payment of
school teachers, and urge again the re-
duction Of the railroad commission from
five to three members. He will probab-
ly ask the legislature to establish a de-
partment of labor, with labor commits
sioner at its head.
The message will be practically a du-
plicate of the one last year, more or less
fc. NAL in Its provisions.