The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-08-03
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE

shift by prominent educators, will be
put in vogue and without any violent
changes being made, in case a bill
offered by the committee on educa-
| ton in the house becomes a law. 1t
was introduced as substitute for all
bill proposing general changes in the
educational system and represents
nearly months work by Chairman
/ H. s. White and other members of
the committee, who were assisted by
Prof. M L. Britain, state school COM
missioner
| The bill providing for redistricting
the state for the purpose of creating
an additional congressional district
was introduced in the house of repre-
sentatives and was referred to the
committee on reapprotionment.
! The reapportionment bill now pend
/ ing in congress will very probably be
passed on August 8, but the house
committee will not wait until that time
to proceed with the consideration of
! the local bill
The tentative plan of redistricting
the state as submitted by Mr.. Ander-
son in his bill is as follows:
| First District: Chatham, Effingham,
Screven, Burke, Jenkins, Bulloch, Bry-
an, Tattnall, Liberty and Mcintosh.
Second District: Thomas, Colquitt,
! Tiff, Turner, Worth, Dougherty, Mitch
ell, Grady, Decatur, Miller, Early, Ba-
( ker and Calhoun.
I Third District: Harris, Talbot, Tay-
lor, Upson, Meriwether, Troup, Heard,
Coweta,. Fayette, Clayton, Campbell,
Douglas and Carroll.
Fourth District: Harris, Talbot, Tay-
lor, Epson, Meriwether, Troup, Heard,
Coweta. Fayette, Clayton, Campbell,
Douglas and Carroll.
Fifth District: Fulton, DeKalb and
Rockdale.
Sixth District: Bibb, Jones, Bald
win, Putnam, Jasper, Butts, Henry,
spalding, Pike, Monroe and Craw-
! ford.
Seventh District: Cobb, Paulding,
HARRISON, Polk, Floyd, Barlow, Cor
don, Chattooga, Walker, Dade,. Catoo-
sa, Whitfield and Murray.
Eighth District: Franklin, Hart,
Madison, Ebert, Oglethorpe, Clarke,
Oconee, Greene, Morgan, Walton and
| Newton.
Ninth District: Jackson, Hall, Gwin-
nett, Forsyth, Milton, Cherokee. Pick
ems, Dawson, Lumpkin, Gilmer, Fan
! min, Union, Towns, Rabun, White,
Habersham, Banks and Stephens.
Tenth District: Richmond, Jefferson,
Washington, Hancock, Taliaferro, War
rem, Glascock, McDuffe, Wilkes, Co
lumbia and Lincoln.
Eleventh District: Glynn, Camden,
Charlton, Pierce, Wayne, Appling,
[ Ware, Clinch, Echols, Lowndes,
Brooks, Berrien, Irwin, Ben Hill, COT
fee and Jeff Davis.
Twelfth District: Dooly, Crisp, Lee,
Sumter, Macon, Schley, Marion, Mus.
cogee, Chattahoochee, Stewart, Web
ster, Terrell, Randolph, Quitman and
Clay.
An embalmers bill promoted by the
state board Of embalming and by the
! State Funeral Directors Association,
was virtually killed in the house 1t
was introduced by Representative AL
mand of Rockdale, who urged it on
the ground of the public interest. He
said existing laws regarding embalm-
ing and preparing corpses for ship
ment are lax and not in keeping with
| the demands of public health protec-
ton. 1t was opposed on the ground
that it would inflict hardships on ru-
raj communities where there are no
trained embalmers.
After much discussion the senate,
by vote of "a to IL, refused to agree
to a committee recommendation that
the senate do pass bill by Senator
] H. Felker of the Twenty-seventh,
so that the selection of the Judiciary
would be in the hands of the COVER
| nor subject to the senate's confrma-
ton The bill asked that the people
be allowed to say whether they would
not prefer to have the governor and
senate name judges of the supreme,
superior and appellate courts and So
licitors general as was the custom
several years ago. Senator J. E. Shep-
pard of the Thirteenth failed in an
endeaVor to amend the bill to place
the naming of the judiciary with the
general assembly, his amendment be.
ing lost by vote of 81 to 5.