The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-07-06
HOUSE JOURNAL, 1910.

on the compulsory educational bill,
/ will take up house journal Of 1910
and give the people some Of the acts
and doings of our representative as
| am informed through good author
ity he denies ever writing to my
friends to vote for him and not vote
for a man that had never done any
thing for the people. I have the
letter where I can lay my hand upon
it if it is demanded. And by the
way I will touch up my good old
friend, Whitley, who had the honor
to represent my old people, as good
people as the sun ever sbone upon.
SO they may know how he represent
ed them and the people of the State.
First | want to say that my old
friend was prompt answering all roll
calls and voting on most bills, which
should be put on the credit side for
him as all right. But you will find
him voting for an amendment to the
dog law, making it misdemeanOr
for a man not to pay his dog tax,
which is unknown in the history of
Georgia legislation to put q man in
prison for not paying his tax. But
back to the subject of this piece, We
find Mr.. Hardeman voting to let any
members Of the house go with the
regular Western and Atlantic rail
road committee to Chattanooga at
the expense of the state; as we would
call it, a pleasure trip for those Cx-
cept the committee and, by the way,
if all or enough Of them had
gone to stop the business Of the
house, don't you see what a pretty
kettle Of hash we would have had
at the states expense? Our friend
Whitley, voted for the same Our
good friend got wrong. Again in a
bill to build a new cottage on the
campus of the Georgia Normal and
Industrial College at Mil1edgeville,
for thirty-fve thousand dollars, our
friend Hardeman was not there, our
friend Whitley voting for it. Mr.
Hall moved to reconsider the action
Of the house in voting for other
members other than members of the
committee of the Western and At
lantic railroad to accompany the
committee on it's tour Of inspection
at the expense Of the state We
find Mr.. Hardeman not voting. But
to the credit of our friend, Whitley,
he voted to reconsider. Right,
Brother Whitley. Let us give credit
where credit is due. Again, a bill
to amend paragraph 1, section 2,
article 8, of the Constitution so as
to increase the members of senator.
ial districts, adding more expense
to the people, A motion was made
that motion we find both our good
fY.in dc
ticle 7, section 2, paragraph 2 of the
Constitution, so as to exempt GER
tain farm products from taxation.
A motion to lay the bill on the table,
which virtually meant to kill the bill,
bill entirely in the interest of the
farmer and the cotton world, which
enabled the farmer to hold his cot
ton for one year without taxation,
thereby giving him the right to
market their cotton by degrees and
not force it all on the market in
three or four months that the price
should be something like uniform.
A little mite in favor of the farmer,
and we find our friend Hardeman
voting to table the bill; failing to
table the bill, afterwards when the
bill came up we find him not voting,
when he should have done all he
could for the bill, as he represents
almost farmer people. To the
credit of our friend Whitley we find
him on the side of the farmer. Again
bill to change the constitution so
as to empower the governor to bor-
row 100000 instead of 5000, 900,
which he has the right to borrow,
and if our legislators will use a lit
tie more economy and live within
their means. as any careful man does