The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-09
SHAVE OFF TIPP|NS
 PROHIBITION BILL Georgia Opposition Conf dent of Its Defeat CAUSES MUCH DELAY No Measures, Except Fertilizer and Appropriations Bills, Can Pass
 House Until Tippins Bill
 Is Disposed Of
CAUSES MUCH DELAY

! Atlanta, August S.-Legislative interest for the remainder of the session centers around the Tippins 11 per cent prohibition | bill, its possible fate and what it has done and it's effect upon other pending legis- lation.
 As 1t stands, the Tippins bill is the first measure on the house calendar for con sideration following the Cabaniss-Johnson 1 fertilizer bill, which has already been well usef ts time killer; and the only thing thg can stop the anti-near beer bill from coming to a vote Is the appropriations | bill, which the house must turn over to the senate at least three days before the end of the session.
 | When the fertilizer and appropriations bills get out of the way, there is nothing house, and the only question with it's opponents is, can they slave off its pas safe until it 'is too late to get it through the senate.
 It is now believed they can accomplish this, and while the bill may. get through the house. it will be held back until too late for the senate to do anything with it.
 In order to make its failure this session
 
 absolutely certain, the opponents of it must prevent It's passage In the house through next Monday; for 1t has been held that bill can be read the first time in the senate on the same day on which it passes the house, and vice versa, Ac- cording to this, if the senate is eager to put the bill through, it could take hold of 1t next Monday, provided the house passed it that day, and with the three days left, put 1t through without any diff ficulty With such a close shave, how ever, it would be comparatively an easy matter for opposition in the senate 10 stave off action until too late to make 1t a law.
 Thus the indications all are that the bill will not go through at this session. In fact it's warmest advocates are now fear ing It's failure, and almost the best that some of them are hoping for Is to put 1t up to the senate next Monday. which, as stated, would give 1t 8 bare chance.
 By putting 1t over to the next session year from now it's opponents hope to de- feat it altogether, believing that the in- term between the sessions will afford a good opportunity to nail it and convert 1t into a dead one"
 Whether 1t makes the other shore or not, the Tippins bill has had the effect of killing a good deal of Legislation so far as this session Is concerned. Not measure of any other kind. outside of those named-fertiliZers and appropria- tions-can pass the house the remainder of the session until the Tippins bill gets out of the way. This does not include, of course, measures which have already hn ata fhaGa acted on by the house the last two days of the sessioJ ays which are always devoted to set-- bills because 1t is use less l s .t,.t at that tin 10 pass any other honss
 But~the Tippins bill is even interfering with the passage of simple resolutions contemplating important state action. There Is pending, for instance, resolu- ton wyhich proposes to play the founda- ton which proposes to lay the founda- law a revision badly needed if crime Is to be checked in the state. This resolu- tion simply provides that the judges of the superior and appellate courts shall furnish to the governor before the next session of the general assembly their views regarding the present criminal laws with suggestions looking to tsuch revision as is needed to check crime0 The value of such a resolution will readily be rec ognized, yet it stands little chance to get through the house and senate at this session because the filibuster against the Tippins bill has practically blocked all other legislation.
 This is only one instance given as an example of the effect that the prohibition fight has had upon pending legislation of some consequence to the state.
 With the appearance of the appropria- tions bill in the house all other business will be laid aside. and it is safe to assert that it will take up the rest of the week going to the senate not earlier than Sat urday.
 While debate on this measure may be limited to certain extent, there is no way of choking 1t off sufficiently to shorten the time for other purposes as long as the Tippins bill hangs over the antis like club.