The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-05
Proposed State Legislation.


office-holder in this state whose salary is not
already fixed by law We strongly condemn the
abuse which has recently been put in practice by
officers who increase their salaries almost
Immediately upon election to Office
CD We favor the re-enactment of the law
which put fine of fifty dollars upon telegraph
companies for the non-delivery of messages.
We also urge upon the Legislature the passage
of an act which will include mental suffering
among the elements of damage in cases where
there is negligent non-delivery of telegraph
messages.
CO. We heartily favor the plan adopted by so
many other states of the union, of furnishing
primary school books to the public schools at the
expense of the state.
The Supreme Court reports of Georgia, which
formerly cost the lawyers five dollars volume
when published by the late Henry Jackson,
now published by the state and sold at $1.25
volume. In view of the fact that the prices of
wages and of all materials entering into book
have greatly increased since the days of Harry
Jackson, this is a very remarkable illustration of
the difference between monopoly prices and
reasonable prices.
We have no objection to what the state is doing
for the lawyers, but think the school are
entitled to equally good treatment.
(4) We urge upon the legislature the
reduction of the Railroad Commission to it's
original number Of three, and the abolition of
the office of Attorney to the Commission. We
cannot see that the increase in the expense of this
commission has been justified by any increase in
it's efficiency, and there is nothing going to show
that it needs the services of a lawyer every day
in the year.
CO. The Southern Express Company is Geor-
gia corporation. We see no reason, therefore,
why it should not be subject to domestic regula-
ton. Many of it's rates antiquated and ex-
tortionate and we demand that the Railroad Com
mission make the proper Investigation and reduc-
tons
CO. At present the farmers of Georgia have no
real protection against adulteraton of fertilizers
We earnestly urge upon the Legislature the
actment of law which will subject fertilizer COM
panies to the same rigid investigation to which
banks subjected
Such law would not only be of vast benefit to
the farmers and truckers but would prove pro-
lection to the honest manufacturers of fertilizers
and the merchants who act as mddlemen between
the manufacturers and the consumers.
CD We suggest improvement upon the
present method of selecting text books for our
schools, the formation Of Board composed of
the Governor, the Chancellor of the State Uni
versty the President of Oxford College, and the
Presidents of Mercer University the Wesleyan,
the Shorter, and of the Middle Georgia Military
Academy, and such other heads of educational
institutions as the Legislature may see fit to
choose.
We further recommend that the text books once
chosen shall not be changed save by the unanim-
Gus consent of the members of the Board-such
change not to go into effect until twelve months
notice, duly published in some paper of general
circulation, has been given.
49, Inasmuch as our county unit system
abolished by the Atlanta Convention of last
August, without notice to the people, and with
out the convention which did it being aware of
what it was doing demand that the Legisla-
ture, at it's next session, enact law which shall
provide that all primaries in this state shall be
held on the county unit plan; and that each
county shall have double the representation fixed
for them by the Constitution of 1877 in the Lower
House of the Legislature.
CO. We demand that the Legislature make a
law limiting the franchise to white adults who
have paid their taxes, and who laboring under
no legal disabilities.