The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-02
TWO WEEKS REMAIN TOGEORG|A SOLONS Very Much Legislation Un-
 achieved Still MOST ACTS ARE LOCAL City of Macon to Entertain Legisla- ture at Big Barbecue, With the
 Motive, Says Rumor, of
 Securing the Capital
MOST ACTS ARE LOCAL

Atlanta, August 1.-(Special )-There re- main but two weeks of the present legis- lative session. The general assembly VIII adjourn sine die Wednesday, August Is, with much of the legislation which has been considered most important un- achieved.
 The general appropriations bill has not yet been reported to the house by the house appropriations committee, and will not come in until the last of the week. When if does come it means that all other business must be laid aside, and that measure given the right-of-way until it is passed It will get to the Sen ate about three or four days before the close os the session and it will have to be given the same consideration there.
 It is the purpose of the committee to hold all appropriations, general and spe- cial within the states income, and it is stated, it will report bills on that basis Special appropriations aggregating s1,25o,- coo have been asked for, outside of the general bill Those requests come from various state institutions which want new brildings or funds for various purposes
  however, has ascertaihed that there will be, whom general appropriations are com pleted, only s250,000 in the treasury to meet these special appropriations. or only 20 per cent of what is asked. Just how it will be distributed is a matter for the committee to recommend and the legisla- ture to decide.
 But right here is where the fight is coming when the appropriation bills reach the house. Every interest has its friends on the floor both of the house and sen ate, and a strong contest is going to be made in behalf of each of them. If the house and senate should override the committee recommendations to any ex- tent, it will mean the state will come out jdst that much further behind, unless Governor Smith should veto some of the appropriations as he has threatened.
 Attention has been called to the fact other important legislation. and present indications are that much of that which was hoped for-measures like the state highway commission bill. drainage bilI educational reform-will have to go over until next session because it will be sim Ely impossible TOT the two houses to get through with them and at the same time pass up the appropriations in time to ad- journ.
 Up to date 5S1 bills and S2 resolutions have been introduced in the house and l54 bills and "A resolutions in the senate About half the bills are purely local and, where approved by the representatives interested in them, are passed without oc- acupying much time or much attention be- ing paid to them
 Macon is going to serve the Georgia legislature one of the biggest barbecues in the states history next Saturday Comment says this is one of the levers with which it is proposed to try to lift up the state capitol and move it to the Central City.
 Most of the legislators and a number of friends of Macon, which is always good host. are going down to look over the situation. Some of the Atlantans who are tying strings about the building in