Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-03
WOMAN NOTARY
BILL IS. PASSED
House, Members Deserving, Ad-
iourns Until Monday-Lieut.
Governor Vote Delayed.

seats and disappearing toward the rail-
way stations, with Speaker Holder re-
peatedly announcing mo quorum vot-
ing" and sending the pages scurrying
through the, lobpies to round up alb
sentees the house today finished its
final labors before the Fourth of July
vacation and took a rest until next
Monday. 1t passed a half dozen local
bills and several of a general nature,
including one permitting women to be-
come commercial notaries public.
The passage of the woman notary
bill, offered by Mr.. Stubs, of Putnam,
was taken by advocates of the WON
an lawyer" measure as an indication
that the Legislature which granted
women the right to witness official
papers would also grant them the right
to practice law. 1t was passed by 1O5
to l, practically unanimous vote. 1t
must yet reach the senate.
1t was hard to put any legislation
through today, for the members were
keeping one eve on the clock and the
other on their time tables, and there
was barely a quorum remaining when
the house adjourned at noon after sew
eral motions to adjourn had been voted
down by members, with bills remaining
on the desk Some of the lawmakers
will go to the CraWforIville celebration
tomorrow, some to a barbecue at Ball
Ground, but most of them will leave
this afternoon for their homes.
Dozen Bills introduced.
The McElreath bill to create the Of
fee of lieutenant governor came up
for passage, but the house had so
thinned out that the author feared its
defeat through lack of constitutional
majority and obtained Its postpone
ment until next week, Immediately aft
er the vote on the Ttppins bill. Mr..
Deese, Of Pulaski, had his bill creating
the new county Of Beckley postponed
until July II for the same reason.
Mr.. Ault. of Polk, put through the
house his bill to prohibit drunkenness
in railroad trains, fair grounds and
baseball parks and other places of pub
lie assembly and providing rigorous
penalties.
More than dozen new bills wefe
introduced and read. One, by Mr.. Fos-
ter, of Newton known as the white
slave" bill, prohibits any person from
inveigling a female of chaste character
into a disreputable house, and fixes the
penalty at from four to seven years i'm
prisonment A bill by Mr.. Beck, of
Brooks. would create a new county, to
be known as Cook county, and formed
from the western part Of Berrien coun-
tv. Another bill, with dozen signers,
appropriates $500 to the state chemist
to increas sc the efficiency of the inspec-
ton Of fertilizers, foods and drugs
representatives Frohock and others
offered In the house today bill to
authorize the Atlantic. Waycross and
Northern railroad to condemn, lease or
purchase the tracks of the Southern
railway from Fort Valley to the juno
ton point of the former Atlanta and
Florida railroad and the former East
Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia, and
the authority to condemn for joint use
the tracks Of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic road from WaYcross to
Douglas. 1t was referred to the com
mittee on railroads.
Must Investigate Falls Case.
The senate has a second time refused
TO consider a reopening of the Tallulah
Falls controversy without a commit
tee report. Senator Shaw's effort to
obtain a reconsideration of his reso-
luton requesting the governor bring
suit was wasted again today. He lost
by vote of 10 TO II.
A majority of the senator's follow
ing the leadership Of Senator Felker,
insisted that the matter be thrashed
out in commimttee before coming to
the senate.
A similar fate attended Senator
Sbeppard's effort to consider the Alex
ander resolution relative to the Bris-
tow amendment Representative Alex
ander succeeded yesterday in getting
special committee in the house TO care
fully consider the Federal amendment
after asserting that the Bristow enact
ment had never passed the Federal
congress with the requisite two thirds
vote.
The senate intimated plainly that 1t
did not care to vote on the question
until next Monday The senate adj
iourned until Monday after sleepy
session.
Adtutant General Obear said today
that a bill would be sent to the legisa-
ture providing a reimbursement of the
military fund with the $500 appropri-
ated to defray the expenses Of the
Second regiment at the Confederate
veterans reunion in Macon.
AS is we'll known, the $500 was ex-
tracted from the annual military main
tenance fund by Joe Hill Hall, Of Bibb,
after vigorous protest by the military
authorities. 1t was asserted al the time
the legislature should have made
special levy to meet the reunion ex-
penses.
AS it is nov. the military fund, which
never exceeds yz5Uu0 annually, is de-
pIeted and the authorities says that the
return of the $500 is necessary to
meet current expenses.