Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-25
HOTEL LOBB|ES
BUZZ|NG WITH
LAWMAKERS
Legislators Intend to "Get Right
Down to Business" Despite
Baltimore "Circus."


filled and the lobby began TO look like
another convention was about to break
loose. II was the annual day before
the-legislature crowd coming in to
boost pet bills, get things lined up for
putting something over or putting
something else in the pigeonhole, pick
ing out a boarding house or landing a
small job left vacant since last session.
The assembly begins tomorrow-to last
80 days, not including Sundays, holt
days or dies non, which means day
which doesn't count"
The report that the Legislature would
convene, call the roll and adjourn over
until next week on account of the Bal
timore convention is discredited by Of
fieials of the two houses and those
early arrivals who came prepared to
start business.
There are not half dozen legisa-
tors in Baltimore anyway, even in
Guiding J. Randolph Anderson said
one of the house officers. There's no
reason why we should adjourn. We
all admit that Baltimore has a three
ring circus compared to our sideshow,
but We're going to keep open all the
week if we don't take IN a cent, as the
country storekeeper remarked the day
everybody left for the Contrasting. We
likely will pass some dozen bills before
Baltimore turns out"
Speaker Holder Is Here.
Speaker John ~ Holder is here and
likely to stick right al his desk, in spite
OF the fact that he's running for con-
gress from his home district and would
like to be in the fray. But it would
make pretty good argument to say the
speaker had deserted mis- post to run for
office, and John Holder Is wise Be
sides, he can see most of the big guns
in his district right here, for they'll all
be coming to Atlanta during the legis-
lature.
Beyond the prospect of a fight over
the Tippins anti near beer bill, sched-
uled for the first place on the calendar
and likely to come up for passage soon
in the session, there isn't much excite
ment ahead There are no officers to
elect, for the president of the senate.
the speaker Of the, house and all other
officials were elected last year and hold
over through this summer. There may
be few vacancies to be filled on ac-
count OF deaths or designations, and a
few new members to be sworn in for
the same cause There will be the
usual flood of new bills on the first day,
ranging from an act to amend an act
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creek to an act to prohibit running troll
lev cars on Sundays. But all the mem
bers have been seasoned by a years
experience and fewer freak bills are
expected than are the rule at first ses-
sions.
Capital Bill Still Sleeps.
Nearly every big question: brought up
last wear has been left over for consid-
Grafton at this session. but they are moi
arousing the enthusiasm which followed
their Introduction Bibb county still has
Its bill to move the capital from Allan
ia to Macon. and the selection Of new
site for the governors mansion and the
sale of the old property still is pend
ing. There are several bills providing
new counties, which means more coun-
" seats and more county jobs.
Among the bills on the calendar since
last session are:
To increase the membership of the
house of representatives; to increase
the number of members of the senate ,
to change the arrangement of senate
rial districts. making each of the big
counties a single district to make the
county unit plan a part of the primary
law; to tax automobiles upon their
hofsepoWer: to provide a ten day gov
ernor's inaugural session of the legis-
Iature in February of every second
year TO require railroads to honor
mileage books on trains; to provide
for free school books. to change the
date of the assembly's meeting: to
regulate the hours of labor and to reg
uIate child labor in factories; to pro-
vide for biennial sessions Of the legis-
lature to establish an inheritance tax;
TO create state highway commission;
TO outlaw pistol -toters; to outlaw the
public drinking cup to prohibit spit
ting on church floors: to permit free
railroad passes for sheriffs and their
deputies. and for Confederate veterans;
10 permit weekly newspapers to eX-
change advertising space for transpor-
tatton: to make county officers terms
four years instead of two; to establish
drainage and levee districts; to allow
women to vote; TO establish the initia =
tive, referendum and recall to estab-
fish state industrial home for girls;
TO establish state institution for fee
ble-minded and epileptic persons; re-
rarding the extension of the Western
and Atlantic railroad to the sea, and
fine advisability of releasing the rail-
road; and regarding the erection of a
terminal station and civic plaza where
the Union depot now stands on the
state road property in Atlanta.