Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-14

mot ns.,l had that t. same
ence members of
the house have had--the house at pres
ent being, as every one knows, Demo-
cratic by a comfortable. majority.
Under the Encouragement of commit
tees in the present house. effected not
by appointment of the speaker, but by
the house committee on ways and
means-Mr Underwood, chairman
sitting as a definitely designated COM
mittee on committees, the Georgia
membership is distributed as follows:
Mr.. Edwards, No. on rivers and har-
bors, No. 2 on elections and No. 4 on
alcoholic liquors; Mr.. Roddenbery, No.
) on public buildings and grounds, No.
3 on expenditures and No. on ac-
counts; Mr. Adamson, chairman on in
terstate and foreign commerce; Mr..
Howard, No. Is on labor and No. 6 on
insular affairs; Mr.. Bartlett, No. on
appropriations; Mr.. Lee, No. on agri-
culture and No. on war claims; Mr..
Tribble, No. on election of president
and vice president and No. 9 on naval
affairs; Mr. Bell No. 8 on census, No.
on immigration and No on post
offices and postroads; Mr.. Hardwick,
No. on rules and chairman on coin
age. weights and measures; Mr.. Brant-
ley, No. on ways and means and Mr..
Hughes, No. on education, No. 6 on
irrigation and No. Z on military af-
fairs. Mr. Crisp. the new member, is
yet to be assigned
1t is practically certain that Senator
Bacon will be made chairman of the
senate committee on foreign relations,
and Senator Smith likely will be made
chairman Of the committee on agricul-
ture.
In the forthcoming committee as
signments the Georgia delegation hard
ly can hope for better berths than they
now have-and those they now have
are choice, anyway-because of the
greatly increa sed Democratic member
ship of the new house.
A few weeks ago Sidehghts ventureG
the modest prediction that inasmuch as
former Representative Alexander A
Lawrence, Of Chatham. had assumed
the leadership of the anti-commissior
government hosts in Savannah, the
anti commissioners likely would win
out on election day.
BY way of verifying the prediction
merely it may be stated that the
"antis" did win out down in Savannah
Tuesday-by a vote of about three to
one.
Wherefore, one may opine in perfect
safety, perhaps. that it still is impossi-
BILE to lose Mr.. Lawrence in Chatham
politics.
The honorable justices of, the SUI
preme court of Georgia cruelty .choked
off lot of Atlanta legal eloquence
Tuesday. when, without warning to the
Atlanta bar. they hit the Atlanta call
amidships and disposed Of some 70
cases in about twenty minutes.
When the honorable court quit work
recently TO adjourn over for a day or
so, it was some 60 odd cases ahead OF
the Atlanta call. In ordinary circum-
stances. the court would have reached
the Atlanta call about Friday OF this
week. But a lot OF Atlanta lawyers
were mapping when the court met on
Tuesday morning and the court pro-
ceeded to pass those 60-odd cases. for
good and sufficient reasons, and take up
the Atlanta call.
Nearly all lawyers in the state sub
fe nv hVia
oral effort, before the supreme court
that is, all but the Atlanta outfit The
court is right here at their mercy. and,
as a rule the Atlanta lawyer scorns
merely to Submit" his case. SO the
helpless court has had to listen, time
and again to very much more Atlanta
vocalization than it wished to.
Therefore, when 1t hit that Atlanta
call Unexpectedly Wednesday and there
was no Atlanta eloquence on tap, the
honorable court saw it's opportunity. 1t
called and marked those Atlanta cases
submitted" just as fast as they could
be knocked off.
When the Atlanta bar found out what
had happened it was very much dis.
had put over a good one that time!
Atlanta eloquence is all right-but
the supreme court of Georgia knows
when II has had enough
If ever this writer gets forgiveness
for butting in on that Rome postmas-
tership row, he never again will rush in
where angels fear to tread,
Comes now a Rome correspondent
and writes:
Sir-Your efforts to confine the
Rome postmastership fight to two
measly antagonists is not appre-
ciated in this city Nor is your
further effort to conflne II to four
looked upon with any marked de-
gree of favor
AS matter of fact, there are
nine candidates~-and more 10 come.