Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
VITAL BILLS LOST
AS LEGISLATORS.
ROMP HOME
Lawmakers Adjourn Sine Die
at 1:13 A. M.-GetaWay Ses-
sion Given Over to Play.

The Georgia legislature adjourned
sine die at 1:13 o'clock this morning
Officially it adjourned exactly at mid
night but the clock was set back. after
the manner of an old fashioned fiction
and the hands were not permitted to
indicate the midnight hour until a few
fallen for the last time.
When the house met there was a mass
of business on hand to be disposed Of
before adjournment. The members
were more in mood to play than to
work. and throughout the nights pro-
ceedings spirit of levtty and hilarity,
o. with an occa sional dash of hysteria.
prevailed.
The one big fight of the night session
came over relatively inconsequential
matter-the appointment of senate
pages for the first session of the next
legislature. The biggest matter coming
to the houses attention on its final day
was disposed of with mere wave Of
the hand-the banking bill
The house and senate were in dis
agreement about few items, compared
with the usual situation on the closing
day. There was some difference of
opinion with respect to the insurance
bill and several items OF the approprfa
ton bills
Fight Over Pages In Senate.
None of these differences was partic-
ularly violent, however, and they were
quickly adjusted and the bills passed.
The f1ercest conflict Of the entire
night was the fight to take the appoint
ment Of the senate pages out of the
hands of Messenger Hargett and place
them directly in the hands Of the pres
ident of the senate, Just as they are
in the hands Of the speaker of the
house.
Mr. Hargett had rallied the senate
strongly to his cause-largely. 1t was
charged, through distribution of pat
ronase to relatives Of senators-and all
efforts to reconcile the two houses on a
nom Hargett platform were unavaiIing,
Finally the matter was Strengthened
out by dividing the appointments be-
tween the president of the senate and
the messenger--a solution far from sat
isfactory to a majority of the member.
ship, but apparently the best that might
be achieved at the moment.
Woman Lawyer Bill Dies.
Among the bills that went to their
death last night were the lieutenant
governor bill the general banking bill
and the woman lawyer bill.
The appropriation bills, properly ad-
justed. were crowded through at the
last minute and while the members
chorused The Old Time Religion" the
house adjourned.
Early in last nights session the two
houses had a love feast over the gen
eral insurance bill, forced into confer
ence because of the mass Of amend
ments submitted. The real fight came
over the appropriations bill.
The senate was determined n do
nothing except squabble over the an
potntment of its pages. It's rules com.
mtttee refused twice to Ak the child
labor bill as a special order and twice
the vote sustained the committees de-
cison. The child labor bill never
reached hearing, although its adher-
ents claimed to have pledged major
ity in the upper house.
The surprise Of the session came late
yesterday afternoon when the senate in
Commute executive session con-
f1rmed Hoke Smiths appointments to
the state board Of educa ton over which
subtSrranean politics has been pIavtng
the entire session.
Senate Sets a Precedent.
The situation furnished by the sap-
ate's action is unique in Georgia's leg
islative annals. The senators, in face,
have announced with satisfaction that
they have set a precedent
The Smith appointments on the board
DIR. Jere NJ. Pound r ]. Woofter T.
c. Langston and the late Judge f G.
LaWson-vere made September 8. 1911
and have never been sent to the SEN
ate.' Governor Brown sent in appoint
ments this session, superseding Pound
and Langston by G. R. Glenn and Judge
A. r. Moon. Walter r. Steed had been
appointed in the spring 10 fill the place
made vacant by the death Of Judge
Lawson.
The senate grumbled over the Brown
appointments and became involved in a
legal squabble arising over the fact
that Smiths appointments We're made
under a new act creating the present
board of education.
Governor Brown then Withdrew his
nominations
1t had happened that Governor
Brown had furnished the senate with
the minutes Of the executive office Of
September s. as fuel for the controversy.
The governor told the senate plainly
that the minutes We're sent in merely as
information and the names were not to
be considered as nominations
The senate thought otherwise. From
the minutes Of the executive Office It
was concluded that Hoke Smith must
have made the above appointments.
They we're confirmed forthwith.
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