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

The Georgia legislature adjourned
sine die at lib o'clock this morning
cff1cially. 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 few
seconds after the speakers gavel had
fallen for the last time.
When the house met there was mass
OF business on hand to be disposed of
before adjournment The members
were more in a mood to play than to
work, and throughout the nights pro-
ceedings spirit OF levity and hilarity.
with an occasional 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 a 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
49,.
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, it was
charged, through distribution of pat
ronage to relatives of senators-and all
efforts to reconcile the two houses on a
non Hargett platform were unavailing
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-
l&tactory to majority of the member
ship. bus apparently the best that might
be achieved at the moment.
Woman Lavyver RiU Di..
Among the bills that went 70 their
death last night were the lieutenant
governor BILL the general banking bill
aud tn woman lawyer bill.
The appropriation bills. proper1v adj
1HSted Wtry crowded through at the
last mfnnt" ard while the members
chorusod Tie old Time Religion" the
Eou aGioC!ncd.
ENiE 10 iast niehts session the two
hodses lad a love feast over the gen
era 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 to do
nothing except squabble over the an
pointment of its pages Its rules com
mittee refused twice to fix the child
labor bill as special order and twice
the vote sustained the committees de-
cision. The child labor bill never
reached a hearing, although its adber-
ents claimed to have pledged a ma ior-
fly in the upper house.
The surprise of the session came late
Yesterday afternoon when the senate in
A 30-minute executive session con-
frmed Hoke Smiths appointments to
the state board of education over which
subterranean politics has been PLAYING
the entire session.
Senate Sets Precedent.
The situation furnished by the SEN
ate's action is unique in Georgia's leg
islative annals. The senators, in face,
have announced with satisfa elton that
they have set a precedent.
The Smith appointments on the board
DR.. Jere NJ. Pound, T. J. Woofter, T.
c. Langston and the late Judge E. G.
Lavson-were made September s. 1911.
and have never been sent to the SEN
ate. Governor Brown sent in appoint
ments this session, superseding Pound
j
A. T. Moon. Walter e. Steed had been
appointed in the spring to fill the place
made vacant by the death of Judge
Lawson.
The senate grumbled over the Brown
appointments and became involved in
legal sduabble arising over the fact
that Smiths appointments were 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 were sent in merely as
information and the names were not to
be considered as nominations.