Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-28
PROHIBITION FIGHT
is ON in SENATE
Bill PreCipitating Battle In
Produced at Once

fight promised the state legislature
took definite form in the upper house
Thursday when Senator Hixon, of the
! Thirty-seventh district, introduced al
bill to make the federal Webb law
applicable to Georgia. Senator Hix-
ems measure, he declared, has the
hearty approval of the Georgia Anti
Saloon league and other prohibition or
CARNATIONS and was introduced at
their request
Briefly, the measure provides that
mo malt, spirituous or vinous liquor
can be brought into Georgia by any
common carrier" Following the in
tent of the Webb law it will prevent
all liquor shipments into the state, no.
ably from Tennessee and Florida. The
Webb law was intended to confer up
on states the right to legislate in this
manner and not be in violation of the
Interstate commerce laws.
Means Straight Prohibition Fight.
The measure means the precipita-
ton of a straight line prohibition fight
in the legislature. Senator Hixoa,
sponsor for the bill with Senator w. b.
H. Searcy, will lead the fight for pro-
hibitionists in the upper house. Re-
| preventative ]. E. Sheppard, of Sum
ter, doubtless, will lead the prohibit
/ ton forces in the lower house.
Upon this bill the prohibitionists, it
; is understood, are pinning their whole
) hopes. No other anti-liquor legislation
) will be sent in with their support, i
: is said. The whole fight will be di-
? rected towards the passage of the bill,
which makes the Webb law applica-
] BILE to Georgia.
Chain Gang Reform.
Chain gang reform, urged by TIL
. Men and Religion Forward movement
il. Atlanta, and the Prison Association
J Of Georgia, was begun in the senat
q yesterday, through a bill introduced by
A. H. Foster, of the Twenty-seVentf
I district providing sweeping changes Il
\ the states penal system.
The bill seeks to do away with whaI
are known as county chain gangs,
term with more meaning at law thar
in fact. County chain gangs are re-
81 cruited from misdemeanor offenders
sentenced in the county, whereas only
felony convicts are sentenced to tn;
4 penitentiary, or rather to the state
s gangs. The distinction between then
is wiped out by the provisions of thu
bills.
Leaders of the Men and Religio.
Forward Movement declared Thursday
n that their recent bulletins had beer
misunderstood, for they are not il
i favor of taking the convicts off thC
n roads.
The bill sent in by Senator Fostel
q does away with stripes, excepting fol
prisoners of the lowest grades and at
q tempts to define this lowest grade IL
) habitual criminals.
The measure, however, calls FOL
sweeping changes in Georgia's pena
system. 1t provides:
An inspection of jails and the use o
8 jails only as place of detention.
Indeterminate sentence at the dis
: erection of the judge for both felony an.
misdemeanor offenders
The parole and after-care Of prison
ers. -srE
The establishment of grade, classi
flcations and credits for convicts
Have JaiIs Detain Only.
One Of the interesting features o
the proposed reform is in its provis
s ions to take away from the judges o
courts of original Jurisdiction th'
right to sentence man to Jail. TIL
bill seeks to make the county Jail
merely places of detention where pei
sons accused of crime are confined
If it passes all persons will be sen
9 to the penitentiary, which means to tn
8 roads, unless the sentence specificai :,
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