Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-16
STATE POLITICAL
POT BO|LS At
KIMBALL
Candidates for House Speaker
and Senate President Open
Headquarters.
By JAMES 3. NEvtN.

appearance so Enthusiastically prophetic
Of the annual getting together of the
Legislature.
Headquarters have been opened for
two speakership candidates, two
presidency Of the Senate candidates
and at least one new county, Gambler.
Within the next day or so other
headquarters will be opened, and 9TH
er fights inaugurated. The clans IN
mistakably are gathering for the fray.
and the forthcoming session bids fair
to be one of great interest and far
reaching consequence.
The first new county proposition to
get busy on the job is, as aforesaid,
Gambler The boosters of this propo-
sition say they have their contest well
in hand and they unquestionably ex-
pect to win.
This new county is to be made up
of slices of Bulloch. Tattnall and
Emanuel. all three large counties, and
there is little, if any, opposition in
the territory affected.
Meter a hustling town of around
1000, is to be the county seat of Can
dler. II is located in the western part
of Bulloch, but is so near the line
of the other counties that it is prac-
tically situated at the corners" Of
the three, as is Winder. in the pro-
posed new county of Barrow.
Every newspaper but one in the
section concerned in the new county
of Gambler is favorable to the propo-
sition, and the boomers of the game
claim that they already have pledged
more than sufficient votes to put their
proposition over.
Outside the contests for the speak
ership and the presidency of the Sen
ate, one hears more of these two new
county proposals than anything else
nowadays, and both of them-BarrOW
and Candler-look good to go through.
The contests between Senators John
T. Allen. of the Twentieth, and Ran
dolph Anderson, of the First as 10
which shall be chosen President Of
the Senate. unquestionably is very
much up in the air"
Both men express themselves as
being entirely confident, and both
show figures to prove their respective
claims. Moreover, both seem to be in
dead earnest in stating their posi-
tions.
The average member Of the new
Legislature. however, seems to be
very much from Missouri" with re-
spect to that race. The impression is
that it yet is any mans race. Both
Allen and Anderson are working nara
and leaving no stone unturned to win
out.
The Allen men are saying that An
derson will retire before the show
down" but as the Anderson men are
SAYING the same thing concerning Al
len. how can one tell?
1t looks as if a Showdown" Of
strength on the floor of the Senate,
after Secretary NOrthen calls 1t TO
order will be the only thing that Will
tell the tale accurately and to stay
put.
One hears much in the hotel lob
bies nowadays of tax reform.
There seems little doubt that it VIII
he the paramount consideration OF the
new General Assembly.
Ii generally is agreed that the
State can not travel much taftneF
without more revenue, and to raise
the tax rate is out of the question.
Politically the Legislature feels that
it would be committing suicide to at
tempt to get the tax rate up, after
any sort of fashion.
The only way to get additional rev
enue, therefore, is to raise the assess
ments and returns in such wise that
the total amount against which the
tax rate operates may be as nearly as
possible so per cent higher than now.
This is a large problem, and viii
require the very best and most states
manlike minds of the Legislature to
work out. Whatever bill is framed
along this line will arise in the
House. of course, and it will be care
fully designed to work as equitably
as it may to all parties concerned.
The problem of taxation is one OF
the most delicate, as well as impor-
tant, that the Legislature has to ham
ole, and it is more acute this year
than it has been in a quarter Of a
century.
Parties interested in heron pro-
duction in Glynn County, particular
" growers of the egret variety, are
greatly interested in the news from
Washington to the effect that the De-
partment of Agriculture will under
take to develop a rooster Oh plulldSS
suitable for substitution for that OF
the egret now used so extensively in
the aigrette millinery trade.
The largest colony of egrets in the
world is located in Glynn County,
and a great many people are extern
sively interested in the trade.
For many years, the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails and the Audubon Society have
protested against the taking of the
nuptial plumage from the egrets for
millinery purposes. The taking of
the plumage almost invariably means
the death of the mother bird. and
the consequent starvation of her
young in the nest. The aigrette PLAN
age is to be had of the egret herons
only while the mothers brood is very
young.
This proposition looks more or
less like a suffragette movement"
said a well-known legislator, dis
cussing the matter of the ROSTERS
plumage to-day. but it looks fair and
square, nevertheless. That's the rea-
son I am for it. We should protect
the egrets, or pretty soon there will
be none left in Georgia
Let the national department pro-
coed l would rot object to egrets
.,