Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-06
WORK PILES Up
AS LEGISLATIVE
DAYS GROW FEW
Leaders Recognize They Must
Work at Sternest Pace To
Pass Most Imperative Bills,

venes tomorrow morning there VIII
remain just IS working days Of the
first session ahead.
Thirty-eight days will remain Of
the 50-day limit but five 81 those
days will be Sundays, and viii not
count
From the total of 80 working days
left. moreover, five Saturdays, which
are given over exclusively to local
legislation. if the House does not ad-
journ over them entirely. must be
taken out, which reduces the total
OF working days upon which general
legislation may be handled to 2s
1t therefore may be seen that when
President Anderson and Speaker
Burwell call the Senate and the
House to order tomorrow. the sum
mer session Of 1918 will be practical
" half gone
Within the remaining time, the
General Assembly must pass a gen
eral appropriations bill, several tax
reform bills and dispose Of The va
rious new county propositions 10 be
brought before IT, or fail In the legis-
lative program mapped out for II by
the Governor and the leaders Of the
two Houses.
Not a Bill Reported.
There have been already introduced
in the two Houses something more
than 200 bills, and not one yet has
been reported back to either House
from a committee, with a recommen-
dation
No bin yet has been read a second
time, although one general bill. pro-
viding for Senator BaCon's election
was passed. and received the Cover
nor's signature I'm the record break
ing time Of five days
That the Senate and House leaders
realize that time Is slipping away
from them, despite their inclination
to push things along as rapidly as
possible. is evidenced in the fact that
there is a feverish desire perCeptible
among the committees TO get busy
this week. and send such bills as
come before them back to the two
Houses for action as soon as posi-,
bic.
The Governor has placed the Gen
eral Assembly on notice that he eN-
poets, and thinks he should have, the
general appropriations bin in the eX-
ecutive Office q good ten days before
adjournment--or exactly four weeks
from Monday
That win mean that the House
must dispose of H., send Il TO the
Senate and then meet the Senate in
conference for the adjournment Of
differences, all within less than a
month
After the Governor gets through
with II, II he decides not to sign It,
il must go back 10 both houses for
further consideration and with not
more than five or six days left for
that.
While the appropriations bill and
the tax refor mmeasures are being
considered too there win be some
thing like 500 or 400 local bills to
consider. and not less than 100 gen
eral bills Of importance.
Legislature Ready for Work.
There Is an evident disposition upon
the part Of the General Assembly not
TO declare any dies non during the
present sessiOn-that IS, non legis-
lative days, which are not counted in
the 80 days limit, and for which the
members received no pay-and ad-
iourument therefore, confidently is
predicted on August 10.
There are signs in plenty, however,
Notwithstanding the fact that so
gone. that the Legislature is fully
prepared TO get right down to hari
work from to-day forward, and DO
the things expected Of IT,
Every committee of both the Sen
ate and the House has been called 70
meet Monday at hours calculated as
nearly as possible not to cause con-
fusion among the more important.
Tuesday bills viii begin coming
D.. Al.
mittees, with recommendations, ana
within the week some general leEis-
lauou should be well along the road
10 enactment.
Chairman Crawford Wheatley has
promised 10 get the big general ap-
preparations bill out Of his committee
within ten days, and the Ways and
Means Committee will take the mat
ter Of the tax act Immediately IN
hand for speedy disposition.
1t lis not likely that either afternoon
or night sessions viii be called soon,
as that time viii be needed by the
members for committee meetings
Afternoon se ssiuns will come alons
about the last ten days Of the SEES
sion and nigh, sessions the last three
or four days.
one Of the bills sure to engage the
immediate attention Of both the
ter's bill 10 provide for prison inspec-
tion in Georgia.
Prison Complaints Frequent.
Complaints Of wretched prison con.
ditions throughout the State have
been getting more and more frequen
Of late years, and some OF the Stat,
prisons are said 10 be in pnpardon
ably unsanitary condition.
Senator Fosters bill provides 70
rigid prison inspections. at stated in.
tervals. and sanitary reform whereve
indicated.
Another bill that viii attract con
sidera Bile attention is the one by Mr.
Adams. providing for a central place
Of execution of all criminals convict
ed 70 capital offenses and sentenced [,
death.
Governor Slaton is understood 10 b,
engaged almost exclusively now seek
ing out way whereby the common
school teachers may be taken care Of
and their past due salaries paid
He VIII exercise his borrowing
power to the extent he can but ht
fears that viii not be sufficient 10 re
lieve the embarras sment.
WINlFRED MAH0NEY GIVES