Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
LEGISLATURE WILL
MEET JUNE % To
REFORM TAX PLAN
Body Which Will Gather in First
Session of Governor Slaton's
Term Is Most Non-Factional of
ecade-Chief Interest Conferred
in Race for Presidency of Senate.
By JAMES 3. NENIN.

The Georgia Legislature will be
called together in both branches on
Wednesday. June rs. at noon.
This will be the first meeting Of
the General Assembly elected to serve
during Governor Slaton's term as
Chief Magistrate, and it is regarded
generally as one Of the most repre-
sentative and on-factional Legisla-
lures named In a decade.
Governor Slaton will be inaugu-
rated on Saturday at noon. after the
Legislature has been organized in
both Houses, and the final messages,
communications, nominations. and so
forth, OF the retiring Executive have
been submitted for consideration.
Ceremony To Be Simple.
The Inauguration ceremony Of the
new Governor will be a function of
dignity but extreme simplicity.
He will receive with congratulations
and good wishes from the hands OF
the retiring Governor, Joseph NJ.
Brown. the great seal of State, In the
presence of the General Assembly In
Joint session The new Governors
speech in accepting the Office will be
brief and will deal with State ques-
tons only in their broadest and most
general aspect.
After Governor Brown has turned
over the Executive Department to
Governor Slaton. he will leave imme-
diately for his home In Marietta,
whence, a few days later, he will re-
tire to his farm in Cherokee County
to look after his varied agricultural
interests there.
All the week long, the KlmbaT
House lobby. that ancient and never
changing Mecca of Georgia statesmen.
has been thronged with politicians
discussing the new order Of things
to be inaugurated under the big dome
this week
The Race for Presidency.
OF primarily absorbent interest is
the great race between Senators John
T. Allen OF the Twentieth District,
and J. Randolph Anderson, Of the
First District. for the Presidency Of
the Senate
The outcome of this contest. after
weeks OF strenuous activity upon the
part of both candidates and their
friends. still is very much in doubt.
Both are high-class men, and both
are very confident of victory. Each
thinks he has sufficient strength 10
elect on the first ballot. but very few
members of the Senate believe this
to be a fact either way.
Occasionally, one hears some talk
Of third Senator winning the Pres
idency plum, as sort OF dark horse"
to be entered by way Of a compro-
mise and the men mentioned in this
connection are Senators Sweat of the
Fifth, and Tyson, of the Second.
The generally accepted opinion
among observers. however, Is that the
next President Of the Senate IN
questionably will be either Allen or
Anderson, but that nothing short Of
an absolute SHOW down" on the floor
of the Senate, under a call of the roll,
will determine which.
% Votes Are Needed.
The President Of the Senate, who
occupies the position as Lieutenant
Governor of the State, is elected by
a majority vote of a quorum or mora
of Senators present and voting. If
all the Senators are present and vote,
it viii require 23 to elect a Presi-
dent, as there are A senators in all.
Next in interest to the Presidency
of the Senate race is the contest for
Speaker of the House.
The impression is that William H.
Burwell. of Hancock County, has this
race pretty we'll won. II not absolutely
so. Nevertheless. Robert n. Harde-
man, of jefferson, a veteran member
Of the Legislature, and popular, has
opened headquarters in the Kimball
House and declares he will remain
IN the race to the finish. ]. L. Shop
pard, of Sumter, a Senator in the last
Legislature. also is an announced
candidate for Speaker but has opened
no headquarters.
Charles S. Northen and John T.
Boifeuillet, Secretary Of the Senate
and Clerk Of the House. respectively.
will be named to their Offices without
opposition. Each has served for
years in previous Legislatures.
While both branches Of the Ge=l-
eral Assembly viii be organized
promptly, It will be Monday OF next
week before they get down to the
annual Legislative grind.
Wednesday, the Senate and the