Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-16
STATE POLITICAL
POT BOILS At
KIMBALL
Candidates for House Speaker
Al ,anate President Open
Headquarters.
BY JAMES 3. NEVIN.

real and near, already has assumed
that busy and more or less agitated
appearance so Enthusiastically prophetic
Of the annual getting together OF the
Legislature.
Headquarters have been opened Tor
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 20
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. Tattnal and
Emanuel, all three large counties. and
there is little, If any, opposition in
the territory affected.
Meter a husuing town Of around
1000, is to be the county seat Of Can
der 1t IS located in the western part
Of Bulloch. but Is so near the line
OF the other counties that ii Is prac
ucally 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
arship 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 90 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 tho 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 70 be
very much from Missouri" with re-
spect to that race The impression is
that II vet is any mans race. Both
Allen and Anderson are working hard
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 tell2
1t looks as IL a showdown u
strength on the floor Of the Senate,
after Secretary Northen calls II 10
order. will be the only thing that VIII
ten 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 will
be the paramount consideration Of the
new General Assembly
II generally is agreed that the
state can not travel much farther
without more revenue, and to raise
the tax rate is out Of the question.
Politically, the Legislature feels that
IL would be committing suicide to at
tempt TO get the tax rate up, after
any sort of fashion.
The only way 20 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 90 per cent higherthan now.
This is "a large problem. and viii
REQUIRE the very best and most states
g.F hn L slT alllF 10
work out Whatever bill is framed
along this line will arise in the
House. Of course, and IL VIII be care
fully designed to work as equitably
as il 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 han
Ole. and II is more acute this year
than it has been in quarter Of a
century.
Parties interested in heron pro-
duction in Glynn County, particular
w 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 Of plumage
suitable for substitution for that Of
the aigratte millinery trade
The largest colony of egrets in the
world is located in Glynn County.
and a great many people are extern
siyely 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
nuptal pIumage from the egrets for
millinery purposes. The taking Of
the plumag5 almost Invariably means
the death of the mother bird. and
the consequent starvation OF her
young in the nest The aigrette plum
age is TO be had of the egret herous
only while the mothers brood is very
young.
This proposition looks more or
less like a suffragette movement"
said q we'll known legislator, dis
,lssing the matter Of the ROSTERS
TLgmage to-day. but il looks fair and
square nevertheless. That's the rea-
son ] am for IL, We should protect
Ea egEets ar pretty soon there VIII
Oh. Rome left Iu Georgia.
Let the national DEPARTMENT pro-
coed ] would not object TO egrets
fashioned from roo.t0gs' tails-if the