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


remain just sS working days of the
first session ahead.
Thirty eight days will remain of
the 5o-day limit, but five of those
days will be Sundays, and will not
count.
From the total Of 80 working days
left, moreover. ive Saturdays, which
are given over exclusively to local
Legislation, If the House does not adj
journ over them entirely. must be
taken out, which reduces the total
IT working days upon which general
Legislation may be handled to 2s.
1t therefore may be seen that when
Sresident Anderson and Speaker
Burwell call the Senate and the
House to order tomorrow, the sum-
mer session of 1913 win 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 to be
brought before it, or fail in the legis-
lative program mapped out for it 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 recommen-
dalton.
No bill 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, in 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
Z Houses for action as soon as posi-
bic.
The Governor has placed the Gen
eral Assembly on notice that he ex
poets. and thinks he should have, the
general appropriations bill in the ex
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adjournment-or exactly four weeks
from Monday.
That will mean that the House
Unjust dispose of 1t, send 1t to the
tSenate and then meet the Senate in
conference for the adjournment of
differences, all within less than a
T-nonth.
After the Governor gets through
with 1t, If he decides not to sign IT.
1 : 10 kAF
| further consideration. and with not
more than FIVE or six days left for
lthat.
While the appropriations bill and
4 the tax refor mmeasures are being
| considered, too, there will be some
| thing like 800 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 so days limit, and for which the
members received no pay-and ad-
iournnent, therefore, confidently is
predicted on August 10.
There are signs in plenty, however,
notwithstanding the fact that so
much of the first session already rs
gone that the Legislature is fully
+ prepared to get right down to hard
work from to-day forward, and Go
the things expected of it.
Every committee of both the Sen
4 ate and the House has been called TO
meet Monday at hours calculated as
nearly as possible not to cause con-
fusion among the more important.
Tuesday bills win begin coming
back to the two hous es from the COM
mittees, with recommendations, and
within the week some general legis-
lation should be we'll along the road
i to enactment.
| Chairman Crawford Wheatley has
promised to get the big general APP
| propriations bill out of his committee
/ within ten days and the Ways and
| Means Committee wNl take the mat
tier of the tax act Immediately IN
hand for speedy disposition.
4 It is not likely that either afternoon
or, night sessions will be called soon,
as that time will be needed by the
I members for committee meetings.
4 Afternoon sessions will come along
sehout the last ten days of the ses-
sion and night sessions the last three
/ or four days.
| One of the bills sure to engage the
Immediate attention of both the
lSenate and the House is senator os-
\ Ner's bill to provide for prison inspec-
'Fion in Georgia.
| Prison Complaints Frequent.
| Complaints of wretched prison con-
Editions throughout the State have
Ebeen getting more and more frequent
of late years, and some of the State
prisons are said TO be in unpardon-
ably unsanitary condition.
1 Senator Fosters bill provides for
lrigid prison inspections, at stated in
stervals. and sanitary reform wherever
a indicated.
Another bill that will attract con-
/ siderable attention is the one by Mr..
Adams, providing for a central place
OF execution of all criminals convict
ed 70 capital offenses and sentenced to
death.
This bill has the Endorsement of