The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-05
LEGISLATOR AT ODDS
With ROME PASTOR
REPRESENTATIVE CHALLENGES
REV. WHITE TO BACK UP
HIS STATEMENTS.
DEFENDS MEMBERS OF HOUSE


sentatives Were Not Admitted to
the House Because They Were in
State of IntoxicatiOn.
ATLANTA.-They are having a
very interesting controversy up in
Rome in which are involved the Rev.
J. L. White, a Baptist minister, and
Representative A. w. Findley of
Floyd, a member of the house of rep
resentatives and of the temperance
committee of that body.
Rev. j. l.. White and Mr.. Findley
are both prohibitionists, but they diff
fer somewhat as to detail. Rev. Mr..
White recently made the charge in
his pulpit, it is said, that during the
last session of the legislature there
were twenty-five members who had
to be excluded from the floor of
the house because of intoxication.
Representative Findley Immediate
ly took him up on his proposition,
and in an issue of the Rome Tribune
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he demands that the Rev. Mr.. White
shall publish the list Of names which
he claims to have of the twenty-five
house members excluded from the
floor because of alleged drunkenness.
In this connection Mr.. Findley says:
Demands Their Names.
II demand that he now publish his
list of names of those barred from
the house by over-indulgence in in
toxicants. If Rev. White does not
publish the list after making this
charge if he has not such list,
if he has told an untruth, if he has
such list and has not the courage
to publish it then Rev. White should
be barred from the deliberation OF
all church organizations as one who
works his tongue and pushes his pen
with an utter disregard of the laws
of veracity.
1t seems that Rev. Whites charges
were based upon an incident which
occurred in the beginning of the ses-
sion and which the newspapers of
Georgia, in the kindness of their
spirit, covered up. Representative
Findley in his article refers to that
incident. Relative to it Mr.. Findley
says:
Member Found Blind Tiger.
''In the early part of the last ses-
sion one member of the house over
taken by his faults came upon the
floor under the influence of blind til
ger whiskey. This member was feel
ing generous and during the brief re-
Of bn offn11onfQd IN n lZp
a speech and invite the state house
officers and general assembly to be
his guests at a watermelon cutting
on the capitol grounds. He then went
to the governors office to invite the
governor in person, but was stopped
before he got there. 1t was an I'M
fortunate occurrence, and. the man
was exceedingly sorry for it when he
became sober. / would not mention
it but for Rev. Whites charge. After
eeinaeb?rjWGofr Dgtffths
the recess when the house reassem-
bled a resolution was introduced to
the effect that no member shall come
upon the floor of the house in an in
toxicated condition This resolution
was referred Immediately to the de-
spised % rules committee.
Permit me to say at this point
that convivial member VINO was the
direct cause of this resolution was
q member of the radical prohibition
faction and voted with Rev. Whites
crowd on practically very ballot,
even for the adjournment that forced
upon the people of Georgia the extra
session at very heavy expense to
rne tax payers"