The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
THE RULES COMMITTEE
MAY Be DETHRONED
CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN BEGUN BY
LEGISLATORS TO HAVE IT Sc
LECTED BY HOUSE.
CURTAIL THE SPEAKERS POWER
Can Have No Material Effect Upon
the Exera Session. Worry Over
the RambunCtiOus Lawmakers Is
CauSe of Governors Illness.


the RambunCtiOus Lawmakers Is
Cause of Governors Illness.
ATLANTA.-There are many who
think that Gov Nat Harris present
illness at his summer home at Hamp-
ton, Tenn, is due to worry over the
extra session of the legislature and
what he should do regarding it.
1t will be recalled that Gov. Har-
ris fell i'll at the time he had to deal
with the recent Georgia lynching cpl
sode. 1t is known that this case wor-
ried him no little.
A serious Problem.
1t is well known that the legisla-
tive problem has given the governor
no little worry. A prohibitionist him
self and always a consistent one, his
own inclination is undoubtedly to
put the prohibition measures in the
call for the extraordinary session.
And yet he knows that the prohibit
tionists themselves were responsible
for the adjournment of the legisla-
ture with no other object in view
than to get a special session at which
these measures might be considered.
He knows also that the passage of
these measures would mean the de-
priying of the state treasury of ap-
proximately half a million dollars of
income and that financially Georgia
= -, OF tbio timn fO moot
that loss.
While strongly inclined to the pro-
hibition laws the governor, therefore,
foresees another cause of worry ana
trouble in the depletion of the state
funds. He probably realizes as true
prohibitionist that he cannot weigh
the financial problem in the balance
against the moral question involved.
At the same time he must feel, as
governor, that the loss of half mil
lion dollars will be a serious blow to
the state and it's institutions.
All Sorts of Requests.
The governor was expected to re-
turn to the capitol Monday and at
that time to make definite announce
ment as to the extra session and what
measures be WOu1d include in it. All
sorts of requests have piled upon him.
Warehouse legislation, compulsory
education, the Western and Atlantic
problem, labor legislation and many
other measures have active friends,
all of whom are anxious to have them
included in the call. All of them APP
parently overlook the fact that the
object of the extraordinary session is
Jo,
and the only thing really emergent at
this time is the general appropria-
lions bill AS already pointed out,
however it is not believed the gov
ernor will confine himself to that
measure Leading prohibitiOnists
are confident and positive that the
prohibition measure will be included
and even their opponents have come
to indulge in that belief.
Rules Committee Fight.
There developed last week an or
ganized fight on the rules governing
the house Of representatives, partic-
ularly as they relate to the rules
committee and the authority given it
over the programme of legislation in
the closing days of the session.
Led by Representative Doris of
Crisp the campaign is framing itself
to eliminate the rules committee as
a primary factor in legislation. The
purpose of this campaign is to take
the appointment of the rules COM
mittee away from the speaker of the
house and provide for the selection
of it's members by the house itself.
In addition to that, it is proposed to
curtail the committees power so that
it shall have no positive authority
over legislation in the closing days of
the session.
A Radical Change.
The reason this authority was Civ
en- to the committee was that hereto
fore it has been found practically i'm
nOSsihle TO sacnra cnnSid aratinn of