The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-31
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MEETING OF LEGISLATORS IN
coRDELE RESULTS IN PLAN
WHICH MEETS WITH FAVOR.

A committee appointed from the
gathering Of senators and members
of the lower house of the Georgia leg
islature, held in Cordele Thursday at
ternoon, drafted bill to be suggested
to the next session of the General AS
sembly, providing for three-county
formation in redistricting the state in
the senate. The proposed measure
provides for the creation Of fifty three
county and one two-county senatorial
Z tsSstricts. Fulton and DeKalb coun-
ties were arranged in the two-county
districts. This would make the SEN
ate number 81 members.
"A S. Bussey, Of Ashburn, who took
an active part in bringing the gather
ing together, was chosen chairman OF
the body, and he appointed the com
mittee to draft the bill, composed of
Representatives E. ]. Carter, of Bacon,
Representative ]. B. Clements Of IT.
win, Representative w. H. Doris OF
Crisp Representative w. R. Walker
of Ben Hill and Senator Roscoe Pea
cock Of the Fifteenth John w. Ham
mond, who is in charge of the Macon
Telegraph Bureau in Atlanta was
male secretary of the meeting, and
took an active interest in the deliber'
ations of the body.
Upon the converting of the body in
the parlors Of the Suwanee hotel
Chairman Bussey stated the purpose
ofhhe gathering and called on Mr.. Dor
ris to read and discuss the bill pro-
viding for redistribution OF the state
introduced at the last session of the
General Assembly. This bill was
originally drawn and introduced by
RI preventative Carter of Bacon and
later embodied in substitute offered
by Mr.. Doris 1t was explained by
Mr.. Doris that this bill had been
dawn largely on the plan of the three
cGAnSy formation.
Representative Joe Hill Hall Of Bibt
then took the floor and ADVOCATED the
three-county formation in the prepar
alton of the proposed measure Mr.
Hall stated that he was personally in
favor of Fulton alone forming dis
trict, but in view of this disarranging
the general plan outlined, he favored
Fulton and DeKalb being placed in
the two-county districts.
1t was on motions of Representative
Clements Of Irwin that the commit
tee of five was appointed by the chair
to draft the redistricting bill, though
it was Mr. Clements idea that the
bill be drafted in form to be introduc
ed before the legislative body SMr.
Hall of Bibb offered II substitute to ap
point a committee to- suggest the bill
to the legislature, and the committee
was instructed on motion OF Mr.. Dor
ris to prepare bill carrying out the
tfree-county formation plan. To pro-
'ssle q feasible plan for caring for
tho new counties that may be Great
ed, and embody this in the bill, was
L matter left to the consideration OF
sthe committee, and the committee, as
suggested by Mr.. Hall, placed the cour
ties III the proposed new districts, be
ginning at Savannah, going through
the state without disturbing, so ia;
as possible, the present arrangement
of the districts.
The Importance Of formulating a
bill with a view to the interests OF
the entire state and not the interests
of any particular section of the state
thereby hoping to eliminate pfejudices
and sectionalism as between north and
south Georgia, was note strongly
sounded in the meeting, and it was
the sense of the body that the CAPT
toll removal proposition be eliminated
{ from the movement to resiflstrict the
state into senatorial distri{Es.
Between sixty and seveTE-fve SEN
ators and representatives from south
and central Georgia were in attend
3 ance upon this meeting, the gathering
also including twenty-five lawyers
newspaper men and other prominent
cf4zeps.
y. A local committee composed OF O.
T. Cover, chairman; w. L. Robuck 7
q. Jennings, F. L. bartholomew and
~. Williams, was appointed to ar
range for an elaborate banquet ten
dered the visitors at the Suwanee
J Thursday night Mayor Jones was
Is POSTMASTER. A number of interesting
talks werel made at the banquet.
The placing of the counties in the
proposed new districts, Jas arranged
NV tl,a cbmmittee, was as follows: