The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-21
EG|SLATURE FUSED
|NT|L EARLY morning.
IT, SESSION OF GEORGIA So
/ oNs WAS MORE THAN OR
UNFAIRLY TURBULENT.
|RNING BACK OF THE
CLOCK RAISED A STORM
nDromises Were Finally Agreed
mon. and Adjournment Reached.
coyernor Dorsey Up All Night
.,dy to Act If Necessary.

mon, ana AoJouFnmeht Neacned.
coyernor Dorsey Up All Night
Ready to Act If Necessary.
ATLANTA, Ga.-At 8 o'clock
,rsday morning the third confer
b committee of the house and SEN
agreed on an adjustment of the
Dropriations bill which was accept
nv both branches and which the
vernon will sign, thereby averting
extra session which had up to
moment appeared inevitable.
The compromise was as follows:
common school appropriations
placed at $3,2OO,O0O, instead of
100000 voted by the house
the 100000 voted by the SEN
the compromise being an in
! Ease of 100000 over last years
nmon schools appropriations.
Some Other Compromises.
The senate appropriation of $1,000
the state experiment station was
to the original $500 fixed by the
use
3 The senate figure of $4,000 for
negro school at Savannah was
iced back to the house figure of
10000.
1.-THE senate figure of $4,000 for
u state college of agriculture was
cepted by the house in lieu of its
ure of $2O,OGG.
4 The senate receded from it's posi-
4 n voting an appropriation of ST.
"a to pay the Crankshaw concern
"a the silver service presented to
u Battleship Georgia.
The senate receded from it's posi-
sn in making the appropriations bill
n two years, and for the first time
perhaps century, the appropria-
ms bill is made for one year, this
ng the position of the house.
How the Turmoil Began.
When the first conference COM
Ftee of the house and senate re-
Fted shortly after midnight that it
IS unable to reach an agreement on
= appropriations bill, Representa-
IL Seaborn Wright, of Floyd, made
u point of order that the hour of
tOmatic adjournment, sine die, had
Hrved, and called upon the speaker
declare the house adjourned. The
Pint caused an instant and profound
Rnsation, since the effect of it would
hye been to precipitate an extra
RsSOn.
The clock, according to immemo-
/ al custom of last legislative nights,
"a been turned back at 1870
clock, and Speaker Holder declared
Pat the chair officially knew no time
#cept that which was before him as
RoWn by the clock of the house. In
Rmuch as the point involved a con-
stutonal question, however, the
zeaker declined to rule upon it, and
$Led for vote from the house upon
Il point. The house declined to sus-
m the point of Mr.. Wright, by
ste Of IS to AZ.
Wright Quits the Hall.
Mr. Wright asked that house rule
n be read. This rule embraces the
va OF members, beginning II will
sppOrt the constitution of this
ste' The constitution says that
n session of the general assembly
al continue longer than fifty days"
II nfty-day limit technically expir-
at the actual moment of midnight,
d Mr. Wright insisted that mem
fl rs, stand literally by their oaths.
"hen Mr.. Wright saw that his
IN had failed to carry he arose
stated that he for one would
spport the constitution and, inviting
IN III members to follow him, left the
I" Only few of the members left.
Dorsey on the Job.
"neh the first conference commit
zane IN with it's report Governor
ICY ICY was seated by the speaker
yUnlng the proceedings. He later
'urnGd to his Office down stairs,
lsre ne remained with a proclama-
prepared that would call the leg
p. lure IN extra session Thursday
T ling IN either of two events
' t to pass an appropriation bill
Il we passage of a bill in excess of
states visible income, that ex-