Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-17
ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS
WITHOUT NECESSITY
OF EXTRA SESSION
House and Senate Agree on
School Appropriation of S3,-
100000 Through Confer
enCe Committees

On an appropriation of s3.2eO.OoO for
the common schools the house and sem
ate reached a compromise agreement
at S:l5 o'clock Thursday morning and
thereby averted an extra session of the
legislature.
This amount is 5000. 900 more than the
appropriation recommended by the APP
prOprtion committee of the house, and
/ is sSOO.OOO less than the appropriation
of $4,000. 900 passed by the house. 1t
is $500. 200 more than the 1917 appropria-
ton of s2,7OO.O0O for the common
schools.
1t took three conference committees
4 to reach the agreement. and Governor
Dorsey had to take a hand in the con-
ference before the third committee could
get together.
Governor Dorsey had his proclama-
ton calling an extra session already
prepared in the event the house and
senate should have adjourned sine die.
His call provided for the extra session
to convene at 10 o'clock Thursday
morning.
The governor did not want an extra
session, however and by his diplomatic
presentation of the states financial
condition TO the third and final COM
mittee he succeeded in warding 1t Off
THE CLOCK SET BACK.
Shortly before L o CLOCK mluh4sht'
Major DevereauX +. McClatchey. secre-
tary of the senate, went into the senate
gallery and reached over the railing and
set back the hands of the senate official
clock whose dial looks the president OF
the senate in the face. Then he crossed
over to the house gallery and did the
same.
Representative Seaborn Wright, of
Floyd county, saw him set back the
han
pened during one of the numerous re-
cesses taken while the conference COM
mittee was striving to get together.
As soon as the speaker called the
house to order to receive the next report
of the conference committee, Represent
alive Wright made the point of order
that IL o'clock had arrived. thereby end
ing the constitutional limit of the ses-
sion; that the hands of the clock had
been set back by the secretary OF the
senate; that everybody knew 1t was af-
ter IL o'clock; therefore the legislature
automatically stood adjourned sine die,
and could not transact any further bust
ness.
Instantly the house broke into pande-
monium. Speaker Holder declared that
he was going by the clock, that the
clock showed the hour as 1925; that he
was against an extra session If 1T could
possibly be avoided and that he was
going to submit Mr.. Wrights point of
order to the house and let them settle
IT on an aye and nay roll call without
debate.
BY a vote Of IS to as the house over
ruled the point of order. When the
name Of Mr.. Wright was called he de-
clined to vote and put on his hat and
left the hall, declaring the legislature
was adjourned.
The senate increased the school for
colored people at Savannah from $4,000
to $4,000. The house disagreed, and
the conference committee sustained the
house.
The senate increased the experiment
station from $500 to $500. The house
disagreed. and the conference committee
sustained the house.
The senate put into the bill an addi-
tionaI section appropriating $1,000 prin-
cipal and 1910 interest to pay Charles
". Crankshaw OF Atlanta for the silver
service on the battleship Georgia. The
house disagreed, and the conference
committee sustained the house.
A oNE-YEAR BILL.
The senate amended the bill by pro-
viding that the appropriations for 1918
should be duplicated for 1919. The
house disagreed and the conference
committee sustained the house.
The senate amended by giving the
State College of Agriculture an appro-
priation of $4,000 for extension work
now in progress, which has been the
appropriation for several years The
house had cut this appropriation to
$50. 900 and given the other half to the
Georgia Normal and INDUSTRIAL college at
AIilledgeville, for home economics eX-
tension work. The senate let the $20,-
600 stand for G. y. & L. c. but increased
the farm college back to it's old fig
ures. The house disagreed to this al
so, but the conference committee sus-
tanned the senate.