Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-03

On Thursday, August u, the 1920
session of the Georgia legislature
will expire by limitation. which
means that only ten legislative days
remain Counting out next Sunday,
and yet the most important matters
before the legislature at the 1920
session have not been disposed of.
These consist of the highway leg
islation; the legislation necessary to
Increase the states revenue; the ap-
preparation bills to meet urgent def
ciencies; various educational legis-
sation, including a bill to amend the
constitution so as to authorize the
legislature to make appropriations
Tor higher education.
The highway legislation is in the
following status:
The senate has passed the high
way bond issue bill, and the same
is now pending before the house. The
house has passed the Knight reso-
luton directing the state highway
board to pro-rate the automobile
cording to post mileage, and the
same is now pending before the
senate.
In the house the supporters of
the Knight resolution have declared
their unwillingness to vote for the
bond issue until and unless the SEN
ate concurs in the knight resolu-
ton. But the senate is unwilling.
or reported to be unwilling. to con-
cur in the knight resolution until
and unless the house puts through
the bond issue bill.
A committee of senators on Fri
day conferred with Representative
knight, the author of the resolution,
and advised him that the senate
would not concur unless the house
they suggested that he and his sup
porters get busy and put through
the bond issue bill without delay
This he agreed to, it is understood,
and the bond issue bill ought to pass
this week.
Distribution of Funds
The knight resolution does not
take the automobile fund entirely
out of the hands of the highway
board. It directs the board, ip ex-
each county an account correspond
ing to each county's pro-rata share
of the post road mileage of the en-
tire state. The Knight resolution
does not require this method of dis
tribution to be kept up after the
entire fund will be used to pay the
interest and sinking fund on the
bonds.
Supporters of the bond issue bill
have been assured by Representative
knight and his followers that they
sue, but are anxious for it to pass.
They claim they merely want the
automobile fund distributed. pend
ing the time when bonds are issued
as means Of popularizing the high.
way program in all the counties.
When the aforementioned COM
mittee of senators waited on Repre-
sentative Knight with the informa-
ton that the house would have to
pass the bond issue bill before the
senate would pass the knight reso-
luton, Mr.. Knight undertook to get
an agreement that the senators
should urge the governor to approve
the Knight resolution. The sena-
tors informed him, it is understood
that they could not speak for the
governor, but they believed a COM
promise in the interest of harmony
would not be Objectionable to the
governor.
The Revenue Bills
The revenue legislation is in this
StatuS-that the house of repre-
sentatives has decided in favor of a
state income tax, as among the sew
eral proposals suggested, and ac-
cordingly has passed the income tax
bill, which is a constitutional amend
ment The bill passed last week and
is now before the senate.
It seems quite likely that the
house will decline to pass any ap-
preparation bills, excepting a few
increases in salary and other minor
measures, unless the senate passes
come to the conclusion that addi-
iona1 appropriations without addi-
.'onal revenue would amount to
7thing, as thew could not be paid