Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-07
HOUSE-SE
TRADE ON ROAD
BILLS IS MADE,

A straight out proposal to trade
with the house of representatives On
pending highway legislation is con-
tanned in a resolution introduced jim
the senate Thursday morning by
Senator Cureton, Of the Forty fourth
district. The resolution pledges the
senate to pass the knight resolution
calling for a distribution of the
motor vehicle license tax funds
among the several counties if the
house in return will pass the state
road bond issue bill.
The knight resolution has been
ng in x fhe n senats se The state p road
bond issae bill, which would amend
the state constitution so as to au-
thorize a $30,00),000 bond issue for
highway construction, was passed by
the senate last year and is now pend
ing in the house.
While there is considerable oppo-
sition to the knight resolution on
the part of some members of the
senate it is believed by many that
the bond issue amendment it will
be necessary to put throug.- the
Knight resolution as a compromise
measure. 1t is in this belief that
the Cureton resolution has been in
itroduced in the senate.
1t is anticipated that a sharp de-
bate will be staged on the floor Of
the senate when the Cureton reso1u-
ton, which was referred to the rules
committee, is placed on it's final
passage.
The text of the resolution fol-
lows;
whereas, there are only six more
working days of this general assem-
bly, and there has been no action
taken by the house of representatives
constitutional amendment, which
bills have passed this senate and are
now pending in the house, and
Whereas, these are important
measures and are necessary for the
proper support of state system of
highways contemplated when the
highway commission bill and the au-
tomobile tax bill were passed at the
last session of this general assem-
"Whcreas, there has arisen a diff
ference in the house of representa-
tives as to the disposition of the au-
tomobile license tax fund in what
is known as the Knight resolution,
which seeks to distribute said fund
to the various counties according to
post road mileage,
Therefore be it resolved, That the
rules committee OF the senate De, ana
are hereby requested, to put the
Knight resolution on the calendar for
passage Immediately after the house
acts on the bond issue bill, and that
this senate pledge it's support to the
Knight resolution, provided the house
acts favorahly on the bond issue bill. -
Ru1es Committee in Charge
The rules committee took charge
of the calender Thursday morning in
accordance with the rules of the
senate and put UP as the first meas
ure a bill by Senator Wilkinson pro-
viding for the appointment of fifty
one fertilizer inspectors to serve for
four months of the year at $500 per
month. There are now forty-three
such inspectors drawing $S3 per
month.
Under the Wilkinson bill each SEN
atorial district would have it's own
inspector who would see that the
statute providing for the tagging of
all fertilizers was carried out. These
inspectors when working more than
four months would draw 81 per day.
The boundary of the new county
of Brantley is slightly altered by an
amendment to the constitutional
amendment creating this county
which has passed both houses. The
senate on Thursday concurred in the
house amendment making the bound
ary change