Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-02
SENATE RE|VEWS|TS
DISCUSSION Of TAX
EQUALIZATION BILL
Senator Nix, Proponent of
Measure Again Attempts
to FiIibuster to Prevent
Vote

A we'll executed filibuster by pro-
action on the Womble bill to repeal
the tax equalization law at Mondays
session of the senate. From 10 o'clock
to the hour of adjournment senators
in favor of the bill kept the floor.
Senator Nix, who led the filibuster,
declared the friends of the measure
would be ready for the final vote at
Tuesdays session.
Senator John H. Jones, rising to a
point of order, scored the proponents
of the measure fer consuming three
days of the states time in this way.
He declared that the filibuster had
cost the state OF least $4,000, and
declared it had been an outrageous
state of affairs.
Senator Nix, one of the proponents
of the mea sure, made an attempt to
continue the filibuster of last Friday,
but President Clay sustained point
of order raised by Senator Snow that
Senator Nix was out of order for the
reason that the previous question had
been called. Senator Nix appealed
from the decision of the chair, but
withdrew his appeal after brief de-
bate on the ground that he did not
want the senate to think he was play
ing for further time.
On the call for the previous Dues
ton on the measure, the vote was
16 to Is, and President Clay voted
aye" Senator Nix then moved tina:
the senate reconsider it's action in
calling the previous question, and
won by a vote of IS to 16. In the
attempt to gain the floor and keep it
until adjournment, Senator Nix
moved to reconsider the senate's &C
ton in adopting the rule of the rules
committee limiting speeches on all
subjects to ten minutes for each
member His motion was lost.
President Clay then recognized
Senator Nix for ten minutes under
the rules committees ruling. He
urged the repeal of the law, called IL
an infamous and Ubiquitous measure,
and declared that senators who voted
against the bill to repeal it would
be held strictly accountable by their
constituents.
Among the other senator's who
spoke for the bill during the tilibuster
were Senator'S Womble, Jackson, Col
lum, Ridley, Lassiter, Boykin and
Golucke.
Senator Thomas, an opponent OF
the measure, declared it was "a ter
rible state of affairs when the very
men who introduced this bill are now
desperately engaged in filibuster
to prevent acton on it"
Senator Johns, in hi speech, told
the senate that "a vote against this
bill this year will mean that your
voices will never be heard in this hall
again"
Senator Golucke called the bill "a
beautiful theory that has proven an
instrument of oppression to the peo-
pie of Georgia"
Senator Boykin declared he was or.
dinariiy against filibusters, but was
convinced that the tax equalization
law ought to be repealed, and that II
the senate stayed in session until
Christmas in order to get the Wom-
BILE measure passed the time would
not have been spent in vain.
The senate's only other business
on Monday was the unanimous pass
age of a resolution introduced by
Senator Denis Fleming and another
thanking Secretary DevereauX NC
Clatchey for the delightful barbecue
he gave the senators in Ansley Park
last week. The resolution lauded
Secretary McClatchey as 'the best
secretary any deliberative body ever
had in the world
At l o'clock the senate adjourned
until 9 o'clock Tuesday morning.