Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-30
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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

chairman of the committees, said the
inspection this year would be made
with great care and might result in
important recommendations to the
general assembly. There will be
about thirty-five senator's and rep
resentatives in the party.
Thirty members of the house and
senate, composing the committees on
the tuberculosis sanitarium at Alto,
will spend the weekend in conduct
ing the annual inspection The COM
mittees will leave for Alto late Fri
day over the Southern railway, and
will return Sunday. Senator Colson,
chairman of the senate committee,
and Representative Whitley, chair
man of the house committee, will be
in charge of the inspection.
Uncle Dave Barrow, the fonored
chancellor of the University of Geor-
gia, was at the capitol several days
this week in the interest of the uni
versity's appropriation and other
legislative matters. State house Of
ficials and all members of both
houses joined in extending to him
the glad hand Of welcome.
The action of the house in levyins
a tax of $4,000 on grand opera has
1t is the general belief that this sec
ton Of the tax bill will be killed
when it comes up before the upper
house. Senator Frank Manson, who
will lead the fight to save grand OPP
era from what it's directors declare
is prohibitive tax, says he has the
support in his move of senators from
every section Of the state.
Something new happens in the sen.
ate every day. Senator Joe Ben
Jackson has furnished the latest SEN
sation. He STROBE in the other day,
after a weekend at home, wearing
fully developed French mustache.
President Herbert Clay has been
wearing a shiny red necktie since
Monday. Senator Charlie Bond says
"He walked through the Kimball
lobby Monday" declared Senator
Bond, land found almost as many
Republicans as Democrats standing
around, due to the G. o. P. conyen-
ton, so he promptly visited haper-
dashery and put on neutral colors."
Lawson Fields, Jr.. twelve years
old and one of the pages in the SEN
ate, is showing remarkable talent and
ability as an artist. He drew car
toon of President Clay and Secre-
tary McClatchey Wednesday. that
caused the entire senate to take no 10
tice. 1t was an excellent piece OF
Lawson will be in Brewerton'ss
class in a few more years, oplned
Mrs. ]. K. Jordan, the senate's official
stenographer and legal ADVISER:
and his father was a newspaper man
for many years
Senator Charlie Bond, of Elberton.
one of the few travelling men In
Georgia who has served in the Leg
islature, declares he is carefully con-
sidering the Introduction of meas
ure which he believes will rave the
He declared he had every reason
to relieve the measure would re-
ceive strong support.
'It provides that due bills shall
be legal tender in Georgia from now
on" he announced, with big laugh.
Senator w H. Lassiter, of Vienna,
received good news from home this
week. His young sor has been ap-
pointed to the naval academy at An
been his sons ambition for several
years.
Senator Wiley Williams and A. B.
David are trying to prepare a bill
that will be drastic enough to- curb
automobile thefts. Castings were
stolen from their cars several days
ago while they were parked imme-
diately in front of the capital.
President Clay has a hard prob
lem to solve by Friday, and he ad-
mits it is worrying him not little.
All but four or five of the little army
Of pages in the senate must be- re-
leased on that day in order that the
senate may keep within it's appro-
priation.
"They'-e all such good boys,
don't know waat to do" said the
president. IT hate to give any of
them up, and 1 can't decide on the
ess. Guess I'll have to let 'em draw
straws.'
Charlie Northern. Jr., a youthful
assistant doorkeeper of the senate,
is a student at Georgia Tech and the
son of a former secretary Of the
senate. Young Northern has become
very popular with the members Of
the senate.
President Clay announced Wednes-
day that he has appointed Senator
Joe Jackson to take Senator Johnny
Jones "tn charge" during off hours
for the remainder of the session. He
did not state his reasons;
Senator Jones called his chiefs
attention to the fact that II am red
me hard to handle"
Senator G. A. Johns, of Winder,
AYERS that Senator ]. H. Boykin is
receiving too much publicity as a
result of that women's citizenship
bill which passed last week"
Senator Boykin is a bachelor" he
said, land I have allowed these sto-
ries to be printed without saying
anything in the hope that they might
do the senator some good-but now
1 am forced to give the public the
real facts in the case. l drew the
nj nI1n
credit for passing. and he took up
the fight in It's behalf because he
saw in it possibilities for this future.
Everything would have been all