Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-15
SESSIONS
VOTED To CLEAR
HOUSE CALENDAR

The Georgia house of representa-
tives got down to serious considera
ton of it's congested calendar Mon
day morning and voted to begin dou
BILE sessions Thursday. following ar
appeal by Representative Miner, OF
Dodge county, vice chairman of the
rules committee.
Numerous members of this house
are asking the rules committee to
get their bills on the calendar in or
der that they may be brought UP at
some time during this session, Mr..
Miner said. "I1owever, the calen
dar already is congested and it is
absolutely necessary that we con
serve every minute of our time dur
ing the remainder of this session
We will lose Wednesday, when we
go to Athens to inspect the Univer'
sity of Georgia, an din order to make
up that time and clear the calendar,
we must begin double sessions on
Thursday"
The house voted to begin an hour
earlier, or at 8 o'clock each morn
ing, and to have sessions at O'Clock
in the morning and o'clock in the
afternoon, starting on Thursday.
The bill to Great Peach county was
placed on the calender as specla
and continuing order of business FOL
lowing the notorious bill, considera
ton of which again was taken uE
Monday morning, but on which a
vote was not reached before ad
journment. There was no OppO
sition to the recommendation o
| the rules committee that the Peacf
county bill remain special
Another effort to abrogbte TN
rule that forbids smoking was los
| Monday, when the house voted 68 t
| SO in favor of a report of the rules
! committee advertising a resolution t.
prohibit smoking in the house.
Probe Move Defeated
| A resolution by Representative
Wimberly, of Toombs county, tina
| the house resolve itself into a com
mittee of the whole to consider in
vestigation of the public service com
mission was voted down II to 81.
The privilege of the floor was ther
| extended to Mrs. Rachel Don, presi
! dent of the w. c. T. L. of New Zea
| land.
Mrs. Don made a brief address t.
! the house, saying that she had al
| ways heard of Georgia because O.
! Georgia watermelons, but that in thu
! last seven years the people of New
| Zealand had heard more of Georgi;
| because of her prohibition law ant
! the excellent enforcement of it, Sh'
! congratulated the house on the pres
| ence in the membership of two WON
! an representatives.
! After Mrs. Don finished spea kin1
! Representative Wimberly moved re
! consideration Of the action of The
house only a few minutes before il
voting down his resolution but hi
motion was lost, 92-77.
| The house adjourned at 1856 o. m
| Arrest Threat Falls
The threatened arrest of absentees
from Fridays session during the fill
| buster on the motor bus line bill fail
| ed to materialiZe Monday, when Rep
| resentative Knight, of Berrien, au
| thor of the proposal to arrest absen
! tees, introduced a resolution to grant
| leaves Of absence to all members
| who were not in their seats Wher
| the call of the house occurred Fri
day. The resolution was adopted
and the incident passed.
Fridays filibuster by the friends
of the motor bus bill, who prevented
! the measure from coming to a vote
/ because barely a quorum was pres
ent when the measure was ready fol
/ consideration, gave promise of de
! veloping serious consequences Wher
| Representative Knight insisted thai
| members absent without leave be ar
| rested and brought before the bar 01
the house. His change Of front Mon
| day solved the difficult situation.
| Among the new bills introduced
| in the house was one by the dele
| cation from Lowndes county to au
I thorize the city of Naldosta to ap
| propriate 100000 to aid in the es
Enlistment of the Woodrow viii
son Memorial university At Yaldosta