Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-05
WILL
||V|SH MAJOR BILLS,
HOUSE LEADERS SAY
Limits Put on Speeches and
Day Added in Effort
to Speed Up

more important measures pending,
house. There will be nine legisla.
tive days remaining, including Mon
day, as the house has already voted
to remain in session next Saturday.
Strategy was necessary to save
both the biennial sessions bill a.-d
the resolution appropriating $780,
600 to the common schools Friday.
Not that there was any opposition
to giving the schools the $250,00O,
but because several members of the
house wanted to give them more
than $3.50 900. 1t was generally be-
lieved that the school appropriation
would have been defeated if it had
reached vote Friday afternoon, be-
cause there were only 105 members
in the house at the time, if there
were really that many, and 104 votes
were required to pass the measure.
With the biennial session bill the
situation was different. Many of the
most active members of the house
are bitterly opposing the measure,
and they made an effort to force it
to a vote Friday morning, when
there were less than $50 members of
the house present. The bill is con-
stitutional amendment, and requires
1873 votes for passage. After the
rules committee had called for a 15-
minute recess and held a hurried
session, the bill was carried over to
Tuesday, by a vote of III to SO, indi-
eating that it would have been lost
by many votes if a ballot had been
reached.
With the biennial sessions meas
ure disposed Of until Tuesday, the
only measure left on the unfinished
calendar of the house is the resolu-
ton of Representative Wimberly, OF
Toombs county, providing for a leg
islatiVe investigation of the Georgia
public service commission. Mr.. VIM
berly has asked the house to allow
80 minutes for debate on his resolu-
ton, and the house has approved a
report of the rules committee fixing
it as a special order Immediately
after the disposition of the unfin-
ished calendar. If the opportunity
is ordinarily a flood of new bills, an
effort will be made to bring this
resolution before the house, it is
said.
Calendar of 20 Measures
Following the Wimberly resolution
and the biennial sessions bill, there
is d calendar of 26 measures sub
mitted by the rules committee and
approved by the house, for considera-
ton at the morning sessions. The
first of these measures are the bill
of Representative knight, of Berrien
county, to repeal section 1929 of the
code relative to the care of insane
persons; the bill Of Representative
Barrett, of Stephens county, to aid
in the establishment and mainte-
nance of consolidated schools; the bill
of Representative Aubrey, of Bar
tow county, to amend the code rela-
tive to recovery for homicides, and
the resolution of Representative
Bozeman, of Worth county, to permit
the admission of senate and house
journals as evidence in court cases.
For the afternoon sessions during
the week the house has II appropri-
alton bills that have been approved
by the appropriations committee and
placed on the calendar These bills
include many of the most important
measures that will come before the
legislature at this session
The appropriation of $250.00O to
the common schools is sought az an
assurance that the schools will re-
ceiVe one-har' of the excess of actual
revenue over estimated revenue for
the year 1924. The schools original
w DIV Gd
now conceded that the revenue will
reach $9,000,000, thereby emitting the
schools to $4,500,0O0. The original
schools was drawn when it was be-
lieved the excess would reach $780,
600, according to the explanation
made Friday afternoon by Represen-
tative Stovall, of Ebert county, one
of the authors.
Senate Up to Date
An effort will be made to increase
an appropriation of $4,000 agreed
upon by the committee as deficien.
cy fund for the state sanitarium at
Milledgeville, to $19S, 500. The diff
ference arises from the fact that
state auditors set up a reserve stock
of $3.50, 900 at the state sanitarium
as a cash asset, and figured the def
cheney as $4,000, while sanitarium
officials insist that it is actually
$19S, 500, unless they are forced to
use up every supply they have on
hand.
The senate is right up with its
calendar, according to President
Carswell, and is ready to pass on
all bills the house sends over. The
only unfinished business in the SEN
ate is the bill to substitute the cleo
trio chair for the gallows in Georgia.
This bill is expected to be called up
for vote next Tuesday.
Port Bill Near Top
The state port bill, under which
the state would be authorized TO is
sue SIS 200. 600 in bonds for port
purposes, will probably come up ear
ly in the week. A vote was par
TALLY had on the bill last week, but
on motion of friends of the proposed
legislation. the bill was tabled before
announcement of the vote.
LabCrinG under the burden of an
uafavorable report from the finance
committee, the Copeland bill provid-
ing that all state moneys collected
shall pass through the hands of the
state treasurer. will come before
the senate at an early session.
Senator Grantham's bill providing
for annual reports of state officers
receiving or disbursing funds was
given a favorable report by the spe-
cial judiciary committee Thursday
afternoon, and probably will be re
ported TO the senate at one of the
early sessions of the week.
Two reports Of special commits
sions were received during the week.
one generating the department of
agriculture and Commissioner j. J.
Brown OF certain charges. and the
other recommending that the sum
Of $4,000 annual rental from the