The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-12
BIENNIAL SESSIONS ARgE. (.
VOTED BY LEGISLATURE

WILL III LkUlUInIOUL
su,r11. RATIFY LAW AT POLLS
IN STATE ELECTION TO BE
HELD NEXT NOVEMBER.
suAPD AND BITTER STRUGGLE
'w.s Carried by $50 to As After Spir-
ted Debate. A Sixty-Day Session
will Be Held Every Two Years.
Four.Year Office Term Lost.
aTrANTA.-The Georgia house
d conservatives Tuesday by a vote
10 to As passed the bill providing
or sixty-day session of the leg
stature every two years instead OF
he present 50-day session each year.
N;re members were absent and did
Mt vote. Representative ]. D. Weav-
OF Terrell, voted for biennial ses-
lions,
The bill had already passed the SEN
k4e. has been signed by the governor,
Ind therefore will become law when
tatifed by the people at the next gen
raj election in November.
4 The biennial sessions bill was pass
ID bv the senate last year, thirty-eight
members of that body joining in
Is authorship. However, it struck
Lough sailing in the house and was
Bitterly opposed by several of the
|esding members of that body. Argu
nent on the measure was begun last
Thursday and continued throughout
he day.
a Governor Walker expressed him
kef as delighted over passage of the
I'm and voiced the opinion that it
Mould prove an important step for
hard in the campaign for economy in
he state administration and taxation
Ieiorm. He said he would sign the bill
soon as it reached his desk. After
is signed by the governor it will
lave to be ratified by the people at
he election in November, after which
will become a part Of the organic
+ bw OF the state.
Ends Bitter Fight.
The poll on the measure cllmaxes
be hardest fought legislative battles
II the present session Charges and
sounter charges were flung by propon-
hts and opponents of the bill during
hree days debate.
Representative Covington, of Col
uitt one OF the opponents OF the bill,
harged that the public corporations OF
Georgia were the motive power be-
ind the bill.
mo state in the union is so under
be heel OF the public service corpora
Ions as the state of Georgia" declar-
II Covington. Zone of them has the
ffrontery to go to the home town OF
he chairman of the railroad commis-
oin and hire his brother-in-law to
Whisper instructions in our ears IN
ead OF employing a lawyer here IN
tanta, where they are as thick as
Nldlers in purgatory Another OF these
corporations has given a soft job to
be son OF the chairman OF our rail-
bad commission"
s In explaining her vote for the bill
isS Bessie Kempton, one OF Fulton
bunty's representatives, answered the
harges that corporation interests
ere lobbying for the bill by counter
harging that there was an insid1ouS
bby working to defeat the bill. -.
: III the corporations want this bill
kssed I don't know it," said Miss
empton. For none of them have
I'D me anything about it. II they
ave approached any members OF the
buse it must have been the select
w.' But | do know that there IS
rong lobby at work against the bill,
r | have heard from them. One OF
( hotels in this city," continued Miss
empton has fatty told me that II
vote for this bill | cannot be re-
ected to this house. Also | have
ben told that unless | vote against
e measure the deficiency appropria-
s. pn for Georgia Tech will be defeat
But they can't force my vote on
y measure and / hereby vote aye
this bill"
Lobby Is Charged.
Representative Copeland, of Lown-
county, made the concluding ar
ment at the morning session in Ia
OF the biennial sessions bill. lie
ated that while politicians and lob
ISIS favor annual sessions, for self
fldent reasons, 80 per cent of the
Eople OF the state are in favor OF
ennial sessions.
II the voice of the people of Geor-
a. said the Lowndes representa-
e could be heard in this hall to-
v some OF the members who have
kught TO prevent them from having
voice in this question would hang
elT heads in shame"
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