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THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF THE
HOUSE AND 8ENATE.
GEORGIA'S LAW MAKKit' AMD WHAT THEY
ABE DOT JSG TO ADVANCE TEE GRAND
OLD STATES INTERESTS.
THE HOME.
37th Dat —The Wednesday morning
oession of the hooae ended in a freeze-out.
Something wwrong with the furnaces,
and the members drooped in their seats
wrapped up to their ears in overcoats
moat pitifully all the forenoon. Much
work was done, however, in spite of the
weather. The bill providing for an in¬
crease in the number of fertilizer inspect¬
ors, from six to ten, came up. and
was passed on a big vote.
The Calvin bill to have ail cotton seed
meal inspected before it is told in Geor¬
gia was the sale taken of up. second An amendment quality of allow¬
ing a cotton
seed meal that does not measure up to
the 71 5 per cent ammonia, required by
the bill, provided the same be branded
second quality and sold as such, was
offered. The amendment was accepted
by Mr . Calvin, and the bill pessed as
amended. All inspections of cotton seed
meal under the requirments of this law
must be made by the state chemist.
The bill introduced by Mr. Boifeuillet.
of Bibb, to authorize the moor and
council of the city of Macon to issue
$200,000 of Isolds to sewer said city,
passed the house. This is the bill fought
by Mr. Huff, of Bibb, because the four
citizen commissioners under whom the
bonds are to be issued are named in the bill.
The following bills were passed at the
morning session: Amending the regis¬
tration laws of Floyd county. To pro¬
hibit the drinking of intoxicating liquors
around a place of divine worship when
services are in progress. To establish a
system of public schools for the to w n of
Oglethrope. church To protect Macedonia
from tho sale of intoxicating li
quois. Amending the charter of the Cap¬
ital City Investment company. To pio
tect Howard church from the sale of in¬
Ninth toxicating I quors. Incorporating the
Begiment of Georgia volunteers.
Protecting the Lebanon Baptist church.
Incorporating the Atlanta Saiings bank.
Also to incorporate the Fuel and Gas
Lighting Company. Amending the act
to fund the hor ded debt of Clarke. To
incorporate the town of Roberta.
When the house met at 3 o’clock the hall
was but 1 tt e warmer than when the
members left it, but the law-mak' rs went
to work upon the passage of local bills
with a rush. The following bills passed:
To provide for a more perfect method of
condemning private property for opening
streets in Atlanta. To extend the cor¬
porate limits of Americus. To amend
the registration laws of Pierce county.
To charter the Abbeville and Wuycross
Railroad company. The incorporate the
Athens and Cornelia Railroad com¬
To pany. amend Incorporating registration the Carrollton bank.
the laws of Appling
county. A bill to incorporate the Cotton
Mills bank of Newnan. To amend the act
authorizing the issuance of interest
beaiing bonds by the mayor and ooun
cilmen of Macon. To amend the act cre¬
ating a board of road- and reve¬
nues commissioners for Clinch county;
To incorporate the city of Tifton. To
incorporate the town ol Bishop. To in¬
corporate Chirk's university i f Atlanta.
To gr mt a new charter for the town of
Flovilla. To provide lor the working of
the county convicts of Richmond. To
incorporate the Clarke Banking Company
of Covington. To amend the charter of
Rome. To permit the Manchester Rail
Railroad Company to bridge the Savan¬
nah river and cuter Augusta. To
incorporate the town of Metcalf.
To amend the charter of Harlem. To in
Corpdrate the Rank pf Grifiin. To incro
jiorate the town of Pendtvgra-s. To in¬
corporate the town of Ashburn. To in¬
corporate the town of Pearson. To in¬
corporate the Millen and Southern rail¬
road. Also lo amend the incorporating
laws of the First Regiment of Georgia
cavalry. To amend thu corporation of
the Ellijay Street Riilrod Company. To
incorporate the Atlanta Guarantee Sav¬
ings Cank. The house then adjourned
until 9 o’clock Tliuisdny morniug.
38 tii Day. —Several hilts passed the
house Thursday. This body of the gen¬
eral assembly is well up with its work,
and after disposing of the State road
question, and the branch college amend¬
ment from the senate to the app ropria
tion bill the members will be ready to
go home. Mr Calvin's bill, providing
that all special deputy sheriffs, special
constables, marshals, policemen, or other
peace officers or deb ctives, ap¬
pointed in this State shall be cit¬
izens of Georgia, was passed. 'J lie
bill making all persons and corpora¬
tions who discharge laborers and then use
methods to prevent their obtaining situa¬
tions elsewhere, guilty of a misJemeauor,
and subject to be fined from $200 to
$500, went through the h >use with a
rushing vote. The effort of Mr. Martin,
of Fulton, to get an appropriation for the
appraisers of the rolling stock, etc , of
the State road, was successful. The finance
committee inserted in the blauk $600 to
each member ^ f the board of appraisers.
A most entertaining debate arose over
the bill introduced by Mr. Baldwin, of
Randolph, which makes it a misde¬
meanor for any physician or prescription
clerk to encage in the duties of his pro
fessi n while under the influence of
whisky. r l he bill was recommitted
to be perfected. The house passed a
very important bill, introduced by
Mr. Boifeuillet. of Bibb. It is
known as the “telegraphers’ bill.”
The bill prohi its employment of tele¬
graph operators under eighteen years of
age by railroad compauiei to receive and
transmit dispatches goveining the move¬
ment of trains. The bill introduced by
Mr Martin to extend »he charter of the
Western and Atlantic R«ibo ‘d Company
was taken up and passed w ithout oppo¬
sition. The appropriation bill came back
to the hoase from the senate with the
branch college* reinstated. It was taken
up and a warm little tussle w*» being
prepared for, when Mr. Berner are.se to
th- point of order that the bill with the
senate amendments would have to first
go to the finance committee. Isuch a
course was given the bill. The rest of
the afternoon session was devoted to
reading seuate bills the first sad second
times,
38 th Day.— The senate’s amendment
to the appropriation bill, reinstating the
five original branch colleges, was taken
up in the house Friday morning. The
amendment was read and brought out a
lengthy debate. Mr. Sears, of Webster,
who was such an enemy to the colleges
on the first round, was the first mtn
beard from. He moved ro disagree
■with the report of the committee on
nnance, winch was lavorable to the
adoption of the senate's amendment, and
the vote on Mr. Sear's motion proceeded, the
sixty-five members voted to agree to
committee's report while ninety-five voted
to disagree to li e report of the commit¬
tee and opposing the branch colleges
All the colleges were thus swept cleas
from the bill again, and it was rushed back
at the senate. Every other senate amend¬
ment met the concurrence of the house.
The following sen te bills were |iassed
by the house during the morning:
lo incorporate the Southern Exchange
bank To modify the (lowers of judges
of county courts. allowed Requiring that no
agent shall be to testify for a
principal of sound in mind. lawsuits A wh uending n said the priucipa incor¬
is
poration of Richland. Incorporating the
bank of Richland. A resolution requir¬
ing the Georgia congre-smeu to co op
crate to secure a repeal or modification
of the present tariff laws, and to enact
laws for increasing the volume of money.
To regulate he sales c? fertilizers in this
state. Incorporating the Citizens’ Trust
and Banking Company of l homasvi le.
At the afternoon session the following
senate bills were read the third time and
passed. To amend and to confirm an
ordinance of the city of Augusta. To
incorporate the Merchants’ Exchange
Bank and Trust Company of Forsyth.
road Incorporating the Alnbumu Eastern Rail¬
Company. Chartering the Bank of
LaGrange. To charter the Bank of
Monroe. To authorize city of Augusta
to tear down the lower market house and
build another wherever the mayor and
council may deride. Amending the
registration laws of Worth county.
Changing the time for holding super or
court in the Rome circuit. To extend
the limits of tnc city of Macon so as to
inciude the land in Yineville belonging
to the Ocmulgec Land Improvement
Company. Incorporating the Columbus
Investment Company. Amending an act
establishing a mayor’s court in the city anil
of Augusta. Empowering the mayor
pouncilnu-u of Carrollton to levy and col¬
lect an additional 25 per cent, ail valorem
tax. Northern Incorpo ating the Brunswick and
Railroad Company. To charter
the Southeastern Musual Aeeideut Asso¬
ciation. The house bills passed were:
To extend the charter of ihe /'"cstern rail¬
road so us to charter it westward to the
Alubama line, and eastward to
the city of Macon. A bill to
abolish the county court of Tatnall.
At the night session the tax act was
taken up by motion of Mr. Scars, ot
Webster. The amendment of the senate
fixing the lax upon ’'bucket shops” at
$10,000 and upon regular brokers who
di al in futures at $10,000 was read and
caused u little stir of del ate, and many
amendments were offered, but all of them
were lost, and the senate amendment was
concurred in by the house. The remain¬
ing senate amendments were concurred
in and the bill was finished. Mr. Seay,
of Floyd, scared up a first-class sensation
by introducing a bill providing for the
taxing of bachelors in Georgia for the
support of the branch colleges. The
house agreed to adjouru S turday night
in accordance with the resolution of Mr.
Lark, of Clay, and have a summer ses
s July. on beginning the sec .nd Wednesday iu
THE SENATE.
37th Day. —The branch college fight
opened up in the senate Wednesday fore¬
noon; the appropriation bill having come
upon its third reading. The first, sec¬
ond and third sections of the bill were
passed without opposition or discussion,
just ns they came from the house. The
fourth section is that making appropri¬
ations to the various public institutions—
under w hit h head are the branch colleges.
The bill, as it comes from the committee,
provides for branch colleges at Dahlon
ega, Milledgeville, Thomasvilic, Cuth
bert, Hamilton, Forsyth, Waynesboro,
Th rason, Sparta, Brunswick, Greenville
and Bainbridgo. Th s section broughton
a Spirited debate, which was kept up
during most the entire .day. The night
session brought out an avalanche of
arc ndments. Senator Lane, who had
the floor when the senate adjourned in
the afternoon, concluded his argument.
Then the new amendments were read.
* hey were for branch colleges at Albany,
Jonesboro, Barnesville. McDonough,
Jesup. Rome, Summerville, (Jartersville,
Richland, P rry. Am ricus, Hartwell.
Draketown, and other places, a motion
was made to refer that section of the bill
back to the finance committee. Ihe mo¬
tion prevailed. A bill was introduced
to establish public school system iu
tbe town of Boston. Bills passed
were: To incorporate the Farmers’
Bank ng Company ot Spalding county.
To Incorporate the Atlanta Exchang
bank. To incorporate the Peoples’ Bank¬
ing Comp toy, of Atlanta. To exten i the
corporate limits of Carrollton. To change
the tone ol holding tbe spring term of
the superior court of Burke county. To
amend the prohibition laws of Hart
county, i incorporate the town of i-t
na, Polk ■ uuty, llmpow r ttg tbe Ir.
aim Spn_-1> »*« to appoint a marshal.
To incur ate the town of Keysville,
Burke cour t'- To incorporate trie An
gtata Backing and Loan Association To
incorporate the North Highlands Rai,
road companv. To amend the ac inenr
[ K ,rating the Xeal Loan and Banking
company. "Day —In thr-enate, Thurs¬
2$rH on
day, a motion was made to reconsider
•.he passage of the Twitty btli. Tnc vote
stood 20 to 20. The decision was left in
the hands of President Mitchell. He
voted “aye ” Making the vote 21 to 20
in favor of reconsideration. The bill
g'oes over now to tbe summer session
The appointment of Judge Allen Fort
as railroad commissioner, was con¬
firmed unanimously by the senate.
The appropriation bill was finished by
the senate, and then passed, as ameodtd
by the finance comrni tee. There are just
four amendments to the house bill, (a)
The branch colleges, (bj The senate
wants an appropriation pharmacy, of (c) $200 The for tbe
state board of senate
gives $12,000. where the house gave $9 -
090,for printing the supreme court reporta,
idl The senate gives $18,000 to the con
liugent fund, where the house gave
$12,000. Tbi-is to enable the governor
to (lav the taxes for this year on the
state's property in Chattanooga, in event
t becomes necessary to do so. The bill
w is passed, 36 to 0, and was then ordered
immediate y transmitted to the house.
I here was quite a spirited debale in the
senate Thursday afternoon over the bill
for the municipal taxation of railroads.
It was made the special order for Friday.
confederate The following bills passed : To pension
widow*. To increase tbe
number of the board of trustees of Emory
college. To relieve the Gainevilte and
Hall County Street Railway Company of
penalty for delay in paying taxes. To
establish a system of public schools for
Upson county. To relieve the Lexing¬
ton Terminal Railway Company
on-sbv for rip'av in paving taxes
To in Lowndes incorporate the town To of amend Lake the Pond,
county. act
creating a board of county commissioner!
for DeKalb county. To incorporate the
Atlanta Investment and Banking com¬
pany. To incorporate the Atlanta and
Northwestern Railroad company. To in¬
corporate the village of Harrisonville. To
iicorporale the Griffin Street Railroad
company. To reincorporae the
West Atlanta Street Railroad company.
To prohibit the sale of intoxicatin' li¬
quors within three miles of Mt. Bethel
Methodist church, in Banks county. To
relieve the VVadley and Mt. Vernon Rail¬
road company of penalty for delay in
paying taxes. A resolution for a com¬
mission to revise the criminal laws of the
state. To amend the act incorporating
the Gate City Street Railroad company.
To amend the act incorporating the At¬
lanta Street Railroad company. To
amend the charter of the Merchants’ and
Mechanics’ Banking and Loan company,
of Atlanta. To incorporate the Capital
Railway company.
39 th day —The sena’e passed the bill
Friday for the, municipal taxation of rail¬
roads by a vote of 28 to 12. The Twitty
bill was “tabled” and the tax act passed,
only a few changes were made in the tax
act and three of these were by the com¬
mittee. One made a distinction betw ten
a legitimate “futures” business and the
“bucket shops.” The house had fixed
both licenses at $10,000. The
senate reduced the former to $1,000.
The second was in regard to firearms
liceme, making the license $100 for each
place of business in each county where
the sanr; arc told. The third was to
change tho sleeping car tax from 5 to 2 j
per cent on the gross receipts of stfid
company received from t ,e sale of tickets.
The only amendment was the requiring
of all mercantile and commercial agencies
a license of $100 for each established
place.of business. Other bills were: To
incorporate the Citizens’ Banking and
Trust company of Tbomasville.
To prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors
within three miles of Alt. Carmel Church
in Crawford county. To amend the act
incorporating Habersham the town of Cornelia,
Bank of Oglethorpe. county. Incorporating the
To amend the act
incorporating To the town of Blue Ridge.
' rcate a system of public s hools for
the city of M.rietta. To incorporate the
Merchants and Farm rs’ bank of Quit
man. To amend an act to fix the com¬
pensation of the sheriff of the su¬
premo court. To appropriate $25,
000 to the Georgia Insti¬
tution for the Deaf and Dumb.
Incorporating the Atlanta and Wist
End etreet Riilway Company. To in¬
corporate the bank of Sumter. Toincor
porate the city of Held a, Telfair county.
To incorporate the bank of Helena. To
amend the act incofp gating the Pii d
raout Loan and Banking Company. To
authorize the municipal author.ties of
Elnerton to issue bonds for school bui d
ings. Providing for the sinking fund of
1891 and 1892.
THE W. & A. MATTER.
The Western and Atlantic question was
settle 1 permanently, so far as ihe legisla¬
ture was concerned, Saturday. With
but little debate and no wrangling the
report of the committee went through
both houses, aud will be a law in due
time to settle the difference between the
present lessees and the state. The sub
stance of the report of the committee is
a resolution providing for the appoint¬
ment of a board of eight commissioners by
the governor, who shall try the claims of
the lessees, their report being
final with the approval of the governor
The first step to be taken in the putting
of the Zaehery resolution into effect, is
by tbe lessees. They are to bind them¬
selves in writing to abide the final deci
sion —that is, the present Western and
Atlantic company is io do so. A meet¬
ing, at which Governor Nortben, Senator
Brown and Major Stahlman are to be
present, was arranged for 9 o’clock Mon¬
day morning. ..Then, in the event the
lessees bind iheniselvea in accordance
with the Northen provisions sill of immediately the resolution,
Governor ap¬
point the right loiinni-sloners. Thin
tbe commission is lo start to work *t
once. '1 he ’» rd of examiners and ap¬
praisers of tbe Western and Atlantic has
been filed with the governor. It will be
important matter in the consideration of
the commission. The property, iu ag¬
gregate value, has fallen off very largely
of late. The lease act pr vide* that the
property shall be delivered on the 28th
of December.
ADJOURNMENT.
The conference committee on adjourn¬
ment made their report Saturday. As
soon as the Zacbry resolution came back
from the house the matter was settled
for the branch college matter bad almost
settled itself and an early agreement was
certain. Then the joint committee agreed
to report Monday noon as the time for
adjournment, and the agreement wu»
accepted by both houses.
■ BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
REPORT or PAST WEEK’S BUSINESS BY
DCS * CO.
R. G. Dun & Go’s, review of trade for
week ending Fri lay, December 19th,
says: Business continues large for the
season, but there is a perceptible loss of
confidence. Ihe causes appear tc
1. The prospect of important uioinciary
legislation, the effects of which are not
clearly foreseen. difficulties 2. Frequent iu failures
and greater making collec¬
tions. 3. Less satisfacto' y conditions in
some large branches of industry. Proba¬
bly more people are affect d as t > busi¬
ness undertakings, often unconsciously,
by the uncertainty about financial legis
lation and its effects than by any other
causes.
Foreign influences are not now disturb¬
ing. L age aiuoums of gold are arriving,
though toe exchange has now so ad¬
vanced as to this prevent week, shipments, aud having
risen 2 cents the Bank of
England lost $5,270,"00 in gold without
changing its rate. Ex. orl of products
for the two weeks of December, from
New York, show a gain of 8 per cent
over last year, and he total last Decem¬
ber was hardly ever surpassed. Though
imports continue heavy, they are greatly
exceeded by exports at present, and iu
November more than $20,000,009, al¬
though in that month the exports of cot¬
ton, breadstuff*, provisions, cattle and
o 1 showed a decrease of $5,083,744, or 7
per ceut from last year. The exports of
cotton thus far this month exceed last
year’s, and also of provisions, but there
is a heavy decrease iu grain caused by
speculative prices. south isfairat points
Trade at the most
reporting, considered healthy at New
Orleans, with larger cott >n receipts; dull
at Memphis, but more confident at Little
Rock, slightly Nashville; improved at Montgomery,
aud good at and less confident at
Jacksonville, at Atlant i accumu¬
lations of cotton are large. Mon¬
ey is very close at ail points.
In the speculative been markets downwar the tendency and the
has generally all hesitating, feeling I, that
markets are
monetary legislation m >y indefinitely
alter the situation. Hence, largely in¬
creased immediate supplies of money by
the imports of gold a Liu treasury disburse¬
ments, have le-s effect than might be ex¬
pected. Failures of the week number
303, compared with 306 for the same time
last week.
NO CONVENTION
WILL BE HELD, BUT A CONFERENCE OF
COMMITTEES WILL BE HAD.
At a meeting in Jacksonville, Fla.,
Tuesday night, atteuded by General
Master Workman Powderly and John
Davis, membcr-elecet of congress, from
Kansas, on behalf of the Knights of La¬
bor, President folk, national lecturer;
Mr. Willetts, member of the exe utive
board; Mr. Wardwc I, of North Dakota,
and others of the Farmers’ All’ance, it
was decided to have no convention at
Cincinnati on February 231, ns had
been arranged. It was decided that the
call for the Cincinnati convention should
not be formally issued, but that in its
stead, a conference of commiitees of five
from each of 'he o-giuiz iti >ns app ante 1
should be held some time iu Feuruary,
which should go over the ground action, care
tully, and without t .king formal
practically decide what course of action
should be pursued. This is a decided
victi ry for the conservative element
amoas i!.- »n ; *d p at'- m>>n.
SEABOARD AIR-LINE
WHICH IS TO BE BUILT FROM RIDGEWAY,
N. C., TO RICHMOND, VA.
A Raleigh dispatch of will Thursday build says: road
The Seaboard Air-Line a
from Ridgeway, N. C, to Richmond.
Va. It will be a direct line, and will be
a very important link in this great north
and south system of roads. Some years
ago a roadbed between Ridgeway ami
Petersburg was ne .riv all graded. This
route will not be followed, but a new one
will be surveyed, which is fourteen miles
shorter The Seaboard Air-Line will have
the most direct and by far the shortest
thr ugh line from Quan.ico, Va., to At¬
lanta. _•_
A CANAL OVRFLOWS
AND ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE DROWNED—A
SOUTH AMKhICAN HORROR.
A dispa ch of Sunday from Buenos
Ayers, says: A disasier has occurred at
Cordova, where the canai has burst its
embankments anl destroyed hundreds of
houses. One hundred lives are reported
lost. General Roca minister of the inte¬
rior. has gone to the scene to superintend
measures of relief.
TELE6EAIB Ajj
WH * T '« coma
c,
A SUMMARY or
deksed from ’
r *°* WO E SAM ,":’
CtL^of 1 thh^LliP * fl L
The Indianapolis *
cw *
Wednesday ■Pti ^
not be run on S mday.
Kansas City has been
1 of -n
Public P *®* meeting of .U *'
Health association,
B. A. Kean, doing a | u
under the ln
name of S. A. k«
Chicago, made an a-q„ Ba ,,.
morning, assets and liability
The Iowa legislature on \ty
joint ted States session, senator took without two halkj 3
oud ball..t resulted: 1 n,
9 McConnell 9 Claggct ^ jJ
ocrat 3.
The Paris Figaro on
iishes Russian ,
advices statist
plot to murder the czar hast
ered. The conspirators ar.
a noblemen’s club. ,Sw> ra i
been arrested for complicity L
and the club house was closed)
mills, Owen Brothers, agents of 5
signment at Providence, Thursday. R. I ,.
large, The &
hut the mills will confir
as usual under the management
O. Metcalf. The failure will‘
one. The cause is string's
money market.
A convention of represent* 1
the Parmers’ Alliance of it 1
Kansas congressional dkn (
Wichita Saturday, to takr ac
the election of a successor to i
galls in the senate. A nnf
adopted instructing all the F
liance members of the legist
the seventh district to vote
,
galls and work for his defeat.
A dispatch from Joncsv' Wiscit
says: The struggle for
co has begun by a descent >r
ket of many eastern dealer
week the d. mand for leaf was
Thursday, prices rose with a
8 to 10 and even 12 cent!,
been heavy. No such exci
been seen in the market since
A dispatch from Crugers,
Conductor Fred Harris and
Harry Evans, of a freight
Hudson river railway, met wi
hie death Friday morning,
lost his life while trying i n¬
ductor who had slipped on
of the car and was rolling off.
the conductor and both r
ground iu each other's embraej
At Philadelphia Geo. F V
Pfeiffer and James 9. Du
given the Central a hearing Wednesday*
of police station on
wrecking the Bnuk of A
the American Life Insurants
and at its conclusion were hel
009 bail each, to answer at co'
unable to obtain this amou
they were r. manded to prison)
of A the w reck Baltimore occurred on the road) Vs)
<fc Ohio
miles north of Harrisonburg,
day evening. The south'
drawn by three engines, ran
drift and was derailed. Tw
gines were thrown from th
demolished, while tbe third
across the track. Six person
road employes, were injured.
A Quebec dispatch says:
bound Halifax, express i
through a bridge at that plac
f. re noon Thursday. The
except the baggage car and <
down. A number of passe
killed, and others injured,
lurs ns to the number of ki
jured, but it is said tho
smashed to pieces.
A terrible accident oecum
day at Escouffi iul colliery,
province of Ifa.naut, Belgii
ot eighteen men had enti
and ihe enginestarled Suddenly, and to with lov
the pit.
the rope conuec iug the c
drum broke and ihe men
itated to the bottom of tho t
one of the occupants of l
killed.
RUBE’S CAPTO
IS PAID ONE THOUSAND D0LLA
REWARD MONEY.
A Birmingham dispatch say
till payment and settlement
war i offered for the late trr
Rubc Burrows, was m de Frkl
Carter, the man who killed Btr
the offi ers of the Southern
Company iu this city, t< arran
ment of the reward. The amn
by (he express company and
road companies jointly was $
this amount Carter was paid $
th- express officials will cod
McDuffie, who assisted in the
Burrows, before they I ay th
The United Suites various government
of $1,000 and the stat”
have n t been paid. J D- ua
killed Burrows, is a cripple fo
the effects of the wound he rece
inc the fii/ht- His left arm is