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MACON, FEBRUAK* 22, !870
The Reign of Fraud.
Much of our press telegraphic matter, with
in a few days, relates to Legislative frauds in
Alabama, whereby a bill to transfer the munici
pal government of Mobile from the people
Enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment, thereof to the Executive at Montgomery, was
With a view to enforce the provisions of the ! so shockingly hoeussed by secret and fraudulent
fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of thei alterations in the course of its passage through
United States, Judge Bingham lias prepared a 1 tho Lecislature that its original friends disown
bill to enforce the right of citizens of the United,. ® MnWio
States to vote in the several States of the Union, ;A quasi civil wa 1 _ o P
who have hitherto been denied that right on ac- between the Radical Mayor Price, in possession
count of race, color, or previous condition of and who refuses to yield to frand, and a Radical
servitude. It is intended especially to meet jj„ or Harrington, appointee under the bill,
the rase of such States as Delaware Maryland acknowledged on all hands to be no
and Kentucky, wherein it is feared the fifteenth " ........
amendment will be disregarded. | legal bill, in many important particulars, but a
The first seetion provides that from and after : piece of knavish trickery and legerdemain,
the passage of tho act all colored ci'izens of the nobody knows who did the business,
United States residentin tbe«^ St«te> of or ^ wt at to do in , he premise8 , now
the United States, shall bo entitled to vote at 1 J . , , _ ..
all elections in the State of their residence, snl»-! that toe forgeries and alterations have been dis
ject only to the same conditions which now ore covered.
or niay hereafter bo required to qualify white j ^ similar and, if possible, more flagrant case
^SerttonVwoenacts a penalty of five hundred of fraudulent alterations of a bill nfter it had
dollars’ fine and one month's imprisonment, passed and been signed, was detected m Florida
against every assessor or other officer of a State, last winter, and the taint of fraud pollutes the
who neglects to assess the person or property of j w jj 0 lo atmosphere of that so-called State gov-
“ycolored citizen of the United States pnor to | ernment ^ frandg in Lonisiana hav0 been
The third section prescribes a similar penalty, the staple of newspaper talk for a year, and we
to bs enforced against any of the members of
any levy court who shall commit a similar of
fence.
Section four provides that nnv clerk or other
officer required by the law of a State to regis
ter, record, or transcribe any list of persons
against whom taxes have been assessed, who
shall wilfully refuse or neglect to register the
name of any colored citizen who has been law
fully assessed to pay any tax, shall pay r. fine of
$">00, and bo imprisoned not less than one
month.
The remaining sections provide penalties to
be enforced against other State, county, and
ward officers who refuse to receive the vote of a
colored man. The circuit courts of the United
States are given jurisdiction in all eases arising
under the act.
This bill illustrates, in part, the great revolu
tion which has been effected in tho character of
the Federal Government. Under the Constitu
tion as it was, the direct communication of the
Federal Government with the citizen was very
rarp. Sometimes he was called upon to act as
a juror—a witness, or a party in the Federal
courts. Sometimes to pay an impost duty a,
sometimes to bold an office. But with the great,
mass of the people, the postal department end
the currency were about the only tangible evi
dences of the existence of the Federal Govern
ment. The State governments controlled every
ordinary,* political and social relation of the
citizen.
Bat since the war, the Federal Government
has been steadily pushing its direct relations
with the citizen, until now she pesters him with
mastery in every relation of life. She assails
him with direst taxes—license law3—laws regu
lating social intercourse in every aspect—oaths
—abilities and disabilities—registries—the bal
lot box, and, in fact, interposes her direct au
thority with a zeal, constancy and vigor worthy
of a pursuit in which some good end could pos-
sibly be gained.
All this is predicated on the idea of maintain
ing by force of Federal authority, in every State,
the precise social habits, sentiments and feel
ings which are supposed to be entertained by the
mass of the States, as reflected by tho existing
administration. That noble liberty of local self
control, nnder a bond of common subordination
to the Federal Constitution, is destroyed: and
with it goes the practicability of maintaining
the American system of confederated Repub
lics, by the volantary consent of the governed.
The condition of its existence nnder the new
plan isono of tho constant exercise of force and
domination over minorities. And as Congress
goes on in its career and multiplies the subjects
and occasions for direct interference with the
citizen, and sharpens its points of contact to
suit the prevailing New England ideas of the
functions and prerogatives of government—so,
of course, does it mnttiply and increase the dan
gers of collisions and conflicts of authority be
tween Federal and State functionaries—and in
crease the demands and occasions for augmen
tation ot Federal power—the sharpness and
vigor with which it must be enforced against the
States—tho confusion and embarassment of the
citizen between the requirements and exactions
of the two masters—the general dissatisfaction
and distrust of the system among the people,
and the danger of tnmnlt and disruption. When
the gTeat book authoritatively declares “No
man can serve two masters,” it enunciates a
truth applicable not only to religion, bnt also
with equal force, to the whole range of human
experience.
Reasoning on general principles, we do not
permit ourselves to donbt that the whole plan
of forcing Federal interference into every de
partment of society and local politics, is surely
destined to become extremely odions to the peo
ple. No matter who or what State is hit to-day
—somebody else is bound to be hit to-morrow,
and all will be hit in turn on a sore spot. Time
alone is necessary, under this system, to give
every State and locality a bloody nose. The
system is like a giant in a crowd, trampling and
swinging his fist about promiscuously—every,
body will get a sore shin and a cracked crown
before he gets ont of the press, unless by com
mon consent they all tarn on the giant and
teach Mm to keep Ms hands and heels to Mm-
self.
The New England politicians never had but
one idea of the Federal Government, and that
was to employ it like the bully in the crowd,
on all errands, from religions and social reform
to transferring money from the general crowd
into their particular pockets, nnder tho pre
tence of “protecting American labor.” They
were never content to let the people consult
their own tastes in morals, politics, society,
drinks, bnsiness pursuits, and so on. When
they had pushed the big giant into revolution
izing the Southern social system by fire and
sword, all that has followed in the way of em
ploying Mm to make by constitutional amend
ments and legal enactments, the negroes the
social and political compeers and masters of
the Southern people, is bnt a natural sequence,
and the movement against a protective tariff
is the first dawning of a popular reaction against
their detestable politics. It will go on, and
after a time, it will be bard to find a white
politician who ever favored tMs governmental
system of old grannyism. There is only one
political question in America worth a thought,
and only one position worthy a freeman; and
that is an eternal and uncompromising war
against this plan of Federal despotism, which
will involve a continent in anarchy if not pnt
put down.
The Hartford Post has a story of a deacon
who got drunk in New York on the 4th of July.
It was at a time when ice was unknown in
summer in the country. The deacon confessed
Ms fault, bnt pleaded in palliation that it was a
prodigiously hot day, and the lemons and ice in
the punch did look so cool and inviting that ho
couldn't resist the temptation, and he supposed
he did actually drink to intoxication. A low
browed brother on a back seat listened atten-
tively but incredulously to the defence, and at
its conclusion rose. ‘T haint no objection,"
said he, “to a man’s getting drunk, if he owns
up to it and is sorry for it; that’s a thing a
man’s liable to, and p’raps sometimes he can’t
help it; bnt when the deacon comes in here and
undertakes to excuse Mmself in any snch way
as that—talking abont seeing ice in July, X go
for jerkin' Mm ont for lyin.’
The weatherwiae predict that March will be a
very wet month. February has not been slow
la that line.
now have the leading functionaries in that eo-
called State trying to impeach and degrade each
other for high crimes and misdemeanors. So
in North Carolina the outcry abont frands fills
the papers. In South Carolina the black and
white Radicals are by the ears on charges of
fraud, and as for Georgia, wo need say no more
tb an that leading Radicals from tMs State charge
that the last reconstruction is conceived and
prosecuted solely in the interests of fraud.
Thus one universal taint of frand notoriously
pervades the whole domain of Congressional
reconstruction. Nobody doubts that it is a sub
stantial triumph of frand, and the rabid partisan
who denies it does so with a sardonic grin which
tells yoa plainly that ho has a hundred times
better reason to believe in the universal sway
of fraud than yon have.
We might charge this terrible fact and the
universal recognition of its existence, to the
character of the agents selected by Congress to
carry out the work of reconstruction, but that
would account for it only in part. The worst
of men would be held in some check by public
sentiment, were it not for that other and more
potential fact that public sentiment itself is tram
pled nnder foot in the organization of these
governments. That fact removes or destroys
all restraining influence; and where any con
siderable portion of that restraining influence
existed, as in the case of Georgia, Congress broke
it down by a revision of their reconstruction—
by extraordinary tests and extraordinary inter
pretation and application of the tests, as if it
were an indispensable part of the programme
that all correcting, restraining and purifying in
fluences of public opinion should be trampled
under foot. TMs done, there was nothing to
hinder the completest triumph of fraud, and
States which had never in their previous public
history, known the fraudulent appropriation of
a dollar of their revenue, or a disgraceful act
of mal-administration, are now become a by
word.
Tho theoiy of a free republican government
is the supremacy of public opinion. The theory
of the Reconstruction governments is the sup
pression and subjugation of public opinion, and
that through the instrumentalities of a free gov
ernment ; and it is a theory which must neces
sarily become at last felo de se. The Southern
people, when they had exhausted the resources
of resistance, tendered their allegiance to the
conqueror. It was practically neither accepted
nor refused. Had it been accepted, the gov
ernment would have placed them again op the
level of citizenship; but while it professed to
do this, it still held them in proscription as sub
jects of « mastery exceptional in its character.
They were, therefore, neither one thing nor the
other, just as these reconstructed governments
are neither one thing nor tho other—but a pre
tence—a counterfeit of republics with the vital
principle struck out, and tho people repressed
by Congressional acts, and the small arts and
tricks of small and dishonest politicians under
them, which not only subject all public interests
and properties as prey and spoil, bnt encourage
frand, plunder and violence by the very nature
of the political institutions established.
Tho governments so-called are founded on
hostility to the peopleand public interests, and
what more natural that they should be carried
on in the same spirit? They are, in themselves,
a political fraud—what more natural that they
should bo administered in the same character ?
Time alone could not cure the inherent and
radical vices of snch establishments, bnt the peo
ple would become more irreconcilably hostile to
them with every day of their continnance. The
effort to extend this usurpation in Georgia by
overriding the constitution of the State, if suc
cessful, will only result in a more signal catas
trophe at the end of it. If the Radical party
seek or desire popular strength in Georgia,
they cannot gain it by represssing and master
ing the people. Never, until they let the peo
ple loose, will they get their own toes npon the
first inch of the firm ground of popular favor
and confidence. They have but one of two
sensible plans—either to free the people and let
them control their own affairs, or discarding
this wretched imposture, establish here at once
and forever a military pro-consnlship, founded
upon the assumption that the people cannot be
trusted.
Despotism's Last Stride.
By the provisions of a bill adopted by the
House last Thursday, the Secretary of the In
terior is to appoint three commissioners for
each Congressional district in the Union, who
are to receive the ballot cast at any election for
members of Congress, or for election for Pres
ident and Vice President, and to decide npon
the qualification of voters. The bill also con
tains several other provisions designed to cany
ont the plan of placing the election of members
of the Federal government exclusively in the
hands of the ntew commissioners, or, in other
words, under! tho control of the Secretary of
the Secretary of the Interior.
TMs is the first step towards enforcing the
provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment in the
hitherto free States. At the next election the
Radicals will have their commissioners, backed
by Federal bayonets, at every precinct in every
district where the vote is close. TMs is what
tho last section of the Fifteenth Amendment
means. If the people snbmit, the Radicals are
fixed in the saddle for all time to come.
Such a Legislatube!—We doubt if such a
compound of knavery and ignorance a3 the
present Legislature of Alabama and the officers
thereof, was evor before collected as a legisla
tive body. It would have suited the times of
Jack Cade admirably. Every week—it seems
to be every day recently—some new exposure
of rascality or ignorance is made. One of the
officers has been expelled for theft, and at least
one other (we believe two or three) for incompe
tency ; one of the members was lately on trial
for subornation of perjury, and we believe that
he is still threatened with indictment for that
offence, as well as for suspected murder. An
other has been “relieved from the penalties for
fraudulent voting. The latest instance of the
corruption that prevails is furnished by the re
port policed in tho proceedings of Tuesday) on
the alteration of a bill after its engrossment—
CK Enquirer.
Wait till the Atlanta Agency gets fairly nnder
way, and then see if yon don’t have to “lift this
affidavit” The Alabama concern is bard to
beat, we acknowledge, bnt well go our “pile”
on the Agency.
The New York hospitals are seid to be erowd-
i ed with victims to the relapsing feTer,
GENERAL PRESENTMENTS f
OF THE
GRAND JURY OF BIBB COUNTY.
Wo, tho Grand Jury, chosen and sworn at the
November Term of Bibb Superior Court for
1809, do hereby make the following present
ments :
In examining into the affairs of tho county, it
gives ns pleasure to stato that the afflicted poor
among ns are being properly cared for at tho
poor house and hospital, where we find, on an
average, sixty-five treated a month at a cost (in
cluding everything) of only twenty cents each a
day. The buildings are kept clean and neatly,
and tho patients seem quite comfortable. As
all purchases are made by the Mayor and Ordi
nary on the best terms, much good is done at
comparatively little cost, and all concerned are
entitled to credit for its management.
We find the roads after the recent rains in a
miserable condition, and onr present system of
road laws utterly inadequate to their thorough
working, and every interest of either city or
county calls loudly for a change. In this emer
gency a lull has been prepared, and is herewith
presented, which we think will meet the case,
and we earnestly recommend its legal enact
ment
A BILL
To be entitled, An Act to alter and amend the Road
Laws of this State, so far as relates to the county
of Bibb, and to authorize and require tho Ordi
nary of said county to levy and collect a tax for
road purposes, and for other purposes.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Georgia in
General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same, That it shall be the
duty of the Ordinary of Bibb county to appoint in
the manner now provided by law,three Commis
sioners of Public Roads in and for each Militia
District in said county, whose rights, powers,
duties, liabilities and immunities shall be the
same in all respects as are now prescribed by
law, except so far as the same may be modified
or altered by the provisions of this act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the au
thority of tho same, That said commissioners
shall be and they are hereby authorized and re
quired, as soon after their appointment as prac
ticable, to lay off the roads in their respective
districts in sections of three, five or more miles
each, as they, or a majority of them, shall deem
most appropriate, tho working and keeping in
repair of which, in accordance with the road
laws of this State, for the term of ono or more
years, shall be let to the lowest bidder,after due
and proper public notice of the same; and
it shall be the duty of said commissioners to
make ont specifications in writing of the work
to be done, which specifications shall be the bi-
sis of tho contract.
Sec. 3. And it is farther enacted by the au
thority aforesaid, That the person or persons
with whom said road contracts may be made,
shall be required to give a bond with approved
security in a sum double the amount agreed to
be paid to him or them under said contracts,
which bonds shall be made payable to the Ordi
nary of said county, and conditioned for the
faithful performance of their respective con
tracts according to the terms thereof, and the
sums for which said work is contracted to be
done, shall be paid by the Ordinary only upon
the certificate of tho commissioners that the
work agreed upon has been faithfully done ac
cording to the terms of their respective contracts.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the
aforesaid authority: That whenever it shall bo
made to appear to the Ordinary npon the report
of tho commissioners of any district, that the
conditions of the bonds required to be given in
pursuance of the third section of this act have
been violated or not complied with, it shall be
Ms duty to have suit instituted thereon forth
with, and the amount recovered shall be set
apart and appropriated as a road fund.
Sec. 5. And bo it further enacted by the au
thority of the same : That the person or persons
with whom such contracts may bo made, shall
enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges, and
shall be subject to all the pains and penalties
now prescribed by law in reference to overseers
of pnblic roads, except so far as the same may
be affected by tMs act.
Sec. C. And be it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid: That in making tho afore
mentioned contracts, the Commissioners shall
have power to pledge to said contractor or con
tractors the labor of such convicts as may be
sentenced by the Judge of the Superior Court of
said county to snch labor for minor offences,
provided that said contractor or contractors shall
make such provision for the safe-keeping and
maintenance of tho same as shall bo approved
by said commissioners under direction of tho
Ordinary and Sheriff of said county.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by tho
aforesaid authority: That the Ordinary of said
county be, and he is hereby authorized and re
quired to levy a capitation tax, not to exceed
three dollars npon each and every person sub
ject to road duty by existing laws in said county,
the payment of which shall operate as an ex
emption from road duty for and during the year
for which said tax may be levied—and shall also
levy and collect a tax on every horse, mule, or
pair of oxen, or single ox, at half rates, as also
all vehicles of every description, using the roads
in the said county, not exceeding tho sum of
three dollars from the owner or owners of the
same, and any person who may be subject to the
payment of said tax shall be amenable in ail
respects to the road laws of this State if he or
she shall fail or refuse to pay the same.
Sec. 8. And be it farther enacted by the au
thority aforesaid: That it shall be the duty of
the commissioners of the several districts of
said county to ascertain and report to the Tax
Collector of said county the names of each and
every person in their respective districts who
may be subject to road duty, and it shall be the
duty of the Tax Receiver to receive nnder oath
the number of horses, mules and oxen for
draught and wheeled vehicles owned in the
said county and give the same to tho Tax Col
lector, and it shall be the duty of the said Tax
Collector to collect the tax which may be levied
in pursnance of this act at snch time as the Or
dinary may direct, and shall report to the said
Ordinary the names of all persons who fail or
refuse to pay said tax.
Sec. 9. And bo it further enacted by the au-
shority of tho same, That any person or per-
tons subject to road duty, who shall prefer to
work the road in person or by proxy, shall have
the right to do so, and shall work six days in tho
year on the roads in his district nnder the di
rection of the contractor for the same, whose
receipt for such labor shall be good against the
capitation tax, and be charged as eash against
the said contractor; and any person failing to
work or refusing to pay the commutation tax for
road duty shall be subject to all tho penalties
already provided by law, and Ms wages be sub
ject to garnishment by the tax collector, whose
duty it shall be to proceed by execution or garn
ishment against all defaulters by summary pro
cess as at present provided by law.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted by tho au
thority aforesaid, That the Tax Collector of
said connty shall be entitled to the same per
cent, upon the collections of said road tax as is
allowed by law for the collection of State and
connty taxes.
Sec. 11. And be it enacted by the authority
of the same, That all laws and parts of laws
militating against this law be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
The bridges in tho county are in pretty good
condition, with the exception of that across
Echeconnee Creek, on the Columbns road,
which is reported dangerous, and that across
Tobesof kee, at Mrs. Fulton's mill, needs imme
diate repair to make it what it might and should
be, a great public convenience, and we recom
mend the Ordinary to have them attended to at
once.
The attention of the Grand Jury has been
called repeatedly to the fact, that delay in prose
cution of offenders entails large expet.se npon
the connty for their maintenance, and we beg
most respectfully to call tho attention of the
Solicitor and the Coart to this evil, with a view
to its correction, if possible. That this is no
light matter is evident from the ascertained fact
that the criminal justice of the connty is costing
the tax-payArs, annually, not less than the enor-
mous sum of sixteen thousand dollars.
To Ms Honor, Judge Cole, and Solicitor
Crocker, tho Grand Jury tender thanks for
courtesies received, and ask to have these pre
sentments, with the bill, published.
Jos. CmsBV, Foreman.
R. W. CUBBEDOE, J. S. BAXTEB,
G. B. Robebts, F. L. Gboce,
Geo. Payne, E. Pbice,
letter FROM AMERICIJS.
City and Railway Improvements.
• Asiebicus, February 15, 1870.
Editor* Telegraph and Messenger— Gents:
I think that yoa would bo agreeably surprised,
could you now visit onr growing town, after an
absence of only one year, to witness the rapid
strides Americas has taken recently in the on
ward march of material reconstruction. The
business part of the town has been.wonderfully
improved by tho erection of new buildings of
brick, and by repairing and painting of old
wooden structures.
Cotton Avenue street, not long since laid waste
by fire, has had the gaps closed with substan
tial store houses, wMch are all filled with enter
prising and successful business men. Wo have
brokers, bankers, and insurance agent3 by the
score; druggists, booksellers, and commission
merchants, without number, who deal in cotton
and other merchandise. Harrold, Johnson &
Co., are now erecting a laTge two story brick
warehouse opposite their old store, on Cotton
Avenue, and also a large guano house, 2C feet
by 146, near the Railroad depot, for the storage
of fertilizers, an immense amount of which is
now being brought into all tho towns and villa
ges of Southwestern Georgia. Indeed, it is not
very pleasant now to visit certain localities, on
account of the prevailing odor wMch pervades
the whole atmosphere. Wo all breathe guano,
spit guano, and move through space filled with
dust wMch is very different from tho perfume
of “Araby the blest.” Bnt we are willing to
grin and spit, and hold our nostrils for a season,
provided onr planting friends are benefited by
onr unpleasant inhalations.
But the greatest improvement now on tho evo
of receiving a finishing touch, is the new South
western Railroad depot. Tho entire track of
this model road at this point,has been raised sev
eral feet, andnewtracks provided for the passen
ger and freight trains, and to crown the whole,
a new depot of brick 178 feet long by 40 wide, is
nearly ready for occupancy, with all tho im
provements. Four large rooms, 18 feet square
with a 10 foot passage, will be used for the of
fice of tho Agent at this place, Major W. A.
Black, and for the accommodation of pas
sengers. Attached is a large warehouse for
the reception of freights and a yard near by for
the reception and shipment of cotton on a side
track near tho rock wall of the yard.
We are all proud of the Southwestern. Rail
road and its efficient officers, from President
Holt and Superintendent Powers down to the
humblest brakeman on the train. To Col. Pow
ers the public are much indebted for his uni
form courtesy and solicitude for the pnblic in
terest ; and we do not forget how well he per
forms Ms complicated duties. His conductors,
Dasher, Cherry, Mathews, Jeter,Giles andothers,
are also models in their lino of business, and
high in favor with the traveling public.
Do, Messrs. Editors, relax a little from your
daily toil and come down and see your many
friends in tMs quarter. The senior, Mr. Ciis-
by, has long had “a name to love" in the hearts
of the people, who will be glad to shake tho hard
of one whose paper has long been a “household
word” in old Sumter.
Respectfully, yours, etc.,
L. F. W. A.
Pardoned Georgians.
The Atlanta Era publishes the following par
tial list of Georgians who are now on the “anx
ious seat” at Washington, asking tho removal
of their disabilities. We notice in the list sev
eral Radical members of the Agency, and Rad
ical speaker, McWhorter, and ono of their
bogus Senators. Why were the former not
ruled ont at tho so-called organization, as well
as certain Democrats? Will either of tho “or
gans” at Atlanta explain ?
J. R. Parrott, V. A. Ga3kill, John D. Pope,
F. A. Kirby, John W. H. Underwood, Jno. W.
O'Neal, J. H. Christy, David Irwin, Luther J.
Glenn, J. J. Thrasher, W. W. Clayton, Jno. C.
Hendrix, Geo. N. Lester, B. H. Bigham, J. J.
Morrison, Daniel Pittman, W. F. Wright, W.
P. Price, Thos. J. Speer, Benjamin Conley, A.
D. Nunnally, Chas. D. Davis, Joseph E. Brown,
John P. King, John Milledge, Ephraim Twee
dy, David G. Cotting, J. H. McWhorter, Rob’t
L. McWhorter, Isham J. Fannin, Jno. A. Wim
py, R. H. Whiteley, C. E. Broyles, Dawson A.
Walker, Wm. A. Fort, Samuel Bard, H. K.
McKay. Samuel F. Gove, W. P. Edwards, Jas.
L. Seward, J. Troupe Taylor, James Milner,
B. B. deGrnffenried, D. McArthur, H. H. Wa
ters, D. P. Hill, Rob’t H. Atkinson, Geo. W.
Speer, Thompson Allan, O. A. Lochrane, Sam
uel H. Stout, Jared I. Whitaker, L. Carrington
and George Hillyer.
Reduction op Postage.—Tho provisions of
Mr. Bingham’s bill, amendatory of tho postal
laws, may be summed up as follows :
First, to reduce the postage on letters to two
cents per half ounce and one cent for every ad
ditional half ounce or fraction thereof; second,
to impose npon newspapers and periodicals is
sued daily, weekly or monthly, or at any other
stated period, and not exceeding four ounces in
weight, one cent postage, and one cent for every
additional two ounces or fraction thereof; third,
on drop letters and unsealed circulars, one cent
postage, and one cent for every additional half
ounce or fraction thereof; fourth, to exempt
from postage all newspapers circulating in the
State or Territory where published, or witMn
one hundred miles of the place of publication;
fifth, the free transmission of exchanges between
publishers; and sixth, manuscripts intended for
publication, not exceeding two ounces in weight,
to be three cents postage, and one cent for every
additional ounce.
Dennis Daly,
W. H. Cason,
W. Massenbubo,
D. R. Rodoxbs,
W. F. Bbown,
J. DeLoachz,
W. J. McElboy,
Wm. Taylob,
E. L. Burdick,
A. P. Collins,
M. S. Thomson,
Thos. H. Hill.
Ordered by the Court, that the above present
ments be published as requested.
E. W. Ceockeb,
Solicitor General.
True extract from the minutes of the said
Court. A. B. Rosa,
Deputy Clerk.
The Prince Imperial and Ms illustrious papa
went skating yesterday on the lake in the Boh
de Boulogne. As a skatist the Emperor is not a
success. Shortly after this pastime grew to be
quite fashionable in Paris, Ms Majesty essayed
it at the Bois, and there gave Engenio her first
lessons. He himself was initiated in this conn-
trp. An old darkey (now dead) who used to
attend a bowling alley in Yesey street, which
Napoleon often frequented, taught Mm tho mys
teries of this fascinating art on the Hoboken
flats. ,
He related that Lonis was a most persevering
bnt backward pupil, and very sensitive to criti
cism. It was his habit to rise early in the
morning, swallow a enp of strong coffee, light a
cigar, and, accompanied by his dusky precep
tor, seek the most remote part of the ice field,
where, secure from observation, ho could stag
ger about on the treachdrous glace, thump his
Napoleonic head and bark his imperial shins,^
with nobody to laugh at Mm but “Old Pete. ”
How things are changed with pupil and master
since then! Poor old Pete's bones are moul
dering now in a distant land, and tho awkward
skater sits on tho throne of the “man of Lodi.”
[W. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
In a lecent trial in California, where Chinese
evidence was admissible, the proseenting attor
ney, having some doubts as to the correctness
of the testimony, inquired of the interpreter
whether a Chinaman under the usual oath would
tell the truth. Oh, no,” responded John; “Chi
namen lie, alle same as youlie; alle same as any
Melican lie!”
It is related that a funeral procession, in
passing through the town of Talladega, Ala
bama, a few days ago, stopped at the hotel to
let the mourners take a drink, and during the
detention, the horse took fright and ran away
with the hearse and tumbled the corpse into a
ditch.
The Minnesota House of Representatives
have passed a bill, by a vote of 33 to 13, for an
amendment to the State Constitution providing
for female suffrage. The bill provides that
women may vote npon the proposition, their
ballots to be received in special boxes.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad held their
annual meeting last Tuesday, and a report was
submitted showing the gross earnings for 1869
to have been $17,250,000, expenses over $12,-
000,000, leaving as net earnings $5,547,000, ex
ceeding those of 1863 by $17,314.
Atlanta Congressional Agency.
From the Atlanta Tntelltgencer.']
Wednesday, February 16,1870.
Senate—The Senate was called to order by Presi
dent Conley.
Prayer by Rev. Wesley Prettym&n.
Boll called and Journal of yesterday read and ap
proved.
Mr. Merrill—A resolution that His Excellency, tho
Governor—House concurring—be requested to draw
his warrant on the Treasurer for such sums of mo
ney as may bo due all officers, clerks, door-keepers,
messongers and employes of each House, and pay
tho same on certificates from tho officers of each
Honre.
Mr. Brnton opposed the resolution, and moved to
lay it on the table.
Mr. Harris favoied the resolution.
Message from tho Governor was bore received.
Mr. Candler opposed the resolution, stating that
as this is considered a Provisional Legislature, and
His Excellency a Provisional Governor, they have
no right to draw on the Treasury for this amount
He did hope that the Treasury should not be con
sidered Provisional.
Mr. Hungerford favored tho resolution, stating
that each Senator had drawn his per diem,and it was
nothing but justice to pay these employes.
Mr. Dunning stated that there was one exception
—he had drawn no pay.
Mr. Hungerford replied: “ You don’t need it, as
you are now receiving Jour thousand from another
source.”
Mr. Hinton offered a substitute that tho Governor
be authorized to draw his warrant on tho Treasurer
for such sums as may be due the Secretary, assist
ant Secretary, Doorkeeper, Messenger and other
constitutional clerks. Substitute lost.
The yeas and nays being called on tho original
(Merrill’s) the vote stood, yeas 29, nays 8.
Mr. Nunnally moved a reconsideration, whereup
on a spirited debate was inaugurated and participa
ted in by Messrs. Nunnally, Merriii, Hungerford,
Candler, Bruton, Dunning and Brock.
Mr. Pain moved to lay the motion on tho table,
but withdrew it at tho request of Mr. Nunnally.
Yeas and nays being called on the motion to re
consider, the vote stood, yeas 23; nays 7—so the
motion was lost.
Message from the House, stating the House was
ready to receive the Senate, for the purpose of con
solidating the vote for United States Senators.
On motion of Mr. Candler, the message of the
Governor was read.
Mr. Broel-—.4 resolution that all proceedings in the
several co.ta of this State, founded on any debt or
contract made or entered into before the 1st of June,
1865, and all levies and sales by virtue of any exe
cutions so founded, shall be and the same are here
by stayed until twenty days after the recess taken
by tbis General Assembly shall have expired.
Resolved, further, That the General Aesembly, in
compliance with the first demands of the people,
earnestly appeal to Major General A. H. Teriy to
sanction and enforce the above resolution, after its
approval by the Provisional Governor.
The hour of 1 o’clock having arrived, the Senate
adjourned until 10 o’clock to-morrow morning, Mr.
Hinton having the floor.
House—At 11}£ o’clock, a. h., the House was
called to order, Speaker McWhorter in the Chair.
Player by Rev. Mr. Smith.
The roll call was omitted.
The Clerk read the journal of the House.
Mr. Biyant presented a protest, for himself and
others, against tho election of United States Sen-
atom.
The protest was read by the C 'erk. It recited tho
election of Messrs. Hill and Miller, and other facts.
It was recorded.
The protest of Mr. Scott, presented yesterday,
was read by tho Clerk.
Mr. Darnell moved to lay Mr. Scott’s protest on
the tabic. Carried.
The following message fioi l the Governor was
read:
Atlanta, Ja., Feb. 16,1870.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Provisional Legislature :
Some misapprehension having arisen as to the ef
fect of the act of Congress of December 23d, 1869,
upon the ordinary Legislative acts of the Legisla
ture of 1868-9,1 deem ft proper to say that, in my
judgment, the act of Congress referred to does not
render invalid any of tho ordinary laws passed by
those bodies.
The reconstruction acts of March 3d, 1867, and
July 17, 1867, in express terms, declared that “ no
legal State Governments” existed in the States
therein named; yet, the ordinances of the Conven
tion of 1865 and the acts of the Legislatures of
1865 and 1865 and 1S6G have been uniformly by the
military authorities and by our own courts held
legal and binding. The “Scaling Ordinance”
of the Convention of 1863—the “evidence law”
of 1866, both acts of immense importance, and
were during the whole administration of Gen
eral Pope and General Meade, enforced by the
courts as valid and binding laws, yet4heae acts were
passed by bodies which Congress declared to be
legislatures of no “ legal State Governments.”
. General Popo and General Meade were put in
command in this State to enforce “the laws—the
courts of Georgia sitting under the administration
of the military authorities of the United States
never for a moment seem to have thought that the
acts of the Legislatures of 1S65 and 1866 were not
laws; and yet Congress had in express terms de
clared that “no legal State government existed in
he State.”
It would seem from this action that the declaration
of Congress “that no legal State governments ex
ist in the late rebel States,” must bo understood
in a qualified sense, to-wit: No legal State compe
tent to take pait in the government of the Union
and proper to be recognized as State Governments
under the Constitution ot the United States.
It was not the intent of Congress by any of its re
construction legislation to render invalid any of the
laws parsed by the Legislatures it subsequently de
clared illegal, except so far as those laws were ob
noxious to the Constitution and laws of the United
States.
It is true, it has not been the policy to permit the
legislative assemblies, as such, to convene and leg
islate, except for specific purposes during the mili
tary regime, but the whole practice of the govern
ment has been to recognize as valid laws actually
passed and not repudiated by the United States.
The simple fact that, from March, 1867 to July,
1868, the courts of this State, during the adminis
tration of Generals Popo and Meade, and before the
Convention of 1868, had ratified those laws, admin
istered without question the ordinances of the Con
vention of 1865, and the acts of the legislatures of
1865, and 1866, is a judicial determination of the
highest tribunals known to our law, that the ordina
ry laws of said bodies were valid and binding as tbe
acts of a legislature de facto, however illegal the
bodies might themselves have been as “State Legis
latures” in view of the reconstruction acts.
Durmg the existence of the military supervision
meetings of legislative bodies,except for specific pur
poses, have been deemed incompatible with tho ac
tual stato of affairs; but in all tho States laws
passed by bodies meeting as such, when the military
power was in fact witndrawn, have been uniformly
recognized and acted upon as valid and binding.
It is therefore. I think, apparent, from the uni
form action of the courts and of the United States
anthorities, that the laws of the Legislature of
1868 and 1869, and its acts which were not of politi
cal character, are perfectly valid, notwithstanding
the United States, by the act of December 22d,
1869, has in effect declared that “no legal State
Government existed in this State” at that time, and
that the impression which is sought to be created—
that contracts are invalidated, that State Bonds are
repudiated, and that corporations organized upon
the basis of late legislation are without legal founda
tion—is entirely groundless, and such impression is
only created for the purpose of misleading the pub
lic mind and defeating the full effect and true in
tent and purpose of the reconstruction acts. Argu
ment upon this point seems to bo superfluous in
tho face of the material fact that our bonds are
saleable at a higher rate than those of any other
Southern State, and that tho bonds of railroads
which have been endorsed under the authority of
legislation of 1868 are selling at their full value.
It has been suggested to me from various quar
ters, that it would be wise for your body to take
some action for the temporary relief of the people
from the present pressure, for the payment of the
war debts, contracted beforel865, now made doubly
burdensome by theJato decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States, that those contracted
before 1862 are payable in gold.
As, however, in my judgment, until your action to
completo the reconstruction of the State is accepted
by Congress it is not proper for you to undertake
general legislation. I would respectfully suggest
that you adopt some resolution expressive of the
wishes of the General Aesembly on this subject with
the hope that the General commanding may, by his
order, cause the same to be enforced.
When the last Btep in this reconstruction work
shall have been taken by tho declaration of the re
sult of the Senatorial election, I would respectfully
recommend that a recess be taken for such a time
as may to you seem best, pending the action of
Congress for onr admission.
Respectfully,
Rurus B. Bullock,
Provisional Governor
On motion of Mr. Darnell, the Senate was notified
that tho House was ready to unite with that body
in consolidating the Senatorial vote. Carried.
Mr. Scott offered a resolution, that the Governor
be requested to issue writs of election to fill va
cancies in snch counties as are not now repre
sented.
Just at this moment the Senators, headed by Pres
ident Conley, marched into tho hall and seated
themselves.
The Secretary of the Senate read tbe returns of
the elections in the Senate yesterday.
The return of the House of Representatives were
read by tbe Clerk.
President Conley then declared Messrs. Blodgett,
Farrow and Whitely tbe duly elected United 8tates
Senators, they having received a majority of all the
votes cast.
Senator Speer moved that the Senators repair to
their chamber. Carried.
Mr. Scott advocated the adoption of bis resolution.
There were twenty counties unrepresented, and no
reason existed why the vacancies should not be filled.
Pnblic welfare and the best interests of the State re
quired tbe passage of this resolution.
Mr. O'Neal, of Lowndes, replied to Mr. Scott. He
referred to a vacant Beat near him, made vacant by
violence—the peace of the dominant party. He was
opposed to that peace. This was not the proper time
for an election. He moved to lay Scott’s resolution
on the table. Yeas 38, nays 48. Besolntion laid
npon the tahls.
Mr. Darnell, of Pickens, rose to a question of priv
ilege. He desired to reoord his vote in the
tiye on -the resolutions previously adopted by the
House ratifying the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments. Vote recorded.
Mr. Bethuno offered a resolution recommending
the military commander to issue an order, opera
ting as a stay law in reference to old debts, prior to
June, 1865.
Mr. O’Neal offered a substitute, staying all pro
ceedings in courts relating to old debts, until twenty
days after the recess of the Legislature shall have
expired, and calling npon Gen. Terry to sanction the
resolution.
Mr. Bryant objected. This was not a Provisional
Government. Governor Bullock had on several oc
casions drawn largo sums of money as Governor of
Georgia, not as Provisional Governor. We had no
more right to appeal to General Terry than to the
Tycoon of Japan! General Terry had nothing to do
with the Legislature. Congress had taken'tlie po
sition that we had a permanent government. The
Governor had also taken the position in his mes
sage of 1868. Ho now contradicted it in order to
secure the success of certain devilish schemes!
Mr. Harper, of Terrell, also opposed it. no didn’t
want any such relief for his county. It might do for
Lowndes, but not for TorreU. The honest people
of Georgia did not want it. Mr. O'Neal might bo
able to lead some of tho colored members off. He
moved to lay the resolutions on thrf table. Lost.
A message from the Senate announced that a res
olution bad been passed requesting tho Govemorto
draw a warrant on the Treasurer for the payment of
the sums due the officers and members of the Leg
islature.
Debate resumed on the relief resolutions.
Mr. Rico opposed further relief; tbe people had
had enough of it. It would injoro the business in
terests of the State.
Mr. Betlmno advocated relief. The Supreme
Court of the State had rained relief. Hundreds of
suits on these old debts were pending in justices’
courts. He never knew a justice’s court to grant
relief. They always gave judgment for the full
amount. These old debts were created when the
people wore rich. Their property had been de
stroyed by tho war and they needed relief They
had a right to it, and it was jnst.
Mr. Lane, of Brooks, believed that the State
Government was merely provisional.
On motion of Mr. Madden, the House adjourned
until 10 o’clock to-morrow morning.
Tuesday, February 17, 1870.
Senate.—Tho Senate was called to order by
President Conley.
The Journal of tho IGthinst. was read. On
motion of
Mr. Harris, tho rnle relative to the hour of
adjournment was suspended.
The Chair announced as the Committee on
Enrollment, Higbee, Welch, Welltom, Speer,
Fain, Wallace, (colored,) Dickey.
The unfinished bnsiness being the considera
tion of Mr. Brock’s resolution, was resumed.
Mr. Hinton being entitled to the floor, of.
fered the following os a substitute in a few
pointed and pungent remarks:
Whereas, The people of Georgia have re.
cently emerged from a fierce and devastating
war, tho consequences of which have fallen
heavily npon all the citizens of said State, re
ducing many from a state of wealth and ease to
a condition of pennry and want; its hardships,
in a pecuniary sense, none have escaped: and,
Whereas, As the results of the war much of
tho property upon the faith of which credit
was extended, has been destroyed, and even
the pittance left vastly deteriorated in value;
and
Whereas, The enforcement of the payment of
the indebtedness of the people, at this early pe
riod after the close of the war, would work a
greet sacrifice to many and ntter ruin to others;
and
Whereas, These calamities have befallen the
people withont any purpose on their parts to
avoid the payment of their indebtedness; and
Whereas, It is believed that a law constitu
tional in its provisions w ill be passed before the
adjournment of the General Assembly, which
will afford great and substantial relief to the citi
zens of Georgia; and
Whereas, Wo recognize no moral or legal dis
tinction between contracts entered into before
and since the war, except the former are sub
ject to be adjusted according to equity, as pro
vided by the ordinance of 1865, and more re
cently by an act of the Legislature, entitled an
act, “For the relief of debtors and for the ad
justment of debts, upon the principles of equi
ty,” and such further action as may be had in
relation to the same;
And, whereas, we regard the amount found to
bs duo by a debtor before, daring and since the
war, when ascertained by tbe laws of force made
and provided for the adjudication of the same,
as binding both in morals and in law, as con
tracts made since the close of the same.
To the end, therefore, that ono class of cred
itors shall not have an undue advantage over
another class; bait
Resolved, That no ministerial officer of this
State shall execute any judgment or decree ema
nating from any court of this State, founded
npon contracts made either before, during or
since the war, u^iil after the expiration of the
centralt luted recess of the Legislature, and for
twenty days after the reassembling of the same.
Resolved, That no court of this State shall
hear and determine any matter of contracts for
the payment of money before, during or since
the war, until the expiration of the time afore
said.
Resolved, that nothing in the foregoing reso
lution shall be so construed as to interfere with
the collection of claims for services rendered—
since Jane, 1S65, and provided that attachments
may issne whenever a defendant places himself
in any one of the positions authorizing the
same.
Mr. Nunnally said that neither resolution
suited him, and he offered a resolution as a sub
stitute for both.
The resolution was in effect, to stay all exe
cutions and judgments founded on contracts
entered into prior to June, 1865.
Mr. Harris opposed tho substitutes, and fa
vored tho resolution of Mr. Brock. He moved
the previous question, when
Mr. Wellborn roso to a point of order.
Mr. Wellborn contended that neither the res
olution nor the substitutes could be acted on, as
the President bad ruled that the Senate, not
having been recognized by the proper anthori
ties, could not legislate.
The President decided the point not well
taken, thus reversing his former decision.
Mr. Hungerford appealed from the decision
of the Chair.
Mr. Wellborn proceeded to address the Senate
on the appeal, sustaining his point of order by
extracts from the Governor’s message and the
President’s ruling, when
The President decided him ont of order; stat
ing that the question of order must be decided
at once without debate.
Mr. Hungerford raised the point of order that
it was out of order for a member to approach
the President and influence him to change his
position.
The President denied the “soft impeach
ment.” '
Aaron Alpeoria sustained the Chair in tho
decision.
The decision of the Chair was sustained.
The vote then occurred on Mr. Nunnally’s
substitute, and tho substitute was lost.
The vote was then taken on Mr. Hinton’s res
olution, and the resolution voted down, by yeas
8, nays 25.
Mr. Brock’s resolution was then pnt upon its
passage, and adopted by the following vote:
Yeas—Bowers, Bradley, (o) Brock, Bruton,
Campbell, (o) Colman, Corbitt, Crayton, (c)
Dickey, Dunning, Griffin, (6tii,) Harris, Hen
derson, Jonea, Jordan, MerreU, McWhorter,
Nunnally. Sherman, Speer, Traywick, Wallace,
Welch, Mathews, Smith, (36th)—25.
Nays—Burns, Canfito, Fain, Hicks, Hinton,
Holcombe, Hungerford, McArthur, Richardson,
Smith, (7th) Stringer, Wellborn—12.
Mr. Smith, of the 7th, gavs notice that he
would move a reconsideration of the resolution
jnst adopted.
Mr. Speer moved to reconsider the resolution
and. to lay the motion to reconsider on tbe ta
ble. Tabled.
T. G. Campbell, (coL) offered a resolution,
that all the proceedings in the courts of this
State, both civil and criminal, he suspended un
til the courts are re-organized and civil law re
established, and that Gov. Bullock be requested
to ask Gen. Terry to give his resolution the
force and effect of law.
The President thought it was the lame subject
matter as the last resolution.
Campbell proceed to ventilate us spleen
against courts and juries.
Mr. Nnnnally thought that the reaontion
might be construed into legalizing tbe Ku-hi nX)
and therefore moved to table it.
The vote laying the resolution on the table
was as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Bowers, Candler, Oorbilt,Fain,
Dunning, Griffin, (6th) Hams, Hinton, Hol
combe, Jordan, McArthur, McWhorter, Mat
thews, Nnnnally, Richardson, Sherman, Smith,
(7th) Smith, (36th) Speer, Stringer, Wellborn,
Welch and Traywiok—23. ; • •
Nays—Messrs. Campbell, (ool-) Bradley,(coL)
Crayton, (coL) Dickey, Hungerford, Jones,
Merrell and Wallace, (ool.)—8.
Mr. Merrell explained that he voted against
laying the resolution on the table, because it cat
him off from debating it.
Ifr. Barns explained that he did not vote,
because he did not folly understand the resolu
tion, bnt would now vote to lay it on the table.
Mr. Bowers gave as a reason for voting to
table it, that it would place Georgia i n
worse condition than she is now in 4 VI
Mr. Jones voted for tho resolution beo,* I
wanted the courts stopped.
Mr. Harris offered a resolution that th« nl
eral Assembly take a recess for sixty d&v. H
reassemble on the 18th of April, subject
called together by the proclamation of th, r' l
ernor at an earlier date, and that the ni^y i
officers and constitutional clerks draw
during tho recess, except mileage. ° I
Mr. Smith (3Gth) move to strike out « 1
mileage.” Motion lost. "
Mr. Traywick moved to strike out “go J
and ISth of April,” and insert “Monday , I
21st instant,” which motion did not prevail
Mr. Nunnally offered an amendment c*'
upon the Governor to order elections to fin '
cancies, and that the Legislature adjourn -'j
first Wednesday in July. j
Mr. Candler offered an amendment, c' I
was accepted by Mr. Nunnally, recital
deaths of Joseph Adkins and B. R. UcCcn.il
Lost
Mr. Nonnolly moved to strike out “i»a
April,” and insert “sine die" Lost. “
Mr. Merrell moved to insert that “memi,
officers and constitutional clerks receive*
per diem for ten days, but no mileage.” l
Mr. Harris’ resolution was then adoiaLyf
yeas 16, nays 12, and orderded transmit
the House.
Motion to adjourn until 4 o’clock this e TC
was voted down, and 3 o’clock adopted y
Senate will meet at 3’p. u. r ‘
House.—At 10 o’clock a. si., the House
called to order by Speaker McWhorter. ’j
Journal of yesterday read and approves i
Mr. Scott gavo notice of a motion to reJ
sider the action of the House yesterdavhi*'
ing upon the table bis protest and his v^.., “
to fill vacancies existing in the tepttteSSZ
certain counties. ' r ‘ la
Mr. Scott’s motion to reconsider hi 3 nr
was laid on the table. ™
The motion to reconsider tho resolution
reference to filling vacancies was roled cci 1
order.
Debate resumed on O’Neal’s i
Mr. Lane, of Brooks, had the floor.'
At his request the original resolution of
Bethnne was read; also, the substitute oife
by O’Neal.
Mr. Lano advocated the substitute, as it,.,
couched in stronger verbiage than the rj:
tion of Bethnne.
Previous question was here called, and
ried.
On the main question, the yeas and navs
called. Yeas 71; nays 48,
Resolution adopted.
O’Neal, of Lowndes, moved to take
Senate resolution, providing pay for ”
clerks, door-keepers, messengers, etc.
“Resolved, by the General Assembly
House of Representatives concurring the
that the Governor be required to draw hii
rant on tho Treasury, in favor of the o£_
clerks, door-keepers, messengers, and
employes of the respective Houses, for s
sum of money as may be dae to each, upo;
certificate of the Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives,
that such amount be charged in final
ment.”
Mr. Scott, of Floyd, obtained the floor,
was proceeding to oppose the resolution,
Mr. Fitzpatrick, of Bibb, asked to mater
mark.
Mr. H&rper, of Terrell, sotto voce, said,
him say, and be said that Mr. Seott need
make a long speech, as they (the Radicals;
tended to vote it—meaning the resolmio:
down.
Mr. Scott feared “the Greeks bringing
sents,” and seeing O'Neal eager for the
declined to stop, but continued his ren
Who were the clerks? Was it the long liti
retainers who bad been hovering around
Egyptian flesh pots from the infamous inai
ation of the plunder scheme nnder bass
Harris, through its mysterious ramifi:
down to the present non-descript and anoi
position of retainers. Registers in banirn;
roll-callers, lobbyists and the countless
used in the Bullock and Blodgett mschint
in all tho sessions, recesses, interims^ e'.<
was indefinite, uncertain, illegal, unoensi!
tional as originating in the Senate, whentli
an appropriation of money can originate h
House—in a word, an unblushing avenue of ::|
rnption. He moved to lay the resolution os
table. Motion lost
O'Neal, of Lowndes, obtained the floor. :j
was not an appropiiation of money. It'
only directing the mode and manner vi
funds, already appropriated, should be dr.
out of the Treasury. [When was the apptoji
tion made ?”
He thought Democrats opposed this
because stipendiaries were Radioils. Be]
cans should vote for it in self-defence,
the Cletks were Radicals. [Canning O’Ni
Mr. AndersoD, of Cobb, took a sensible
just view of the matter. The politics of
stipendiaries bad nothing to do with the p>;
persons entitled to it In the main, he fa'
the proposition. It was, however, too ii
nite—an omnibus bill that opened too wide
doors of fraud. $
A message from the Senate announced.
Mr. Anderson continued. He wanted
payees” defined. He asked to have
amendment of Mr. Hamilton, of Scrivev,
Mr. Ham'lton’s amendment proposed toed
ont “employes.”
Mr. Shumate offered an amendment to
to insert, after “Clerks,” the words “ami
izedbytho Code.”
He called the previous question on the
ments.
Member from Chatham moved to lav
amendment of Mr. Hamilton on the table,
ried.
A division was called, which stood 53 is !|
vor, to 52 against
The yeas and nays were called.
Yeas 56, nays 62.
So the motion to lay on the table was lor.
The previous question was then put os
tmi ndments, and carried.
Upon the adoption of the amendmest
motion was carried.
Yeas and nays called for—not sustained.
Amendment ordered to be transmitted to
Senate.
The resolution from the Senate abont id
concurred in.
Mr. Scott offered a resolution that noff
ber or officer draw any pay during the reces
Motion to take np this resolution lost. H
required a three-fourth vote yeas and nays**
not called.
Mr. , offered a resolution tbit I
be paid to Rev. O. W. Francis for service
Chaplain in organizing the House. Sob* :
jectea to it, bnt
Mr. Anderson thought he earned it; hsU
hard subject for successful prayer npon ri-
to operate.
Mr. Franks, of Bibb, offered a resolution
the messenger be authorized to employ &
pages, at the price of $1 per day.
He moved to take it up. Carried.
Mr. Williams, of Morgan, offered a substitn
Mr. Franks thought his motion had b
adopted by the Speaker. [Laughter.]
Mr. Wi lianas withdrew his substitute.
Mr. Turner, of Bibb, offered an amend®
8<rikiog out $1 and inserting $2. He tho:
l oya could eat as much as men, He de:.
‘■boy eoonomy”—while reckless extrava.
reigned in every other department.
Harris, (colored) of HanSock, favored
ner’s amendment. “It ar little nuff—tree
two am six. Dat am little nnff.”
He called tbe previous question on the
ment. Carried.
The original resolution was then adopts
amended.
A resolntion authorizing the Speaker to
pages was carried.
Resolution from the Senate asking the
currence of the House, and providing for*
cess of sixty days, daring whioh no pay d*
be drawn except for mileage, was concund
House then adjourned till 3 o’clock p. £
[McDougald was not in the city yesie
when the vote was taken on the resolad*
questing the Governor to order election* ^
vacancies. Harper, of Terrell, Anderson. ' 1
the other gentlemen declining to vote, ^
decline because it was on a motion to tab
which required a three-fourths vote, and
thought It useless to attempt it]
BELIEF BEBOLUTION.
The following message was received fW
“mate through Mr. Mills, their Secret*!?;
Weaker: The Senate has adopt**
following resolution, in which they ask tb*
cwenoece ^ House:
Resolved, v T the General Assembly,
proceedings in a, several of this s* 1
fouided on any debt. _ «ontract, mad* <*
tore! into prior to June t, 1865, and *B “
Slid sales by virtue of any execution so U
Mali be, and are hereby, stayed until 1
dty* after the recess taken by tbis Genei*
ssnbly shall have expired.
tteaplved, That the General Assembly
cempmnoe with the inst demands of tb*
earnestly appeal to Msj. G*n. Terry to ».
andentoru the above resdntian after fi*
prsvalbyth Prorisioual Governor.
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