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bet. DB. TALMAGK. T gg BROOKLYN DIVINES SDN DAY STORM ON. Subject: “Siege of Lucknow.’* Txxr • “When thou shalt Nssiege a city a tone lim* in making war against it to t ke jt thou shalt not destroy the tr ess th*r *o‘ by forcing an ax against them.”—Deuterono¬ my* xx., 19* The aw r nlest thing In war Is besiegement. jot to the work of deadly weapons it adds kumrer and starvation and plague. Besingp ment is sometimes necessary, but my text oommaniis mercy even ill that. The fru.t trees must be spared because they afford lood for man. “Tbou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them.” But in my recent journey round the worldl found at Lucknow. India.theremains of the most merciless besiegement of the ages, and I proceed to tell yoB that story for four great reasons—to Show you what a dor rid thing war is and to make you all advo¬ cates for pence, to show you what genuine Christian character is under bombar imenr, to put a coronation on Christian courage, and to show you how splendidly good people die. glided into the dimly lighted As our train station I asked the guard, “Is this Luck¬ now?” and he answered, “Lucknow,” at the pronunciation of which tfirough propar name strong emotions rushed body, mind ami soul. of suffering, of The word is a synonym cruelty, of heroism, of horror such as is sug¬ gested by hardly any other word. We have for thiriy-flve years been reading of the agonies there endured and the daring deeds there witnessed. It was my great desire to have some transacted one who. in Lucknow had witnessed, in 1857 the scenes con¬ duct u* over the place. We found just the n>an. He was a young soldier at tne time the greatest mutiny of the ages, broke out, and he was put with others inside the residency, whioh was a cluster of buildings making a iortress in which the representa¬ tives oi the English Govercment lived and which was to be the scene of an endurance and a bombardment the story of whioh. poetry and painting and history and secular and sacred eloquence have been trying to de¬ pict. Our escort not only had a good memory of what had happened, but had talent enough to rehears* the tragedy. India In the early part of 1857 all over the natives were ready to break out in reoelliou against ail foreigners and representatives especially against the the civil nnd military of English Government. A half dozen causes are mentioned for the feeling of discontent and insurrection that was pvineed throughout India. Tu* most of these causes were mere pretexts. Greased cartridges were no doubt an exasperation. The grease ordered by the English Govern¬ ment to be used on these cartridges was taken from con's or pigs, and bite grease to the Hindoos is unclean, and to th<-se car¬ tridges at the loading ot the guns would be an offense to the Hindoo religion. The leaders of the Hindoos said that these greased cartridges was only part of an at¬ tempt by the English Government to mane the natives give up their religion ; hence, un¬ bounded indignation was aroused. Another cause of the mutiny was that an¬ other large province of India had been an¬ nexed to the British empire, and thousands of officials fn the employ-ot the King of that province were thrown out of position, and they were all ready for trouble making. Anothercause was said to be the bad gov¬ ernment exercised by some English officials in India. The simple fact was that the natives of In¬ dia were a conquered race, For and 100 the English were the conquerors. years the British scepter had been waved over India, and the Indians wanted to oreak that scep¬ ter. There never had been any love or sym¬ pathy between the natives of India and tne Europeans. There is none now. Be,ore the time of the great mutiny the Enfdish Hands Government risked much power in the or the natives. Too many of th*m manned the forts. Too many of them were In the Governmental employ. And now tha time had come for a wide outbreak. The natives had persuaded thamseivas that they cob Id send the English Government flying, and to accomplish it dagger und sword and firearms and mutilation and slaughter must do their worst. It was evident in Lucknow that the na¬ tives were about to rise and put to death all tbe Europeans they could lay their hands on, and into tbe residency the Christian pop¬ ulation of Lucknow hastened for d*ienss from the tigers in human form waich were growling for their victims The occupants of the residency, or fort, were—military and non-combatants, men. women and children —in number about 1692. I suggest in one sentence some ot tbe chief woes to which they were subjected when I say that these people were in the residency five months without a single change of elothing, some ot th* time th* heat at 120 and 130 degrees , the place black with files and all a-squirm with vermin , 'firing ot the enemy upon them ceasing neither day nor night; the hospital crowded With the dying, smallpox, senrvy, cholera, adding their work to tnat of shot and shell; women brought up in all comfort and never having known want, crowded and sacri¬ ficed in a cellar where nine children were born ; less and less food , no water ex¬ cept that which was brought from a well under tbe enemy's fire, so that the water ob¬ tained was at the price of blood , th* stench of the dead horsee added to the effluvia ot corpses, and all waiting for the moment Hindoo when the army of 60,000 shrieking devils sboald break in upon tbe garrison of the residency, now reduced by wounds and sickness and death to 976 men, women and children. "Call me early,” I said, “to-morrow morn¬ ing, And let ns beat tbe residency beiorethe ton becomes too hot.” At 7 o'clock in the morning we left our hotel in Lucknow, end I said to onr obliging, gentlemanly escort, “Please take us along tbe road by which Havelock and Outrun came to the relief of toe There residency.” solemn That was stillness the way we went. a as we sp¬ Broached the gate ot the residency. Bit tered and tom is the -masonry of the en¬ trance. Signature ot and shot and punctuation and •f cannon ball all np down every “Hern to the left,” said our escort, “are tosremains of a building toe flr« floor of which in other days had been used as a ban¬ queting hall, drat then was used as a hos¬ pital. At this part the amputations took p lac e , sad all such patients died. Tbe heat was so gnat and the food so insufficient that the poor fellows could not recover from toe loss ot blood. They all died. Ampu aetoetics performed witnout exhausted. chloro.orm. A were toot in other climate* and an der cm would hare come to mtfyeonva here proved fatal. Yon Dr. Fayrer's boose, who whs sur¬ geon of toe piece and is now Qaeen Victor¬ ia’* - odor. This upper room was the offi¬ cers' room, and there Sir Henry Lawrence, eor dear commander, we* wounded. While he eat there a shell struck tbe room, apd f suggested that he be had better the room, but smiled end said, never strikes twice in the ’ Hardly had he said this r shell tore off his thigh, and he dying into Dr. Fayrer's aide of the road. Sir Henry had been in poor health for a the mutiny. He had^H service for yean, and he had to recover Us health. na far 7 him to lor he Be to th* of filled to. and sugar and charcoal and fodder for the oxen and hav for the bones. But now, at the time wh«n all the people were looking to him foe wisdom ani courage, Sir Henry is dying.” Our escort describes the scene. oniqu“, tender, beautiful and overpowering, ani while I stood on the very spot where the sighs and groans of the besieged an l lacera¬ ted and broken hearted met the whiz o’ bul¬ lets, and the demoniac hiss of burst ing s *11, and the roar of batteries, my escort gave me the particulars. “As soon as Sir Henry was told that he had not many hours no live he nsked the chap'ain to administer to him the holy com¬ munion. He felt particularly anxious for the safety of the wom*n in the residency, who, at any moment, might be subjected to the savages who howled around the resi¬ dency, their breaking in only a matter of time unless re-enforcement s.ioulrt com*. H« would frequ-ntly say to those who sur¬ rounded his death couch ‘Sava the ladies. God helo the poor women and chil¬ dren P He gave d reetions for the desperate defease of the place. He asked forgiveness of all those whom he might unintentionally have neglected or off-n led. He left a mes¬ sage for all his friends. He forgot not to give directions for the care ‘of his favorite horse. He charged his officers, saying: ‘Bv no means surrender, Make no treaty or compromise fighting.’ with the desperadoes, D:e Hetook charge of the asylum he had established for the children of soldiers. He gay* directions for his burial, say¬ ing- ’No nonsense, no fuss. Let me be buried with the men.’ He dictated his own epitaph, which I read above his tomb • ‘H*re lies Henry Lawrence, wno tried to do his duty. Miy the Lord have meroy on his soul.’ He said ■ ‘I would like to have a passage of Scripture added to the words on my grave, such as. “To the Lor I our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, {hough we have rebelled against Him.” Isn’t it from Daniel?’ So as brave a man as England or India ever saw expired. The soldiers lifted the cover Irom his face and’kissed him before they carried him onr. The chaplain offered a prayer. Tnen they removed the great hero amid the rat¬ tling hail of the guns and put him dovm among other soldiers buried at the same time." All of which I state for the benefit of those who would have us believe that the Christian religion is fit only for women in tne eighties and children under seveD. There was glory enough in that departure to halo Christendom. “There,” said our escort, “Bob the Nailer did the work.” “Wno wis Bob the Nailer?” “Oh, he was the A riean who sat at that point, and waen any one of our men ventured across the road he would drop him by a rifle ball. Bob was a sure marks man. Tae only way to get across the road for water from the well was to wait until his gun flashed and then instantly cross before he nad time to load. The only way wo could get rid of him was by digging a mine under the house w sera he was hidden. When the house was blown up, Bab the Nailer went with it.” I sai I to him, "Had you male up your min Is what you and the other sufferers would do in the fiends actually brose in?” “Ox, yes P’said my escort, “We had it all planned, for tne probability wa3 every hour for nearly five months that they would break in. You must remember it was 1603 against 60,000. and lor the latter part of the time it was 903 against 60,003, and the residency and tue eartnworks around It xyere not put up for suen an attack. It was jjnly from the mercy of God that we were net massacred soon after the besiegement; We were re¬ solved not to allow ourselves to get into the hands of tnose desperadoes. You must re¬ member that we and all the women had heard of the butojery at Cawnpur, unable and we knew what defeat meant. If to hold out any longer we would have blown our¬ selves up and all gone out of life together.” “Show nxp,” I said, “the staid rooms during wnere those the women and children - aw ul months.” Then wo crossed over and w*nt down into the cellar of the residency. With a suu lder of horror indescribable I en terad tne cellars where 622 women nnd chil¬ dren had been crowded until the whole floor was full. I know the exact number, lor I counted their names on the rod. As one of the ladles wrote in her diary—speaking of women she said, “They lay upon the floor fitting into eacx other like bits in a puzzle.” nusbands Wives the had promise obtained that from the their hus¬ bands would shoot them rather than let them fall Into the hands of these desper-. adoes. The women within the residency were kept on the smallest allowance that would maintain life. No opportunity of privacy. The death angel and tne birth angel touched wings in as full they possession passed. of Flies, the mosquitoes, vermin place, and these women in momentary ex¬ pectation that the enraged savages would rush upon them, in a violence of which clu > and sword ana torch and throat cu.ting would be the milder forms. Our escort told us again and again of the bravery of these women. They did nor de¬ They encouraged wounded the soldiery. They waited on the and dying In the They gave up their stockings tor holders of the their grapashot. children They died. solaced Waen other when husband or iathe; - fell, such prayers or were offered as onlv worn -a cxn They endured without complaint. prepared their own children for burial. were inspired for the men who stood their posts fighting till they dropped. Our escort told us that again and again bad com* that Havelock and Outran w-re on the why to letch these besieged out of their wretchedne*. They had a letter fr<*n Havelock rolled up in quill fjbd carried ®in the mouth of a dis¬ messenger, a letter telling them that be was on the war, but the Hex: news was Havelock had been compellai to r— It was constant vacillation between hope and despair. But on* day they heard guns of relief sounding nearer and nearer. Yet all the houses of Lucknow were filled with armed miscreants, and every step of Havelock and his army was contested—firing iron housetops, firing frojn windows, firing from doorways. 1 asked onr friend If he thought that the world famous storv of a Scotch lass In her delirium hearing the Scotch bagpipes ad¬ vancing with the Scotch regiment was a true story. He said be did not know but that it was true. Without this man’s telling me I knew from my own observation that de¬ lirium sometimes quickens some of tbs fac¬ ulties, and I rather think the ScoSeh lass in her delirium was the first to hear the bag¬ pipes. 1 decline to believe that claw of people who would like to kill all (he poetry of the world and banish all the fine sen timent. They tell us that Whit ptiem snoot Barbara Freitchie was founded on a delusion, and that Longfellow’s poems immortalized things that never oc¬ curred. The Scotch lass did hear the slo¬ gan. I almost heard it myself as I stood In¬ side th# residency while my escort told of ibe coming of the Seventy-eighth Highland Regiment. “Were you present when Havelock came 1 b 7” I a*keel, for I could suppress tha ques¬ tion no longer. His answer came <1 wa * got at tbe moment present, but with some other yoang fellow* highUal I saw pipws sol¬ diers dancing while two played, and I said, ‘What ia alt this excite¬ ment?' Then we enme np and saw that Havelock was In, and Oat ram was in, and the regiments were pouring in." “Show us where they cam* In, I ex¬ claimed, for I knew that tney d-d not enter through the gate of the residency, that be¬ ing banked np inside to keep the murderers out. “Here it is,” answered my «*«>«. “Hers it is—the embrasure through which ^wJ’wntoed np to bricks Use spot. dozen It is now* yards broken down pile of a from tbe gate. Long grass now, bnt tnen a Wood nattered, bullet seucterel opening in to* although the As we stood there, m come too grandly “What then happened 7 * I said to my cort. Toe “Oh,” he saM, removed “that is from impossible the to tell. *arth Was gate, and soon all the army oi relief entered, and some of us laaghei, and some cried, and some prayed, sad some danced. Highlan¬ der* so dost covered and enough blood and wounds on their faces to make them un¬ recognizable shatcbed the babes out of their mothers' arms and kissed them ant passed the babies along for <*har sol¬ diers to kis-, and the wounded m-a crawled out of the bospitnt jubilee to join in the cheering, and it was wild until, of the drst excitement passed, the story how many ot the advancing army had b“en slain on the way began 1o hare tearful effect, and the story of euffefing that bal been endured inside the fort, and the an¬ nouncement to, chiliren that they w*ro latheries*, ani to Wires that they w re widows, bu >me#ge.l the shouts of joy with wailing of agony. “But were you Hot embarrassed by the ar¬ rival of Haveloci and 140b men who broug it no ’ood with them?” He answered : “Of course we were put on smaller rations im¬ mediately in order that they might share with u«, bur we knew that tlx* coming o' his re-enforcement would help us to hold the place until turther relief should come. H id not this first relief arrive i as it did in a day or two at most and perhaps in any hour the besiegers would have broken in, and our end woul t have come. The Sepoys had dug six mines un ier the residency and would soon hav* exploded all.” After we had obtained a few bullets that had the been picks i out of the wall, around and the a pi*cs elo¬ of bombshell, we walke 1 quent ruins and put cur hands Into the scars of the enattered masonry an i explored tne cemetery inside the fort. w>'e.-« hundreds of the dead soldiers await tie coming of the Lord of Hosts at the lust day, and we could endure no more. My nerves were all a-tremole, and my emotions were wrung out, and I said, “Let. us go.” I had seen the resid-noy at Luctcnow the day before with a beloved missionary, and he told me many interesting facts con¬ cerning the besiegement of that place, out this morning I had seen it in company with one woo in that awiul 1857 of the Indian mutiny with bis own fire had fought the *e siegers, and with his own ear had heard tire yell of the miscreants as they tried to storm the walls, and with his own eyes had w t nessed a scene of pang and sacrifice and eu duranoe and oereavement and prowess and rescue which has made all this Lucknow fortress and its 'surroundings the Mount Cal¬ vary of the nineteenth century. On tne following day, aoout four mU°s from the residency, I v.sited the grave of Havelock. The scenes of hardship an l self sacrifice through waieh he h id passed were too much for mortal endurance, and a few days a’ter Havelock left the rasi ’*ncy which he had relieved he lay in a tent a-dying, while his son, whom I saw in London on my way here, was reading to the The old hero tne consolatory Scriptures. tele grip x wires had to!d ill! Nations that Have¬ lock was sick "unto death. He had received the message of congratulation iron Oueeix Victoria ovtr Lis triumphs ant fiat oean knignted, anLsuch a reception us Eng¬ land never gave to any Waterloo man since Welling¬ ton came hack- from awaited n s return. Bu: ho will never again see his na¬ tive laud. He has led his last army and plannedthe last battle. declared Yet he is to gain another htxurs victory. He it when "I in nis last he saidto Geneul Outra n : die bnppyxfnd contented. life I have for forty years so ruled my that when death camo I mignt face it without fear. To die is gain." Indeed this was no new sentimen¬ tality with him. He once stated that ia boynood with tour companions he was nc . , thouqh certain in those days of imlm? brand Hilas MetQofiists ani cantinq hypocrites.” victory an'l savs in on* of his .Usn nc ms that ho ow*s it “to the power of the Eufl*id rific in British hands, to British p ack and to spend two hours evory morning tn prayer and Bible reading, and if the army was to maroh at 8 o’clock he aros* for purposes of army A^plain °was *t o 'march *at 6o “lock hewose al L monument mirk* Havslock’a grave, but the epitaph is as beautiful an I sj?r P ' l s's,KdK*:2r5 r follows. *‘Hero past t be mortal remain* ot Henry Havelock, major gener il in the Brit ish army and Knight Comman ier of the ca^Kx XmrT°pro P iuwn7ch 3 u*ed by t°h“ aehl^ei ^rdship“° Tmmorta* of °a he fame, on the 24th of November, H57. land. Entered the army 1815. Game to In dia 1823 and served there With little Inter part'itTthe camp"£ wars of*Burma^AJghamst“n™ o"l8« h'e Mahratta and tM Sntilj of 1845. Retained by adverse circumstances a Christian i* consistent with the fullest dlscharge of the duties of a soldier. Ho commanded a division ta the Parstan exp* devlTopei .u l k^wa io the at world. Saved from shipwreck on the C*y '“Tf the br.tv* garrison of Lucknow, Object, after almost suo*rjum*n on earth th* rewtrd he so dearly The Divine Master whom he He departed to mu ret In ham bio but confident expectation of far greater and honors which a Krateful coun was anxious to bestow. In him the skill a commander, the courage and devotion soldier, the learning of a scholar, the grace of a highly bred gentiematiani alt adorned by rSLSS**C.toSi spirit Rhris the oi a tru* the result of the influence ot the Holy on his heart, and of an humble ran it.n r*w o'* tbs mer t* ot a cmciflcd Ssviour, II Timothy, It., 7, *: ’I hare fought a good fight. I hav» flawhei my coarse. I have foTne kept the fzttb. Henceforth there u laid up a mown of rlgi»eou«ta*a which the the righteous Judge, shall give antoali me at day, and not to dm only, but them also that erected love by His his appearing.’ widow This monument is sorrowing and family.” Is not that magaificent? d^r’tS?°« Bat I said while tiT Wm^pSK^ HZ to all her histoty of. warn th ere Is no name so •allies, end Gnmt at Viekeoarg. and Utonv wall Jackson tar .way from his beloved —*■ ■*— ■** •“ national anthem. Bnt It would the same iron pet that brings np fro* among those eneewd wnfls thn form of O ifin.t* iallow hero ia toe o vert hro w of the Indian mutiny. Let tioa the great war favorite sail Mediteraaqs* and and ofthisH wWtak > Bombay harbor 1 of ail free let the the * / ' mil Till? UHjIoLA Tl?r»TQF ATflPI? 1 UltJi. ' _ GEORGIA’S LAW-MAKRRS MEET AND BEGIN WORK. Routine Business of Both House and Senate-Bills of Interest. SESSION OF THE HOUSE. 22 nd Day—T here wero two exoiting contests in the house of representatives Wednesday morning and two very im portent bills were passed by a very close vote. One was a bill to create three boards of medical examiners for the state and the other was a bill to regulate admissions tp the bar in Geor gia. The doctor’s bill strikes a death blow at quackery and nostrum pill rollers, for if it becomes a law none but reputable physicians will be allow ed to practice in Georgia. The law yer’s bill looks to elevating the stand ard of the legal profession by ad mitting only intelligent and well informed men to the bar. There was still another important bill intend ed to clip the slanderer’s tongue and make them amenable to the law for an oral defamation of character, The first bill considered was the one by Mr. Fouche of Floyd to create medical examiners for the state. The bill is favored by the medical frater nity of Georgia. It provides for the appointment by the governor of three medical boards of five members each, One board shall be composed of the regular school of medicine, one from the homeopathic school and one from the eclectic school. A lively discus sion and a hard fight were engendered over offered the bill. amendmedt Mr. Worley that the'provia- of^ Elbert an ions of the act shall not apply to any graduates of a medical college in Geor gia. The amendment was lost. The committee’s report, favorable to the passage of the bill, was adopted and then the vote on its passage was taken. There were 87 votes for the bill and 65 against it. This lacked one vote of a con etitutional . majority. Speaker Flem ing cast that vote and announced the bill passed ill the midst of applause on the floor and in the gallery. Mr. West, of Lowndes, gave notice of a motion to reconsider. There was still another special order, the bill of Mr. Wright, of Floyd, to regulate admission to the bar. It provides for the appointment of a commission of three by the judge of each circuit to whom candidates for admission to the bar shall be refer red. Each candidate must answer ** ^ east seventy-five per cent of * reasonable knowledge ol the rudi ments of an English education. Ibis clause provoked an animated die however. howlver Mr -» West, of Lowndes, I wTw obairman of the committee on eduoa the bill of F „ Mr. ^ 'Vloore, of r tj Bulloch, n u making oral Blander a misdemeanor. der ? nd is . er a the crime, . P re ?“, bnt t oral la *’ slander is slan- not, the man having been slandered orally committee adopted , . * was brief discussion, snd the bill was number of ^ ter new bills ,? nt '? the dao house * lon of ad- a journed until Thursday. morning, reconsidered -T’ff’ the bill "“"S crea ting boards of medical examiners for atate ’ refused to reconsider its ac tion in passing the bill regulating ad mission to the bar, listened to several ,nLT. Confederate soldiers jltitled to . a pen Sion but who have noPreooived it on °J th ! ° r th- ' 8 PDr ?° Be u exhausted before *, the,r spplica tions had been received at the pension e '. ,,ld *"' n *' l"nrn.dnntil Pr,d.j journal was read, Mr. Hnrstof Walton, moved to reconsider the Dill for medi to .° ® ™ ’ *’ Fouche, , of Floyd, the author of the w. P** 8 k*ii */ 4 m* 4 hin« a.^ to 00 8a f ^ 011 ... tbe “F*** jeot, after which the previous question was called. The call was sustained and tbe * oe vote TOie stood «*uo<i 81 to to 77 </, and ana me the bill Din was reconsidered. Mr. West moved rtooMd., ft. bill r^ating jd. ■»■«*.■ ft ft . b« o. totoMrf ft. amendment to the btil Providing that no one shall be admitted to the bar un loss he po sses s e s a reasonable knowl dge j . * « En •. f of § the . ot 8 lwh , language. This also invoked a nnm ber of speeches when Mr. West called for the aTe , and Z..* The -.11 5F fUme __ ® tv .„ ___<o 68 aa The motion to reconsider • j was lost. Lowndeaiwas An important bill by Mr. West, of ’ token set^on no for athird iStSf read i n g At b!ll tbe last of mlkethe the lew a was pa^d to school year coincident with the fiscal year ga d other purposes. Mr. schools until the school money comes in, when it shall be paid back to the sp*•,’^ft.' LhUim tC.»! •chaois ean be run exactly as they ere run in 18*4 if fh* mate only agree* to the bill. The bill of Mr. McCarty, - .Htoti. »—* a- $500, or so , to pey off of f > Jt witb Mr. Hnmpbrus, of Brooke, in the chair. On mo io i of Mr. rj, the bill was rej orted favorably and was passed by a vote of 150 to noth inar. The house then adjourned. 24th Day-TLo contested election 0886 from Effingham county, wherein Bird-(dem.) (pop,) claimed the seat committee of Spier was decided by the on privileges and elections in favor of Bird. Immediately after the jonrnal had been read in the house, Friday morning, the committee’s report was sent to the clerk’s desk, read and oon firmed. Mr. Harrison moved that the committee’s report be adopted. This brought Mr. Hogan, of Lincoln, to his feet. He is a member of the committee and rose to say that he had no objeo tinn to the report of the committee being adopted, but be did not think Mr Bird, the contestant, was legally entitled to the seat. The election returns showed Spier to be elect ed by fifteen votes, but the com mittee,* after throwing oat the illegal votes, had found Mr. Bird to have a majority of thirty-two. Speaker Flem ing asked the contestant and the con testee to withdraw from the hall, which they did, and then the house uoani mously adopted the committee’s Mr. re port and Mr. Spier waa unseated. Bird presented himself before the house* and was sworn in by Assistant Justioa Atkinson, of the supreme court. Mr. Barnes, of Richmond, of fared a resolution that a committee be appointed to see whether the commit tee on privileges and elections was not entitled to a per nootern as well as a per diem, when it was at work all night, j,f r , Doolan, of Chatham, introduced an important railroad bill. It is direo ( e( j against the Southern system, and provides that no corporation,individual or association, shall purchase or lease any ra ilroad lying in whole or in p (l rt in this state or any interest there j n) where the pnrohaser or lessee al rea(ly owns> operates, or is interested j n a ij uc or lease of railroad, which can compete between any points in this B f a ( 0> Any such purchase or lease un der tde is declared null and void, jj r< Wren of Jefferson, introduced a resolution that, in view of the great financial depression the legislature B fi 0 uld make no appropriations what ever except for current expenses ex cept as 6 i rea dy provided for by law. jd B a is not to increase the appro riation8 for any j n8 titution. Mr. F, )ga rty, of Richmond, introduo eA a bill orea ti Dg a commis B j oner Q f immigration. It pro Y j(j e8 that the commissioner of agr iculture shall bo ex-officio commis B j oner G f immigration, and instructs fij ra to prepare a hand book on the re D j the state, whioh he shall let bill appropriates $1,000 for the pur p^e and all other funds in the treasury to the credit of the agricultural de P ftrt,Dent > abont >4,000, which makes g5 f 000 in all to be used for advertising Georgia if the bill becomes a law. bill f , r;, looking F r u '.°k in the Cofr9 right t'. direction. i**- 4 It ,• j B a bill requiring the ordinaries of the „ tnte to j Hve8 tigate the jails in lheir counties at least once a month an( j report to the grand juries. The bill of Mr. Reagan, of Henry, to pro or Mbit on r’?” Sunday, bom came ’ ,ork up V' for g ? final ^ ac ^ loD> but was sent back to the oom m jtte6 to be amended. After the in troduction of many new measures, the hoaBe adjonrned. * ..... Day—A oartiaau F debate was p I ecipiut6d . P o„ t h,ho M0 S.t.rd., read morning the first thing after the in of the \ j ourna i. gome time ago Montfor of Taylor, introduced a wn to aboliBh the county court of Taylor - . The bill was referred to the r"*' i“ <lioi "X bnt Mr Montfort was allowed to withdraw it on acconn t 0 ( gome errors in advertis in the b in. Friday Mr. Montfort § introduced the bill, and asked t at it be referred to the committee on coun t y and county matters. Mr. p |hm Blbb ohj « t6 a to fti, , n(1 gp ec j a i judiciary committee. The motion was carried and the bill took Montfort moved to reconsider the ao tion of the house so that the bill might ^r and county 4ihe matters. 1 his brought on the wordy war. Finally the motion to re0OD g ider wa , Toted npon and l ost , so rema,na with tu the special judi- indi gjg—. . com mlttee. The house passed the medical biU, tbe one p*seed a few a. 7 J . 8*, bnt dftnrd Tb b bJ Mr Po „ hei 0 , PloJd> gnd wu eetablish three medical boards one for the regular ® school . , of , medicine, ,. one . fop the Homeopathic, and one for the Ecletic. r pbo bill waa reconsidered on aooonnt ** objections raised by Mr. West, of of Lowndes. A committee of doc tors had .7, a conference with Mr. ™ . in . the meantime, and they agreed n P° n an *mendment, which wwt submitted by him. It provides a forthe time of rda and ro ‘ ke * J * ha i 1 . °? of ®. r th As a, « ^ , .V The amend ment v. ,, vsz succession hour, killed in quick * ® bills to change the method of elect J 0 *® mu ” 01 of **' Mr —■ tiona was rend the third time and pass¬ ed. It ehnagM th* tins* of bolding elections tram January to lb* time of the state elections ia October. Tbe bin of Mr. Houston, o t DeKnlb, protection o; motormen, was fqa<* «e->nd time on an adverse report. 1 Foucbe, of Flojd, favored the c< • report The report was adc *d and the bill waa loat. A number of Other billswere also read the eecond time and lost on an adverse report. New bills were then introduced, read and referred, and the hotue auj . until Monday. * - nmam or thb senate. 22s Day.—A fter reading the journal in the senate Wednesday morning, Senator McOarrity moved to T recoi sider the action of the senate in refusing to pas* the bill intis by him to elect county school * h l sioners by the people, and on the mo tion, called for the yeas and nay*. The yeas weTe 70, naya 24, so the rao tion to reoonsider was loat. Senator Roberts, chairman of the committee■ on lunatic asylum, submitted the re port of the committee sent there to look into the affairs of the institution. The . the entire report compliments condemn managw ment, and finds nothing to build- or reprove. It states that the new ings will be ready for oocupanoy by the 1st of next April and recommends on appropriation for next year of 8210,000, and for 1896, $230,000. They also recommended $4,000 for the pur chase of new engines and boilers. There are 1,743 inmates, and 241 employee* whose salaries amount to $42,062, and 17 physicians and officials, whose sali¬ ries amount to $17,233. It cost $70.33 per capita to support the institution, The committee on elections submitted a report in which they stated that Mr. Baxter bad abondoned his contest fe* Senator Brand’s seat, and they reoom mended the contest be no longer con* sidered. The report was roceived and the recommendation agreed to. Senator Harris, of the twenty-second, introduced a bill whioh is to offset that one introduced by Mr. Venable. Mr. Harris’ bill provides that hereafter in¬ snrance companies shall be required privilege U> deposit only $5,000 for the of doing business in Georgia, instead of $25,000 os is nowrequired. Senator McGregor introduced a bill to amend paragraph 2, section 1, article 2 of the constitution, so as it may read, “IPY* eryi male citizen of the United State* twenty-one years of age, who shall hav* resided in this state one year next preceding the eleotion, and shall hav* resided six months in the county i* which he offers to vote, and shall hav* paid all taxes required of him for the year next preceding the election, and which he may have had an opportunity of paying agreeably to law except for the year of the eleotion, shall be deem ed an elector. The constitution now requires a man to have paid all taxe* pay since the adoption of the consti tutioi*. in 1877, before he b* comes a qualified elector. Meroer’s At eleven o’clock 8enator bill to drain the ponds of Georgia and to reorganise the TrJfi&J geologioal depart •*°~ r & had been reported referredwlththereo- by the committee to whioh it was ommendation that it pass. Senator Mercer moved the adoption of the r* port of the oommittee. A number of amendments were adopted, so Senator *rs-*?t acted upon by lh sections. “„ ,h ; bil1 Mr. ^ MoG**~ rity moved to indefinitely postpone the bill. His motion was lost. Th* yea. and nay. wero called and the bill «* pa«ed. A number of other bill* of more or less importance were iQtro d«.»d. .»d th. „.U Thursday. 28 d Day.—T he senate judiciary oommittee Thursday morning introduced recoa* by mended that the bill Senator Harris reducing the tuition tt* ft. TM h»olo*i«l «b«,l from <060 to $50 per annum, be <ptssad The fol lowing bills were passed: House bill to permit the town of Acwortb to issp* bond, to maintain a system of public schools; Bill to amend the law grantin* new trials so as to give the movanfc „„„ ii m .; Bill to ragnkto ft. nu corporations; Bill to amend section 2183 so as to provide the manner of Senator Lumpkin, by request, to pre¬ vent the town of Smithville from iao*~ ■T little li r temperance r : l ! o r u;i talk. r , - 1 Mr. ^?: BoynUM thought more light WM needed on to* subject, and moved that the bill be r*. committed i. to itu the iMnuniuu tempermioe Mmeli. oommit tee, and the senate gave it this dire* tion. The joint oommittee appointed to ft. rt»to rail. ft., it opin. August 1891), and that in their opinio* the attorney general concurs. New hills wcps tu6D introduced .,____j Mu j _. ■. ■ first time and the senate adjourned. t.., Pat-T mL. he substi tute pre pared ,m b . y Mr. Tenable for hie meuranoe Mil waa read the second time i* the sea*t* Friday morning and referred -L. beck to the judiciary committee. Senator Roberta, who repreaents the belli wiek where Mias Ells* Dortch resides, and whowmanspplicent for accrctary to j 80 * hold the .? < *° ? b ?* a *f °. f .^ U w , . SSLTey SIS't'aSK a“ 40 ” p ’ f®® k “* Ai hows Thursday ai the seoato Friday the tote tote—d. AS MOB bill. I| sra ***** I* A» . to S.*V£ ** * **