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WIFTED
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pi tl ai Mil
;■ Historic Career.
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by His Idived Ones,
Death Came Calmly.
st his home in Atlanta
afternoon, the spirit of ex-Sen
w t T * 1 H. Brown, after weeks
. . waiting, passed
i saonths of weary In the
fate tike great beyond. the heart of
. yibimn light oeased its long
mtt senator had
•Arnold the hero of Gaddistown—
stiio, staple farmer boy of the
• Ridge mountains—was asleep earth- at
Ml of his destiny. Every bon
satisfied—the coveted
«f the gabernstorisl chair, the so¬
me bench of the state of Georgia,
.I the Ugheet forum of the na
d crowing all. a oolossal for
tese were the glittering prizes
r. plucked by this simple far
•j Lt the quietude of his
is he oonld look baok over his past
sad feel with eomplaoent satisfae
i that he had not spent Us years in
k and that be had climbed an Intel
Hal promontory, from tbe height
itdsh it was hu privilege to look
m-npoo the homage and respect of
His Last Illness.
- - than ive years Senator
in declining expira- health,
tely a year prior offioe to he the not
his term of was
give to Us senatorial duties tbe
m which they required at Us
Ineoneaquenoe of this foot he
Ifw from Washington and ra¬
te Atlanta in the spring of
•ever able from that time to
•hm Us duties at the capi¬
ta greater portion of his ill
eea characterized by painful
though he has several times
streets during the
has frequently ridden
id carriage, which has
niliar object to every
illness the senator found
l the newspapers and to
thoroughly informed on
tarn of the day. He was
> though his physician his active re
whim to resume
ms the harden of exoes
responsibility, Us mind
■ ly employed end hie intol-
7; bright end vigorous ee it
;V- hynof hi* stalwart man
&
a member of the
i oburoh In Atiante and
chief pillar, of U. de
wall es of hie own im
mry. Hie benefactions
end liberal, and hi* rs
i a* fervent as his mind
rn leaves a large family birth,
n the order of
jhlldreu ere ea follows:
Brown, Mrs. B. L Oon
ph M. Brown, Mr. Eli*
Jtr. Eugenie George Brown. X. Brown Id
m he leaves ten grand
> sons ere buried in,
cry. These era Frank
own and Charles He
The Utter died while
ie State University magnificent and
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Joseph Emerson Brown waa born in
Pickeng district, S. C., on the 15th day
of April, 1821, and was, therefore, 70
rians, who emigrated to this conntry in
1746. Joseph Emerson waa the eldest
of eleven children. Before the latter
was grown to manhood Mackey Brown,
his father, who was then living in Ten
nessee, nioved to Georgia, settling in
a little valley called Gaddistown, in
Union county.
Young Brown remained at home do
inc the ordinary work of a farmer’s
son, varying the monotony with such
study as he oould find time and oppor
tunity for, until 1840. In the fall of
that year, being then over nineteen
years of age, he obtained his father’s
consent to leave home and see what
he could do in the way of getting his an
education and generally bettering
condition. With a fair supply of of
home-made clothing and a yoke
Steers, he sought the Calhoun academy
in Anderson district, 8. 0., where the
prioe Of the steers is said to have been
tba equivalent for six months* board,
the tuition being given on credit.
He was admitted to the bar in An
gust, 1845, after a searching examine- with
Hod, but he was not yet satisfied
his proficiency. With money loaned
him by his friend, Dr.Lewis, he en
tered the law school of Yale college in
October, i845,, and remained there
until June, 1846. Returning to Can
ton, Ga., he began the practice of law
less than six yearsafter he had left
Gaddistown with his yoke of steers to
gat an education, the rudiments of
which hehadyettolearn. He was
soeoessful from the beginning. married
The next year, 1847, daughter he
Elis«bath Gwaham, of Rev.
Jowph Greshanh of South Csroliua,
and Wh ,° shared u M the fortunate hi8 returns , h0n ^ of his d
eventful life for over forty years.
His Entry into Polities.
The young lawyer, as to many of his
brethren seem naturally and in to 1849, do, three soon
drifted into polities, admission the bar,
years after his to re
eelved the demooratio nomination for
state senator in the district composed
of the counties of Oherokeq and Oobb
and was eleoted. Upon returned retirement
from the senate he to the
praotioe of his profession st Osnton,
though still keeping up his interest in
politios, being in 1852 a Pieroe and
King eleotor.and receiving the highest
vote on the tiokel judges
Superior court at this time
were eleoted by the people, and in 1855
Senator Brown was the demooratio
candidate in tbe Blue Ridge oironit, in
whioh he was again successful, Judge
Brown was on the bench scarcely two
years, but at no time daring his extra¬
ordinary career was be more suooeasfnl
in the discharge of offloial duty or did
more to justify the sound sense ot the
people in calling him into the public
servioe.
He ia Elected Governor.
Sometimes men make opportunities,
but often they are thrown at them. It
is striotiy within bonnds to ssy that
Senator Brown had nothing to do with
his first *omination for governor.
When Samuel Weil, then of Canton,
rode to Senator Brown’s house about,
sundown on June 15, 1857, to tell him
that the demooratio candidate for gov¬
ernor was "Joseph E. Brown, of Cher¬
okee,” the nominee himtelf was as
much surprised es any man in the sfkte.
The know nothing convention made
Benjamin H. Hill the the nominee of
thet party for governor. Both oendi
datea took the stump end after a most
exciting and acrimonious contest, ia
which tiie demooratio candidate sus¬
tained himself end hie cause with mar¬
velous ability, he we* elected by over
tea thousand majority. the eapitol of
Milledgeville was then Senator BroWn
the state, and there
went ting as her her in chief and magistrate,wejpre- war until final
peace that military
defeat brought occupa¬
tion whioh deprived him of offioe. —
Hla First Be-EfeeUoa.
A* the time fur the btiug of of
tbe democratic otitis convention
18S8 drew near, it was apparent that
there would he no opposition to the
renoaination of Governor Brown.
That body met at MilledgevUle in June,
406 delegates being present, and passed
unanimously the following resolution:
the i Joseph honesty, fidelity Brown
ability wkfeh A
has manifested, as the executin' of
Georgia, entities him to the
of the whole people of the
hs-abyi
nee the
w of oppo
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£*«• H*ocar^ dorxng the fi^t p«t ot tbe
war is s oimstiwy.
Ho is Again Re-Elected.
Governor Brown, in view of the ex
isting crisis, was opposed to the hold
iagof petty nominating conventions.
srmfifflsxrs: Judge Euge
tember, which nominated
nitu A Nisbet for governor. Gover
nor Brown made no speeches and but
one written address, nevertheless he
was overwhelmingly re-elected.
With, the beginning of 1864, and
Governor Brown’s fourth term, Geor
gia became the center of the confed
eraey, and contending armies fought
on her soil Late in November of
that year the executive Millodgeville department
was obliged to leave for
a time, owing to Sherman’s ad
vance. The legislature met in Ma
con February 10, 1865, and Governor
Brown, in his message, freely entx
cized President Davis, opposed the
using of slaves as soldiers, pressed poll- the
abandonment of the conscription
oy, and advised the calling of a con
vention of the southern states. Noth
ing was done and the war ended. Gov
ernor Brown surrendered the state
troops and was paroled. He then
oalled an extra session of the legisla
tore to meet May 22. He was arrest
ed, earned to Washington city and af
ter a few week a .mpnsonment re- al
eased. The legislature was not
owed to meet nor Governor Brown to
further discharge the duties of his
office. To make the record complete,
however, he resigned on Jane 25,
1865.
As a Keconstractlonlst.
Governor Brown accepted the and new in
order of things from the start,
^ptember, 1865, received hi. pardon.
He took no part m the reconstruction
of the state congJe^iouri by President Johnson, but
a. the reconstruction
acU of 1866, enfr.nchizing the negro,
T 6 d he ftd ^ d thelr
ate acceptance and co-operated with
the northern republicans. republican
He was a delegate to the
national convention trhioh nominated
President Grant and was the regain
oiates senase oeiore r,ue .het^SSSS xep
Srss;‘fs ~?-£i between £
Jr hn..Hi.,.
Governor Bulloc imme. is e y ap
pointed him chief justice of the su
preme court of the state, which posi
tion he held until late in 1870, when
he resigned to beoome president of the
Western and Atlantic railroad, which
bad just been leased to a company by
the state. He took no active part in
politics while on the bench, as a mat
ter of course, nor after he left it np to
1872.
The aoqniescence, forced though it
was, of*the demooratio party in the
results of reconstruction, and the ac¬
ceptance of Horace Greeley as the can¬
didate for president afforded an oppor¬
tunity of which he availed himself.
He voted for Greeley and came back
into the democratic party.
Hs Becomes United States Senator.
General John B. Gordon resigned
his seat in the United States senate in
May, 1880, and Governor Colquitt Brown im¬
mediately appointed Senator
to the vaoant place to hold offioe until
the meeting of the legislature. This
sotion was resented by a very large
number of democrats, so that the state
convention held in Atlanta in June,
1880, was unable to renominate Gov¬
ernor Colquitt under the two-thirds
rale. It recommended him to the peo¬
ple while the minority of the conven¬
tion pat forward ex-Senator Thomas
M. Norwood. These were the only two
candidates, and upon the issue
of the oanvass depended in a
very large measure tbe Colquitt political
fortunes both of Governor
and Senator Brown. The result wss
sn overwhelming victory for both.
Governor Colquitt leading his oppo¬
nent over 50,000' votes, beating him
nearly two to one. Senator Brown’*
confirmation to his sens tori al mat by
the legislature naturally followed, he
receiving 146 vote# to 64 for Gen. A.
R. Lawton. 8ix years later he wes
re-elected, there being only two votes
oast against him. As a senator he was
earnest, watchful, patient and dill
gent.
Senator Brown commenced savftg
when he first began tbe practice of
lew in Gen ton end daring his long
rear what ie now an
immense fortius. Hfe investments
are large, in reel estate ia Atlanta and
elsewhere, in iron and coal mines, in
railroads and so
ident of tbe Western end Atlantic __ rail¬
road he is also president of the Dade Coal
company, of the Walker Iron and Coal
, and of the Southern
and ie
Brown was one of the
i and original man of k
in this country. To bin
SUghty salf-reliantTadmirably patient,
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THE T EQISLATHEE.
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GEORGIA'S LAW-MAKERS MEET
A»D BEGIN WORK
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Senate-Bills of Interest.
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wMmam or tot hoosjl.
27 th Bax—The entire session of the
house Tuesday morning waa taken up
in discussing a few sections of the ftp
propriations bill. The amendment ol
Mr. Hopkins, to increase the asylum
appropriation for 1895 to $21,00C
and for 1896 to 8230,000, and 81,000
to restore the wornout pumps used in
the waterworks system of the institu
tion, came np first for consideration.
The amendment, after considerable
talk, was agreed to. The next sec
tion considered was that appropriating
816,000 for the suppert of the academy
for the blind for each of the years 1895
and 1896. Mr. Hurst, of Wal
ton, offered au amendment mcreas
i D g the appropriation to 818,000.
Mr. Fleming said .that $16,000 was
the regular appropriation, andthe could
see no use of increasing it. Mr. Hurst
insisted that the attendance was larger
The amendment was killed by a vote
of was 109 to 12. Eight ftJ^Tlsh ^oUars
nty^at^Athens,’*22,500 nological school and $22 foL*°Tech- 000 tor the
^ “ nd Thenext 2c
tlon 7 40 »PPf 0 P nate #8 ; 00 ® .“ e
ings of toe North .Wicuu
ral College at Dablonega. Speaker
Whmwg
tee from the house to visit the State
University and examine the bnild
“f “ d g™*' h “ “«riatinc
-“oO ftn r
te he collece was ^an adooted Mr
SfhiT^rtion tSbiH ed amendment
to this portioia of of tha tWJpP"”
”« ® 2 ’ 0 J° ^Sl A t ° L n] turfl jhfs Amendment CoSce Lt M -
SSsSJSf* tsssffs: mkpj leave was
rrmn rfrrl nnrrrm to
Cha J ha m?moved that the
time be fixed M,^^^ckwellwLlori. for 7-30 at niuht The
motion of Mr
£n Reagan ^kck of Henrv ^erX moved to adiourn
morning
It was carried by a vote of 73 to 72.
Mr. Jenkins announced the house ad
journed until Wednesday morning at
9 o’clock, at which there was applause,
28th DAY-The house -or Wednesday i jt
morning immediately resolved itself
into a committee of the
furtk^ consideration of the appropr a
rion bill. The amendment of Mr.
Hodges, of Bibb, to restore the $2,000
appropriation Mihtary andI Agricultural to the^ M^ale College Georgia was
rion C a U v P ote wm Uken^ Thi smendi
ment ment was was lost lost bv by a a vote vote of ot 102 iuz to to 42
The next section of the bill adopted
that anuronrlatinir PP P ^ ^^ Colored *8 000 for the
for people
Then then came came the tne section section to to pay par the uio in- in
terest on the land sorip fund due the
s teufflet ,. fn T'niversitv ofSbb 46 314.14 Mr Boi
teouuht on anotW
discussion by an amendment to in
tbft nnnrnTiriation N^mri to the Girls'
{SSSte Industrtel and Sa ColleRe MoJlaan- at M l
far Tueldav wMA to^«6 S
5»e 000
purpose ol erecting new buildings.
Mv ro-patod SfrAtenSr considerable
bv Me Mid
ended his remarks by a poetical
Candid mi., which hi JoUe*™. waa loudlv ap
ia^ bv The
mntinn reconsider was tben
105*^1 noon and was lost the vote be
annronriatfon • vs and 38 veas The next
adonted was $600 000
‘S common schools, and whatever
^ “ r 7 8hould the
M of taxable or3to property be^eat! few the
rn,m^ f?nm «Sal U? the leVJ sums arisiDR th^S
toe u^n
7l returns £ of hnSS^Jd?iSty-n?nrSr taxable property in exoeas
fe
lion dollars is S lo Sgtein^diti^ go to toe common
to
the $600,000 appropriated and in oddi
tion to the moneys appropriated by
,n * W ^ rL vaos
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tooc
for
b.
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->Tp I was ea n to
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oW toiMmpsirs to pablio baildingsTto
and furniture
for the executive mansion and to pay
engineer guards, servants and one
’ department in the
f or ^
state eapitol. Governor Atkinson
thonght one porter for every depart
the number of porters be left to the
discretion of th% governor. The
amendment was adopted. For paying
expenses of officials in visiting the
CO j, T j ct cadips 81,500 was appropri-
4ted ' p or j n6ur ing public property
*?’ „ «DDroDriated and on mo
Mr ‘ Johnson of Hall, an
, t wag adopted ^ setting aside
** in(mr : n _ th Dahlonega Col
Vjelialf _p, g b t Q j tb e day was
of the military. The
appropriation i- J bill prepared
ftnnron £*'.*' ate «on ’ 000 tor organizing,
8 an(i eani ^ in „ t b e volunteer
* th s at e The finance com
. etlt out thiB section and left the
, £ without a cent Mr. Hodges,
offered an amendment ap
wn.fi. gjO 000 for this purpose,
thisamendment was being (lis
., Rockwell J, moved that the
re r t progress and
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* * 1 The motion
Adjourned After some discussion
J until 3 p. m, so
^ flnish _f appropr j a t iol , bill,
^ DAr T h e house of represen
tatives was in session Tbursday.de
^ ^ fact thflt it wafl a legfll holi .
and that the members of the sen
ate were observing it as sneh. The
house f grew industrious and passed
qu te a number of bills, as follows: To
transfer Dawson county from the Bine
Ridge * judicial > circuit to the North
SSTflSTteWitt««,unty; 0 | r0 uit; To create a public
To
0 f rom the citv court of Atlanta
SuSta?to . . . ■ *i. an #100 - t.
stationary engineers in Fulton county;
To incorporate the town of Oakman;
To change the time of holding
the Dawson superior court; To
ai low judge8 to hold court in
a county other than their own; To
establish a board of commissioners in
«■?^ T »*>»“'•
ficials of Dougherty county pay the
Sfi W
ss’to
with Code and other books for the
county of Heard; To provide compen
Bation for the county commissioners of
Colquitt county ; lo create a sinking
^ for years 1895-6 of 8100,000 each
J ear to be collected by special levy
“ d *° b « °f d to pay valid bonds;
To provide for a board of commis
aioners of roads and revenue for Jones
county; £ To incorporate F the town of
Newb rne> in N ewton county; To
ftbo jj ab the county court of Lowndes
county; A bill for the safe keeping of
tfae registration books of Chatham
coun ty ; To require the registration To of
tbe voters in McIntosh county;
establish a city court for Macon, in
Ribb county; To regulate for the reg
Ration of voters in Baker county.
The following senate bills were passed.
A bill to abolish the board of roads
, revmna rev e ? n f in Carroll countv* oouniy, a A bill niu
!° , P ro ^ . d « [° r ^ he “^P® 1 eleot ^ n
1° ® ttvaa ? ab * b J Pf bo J a f' ^ ®
house adjourned at 12 o clock to meet
Friday rnaa J mornintr morning.
30™ Day.-Iu the house Friday
morning the committee on privileges
and ®l® otl0118 made their report on the
Cook-Blalock contest from Fayette
oount J- Majority and minority re
ports were presented. The majority
8eat re ^ r ko ‘ un8eatl Blalock ^ f^^nt^rite^a was adopted after a
hteet * diBcussion. Mr. Blalock was
tben sworQ in b 7 Cbfe* Justice Sim
mons. Speaker Fleming announced
the receipt of a memorial from certain
c °l° red citizens of Polk county, who
wished migrate to some free conn
- .T he memorial sent tothe
tr J- was
j Qdioiar J committee. Mr. Arnold
B 10 ?!® 8 * °1 Fulton, introduced a bill
that will create a good deal of
fe wfnl fe r tbe clerk or ‘h® reporiei
ot the 8a P reme 00014 or f*
risUnts or partner, at law to practice
in that court. Mr. Boyett, of Stewart,
introduced a bill tending to pre
Tent the «pread of gUndew among
bor8e8 - It prorides tlmt the owner of
took if he think. gUnderslm. effected
“J bora ® or mule, shaU notify the
Vmo* a * ono ° andhe ‘** U M “ d ?
* H°ha °dSd2 4
« owner shall no
mals and asaes their yalue. Tbe state
shaU then have the animals killed and
bnmed and shall pay the owner seven
£5.°o< maagr ouwr new
or
introduced and read. The s es sio n was
extended to 1.-46 and at that boar the
31er Day—T he house of representa¬
tives is hard at work on the gw
registration bill At Saturday 1 *
sion it devoted the entire time to the
nutted oration of this
while it did not finish with the hill oa
der consideration, it got through with
i nrictifltblfl
*,» wtnamHMown
w.
supreme"oaurt and .write to announce the* ite deem
not out, when
the amount involved is kee than
$500. Th« committee on elections,
through its chairman, Mr. Little, snb
mitted a report in the contested elec
tion case jszs&sies of Whitley vs. Williams,
of the election precincts, where Will
isms received large majorities. The
report also cited the fact that Will
iams had not paid his taxes for three
years before his election, and for that
reason was not entitled to s seat in thK
senate. It recommended that Williams
be unseated-and'Whitley be given the
seat. The report was adopted,
The oath *f office was then adminis
tered tq Senator Whitley by Associate
Justice Spencer Atkinson of the sn
Pteme court, and he was escorted to
the seat formerly occupied by Mr. Wil
liams. It was a coincidence that Judge
Atkinson, who administered the oath
and Dr. Whitley were raised together
and were schoolmates. The house bill
introduced by Mr. West of Lowndes
providing for paying the public schools
next year was taken up and passed,
As soon as the governor signs the bill
it will become a law. It provides pay
m ent of teachers from January 1st,
1895, to July 1st.
28th Day -Governor Atkinson has
started on his appointmente. Wednes
day morning he sent a longlist of them
to the senate, among them being that
of ProfeB8 or P. D. Pollock, of Macon,
to be state school commissioner in
place of Hon. S. D. Bradwell, the
present incumbent. Immediately af
ter the reading of the journal Senator
Tatum moved that the argumentive
portion contained in the minority re
port Seufrom of the committee on elections be
the journal. The pres
ident rnledthat the report could not
ho chanced L SETSen^r whereupon Mr ^d“ Tatum
chairman of the temperance committee,
submitted a report on the bill to abol
ish barrooms. The report recommends
that the bill pass by substitute, which
is the bill of Senator Mercer. Anum
her of new bills were introduced. The
following bills were passed: Bill pro
ae«<
ors, prescribing their duties, fixing
sssasstft'ssvir, the law
A bill to regulate creditors, to
ments for the benefit of
fix the rights and duties of amiguors,
creditors and assignees, (this bill prac
tic?11 charges y does of receivers, away with and the the extrava^nt creditors
will get the money instead of the re¬
ce i ve rs); Bill to relieve the supreme
court from writing out their opinion
i n certain cases, except the? when the case
i 9 reversed, when will send with
the remitter, the grounds of reversal,
If affirmed they simply announoe their
verdict. Hon. Troup Taylor, of the
county of Fulton, was authorized to
mske the indexes of the house and
senate journal. The senate thenad
journed until Friday.
3Qth Day _ Iq the senate Friday,
tbe general judiciary committee Venable’s re
portea t d favorablv Iav ??,, ly ?“, on Senator V
, D8uranoe bill and also - on the vn bill m
troduced by Senator Wade to change
the constitution so as to exempt all
property used d for # _ „bnrnh ebureb narnosee P®rpc»es,
from taxation. Both bills were order
ed printed ISr the use of the senate,
Senator Sheppard’s resolution asking
congress to repeal the 10 per oent tax
on state banks was unanimously agreed
to. Senator Venable introduced another
important insurance bill. It provide.
f ° r into effeck thoc ? M ^ ti ? n
requiring insurance companies to make
a deposit with the state treasurer. The
bill requires only a deposit of $1,900.
The present law we^e requires $25,000. The
following bills passed: Hoime
bill to amend the chapter of the town
of goeijj oirde; Bill authorizing Ool
0 nel Troup Taylor to index the jour
0 f the senate and house; Bill re
pesling bounty the act abolishing Twig|s, the office of
treater of and order
in Jsnuary. At 12 o’clock the senate
went into executive session to act upon
the sppointmente of Prof. PoUock as
sUte sdiool commissioner, and Judge
Ross as judge of the city court of Ms
Senator Harris,who had intended
Baking a fight on the appointment h^ of
withdrew objection,
^ he was confirmed, as wsa Prof.
Pollock,
3181 Dxr-lmmcdiately after the
readin « ot ^ record in the senate
“ Jg°P* ^ “ of ”
ber; that ww learn with profound re
win gret of his lamented death, and that
extend our sinoerest sympathies to
the grief-stricken family in their sore
bereavement; that these resolutions be
and that a
copy be sent tbe family. ” Shortly af
wolutioa and
the governor’s men im. regard to
the
In
in
committee had btM
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