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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT
,'OLl'ME
NUMBER 19.
BAINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921.
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Stormy Weather is the
Legislative Forecast Today
Atlar.ta, Aug. 9.—Legislative in-
t t ,.day centers most largely in
hc ' wor i£ being done by the Senate
cmmittee on the general appropria-
ion = bill. Practically all day the
cnate proper has been in recess in
r(ier t hat the full committee be al-
lWed time to work out that measure
n(i it into final action by tonight.
Information is that the plan being
orked is to get through with and
ass the general bill through the
en ate and get it back to the House
s quickly as possible. That measure
grries about $9,500,000. Then Senate
ill withhold action on any of the ad-
itjonal. special and deficiency appro-
riation bills under the House has
cted on the general bill, and that all
hose others will be allowed to die in
he Senate. That will bring the ap-
ropriations within the limit Governor
Hardwick has said he will undertake
;o handle. f
Tabulated Appropriation Figures
Members of the House who have
cpt a tabulation of the appropria-
ions as they were passed, today gave
representative of the Governor a
evision of the newspaper figures,
hich show the former totals were
m small. Those figures run the fo
al amount of money appropriated
lose to $14,500,000.
In the House the greater part of-
the forenoon session was devoted to
passage of practically uncontested
Senate matter. The bill proposing
amendments to the State banking law,
and increasing the powers of the
Slate superintendent, was tabled, as
as also the Senate resolution pro
viding for members of standing com
mittees to visit the university and the
State convict camps in recess.
The bill to create a State forestry
board of the Governor, the Secretary
of State and three citizens was pas
sed.
The bill to regulate the practice of
trained nursing and to admit nurses
from other States without examina
tion, by Smith, of Bryan, also was
passed. It increases the registration
fee from $5 to $10.
Situation Is Tense
When the House adjourned after 5
o'clock this afternoon the situation
was quite a tense one. Throughout
Federation Of Glubs
Will Legally Adopt Song
the period of the afternoon session The Georgia Federation of Women’3
there was that calm undercurrent j Clubs will stand sponsor to legally
which presages a breaking storm to adopt a Georgia state song, and Mrs.
come, and it depends wholly on what j James E. Hays, president of the fed-
develops in the Senate and during the eration endorses a song that can be
interval before reconvening tomorrow'submitted to the legislature for adop-
morning, whether or not there will be jtion and that will be known as “The
another of those big smashes like the ; Georgia Song.”
one of 1916. Muih of the day’s de- Mrs. W. P. Bailey, state chairman
velopment tends in that direction, but j of music, announces that a contest for
more pointed was the fact that the ^ the selection of this song is now open
House overwhelmingly refused to hold j and will be conducted under the fol-
a night session, though there is an lowing rules:
abundance of business on the calendar 1. The contest for the composition
to keep grinding on until midnight of a state song is open to any per-
tomorrow without stopping. son in Georgia.
All the afternoon the ■ Senate was! 2. The words and music may be
at ease, in order that the finance { written by one person or two per-
committee could rush through its sons, may collaborate,
work on the general appropriation | 3- The words of the song should
be typically suggestive of the nat
ural beauties peculiar to the state.
4. The song should consist of three
House fight is the fact that the pen
sion appropriation is being framed by
the Senate to provide only for the
$25 increase to individual pensioners,
and not a penny for the new class;
and the attempt to be made to cut
the proviso out of the common school
appropriation.
Parliamentary Status of Bill
The parliamentary status of the bill,
however, will be this:
However, the measure may come
from the Senate, the House can not
alter a figure in it one way or the
.other. If the Senate amends any item
considerably and, at one stage of the y, e House can agree to or reject the
proceeding brought from Representa- ge nate amendment . if even the teeh-
tive Watkins a motion that the House ^ nical phraseology of any part of the
adjourn “sine die, ’ which the chair bjH ; s altered in the slightest by the
ruled out of order, which was taken j Senate, it will have to be in form of
as a barometer of what’s coming. i un amendment and the House must
There is ne question of the deter- concur or reject,
mination at this hour of the House if t,h e t, w0 branches are not brought
bill, which it did. The measure was
brought back about 5 o’clock and im
mediately work of passing it by sec
tions was taken up, but not until
long after the hall of a plan on. the
part of the Administration forces to
have the Senate adopt the bill just as
it came from the House, insofar as
any changes are concerned, then sit
still and wait for the House to ac
cept the technical amendments and
the minor changes fo be made b# the
Senate.
Pension Bill May Perish
With that done noe of the special
or deficiency or pension bills would
be passed by the Senate at all—they
are all to be allowed to die in the com
mittee. That rumor fired the House
verse (8 lines) of two verses (8 lines)
and chorus.
5. Five competent judges from dif
ferent parts of the state will select
the best three songs from those sub
mitted.
to table the general tax act, and so
well is that a recognized fact that
Senator Wohlwender, speaking on the
appropriations bill after the House
adjourned, told that body “the general
tax act has as much chance of get
ting passed by the House as I have
of going to Heaven by flying wings—
and I don’t expect to get there that
way.”
The two particular points in the
general bill which are fuel for the
together on any amended feature by
receding from its position, a confer
ence might be able to adjust mat
ters, but, whenever an amendment
is made the hill goes back to the
House, and once there, the House has
the right to tabic the entire bill and
refuse to pass it.
. With the new general tax act ta
bled, as it is conceded will be the case
unless the House changes by tomor
row morning, there will he compara-
6. Four copies of the completed
song must be sent to Mrs. W. P. Bai
ley, 212 Wese Hall street, Savannah,
Ga.
7. These songs will be sung by a
selected chorus at the state conven
tion which will be held in Novem
ber, at Savannah, Ga., and will be
voted on by the delegates assembled
in convention.
It is hoped that a great many will
take advantage of this interesting op
portunity to make history and com
pose a state song that will live for
ever and bring lasting fame to some
loyal daughter or son.
tively little harm done, since the act
of 1919 would remain in effect and
the principal revenue raising tax bills
are specials, and already have been
signed by the Governor. The gasoline
bill will raise nearly $1,000,000, while
the fertilizer tax bill will raise $300,-
000, of which only $100,000 is special
ly appropriated. There would be a
discrepancy between the total reve
nue under the old tax act and the
new specials and the appropriations
carried solely in the general bill of
not more than $1,000,000. Therefore,
with the new tax bill tabled, the Gov
ernor would come off a few hundred
thousand dollars to the good and will,
after all, have outeuchered the House
at the game of finance. Hc would
not find himself in the position of
being compelled to call an extra ses
sion, and the burden of falling down
on the Confederate veterans would
fall, not on him or on the House, but
on the Senate. On the other hand,
if, when the House blows up, if it
tables both the bills—taxes and ap
propriations—a special session will
have to be called.
Tech Appropriation Boosted
In committee before arrival of the
Governor’s warning that sub-body of
the Senate had proceeded to tack on
one increase after another, Georgia
(Continued on Back Page.)
Reigns Supreme in Upper
House as Screws Turn
Atlanta, Aug. 9.—The Georgia Sen
ate, presided over tonight by Gov.
Thomns W. Hardwick, from the Sen
ate chambers, duped the Confederate
pensions overboard, forced fifteen or
more Senators to violate their solemn
agreement, brought about repeated
votes of other members in compliance
with that agreement, only to find
after their votes had been delivered
that they had been “hood-winked” and
precipitated the charge on the floor
of the Senate of bad faith in a speech
by Senator Sam Kimsey.
The spectacle of the chief executive
of the State, however, did not end
here, for the announcement had been
made by Senator Walker, chairman
of the appropriations committee, that
hc dumped the Confederate pension
ers and withdrew their pension ap
propriation at the solicitation and re
quest of Pension Commissioner John
W. Lindsey. The direct question was
asked Commissioner Lindsey if this
statement made by Senator Walker
was sanctioned by him and he replied
that he then authorized the statement
he had made the request of Senator
Walker to withdraw the appropriation.
Conference Hrutdl; Called
The Senate had been working along
on the appropriations bill about half
an hour when Governor Hardwick and
his secretary, Mr. Blalock, came hur
riedly into the Senate chamber, went
into an ante room and Senator Walker
was likewise hurriedly summoned by
Mr. Blalock. The room door was
locked, and after a while one by one
other Senators were summoned to the
conference, which also was partici
pated in at times by Representative
Carswell.
In the flash of an instant almost
the whole temper of the Senate had
changed. The works on the bill were
wholly smashed. Not until midnight
did he pause in sending orders back
tion, declaring he would not stand for
the passage of the bill unless it car
ried the pension increase and pay
ments, which the law allowed. An
agreement was entered into that the
members of the Senate would vote
down other proposed increases, though
the Senate committee already had
voted for them on the understanding
that if every increase was killed noth
ing should be allowed to prevent
adoption of the pension fund.
On that agreement the Senate start
ed working tonight and one by one
members voted against increases they
wanted, making the sacrifice for the
pensioners. Then Governor Hardwick
arrived -hurriedly and issued the or
ders, which made the change. Judge
Walker came out of conference. Pen
sioner Commissioner Lindsey arrived
and took his seat in the Senate cham
ber though he had never at any timfe
been in the conference room.
When Judge Walker announced that
he would withdraw hia pension
amendment on request of the Pension
Commissioner that gentleman sat
quietly and accepted the ' responsibil
ity which was being shirged upon him.
The reason for the sacrifice was pass
ed about the Senate by the Gov
ernor’s runners. He had had reason
to become suddenly alarmed about
the House of Representatives. He
could not trust it any further and at
all cost he had to prevent the ap
propriations bill ever getting back in
to its hands again.
Afraid of House
He had gotten through the special
tax hills he wanted and it was obvi
ous the House intends to kill the gen
eral tax bill. He had reason to fear
they will also kill the appropriations
bill also, and by so doing throw upon
his shoulders the responsibility of
[bringing about an extra session.
On this plan of campaign the Gov-
and forth through the chamber. At j ernor won. The Senate worked as
that time the bill was put on vote and j he directed it. The appropriations
passed as it came from the House bill wns adopted with everything and
"without the doting of an ‘I’ or the. everybody sacrificed after believing
crossing of a ‘T.’ ” they were in good shape, and tomer-
Thosc were the Governor’s orders row the House will find itself check-
nnd they were carried out. I mated by the chief executive, having
i Walker Leads Fight for one night in the history of Geor-
I In the committee meeting this af- j gia, presided over the deliberations of
ternoon Chairman Walker made a the highest body of fhe legislative
1 stout fight for the pension appropria- branch of the State Government
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