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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE IN THE HOUSE. July 15. The house of representatives, after t spirited debate Wednesday morning, refused to indefinitely postpone the anti-pass bill of Senator Born of the Thirty-fourth district by the decisive vote of 93 to 58, and the considera tion of the bill will 'be resumed in its regular order. A motion to reconsider the pension hill, which had been defeated, was carried, A resolution calling on Governor gmith to furnish legislature his rea sons for dismissing Joseph M. Brown was laid over one day. July 16. Objection to leasing the convicts of the state developed on all sides Thursday when the Holder convict measure was offered to the house. A decided tendency, if to lease at all, to limit to one year the lease and by that means throw the question, for final settlement upon the next admin istration with its new legislature pre vailed. Only two speeches were made dur ing the session. The first was by Mr. Holder of Jackson, the author of the measure, and the second by Mr. Cov ington of Colquitt, who had the floor when the house adjourned. July 17. Almost the entire time of the house of representatives was occupied Fri day morning in a continuation of the discussion of the question of the dis position of the state’s convicts. Mr. Covington finished his address, which was begun Thursday. Mr. Jones of Alexander, Mr. Fuilbright of Burke, Mr. Boyd of Spalding, Mr. Wright of Floyd and Mr. Holder of Jackson ex pressed their views in regards to the convict leasing system. The house concurred in the senate resolution calling for investigation of the convict lease system. July 18. The house was in session but thir ty minutes, during time the following bills were passed: by Mr. Odum of Baker, to create board of county com mission, to repeal act creating the board of county commissioners; by Mr. Flanders of Johnson, to create board of roads and revenues; by Mr. Haywood of McDuffie, to create a board of roads and revenues; by Mr. Strickland of Pike, to incorporate the town of Williamson; by Mr. Simmons of Gilmer, to create new charter for Ellijay; by Mr. Peterson of Montgom ery, to incorporate town of Orland; by Mr. Simmons of Gilmer, to repeal act incorporating town of ElLijay; by Mr. Trent of Heard, to repeal act granting new charter for Franklin; by Mr. Alexander of DeKalb, to au thorize bond issue for Decatur; by Mr. Trent of Heard, to create new charter for Franklin; by Messrs. Candier and .Alexander of DeKalb, to authorize mayor and council to issue bonds; by Mr. Burwell of Han cock, to repeal act incorporating Cul verton; by Mr. Berry of Union, to incorporate town of Blairsville; by Messrs. Brown and Watkins of Car roll, to create office of commissioner of roads and revenues; by Mr. Cal beck of Gordon, to authorize town of Calhoun to deed certain lands; by Blackburn and Bell of Fulton, to amend charter for East Point; by Mr. Ballard of Newton, to establish public school for Mansfield; by Mr. Peterson of Montgomery, to create a new charter for Glenwood; by Mr. Swilling of Franklin, to authorize pub lic school system for Lavonia; by Messrs. Nix and Wilson of Gwinnett, to amend charter of Norcross; by Mr. Mays of Butts, to create new charter for Jackson; by Mr. Boyd of Spald ing, to authorize Griffin to lay out certain streets. July 20. They heard a message from Gov ernor Hoke Smith read in which the governor gave his reason for dismiss ing Joseph M. Brown. It was referr ed to the judiciary committee. Under a special order the house took up the hill by Mr. Dunbar of Richmond providing for the valida tion of certain county and municipal bonds, concurred in the senate amendments and passed the bill. The house then went into a com mittee of the whole house and Mr. Wright of Floyd took the floor and spoke favoring the Alexander substi tute to the convict lease bill. At the conclusion of Mr. W right s address Mr. Barrett of Stephens pie sented a substitute to the bill. Mr. Hall of Bibb speaking on the Barrett substitute had the floor when the house adjourned. The following bills were passed by unanimous consent: By Mr. ihuiman of Walker—A bill to create the coun ty court of Walker county. By Mr. Flanders of Johnson —A bill to create the city court of Wrightsville. July 21. , The convict lease question, "hicn was the special order of the a>, came up as soon as the house conten ed Tuesday morning. Arguments pro and con were ma by Mr. Wise of Fayette, Mr. BiacJe hu rn of Fulton, Mr. Butt of Fan 1 , Mr. Payton of Worth, Mr. Smith of Campbell and Mr. Hall of Bmb secur ed the floor just before adjournment and his address was unfinished. The following bills were be unan imous consent, read the third 1 inl and passed: By Mr. Blackburn of 11 ton—A bill to provide for two spec ial baliliifs in the superior courts or certain counties. By Messrs, xoung and Tuggle of Troup—A bill to change the time of holding the supe IN THE SENATE. I, Ju| y is. Flyru was a S ai n in the cnaii Wednesday morning, after an dsence of several days on account of ~e . ll * ess °f bis father, whose con dition he reported as still critical. Senator Hay’s senate bill (hy re quest) providing that "power plants furnishing light or heat to me public shall have power to use water for con densing purposes from any near by stream, provided that 75 per cent of the same shall be returned to the stream at the same place from which it was taken," was made the special order of the day. In speaking in opposition to the bill Senators Overstreet and Henderson charged that considerable lobbying had been done for the bill. Senator Williford and Senator Boyd also spoke at some length in opposi tion to the bill. The bill was lost by a vote of 21 to 6. A bill for the regulation of the con duct of telegraph operators and train dispatchers of common carriers and for other purposes, was passed with out opposition. A bill for the provision of an aux iliary militia, composed only on veter ans of the Spanish-Ameriean war and such men as had served a full enl.st ment in the national guard, which would provide a proper guard for the property and lives of the state at such times as the regular national guard should be called out of Georgia by the president of the United States was passed without opposition. July 16. At the sesion of the senate Thurs day appropriation bills giving the University of Georgia SIO,OOO for the remodeling of old college at Athens and $5,000 for the equipping of the Carnegie library at the Georgia School of Technology were passed. During the debate over the appro priation bill for Carnegie library, Senator Wilkes of the Second district made many sensational statements concerning Andrew Carnegie. The Shaw resolution, calling for the appointment of two members of the senate to act with the three members of the house on the investigation of the convict lease system, was passed with but one dissenting vote. July 17. Friday’s session of the senate was uneventful and quiet. The Shaw resolution on the investi gation of the convict lease system, which was adopted Thursday, was reconsidered and laid on the table and the Felder resolution on the same subject was adopted. This course was taken because the house had had already adopted the Felder reso lution. The following bills were passed: By Senator Lashley—'To prevent the taking of fish from Brass Town creek in Towns county. By Senator Wilkes To incorporate the town of King wood in the county of Colquitt. House bill bv Mr. Mercer of Terrell —To provide for relief from the state tax on our dispensaries in Terrell county in 1907. July 18. There was no session of the senate Saturday, that body having adjourned Friday until Monday. July 20. The senate heard the reading of the governor’s special message with out comment. It was referred to the judiciary committee. President Flynt announced his ap pointments from the senate for the investigation of the convict lease sys tem and the state prison commission i under the Felder resolutions as fol 10'senator Felder of the Twenty-sec ond district. Senator Brock of the Fourth, Senator Haves of the Thir teenth. _____ - July 21. The good roads bill of Senator B 0 yd of the Thirty-second district, came up for final action in the sen ate Tuesday morning and was tabled after a lengthy debate. A bill bv Senator Cam;, to incorpor ate the city of Lavonia, Franklin rnuntv, W3>s passed. The Martin tag tax bill was called no bv special order and brought forth the most vigorous discuss.on of any measure that has been considered by the senate in several weeks. The Martin bill provides that the tax on fertilizers shall be raised from en to twenty-five cents per ton, the proceeds to go towards the support of the eleven congressional district schools of the state. These schools have alreadv been built and must have additional funds for the.r sup senator Wilkes spoke at some i pn <rth opposing the measuie. Flvnt of the senate took the floor and when that body adjourn ed had not finished his speech tavor ing the bill. Yowls. -This lullaby doesn’t seem to soothe baby." . “Wonder wh\' not. “I suspect he takes it for competi tion -—Washington Herald. rinr courtnf Troup county. By Mr. Glenn of Whitfield-A bill to amend the act creating the city court of Dal ton Bv Mr. Odum of Laker—A bill o amend the act creating the city court of Newton. By Mr Johnson of Jasper—-A bill to amend the act creat ing the city court of Monticello. By M? Wilson of Gwinnett- A bill to amend the act creating the city court of Buford. UTE NEWS NOTES. General. American capitalists contemplate working a concession of 8,000 acres of hard wood timber in Honduras. Twenty miles of railway, with spurs, are to be constructed. Shipments will be made to the United States. As the land is cleared rubber, banana and coeca will be planted. The emperor of China, Tsai Tien, has been ill for some time past. It Is impossible to ascertain what his mal ady is because western medicial sci ence is barred from the imperial pal ace,- but the reports indicate that he is suffering from dysentery. His maj esty is said to be better, but in spite of this the dowager, empress has or dered the various viceroys and gov ernors to send physicians from the provinces to Pekin. The Western Maryland express from Elkins to Baltimore was com pletely wrecked near Keyser, W. Va. Eleven passengers were seriously in jured. Nearly all are West Virgiu lains. Two caskets Containing corps es were broken open and lie In the wreckage on the river bed. It has transpired that an American woman who was traveling through the wilds of the state of Chiapas, Mexico, dressed in man’s attire, and who was suspected of being Mrs. Bell Guinness, the notorious LaPorte murderess, is Mrs. K. M. Cameron, widow of a preacher of Parkers. W. Va. All of the five balloons which start ed from St. Paul In an effort to sur pass the world’s distance and endur ance record have landed, the Chica go, owned by C. A. Coey of Chicago winning the contest by traveling a distance of seventy-three miles in an air line. The Pommern, which was the last to report, landed near War saw, Minn., about fifty-two miles from St. Paul. The Chicago won both en durance and distance prizes. Japan is rapidly making arrange ments for the building of two new battleships. The keel of one will be laid at Yokosuka during July, and the keel of the other at Kure 'before the end of the year. The displacement of these ships will be 20,800 tons; their speed, 20 knots; their armor, 12 inches, and their principal armament 12-inch guns. Following his action of naming one of the great national forest reserves “Cleveland National Forest,” Presi dent Roosevelt has written Mrs. Cleveland praising former President Cleveland's act of establishing forest reserves. A St. Louis judge has decided that a combination of laundry companies does not violate the trust laws. His reason for arriving at this decision was; “There are many ways of clean ing soiled clothes and a person doe3 not necessarily have to have soiled clothes washed by any company or companies.” * A pleasure launch bound from Ma nila, P. 1., to Corregiidia island, car rying about seventy-five passengers, was caught in a typhon and foun dered. Twenty-five of the party, in cluding three Americans were drown ed. The re3t were picked up by a British steamer and landed safely. The lepers located on the island of Moiokia purchased a large quantity of daylight fireworks which were used to salute the Atlantic battleship fleet as it passed the island. A large piece which on its explosion formed the word “welcome,” was placed in a position of vantage. H. H. Rodgers, the well-known Wall street man, in an interviiew declared that the country has fully recovered from the effects of the 'recent panic and that business along all lines was in as good, if not better condition, than before the scare. A net income of $449,461,188 availa ble for dividends or surplus, 873,905,- 133 passengers carried and 1,796,338,- 659 tons of reight hauled, track mile age of 327,975, employes numbering 1,672,074, equipment including 55,388 locomotives, 43,973 passenger cars and 1,991,557 freight cars and 122,855 persons killed or injured, is the show ing made by the railroads of the Unit ed States in the inter-sttae commerce commission’s report for the year end ing June 30, 1907. Mrs. Isabella Salem of Buffalo, N. Y., killed her three small children and then attempted to kill herself. She poisoned the children first with Paris green and then strangled them with handkerchiefs. One contestant was drowned, half a dozen others were seized with cramps and rescued with difficulty, and two spectators were thrown in the river when a tug boat collided with their rowboat during the first annual "Marathon swim” of the new Illinois Athletic club in the Chicago river. The water proved far too cold for the swimmers, and only seventeen of a field of sixty managed to finish the two-mile course. Washington. A young man who gave his name as Juan Herzgeld was arrested in New York City at the request of the Mexi can authorities at Washington on the charge of having stolen $5,065 from the Mexican Sugar Refining company at El Potrero Cordora, in the state of Vera Cruz. An examination of the books of the railroads of the country by the inter state commerce commission will be gin soon. The commission desires to find whether the roads have complied with prescribed forms of accounts, records and memoranda showing the movement of traffic. The commission asks for 90 men for this work, and are now swapped with applications from expert examiners. I DO NOT OVER-LOOK | THE GASOLINE ENGINE You make a mistake if you think you can run your EE farm economically or profitably without a gasoline engine. == Do not overlook the possibilities of a gasoline engine for = farm use. A gasoline engine will furnish power to do the == hundred and one little jobs about your farm which make farm work drudgery if hand, wind or horse power is used. = The gasoline engine is so reliable, so simple, so safe, and EE so economical to operate that you can not afford to over- EE look it. Of all the gasoline engines on the market, the I. H. 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Mary Mannering said she was su ing her husband, James K. Hackett, for divorce. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Is the heaviest taxpayer in Newport. Ft. 1., paving on a total valuation 0!‘51,040,- 200. The Mount Vernon (K. Y.) Board of Health, spurred to action by mem bers of women’s clubs, started a cru sade against flies. Queen Alexandra opened buildings Intended as headquarters for the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses in London. Mme. Alla Nazimova. Russian ac tress. has purchased a tract of land at a cost of $40,000 on Byram ltidge, N. Y., for a country place. Although probably more actively engaged in business than any other person in the country, Mrs. Hetty Green has never used a telephone. The Art Students' League of New York City announced offers of prizes from W. T. Evans and others to en courage ambitious young >nca and women. Mrs. Humphrey Ward has come out in the open against women's rights, and is one of the most promi nent of the organizers of the National Woman’s Anti-Suffrage Association. The Figaro, of Paris, announced the engagement of Mile. Anne Fal lieres, daughter of the President of France, to Jean Joseph Edmond Thanes, secretary-general to the Presi dent. The only woman in the world who bears the impressive title “Dean of Deans” Is Miss Laura C. Cornell, who is a leader in the executive and edu cational work of Temple University, in Philadelphia. In life’s game be sure to play the winning card. Gray hairs need be honored only when the adorn honest heads. Nothing but man can smile—smile then. <7 For Trap c t Field a STEVENS SINGLE cr DOUBLE DARREL CUOTGUM iz I dec!. Low in Prir.o —IIU’.i in Quality—good pen value right through! 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