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The investigating c-rniiinnilttec will
liitd lots of lobbying but no lobbyists.
Now, if it were lobster* that Um com
mittee is liter, we might point out,a lew
in the vnpitol.
Oae mea«ly lobbv pot unite a full
wlit-a the uniform text bill pawned the
bouse by an overwhelming majority.
Senator Tillman is petting most of
the applause in the North just now in
his discourses on the negro question.
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The Atlant i Constitution claims the
doubtful honor of fir-: .-ngge-ting a
Georgia Republican for vice president
But w •• are -till tor Hooker.
The last gallant regiment has re
turned from the various best encamp
ments ever held anywhere, and the
Slate has again turned to civil affairs.
‘•Como to think of it, how would yon
like to be the ice?” asks a Savannah
Rres- writer, Il onldn t like it; it is in
everything, yet gets nothing out of it;
and look how it perspires away from
overwork these days!
The Constitution assumes to speak
for a larger constituency than any other
paper in Georgia, presumably on the
assumption that it him the largest cir
culation. J3ut it is not every big paper
that represents the views of its readers.
Beverly D Evans, judge of the supe
rior cent of the Middle circuit, is mak
ing an active canvass by letter for the
supreme bench now occupied by Judge
Fish, whose term will expire next year.
J udgo Evans would seem to bo on
time. _
The governor thinks three sessions of
he present legislature a plenty and will
mt call an extra one. If a new convict,
mil is not passed, the commission can
make a lease under the old one, it is
claimed, and no extra «<-*sio'i will be
utfrmmy. _
John G. Carlisle, who is to address
the Young Men’s Democratic Cub of
Atlanta —or has he made that address?
Really, we hadn't noticed—is reported
to have accepted a fee of $3,000 from
the negroes of Virginia to attempt the
overthrow of the suffrage amendments
in that State.
That was a very unique scene when
Booker Washington was threatened
with razors in a negro meeting isi cul
tured Boston for advocating industrial
development among his race. Boston
negroes are too cultured to work ; and
Booker sh> dd learn the lesson to stick
to his own class, which i the white Re
publican cranks of the North, who
stuff his punts pock< ts with boodle and
are keeu , o put on hi p ints for him.
THE POVERTY OF WALL STREET-
But forth" fact tlmt- a stringency
may bo produced by ‘ loss of confi
donee’ tl.> losses of Wall street
need dieus and our business no
in to than the combustion of white
paper. Those howls ar-i over 'catas
trophes’ that ure imaginary to all
but a certain set. We learn that
passage* to Europe tire being can
celed by the hundred, that super
fluous servants are bring discharg
ed, an 1 that the denianil for dia
monds and pioturi s nu ong.tr exists
—tint what of that ? Why should
we mourn because a thousand
Americans find themselves too poor
to spend some months in Europe, or
beonuse “the old in tslers” are 1 ft
vis out buyers, or some family one
gm ration from shirtsleeves must
ex r. without an“ tnd « ooaoh
n»-i? What ’ o '•p 'l isi? Binds
representing ii>» -• ■r? g of n mine
or a combination of mi is or eon
aolidation of railroads have mien
put on the market, and the price
first fixed by conditions, made the
whole lot worth a million—there
upon several men counted their
profit and were considered rich.
The < <xt day those bonds fell and
w- > worth less than half a million
—whereupon the reh were pour
a<ain. Now, nothing was really
lest—the mines or the roads or the
mills are st li with us, and are earn
ing just as much as before they got
together and issued these bonds to
be made good by squeezing the pub
lic. Instead, however, public opin
ion proved too wise, the bonds could
not be floated and “the squeezer
was squoze.”
No K, this is just what has hap
pened in Wall street—it is just what
happened when Cleveland was ac
cu od of “selling us to England,’’
at'l it is just what may happen any
de v till we learn that the prosperity
ot this country is not a tail to the
V, all street kite.
There is but one danger—the ig-
i norant public may think because
I some paper fortunes have been lest
on Wail street that we are all going
tothe bow-wows, we may shut up
our money, stop our work, and
t hink how awfnl it would be if we
were all starving and had, finally,
to desert this conntrv in a body and
■ follow Mr. Astor to England, where
w<» could hope for nothing till we
bad succeeded in shaking hands
with King Edward or Lady Some
body. We would not get hungry if
the A'lantio rose over Wall street
to the spire of Trinity church, but
we may suffer as much if we
think we are about to starve.
THE RECORD AND THE GEORGIA
POLITICIAN-
The Philadelphia Record thinks
that Judge Parker’s speech recent
ly deliverrd before the weotgia Bar
Association was a political speech
dieguised as a lecture and that the
people saw nothing but the guise.
It says:
“Jud?e Parker will learn with
profound disgust that his address
on the Fourteenth Amendment,
which was obviously designed to
c ipture the Southern delogaii jns to
the Democratic national convention, !
was wasted. Representative Liv- |
ingston, of Georgia, says the Parker
sentiment in his State is shifting to
Gorman. Judge Parker ‘delivered
a most learned and profound ad
dress on due process of law. The
politicians were expiating some
brilliant move on the political chess
board They listened in vam for
any reference to policies. I think
they have given him up as wedded
to law.’ Is it possible that those
Georgia politicians thought that
was a legal eeture instead of a po
litical speech? Then they cannot
even sue through a ladder. The
South wants fiery oratory. Several
years ago Senator D. B. Hill went
to Mississippi and read a manuscript
to man who bad been brought up
to listen to the eloquence of Lucius
Quintus Curtis Lamar, and thereaf
ter he had no strength in the South.
Judge Parker went to Georgia with
a political speech disguised as a
legal lecture, and the people sa v
nothing but the disguise.”
The Recoi d doesn’t know the
Georgia politician. He is a bird,
but not of the parrot brand, and so
saves both his talk and his tail
feathers. All he knows, he doesn't
say, and what he thinks he occa
sionally keeps to hin.self and that’s
where he is different from the Rec
ord. That paper would have to
live a long time in the land of the
possum—plain possum, not Opos
sum—before it cuuld get on to the
ways of the plain but not altogether
unsophisticated people who have
for ages hold that animal in sacred
seteem as a totem. It might man
age to get some of the sweet pota
toes on the side, but a smell of the
possum would scarce reach its nos
trils unless there was plenty to go
round.
What the b use does the senate
undoes, and ■ uero you are.
Now let t’. i Journal point out the
lobbyists whom it has warned back
to their dens.
If the legislature does nothing but
defeat the present convict lease sys
t-m, it will have done enough to
justify its existence.
—— - — -s.
This lobby business is a pretty
tnfe one, after all—the law against
it. being something like the one
against carrying ocncealed weapons.
——— MO
The Georgia senate doesn't be
lieve in trusting the people with the
ontrol of the railroads through
commissioners of their cw:i selec
tion
We could wxitemore paragraphs,
bnt refrain for two reasons : (11 this
is the silly season, and (2) most of
the paragraphs w uld be about the
actions of the legislature. With
such a time and subject, wo tear the
result.
The Albany Herald, whose r< pr- -
sentative is included among “the
four,’’ says : “The four gentlemen
who voted for the Candler subsii
tuk'in the 1 >n < y-sterility and I
then fluked when it came to voting j
for the Steed bid i y substitute (the
substitute being the fenm) nviy be,
accused of -running w th tiie hounds ■
ind holding with tlm hare.’ ”
That editorial in the Augusta
Herald complimenting the Chroni
cle on its good work in purifying
the ballot in Augusta—which actu
ally seems to be going on—is a gem
of journalistic courtesy toward the
newcomers in the field, and evinces
a harmony in the work of the
city's improvement and develop
ment that is more convincing than
anything else could be.
d jfILJS T O RTA .
Bear* th o j* The Kind You Have Always BouglA
TWO GOOD BILLS PASSED-
The senate has passed the house
bill appropriating |50,000 for an ex
hibit to the St. Louts fair.
The house has passed the senate
bill requiring uniformity in text
books for the public schools.
Both these bills passed both
houses by large majorities and will
become laws.
They are good bills, of great pub
lic importance, and both have been
persistently urged by this paper.
The exhibit has been advocated by
all the more important members of
the Blate press, bnt the uniformity
bill has not had such uniforlm sup
port. However, Commissioner
Merritt was elected largely on that
issue ana his recommendations had
great weight.
We congratulate the legislature
on this good work Spalding’s
representative was on the right side
of both these measures.
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OVER-EDUOATED MINISTERS
The Thomasville Times-Eater
prise says :
“A Barnesville Presbyterian
preacher has resigned his pastorate
to take a course at Princeton,
(kher ministers are doing this
frequently, and it is a good thing
There is too much of the blind lead
ing the blind. It is bard for us to
conceive of an over-educated minis
ter. He cannot be too wise and
too learned to do justice to God’s
wark. ”
Yet there is such a thing as an
over educated minister, as many
ministerial trials will show. They
get so educatad mentally that they
lose faith and spirituality ani
finally become so enamored of their
own knowledge that they lose the
knowledge of God, which is the be
ginning of wisdom.
There can be too much of any
thing, even of certain kinds of re
ligion.
Tempting Judge Lynch-
Albany Herald.
Governor Terrell yesterday issued
an order granting the sixth respite
to Millard Lee, the young man who,
nearly two year i ago. shot and kill
ed Miss Lilia May Suttles in Mt.
Gilliard church in the Ben Hill dis
trict of Fulton county. The people
of the state are familiar with this
case. The shooting occurred at the
close of the morning’s service and
while the mt moers of the church
were gathered about the chancel
exchanging usual weekly greetings.
Lee said of the killing, a tew days
after the crime was committed, that,
he killed the young lady because
she would not let him go with her,
and that he loved her too much to
see any one else go with her. Since
the murder he has been confined in
in Fulton county jail. His case has
been tried a half-dozen times, tho
pl a of insanity figuring in several
or the trials. Each time the verdict
has been against him. The respite
granted yesterday is until October
23, so as to allow the supreme court
to pass upon the verdict of the last
jury that handled the case, which
was that Lee was sane and should
ba held responsible for the murder.
In this o tse there appears to be
another one of those instances in
in which the law's delay becomes
exasperating and tempts Judge
Lynch to take a band. And it is
not the first- ease of the kind that
Atlanta has had. It. seems hard to
hang a murderer up there so long
as he has money enough to pay
lawyers to keep his case in the
ceurts, and when there is no other
possible defense, as in the Fl migan
case and the present case, the in
sanity plea is made to serve in
staying the hands of the law. Mil
lard Lee may be insane, but it
would seem that his lawyers have
had a hard time proving it to the
satisfaction of a jury. An outbreak
by Judge Lynch to take bis case
out of the courtsand punish a mur
derer and rebuke the “I.* v’s delay”
would not be a matter of much sur
prise, however deplorable it might
be to the law-abiding people of the
state.
A Million Dollars in Five
Years.
A mi'll m dollar increase in five
years is not so bad for a town of
Griffin's size, which only a few
rears ago did not foot up much
m ire than that- aimunt. There is
no use being ashamed about it, it is
it fact that once Griffin was a small
t iwn. We are outgrowing it as fast
ns we can, but really we could not
help it at the time.
1374,282—that’s the increase (in
tux returns this year in Spelding
county, according to the books of
Receiver Harry Johnson, and itjis
mostly in Griffin. The county is
picking up some, Harry says, but
this increase is new factories ani
buildings—dwellings and store
houses—in the city of Griffin; Not
increased valuations put on old
property, yon understand, but just
the usual underestimated value of
new property that has come into
sight and could not be kept off the
digest. This is Mr. Johnson's fifth
year and it is his statement that
there has been an increase of a mil
lion dollars in the five years.
Pretty gcod figures, ' eh? Well,
not so bad ; a proportionate increase
that would make other places stund
on their heads and pop their eyes
out. Bat Griffin is simply busy
getting a start.
The figures are $4,261,784 t s ia
year against 13,800,502 last year.
That’s nil.
i AUGUST.-"”
By Charles J. Bayne, iu Savannah 1 rest
Across the furrowed fields the
boll and bloom are bursting into
fi-<ecy clouds of white; the late
grain waits the sickle and the barn.
These brown young August days,
lihe orient children, caper over
half-patched lawns and gambol in
the woods where even the birds are
dumb and listless through the sul
try noons. The vanguard of the
harvesters are out, and here and
there rise snow pyramids which, as
the w-eek go by, will multiply until
a hundred thousand backs are bent
and busy fingers once again trans
mute the south’s white staple into
gold.
The pumpkins gleam between the
rows of corn whose lowered 1 inces
vield to the sun gold’s fierce darts.
In swamps the wild grape sprawls
a ong the overhanging boughs and
purple muscadines peer through
the rifted leaves. The sunflowers
circling lawns are but a narrow rim
around her seedy heart, grown full
with faithful following of her fiery
lord. The z. inias and the holly
hocks are in their hardy prime;
ihe phlox, the larkspur, and the
four-o-clocks surround their stateli
er stems.
These orient- August children will
mature with orient ha»te and soon
the summer, with it< smiles and
tears, will pass into the vast Valhalla
of the years Only the lives una deedt
of men can mike the passing sea
son great, apportioning their part
and place in the final bourne of
Time. What of the days that now
are almost done? They have been
a tangled tapestry of good and ill.
but here’s to the bright, redeeming
days which still remain !
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
House Revives Convict Bill—Candler
Compromise.
Atlanta, July 30. —It was by a nar
row margin that the house yesterday
reconsidered its action in defeating
the Steed bin and substitutes relating
to the disposition of the state’s fel
ony convicts. > But the house fid as
predicted, and by a vo ts oe7U to 78
the convict question as outlined un
der the Steed bill was brought back
to life.
Tnere was only one object, however,
in gelling this measure back before
the house That was in order that
the Candler compromise, which went
down in defeat with fire Steed bill,
may be offered as a substitute for the
senate bill when that measure ..comes
up for consideration.
Mr. Felder, of Bibb, made the motion
to reconsider, and stated the matter
would go to the foot of the calendar
if the house agre id to that motion.
There was no d“-ire, he said, to bring
the Steed bill up aga ! n, and the only
object in view was to enable those
most interi te.! to ciTer the Candler
compromise bill C'-ain as a sni-.-U'/'.
Mr. Steed, of Taylor, opposed the
motion to recc.-r.sider, as did also Mr.
Mosses, of Coweta. They claime 1
sufficient tlm; 1: a' a bv--;i g'ven
tc the cr n sid ration of thi lesti in,
and that the duty before the house
now is to enar t me 1 ‘gislation with
out further < ■ Liy, to provLe for the
disposition of the felony convicts.
Mr. Flynt, of S.milling, spoke strong
ly for reconsid. ration, showing that
the only object was to put life in the
Candler ccmpromi.-e, as it is proposed
tc offer it as a sulvtituie for any other
measure on the convict question that
may be considered.
The vote for reconsideration was 73
to 78, and was announced amidst con
siderable applause and cheering.
The house passed, by a vote of 129
to 21, the resolution of Mr. Howard,
of Baidu in, appropriating ? 15,000 to
the state sanitarium at Milledgeville
for the purpose of putting in lights and
building a necessary wall in connec
tion with the two new buildngs at that
institution.
The -advisability of the election o!
railroad commisi loners by the people,
Instead of having them selected by the
governor, as is now the case, furnish
ed the theme for the principal discus
sicn before the senate yesterday. The
■net result was the overwhelming de
feat of the election bill which had
come froir. the house.
New senate '.alls were introduced as
follow s:
By Senator V..nßnren— To require
tl.< ordir.aiios of all the counties ol
this state to keep a rm-ord of all pen
sioners in their county that are paid
by the state.
By Senator Atkinson —To amend
section 3393 of the code as to applica
tion for administration on estates.
By Senator Perry—To cede to the
■United States government jurisdietlou
over certain property in Gainesvlle
to be used for postoffice purposes.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
Ths Kind You Haye Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
LOBBYING CHARGED
INJBISLATURE
Gsorgia Senate Has Adopted
Resolution.
13 TRANSMITTED TO HOUSE.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary,
investigation of Alleged Charges of
Lobbying—Othe Matters Consid
ered.
Atkwua. Jn’y CL—Charges of “lob
byn.g-' n»aae. upon the floor of the
house, and the report of these charges
by the i.e * spapeis —accompanied in
some Instances by comment con
strued as -leilucting seriously upon the
members ol the general assembly—
were responsible for the senate's adop
tion, yesterday, of a resolution call
ing for a joint committee of investiga
tion. This resolution was immediate
ly transmitted to the where it
was let'evred to the committee on ju
diciary. This committee at Its meet
ing in the afternoon adopted a substi
tute tor the original -resolution in which
the wcHdit’g of the original was some
what changed.
V> tth the adoption of either set of
resolutions an investigation is assure!.
The men who have made charges of
lobbyism—which is a crime clearly de
fined in the statutes of Georgia—will
be given full opportunity to produce
their prboi, if they have any; ana
any person or persons have been guil
ty of this crime, the way will be pav
ed for their punishment.
The house spent a large part of the
day yesterday in seemingly unneces
sary wrangling. There was a long
discussion of the question as to wheth
er members of visiting committees
should have only actual expenses as
pe-r itemized statement, or should be
permitted to charge -railroad fare when
they tiavel on passes. The itemized
statement won the day.
The vagrancy bill by Mr. Calvin,
of Richmend, was passed, as were also
bills to amend the alternative road
law and the law about- one railroad
paralleling another within 10 miles, -so
as to exempt suburban eleatric lines.
The house spent some tim.e consid
ering reports from the on
rules. H refused to entertain the idea
of a steering committee, and instruct
ed the rules committee to report on
the resolutions calling for special or
ders.
Ar. hour of the afternoon session was
spent in debating a point of order and
an appeal from the decision of the
chair relative to a substitute on the
uniform text-book question.
Then when a resolution was report
ed fixing the convict bill as a special
order for next Tuesday morning the
house refused to adopt it. passing in
stead a resolution to stick to the house
calendar until Wednesday.
Absolutely nothing has been done by
the house relative to the disposition of
the felony convicts and the body ap
pears to have been largely frittering
awa, its time fn useless wrangles.
Tae indications are now tli.lt this
question, the most important of the
session, will not be settled before mid
night of the last day of the session,
perhaps not until early morning of the
day fo-ilowing.
The house passed, by a vote of 88
to 2, the bill of Senator Perry, of the
thlrt.-.-ti-ir-l proposing to ameni* section
218-.1 of volume 2 of the code relative to
the 'ajing out of routes of street rail
ways.
Tins bill exempts street and subur
ban railways, operate.! by electricity,
from the provisions of the law which
prohibits the building of one line o!j
railroad within 10 miles of and paral
lel to another. There was no special
opposition to the bill and it would un
doubtedly have had a larger vote had
not the attendance been small.
Uniform Text-Books Adopted By
House—Vote tO7 to 45.
Atlanta, Ga., August I.—-Lit
tle dou»>t remains that a uniform
system of text-books will soon
bo established for Georgia’s common
schools, for the house of representa
tives passed yesterday by a vote of
107 to 45 the bill providing for this
change in the present arrangement.
The large vote given the measure
was somewhat of a surprise, though it
was generally believed it would pass
with a good margin over a constitu
tional majority.
There has been determined opposi
tion to the measure and every possible
effort has been made to defeat it. The
fight has been conducted both in the
commiP.ee room and on the floor of
the house, and all sorts of legitimate
taetk-i, have been used.
The iuJienm text-book bill, as pass
ed by the house, is a compromise sub
stitute. It bears the names of Messrs.
West, of Lowndes; Mitchell, of Thom
as, and Whitley, of Douglas, all of
whom hau introduced measures on the
subject, and tt was prepared by a snb
oommttt.ee on education and adopted
after cor.elderable scrapping in the
committee room.
For a Court of Appeals.
The general judiciary committee of
the house heard interesting arguments
yesterday from former Chief Justice
Logan E. Bleckley and Justice Little,
of the supreme court, in favor of the
bill which proposes to create a circuit
court of appeals for the purpose of
supreme court from some
OT its iprcseni THiraema Th* bjl
will be taken up again on Monday,
when a committee from the Georgia
Bar association will be heard in be
half of ir.
The senate general judiciary com
mittee has reported favorably the
house bill to abolish days of grace
In this state.
The most important Till’ passe,
the senate at yesterday’s se2sic “
especial interest tc Atlanta. Thi.
the bill introduced by Senator Pen.
providing for the appointment of pro
bation officers in the citios of 00.000
and over—a measure which, as its au
thor explained. w£s especially cham
pioned by a large number of ladies in
Ulanta and other citios who have grv
en though: to the problem of beiier
i-ng the condition of youth-3 vho may
De save ! from becoming crimm-ils.
Tills measure <i : es not make the ap-,
pointment of such probation officers
obligatory upon any city, but leaves x
it to the mayor and council to pro
vide for such appointment in ease they
see fit.. It applies, as stated,
to the larger cities and only to persenajH
guilty of violations of municipal or-|l
dinanccs. I
Both houses of the general assembly!
have acted relative to the general\
charges cf lobbying which have been 1
made m connection with the legisla- |
ture, the joint committee has been ap
pointed. and investigation of the mat
ter will begin on Monday. t
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