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HE LEGISLATURE.
JVeeks Doings and
ings of the Georgia
Solons.
ursday
debate was begun in the
e over the bill to make the juries
judges of cooling time in trials
murder, changing the three-day
lit which has been fixed by the
preme court.
The bill by Mr Pace, of Newton,
pxeippt from taxation all places
religious worship, places of burial
3 the property of educational in
tutions made a special order to
the Hardwick bill next Tues
was the usual number of new
The one of perhaps the great
interest was by Mr. Starr, of
rdon, prohibiting the netting of
and the sending them out of
state at any season of the year.
6 committee - onVaducation re
adversely on three bills which
to change the eligibility and
manner of electing county school
Enterprise is glad to note this.
county school commissioners
elected in the right way,
Wm. Henderson was on the
of the house for the first time
session and handed in
local measure:
to amend the charter of Ocilla.
were forty absentees when
was called in tbe house. A
of the members left for Sa
to attend the Confederate
X; alvin, of Richmond, endea
Bto compel the attendance of a
Pum after Monday by restricting
[number Ito of absences to be grant
Ithat twenty-five. He urged the
there were only sixteen
Kjpg days of the session left, but
|honse'd@clined to pass the reso
>n.
[favorable report on the Clifton
'to provide a uniform series of
(books in tho common schools of
stkte was made by the committee
education through Chairman
iny, but with a number of amend
mts.
amendments include a list of
subjects for which text book3
to-be used, provided that the bill
not affect any system support
local taxation and provide
that any of the schools em
by the bill which refuse to
the books prescribed shall for
their right to a share in tbe
fund. There is also an amend
which prevents any member of
book commission from being
with any publishing house,
committee on corporations
an adverse report on the
amend tho charter of Tifton.
are not advised as to the pro
ins of this proposed amendment
bur neighbors charter but if it
nosed to make Fitzgerald liquor
ftraband of war when captured in
I possession of a Tifton colonel
In we commend the oommittee for
[recommendation that tbe bil “do
pass.”
iflrOCK LAW BILL DEBATED.
lere was a very lively debate
a stock law bill which passed
house last session and was
by the senate a few days
es D VJ
It adopted “no fen a CD ^
build mce all around it. to
it from districts which had
Tbe bill was considered
for tbe cattle owners in fence
so that when adjoining dis
took down fences tbe cattle
not be endangered.
■—THE
MISS WHITTIER, Proprietress.
nice things for the Ladies, Goods
■ suit and prices that please,
WEN BLOCK, GRANT STREET,
$ $ $ $ $ $!$ sfe 3ft sf: a|e sfs
millinery parlors?
IN GREER BLOCK.
JVTrs. jVIattie JVIatsor), Proprietress.
If Having bought out Miss Sanders and added the latest M
jro\d newest style goods. I am prepared to fill all orders for **
■T MRS. MATTIE MATSON.
FITZGKRALD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1899.
Tho Senate amendment was dis¬
agreed to and the bouse insists on
the bill as it ppssed that body.
“COOLING TIMK” RILL.
The ‘colling time bill” by Mr.
Starr of Gordon, was brought over
from yesterday as unfinished busi¬
ness and was next taken up.
This is the bill that leaves to the
jury the question of determining in
murder cases whether before
killing there was time for the voioe
of reason to be' heard. JTUnder the
present law three days is the cooling
time allowed.
The bill passed 94 to 24 and was
immediately transmittedjto the sen¬
ate, by a vote of 54 to 47. The home
adjourned to meet Monday.
A SENSATION RECALLED.
The sensation which was caused
oy the 'investigation of the lunatic
asylum lastjsummer was recalled in
the house, when a resolution was
offered by Mr. Freeman, of Coweta,
to pay the expenses of the investiga¬
tion. The amount called for in the
resolution is $547.99, made up from
itemized statements of the expenses
of all the committeemen. The reso¬
lution was referred to the committee
on appropriations.
The senate had a quite session
passing a few unimportant bills, and
adjourned to Monday 10 a. m.
Saturday.
The hoot of an owl could
have been heard from the hall of
the bouse to the senate chamber and
the echo back again.
Monday,
Representative McDonald, of Ware
created a profoubd sensation in the
house by repeating a charge, said to
have been made outside, that the
committee on county and county
matters had been “fixed” to defeat
two of his local bills.
Mr. Moore, of Carroll, chairman
of the committee, denounced the
charge as an “untruth” and made
the situation’fstill more sensational
by stating that Mr. McDonald had
submitted to the committee recom¬
mendations favorable to his bills by
the grand jury of Ware county which
proved to be forged.
Last Thursday’s Waycross Even¬
ing Herald prints a statement from
the grand jury and signed by every
member of that body in which it is
stated:
“It is plain'to any who reads that
our representative is seeking to with
hold {the highest evidence of this
fact from the public.
The severe reflection which the
Ware grand jury has made on the
representative from that county is
the most sensational developments
of the session and ihe progress of
the affair will be closely watohed.
A large number of local bills were
introduced and some unimportant
bills were passed.
The house having accepted an in¬
vitation to go to Brunswick to a
clam and oyster feast on Thanksgiv¬
ing day, a resolution was introduced
that when the general assembly ad¬
journs Wednesday it should not re¬
convene until Monday of next week.
The resolution provides that the in¬
tervening days shall not be counted
as legislative days, but the lost time
shall be made up at the end of the
session. The resolution w a8 tabled
for one day.
Tuesday.
MR. IlARDWiOR’s bill.
The house snowed under the Hard¬
wick bill by a vote of 137 to 3. Thir¬
ty-five members did not vote. This
is the reform ballot law about which
so much has been written.
The bill was taken up shortly after
10 o’clock. The portion of tho gal¬
leries reserved for negroes was
crowded with preachers and other
members of the race, who followed
the debate with the closest attention.
The bill provides “that no person
shall be a competent voter unless he
shall be able to read and to write
any paragraph of the constitution
of this state, and shall be able to
understand any paragraph of such
constitution andl give a reasonable
interpretation thereof; provided,
however, that no male person who
was on January J, 18(i7, or at any
time prior thereto, entitled to a vote
under the laws ©f the state wherein
he then resided, and no lineal de¬
scendant of such person, shall be de¬
nied tbe right to register or vote at
any election in this state by reuson
of his failure to possess tbe educa¬
tional qualifications provided for.
Mr. Hardwick, of Washington,
opened tbe debate with a stirring
speech in its favor. He took up first
the proposed change and wbat it
would accomplish; next the consti
tutionalitj of the measure, and its
effect on Georgia’s representations
in congress, and lastly the necessity
for the change.
Suffrage had always been restrict¬
ed, he said, to those capable of exer¬
cising it intelligently, until the south
was forced by the federal govern¬
ment to bear the “shameful disgrace
of the fifteenth amendment.” Mr
Hardwick referred to this as “that
unholy amendment, which is charac¬
terized by statesmen of every nation
as the political crime of the century.
Mr. Hardwick readily admitted
that his aim was to disfranchise the
large body of negroes whom he
classed as the “ignorant and purcha¬
sable voters.” He said it was his de¬
sire to restrict the government to
tbe white citizens.
In support of his proposed resolu¬
tions Mr. Hardwick referred to the
laws of Massachusetts, Deleware,
Rhode Island and Maine. Those
states as well as several southern
states, had restricted suffrage with¬
out having their representation in
congress curtailed. They would na¬
turally from self interest, oppose
any effort to change tbe present
basis of representation.
Mr. Hardwick, in contending for
tbe justice ot his measure, said the
negroes comprised 99 per cent of the
purchasable voters of the state. He
said that 46.74 per cent of the popu¬
lation of Georgia were negroes. The
negroes have a majority in 63 count¬
ies, which include every city in the
state except Atlanta.
Mr. Harrison of Quitman, one of
the signers of tbe minority report,
was the next speaker, and be
opposed the bill in a forceful argu¬
ment,
He said there was no danger of
negroes being put into office in Geor¬
gia. There was not even a negro
constable in tbe state. All the talk
of danger was mere hallucination,
and due to political excitement. He
urged that the policy of educating
the negroes should he pursued fur¬
ther before disfranchisement was
adopted.
Mr. Howard, of Chattahoochee,
also opposed the bill, lie said edu¬
cation was not a proper test of vi¬
ciousness. He wanted to eliminate
the yicious voters, as much as tbe
author of the bill did, but he did not
believe tbe bill would do it. Tbe
best educated negroes, he said, were
not tbe most intelligent. Some of
the best negro citizens were those
who had never been to school a
day in their lives.
There were many explanations of
votes bu| only three members went
pn record as voting for the bill.
They wpre Messrs. Hardwick, of
\Va8bjngton, Ellis, of Bibb, and Bel 1 ,
of Forsyth.
IN THE) SENATE,
The house bill by Mr. Park, of
Greene, to provide for the appoint¬
ment of a general inspector of oils
for the state was passed by a vote of
29 to 5, and the stock law bill was
passed as it came from the house
Friday.
Wednesday the house killed the
labor bureau bill and tbe bill by Mr.
Brown, of Carroll, which provided
that when a person was injured by
a railroad company he could recover
whether his own negiligenee was
equal to or greater than the defend¬
ant’s. Adjourned ’till Monday.
11 nelit Eiiie;-tiiiuiucn|.
T|ie Daughters of Rebecca of Mag¬
nolia Lodge No. 21,1. O. O. F- of the
City will give a -‘Pie Social” ami pro¬
gram Friday evening, Dec. fith, in
t|ia DeLoach Store j-Qcnp on Pine
street. The program is free. The
pies to be sold for the benefit of the
Lodge. Every purchaser of a pie will
be entitled to a chance an a beautiful
cake which will be in evidence. The
ladies will bring a pie apiece. Tin
following program will be rendered.
Opening address Nra. Nettie O. j
Hall.
Song Chorus.
Recitation Bernice Beauchamp
Recitation Capt. G. W. Harlan
M usic Gertie Keim
Itecitatiou Willie Moore
Address Wm McCormick
Recitation Nate Smith
Song Marion Goodnow
Dialogue F. Gray and L. Pievreci
Recitation Louise Goodnow
Song Louis Turner
Recitation Bertha Ciiovin
Music Gertie Keim
Recitation Mina Nelpon
THE GEORGIA SYNOD.
Lutheran Ministers of
State and Florida are here
this Week.
The Lutheran ministers of
state and Florida are in annual
sion here this week.
Ministers of tbe Lutheran
from all over the state and
Florida are the guests of the
hero and Rev. H. F. Long, pastor,
chief host.
Yesterday morning
was effected. Dr. W. O. Shaeffer,
of Savannah, president; Dr, VV. A.
Julian, of Lake City, Fla , vice
dent; and Mr. M. J. Epting, of
vannah, secretary.
The synodical sermon was preached
last evening by Dr. VV. A. Julian.
Today and tomorrow the session
will be held from 9 to 12 a. m. and
2 to 4 p, m.
Sunday tbe visiting preachers will
divide themselves between eleven
different churches of the oity.
The Enterprise welcomes these
good men to the colony city.
Mr, Chas. Launer who lives on
north Main has been expecting his
brother Theodore Launer of Arenzville
[11.to spend the winter. Lastaunday he
received the 6ad intelligence of
his death A local paper gives the
following account.
“Theodore Launer. a wealthy farmer
of Arzenville died very suddenly Sun
day afternoon. Heart disease is
thought to be the cause of his death,
although the verdict of the coroner's
jut y has not been announced as yet.
At noon Mr. Launer ate a very hearty
dinner and was apparently iu the best
of health. He spent a couple of hours
in the house just after dinner, reading,
after whioh he went out of d ora and
being gone quite a while, some mem¬
ber of the household went out to see
where he was, and fourod him oold in
death. Ho had been afflicted with
heart trouble for some time. An in¬
quest was held this morning by the
coroner of Morgan county. Mr. Lau¬
ner was member of Home Forum lodge
No 38S of Arenzville in which ho car¬
ried a $2,000 policy.
The incoming T. & N. E. passenger
train last Sunday afternoon was derail¬
ed three miles this side of Tifton, ow¬
ing to the trucks of the passenger
coaches mounting a switoh frog. The
two coaohoa were ovei Lui uVd, and the
eDgine left on the track. The oassen
gers were considerably shaken up, but
no Dan Injuries Hall of a serious nature resulted.
of this place was cut in the
head and his ankle sprained. Ed Spies,
the Baggage Master, was cut on the
hand and faoe. The train was run¬
ning only about fifteen miles per hour
or the aooidenfmight have been seri¬
ous, Tho injured are doing well. The
coaches had just bean overhauled in
the Tifton shops. They were badly
damaged from the turnover.
Mr. T. P. Green, a newspaper man
of 25 years experience, four of which
were spent in the government printing
office in Washington, is now with the
Dispatch. He is a first-class printer,
both newspaper and job, and is at
home in the other departments of
newspaper work.—Ocilla Dispach.
We are glad to have you so near
Tom come to see us.
Dr. J. C. Schwencke left for Thom
asville Tuesday, In speaking of the
fact the Times says;
We are pleased to know that Thom
asville will soon have as a perma¬
nent resident a skilled veterinary
surgeon in the person of Dr. J. C.
Schwencke Dr. Schwencke is a
graduate of tbe Copenhagen Royal
Veterinary College of Copenhagen,
Denmark, having pursued a lour
years course in that celebrated in¬
stitute. We wish him abundant suc¬
cess, and congratulate our citizens
upon having a man of his capacity
as one of our citizens,’’
The Enterprise commends Dr.
Schwencke to tbe people of Thomas
ville as a man worthy their confi¬
dence. His many friends in Fits
gerald wish him good health and
good luck.
A Secret Leaks Out.
Through the colums of the Citizen
Leader the Enterprise learns that pri¬
maries will be held in the different
wards of the oity, Dec, 4, for the selec¬
tion of 12 delegates to a convention to
be held on the evening of the 11th of
Dec., at the oity hall.
The meeting calling for these prim¬
aries of which Mr. C. B. Lee was sec¬
retary, seemed to have a tacit under¬
standing that the whole matter was to
bo kept a profound secret, by confining
its publication to theSecretarie’s paper
the Citizen Leader.
Genial Capt. Spies, conductor of the
T. & N. E, who is the envy of the men
and the admiration of the ladies, is ex¬
cusable for becoming a little rattled
Sunday evening when his train met
with a little accident. It is told on the
Captain that when he succeeded in
getting the right end up, lie put OD
the broad brim felt of a passenger and
did not, discover that he had parted
withAiis ingignia of office until his
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UCTION ■
1 SALE ■fl *1
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NOTICE TO COLONY STOCKHOLDERS^
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The Colony Company have in Fitzgerald about 375 business lot2 i
residence lots; and in Irwin county, 200 five-acre tracts, 400 te
tracts, and 50 twenty-acre tracts; and in Wilcox county they ha\
ten-acre tracts, 145 twenty and 15 lorty-acrc tracts, all of which;
he sold before the Company can close up its business. i ■
.., THE LAST OPPORTUNITY. ...
The company is now making arrangements to give the stock N 1
a chance time to before exchange December their stock for colony After property that date which stock can will® b^ :
any 1st, 1899.
received in lieu of cash, and all persons holding colony stock wiy
to wait until the final settling of colony affairs. '1
... GRAND AUCTION SALE.... i;
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On December 7th, 8th and 9th, the Company will hold an a viflm
and sell all the colony property regardless of value, including OtM
Hotel and Colony Headquarters, to the highest bidder on the fw
3, terms, 6 and to-wit: 9 months One-third 7 (1-3) cash, interest. balance (No in stock three will equal be pay# releT a
at per cent •** 4>
payment at the sale.) A discount will be allowed for all paying a i t
in full. This discount will be made known at the time of the sd
Company reserves the right to withdraw any portion offered ffo
A GOOD INVESTMENT. . ii
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The Company is doing this to enable them to close up the # 9
colony company’s lands business, bring what and it will depend be on the amount our i
We frankly friends amount that can lands paid on the outstanding likely pjg h< !
say to our our are more to A
good dividends on your investment than the stock. al
STOCKHOLDERS SHOULD ASSIST.. T “ &
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and The such taxes other each year together there with the be, expenses lessens the of the chances mana^
dividends colony expenses stock. as We have may enough, sold
on property if
prices, sides. Now, to pay off all outstanding liabilities and pay a good divide^ f
if the stockholders will take hold of the coming sale,
the investment property will offered he greatly brings fair enhanced. prices, their On chances for realizing if they o’^ J
the contrary, a
different and the property is allowed to sell at a figure below its $
value, they cannot expect to realize on their investment.
. . . OUR OBJECT ACCOMPLISHED_____1!
The object of the I
homes) and parties undertaking have has been here largely accomplished rel® (top
who come in good faith and
here, have generally accomplished their object, and those who coufa
or would not come, and those who did come and were not pionee^ satisfied
returned North, cannot expect to reap the rewards of the
have built up homes here. Many of the homes are elegant andS i
modious ana all on a sure foundation, where good judgement ay •
dustry are united. Hr ar
.. . HOMES FOR ALL. . . . ie i
We are unable at this date to say what the stockholders will gijf
their stock. All will depend upon this auction sale. Therefore ym
lieve it would be well for every member to take lots or lands for
stock before December 1st, 1899. These lots and lands are goocl
will continually increase in value and will pay you much more thaaP
can action, expect that to get non-resident out of the stockholders stock. We give all in due equally notice with^ cJp
so may come
on of land, the grounds. which offer You at may state low what price, you for would stock, wish, thereby ^lot or ejf ai,)]
we a very
members to obtain the same. Address 1 a B
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The American Tribune Soldiers’ Colony Compan
INDIANANS, INDIANA, Of FITSGERALDa
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