THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
Georgia’s Law Mata Assemble at the
Capitol,
Routine of the House and Senate Brief¬
ly Reported.
TIIK 1IOISK.
The Georgia state legislature was
convened at. the capitol in Atlanta at
10 o’clock Wednesday morning. Speak¬
er Pro Tem Bouifeuillet, of Bibb, in
the chair. Mr. John Bouifeuillet, in
calling the house to order, made a few
remarks announcing the illness of
Speaker Atkinson and saying that
he trusted the present session
would be one full of honor to the state.
There were a number of new faces in
the ball when the house met. Since
the last session the hand of death has
been laid upon numerous members of
the house and new men have been
elected to take their place's. Then a
new administration has gone into pow¬
er. and official lightning has stricken
several members, removing them from
their places among the legislators. The
new members were called to the front
scon after the 83ssion opened and there
the oath of office was admin
istered by Judge Hunt, of Spalding.
After prayer by the chaplain, Rev. It.
A. Fakes, of Newton, a resolution was
introduced by Smith, of Gwinnett, to
appoint a committee of three to notify
the senate that the house was ready
for business. Messrs. Gumming, Mer
slion, Martin, Hodges and Fleming
were appointed a committee to act
with the senate committee to notify
the governor that the two houses
awaited his pleasure. Under the
head of new business a number
of new bills were introduced.
Mr. Ferguson, of Lee, caught the
attention of the chair and introduced
tho following resolutions, which were
the sensation of the morning session
in the house. Resolved by the gen¬
eral assembly of Georgia, That our
senators be instructed aud representa¬
tives in congress be requested to use
all honorable means speedily to pro¬
vide for the restoration of silver to its
constitutional place in the currency of
this republic, and that to that end the
free and unlimited coinage of silver be
at once provided. Resolved further,
That our senators be instructed and
our representatives honorable in congress re¬
quested'to use all means to
effect the immediate and uncondi¬
tional repeal of the ten per cent tax
on state banks of issue ; and Resolved
further, That the secretary of state be
instructed to forward both of our sen¬
ators and each of our representatives
in congress a copy of these resolutions.
The resolutions were referred to the
committee on the state of the repub¬
lic. The house adjourned until 9 a.
m. Thursday.
Thursday, Oct. 26 —The most im-i
portant bill introduced in the house
Thursday morning came from Mr. Os¬
borne, of Chatham. It is a bill to
amend the constitution so that the state
may provide for purchasing the
Central railroad from Atlanta to Sav¬
annah together with all its apperte
nances. It also provides that the ex¬
isting public debt of the state be in¬
creased for that purpose. Another
important bill was introduced by Joe
Doolan, also from Chatham county.
It provides for the creation of a
fund to maintain crippled firemen or
the families of firemen killed while in
the discharge of their duties The
bill of Mr. Stapleton of sumpter to
An effort to table the bill was voted
down, and it was about to be passed
as the report of the committee was
adopted, when it was discovered that
it had only been read twice instead of
three times. It was then laid aside,
but the outlook is that the
bill will pass when called up
again, and the cigarette will be driven
from Georgia, so far as the house is
concerned bill Mr West of Hancock felony“o in
troduced a making R a
rob a county treasury. There is trou
ble up in Hart county over the dis
pensary located there. Mr. Hart in
trodtieed a bill to repeal the law es
tablishing this dispensary. “1 am only
following the recommendation of the
graud jury,” ' said he. “for the
dispensary is no good. The keeper
has been managing it in a loose
manner and whisky has been given
out on forged orders or certificates. It
has gotten so that anybody can get
whisky wmsxy from irom it it and anu we want want to to be be an- an
thorized to go back to straight prohi
bition. ’ A large number of new bills
of more or less importance were intro
duced during the session, and then
bills reported on by the committee
last session were taken up and quite a
number were passed. The bill to in
crease the number of supreme court
judges ip from three to five was called
and made the special order
tor Wednesday, November 1st.
Tho following bills were read the third
time and passed: To authorize banks
the’act and establishing’ “^anies totoan money
ekaminersT aboard of pharma
centical to amend the local
game law of Chattahoochee Stewart,a'n county; to
relieve W. W. Wood,of old
one-legged soldier,from tares imposed
on him for running a pool table when
he was informed that under the law he
was exempt; to prescribe the time and
manner of appointing counsel in crim¬
inal cases so as to allow time to pre¬
pare the cases for trial. The house
then adjourned until Friday morning
at 9 o’clock.
Friday, Oct. 27. The deadly cigar¬
ette must bid adieu to Georgia soil if
the house of representatives has any
say so in the matter, for it passed a
committee substitute for the bill of
Stapleton, of Sumter Friday morning.
Stapleton’s bill provided that should within
ninety days from its passage it
be unlawful for any person to sell
cigarettes in Georgia. The committee
on hygiene and sanitation to which
the bill was referred went Stapleton
one better and amended it by includ¬
ing cigarette tobacco and cigarette
paper. After the vote on the bill had
been taken but not announced Har¬
rison of Quitman took the floor and
made a strong appeal against it. Hen¬
derson of Troup followed in speak¬
ing against, and then Bears
of Webster, made a strong appeal in
its faver. The yeas and nays were
then called, and the bill was passed by
a decided majority. Battle, of Mus¬
cogee, gave notice thut be would
move a reconsideration of the bill
Saturday. Johnson, of Clinch, intro¬
duced a bill to license the pistol toter.
Allen, of Upson, introduced a bill in
behalf of the confederate widows of
Georgia. The bill provides that the
widow of any veteran living in Geor¬
gia at the time of his death shall be
entitled to a pension. Walden, of
Stewart, introduced a bill about which
there has been considerable talk in the
state. It is’a bill to pay election
managers and clerks who have hereto
fore served without compensation,
The bill allows managers $2 a day and
clerks $2.50, and provides that they
shall be paid from the treasury of the
county in which the election is held.
A large number of other new bills
wi're presented and read the first time.
The bill of Graham, of Appling, to
require corporations to redeem scrip
in cash when demanded and also the
bill to refund taxes paid on wild lands,
the executions of which were illegal
were called up, but went back to the
committee. The house then adjourned
until nine o’clock Saturday morning.
Saturday, Oct. 28.—The coffin tack,
as Battle, of Muscogee, put it, or a
cigarette, occupied the attention of
the lioip>e of representatives Saturday
morning. After the smoke of the early
morning skirmish blew away the cigar
ette looked rather droopy, for the mo- ;
tion to reconsider was lost, the vote j
being ayes 41, nays 84, and it will now
be forced to leave the state if the
ate follows in the way the house has
blazed out. As soon as the jour
nal of Friday had been read
and approved, Mr. Battle, of
Muscogee, took the floor and spoke in
favor of reconsidering the cigarette
bill passed on Friday. Sears, of
Webster, spoke against reconsidera¬
tion. He was in favor of the bill to !
banish cigarettes, and it advocated ,
was >
by the business men of the eta e, ,
1 hen there was a split m the delega
tion Iroin Iloyd, Mr. Bryan, a lletho
dist preacher, advocating reconsiders
tion, and Neel, a lawyer, opposing it. ,
The yeas and nays were then called on
the motion to reconsider the bill aud it
wois lost by a vote of 41 to 84. \
unanimous consent a number of new
bills were introduced and lead lirst
time. The house then adjourned un i
Monday morning at 9 o’clock.
IN T,IE '-ENVTt.
The seiiata was call ® d *° °^ le1 '
,
bls 8Ca *- ^eneia uc < lapam,
-“ ev * J°“ n Jones, offered a -<-i\ ent ’
prayer, an d at lts conclusion the senate
was reac b r proceed with business
3 ust wbere left off '% hen it adjourned
on the 15th of last December. Mr.
Gorput introduced a resolution that
the president appoint a committee of
three to notify the house of represen
tatives and the governor that the sen
ate hau convened and was ready for
business. Adopted, and Senators
Gorput Edwards aud Robinson were
appointed as the committee. Secretary
Harris called the roll for the mtro
duction of new bills, and when he
called the name of Mr. McAfee he in
troduced two, one providing tor the
establishment of public schools in
Canton, and the other to prevent any
one f rom riding faster than a walk
over the bridge over Little river, in
Cherokee county. All of the house
bills on the secretary’s desk were read
the first time, as were the bills ready
f ** * ® ° H ® £i' The governor’s
e a8 th t \ and read ’
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' V, 26 —After A nraver *
and , reading the journal . . „ ihursday ■,
,
morning, the senate passed a lull al
lowing the city of Mncou to take into
c fP° r “ to 1/mito certain lands on
Houston street. Ihe roll was called
for j-troduction of new bills and a
number were read first time The
governor returned, with h,s veto the
” Bed ryagraph 1, Sectnml, Article
8 of ,te lhe <? ov<!tnor
?»ys among other things: “This bill
!“ contradictory in its provisions, and
the studies that shall be taught in the
schools, and then authorizes license to
be issued to teachers who upon exam¬
ination are found to be incompetent
to teach them.”
Friday, Oct. 27. —The senate passed
a resolution fixing Monday as the day
for electing judges and solicitors. Mr.
Daly introduced a bill to repeal section
1329, which prescribes how proceedings
in contested elections are begun. Oth¬
er bills introduced were as follows:
To amend the laws relating to seduc¬
tion; to authorize the town of Wash¬
ington to issue bonds for the erection
of school houses; regulating the duties
and fees of court stenographers; for
the establishment of a city court
for the county of DeKalb; to
amend the law relating to put¬
ting in claims for property levied
on ; also a bill to amend section 2582
of the code; also a bill to amend the
act appointing a board of county com
missioners for heard county; To re¬
quire the board of commissioners of
Catoosa county to appoint election
managers; also a bill providing for
payment for services rendered by the
school commissioner . of Catoosa coun¬
ty. Several house bills were read the
first time, among them the bill intro¬
duced by Mr. King, of Fulton, author¬
izing banks to loan money on real
estate at 8 per cent per annum. The
senate ran out of grist at 11 o’clock,and
adjourned until Monday morning at
10 o’clock.
COTTON FIGURES
Showing the Movement of the Staple
Since the Season Opened,
\ Xow Orleans dispatch of Friday
sav8 . Secretary Hester’s weekly New
Orleans cotton exchange statement
again showed a larger movement of
j u K jght than expected, the to
tal for tin: week exceeding the seven
days ending October 27th last year,
80,639 bales, and falling short of the
Ha me seven days in 1891 by 13,837.
This brings the total excess
f or the twenty-seven days of
October over last season to 136,122,
a nd makes the deficit thus far for the
month under the corresponding
twenty-seven days of October year be
fore last 408,696 ; the aggregate for the
fifty-seven days from September 1st to
October 27tli being 105,093 ahead of
the same fifty-seven days of last year
and 7g6,754 behind year before last,
A Little Rock, Ark., special says:
The jury in defaulting State Treasurer
Woodruff’s case, after being out three
days, reported Friday morning that it
Avas unafer to agree upon a verdict
ftnd V7as discharged. The jury stood
ten for conviction and two against.
FROM OPULENCE TO PENURY,
A Millionaire Twelve Years Ago anti
Penniless To-Day.
A New York morning paper says
that Cassius Read, twelve years ago,
was a man reported to be worth from
$700,000 to $1,000,000, was principal
proprietor of the Hoffman house,
owner of large esta tes in New York
and yj r gi n j a> and was interested in a
dozen business ventures, requir
j n g u ie ou tlay of large sums of
money> The same Cassius Read to
day j s ga j d }-, e practically penniless
uo interest in the Hoffman house
and no estates in New York or Vir
gj n j aj G r real property upon which he
cou ia negotiate a loan of $100. Mr
jj eaf p s fl ome a t Far Rockaway wa>.
BO i d under a foreclosure proceedings
October 13th.
Kscapiu^Torture. K i Torture
United States’ Indian wars, some of the
p j^sh, r j sone; - S| taking advantage of the thick
broke through the line of the
t ro0 p S an( j escaped to the prairie. Major
Elliott, calling some of his men to follow,
dashed off in pursuit of the fugitives,
^,ot one oi the nineteen cavalrymen was
ever again seen alive by a white man.
Intent on his purpose, and not sus
pec. In £
Major LIliott found fauiul his hU little party sur
mounded by an overwhelming horde of
*
Dism oimting> "circle, loosing their horses and
f orm j n g j n a the little band of
twenty kfi ravc men prepared to sell their
|j vea ag dearly as possible. In less than
t weu ty minutes every man but one wag
dead. Wounded in several places, his
ammunition expended. sabre Sergeant-Major
Kennedy stood alone, in hand,
No shot w r as fired at him, no effort wms
made to kill him, but several of the
Indians approached him with hands
thrust out, saying: “How? How?’loo
well he knew tue meaning oi this kindly
demonstration. He was to be reserved
for all the horrors of the torture,
He saw that his only hope of escaping
torture w as in so exasperating the Indians
tbat they would kl11 him ‘ Seemin S to
surrender, he advanced towards the
chit{ They tcnded. approached Quick each thought other,
htnds cx as
Kennedy’s sword passed through terrified the
chief’s body. One instant of sur¬
prise on the part of the Indians; the next,
twenty bullet-holes in Kennedy’s body.
The merciful death had come to him.—
[Yaukeo Blade.
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