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THE LEGISLATURE.
GEORGIA’S LAWMAKERS HARD
AT WORK.
The Proceedings from Day to
Day Briefly Summarized.
THE HOUSE.
Wednesday.—T ho house held a very
slioit session, adjourning immediately af¬
ter the reading of the journal. After the
journal had been approve 1, Mr. Whit¬
field, of Baldwin, moved that the hou-e
reconsider its action on the insurance bill,
which was re!erred back to the finance
committee on Monday. The motion to
adjourn, howvvcr, took precedence, and
Mr. Whitfield gave notice that he would
bring diately up his motion Thurs 'ar, imme¬
after the rending of the journid.
The motion to adjourn, which was made
in order to give the members opportunity
to attend the alliance rally at Piedmont
Park prevailed.
Thursday— The most interesting dis
cussioa in the house Thursday was on a
bill by Mr. Baldwin to prohibit physi¬
cians or prescription clerks, who get
drunk or are addicted to the op'um
habit, frotn practicing their profession*.
The bill made the first offense punish¬
able by a fine of $200 to $500, and for
the second the doctor or drug clerk for¬
feited his license. The doctor or drug
clerk by keeping sober for two years
could be reinstated, and if again fouud
guilty, hope he falls “like Lucifer—never to
again.” Mr. Johnson wanted to
amend by having the law apply only
when doctors were in actual service or
offering their services. Mr. Johnson’s
amendment was agreed to and the bill
was passed by yeas, 93; nays, 52, and
was the ordered’immudiateiy transmitted to
senate. Mr. Whitfield moved a re¬
consideration of the action of the house
in recommitting the insurance bill. The
following bills were passed: To establish
the criminal court of Atlanta; to incor¬
porate Eastern the railroad, Dalton, Spring Place and
connecting with the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad near
Tate; to amend section 3976 of the code,
so ity as as to require that bonds in illegal¬
cases shall be in double the amount
of tbe properly levied on under mort¬
gages instead of in double the amount of
the mortgages; to appropriate $500 to
supply county maps in the secretary or
state’s office, in the place of those worn
out.
Friday —Before adjournment Thurs¬
day. Mr. Lewis, of Hancock, made a
motion that the house reconsider its ac¬
tion in ordering the immediate trans¬
mission to the senate of the “doctor bill.”
Friday morning he resumed his argu¬
ment. Tbe house was not ready to re¬
ject the pill as taken, and Mr. Lewis’
motion was tabled. A bill was intro¬
duced which provides that from and af¬
ter its passage it shall be unlawful for
any judge or justice, state, county or
municipal officer, judicial or ministerial,
to get drunk while executing the func¬
tions of their respective offices. For
violation of this injunction the offenders
shall be fine 1 not less than $50 and not
more than $200 for the first offense. Fot
a repetition of their excessive bibulous¬
ness the culprits shall be-subject to for¬
feiture of their commbsions and declared
ineligible to re election. Another bill
was introduced by which citizens refus¬
ing to pay tbe oae-dollar road tax im¬
posed are made liable to serve on the
■ chaingang two days far each dollar due,
including officer’s costs. All convicts of
two years’sentence and lander are com¬
pelled to be used in iroad improvement,
and if any county should refuse to so use
them they are to Ire turned over to the
other county first applying for them, the
county so receiving rintaining these convicts to pay
.cost of m them. Roads shall
be worked whenever necessary, instead of
.at certain seasons of the year, and every¬
body is required roads. to keep to the right in
main a public Toll roads, toll
‘bridges and tori ferries are abolished
after the expiration of existing charters.
The senate announced the passage of
the following bills: To provide for a
board of equalization of real and personal
property wilh rc-pect to taxation; to
cede to the United States exclusive juris¬
diction qver property in Savannah, con¬
veyed to the government by the Savan¬
nah ’Volunteer Guards; also, as amended,
the bill to prohibit malt liquor the sale of alcoholic,
spirituous or from within a rad us
of three miles every church or pub¬
lic sehool house in the state of Georgia,
except such churches or public school
houses as are within an incorporated
town or city of this state. Mr. Goodwin
introduced a resolution granting the use
of the house to the veterans for a rally
Wednesday n’ght, which was, of course,
adopted. The object of the meeting is
to discuss the Confederate Veterans’
home—its maintenance Liberty, or disposition.
Mr Norman, of introduced* a
novel school-book bill, as follows: “That
it it shall be unlawful to teach, or other¬
wise use, any- of history or other school
book, in any the public schools of
this state which refer to the late waf be¬
tween the states as the war of the rebel¬
lion.” A large number of new bills were
introduced and read the first time.
Saturday. —Thtre was a small attend¬
ance in the house had obtained Saturday. leave A great ab¬
many members of
sence for the day. bills The regular order was
the reading of tbe third time, but
on motion o f Mr. Calvin the order was
displaced, and senate and house bills
were read the seoond time. A bill to
amend the game law for the county of
Glenn was taken up and passed. Mr.
W hitfield stated that there were so few
members present that a difference of
opinioii in any important bill would re¬
sult in its defeat for want of a constitu¬
tional majority, and be. therefore, moved
adjournment until Monday. Thcmation
prevailed, and at 11 o'clock the
house adjourned. Tho follow
ng invitation from the Confed
r. to Veterans’ association was placed
before the house. “Gentlemen—Under
instructions the undersigned committee
> xiends to you an invitation from the
Confederate Veterans’ associut on of Ful¬
ton, to attend a meeting of tho associa¬
tion, to be held n the hall of the house
if repnsontativis, ou Monday evening,
it 8 o’clock.”
T-.B SENATE.
Wednesday. —Tho senate met at 8
o’clock. The following bills were retd
the second time: To incorporate tho
bank of Cochran; to i nend the act in
relation to tax collectois, so that they
shall close their books on November
20th, instead of December 20th, in each
year. The following bills were read the
second time and recommitted: To
amend the registration law of Appling
county; to enable the Savannah Volun¬
teer Guards to sell their armory lot in
Savannah to the United States. Mr.
Glenn, from the special committee to
determine tho best plan for incorporating
bankiug, express, insurance, railroad and
steamboat companies, reported, with a
recommendation that they do pass, the
following bills: to amend the constitu¬
tion so that such companies may be in¬
corporated by the secretary of state; to
prescribe the mode of procuring charters
for such companies from the secretary
of state; the house bill to amend the con¬
stitution so as to provide for the election
of the state school commissioner by the
people was unfavorably reported, and,
upon motion, the bill to consolidate the
school laws of the state was taken from
the table and referred to that committee.
The hour of 9 o’clock having arrived, the
senate adjourned until Thursday morning
at 10 o’clock.
Thursday. —The local option bill, es¬
pecially championed by Senator Todd,
came The up as a special order at 11 o’clock.
intent of the sposors of the bill ap¬
peared to be that there should be no
liquor selling within three miles of any
church or schoolhouse in the state, but
that the law should not apply to incorpo¬
rated cities or towns. Tne first section
isasiollows: “Beit enacted by the
general assembly of the state of Georgia,
That from and after the passage of this
act it shall be unlawful for any person or
persons to sell, vend, or offer to sell or
vend, any spirituous, alcoholic or malt
liquors in any quantities within a radius
of three miles of any church or public or
private schoolhouse in the state of Geor¬
gia; provided that the provi-ions of this
act shall not apply to any incorporated
town or city iu this state.” The second
tection prescribes the penalty and con¬
cludes : ‘ ‘Provided, that the provisions of
this act shall not apply to any person or
persons until such now selling liquor under a license
license shall have expired.
Provided further, That nothing in this
act shall be construed to prohibit the sale
of domestic wines.” Immediately after
the routine business in the senate the
special order, which was Mr. Lane’s bill
to provide for a board of equalization of
real and personal property subject to
taxation, was taken up. The bill
provides for the appointment of five as¬
sessors to be freeholders by the ordinary
and county commissioners of counties,
who shall fix a value upon all property
returned. Efforts were made to defeat
the bill by amendments and to reduce
the compensation of the assessors from
$3 to $1. All failed and the bill was
passed with some amendments. The
following bills were read the fiist time:
To provide for the registration of voters
in Echols county; To authorize ordina¬
ries and county commissioners to pur¬
chase ’‘track hounds” to be used by th
sheriff, persons guilty of assaulting them
to be guilty of a misdemeanor. A house
message asking for a joint committee on
the apportionment of congressional dis¬
tricts was read. The bills were
read the second time and recommitted:
To incorporate the Tallapoosa Street
Railroad Company; to incorporate the
Thomson and Linoolton railroad. Bill
to amend the registration laws of Appling
county was read the third time and
passed. The house bill requiring an
amendment to the constitution so as to
provide for the election of the state
school commissioner by the people was
reported adversely from the finance com¬
mittee. On motion of 3Ir. Vincent the
the report bill was disagreed to by 24 to 16, so
miy be called up at any time.
Friday. —An important bill was passed
in the senate Friday without a single
dissenting vote. It provides that an
amendment to the constitution permit¬
ting the levying of a graded income tax
be sumitted to the state at the next gen¬
eral election. The bill was transmitted
to tho house to be acted upon. If it
passes that tody and is signed by the
governor, it will be submitted to the
people at the election in 1892. When
the roll call for new bills was concluded,
Mr. olutions Ellington disagreed moved that the This house resolu¬ res¬
be to.
tion provides that a committee of fifteen
from be the appointed house and eight from apportion the sen¬ the
ate to re
foatorial districts. Mr. Ellington
was opposed to the bill because he
though it should have originated in the
senate. The motion caused considerable
discussion, but the senate wes opposed to
it and a vote resulted—yeas, 25; nays,
14. Every senator who had spoken was
oppose i to redistricting the state. Sev¬
eral very important house bills were read
th# first time. The bill providing that
the constitution be so changed as to pay
legislators a salary require was reported unfavor¬
ably. A bill to all cotton seed
meal to be subjected to analysis and in¬
spection ing offered as a condition sale precedent reported to be¬
for was favora¬
bly. It was passed and transmitted to
the house. The bill providing permitted that the
county court judges be to draw
a jury of eighteen instead of twelve was
tabled. The house bill chartering Tal¬
bott on and Western railroad was passed.
And nt 12.20 o’clock the senate ad¬
journed until 10 o’clock Monday morning.
Saturday.— The senate stood adjourn¬
ed until Monday.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Dun & Co’s Report for the Past
Week.
R. G. Dun’s trade review says: Busi¬
ness failures occurring week ended July
17, number for the United States 244,
Canada 30, a total of 274, against 247
last week. Business clearly grows some¬
what more active, although midsummer
dullness is still the rule. At eastern
cities there is noticed more demand for
manufactured good, with larger sales of
materials. At the west trade is enlivened
by the large yield of winter wheat al¬
ready harvested, and by the very the bright
outlook for other crops. At south,
however, though crop advices are also
favorable, no improvement appears in
business, which is duller than usual,
even for the season, and at some points
is pronounced quite unsatisfactory.
There is a remarkable increase iu the
production i f pig iron, almost to the un¬
precedented figures of last year, The
sudden increase favorable in production is not in A
all respects a symptom. iu
corresponding improvement the de¬
mand for manufactured products is yet
seen, and stocks unsold at only a part of
the furnaces are now recorded as amount¬
ing to about four hundred and eighty
thousand tons, showing a very large in¬
crease, particularly in coke iron, Unless
the demand rapidly improves the market
must soon weaken so far us to test severe¬
ly the ability of some of the concerns to
continue production. of wheat, dressed
The receipts
beef, wool and hides and at Chicago
show n great increase, new wheat
comes in liberally, 85 per cent of it grad¬
ing N<>. 2. At Nashville trade is fair,
but dull at Memphis, unsatisfactory at
Little Rock, falling off at Savannah and
sluggish at New Orleans, though a better
demand is seen for cotton. At Jackson¬
ville trade is better, with crops in good
condition. The collapse in wheat specu¬
lation has come with a fall of 8 cents
during the past week but corn is scarce
and cents higher. While oats have
declined about one cent, pork and hog
products are higher. Coffee has risen ^
cent and oil the same, but cotton is un¬
changed and the general course of prices
has been downward, as is natural at this
season, the fall during the past week
having averaged nearly f of 1 per cent.
The money markets are generally in fair
shape and collections fair for the season.
AN UNWISE MOVE.
Gov. Buchanan Accused of Over¬
stepping His Authority.
A dispatch of Friday from Chatta¬
nooga says: It seems from investigations
made by several prominent Chattanooga
attorneys that Governor Buchanan has
made a bad break in ordering out the
militia to quell the mine riots at Bryce
ville. Whether the Tennt ssee militia or
the Coal creek miners are a mob is q fine
legal question. At the liable same indictment time the
governor lays himself to
for treason, for declaring Tennessee in a
state of rebellion on account of a few law¬
less miners. It seems certain, from the
authorities on the subject, that if any
soldier at Coal creek kills a miner, he is
a legal murderer, and must answer to the
charge. Article 3, section 5, of the
Tennessee constitution, adopted in 1870,
says the militia shall not be called into
service except in case of rebellion or in¬
vasion, and then only when the general
assembly shall declare by law that the
public safety requires it. There is great
indignation in Chattanooga among the
parents, relatives and friends of the two
military companies from that city at
Bryceville, because the handful of boys
wou'd stand little showing -armed against sev¬
eral hundred equally well miners.
GOLD AND SILVER.
Production of the Precious Met¬
al in the United States.
A census bulletin relating to the pro¬
duction of gold and si.verin the United
States was issued Friday. Production
during the year 1889 was: Gold ounces,
1,590,809; coiungo value, $32,880,744.
Silver, ounces, 5,354,851; coinage value,
$00,390,988. Total value, $99,283,732.
In gold this is nearly 28 per cent of the
world’s product, and in silver 41 per
cent. The expense of production
through the year is $03,451,130. A
table of tbe approximate gold dis¬
tribution of the and silver
product shows the ' following
values: Alabama, gold, $2,539; silver,
$100. Georgia, gold, $107,605; silver,
$464. North Carolina, gold, $146,795;
silver, $3,879. South Oarorina, gold,
$40,853; silver, $232. Tennessee, iv>
report. Virginia, gold, $5,100; silver,
$13. California produced Colorado the the greatest
amount of gold and great¬
est amount of silver, and Colorado is
second in gold production, while Mon
! ana is second in silver. Nevada is third
in the value of gold production and
Montana fourth. Utah is third in silver
value and Nevada fourth. Next in the
order of value of product come Idaho,
Dakota, Arizona and New Mexico.
A Lumber Blaze.
The lumber yards of J. Broussea, Jos¬
eph Robert & Son and Charles Broulette,
at Montreal, Que., were consumed by fire
Tuesday. For a time it seemed as if all
the houses in the configuous destroyed. portion The loss of
the city would be is
about $50,000.
The Electoral College.
Under the apportionment bill which
hns passed the lloii-c, the cl ictoral col¬
lege in 1892 will < ousist of 444 nit in' era
instead of 401 ns in 1888. The follow¬
ing shows the number of votes to which
each State is entitled:
Alabama. 11 Nebraska 8
Arkanas. 8 Nevada. 8
California 9 New Hampshire. 4
Colorado. 4 New Jersey.....10
Connecticut.... C New York
Deleware 8 North Carolina. .11
Florida.. 4 North Dakota.. .13
Georgia. 13 Ohio .. 23
Id.,ho... 3 Oregon 4
Illinois.. 24 Penrsylvanin.... 32
Indiana. 15 Rhode Island. 4
Iowa.... 13 South Carolina.. 0
Kansas.. 10 South Dakota.. 4
Kentucky 13 Tennessee.......12
Louisana. 8 Texas 15
Maine ... C Vermont........4
Maryland , 8 Virginia 12
Massachusetts.. .15 Washington .... 4
Michigan. Minnesota 14 AVest Virginia.. 0
9 Wisconsin 12
Mississippi 9 Wyoming 3
Missouri.. IT
Montana.. 3 Total 444
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