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THE LEGISLATORE HAS ADJOURNED
Lawmakers Finish Labors and
Leave for Their Homes.
T 0 BE NO BIENNIAL SESSIONS
Many lmporhn:;.i;;m\;cre Not Reach
ed, the Compulsorv Educatlon Bill
Being Among Them.
WHAT LEGISLATURE DID;
THINGS LEFT UNDONE.
Among the most important ac
tions cf the legislature were the
approval of the suspension of
Railroad Commissioner S. G. M¢-
Lendon, the passage of the em
ployers’ liability bill and the ap
propriation of $65,800 to buy ter
minal property for the state road
at Chattancoga, Other general
bills passed were those providing
for the election of county school
commissioners by the people, to
prohibit the wuse of trading
stamps, to create a state board
0! osteopathy, to male Febru
ary 12 Georgia Day, 0 allow fire
men, policemen and other city
employees to accept free trans
portation from street railway
compunies, A resolution was
also passed providing for the ac
ceptance of a code prepared by
Judge John L. Hopkins of Atlan
ta, on the approval of a legisla
tive committee. Under the new
tax act, provision is made for the
taxing of near beer and a reso
lution was passed making avail
able the money derived from
taxes on near beer already in the
state treasury.
Among the measures which at
tracted great attention, but
which failed to get through were
the biennial sessions bill, the
game law, the compulsory edu
cation bill and the service pen
sion bill,
Atlanta, Ga.—At midnight Wednes
day the first session of the general
assembly of 1909-1910 was officially
at an end, in accordance with the re
quirements of the state constitution,
which limits sessions to fifty days.
However, as usual, the session ran
on, and adjournment came at one
c'clock. The legislature never com
pletes its work is time to adjourn by
. midnight of the last day of the ses
| gion and the present general assem
y bly was not breaking precedent in
| that respeet.
g--'Before midnight the usual scenes
\of merriment began in both houses.
. At times each stood adjourned wait
\ ing for the other. Moon sessions were
\organized to help while away the time
and what some senators and represei
tatives appeared to consider music was
also introduced for the delectation of
‘he parficipants. The throwing of pa
jer wads, one of the invariable fea
res of last nights in the legislature,
Kas introduced in the house even be
re the near beer tax had been set
tsd., Even the watchful eye of Speak
er Holder, who has proved one of the
best disciplinarians. the house has
ever had in the chair, was not sharp
énough to prevent such outbursts of
playfulness,
The last two hours of the session
‘were spent in settling differences be
tween the houses on the general tax
act. The main fight came over the
near beer section, the house-finally ac
cepting the substitute offered: by the
génate, :
/ ‘Aftét the near beer tax had been
settled, the main contention came over
-the tax on soda fountain sirups,which
was finally placed at one-fourth of 1
per cent on gross receipts.
The session of the general assem
bly which has just closed will prob:
ably be remembered more for the
things it did not do than for the
things accomplished. While a great
many measures have been passed,
comparatively few of these are of
such a nature as to he of any unusual
interest throughout the state,
The injection of the McLendon sus
nension and the near beer legislation
into the proceedings of the body ab
surbed 50 much time tbat the mem
bers found themselves unable to enact
many measures of general interest for
which it is declared there were sub
stantial majorities,
The biennial sessions bill which
was passed by the senate was never
reached by the house, although its
friends assert positively that a ma
jority of the house favor the bill. The
gsame fate came to the bill for the
better protection of the game, which
was very strongly urged by the sports.
men of the state. No definite action
was ever taken on the compulsory
education bill, for which a strong fight
was made by a number of organiza
tions,
Among the bills of general interest
which have succeeded in getting
through both houses are those to
make cousty school commissioners
elected by the people, to prohibit the
use of trading stamps; to create a
state board of osteopathy, and to
make February 12, Georgia Day.
The passage of resolutions sustain
ing the suspension c¢f Railroad Com
missioner S. G. McLendon came after
days of parliamentary maneuvering
and debate, which consumed the
rreater part of the session. i
In the senate much time was con
imed in an effort to secure the pass
e of a resolution aprpoving an
an ineor fm‘f ,‘;..-;:'ff-” the 1 i'&é,g‘;y me "
l withs it suce lfi"’g&
The general appropriation bill, as
finally passed by the house and sens
ate, carries & total of $4,968,8u0 for
the year 1910, and an addition of $250,
000 to that for the common school
fund for 1911, Special appropriations
carry the amount to considerably
over $5,000,000, The appropriation
for the Georgia Tech is increased from
£60,000 to $70,000, The School for the
Deaf gets $50,000 finstead of 8-12.5£).
This was an Increase of §57,500 over
the amounts originely recommendkd.
The Univers!*~ of Georgia gets SI7-
500 instead ¢ $32,500, The Stte
Normal Scheol gets an increase from
$30,000 to $42,000, The State Colbge
of Agriculture gets $60,000, of wlich
SIO,OOO is to be used for extenjion
work, which wil bring its benpits
cloger to the people in their »wn
homes. There was no change in the
appropriation for the common schools
of the state, That appropriation re
meins at $2,250 for 1910 and $2500,
600 for 1911.
In view of the sensational chirges
against the management of the Hheor
gia State Sanitarium at Milledgeville,
contained in the official report a the
investigating committiee reccntlj giv
en out by Governor Brown, t.he.louse‘
passed a resolution by Mr. Henderson
of Irwin, calling for an investigation
by a joint committee cf the general/
assembly to further look into these
alleged irregularities, The senate;
passed the resolution without deba‘te.;
thus making investigation sure. Fol
lowing the action of the houase ard
senate in passing the resolution for
a legislative investigation of the smtd
sanitarium for the insane at Milledge
ville, the following committee waj
named by President Slatcn and b
Speaker Holder: |Senaiors McLeali
Longley, Conley and Grifiith; Repr
~entatives Henderson of Irwin, McCr
ry of Schley, Brown of Fulton, Car
well of Wilkinson, Tuggle of Trouj
Baker of Lumpkin ard Brown of Muf—
ray. (
Taxes on the manufacture and sé |
of near beer in Georgia are to be lej- |
ied for the next two years in aCcoit
ance with the Price substitute for tje ‘
Alexander section of the general 4x
act. The Price substitute, which, undl !
the action of house, becomes tine i |
for noar beer taxes, provides a tax/of
SI,OOO on manufacturers and S3OO bn
retailers of near beer. It also on
{aing stringent regulations, .the npst
important of which is that no mnpar
beer shall’ be sold except in tovus
of over 2500 inhabitants,
It was finally agreed by both hc:llses 1
to fix the tax on all soda founiain |
sirups at one-fourth of one per tent
on gr,?és receipts, This was consider- ‘
ed a fictory by both sides, by oue be
caus¢ it was a material reduction in
‘the fax, and by the other because it
is daimed it establishes the principle
of /a gross receipt tax. |
The senate, by a vote of 35 to 0,4
ptssed the employers’ liability bill by {
Mr, White of Screven, just as it came
from the house. The bill gives em
ployees engaged in hazardous occu- |
pations the right to recover for injury
and relatives the right to recover for
such employees’ death, even in cases
where they are guilty of contributory
pegligence, provided they exercise oi- |
dinary care. ‘
The bill to increase the governor’s
staff from thirty to fifty, as fixed by
the senate, was tabled. |
The s3enate passed without opposi
tion the bill by Mr, Upshaw of Doug
las, already passed by the house, pro
viding that where a confederate vet- 1
eran drawing a pension, dies after
such pension has accrued or become
due and before payment is made by
the state, such pension shall be paid
by the pension commissioner to the
widow of |sald deceased veteran. An
amendment by Senator Cates, provid
ing for payment of pensions to widows
in similar cases of death prior to the
passage of the bill, was adopted by
the senate,
The senate concurred in the house
amendment to the joint resolution pro
viding for the appointment of a com
mission to investigate and report a
bill to revise and amend the tax laws
of the stata,. The senate further
amended the resolution so as to pro
vide for payment of per diems and
expenses of the members
The senate passed the house bill
by Mr. Johnston of Batrow, which for
feits the license and right to do busi
ness in the state of any foreign in
surance company which removes a
suit brought against it in the state
courts to the TUnited States courts.
The bill was amended so as not to in
terfere with suits which may be
brought by the insurance companies
to protect their loan contracts or oth
er debts due them in Georgia.
The senate, by a vote of 24 to 1,
concurred in the house amendment
providing for election of county school
commissioners by the people. The
amendment is such as to require all
those who wish to become candidates
to stand the prescribed examination.
The original senate bill exempted from
examination those with diplomas and
certificates from higher educational
institutions. ;
The senate passed, by a vote of 32
to 8, the house resolution by Mr. Al
exander of DeKalb, appropriating $65,
800 for the purchase of approximately
87 1-2. acres of land near the city
of Chattanooga, Tenn. to be used as
terminal property for the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, helonging to
the state,. ‘
Both house and senate passed t"-
bill to buy the code for the state of
Georgia, offered by Judge John L.
Hopkins. It was agreeq that thd
state should pay $6,000 for this code,
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