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by and. b. freeman.
OUR STATE CONSTITUTION.
What Chaaffc* ar Ne©4aO—Vlw
of Cal. Warren Akin.
Cartersvillk, March 26,1877.
Messrs. Thomas Tumlin, Eli Barrett ,
H. S- Phillips , and others :
Gentlemen : Your letter request
ing my opinion as to the propriety of
calling a State Convention under the
act of the last Legislature ; and, if the
people should vote in favor of a Con
vention, what changes should, in my
judgment, be made in our exiatiugState
Constitution, was received some days
since, but professional and other en
page me fits have delayed an answer.
As i am not, and will not be a can
didate for a seat in the Convention, and
as 1 never expect to be a candidate for
anv office, I feel that I can, on that ac
count, the more freely, frankly and fully
answer your letter without the liability
ot' having imputed to me any other mo'
tive than a sincere delire to promote the
best interesta of my fellow-citizeus.
I have no hesitation in saying that I
think a Convention ought to oe held,
ad for two reasons: First, the present
Constitution was made for % but not bi/
the people of Georgia. Thousands of
the most intelligent geatlemen in the
State were not allowed to participate in
making it. Second, the necessity fot
the many important alterations that
ought to be made in that instrument,
demauds the caUing of a Convention.—
Some of these alterations I now proceed
to state.
The first and leading amendment to
the Constitution that should b made
is a provision prohibiting the members
of the Legislature from voting them
selves the amount thsy think should be
paid them for their services. They are
interested and not proper judges as to
the value of their labor. The people
in Convention should determine what
compensation their law makers should
receive. And the sum should be too
small to tempt men to seek a seat in the
Legislature for the purpose of making
money. Asa general rule those men
who seek political office to put money
in their pockets, are trying to serve
themselves and not the people. The
people should be cautious now they trust
such men. Let the Constitution pro
vide that the members of the Legisla
ture shall not receive more than three
dollars a day, and you will not see so
many in every county pressing every
two years “their claims’' for seats in the
Legislature, upon the people. And
what is better, it wil- save a gteat deal
of money to the tax burdened people.
Vi r6 t make this provision and other im
portant changes will be much more ea
sily effected.
The compensation suggested seems
small when compared with that which
the members ot tbe Legislature have
been voting to themselves for many
years past. But how many members
make three dollars a day at home ?
Thirty dollars per month will pay a
member’s board at a good private board
iug house, and all bis oth *r legitimate
expenses. 1 his leaves sixty dollars per
month clear of all expanses. During
the last session of the Legislature,
members (so one informed me) obtained
board at five dollars per week.
The most important change in th
Constitution which l would suggest is
the abolition of the Senate. Did it ev
er occur to you, gentlemen, to inquire
upon what principle the senate of Geor
gia is based ? What is intended to be
accomplished by it? What do the Sen
ators represent? If there is any prin
ciple upon which it is founded, any im
port mt purpose to be secured, any great
good to be achieved by it, I am not able
to perceive it.
The Senatorial districts are not ar
ranged aooording to the taxable prop
erty nor population, nor according to
the number of voters in each, nor edu
cation, intelligence or morality. Our
government is one of the people, and
the people should be equally represent*
ed in the law-making body. It is both
unequal and unjust to give to six thou
sand people the same power in the Leg
islature that fifty thousand of their
peers and equal* possess. The delegates
to the State Convention are to be chosen,
a9 required by the State Constitution,
according to population. And ought
not all the representatives of the people
to be chosen in the same way ? No one
will deny it.
To bring the injustice more forcibly
to your view, take eight of the Senato
rial districts—four having the smallest
and four having the largest population.
The 3d, 4lh, sth and 15th districts
have a population of 40,019, and 6,691
voters. The Ist, 18th, 22d and 35th a
population of 193,495 and 32,605 vo
ters. In the first four districts there is
one Senator for each 10,000 people. In
the four latter districts, a Senator for
each 48,373. Here one Senator repre*
seats more people than four Senators.
The same injustice and inequality ex
ists aB to taxation. In the 3d, 4th. sth
and 15th dist-icts the value of taxable
property is $6,534,733, and the amount
of tax paid is $43,219 In the Ist,
18th, 22d and 35th districts the value
of the taxable property is $79,050,183,
and the tax paid is $441,690. I give
these last figures to show that no prin -
ciple of any kind exists in the arrange
ment or constitution of the Senate of
Georgia. There is no use for it. No
good is accomplished by it. Senator*
are no wiser than Representatives. They
are elected by the same peoplo.* This
useless waste of of time and money
flowing from the Senate should be stop*
ped.
The 42d Senatorial disti ict has 8,267
voters and but one Senator. The 3d,
4th, sth and 15th districts have 5,691
voters and four Senators. In the 15th
district there is a population of 8.668,
and in the 36th a population of 52,733,
more than six times as many as in the
former
The contrast in the number of voters
is still more striking. In the 15th there
are but 1,298 voters and in the 35th
11,004.
Is it just that one man in one section
of the State should have the same pow
er in making laws for the people that
six have in another section. A few
years ago we had a Senator and one or
mote Representatives from each county
The same voters elected each. When
| they arrived at the Capitol, one went
into one room, and one into another.—
And it is said that the object of this
was that one body might act as a cheek
upon the other. Now why could they
not check each other in the same room
as well as in separate rooms ?
But if we must have a Senate let tbe
Senators be chosen according to popu
lation and not by counties. Let one of
the two members in each district here
inafter mentioned be called Senator, and
there will be a Senate wth a groat giv
ing to the people. But the Senate
should be entirely abolished snd the
saving will be greater.
I know that this will meet with ob
jection. You will be’ told that it is
something new, something unusual. Is
there any foroe in this objection ? Are
we never to profit by experience or ob
servation ? I heard a man some years
since object to tbe turning: over of the
soil, and the very wise argument used
was the Almighty had male the right
side up, and he knew what was best.—
This sage did not perceive that this
reason would prevent any fencing or
plowing, for God mads the ground un*
fenced and unplowed But the great
objection will arise from the destruction
of so many places that so many patriots
desire to till. It will keep 119 anxious
souls from those seats in the Legisla
ture which they so earnestly desire to
fill for the good of their country and—
seven dollars a day.
Abolish the Senate, and then divide
the State iito fifty Legislative districts,
according to population, and give to
eaeh distiicttwo Legislators. Let the
districts be composed of contiguous
counties, each district having the same
number of people as near as practica
ble. If one coanty has the requisite
population make one county a district
If it requires two, three or five, have it
arranged accordingly. Let the control
iny idea be to have the people equally
represented in the Legislature. By this
plan there will be but one hundred leg
islators. They will generally be elected
from a larger territory and will be more
efficient, and better men than we now
have. The pay will not make the po
sition very desirable, and men will be
selected for their worth and not for
their electioneering capaoity and their
power and willingness to distribute
mean whisky.
Look at the saving to the people from
this plan. We now have 219 members
in the Legislature. The plan proposed
will cut off 119 of them. These, at
seven dollars a day, cost the people for
every day the Legislature is n session
$833, and for for forty days the sum
of $33 320. And then the expense of
the officers of the Senate will be saved,
which was last year $11,525.70. It
will also dispeuse with at least two
thirds of the clerk* of the House.—
With other changes which I will pres
ently suggest, a much larger saviug to
the people may be effected.
I have been informed that there were
about one thousand bills introduced into
the last Legislature, and that nine-tenths
of them were of no general interest.—
Now I propose to cut off all this expen
sive, time-consuming and useless local
legislation. It has long been a curse
to the people. Every one who can
manage to receive a seat in the Legisla
ture and draw l.is seven dollars a day
seems to think it essential that he should
introduce some bill, no matter who
writes it, and whether it is wise or fool
ish. Cut ill this off and give the Su
perior Courts, by appropriate legislation,
the power to pass all local acts that
each couuty may need. The courts now
have the power to grant charters to cer
tain corporations. Why not pass all lo
cal laws ? This will render but very
few clerks necessary for the Legisla
ture. Instead of a thousand bills to
read, there would not be one hundred.
Instead of taking forty or fifty days for
a session, it would not require twenty.
In this change in the organic law, 1 do
not propose to alter in any way the coun
ties. Let them remain jus* as they are
for all judicial and every county pur
poso. I would provide in the Consti
tution that the Clerk of the Legisla
ture Bhould reoeive a stated sum per
day, and that he should employ all hi*
assistants. This would prevent such a
superabundance of clerks as there has
been in many Legislatures in the past.
In this way SIOU a day would secure a
most efficient clerk,and out of that sum
he could employ all nece-sary assist
auts to do all the work properly and
promptly.
For the session of the Legislature of
1876, the State paid clerks, secretaries,
doorkeepers, messengers, pages, etc., of
the Senate and House the sum of $26,-
043.70. In'lß6l, the secretaries and
clerks of the Senate and House cost
the State for a session of forty days,
only $7,500. Uuder a bill which I
prepared and which became a law, the
Clerk of the House received SIOO per
day and paid all his assistants, and
that, too, when we had so much local
legislation and the Senate and Housj
bills to read. The expenses of the Jleg
islature of last year amounted to slll,-
193.05. Make the changes suggested
and the Legislature would not be in
session over twenty days. One hundr and
members at $3 per day would be S3OO.
This for twenty days would make s6,*
000 for tbe members. The clerks’ hire
for twenty days would amount to $2,-
000 at SIOO per day. One doorkeeper
and one messenger get $3 per day for
twenty days would make their compen
sation $l2O. All these sums make
the aggregate of $8,120. This would
sa e to our impoverished people $103,-
073 each year In ten years there
would be saved $1,030,730. This sav
ing would soon pay off the iState debt.
The people, with nearly one-half of
their property swept away, are now tax.
ed nearly five times as much as they
were twenty years ago. Ought not
something to be done to relieve them
from their oppressive burdens ? Think
of the amount of tax each of you paid
before 1360, and then compare it with
what you pay now, and what you then
had to pay on ad what you now have.
I repeat the question—“ Ought not
something to be done to relieve the
people ?”
I think there should be a provision
in the Constitution prohibiting the is
suing of bonds by the State for any
purpose, or taking stock in, or indors
ing the bonds of, or loaning the credit
of the State to any corporation of any
kind, or becoming liable for its debts
or contracts in any way. Credit is de
ceitful, misleading and often ruinous.
W hen the State needs money levy a
tax to get it, and then the people will
see, know, feel and understand what
their law-givers are doing. Then the
Legislators will at once feel the effects
of their own acts, and economy will
take the place of reckless extrovagance,
How many railroads has Georgia taken
stock in, and indorsed the bonds of,
without injury to the people? Look
at the Alabama and Chattanooga, the
Memphis braoch, the North and South,
the Macon and Brunswick, the Albany
and Brunswick, and the Gulf railroads,
an*l then answer.
In like manner the Constitution should
prohibit counties, cities, or towns from
borrowing money and issuing bonds for
that purpose. Money is often borrowed
and spent in high salaries, wild extrav
agance, improvements to benefit indi
viduals, speculations and peculation, and
then the property holders are ruinously
taxed to pay the interest on the money
hot rowed. Every one who never ex
pects to pay any tax, always favors the
issuing of bonds, and the borrowing
and spending of money. Georgia is
now borrowing money to pay the inter
est on what she owes. How long would
it require to ruin a private individual
by such a course. A policy unwise for
one man, is unwise for all the people.
The principle is precisely the "unie
Stop borrowing money and* increasing
indebte '.ness.
I suggest that the Legislature meet
but once in two years. The people
would not then be cursed with excess
ive law making. Provide in the Con
stitution that the Code shall not be
changed or “amended” except by a vote
of two thirds or three-fourths of the
Legislature, aid then the vigilant and
industrious lawyers may be able to keep
themselves informed as to the contents
of the Code.
I suggest that the term of office of
the Judges of the Superior Court be
shortened to four years and their sala
ries decreased. I believe their terms of
office should not be long under our sys
tem of government. I think it essen
tial co the welfare of a free people, th*t
terms of office should be of short dura
tion. All power eminates from the peo
ple, and those who are elected or ap
pointed to serve them, should not be
removed too far from, or be made to feel
too independent of them.
Berrien, Law, Lamar. Cobb, Craw
ford and our present Chief Justice, and
others, presided over the Superior Courts
of Georgia for about SI,BOO a year,
and I do not see why others of the pres
ent day, who are, co say the least, not
their superiors, should receive more. —
This item alone would save to the peon
pie over $15,000 each year, making in
ten years about $150,000.
The patronage of the Governor is
immense. He appoints every four
years about fifteen hundred men to of.
fine. This give* him great influence
Over the people. The difficulty is in
making the proper change. But there
are certain offices that should be abol
ished, and the power now vested iD
the Governor, of making appointments
to many of the most important offices,
should be taken from bim. 1 suggest
that the appointment of tbe Judges of
the Courts and the Solicitors
General be vested in the Judges of the
Sabreme Court. They are better ac
quainted with the qualifications and ca
pabilities of th© Judges of the Superior
Courts, and the lawyers generally, than
the Governor can possibly be. bet
them nominate to the Legislature the
names of two men ia each eircuit for
Judge, *nd two for Solicitor, and from
those let the Legislature select the
Judge and the Solicitor. This will
take away a large portion of the ap
pointing power from the Governor, the
most iinport&Dt offioers except, the
Judges of the Supreme Court. This
method of appointing these important
judicial officers will almost certainly be
a great improvement. Tbe decision of
the Judges gonp for review by theSu.
preme Court; and the lawyers go there
to argue thei r cases, and in this way
the Judges of the Supreme Court are
, enabled to detewniue the qualifications
CALHOUN, GA„ SATURDAY, MAY 12. 1877.
ot judges and lawyers, better than any
one else possibly can. And tbeo it will
operate to prevent appointee* to office
from feeling under obligations to the
appointing power. The favor will be
divided among three, and two names
will be presented, and the power ot se
lection will devolve upon the Legisla*
tare. The whole mutter will be so di
vided that no one can claim any merit
for it.
I would change the term of office for
Governor for two years, and render him
ineligible for re-election. He cannot
then have the power to use his office for
future promotion. The temptation to
corruption will be limited. And there
are so many good and worthy men who
can be induced to serve the people two
years in the Executive office, that we
will never run out of material to select
from. This will render the office so
unimportant that we will cease to see
very great effort made to obtain it for
months and years in advance. This
will prove a blessing to the people All
such struggles for high positions are de
moralizing. They tend to lower the
standard for office, and, to a certain ex
teut, deprive the people of a free, unbi
ased judgment in making a choice.
All the people should be placed upon
an equal footing in the use of the means
provided for collecting what is owing
to them. Ido not see why one man
should have greater facility for col.ect
ing bis wages for his labor, or the price
of property sold, than another. Why
should a man who furnishes lumber to
build the house that shelters the family
be entitled to any greater privilege in
collecting its value than the farmer who
sells corn and meat to feed the wife and
children ? Can a good reason be found
for such a distinction ? 1 believe that
all the lien laws should be abolished, or
extended to every class and every indi
vidual alike. Let there be a provision
incorporated into the Constitution for.
bidding any law in favor of or against
any particular class or classes, or indi
vidual or individuals. Let the bless
ings of the Government fall like the
dews of Heaven, equally upon all. Ljt
the white aud the black, the rich and
the poor, the learned and the igrorant,
be alike the recipients of the blessings
of the State.
Incorporate a provision into the Con
stitution that no appropriation of mon
ey shall be made,except by a two thirds
vote, and the yeas and nays be eutered
on the Journal. In like manner let
any two members have the power to
have the yeas an 1 nays on the passage
of any law or resolution, entered on the
Journal. These provisions will save
much money to the tax-payers, and
prevent tbe passage of many unwise and
improper laws.
There are other, but minor changes,
I could suggest, but this letter is al
ready too long. 3uch as it is, it is at
your service.
For the kind and complimentary
manner in which you have expressed
yourselves, and for confidence mani
fested in me, be pleased, gentlemen, to
accept my sincere acknowledgements.
Wi h very great regard, I am your
obedient servant, Warren Aikin.
adventures in the dark.
Blinkus' Wile's Alarm, and
Blinkus* Efforts to Con
sole Her.
Last night, just after Blinkus and
his wife were 6nugly stowed away in
bed, Mrs. B. thought she heard the
front door slam.
“Hubbie, dear, do you hear that front
door slammiu’ ?”
“No, dearie, I locked it just before I
wound up tbe clock.”
"“I didn’t see you go out in the
hall.”
“But I did, love.”
“I think you must be mistaken.”
“Well I know when I locked the
door, dammit!”
“Now you shan’t swear at me. That
door is open and you know it. Sposen
the burglars get in and carry off all the
silver. We’d be in a nice fix.”
“They’d be worse off with the old
plated stuff. Besides who in h—l ev
er heard of a burglarly above A street ”
“If you don’t get up and lock that
door I’ll rush out and scream for the
police. I’ll ’rouse the neighborhood if
it’s the last act of my lfe.”
Blinkus, somewhat alarmed at the
threat, rose up and began to fumble
round for a match.
“The matches are at the end of the
wnshstand, love.”
Blinkus passed at the place designa
ted and broke a soap dish.
“I never saw such an awkward man
since I was born,” quoth Mrs 8., from
the bed just as B. stumbled back over
a spittoon and sat dowo in it so for
cibly that it was smashed into forty
pieces
“O Lord,” ejaculated Mrs B.
Blinkus next struck his toe against a
towel rack, and an oath disso’ved itself
in the darkness. Then he stepped on
the baby’s rattle and ran one of the
points into his foot half an inch.—
Jamping aside he upset the centre ta
ble and began to flounder out toward
the hall. His young hopeful’s carriage
was there, and he fell over it six differ
ent ways before he reached the door.
“Was it open V’ queried a voice from
the bed.
“N.l !”
“Oh I it must have been something
else I heard.—• irginia City Chroni
cU.
Th €ase of (be JSplesioe.
“I would invite you to mj house,
brudder Jackson,” said deacon John
son as he emerged from church last
Sunday evening, ,4 but I dunno as we’*l
get tny sapper dis night, the cook
stove p.m so dreadfully out of repair.”
“What’s de matter wid de stove?”
“Why, you see cold wedder aui corn
in’ on and wood’s gett n skase at’ high
au’ I’ve ’structed de folks to be berry
ekooomical in de usin’ ob it. We’se
b n bufin’ in small lots, an’ last night,
bein’ out ob fuel I sent one of my boys
ober to ; neighbor’s to borrow a few
stioks. De man ob de family had gone
to bed, owin’ to de lateness ob de hour,
an’ dat boy. who would ’spise to do an
unhonest transaction wrote out his note
for de value ob de wood, an’ droppin’ it
in a prominent place in de wood-shed,
shouldered *an armful au’ brought it
home.”
“Jess s<.”
“Well, a fire was kindled, de kettle
put on, de o!t woman she is gettiu’ de
supper. All ob a sudden puff went de
stove, zoom ; keswish, k 'slush went
something, an’as I tumbled over I saw
de ole woman makin’ for de roof wid
de tea-kettle wid de stove plates follow
in’ her, while de hoys an’ de gals was
as black wid smut as de ace of spades
De stove’s goose was cooked for fact.”
“What de cause of de ’splosion ? ’
“I’m strongly ’clined to believe dat
dar was powder in dat wood, and dat de
powder was done put in dar by dat
white man to ketch some thievin’ dar
keys wat neb her buys no wood, an’
bressed ef L don’t think dat man spects
me, kase he couldn’t find dat uote, an’
won’t make any ’pologies.”
“Dat am au outrage.”
‘‘For a fact, an’ the children’s suppei
was spiled too.”
An Elephant Mtaupede.
A correspondent, writing to a Lon
don paper of the display at Delhi, says :
“The batteries on the right first tired
thirty-four salvos of th-ee guns each;
then the infantry fired a feux de joie
The batteries on the left then took up
the salute. aud so on until one hundred
and one salvos and three feux de joie
had been fired. It is said that Lord
Lytton wished "that the salvos should
be of six guns each, but the artillery
officers pointed out the difficulties. As
it was, this portion of the salute was
rather disappointing. The guns were
small, and, as a general rule, the three
did not go off simultaa'ou-ly. The
feux de joie, however, amply compensa
ted ; the effect as it rolled down one
long line, then doubled back and rat
tled up the others was really magnifi
cent and worthv of the occasion, only
the elephants aud horses seemed not
to appreciate it. The former, after each
discharge turned tail in wild stampede,
and wero with difficulty brought back
to their places. It is said that some
people in the crowd were killed and
hurt by the sudden rush of the huge
and frightened beasts. I have not been
able to ascertain the extent of the mis s
chief, but it could hardly fail to be con
siderable."
—— •-+ ♦
Kats are affectionate; they luvyung
chickens, sweet kream and the best
place in front of the fire-place.
Dogs are faithful ; they wiU stick to
a bone after every boddy else baz de-*
serted it.
Parro ts are eaziiv edukated, but
they will learn to swear in haff the
time they will learn enny thing else.
The birds eat bugs and worms for
plain vittles, but their dessert konsists
ov the best Cherrys aud gooseberries
in the garden.
The owl iz only a picture ov wisdom
by da lite, when he kan't see enny
thing. When it cums nite hiz wisdom
wholly konsists in ketching a field*
mouse, if he kan.
The dooke* iz an emblem ov pa
chunce, but if yu sluddy them klosser
yu will find that lazyness iz what's the
matter ov them.
The eagle iz the monark ov the skies, j
but the little king-bird will chase him
to his hiding-place.
The ox knoweth hiz master’s krib,
and that iz all he duz kno or care about
his master.
M unkeys are imitatiff, but if they
kan’t imitate some deviltry they ain’t
happy.
The goose iz like a’l other phools—
allwuss seems anxious to prove it.—
Josh Billings.
As daylight can be seen through very
BDia!* holes, so little things will ii 1 us
trate a person’s character.
A coquette is a rose from whom ev
ery lover plucks a leaf—the thorns
remaining for her future husband.
A man who gives his children habits
of industry provides for them better
than by giving them a fortune.
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VOL. VII.—NO 36
ESTArLICI.'ED 1860.
GILMt>UE
Attorneys £t Law,
Successors to Chipman, Hosme.r & Co s
629 F. BT., WASIIINGTOI, i. C.
Auiericaa aud Foreign [ atents.
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Claims prosecuted in the Supreme Court
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Southern Claims Commission, and all class
es of war claims bofore the Executive De
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war or their heirs, are in many cases en
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which they have no knowledge. Write full
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Pensions.
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ed ruptured, or injured in the late
however slightly, can obtain ape *
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ining pre-emption and homestead caiea’,
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Address GILMORE & CO.,
P. 0. Box 44, _ Washington, D. G.
Washington, D. C., November 24, 1876,
I take pleasure in expressing my entiru
confidence in the responsibility and fidelity
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Gilmore & Cos., of this city.
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