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tics; and decided to p.-rfe, ; an organiza* 

 ton growers, extending int.) . . county, 



and 



Labor strike. Lufost the Fulton Bag and 



M Mills in Atlanta employed 90 colored women 



and put thrin at work MI the milK In conse- 



<juen ..in 1,400 operatives eraploved there 



ike. It was settled in a few 



the sii|Hrintcndrnt proim-ing ! remove nil ne- 

 groes in dire, t ,-..nta. I \Mlli white labor, ami to 

 eratives responsible for the pre-en: 



LawlMMMMLSeveral cases of lynching oc- 

 t he year, one of these was that of 

 ... murdered u young lady at 

 Talbotton because she refused him. A !<.<u, 

 paper says: "The affair wasao open that there was 

 i moment a suggestion of doubt a> : 

 .ilt. Id- wa> brought to trial, ami after 

 *a Kan I- fought legal lattl .\ictcd and -en- 



1 t> be hanged. Thru U-gan tin- usual con- 

 test for saving tin- lift- <>f the condemned through 

 t.'chnicahti' -. The case was taken to tin- Supreme 

 Cotirt. and a now trial secured. A called term of 

 the lower court was convened for tin- purpose of 

 hearing the case. There wen- pre-ented certain 

 reasons why the trial should go over until another 

 term of the e.,urt. and a continual! .nted. 



About fifteen months had passed since the eomini-- 

 sion of the crime when tin* last stay was granted. 

 The prisoner was on his way from' Tiilbottoii to 

 Columbus to le held for safe keeping, when a ni"l> 

 ; him and carried to its condu-ion. without 

 the right of law. the sentence of death that was im- 

 posed upon him at his fir-t trial." 



The newspapers gene rally laid the blame for the 

 (rime upon the law's delays. 



Lejrtalath' xe--ion. An adjourned session of 

 the General Assembly began Feb. -'5. Its special 

 object was to receive the vote on the report of an 

 investigation that had !><< -n held of charges made 

 .ator Carter again-t Judge Seabnni Kee-e. .,f 

 Northern circuit, and Judge Joel L. Sweat, of 

 tin- Hrunswick circuit. The special committ> 

 (torted that there was no ground for impeachment 

 proceedings. 



A resolution passed the Hou-.- providing for the 

 appointment Of a committee of five to investigate 

 all the department! of the State government and 

 all the State institutions, and to report to the next 

 al Assembly the exi>ense of maintaining each 

 of said departments and institutions, and recom- 

 mending s-.ich reforms and rules of retrenchment 

 as in its wisdom may IK* admissible without injury 

 to said department dr institui: 



Legislature convened for its regular session 

 Oct. 27. The (iovernor devoted much space in his 

 message to the subject of lynching-, urging action 

 them. In reference to the lynching of 

 innocent men he said: "I feel the mi. re deeply 

 ii|n this .juestion because, from the be-t informa- 



tion I can ir-. I U-lieve that during my admin- 



i-tration there have been in thi.s State several men 

 lynched win. were ,,ot guilty of the crimes with 

 which they wer. I am informed that one 



man. whom the mol, I,, -iirvcd to be guilty, was s},,,t 

 down. A question then arose as to hU identity, 

 ami he was salted down like a hog. shjpjM -d to the 



n of the crime, and found to he the v 

 man an innocent man. During my term of office 

 ne man who was rescued from the mob was ac- 

 corded a trial, which resulted in showing that he 

 was not guilty. Another fled from the mob to the 

 executive office and asked for protection and a 

 trial by jury. They were given him, and r 

 veloped that he was not guilty of the charge for 

 which the mob endeavored to take his life/' 



Tin- following resolution- were introduce, 1 the 

 first day and passed : 



U MM, 'In the town of Hogansville. St., 

 Georgia, the 1'ref.idcnt .<f the I'nited Stale- lias 



seen proper to appoint totheotlice of i.. ~:m ;i 



man whose appointment \\a- opposed l-\ '.MI p,<r 

 <-ent. of ih. era and responsible citi- 



f thai community : and. 



M '/.... /s-. In no other >,.((!,, n of tin I'niied 



-would the 1'iv-ident make, or permit t.- le 



. an appointment of like < hatart. T \\ the 



' -iili-nt would not dare appoint 



as postmaster of any town a Cliii r the 



r c.-nt. of it- property o\\ nei - and 



responsil.i. n..r would lie dare in any 



liiwn in tin- Ni-rth or Ka-l appoint to a local office 



one who was oppo-,-<l l.y IMI per cent, of the lesl 



people of the locality ; aiid. 



- H lit .-f Sept. Hi. is;,;. . 

 kno\Mi pal t lev are said to have -ho) and attempted 

 to kill the said appointee ; then 



</ l.y the Hoil-e o! 



the General Assembly of the State < 

 That if said attempt to -hoot said appoint, 

 true, which we ha\e reasons to di-i con- 



deriin in unmea-ured term- the lawlc.-s conduct of 

 the would-l>e a-sassjns. 



H, .^,1 rid. That we deplore this and simila 1 

 pointmcnts as exliibition.s of petty -pile ami nar- 

 row sectional hate, unworthy t he high oil, 

 chief magistrate of this great nation. 



/,'-'''<'</. Thai we appeal to impartial pnMic 

 opinion to eiiti-r it- powerful protest against ; 

 dential appoint ments to olTice for the manifest 

 purpo-c of affronting and humiliating a commu- 

 nity of American citi/.ens for no other reason than 

 a difference in party affiliation-." 



iutions \\ere also adopted a-king Congress 

 to enact a national quarantine law, and fa\o; 

 con-tit utional amendment providing for the 

 lion of I'nited > .tors by the people. 



The committee appointed at 'the adjourned ses- 

 sion, of which A. <>. lUalock was chairman. I 

 its work June s. and reported to tin- I.egi-lalnrc 

 Nov. :!. (ine member of the committee. J. I>. 

 Litile. presented a minority re|K)rt. 



The majority report criticised the management 

 of the university, or rather of the funds appro- 

 priated by the National (lovernment for agricul- 

 tural education, recommending that the < 

 Agricultural and Mechanic Art- be -eparali-d from 

 the univer-ity. It wa- held by the committee 

 that the agricultural department wa- of no 

 whatever, and was maintained merely for the pur- 

 pose of securing the appropriations. 



An extract was given from the catalogue for 

 1806-'J>?. in which it is said that farmiii_ 

 tically taught, and elaborate details of the in-true- 

 tion are given, and it i- -aid that the college farm 

 .ducted as a model, that it is de-jgne 1 that 

 the student- in agriculture -hall take actual indi- 

 vidual part in all I he operations on the farm. The 

 committee's report -. i vi-ited this-i; 



farm.' There was no diversity of crop- ih< 

 We did not nb-erve any evidence of skill 

 it- management. It was pronounced by the com- 

 mittee and all who referred to the farm i:i our 

 nee as a failure. It has ,,ot been vi.-ited in 

 :! \ear- either by faculty, triiste. 



'h'erefore the glo'win- rIilt.s in thecatii! 

 are not and could not br- reali/cd. and this failure 

 of beneficial re-ult- js mainly chargeable to th 

 ab-nc- of intcn-t. [urpose, and efff>rt on the part 

 of those in control." 



It was found, according to the committee, that 

 the taxable value- of the State are constantly 

 shrinking ; that between 1891 and 1890 there was a, 



