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THE WEATHER. For Atlanta and Vicinity—Fair and slightly wanner tonight and Tuesday. * The Atlanta Georgian AND NEWS SPOT COTTON. Liverpool, steady, 6.19; Atlanta. steady, 11*4; New Orion ns, steady, 11%; Sew York, steady, 11,80; Bnrnnnnh, quiet, 11 1-16; Augusta, Arm, 11 1-16; Mobile, firm, 11 1-16; Charleston, steady, 10 13-16. VOL. VI. NO. 102. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1907. PPTPT?,. In Atlanta..TWO CENTM. rMJJA-JH. On Trains..FIVE CENTS. 60TH CONGRESS MEETS “UNCLE HE” RE-ELECTED TO Both Houses Adjourn Until Tuesday Noon. MARK OP RESPECT TO DEAD MEMBERS John Sharp Williams Takes Up Leadership of Mi nority. Waahlngton, Dec. 2.—Congreia aa- ■embled at noon today. It was Wash ington’s-'one great ahow day of the rear. Long before the gavels fell In he senate and house, a stream of peo ple coursed down Pennsylvania avenue. Hied the galleries, and overflowed Into he corridors—a mast of confusion and ■olor. The procedure In the senate ,vas formal and brief. In the house the ■ntlro membership had to be sworn In, Speaker Cannon and the other officers iad to be re-elected, and seats had to je assigned. _ , In the senate Vice President Falr- 3&nks presided, the organization of the ■onate being continuous. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, the distinguished chap- aln of the senate, ottered prayer, the roll was called and the vice president mnounced a quorum present. The .wearing In of newly-elected senators was than taken up, after which Sena tor Hole, the maater-of-ceremonles, offered the usual resolution directing the appointment of a committee to act ivlth a committee of the house to watt 3pon .President Roosevelt and inform ilm that congress was asssmbled and prepared to receive any communica tion he mlp’-t be pleased to make. The committee. will not report until tomor- IW, _ Then the senate was ready to go to ork. Identical resolutions were adopt. I by the house. One more resolution as needed to start the legislative ma- llnery In the upper body, and tt Axed Continued on Pape Nine. toodyear Will 3eorgia-Mis- ppi Canal. Washington, Dec. 2.—C, P. Good year, of Brunswick, Ga., a member of the Brunswick board of trade, and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, a dele gate of the state of Georgia to the riv ers and harbors congress which meets here Wednesday, Is In Washington. Colonel Goodyear has spent thirty years agitating Improved waterways In the Southern states. He was re cently a delegate to the waterways convention held in Philadelphia. There will be about 1,000 delegates present at this week’s session of the rivers and harbors congress. The pres ident la Joseph E. Ranedell, member ot congress from Louisiana. The secretary la J. T. Ellison, of Cincinnati. Sec retary Root will open the congress. Ambassador Jusaarand will make an address on French canale and Baron von Sternburg will talk on German In land navigation. Senator Newlande, Hon. Theodore Burton, Colonel Good year and Governor Hoke Smith will also apeak. About twenty governors will be present; A 150,000,000 appro priation Is wanted. Colonel Goodyear has revived a project for a canal connecting the Georgia coast with the Mississippi liver. The proposed canal would start at Atlanta and using various small riv ers In Georgia and Alabama, would epen 15,000 miles of Interior rlvere to the Atlantic coast. Some of these riv ers are navigable now, and the pro- imsed new waterway would connect with the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers. Race Results. NEW ORLEAN8—CITY PARK. First .Race—Aim, 3 to 1, won; Task Master, » to 5 and 4 to i, second; Night Mist, 0 to I, 5 to 2 and 6 to 5, third. Time 1:011-5. “NOW, GET BUSY BOYS!’ POOGOOGeHSOOGG 000000 CKJOOOOO $710,287,626.20 TO O BE APPROPRIATED BY O O SIXTIETH CONGRES8. O O O O Washington. Dec. 2.—According O O to estimates furnished by the va- O O rlous departments of the govern- O O ment, and transmitted to congress O O today, the total amount to be ap- O O proprlated for the current year Is O O tilO,287,626.20. 0 O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO VICE PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS. ■UNCLE JOE" CANNON. He Is speaker of the national luse of representatives. GEORGIA DELEGATION ON BIG COMMITTEES SenatorClayWill Urge Anti-Liquor Legis lation. Waahlngton. Dec. 2.—When congress opened with the usual formalities this morning, the members of the various Southern delegations were all present. Among the fifteen new members of the senate, the, two senators from Okla homa are notable. Thomas P. Gore, one of them, enjoys the double distinction of not only being the youngest mem ber of that august body, being only 37 years old, but is the only blind man who has ever been a senator of the United States. Robert L. Owens, the other Oklahoma senator, is part In dian. Among the other Southerners are the !lr6-eatlng ex-governor. Jeff Da vis, of Arkansas, and the Addling ex- govemor of Tennessee, ••Bob" Taylor. Tomorrow caucus will be held to elect the Democratic senate lender. Senator Culberson, of Texas, will probably be elected. Bills touching the liquor question will be Introduced by Senator Clay, of Georgia, who was re-elected for the full term at the last session of the Georgia legislature. One of them will be Intended to prevent whisky ship ments Into a "dry” state. Another will subject shipments of liquor in In terstate commerce In a state to the po lice laws of the state. Congressman Lon Livingston, of the Atlanta district, will have opposition for renominating at the expiration of his present term. Most of the Georgia members will be reappointed by Spenker Cannon on the committees on which they have pre viously served. Senator Bacon, of Georgia, expects to again be on the committee of Indian depredations and Judiciary. All of the Georgia representatives are greatly Interested in Jhe inland water ways congress, which, meets In Wash ington Wednesday. HARRY THAW’S SECOND TRIAL JANUARY 6, NEXT New York, Dec. 2.—Justice Dowling today fixed January 6 ns the date for the second trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White. This followed a motion by Diatrlct Attorney Jerome when the cane wa* called to- day. KARL HAU’S DEATH DECREE COMMUTED TO LIFE IN PEN Karlsruhe, Germany. Dec. 2.—The sentence against Karl Hau for murder ing his mother-in-law, Frnu Moltter. has been commuted from death to life imprisonment. FATHER AND GIRL KILLED IN WRECK; NINE INJURED Pittsburg. Dec. 2.—Train No. 12 on the Baltimore ond Ohio, an easthound express, was wrecked near M art Ins- burg, W. Va„ today, killing W. U Hoff man and hla daughter. Nellie. Mne passengers were Injured. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO C ROOSEVELT REITERATES O O THIRD TERM DECREE; O O WON’T RUN AGAIN. O O O O Washington, Dec. 2.—“I won’t O O deviate one single point from the O O announcement I’ve nlremly. njjyJeJ’, O O said PresIdeht RooSevelt today to O O Representative Hlnshaw, of Ne- O O braska, who called to tell hhn that O O the people of that state wished O O dency. This Is the most direct, O O positive statement that has been O O made by the president,on the sub- O O Ject of the third term since his O O announcement at his election In O O 1904. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BE COAL MINE Only One Body So Far Recovered From Deep Pit. Fayette City, Pa., Dec. 2.—Fifty men are in all probability dead In the Na- oml mine of the United Coal Company, about two miles from here, according t<> statements made after a canvass of the little mining vlllAge at 10 o'clock tlds morning. After-damp, which followed the ex plosion shortly before" 9 o’clock last night, has prevented the large force of rescuqrs from reaching the entombed miners. The fan is still going, but the after-damp Is so heavy that rescuers are reeling back every time they enter the mine. One rescuer after another has l»een rendered unconscious by the deadly fumes, and It probably will be late 1n the day before the entombed men are reached. 'The fact that the after-damp ptevents rescue work. Is taken ns an Indication that every man In the mine lias perished. The work of rescue Is under the au- pei Intendency of State Mine Inspector Henry Loutttt. Wives, sisters, brothers and fathers of the men In the mine are crowded about ihe entrance. Many arc in such a condition thnt they cun not realise the extent of the calamity. ACCIDENTAL Asserts That Mrs. Brad ley Went to Room to Kill Self. LAST PLEA MADE FOR FRAIL WOMAN She Snys That SIiq Will Nev er Tell Her Story Again. Washington, Dec. 2.—This is the last day of the Bradley trial. Before the day Is done the arguments In the case will have been completed, the Judge's charge read and the fate of the frail little woman charged with murdering former Senator Arthur Brown will be In the hands of the men who have pa tiently listened to the evidence during three long weeks. With the arguments of Judge Pow ers, chief counsel for the prisoner, and the closing speech of District Attorney Baker, Judge Stafford will charge the Jury, arid much depends upon -the In structions that the y^ing Judge will give. However, this morning Mrs. Bradley and her attorneys were confi dent that the law', shaking through twelve men, will say: "Go, woman, and sin no more." "Whether acquitted or convicted,” said Mrs. Bradley, “and feeling that I am the same as 1 am now', a creature overburdened with a shame too great to be borne, I would not go on the stand again to save my neck. I felt w'hen I was on the stand before that I had broken all of m.v Ideals. It was only because my mother told me that I owed It to my children that I ever told my story on the witness stand. If there should be a disagreement of ths HENRY CLEWS ON THE SITUATION Here Is what Henry’ Clews, one of the great conservative forces In the nation's finances, has to say of the situation as he sees It today: “There Is a distinctly better feeling In the financial situation, due al most entirely to improvement In the money market, which has been working out Its own cure. Hoarded currency is being returned; foreign gold Is pouring Into our coffers; bank reserves arc beginning to rise; the credit situation Is less strained; call and time money rates are lower, and redemption of clearing house certificates is already In sight. These symp toms of relief have fortunately shown themselves even before tho addi tional currency furnished by the government had become available. They show' natural and healthy tendencies toward recovery. As a result, w’e have had a fair rise In the stock market and confidence has been corre spondingly Improved. It Is quite evident that the corner has now been turned." The Vertical Pump at $133,700 Recom mended. 00000000000000000000000000 Jury and anotherAriaH will nev f r the army <iffaift.fi*vef.” * The Judge Powers' Final Appeal. Judge Powers made his final appeal for the life of Mrs. Bradley. He re ferred to her artistic and literary ten dencies, her associations with literary* people, her refined nature, remarkable Intellect and the intensity of her devo tion and love. "The government asks why did not this woman leave this man? The gov ernment forgets that, as days passed, society turned Its back, and nowhere else could this woman go, except to the man who placed her where she was. She became a bondw’oman, knowing her shame, yet turning always to her mas ter." Shooting Accidental. He said the shooting w’os accidental; that the woman, distressed beyond all understanding, went to Brown’s room to end her oiyn life, a struggle ensued and Brown was shot. Concluding, he said: Now I leave her with you. As you Judge this woman, may you be Judged on the day when the quick and the dead will be summoned, when the final trump is sounded.’’ EXPECTING CULL FOR STATEMENTS Chairman Fowler, of Fi nance Committee, Says Reform Must Come. OO OO OOOOOOOOOOOOGO ooooooorf O DOWN TO FREEZING; O O WILL CONTINUE FAIR. O O Hit the freezing line Sunday O C night, but no harm reported. Fine O O weather to continue, with a bit of O C warmth coming along. O O Forecast: O O "Fair Monday night und Tuo»- O O day; slightly warmer." P O 7 o’clock a. m 32 degrees, “ O s o’clock a. m.. .. O 9 o’clock a. m.. .. P 10 o’clock Oil o’clock o. m O 12 o’clock noon, o l o’clock p. m. O 2 o'clock a. m. .33 degrees. O ..37 degrees.' O ..41 degrees. O ...44 degrees. O ..48 degrees. O . .30 degree*. O .. 33 degrees. O New York, Dec. 2.—Officials of na tional banks here are expecting this week a call from the comptroller of the treasury for a statement showing thefr financial conditions. This will have the effect, It Is ex pected, of showing to the depositors and the public In general the great rush reserves now’ on hand, acting generally to allay fear and restore full confi dence now gradually being evlderfoed. The report that the secretary of the treasury will not issue but $23,000,000 of the 3 per cent certificates Is regard ed generally as a harbinger of good times In the money market. The secre. tary will, however, put out the entire Issue of $50,000,000 Panama canal bonds. This was decided because of the fact that the money market had regained its normal condition. Chairman Fowler, of the house com- mltt rt e on banking and currency, has made an announcement In which he says remedial legislation is necessary to prevent a recurrence of the cur rency stringency when crops are moved again. He says Inflation must cease and that the proposition of basing its issue on bonds Is sheer madness. He asserts If the present policy' con tinues there will be real trouble. Ex-Mayer's House Burns. Rome, Ga., Dec. 2.—M. J. Crocker, former mayor of North Rome, suffered the loss of his house and all Its ron- _ tents by fire early Saturday morning, ppOPPOPOOOOPOOPOPOPOPPPPOQ and narrowly escaped with bis Ufa. P The meeting of the general com- O P mlttee was enlivened by a word O P altercation between Frank P. Rice, 0 0 chairman of the water board; 0 0 General Manager Park Woodward O 0 and A. W. Collier, chief engineer. 0 0 The Bethlehem Steel Company 0 0 proposed to make a new* design 0 0 for a pump. P 0 "I can not assume the respon- 0 0 sibility for passing on the design 0 0 for a. pump," stated General Man- 0 0 ager Woodward. P 0 "Then,” stated President Rice, P 0 hotly, "we will get somebody w’ho O 0 will* take some responsibility." P 0 "I can not assume the respon- 0 0 siblltty." Engineer Collier said. O 0 “We will get somebody," re- P O peated President Rice, "who will P O assume the responsibility." P pump question will l»e settled by council Monday afternoon nud the hid of the Wlscouslu Engine Company for a tical triple expansion ptunp will no doubt be accepted. The water board and the special council committee met at 11 o'clock Monday morn Ing and agreed unanimously to recommeud the acceptance of the Wlaoonsln company 1 bid. The bid la $122,700. In addition to tbln the company agrees to Install Asst. Att’y Gen’l Rus sell Urges Annulment by Congress. Washington. Dec. 2.—If the recom mendations of Charles W. Russell, as sistant attorney general, relative' to peonage, are adopted by congress, nu merous state laws governing laborers working on “shares," under verbal or written contracts to work on farm lands for money or supplies or other considerations, will be annulled and long-standing usages and traditions completely obliterated. Assistant Attorney General Russell was recently In Atlanta to assist In the prosecution of alleged (peonage cases, and while In that city took oc casion to Investigate conditions In the South regarding the labor problem, es peci&lly In the rural district*. "It Is hoped," he says, "that an en lightened self-interest and the demand for labor made necessary by the ex panslon of old industries and the in troduction of new will lead' to the amendment or repeal of state laws BETTER PHI Labor Men Call on Council to Raise Salary. TYPOS ARE FIRST TO PASS RESOLUTION Federation of Trades Take? tip Campaign in Behalf of Teachers. ‘ . 000oooooooooooaooooooooooo O WHAT ATLANTA TEACHERS 0 O ARE PAID FOR WORK. O O O Here Is the salary scale In the O O itranunnr schools: O O hirst six months $40.00 O O Second six months 46.00 O O Second year 60 00 O O Third year 62.60 O O Fourth year 66.00 O O Fifth year 57,50 O O Hxth year 00.00 O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO which orothe .chief support at peon* age 'pfncTtri'**: 4 ' He says: 25-tun Continued on Pago Seven. HALF MILLION LOSS IN HOUSTON FIRE BLOCK DESTROYED Firemen Unable to Cope With Flames Which Spread Rapidly. Houston, Tex., Dec. 2.—Early today fire started In the tilock bounded by Main, Fannin. Congress and Preston streets. Tho loss is now more than a half million. The firemen had great difficulty In getting the flames under control. $9,700 COLLECTED FOR EDUCATION BY CONFERENCE By HANSELL BAKER. Brunswick. Ga„ Dec. 2.-Tnc pass! ns the characters of ministers of. the South Georgia Methodist Conference was continued this morning. Rev. Sammons, of Brunswick Bap tist church, made a short address. Dr. Moore, assistant editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate, also addressed the conference. Bishop Atkins made an address In dorsing The Advocate fully, amt rec- tnmended It to the pastors. Mem bers of the conference arose and pledg. I themselves to try to Increase the number of subscrlptlbns to The Ad- vocate. The report from the Sunday school beard was adopted. The report from the board of educa tion show’* a rapid growth in Methodist schools In Georgia. The collection 111 1907 for education was $9,700. STEAMER ON FIRE; DOCKS BURNING IN PHILADELPHIA The State Lawe. "In some stales a man who contracts In writing to work for another for a specified time, and then makes a ace ond contract .without .giving notice of the first contract to the second employ er. Is guilty of a misdemeanor, and n person who employs a laborer who ha* contracted with another employer be fore the expiration of his term Is de- Continued on Page 8even. M'GUGIN TO STA! FIVE YEARS MORE Famous Coach to Teach Two Branches and . Boss Eleven. A recommendation that the mayor end general enuncll appropriate a sntflelent sum of money to the depnrtment of education for 1908 to permit nn Increase In the salaries of the teaehers In tile Atlanta public schools was embodied In a resolution Introduced at the meeting of Atlnntn Typographical Union No. 48 Mimlajr ufternoon. The resolution wns signed by Jerome Jones. W. I.. Hnv- good and .1. J. Hobby,II end wss OUnnl- nionsly adopted by the union. The resolution declared It to be the sense of the union that an act of tardy Justh-e should lie done the teaehers In the schools and that their salarlea should lie mode com mensurate with the Increased cost of living. It sets forth the further fact that the snln- fbe best teaching talent, and has the effect of causing women who would make the most efficient Instructors to seek other "We do not wish to have It understood that' the Itonrrt or edncatlon Is responsible for the low salaries now lielng paid ' ran with the money npproprf ............ is, Will *• “ uo foci that flu* city council should appro priate it iuin fttifflclent to Justify the board in paying them more money. Indebtod to Teacher. "The labor organizations ore deeply In terested In this matter, for who Is more deeply indebted to the school teacher than the laboring man? These women are wear ing their lives away In the effort to make decent, respectable and educated men and women of your children and mine. I would not worry with iny children eight hours n day like they do for anything in the world, yel they take the raw, ernde material ati<l work uud worry w'lth It until they make pretty decent sort of men and women out of it: and they do It for n mere pittance. They have no voice In elections, they can’t and make blin tell „ _ __ for them. And for this reason the Atlanta Typographical fulon Is going to not Its in fluence in the efTort to get them an Increase In salary, s thing which has been granted ery other city employee except the teach- Wednesday. Deeenilwr 13. It follows lo full: Text of Resolution, Whereas, The salaries of the teachers In the public schools of the city of Atlanta, in ‘oiiimon with all other city employees, were reduced some years since st the tlmo of the reduction of the city tax rate, and Wlierena, The salaries of all city #m- rnve been materially Increased In recent ears, and there has been uo substantial screase In the pay of the teachers, and Wherens, 'Ihe cost of living has very greatly Increased within recent years and who would make capable, efticleut teachers to K4*ck other avenues of employment that offer better remuneration, thereby creating a comlltlou thnt may redound to the dis advantage and Injury of our schools: Wherefore, The premises considered, we, the tiudersigned citizens of Atlanta, tax payers, patrons of the public schools of the city and meiutior* of Atluntn Typographical fulon No. 48, looking to the best Interest u* our public schools and Inspired with th» belief that an urt of tardy Justice should lie done to the teachers In our schools, do most respectfully request and urge the honorable mayor and general coun cil of the dty of Atlanta fo provide an approprlntlon to the department of schools lit the January, ittfi, apportionment sheet thnt will permit the board of education to pay to the teachers a Just living wags, thereby securing the highest teaching talent now seeking other avetrties of employment nud maintaining the high standard of escal* lence our school system has heretofore ab tallied. DAN M’GUGIN. Signed :ih coach for Vanderbilt for five years—Will also teach in law school. Philadelphia, Dec. 2.—The steamer Montana, of the American line. Is on fire at her dock and damn have spread to the dock ahed. Large quantities of oil are stored on the .dock and all down-town flye apparatus has been called to the scene. Dan McGugin. coach of the Vander bilt football team since the fall of 1904, has signed a five-year contract with Vanderbilt University. That cinches Dan for the South until the fall of 1913. In udditlon *to coaching the football team, Mr. McGugin will teach "Con stitutional Law and Contracts Base?! on Engineering Specifications” In the Vanderbilt University law school and III open a law office In Nashville. This announcement will be made to the Vanderbilt team and students Mon day night at the hnhquet In honor of the football team, which will be given In the big dining room at Klssam hall. Dan McGugin was born In Tlngley, Iowa, In 1879 and graduated at Drake University, De* Moines, Iowa, In 1901. He then took up law work In the Uni versity of Michigan, from which col lege he graduated In 1904. Mr. McGugin leaves Nashville for Detroit Tuesday night to wind up his business there. He will return tc Nash ville about January 10 and take up hie work in the law school, ; ) W. L. HAY _ . J. J. HOBBY. Superintendent Favors It a lari cm for the teachers. He said: ir teachers. If we _ >util greatly aid us In possible men and women to dreu. A teacher * “ dreu. A teacher can not afford t< several years In academic study or work to-At heraelf for teaching ai ork for $40 a month. The board o' on la paying na much now as It id wl*6 the present appropriation, •in the leading cities of the Nor it poaslbly North, Eaat and Went the dty councils appropriate as imuch as fcjpm 25 to 33 per cent of the total gross tax for edncatlon. and the action* have but to aak to receive liberal appro priation*. Atlanta gives but a fraction of tint proportion to her ochools." Tit. ......I., nf ulHrloi nalil In AMiitifs Ia a The omle of Milnrles paM ■■ 1 > •• laborer paid Is flntinued on Fans 8tven.