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THE WEATHER. Rain late Friday night, or Saturday afternoon: warmer tonight. Tempera tures Friday (taken at A. K. Hawkes Co’s store): 9 a. m., 37 degrees: 10 a. m„ 10 degrees: 12 noon, (4 degrees; I p. m.. 46 degrees. The Atlanta Georgian **Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN” AND NEWS “Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN" -SPOT COTTON. Atlanta, quint; 8 X6-16. Liverpool, easier; 5.01. New York, quiet; 9.25. Savannah, quiet; 8%. Augusta, steady; 9U. Gal veston, quiet; 9U. Norfolk, steady; 8\. Charleston, quiet; Memphis, quiet; 9-V Mobile, steady; 8 11-16. VOL. X. NO. 128. HOME(4TH) EDITION ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1911. HOME(4TH) EDITION PRICE: WILL GIVE GLAD HAND TO VISITING MERCHANTS Harvester, Shipping, and the Money Combines To Be Put Thru an Investigation. RULES COMMITTEE’S PLAN Steel Affair Small in Impor tance to the One That Is to Come, Says Chairman. Washington, Dee. 29.—A sweeping Investigation of the Harvester trust, the .hipping trust and the money trust will be authorised by the rules com mittee of the house. Chairman Henry announced today that Mfh Investigation would start tn January and that It will be the most complete undertaking by congress since the Civil war. The steel committee Investigation, said Chairman Henry. In small In im portance to the Investigation now being planned. . . , "Senator LaFollette and others claim a little more than a dozen men control the finances, the railroad., find the .hipping’of the country,” he said. "We have no desire to Injure legitimate business, but if this condition is true It should be Investigated rigidly. As chairman of this committee. I shall de mand Investigations and you can not put it too strong that the money trust, the Harvester trust and the shipping mist axe to go on the grill. One com mittee with full powers and ample funds may conduct the Investigation of all three trusts, as they seem to be closely interwoven.’’ . Going After B'g Guns. The trust investigation means that the leading financiers of the country Included J. Plerpont Morgan and his associates are to be’summoned to ap pear before the congressional commit- t«\ < 'hair-man Henry requested from Sec- rotary Nagel today a reply to the com mittee's Invitation asking the secre tary of commerce and labor to appear and tell what he knows of a shipping combine. Secretary Nagel will appear before the rules committee January 16. Attorney General Wlckersham and Samuel Untermeyer. the latter a noted corporation lawyer, are also expected tn be present on that day and the rules committee probably will ordor the triple Investigation Immwjtately thereafter. "I received a Totter today from-a witness who wants to appear January said Mr. Henry. “I have notified him that the rules committee will not watt that long to order the investiga tion, and have suggested that he get here January 15 Instead.” What It Will Tackle. The drastic probo planned by the committee will seek to determine the truth of tho following charges: That acarcclv a doxen Wall Street financiers dominato the money market, make and unmake panics, control rail roads and Insurance companies and manipulate a chain of banks. That theBC same Interests dominato the Harvester trust, said to be closely allied with the steel trust. That these same men are Influential tn the International shipping trust, al leged to control #0 per cent of the ship ping business between this and foreign countries, and they actually dominato trans-continental railroads. —- Supplementary trust legislation, saya chairman Henry, will depend largely upon the evidence brought out before the speclat committee. lAFttmilS WRITES MSEVELT Attacks President for Abrogat ing Russian Treaty Without Review at The Hague. EDITORIAL IN THE OUTLOOK J. K. ORR. He was re-elected chairman of the Merchants and Manufacturers associa tion at the annual meeting Thursday night, when plans for entertaining country customers were begun. Merchants and Manufacturers to Entertain Customers of Their Territory. OFFICERS ARE ELECTED Annual Meeting at New Kimball Brings Enthusiastic Indorse ment of the Project. Pending Treaties Would Put the Nation in “Attitude of Unctu ous and Odious Hypocrisy.” ■That the psychological time Is here for Atlanta to entertain the merchants lof "Georgia and the South was TpM unanimous opinion of-fhe members of the Atlanta Merchants and Manufac turers association at their mutual din ner Thursday night at the N0\v Kim ball house. "Let’s go to It!” said President J. K. Orr, after he had presented the recom mendation ' of the board of directors Ithat tho Merchants' Trade Week be held In February during the uutomo bile week. And the 60 representative wholesale merchants of Atlantn did “go to It" with a hearty good will, and their enthusiasm over the prospect was Inspiring. "The Atlanta Spirit.” that has never known fallure.wus predomi nant In the snappy speeches and Initla tlon of the plans for the Merchants! Trade Week. Some of the speakers called It a "Gala Week,” and others broadened it to "Merchants' Conyeu-I tlon.” Three pleasant hours were spent at a happy get-together dinner, and In the presentation and hearty indorsement of the plan to bring here snd enter- jtaln hundreds of merchants of the Continued on Last Page. New York, Dec. 29.—In an editorial entitled “The'Russian Treaty, Arbitra tion and Hypocrisy," published In the current Issue of Tho Outlook, ex-Pres- ldent Theodore Roosevelt again attacks President Taft’s policies, declaring that the president Is wrong In abrogating the Russian treaty of 1832 without awaiting official Interpretation of The Hague International court and assert ing that ratification of the Taft arbitra tion treaties as they now stand will put us as a nation In “an attitude of unc- tlous and odious hypocrisy:’’ Colonel Roosevelt says that while he approves of the action taken by con gress In abrogating the treaty, he Is of the opinion that It would have been wiser first to submit the covenant to The Hague court for Interpretation. That, he Bays, would have enabled Rus. sla to retire from an untenable position with good graco and no loss of self- respect—"an object that should al ways be held in view in dealing with any foreign nation.” Here Is What He 8ays. The ex-president then goes on, after his vigorous fashion, aa follows: "But this action was taken while the universal arbitration treaties are pend ing In the senate. These treaties are avowedly championed as being of the kind we are to enter into with all na tions and as supplanting tho existing arbitration treaties which we have with almost all nations. Including Russia, well as England and France. These treatlua, If ratified by the senate un amended, will explicitly promise, will explicitly pledge the honor and good faith of the American nation to arbi trate precisely such questions as that ■which at this moment we announce that win not endeavor to arbitrate In the case of Russia. Under the elr- Ice Men Invade Atlanta Offer Keen Competition U ENTRIES FROM II STATES High Quality Show Is Assured at the Auditorium-Armory January 8 to 13. GREAT WYANDOTTE CLASS H-M-’-H-I-K-H-i-i-H-d-H-S-H-H-d-?- ♦ DR. 8UN SENDS MESSAGE * •J* TO LOVERS OF LIBERTY * - Nanking, Deo, 29,—Following his $ 4" election to the presidency of tho d- 4* republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat + 4* Sen today aent the following mes- + -!• sage to lovers of liberty and his + 4* friends In the United States and + + elsewhere: + ”1 consider It my duty to accept 4* + the presidency. My policy will be + + to obtain peace and a stable gov- 4* 4* ernment by the promptest methods 4* 4* possible. My single aim Is to In- + 4- sure the peace and contentment of + 4> the millions of my fellow country- + 4- men.” * Well Over 3,000 Birds Will Be on Display at Georgia Poul try Association Show! Neither Senator Nor the Ohio Republican State Chairman Will Repeat Conversation. CONFERENCE WITH BROWN •4-k ■ llinilM-H. * MICHIGAN GOVERNOR GETS * ON THE LAFOLLETTE WAGON + * Lansing, Mich.. Da*. 29^-Gov- + f *mor Osborne has accepted the b Invitation of Robert Roberts, the + f Mirht^nn manager of the LaFol- *r lette presidential boom, to preside *r at a LaFOllette meeting In Lansing f Tuertay night and Introduce the {• Wisconsin senator. Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 29.—Neither Wal Tr Brown, state chairman of the Ohio "Publican committee, nor Senator tobert M. LaFOllette, today would die- fuss the details of their conference, telil behind closed doors last night, but ! is known that Ohio politics was dis used and that the conference was flight by Walter Brown, who was re- “illy read out of the progressive ovoment because of his persistency In “tvo-atlng the candidacy of Theodore ; -">sevelt for the Republican nomtna- i'ot in 1912. The word haa-gone out "'iay that Brown has trted to make -are with the nrogresslves. "R made no overture! of any kind," aid Brown today, but It Is not denied v him that he will support LaPollette |lie latter Is nominated. ■ Sf nator LaFollette, highly elated, but p -ommittaL left here today for '"' th Baltimore and addressed a meet- j* at noon, dealing with practically * '“me Issues as In his previous Ohio Tonight he addresses a *’ 1 ri ng in Dayton. IHBEEFEHTM. Federal Judge Carpenter Re^ fuses to Grant a Motion to Exclude Testimony. ATTORNEYS ARGUE POINT Chicago, Dec. 29.—The ten million aire packers on trial for violations of tha Sherman anti-trust law received another reverse today when Federal Judge Carpenter refused to grant their motion to exclude testimony tending to show that they control by-products concerns of the packing Industry and allowed the testimony to go before the Jurors at least temporarily. Argument on the motion of the attor. neya for the packers was resumed when court convened today. The testimony at Issue-.tends to"show that tho beef trust dominates tho butterlne and oleo oil business was delayed. At the re quest of the attorneys, the Jury was excluded from the room and spent the morning In their quarters In the Fed eral buildings while the argument was under way. Plsaa for Packers. Attorney John Barton Payne spoke for the packers In support of the mo tion. which was ipectllcally that testi mony concerning the purchase of the Kenwood and Aetna companies and their control by the National Packing Company be stricken out. The defense contended that these concerns dealt in the manufacture of by-products and the evidence tended to support the charge In the Indictment that the defendants were in Illegal combination. Attorney Payne argued that since the Kenwood concern was engaged In the manufacture of oleo oil, If the price of that commodity was alfeeted by the alleged combination and that constltut. ed a violation of the Sherman law. It would be an entirely separate offense from the ones charged In the Indict- nn»nt. * Government attorneys argued that by showing the packers controlling the by- COntinued on List Pace tratlon treaties would put the American peoplo in an attttudo of peculiarly con temptible hypocrisy and would rightly expose us to the derision of all think ing mankind, for 'we should put our selves, in the position of making sweep, lng and Insincere promises, impossible of performance at tho very time when we by our own actions showed that wo would not keep such promises nor translate them Into action.” Oppose, Tha>« Treaties. The ex-president says that such questions os passports, Asiatic itnml gratlon In ‘ Massachusetts, the principle Involved In the Monroe doctrine and the refusal. by the states to .pay bonds, should never be put Into an arbitration treaty. After saying that he believed most earnestly in peace, ho continues: "And I oppose these treaties because, If unamended they would surely tell against peace and would put us as a nation Into an attitude of odious hypoc rlsy. "In other words. It would put this country Into a position both ridiculous and discreditable to pass the proposed general arbitration treaties at the same time that we. depounce our general treaty with Russia.” Colonel Roosevelt says that the ar bitration treaties are nothing but gen eral promises nnd that they are drawn up In such sweeping and vague terms, especially In the use of the word "Jus tifiable,” that they might. In any con crete case, bo held to mean anything or nothing. If the action taken by our govern ment In the Russian matter was not a violation of the principle of the arbi tration treaties, says Colonel Roosevelt, then the latter are not worth the paper they are written on. The paper concludes by saying that It Is arrant hypocrisy for the United Staten tn support the arbitration trea ties as they stand and at the same time annul the Russian treaty of 1832. "Hypocrisy Is revolting In a nation as In a man,” says he "and In the long run I do believe that It pays either man or nation." An unofficial count of the birds that will be displayed at the Great Central Show of the South at the Auditorium Armory, January 8 to 13, showed 2,035 head of chickens already In sight—and more to come, in this count no atten tlon was paid to the ducks, turkeys and pigeons. In which divisions the entry Is very largo and strong. It Is easy to demonstrate, therefore, that when all the entries are In there will be well over 3,000 birds of various sorts on exhibi tion in the Auditorium-Armory. Secretary Charles Harwell returned Friday mornlnr from Winder, where he Judged the show there, and has settled down to the tough Job of classifying the enormous lot of entries notV on-hand. Secretary Harwell, by tho way, reports an unusually good show at Winder, for a first attempt; and states without qualification that the enthusiasm shown there in their own show. In poultry breeding and In the forthcoming Atlan ta show had passed all bounds. “One woman told me,” said Mr. Harwell, "that tho morning of the Winder show she gave her husband a coal scuttle and sent him to the cellar for coal. The chlckon- struck citizen walked i to the well, .carefully pumped tl scuttle full of water and returned It gravely to his spous}. "Tills la a fair, sample," added Mr. Harwell, “of what poultry enthusiasm la doing to Winder." High Clala of Entries. The entries coming In now art* prov ing most welcome bees use of the high class of birds that arc being named, The Khnballrille Farm entry, turned In, by Will V. Zimmer, proved one of the largest of the show. Mr. Zimmer has entered 23 pigeons, and the varie ties shown will Include White, Work and Show Homers, Runts, Carriers: Polish Lynx and Runt Maltese Squab. In the poultry division the Kimball Farm exhibit will includo White Or pingtons, White Leghorns, White and Fawn Indian Runner ducks. The White Id-ghorn class suffered from a sudden Influx of top-notch class when the entry of J. P. Swift A Son, of Waynesvllle, N. C., was.made. This company named eight Individuals and two pens, and If reports that have reached Atlanta are true thla lot will rut a vast deal of figure when the time cornea for awarding the prizes. Welcome entries on Friday morning were those of V. A. Ham. of Nownan, Ga. They Included five singles and a pen of Buff Orpingtons, and two Indi viduals and two pens of White Orping tons. J. M. Karwlsch, of Atlanta, has en tered 30 White Rocks, and will of course have some prize-winners .In the lot. His entry Is always an exceptionally strong one. The Barred Rock class picked up some strong entries when Julian Mr- Camy, of Dalton, named some of his wonderfully good birds. He win show In Atlanta some of tho Rocks he ex hibited at the recent Madison Bquare Garden show. One of the exceptionally large en tries thus far received wna that of E. E. Mack, of Thomasville, who will show ♦1 birds. He will show White Wyan- dottes, Buff and Black Orpingtons, In dian Runner Ducks and Buff Cochin Bantams. One of the strong features of the Continued on Last Page. BUYS THREE PLANTS Pays $150,000 for One, $100,- 000 for Another—Price of Vhird Is Withheld. Dr. Sun Yat Sen Is President of Eighteen Federated Prov inces Forming Compact. MANCHU DYNASTY DYING Rebel Soldiers Guard Head of the Provisional Government. He Formally Accepts. Nanking, Dec. 29.—The republic of Chinu, tho first government of the na ture In the Orient, officially came Into being today with the election of Dr. Sun Yat Sen as president Altho the republic as It stands today consists only of eighteen federated provinces, tho leaders in the republican movoment declare that the Manchu dynasty has only a few more weeks, and perhaps days, of official existence. • The delegates to the provisional mil itary assembly acted without waiting for a national convention to decide what form of government should pre vail In the future. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who left China as a political exile, but who comes back ns tho Idol of the bulk of the 400,000,000 Continued on Last Page. ER MERGE AGAINST CUTJN STOCK Urges Railroad Commission to Hear Arguments and Per mit Issue as Requested. Asserting that the railroad commis sion's order of December 15, cutting the proposed stock and bond Issue of the Georgia Railway and Power Company from 157,000,000 to $47,000,000, will crip, pie the contemplated Improvements, at. ?ys for tho hydro-electric merget filed a petition with the commission Friday morning requesting a chance to argue the question again. Shortly after the petition was placed In the hands of the commissioners sn order was Issued setting January 4 as the date for a hearing. To finance the merger of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company and the Georgia. Power Company,-Including the Bull Sluice, Gainesville and Tallulah Falls power plants and the acquisition of various other properties, the com pany's attorneys asked the commission to approve a stock and bond issue of 257,000,000. Of this. $30,000,000 was to Continued on Lost Page. DEALS CLOSED ON FRIDAY Southern Ice Company, Headed by the Howe Family, to Cut Into Atlanta Territory. That the lee kings are to battle for supremacy In Atlanta territory la evi dent from the purchase by the South ern Ice Company of Nashville, Tenn, of the' Ice plant of the Atlanta Oil and Fertilizer Company for $150,000; the East Atlanta Ice Company's plant for 2100,000, and the Independent Ice Com pany, oft Whltehall.it, on the Central hoad. for a price not yet known. The last deal, that for the Atlanta Oil and Fertilizer Company’s lee plant, was closed Friday afternoon. Tho Southern Ice Company of Nash ville Is a $5,000,000 corporation, re cently organized by the great Howe In terests, and Its coming Into the Atlanta territory was told exclusively by The Georgian several months ago. The ice plant of the Atlanta OH and Fertilizer Compony Is located seven miles out on the Seaboard Air line, and Its purrhase by ths Southern Ice Com pany In no wise affects the oil nnd fertlllzsr business of the Atlanta Oil and Fertilizer Company. The field In this.section has been so profitable for the Atlantic Coal and Ice Corporation, which-is said to havo re cently declared a most substantial div idend, that the Southern Ice Company decided there Is plenty of profit for both of tho great corporations. The Atlanta Coal and Ice Company Is now spending an appropriation of $560,000 here and tn other cities to improve Its plants and Increase Its capacity. Whether It will retaliate by going Into the home Held of the Southern Ice Company remains to be seen. The Nashville company Is said to be negotiating for the purchase of several other plants HEIRESS-BRIDE Former Atlantan Ran Awav With Miss Margaret Brown, Wealthy Philadelphian. THEY MET AT CONVENTION Roby Robinson’s Brother One of Co-Stars in a Romance Ending in Cincinnati. The elopement of Hugh Robinson, a former Atlanta boy and a brother ( ,f Roby Robinson, with Miss Margaret Brown, a Philadelphia heiress, is graph- lcally told In The Cincinnati Enquirer of Thursday. Young Robinson left At lanta about four years ago for New York. He was manager of the South ern Guarantee Loan Company In At lanta. The Enquirer's story, with i dispatch from Philadelphia, follows: b °' d Lochlnvnr ever won his fair W* n,or ° romantically than Hugh Robinson, of New York, director r,i agencies for the U. S. Casualty Coni was’ r *wsfE a ’ , 1* < \,J hC cii ,r1 ^ 0 t0 whom !!. d n t Ki tho SI " ton hotel last not"! f; ®° Wn »°n. who is a brother ol Roby Robinson, former vice president rSiJSSSSi 1 ? a . nasrer of T he Atlanta Constitution, but now in tho banking SSS1L Atla i? ta ’ 0a - 18 93 years Old, ??,“* w months ago he met and won Miss Margaret J. Brown, tho prettv daughter of Albert T. Brown, of Phila delphia, head of the Philadelphia pany* POrta t* on und lighterage Com- m Ml i** ?'^ >wn »*■ “too young.” ac cording to her parents, and the mar- rlage seemed a long way off, until Rob- lnson started West on a business trip w^htl ! ft ! r Christmas. Cincinnati j** hl * Oret objective point nnd ar- |} ero he, looked up Charles K. CritcTiell, well known florist, who was a resident of Atlanta for a number of yenrs. and became acquainted with Robinson there. He also had other friends here, and gntherod about hln; Harry Asman, councilman; Enii! Hchmutte and J. o. Bchmutto ns well. Then he sent a telegram asking Miss Brown to Join him here and bo mar- rlca. TAFT WILL ANNOUNCE NEW JUSTICE JAN. 11 Washington, Dee. 29.—The nomlna-t tlon of the member of the supreme court to nil the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Harlan will be made about January II, when Attorney Gen eral Wlckersham returns from Panama. Tho appointment has narrowed down to William C. Hook, of the Eighth Ju dicial circuit, and Bnrretary of Com merce and Labor Charles Nagel. The former probably will be chosen. The president has told a number o( friends that he will make a number of other nominations tn the Judiciary on the same day tho supreme court ap pointment Is madn. They Planned Big Trade Week For Atlanta The answer Soon came that she had slipped,away and was cn.route here. -Robinson went to Steubenville. Ohio, whore he met the train which wits bearing his bride-to-be to him, and ac companied her on to this city nnd to the Blnton hotel. Arrived here, his friends had arranged everything George P. Carrel, chief deputy In the probate court, was summoned nnd an auto took the party to the court house, where the license was Issued. Hack t-> the Slnton the party went, nnd there, In the parlors. Rev. Hugo Klsenlolir made the couple one. Just ns the newly married rouple turned to their friends for congratula tions a stranger appeared with a war rant for-the arrest of Robinson on :\ faked-up charge of bigamy. "Why, surely you have made a mis take," came tremblingly from the lips of Robinson. "No. There Is no mistake. You arc Hugh Robinson, aren't you?” "W-w—well, -y-y-yes, I g-g-guess I am; b-b-but I n-never was m-m-mar- ried b-b-before. t-t-that I k-know of.” Then In an aside to one of his friends: ■Can't we give this fellow a hundred or so to close him up?” This was more than ths Jokers could stand, and loud Inughter awoke the "put one over” on him. and for the re- "put one over” on him,” and for the re mainder of the evening there was win - and a-plenty for all responsible for thn Joke. Met at a Convention. Philadelphia, Pa„ Dec. 29.—The mar. rlage In Cincinnati of Miss Margtarct ’J, Brown, the nineteen-year-old daugh ter of Albert F. Brown, president of th - Philadelphia Transportation and Light - erngc Company, and for years a promi nent figure In local transportation cir cles, and Hugh Robinson, of New York, was the culmination of r roman- ■ which had Its Inceptlon.at the conrm- Uon of the Atlantic Deeper Waterwaj ■ association at Richmond, Va., scarcely two months ago. Miss Brown, who will not be twentv years of age for several months, acenm'. panted by her father, who was a dele gate from a Philadelphia commercial organisation to the convention, nnd In enjoying the hospitalities extend- -! m the Virginia hosts of the conventi-m met Robinson, who Is said here tn I, - active In transportation circles of Nov York. Apparently It was a case of lev e first sight, but Miss Brown's par, nt. frowned on her marriage, because ,>* her youth and because they wanted to know more about her lover. Yesterday morning Robinson came t.. Philadelphia, combining pleasure wit! business, and summoned Miss Rrov n from hsr home to the Bellevue-.Sir., ■. ford hotel by telenhone. Miss nro,™ did not return home, and the anxiety ,.f her parents over her mysterious 'ab sence was only partially allayed by tit • receipt of a telegram today from Cin cinnati telling of her marriage to Rob inson, and asking parental forgiven-.- and a blessing. At the Brown horn at 1319 Jeffereon-st., this evening th. youthful bride’s parents did not se- .u to be In a forgiving mood, but an ac commodating brother-in-law courteous ly told ali he knew of the love affair an ! elopement. CHRISTMAS CARDS POUR INTO THE “NIXIE” OFFICE Washington, Dse. 29.—One hundred and seventy-live thousand tinsel and mlea poet cards, bearing Christmas greetings have found their way lnt-> the dead letter office of the postoffle, department, and more are pouring In hourly. This Is the rr<ult of a poets! regulation making iniea and tlns-l cards unmaitable ■ • eopt in envelopes. Man/ postal employees have gone blind fr.-m, h; ndllnv this --I.,, tnalL