Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912, December 30, 1911, Image 1
THE WEATHER.
Rain Saturday night and Sunday;
Birmer Saturday night. Tempera
ture* Saturday (taken at A. K. Hawkes
Co't store): 8 a. in., 44 degrees; 10
a m., 47 degrees; 15 noon. 49 degrees;
»'p. m., B2 degrees. i
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8POT COTTON.
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HOME(4TH) EDITION ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1911. HOME(4TH) EDITION PRICE:
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AGAIN SLAPPEO BY
ELOPED WITH AN HEIRESS
FROM OLD PHILADELPHIA
Theodore Roosevelt Is the Au
thor of Another Furious As
sault on Chief Executive.
CORRESPONDENCE IS OUT
Secretary Bloomer, on Demand
of Ex-President, Makes Pub
lic Peace Dinner Letters.
New York, Dec. 30.—Former Presl-
Jent Theodore Roosevelt Is the author
of another furious assault upon the pol
ities of- President Taft in correspond
ence which passed between Roosevelt
ind the promoters of the peace dinner
in this city and which was made public
today. In this the former president be
came more personal than at any time
previous, declaring that the very men
who back the arbitration treaties so
enthusiastically would be the* first to
repudiate them the minute that some
thing for which they care was Involved
In dispute.
In Mr. Roosevelt’s first letter he ex
plains to Millard J. Bloomer, secretary
of the executive committee of the New
York Peace society, why he could not
attend the banquet at the Waldorf-
Astoria hotel In this city tonight, at
which President Taft will be the guest
of honor, and attacks President Taft’s
abrogation of the treaty of 1832 with
Russia and the pending arbitration
treaties. All the correspondence that
passed between Mr. Roosevelt and the
promoters of the peace dinner was
made public at the demand of the for
mer to show why he refused to attend
the dinner. It was at first reported
that the letters would* be read at the
banquet, but In the Interest of har
mony thla plan wag changed and the
letters were given out by Mr. Bloomer.
Mors War Than Peace.
"It looks more like war than peace,'
was Mr. Bloomer's comment when he
gave out tho correspondence. He then
commented at some length on the fric
tion within the pface committeo Itself,
likening the members to two packs of
wolves warily watching each other and
fearing what the other might do. There
ore two distinct factions within It, ho
said, one being led by Andrew Carnegie.
According to his version, the Carne
gle element fear the springing of i
political boom by the other side at the
banquet tonight, while.the other fac
tion would not be surprised by any at
tempts by the opponents of the com
mittee to give a strong Indorsement of
President Taft, his 'treaties, and his
policies In general.
What Roosevelt Says.
In setting forth his position on tho
peace question, Mr. Roosevelt Says un
dcr date of December 6:
"For Instance. If you people propose
to support the arbitration treaties un
amended, Why, I think you' are not
merely wrong, but that you are engaged
In what Is essentially an unworthy and
however unconsciously a hypocritical
move against the Interest of peace and
against the honor and Interest of the
t'nlted States nnd of civilization.
"Upholders of the unamended treaties
have occupied two positions utterly un-
compatlble. They first of all announced
that we would arbitrate everything,
-von questions of national honor and
national Interest; then Immediately
when a political question came up they
announced that they did not Intend to
arbitrate such matters as the Monroe
doctrine principle or the Immigration
of Asiatics or the validity of
bonds and so forth.
"Hypocrisy never pays and to .an
nounce In the treaties that we Intend
to arbitrate everything when no human
being that has sense Imagines that this,
country would arbitrate everything. Is
lo put us In a position of revolting
duplicity.
"If we mean what Is now said, for in
stance, by supporters of the unamended
treaties, namely, that we do not Intend
'o arbitrate the Monroe doctrine and
similar questions of government policy,
'hen we should make the assertion
dearly in the treaty and not put on an
appearance of shuffling and double-
dealing. As a nation we should not
make a promise which wc have not the
►lightest Intention of keeping.
"If we do not mean what we say In
’no unamended treaty, then It ought
mit to be ratified. But If .we do mean
" hat we say, then still less ought It to
>>e ratified.”
The colonel goes on to explain that
”* l« against President Taft’s arbitra
t'd! plan because It would put him In a
rendition of "hypocritical Insincerity.”
Attacks New York Times.
Mr. Roosevelt then attacks The New
York Times, declaring that It showed
'ts Insincerity by supporting both the
arbitration trestles and the abrogation
“‘the Russo-American treaty of 1832.
Now, If you do not believe the quea-
JJJhs I have named (the Monroe doc
trine, Russian passports, immigration
and the validity of state bonds),’’ con-
'tnued Colonel Roosevelt, "Should be
arbitrated, then you occupy an Improp
er, and from a national standpoint, a
dishonorable position if you desire to
“C" these treaties ratified without be
ing amended. On the other, hand. If
Jmi believe In arbitrating all questions
n ‘ national honor and interest. Includ
es the Monroe doctrine, the Jewish
nassport question, the immigration of
Asiatics and .the question of state
minds, then you are justified in wishing
’> bass the treaties as they atand; altho
m such s case I think that you occupy
v »ry foolish and dishonorable pool-
NEAR CLUTCHES OF
Police to Demand of Carter
Tate Prosecutions of Out-of
State Whisky Shippers,
HUGH ROBINSON.
Former Atlantan whose elopement
this week with Miss Margaret Brown, a
Philadelphia heiress, was exclusively
related by The Georgian Friday. He Is
a brother of Roby Robinson and has
hundreds of friends In Atlanta.
$78,965,000
GAIN'IS MADE
IN CLEARINGS
Remarkable Activity of Atlanta
Business During 1911 Is
Shown in Figures.
The remarkable progress of Atlanta
during the year just ending may be
well seen In the Atlanta clearing house
receipts for the year, 3853,130,420.85, an
Increase of 378,8(5,603.58 over last year,
when the receipts were 3574,164,918.77.
The receipts for each month in 1911
have been greater than those of the
same month in 1910. The December,
1911. receipts announced Saturday are
374,067,416.01, a targe Increase over De
cember, 1910, when the receipts were
369,014,657.18.
The clearing house receipts for the
present week have been 312,962,978.73.
The receipts- for the same week last
year were 112.013,085.22. ' *
Dividends Paid Next Week.
Distribution of approximately 31,000,-
000 In dividends by Atlanta corporations
will be the New Year presents for
the' stockholders of the big companies
here, and tho great majority of them
have enjoyed a most prosperous year.
During the week the seven banks
composing the Atlanta Clearing House
association alone have-declared divi
dends aggregating 3231,000, which are
to be distributed next week. Six per
cent dividends have been the order with
them.
Scores of smaller corporations, ...
eluding the other banks not in the
clearing house association, will hand
out earnings to their stockholders,
Atlanta banks have enjoyed a pros
perous year. Their deposits and loans
are much heavier than this time last
year, and all have enjoyed Increased
business. Several new banks have been
organized nnd placed In the field.
They will have their annual meetings
the second week In January, and It Is
tipped that In several lnatances there
are to be aubztantlal Increases In capi
tal stock and surplus fund.
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GRIFFIN MILL SPINDLES
TO WHIRL AGAIN SOON
SAY “DUMMIES” GET IT
Detectives State That Revenue
Collector Won’t Let Them
See Record of Licenses.
Police officials started a movement
Saturday morning, following the trial
In police court Friday afternoon of Dan
Shaw, "the blind tiger king," which
will probably result in wholesale In
dictments by the Federal grand jury
against big liquor houses In Chatta
nooga, Jacksonville and other placee
that ship liquor into Atlanta. This ac
tion Is based on the declaration that the
United States liquor laws are being vlo.
luted by the consignment of whisky to
fictitious clubs and fictitious persons.
Recorder Broyles held a conference
Saturday morning with Chief Lanford
of the detective department, advising
him to take up the matter at once with
City Attorney Mayson and United
States District Attorney Carter Tate,
with the view of interesting the govern
ment authorities In the blind tiger sit
uatlon In Atlanta and obtaining Fed
eral action. Judge Broyles suggests
that the "United States authorities
should take a hand, as he la satisfied
the Federal laws are being flagrantly
violated.
The stopping of this shipment of
wholesale quantities of liquor to fake
clubs and fictitious persons would be
a stunning blow to the blind tiger busi
ness,” says Judge Broyles. "If the
Federal laws are being violated, tho
Continued on Pago Ton.
"Dr. Sun Yat Sen,
the Christian. Just
chosen as president
of the new republlo
of China, Is the
most remarkable
character today In
all the world, and
the movement In
China to freedom is
the most remarkable
the earth has ever
known since the
days of tho apos
tles,” said Dr. Den
G. Broughton Sat
urday. Ho ts to dis
cuss this vital man
and his revolution
ary work at the
Baptist Tabernacle
on Sunday night.
“While In Eng
land I was given
opportunity to leant
tho history of Dr.
Sun Yat Sen, and
this fact stands out
most Interestingly:
That back In tho
nineties while work
ing with heart and
soul to stir up this
revolution, he was
kidnaped In London, at the Instance of
the Chinese legation.
‘For a number of day* he disap
peared as If the earth had swallowed
him up. Nothing was heard of him.
One day Just as the Chinese govern
ment agents were getting ready to
send him back to China so as to obtain
the 360,000 reward the government had
offered for his head, the miraculous
happened,
"A servant entered the room, where
he was confined to obtain a coal scuttle
that contained waste paper. Dr. Sun
Yat Sen dropped a note into tho coal
scuttle addressed to the public, telling
of hts capture, confinement and the
purposes of hla captors. He waa pos
sessed with the desperate hope that
some one might find the note. And
when the servant emptied the waste
Continued on Page Ten,
Creditors Who Bought Them in
Are Organizing Company to
Start Up Operations.
When Mr. Bloomer noticed. In look-
,n g at the list of the peace dinner com
mute, as It stood on December 1, that
the name of Colonel Rooeeveit Was
hilsslng. he wrote to the latter and
«k»d whether the ex-president was
.'"ling to be a member of the commit
tee If he sb. asked. The lengthy let-
Continued on Page Ten.
Forty-six creditors of the three cot
ton mills at Griffin, recently purchased
by them at bankrupt sale for 3168,000,
are now reorganizing the trio of milln
Into the Georgia Manufacturing Com
pany-, and will operate them.
A meeting of the syndicate of cred
itors, many of them representing At
lanta Interests, will be held here about
the middle of next week to complete
the organization.
The mills at Griffin are known Indi
vidually as the Spalding. Boyd and
Mangham, and Central mills. Since
their purchase, the Atlanta creditors
In charge have employ ed an expert who
carefully Inspected the mills, placed a
valuation on them and made a detailed
report bb to the amount of money
necessary for their repair and Improve
ment. It Is believed that they will be
started up within the nest 60 .days.
At present the three mills have 33,000
spindles, valued at 322 per spindle, tho
entire property being worth about
3700,000.
BANKS AND INSURANCE
BREAK YEAR’S RECORD
During 1911, 90 banks were chartered
In Georgia, against 62 in 1911. a gaini of
28 for the year. The majority of the
banks chartered were In country towns
and ranged from 325.000 to 350.000 lu
capital, the lower predominating.
Fifteen Insurance companies, equally
divided between the old line and the
mutual type, were chartered,by the sec-
retan' of atate and approved by the
comptroller general durintlOll. This
is four more than were orftinlzed dur
ing 1910. The Insurance companies
were: National Home Fire, Middle
Georgia Live Stock, Empire Life, Put
nam County .Mutual, Piedmont Life,
Dallas Mutual, Oglethorpe Fire, Stand
ard Life, Untied Homes, National As
surance, 8avannah'Fire, Inter-South
ern, American Life and Annuity, Cot
ton States and Georgia Fire.
So Reports Chamber of Com
merce After Investigation of
Atlanta Postoffice.'
SERVICE NOT PERFECT ONE
Recommended That Officials
Put in Improvements and the
Public Try to Help.
Without condemning or exonerating
the service at the local postoffice the
committee appointed by the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce to Investigate
the alleged deficiencies In mall service
at the Atlanta postofflee says the blame
of the present postal conditions to the
campaign of economy now being waged
by the ] postofflee department. Thla
economy, they say In their report, haa
gone td the extent of crippling the
service in some cases and Is the real
cause of delay to mall transmission In
thla section of the country-
The committee has divided the report
into two principal subdivisions—the
handling of the inatl locally after tt
reaches the postofflee, and, secondly,
the transportation or the mails to and
from the city thru what ts known as
the railway mall service.
The committee finds that 330,000
pieces of mall matter reach the post-
office dally thru carrier collections and
drop letters at the building. Probably
70 to 85 per cent of this Is received be
tween 6 p. m. and 9 p. m., the bulk
around 7. p. m. This practice' of ac
cumulating mall that Is written during
the day and posting It at the end of the
day’s work, causes a tremendous con
gestion of mall matter, which brings
about mare or less delay In the expedi
tion of same.
For'this reason the committee sug
gests that if possible there should be
a greater concentration of clerical
force on the sorting of mall during tills
period of grdat congestion. They ulso
suggest that the business people of the
city who produce a great amount of
mall during the day should make from
two to four “clean-ups” of their moil
matter during the day and get as much
as possible Into the postofflee by 4
o’clock. . ...
Back-Stamping Urged.
The committee made personal Inves
tigations of the service, at the local
postofflee, disregarding outside com
plaints of service. Many delays of mall
were noted, and after due considera
tion the opinion has been reached that
the only way to fix the responsibility
for these delays Is to resort to back-
stamping the letters.
The committee found that Postmaster
McKee had Inaugurated mall service in
many parts of the city which he Is not
compelled to do under regulations of
the department. The attention of the
Atlanta city council Is called to streets
which arc given service, despite the
fact that sidewalks are not laid.
Thru Investigation of postofflee con
ditions In Nashville. Birmingham and
Indianapolis, the committee has come
to the conclusion that the Atlanta post-
office Is better equipped to serve the
people than are those of the cities men.
tinned. . " '
The committee recommends that con
cerns who produce a great amount of
mall during the day place stamps In
the right-ham! corner and tie mall In
bundles ami deliver in that manner to
Continued on P*g« Ten.
AWAKENING OF YOUNG CHINA
SPRINGS THREE STORIES HERE
Kidnaping of Sun Yat Told by Lee Hand Goes Back to See
Dr. Broughton.
New Republic.
Atlanta ChineseGive
Funds to Pay For
Liberty.
Few Americans who have read the
press reports of the awakening of
China, and the establishment of a re
public there to replace the Manchu
dynasty, which has oppressed the native
Chlneee for the past 267 years, realise
how much the Chlneee of this country
have had to do with the success of that
movement.
The Chlneee who have staid at home
Continued on Page Ten.
FROM “LITTLE MISSY’S” GRAVE
OLD “AUNTIE” GOES TO DEATH
Annie Manley, Servant to Dozen Governors and Afterward a
Maid to Mrs. Draper, Falls Dead After Putting Her Last
Flowers Upon the Tomb of Her Beloved Mistress.
Lee Hand,
well educated Chi.
noman, who has
frequently been
Interviewed for
Atlanta papers,
left on Tuesday
to go back to Can-
ton, China, and
marry the wife
bis father picked
out for him.
Lee's return to
China may be
taken SB a good
basis of what
Amorfcan Chlneee
think of the eta-
bllity of the new
government. A
Bhort time ago,
when Leo was
telling a Georgian
representative
hla proposed trip
to China to get
his bride, he said
positively that he
would not go back
until things be.
came settled
the empire. Now
the fact that he
has gone In the
belief that China Is ready to sottle
down at peace, with no more fighting,
coroborates what local Chinese have to
say about their belief In the new re
public.
Lee Hand Is an American bom China
man and only as a little boy spent sev
eral years In China. He was educated
In the public schools of New York city
and speaks and writes English as flu
ently as a native. His father, who lived
here many years, went back ten years
ago to become a professor In the Unl-
veraltyof Canton, and recently wrote
hie son that he had (elected a wife for
him and that he must come over and
marry her. Lee expected when ho loft
here to spend at least two yean getting
acquainted with bis relatives In China
and at the end of that time, as he Is an
American bora citizen, will bring hla
wife back to Atlanta with him.
TAX TO ATLANTA IS
Value of Franchise, a Gift
From the City, Is Deducted
From Income Tax.
GROWS LESS EACH YEAR
Statistics Collected by Council
Members, Who Will Try to
Find a Remedy.
Tottering home after pla/lng, flowers
on the grave of "Little Missy,” • upon
the first anniversary of her death, An
nie Manley, an old colored woman who,
from the time of Governor McDaniel
until the flrBt administration of Gov
ernor Smith, had been a maid at the
governor’s mansion, dropped dead Fri
day afternoon as she entered the home
of Jesse and Wallace Draper, 24 Cone
at, where she had been employed since
the ending of her duties at the govern,
oris mansion.
Wltn the death of the old woman one
more of the good ante-bellum darkles
has vantshed. “Little Missy” was the
late Mrs. Emma Draper, and the old
negro woman had known and watched
over her since she was a child.
Tee alius got ter be lookin' arter dese
here governors,” she would tell Mrs.
Draper, "but If eber deah can do wld
out me, I’se cornin’ right to you.”
But Annie never had the chance to
come until the election of Governor
Smith. With each succeeding governor
she had been passed over as part atftl
parcel of the governor’s mansion. Gov
ernor Smith, however, brought with
him hts own household servants, nnd
Annie, finding herself for tho first time
out of employment, turned ■ to Mrs.
Draper.
To her Mrs. Draper was always “Lit
tle Missy,’’ and Mrs. Draper's two sons
ere always "de chlllen.”
A Promise to “Little Missy.”
Just before Mrs. Draper died, old An
nie came to her and, with tears run
ning down her cheeks, promised always
to take care of ”de chlllen."
"Dey’s never goln' ter need fer any
thing, ‘Little Missy,’” she said. “Jos
doan you worry, l’se goln’ ter take
care ub dem.”
Then Mrs. Draper died, and old An
nie fulfilled her pledge. She would
mend their clothing and elt up and wait
far them when they were out at night.
She felt that she must take “Little
Missy's” place and ”de chlllen" wore
always uppermost In her thoughts.
But she didn't forget vuttle Missy.'
Once a week she would go to the ceme
tery where Mrs. Draper was burled ami
would place flowers on the grave and
see that It was kept In good condition
and green.
. Friday was the first anniversary of
Mrs. Draper's death. Altho the weatli.
er was very cold and Annie had been
sickly of late, she Insisted that she
must go to the cemetery.
"rise Jes’ got ter go,” she sold, and
with a basket of flower* under her arm
she departed.
She returned In the afternoon. None
saw her'us she climbed the porch steps,
but a thud ns she fell brought another
servant rushing. to her side. Medical
attention was;hurriedly.summoned,..but
the old negro woman waa dead before
aid could reach her.
-It Is believed that ahe died of apo
plexy, brought on by the exertion which
she subjected herself to In going to the
cemetery. She will be buried In Cuth-
belt, Ga.,' where relatives live.
PINK EYE SETS ATLANTANS
TO WEEPING PAINFUL TEARS
Atlanta Company Encroached
Upon Nashville Ground First.
Now It's War to Finish.
WOODRUFF DISCUSSES IT
The Georgian’s Exclusive Story
Causes the Public to Hope
for Price Competition.
Atlanta Is In the grip of the Koch
Weeks bacillus, whose manifestation Is
commonly known as "pink eye," a
smarting. Irritating, linbeautlful, ca
tarrhal affection of the eye.
Eye specialists *ntl over the town
have been busy for the past two weeks
tending the Inflamed lamps of Atlan
tans, high and low, who are victims of
the epidemic which began with the re
cent damp, warm weather and Is now
raging vigorously.
“Pink eye” Is catching, to uso the
street term so frowned on by physi
cians
It has In several cases been known
to have closed schools and put serious
crimps in church attendance. Not more
than twelve months, ago the Virginia
Military institute, that famoua Institu
tion of learning In classic Lexington,
closed Its portals because “pink eye
got the better of a large number of
the students. „ , .
While no city Is ever free from pink
eye,” the Koeh-Weeks bacillus, the
germ of the disease; named In honor of
two New York phyelillane who have
made a careful study of the disease, Is
most prevalent in damp.'wsrm weath
er. The stuff that has had .Atlanta by
the throat for the past two weeks and
Is called weather for.cqnventlon’s sake,
or for wapt of a better name, is just
the atmosphere that the "pink eye”
germ delights in.
Everybody knows what “pink eye”. Is
and few there are who have not had it
or will not If the present epidemic
keeps up. “Pink ■ eye," according to
the best physician*, is a misnomer. It
Ih really a catarrhal- affection of the
eye. The eye smarts and has a tenden
cy to close, with matter at the edges of
the lids.
The disease usually lasts about a
week or ten days and ts not considered
serious hy physicians. That It ts Ir
ritating and decidedly unsightly many
Atlantans, especially feminine Atlan
tans, can testify.
PANAMA CANAL TO OPEN
FOR TRAFFIC JUNE, 1913
S. C.. Dec. SO.—The housk. port canal affair* In fine shape with ev-
, ‘EL*7‘iV„* nf:!h , . 0r rmm Pam ?hlp I^Kne. j!
Charleston,
mere* arrived' here" last night from Psa
erne on the Cristobal. . Chairman VI. C.
Adamson, of Georgia. Judge Gilbert end
Congressman Hardwick left the party
last night, going to August*.
Tho house member* went to Inspect
canal work for legislative action later.
According to Congressman Hamlin, water
III flood Culehra cut In two or three
months. He believe* toll should he charg
ed at the rate of 31 a ton for foreign ship*
at least. The caul commission is age Inal
allowing resident* between the lock* «»-
eeptlng employees. The congressmen re*
This commission will recommend
legislation and haa made Aaal inspection
Notices of Sunday Ser
vices in Atlanta churches
appear on page 17.
The latest news developments In the
entrance of the 35,000,000 Southern Ice
Company into Atlanta and the territory
of the Atlantic Ice and Coal Corpora
tion Is that it is a retaliatory move
ment on the part of the Nashville cor
poration, because of the announcement
made by the Atlanta company three
months ago that It proposed to build a
plant In Nashville and enter the field
there. And tt ts asserted as a matter
of fact by Atlanta capitalists that tho
Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation Is
the aggressor, the other company being
strictly on the defensive.
The Georgian’s exclusive story Fri
day of the purchase of the three At
lanta plants by the Southern Ice Com
pany was the chief matter of comment
In financial circles.
The remarkable stride forward of the
Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation dur
ing the past year under the aggressive
management of President Ernest
Woodruff has been the wonder of fin
anciers in the South. In his. plans for
enlargements and improvements he an
nounced in The Georgian last fall that
his corporation would go Into the
Nashville field. When asked Saturday
as to the meaning of the Southern Ice
Company’s entrance Into this territory,
Mr. Woodruff deprecated the rumors of
a battle for supremacy between the
two corporations. He said;
“So far as I know, there will be no
battle for supremacy, and I hope there
will not be. The customers Of our com
pany understand and appreciate the
fact that the Atlantic Ice and Coal
Corporation has served them Ice at
about 26 per cent less in price than the
Eastern cities enjoy.
“I am not advised of any intention
toward an Ice war, but if it should
come, the Atlantic Ice and Coal Cor
poration will meet any competition.”
It is announced that the Southern Ice
Company is going Into Chattanooga,
Montgomery, Columbus, Pensacola and
Knoxville, besides the Nashville and
Atlanta fields. It only meets the At
lanta company at Atlanta, Chattanooga
and at Columbus, If the latter deal
eventuates.
SHUSTER HAS PROMISED
EXPOSE OF TREATMENT
Tsharan, Persia, Dee. 30.—W. Morgan
Shuster, the young American, whose ap
pointment as treasurer general of Per
sia ha* brought about the disruption of
the nation hy Russia and Great Britain,
today promised a complete expose of the
treatment accorded this country by those
two powers. Mr. Khuater declared that
there Is no hope for the future end he
charged Great Britain with secretly fos
tering the attacks made by Russia.
Statistics collected by clerks In the
tax office for certain members of coun
cil show that the Georgia Railway and
Electric Company pays a smaller gross
Income tax, a tax that the city prides
Itself on, than It did five years ago, tho
the gross Income of tho company has
greatly Increased nnd the city Is still
supposed to get two per cent of It as a
special tax.
Tho largest amount received by the
city from this source was In 1906, and
was 330,984.46. In 1907 the city re
ceived only 320,076.06; in 1908. 319,-
881.28; In 1909, 325,002.93. and-In 1910,
328,247.83. The amount for 1911 will
not be determined until February.
Thla Is due to the fact that a state
law provides that all franchise taxes
shall bo deducted from gross Income
taxes. While the gross Income of the
company has greatly Increased, the
value of franchises—given by the city—
has Increased at a more rapid rate.
The one and one-quarter mills tax on
the valuation of franchises being de
ducted from tho two per cent tax on
the gross Income, the city thus has Its
Income materially reduced, and It la
pointed out by members of council that
conditions might arise wnere the fran
chise taxes would exceed tho income
tax and the city would thus get no In
come tax.
Council has protested against this
condition In .the past and members of
council, who say they do not wish to he
quoted until the new council commit
tees have been nppolntcd and they know
Just what their official duties wi'1 be,
say they will make a vigorous flg.it to
have the law changed or set aside by
the,, courts next year.
Made Contract With City.
It was under a contract with the cltv
when the street railways were consoli
dated that the Georgia Railway and
Electric Company agroed to pay, a
gross Income tax, one per cent for th'o
first two years, two per cent for the
noxt twenty years and so on In a grad
uated scale. The company was to also
pay all ad valorem taxes, bridge rent
als and paving assessments. Only .spe
cific occupation, license, excise ami spe
cial franchise taxes were to no deducted
from tho grata Income tax. Members
of council say that the valuation of the
company'a street franchises Is an ad
valorem tax. But after this contract
wae made, the general assembly passed
a law, known as the "Simmons bill,’’
Which requires that all franchise taxes
be subtracted from the gross Income
taxes. This takes more than one-hnlf
of the special revenue from the city
which It was expected would be secured
when the Georgia Railway and Electrlo
Company was granted Its franchises its
a merged corporation.
A Club Over the City.
The project of the city building its
own electric power plant Is now gen
erally discussed among members of
council. But this same contract with
tho Georgia Railway and Electric Com
pany provides that should the city ever
bund a plant In competition with the
Georgia Rullway and Electric Com
pany, It will lose all of the gross Income
tax. Certain members of council h;t\»
begun an Investigation of the gross In
come tax. and they say, as It stands
now. Its loss would be Inconsiderable
should the city decide to build Its own
plant. But should the city make no
such move, members of council stato
that It Is a grave Injustice for the city
not to receive the amount of taxes
originally contemplated In the contract
with the Georgia Railway and Electric
Company.
In 1906 the 2 per cent gross Income
tax amounted to 346,436.32. Tho oc
cupation tax and sanitary taxes
amounted to 3498.80, being practically
the same every year. The franchise
taxeB collected amounted to 314.953.16.
The last two added together amount
to 315,4(1.96. Subtracted from the
gross Income tax, leaves 330,984.36 as
the amount received by the city. In
1907 tho 2 per cent would have amount
ed to 353,177.45. but the 333,101.39 de
ductions left only 320,076. In 1908 the
2 per cent tax would have amounted to
153,560.82, but the deductions pulled
t down to 319,861.28. In 1909 the 2
per cent tax would have amounted to
: 169,099.08, but the city only collected
326,000. In 1910 the gross Income tax'
would hove reached 365,000. but the city
only got 328,000.
But the valuation of franchises has
Increased from 3793,700 In 1903 to 33,-
132,350 In 1911.
It ts obvious that every dollar of In
crease in franchise taxes reduces the
Georgia Railway and Electric Com
pany's Income tax one dollar. If the
two taxes Increased at the same ratio,
the city's Income from the income tax
would never Increase, no matter how
large the gross Income became.
FEWER ARRESTS MADE
BY POLICE THIS YEAR
Up to noon Saturday, with still one
day and a half to go. the city caset
made by the police for this year wen
810 less than the total number for last,
year.
The number that will be made t<
.Sunday midnight Is not expected to ex.
ceed 100. The total will show a hi;
decrease In fuvor of thla year.
The cases to noon totaled 14,96'
The grand total for last year was 15,
771
The state cases n
will also run conslde
year.