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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIX. No. 36.
LITERACY TEST IS
UP TO THE SENATE
Burnett Immigration Bill,
Passed By the House Yester
day. Most Drastic of Kind in
Years. Before Upper Chamber
MANY EXPECT BILL TO
PASS AS IT NOW STANDS
President's Attitude Unknown.
Before Measure is Signed By
Him. Public Hearings to Be
Given As in Cases of Taft and
Cleveland.
Washington, D. C. —With n pro
vision barring Illiterates said to he thn
most drastic legislation of Its kind for
nmn.v years, the Hurnett immigration
till was tiefore the senate today when
the final question on the literacy test
will tie threshed out. It passed the
house yesterday.
Expect It To Paee.
Many expect the senate to pass the
MU as it stands, hut President Wil
son's attitude is the subject of much
Speculation. Some of those who claim
lo be informed say the president is
opposed to the literacy test.
Before Mr. Wilson signs the bill,
however, he will give public hearings
upon it as former Presidents Taft and
Cleveland did on similar bills.
Opposes Plan for
Pres’t Primaries
Washington.—Debate on President
'Wilson's proposal lor | residential
primaries came up in the senate to
day with Senator Walsh’s bill a tem
porary method of nominating and
elect ng senators.
Kfforts to reach a vote on the bill
failed owing to a desire to extend
debate bv Southern,senators opposed
to the
ilenathr Walsh's bill was brought
tA by disposition of the Lee and
dr-iss contests from Maryland and
•Alabama.
CONTRACTS LET
HI THEJMPIRE
Whitney-Eve Company to Do
Electrical Work and E. J.
Erbelding Co. the Plumbing
Work in 17-Story Building.
At a meeting of the building com
*nlttee of the Empire Life Insurance
Company held here yesterday after
noon the contract for the electrical
■work in the 17-story structure now be
ing erected on the 700 block of Broad
Ftreet, was awarded to the Whitney-
Eve Company. The contract for the
plumbing and steam-heating was
ciwarded to the E. J. Erbelding Com
pany. The contract for the elevators
lias not . et been let.
There were representatives of Sev
ern! elevator concerns conferring
With President W. W. Held and other
members of the building committee
here yesterday afternoon and last
night, but nothing definite was de
cided This will be decided within a
ehort time
The Whitney Company, builders of
the Empire Life Building, are on
schedule time and by the first of
[March will have the foundation en
tirely completed if they are favored
■by anything like favorable weather
•for the next three weeks. When the
eteel framework starts the building
•will go up with tremendous rapidity.
A large number of tenants have al
ready secured space in the new build
ing. which will be ready for tenants
on October Ist, next..
CASES TRIED IN
THE SUPERIOR COURT
In the superior court this morning
Josh Keener was tried on the charge
of assault with intent to murder. The
jury has not returned a verdict.
The case against L. T. Brown,
charged with incestuous adultery,
was begun at 1:30 p. m,
CHOCTAWS VISIT PRESIDENT..
Washington. —After discussing the
house legislative program with the
resident today, Representative Hard
wick of Georgia said the President
as well as members of the house hop
ed for adjournment ■>* congress by
June lat.
$60,000 FOR FISH CULTURE.
Washington, I) C.-A bill for the ap
propriation Of 0.000 for a fish cul
tural station in Florida was passed by
the senate today.
REDUCE DISCOUNT RATE.
•flertln. The rat* of discount of the
xgy.prlal Bank of Germany was reduced
Tvm 4 i-- to 4 P er cent todl>r ’
GUNS. RIFLES.
CARTRIDGES OFF
TO TREREUELS
Raisinq of Arms Embargo to
Mexico Stimulates the Muni
tions Market. Everything
Available At Once Except
Field Artillery
Villa Sends Thanks. Proceeds
to Cart Off 1,500,000 Rounds
—De la Barra Says Presi
dent’s Act Not Consistent
With Humanitarian Views.
Pari*. —The French policy of recog
nizing that the United States govern
ment should have a free hand in
Mexico, will not be affected by the
raising of the arms embargo accord
ing to the views expressed in semi-of
ficial quarters here today. Notifica
tion of President Wilson's action was
received through the United States
embassy, but the foreign office did
not express any opinion as to its
probable consequences.
Francisco da la Barra, Mexican min
ister to France, said today he could
noj see how the policy of permitting
such leaders as Emiliano Zapata and
Frincisco Villa to arm themselves
freely could be consistent with the
humanitarian views of President Wil
son.
No Rush Reported.
New York.—Manufacturers of arms
and ammunition report through their
representatives in New York City
that the lifting of the embargo o*»
exportations to Mexico had stimulat
ed the market. No rush Is reported,
however. All companies report ex
tra inquiries and some orders from
agencies but it was explained that the
merchants of Texas. New Mexico,
Arizona and California who have been
trading with Mexico discounted the
action of the president.
Have Good Stock.
They laid in a large supply of
cartridges and guns a month or more
ago.
Constitutionalists will have no
trouble obtaining any amount of cart
ridges in this country, it Is said.
Rapid fire guns, automatic and re
volvers also will he available but
when it comes to field artillery there
will he some delay. Europe supplies
the artiilery, except to the United
States army, and it takes from three
to six months to fill an order.
Villa Sent Thank*.
El Pa«o, Texas.— While the collec
tor of customs in El Paso, yesterday
was waiting official notification that
the embargo against the shipment of
arms to Mexico had been removed,
representatives of arms and powder
manufacturers hurried to Juarez on
the Mexican side to secure orders
from the rebels. General Villa sent
an attorney to thank General Scott
for President Wilson’s action and
also to ask permission to take across
the river 1,500,000 rounds of ammu
nition and a consignment of rifles.
Ready to Ship.
New Orleans. —Dealers In war ma
terial here today began to prepare
supplies for shipment to rebels in
Northern Mexico. Great quantities of
munition have been here for months
under the surveillance of government
officials.
Say Carranza has
Captured Mazatlan
Nogales, A ri*.—Mazatlan. an im
portant seacoast port on the coast of
Sinaloa, fell into the hands of Car
ranza's forces today, according to
formation received In Nogales, SigMWPff
(Yom rebel sources.
President Strongly
For Tolls Repeal
Washington, D. C.— President Wil
son announced tqflay that he would use
every legitimate influence at hia dis
posal to have repealed the provision
of the Panama Canal act exempting
American coastwise vessels .from the
payment of tolls.
Seeking $4,000 Worth of
Missing $lO Gold Notes
Washington, D. C.— Four thousand
dollars worth of unfinished ten dollar
gold notes which disappeared from the
government’s money factory here were
sought today by secret service men.
They cannot be circulated unless
stamped and numbered. It is not known
whether they were lost or stolen.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 5. 1914.
Woman Who Loved "Brute" Makes
Public Apology To Husband
Iffy* iTf .*.; j
I's ?^F?
MRS. FLORENCE FOLSOM.
New York.—ln n letter written from Chico, Cal., Mrs. Florence Fol
som, whose career In Reno attracted much attention recently and who*
declared she loved "G'fs” William i, a rancher. Because he was a "brute.”
apologized to her husband for the unkind things she hud Hiild about him.
She asked that the letter be made public and said that alie wished him
to marry again.
BARGE LINE DIRECTORS DECIOE
ON THE BARGE SPECIFICATIONS
Mr. Richard Clarke Wilson, • 0 Engineer, Instructed
to Get Bids—Meeting of Directors Yesterday P. M. Presi
dent Wallace Gives Some Interesting Figures Comparing
Barges With Packet Boats.
A meting of the board of directors
of the Augusta Barge Line Company
was held yesterday afternoon and
plans and specifications for the self
propelled steel barges were adopted.
The plans were .submitted by Mr.
Richard Clarke Wilson, consulting on-,
gineer for the company. Bids will bo
requested at onee from at leaat a
dozen manufaeturers of steel barges
and will be awarded within the next
few weeks. It is expected that tho
barges will be ready by the early sum
mer and traffic will begin on the riv
er between now' and the first of Sep
tember.
President Fielding Wallace was ask
ed for a statement after the meeting
and he said that Mr. Wilson would
immediately begin to draw up plans
to show what is desired in the wav
of wharves and terminals, and submit
these plans to Mr. Nlshet Wingfield,
city engineer.. It is.believed that the
wharves will he located where the
old river boat wharves are now, Jus!
below Fifth street. Arrangements are
Would Have Capital An
Entirely Slumless City
Measure Eliminating All AlNtai
Approved By President.
Washington. Washington's slums
would be wiped out in ten years under
a bill from the district commissioners
who urge Its enactment in the interest
of public health, comfort, morals and
safety. The measure has the appro
val of President Wilson who has taken
iHMtrttUßrnst-the movement t*>- •■WraS
nate alleyM in the capital. Passage ot
the bill would compel more than 15,-
000 persons to vacate present premises.
The alleys are described by the com
missioners as "center* of ommorality,
crime and very often breeding places
for disease."
Fought Spectacular Fire
From Midnight 'Til Dawn
Pittsburg, Pa. —The stock of the
Fifth Avenue store of McCrory $ Co ,
was destroyed and a number of near
by business places were damaged by
a spectacular fire that kept all the
iTowdlown fire companies on duty
from midnight until dawn today. Tons
of water were poured into the burn
ing store to prevent the spread of
the flames to buildings filled with
valuable merchandise. Scores of I er
sons on their way home from theaters
when the ftre broke out were deluged
with water before the police could
control the crowd.
being made to have railroad tracks
to connect with tho wharves.
It was only nfter the most exhaus
tive Investigation of the subject that
the barge line directors decided on tho
self-propelled steel barges nnd they
are confident they have made no mis
take. Wherever they have been tried
they have met with success.
Mr. Wallace gives some figure* tn
illustrate the difference In cost of
operation nnd tonnage of the barges
as compared with the packet boats.
Each barge will have a capacity of
400 tons ggalnst 200 tons for the lar
gest boat now on the river; it will re
quire 7 men to operate each barge,
as compared with lfi which Is required
to- operate a steamboat, and the total
amount of coal consumed on a round
trip by one of the barges will cost S2O
as compared with sllO for the steam
boat.
The barges will make the trip to
Savannah In 24 hours and from Havan
nah to Augusta In 48 hours, which Is
a much shorter time than Is required
by the steamboats.
HUERTA SAYS,
AFTER 'EM”
i
fcovisional President Issues
Instructions to Federal Gen
erals. Active Campaign
Against Rebels.
Mexico City. - A circular of Instruc
tions was Issued today by Provisional
TTSelfcMNMNlfcpf&Li to tho chiefs of all
army divisions and governors of states.
It recites tliat she government has be
gun a more active campaign against
the rebels and urges that extreme dil
igence be observed In giving all pos
sible protection to non-combatants —
foreign as well as native —removing
them when necessary from the zones
of operations.
Doctors Decide to Use
X-Ray on Senator Bacon
Washington. Physicians will sub
ject Senator Bacon of Georgia to an
X-ray examination to ascertain If he
is suffering from Inflammation of the
rib which recently was fractured
when the senator fell in a hath tub.
His absence has delayed consideration
of arbitration treaties In the senate.
The condition of Senator Htone of
Missouri, who is also confined to his
home by Illness, won announced today
as Improved.
COSILY RADIUM
TUBES COULDN'T
SAVE BBFMNER
Congressman Loses in His
Fight With Death. Inroads of
Cancer Too Great to Be Over
come Bv Treatment. Op
timistic to the End
Even in Last Days of Suffering
Insisted He Would Got Well.
Elected As He Lay 111 in Bed.
Warm Friend of President
Wilson.
Baltimore.—Robert Gunn Bremner,
member of congress from the seventh
New Jersey district, and editor of the
Passaic Dally Herald, died today of
cancer at a local santitnrliiin whero
be had been undergoing radium treat
ment since last December, lie had
been suffering from the disease for
four years.
Mr. Bremner w is thirty-nine years
old and married.
Odds Against Him.
Mr. Bremner came to n sanatarlum
here to try the radium treatment after
physicians in tills country and Eu
rope had vainly tried to cure him. It
was found that the disease had made
such Inroads that the fight against
death would lie made with all the odds
against Bremner. He was optlmlstle,
however, and tubes containing SIOO,OOO
worth of radium was appli's] to the
growth.
Seemed to improve
For a time the patient seemed to
Improve and members of his family
frequently expressed the belief tlial he
would recover. They eiung to tida
hope until a frw days ago when he
was seized with a. sinking spell. From
that time on Mr. Bremner grew stead
ily weaker, although he several times
rallied in a surprising manner aided
by his strong vitality and powerful
will.
In his last days of suffering Mr.
Bremner still fought on and Insisted
that he would get well. He declared
that ho wanted to go back to congress
to fight a bill to have a government
owned radium institute mo that Ibis
mineral Could be at the disposal of the
rich and poor alike.
President's Warm Friend.
Mr. Bremner was a warm personal
friend of President Wilson, who win
kept constantly advised of his condi
tion and who frequently sent him
messages of sympathy nnd encourage
ment. Mr. Hremner’a election to
congress waa accomplished while he
lay in lied 111. He did not make a
speech. The election was said to havo
been a trrfiutu. to his pluck, w
Mr. Bremner was a native of Kels*.
Caithness, Scotland, when his fiunlly
emigrated lo Canada when lie was a
youth.
Agree to Adjourn.
Washington. Representative Hrem
ner'H death, though not unexpected,
was a shock to Ills friends in con
gressional circles. It was determined
not to adjourn tho house at once be
cause of the great pressure of business
but a resolution was agreed upon for
an adjournment as Noon ns the busi
ness arranged for tho duy hud been
disposed of.
As He Was Dying.
Waehington. Mr. Bremner was Inst
seen in the house tho day congress
adjourned for Christinas and he chat
ted freely with some of Ills colleague*
with a hr*very that excited commen'.
He was smiling and outwardly happy,
though Buffering greatly.
While he wu dying last night the
house was discussing Mr. Bremner'*
measure for a bureau lo investigate
labor safety devices and for an exhib
it and an adequate appropriation.
Majorltji Leader Underwood hail ex
prosed himself in favor of letting tho
bill go through but Bepresenlatlve
Bisson blocked action.
Members of the Kentucky
Legislature Vaccinated
Frankfort, Ky— Numerous members
of the Kentucky legislature and many
residents of Frankfort are nursing
sore arms today after vaccination due
to a smallpox scare which developed
yesterday when It was announced that
Senator .1. Forrest Porter and Repre
sentative A. J. Gllver were 111 of the
disease.
Both cases are declared by physi
cians to he slight. Health officers did
not consider the situation serious
enough to necessitate recess of the
legislature.
Say Strike to Extend to
35 Chicago Restaurants
Chicago. -<3ooks, waiter* and wait
resses employed In a big Randolph
Street restaurant, walked out today.
Union official* said tho strike would
extend to 36 restaurants controlled by
the Restaurant Keepers Association
unless the request for increased wages,
shorter hours and one day off each
week Is complied with.
DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR.
DOORS CLOSED AS
BRYAN TALKS JAPS
Produces Intensest Cold Known
to Man
KAMMERLINGH ONNE3.
Leyden, Holland. Ksmmerlingh
Onnee, who won the $40,000 Nobel
Prize for physics in 1913, has devot
ed the l*et twelve years to trying to
liquify helium, the lost gas which
still resisted the greatest cold at yet
experimentally produced. It was the
one gaseous element of our planet
which refused to yield to all efforts to
put it into liquid form.
Will Not Put "Butch's"
Statue in Hall of Fame
Late “Millionaire For a Day”
Spendj a Day of Disappoint
ment in Bed.
Washington. "Butch’’ McDnvltt,
■‘millionaire for a day,” from Wllkes
ixire, who made a triumphal entry In
to the capital yesterday with a statun
of himself which he proposed to put in
the Hall of Fume, spent moat of this
day in bed at his hotel nursing dis
appoint rrients.
Kpeukcr Clark refused ''Butch's” re
quest for permission to make a speecli
from the steps of tile capital lint tho
chief of police granted one for him
to *peuk In the Market Place.
"President Wilson Is Jealous of mo
and wants to get me out of town,"
mourned "Butch” to his retainers.
Seeking Opium Smokers,
Find White Slave Depot
Lo* Angela*, Calif. —While search
ing a Chinese rooming house In China
town last night for opium smokers,
police discovered three white girls
hidden between a false celling of the
first floor and flooring of tho second
floor. Tho girls said they were all
over 20 years old. They refused to tell
how they came to be In the house or
to give any information against
Young Ylck, a Chinese who was ar
rested with them. The police believe
they have found a Chinese white slave
depot.
Denies That He Struck
Woman Election Clerk
Chicago.— Joseph McDonough, po
litician, charged by Miss May Walsh,
an election clerk with attacking her
last night while site was sanvaaslng
the ward In her official rapacity sur
rendered today. Miss Walsh declar
ed that Mehonough struek and Injur
ed her after ordering her from his
house. McDonough denied that he
struck her after ordering her from his
house. Moikinough denied that he
struck the woman. Friends of Miss
Walsh believe the attack waa prompt
ed by McDonough’ resentment of
the entrance of women into politics.
For Second Time Fate
of Schmidt With Jury
New York. The fate of Hans
Schmidt, pseudo priest, accused of the
murder of Anna Aumuller was placed
In the hands of a Jury today for tho
second time. At Ills former trial tho
Jury disagreed. Justice Davis in de
livering his second charge, held as be
fore that if the Jury found that Schmidt
did not realize the nature of his act
he 'must be acquitted.
Sec’v of State Asks House Im
migration Committee to Take
No Action on Raker Bill For
Exclusion of Asiatics
AGITATION IN CONGRESS
NOW BE UNFORTUNATE
Members of Committee Bound
to Secrecy. Thought That
Administration's Wishes Will
Be Respected.
Washington, D. C. Secretary Bryan
Urged the house Immigration commit
tee today to take no action on tlm
Baker bill for exclusion of Asiatic im
migrants. Diplomatic negotiations be
tween tin- United States and Japan
over the California-' anti-alien land
laws and the whole question of the
Asiatic exclusion was discussed be
hind closed doors. The secretary
bound republicans and democrats alike
to secrecy and told them the adminis
tration needed to lie free from legis
lative embarrassments in dealing with
the situation.
It was generally understood that tho
wishes of the slate department would
lie respected and that no effort would
lie made to press the Dill before the
committee at tills time.
Would Be Unfortunate.
Secretary Bryan told the cnmrnlt
tee thnt unless some untoward circum
stances arose lie hoped for an Hinl
culile adjustment of. the Japanese ques
tion. An agitation In congress at this
time, he declared, would lie most un
fortunate.
Representatives Raker and Ifaie«
of California, were the only member*
of the committee inclined to oppose the
wish of the secretary that action m
the matter he indefinitely postponed.
IS VIRGIN II TO
BECOME ‘DRY”?
Senate ' Pisses Bill to Enable
Voters to Pass on Question
Statewide Prohibition.
Richmond, Va. —The Virginia senate,
by a vote of 2!) to 11, this afternoon
passed the bill called the enabling act
which was supported by the anti
saloon league.
This act Is designed to enable the
voters, upon petition of one-fourth ot
the 66,51 k who participated In the last
gubernatorial election, to vote for or
against recommending to the general
assembly the passage of a measure
making the entire state "dry," the spe
cial election to bo held September ‘i'i,
1914.
The bill ns amended permits manu
facturers of intoxlcunts to continue
their business If their entire product
is shipped outside the state. The bill
does not restrict the sale of Virginia
imade cider.
The aim ended bill goes hack to the
house which first passed It, for con
ference,
"WET” AND "DRY” VOTE.
Chicago.—Petitions calling for a
"wet” and "dry” vote In Chicago at
the uldermanic election on April 7th
will he filed with tho hoard of elec
tion commissioners today, according
to a notice served on the hoard.
111 YEARS OLD; DEAD.
Ponca City, Okls. While Eagle, 111
yoara old, chief of the Ponca tribe, an:l
said to he the oldest Indian in tho
United States died yesterday.
What’s the Size
Of Your Pay?
Couldn't you do much bet
ter —honest, couldn't you, If
you tried?
Well, you know what they
say—and it's true—
A lot easier to get another
Job when you’ve got one
than when you haven’t.
Hut Juat remember, John
Jones, no real first-class Job
is going to chase around
finding you out.
You've got to do a bit of
tall hunting yourself.
Start a little Augusta Her
ald "Want Ad" to work for
you.
Make an Investment In your
self.
Put 1 or 2 per cent of your
present weekly salary inti
these efficient little Job
hunters for a few weeks.
Think it over!
The Augusta Herald.
Augusta’s “Want Ad” Directory