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BRIGHT ANO BREEZY S * "All The News." t * North Georria’s Great jj Daily. M< * Only 50 Cents a Month. $ ESTABLISHED 1887. STATE SOLONS CONVENES; GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE Hewlett Hall’s Resolution About Hogansville’s , Postmaster Was Sensational, and Passed. ROME BILL OF REPRESENTATIVE REECE To Incorporate That Strip of Land in North Rome Beyond City Limits. Co-Education Bill Introduced Atlanta, Oct 27.—The general as -•embly of Georgia met in the state can itol here. There is a fall attendance. -Questions of vital importance are to be taken up at this session of the legisla ture, among them being the dispositior of convicts at the expiration of th< present lease. A sensation was sprue* at the very beginning. I' The senate also met and transacted ■some business. The Session Opened. After the opening prayer and roll call , Speaker Jenkins addressed the house in part as follows: *‘l recognize the fact that this branch ■of the legislature is one of the law-mak* ing powers of the state, and I recognize that you will meet your duties faithfully and fearlessly. There is a shadow over this state that has almost grown into a •cloud, and it has reached the home of every one within our borders. This •shadow is low cotton, and I trust the legislature in looking about them and considering public questions will rem ember that agriculture is smitten at a vital point. I now declare the house of representatives duly convened and open ed for the transaction of such business as may legally and constitutionally come t before it.” Coiideaaued Kinley's Coarse. Hewitt Hall, chairman of the hous< penitentiary committee and law pare ner of Governor Atkinson, introduces 1 in the house of representatives a resolu tion condemning the president’s ap poiutment at Hogansville as postmastei « man objectionable over the protest oi 90 per cent of the property owners auc xespousible citizens. He said that the president would not dare to appoint a Chinaman in a westers town, or an objectionable man in the north or east, over such protest. The appointment is characterized as an ex hibition of narrow spite and sectional hate, unworthy of the high officer—the president of the United States. Mr. Hall said that the south had been loyal to the Union since the war, and deserved as much as any other section, and that no true man would ask more or accept less. The resolution passed viva voice, but division cut off the announcement oi the result. After the discussion it was referred by mistake to the committee on atate of republic, which has 11 Populists and Republicans and four Democrats. Their report will be made later. New Bills. The call for new matter brought out the following: A bill to provide for wardens in each county to protect fish or game. A bill to make dogs personal property. A bill to create a state board of arbi • -tration to settle differences between em ployers and employes. The board is to consist of three persons to be appointed by the governor, one of them to be a laborer or member of a labor organiza tion. The board to have a secretary* stenogragrapher, with a salary not to ex ceed $1,200, males or females to be eligi ble. It was referred to the general judi ■ciary. A bill to protect fish in the waters of Georgia. Also a bill to provide for the payment of constables for conducting prisoners from one county to another. Fifteen cents per mile is the fee. Also a bill to make penal the hiring ■out of misdeameanor convicts to private parties. The offense is made a misde meanor. Also a bill to provide for the co-ed ucation of the sexes at the University of Georgia. A memorial by the Daughters of the Confederacy asking that the birthday of Jefferson Davis be made a legal holiday. By Mr. Thomas J. Clarke, a bill to admit white female students to the State University. A bill to nullify mortgages on pen sions and make it a misdemeanor to •take them. By. Mr. Reece, of Floyd, a bill to THE ROHE TRIBUNE. \' 4 amend the charter of Rome to include territory between that city and North Rome. By Mr. Edmunds, of Houston, a bill to prohibit the manufacture of alco holic liquors in counties where the sale of such liquor is prohibited by law. .Full Text of Message. State of Georgia, Executive Office. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27,1897. Gentlemen of the General Assembly: During the session upon which yon now enter matters of great interest to the peo ple of the state must be considered and acted upon by you. It has been many years since so many grave questions de manded consideration by a general as sembly. northeastern railroad. On May 28, 1896, after advertising for bids as directed in act authorizing a lease, the Northeastern railroad was leased to E. A. Richards & Co. at the sum of $18,600 per annum, payable quarterly, for a term of 20 years, from June 1, 1896, and a bond taken in conformity to law. The rent was paid for two quarters. When the rent for the third quarter fell due on March 1, 1897, it was not paid, and when the two months’ time, in which they were permitted under the law to pay this, had expired, the rent was still unpaid. By virtue of authority vested in me I then seized the road and have since oper ated it for the state under the direct man agement of Hon. R. K. Reeves, who was appointed by me stale age. t. The net earnings from May to Septem ber, 1897, were $6,012.44. Under present conditions we can safely rely upon (the net earnings of) the road earning a good income on the sum at which it was purchased by the state, to wit: SIOO,OOO, and it will more than pay Interest on the series of bonds issued to retire the $287,000 of bonds on said road, upon which the state of Georgia was in dorser. As this is a short and dependent line, and in view of possible changes in thera'l road situation which might impair and possibly destroy its value, I recommend that an act be passed authorizing the gov ernor, at his discretion, to offer it for sale whenever, in his opinion, it can be sold for the amount of the bonds issued by the state to cancel the series above mentioned. RAILROAD COMMISSION. Your special attention is called to that part of the report of the railroad commis sioners in which legislation is recom mended to enlarge their powers, and to better enable them to enforce their decrees. These recommendations, briefly stated, are: Control of issuance of stocks and bonds of railroads. Removal of all doubt of authority of the commission to require the erection of depots, and additional power to require the construction of sidetracks. Power to regulate the interchange of freights and cars in order to secure to shippers the right to route their goods and to prevent discriminations. Speedier methods of enforcing the orders of the commission to compel railroads to immediately accord to the public rights which are due them. After asking for this legislation the commission adds: “We have exercised, and are now exer eising, all the authority that has been granted us. Our experience, and the com plaints continually received from the peo ple, clearly indicate that the additional authority recommended is necessary to their protection. If they expect relief in these particulars they must look, not first to this commission, but to their senators and representatives whom they elect to the general assembly, and who alone have the power to authorize the commission to correctjthe ills complained of.” You cannot be too careful in legislating upon the subject of railroad control. A wise and rigid control of these properties is of the utmost importance to our people, and is essential to the growth of our com merce. STREET RAILROADS. I advise that the authority of the rail road commission be so extended as to give them power to regulate charges on street railroads, and exercise such control over them as may be needed to give good ser vice to the public, and adjust disputes be tween them and the public when made by any party interested, or by the authorities of the city in which such street railroad may be operated. The sole power to de termine those questions should not vest in the street railroad corporation. The au thority to pass upon them should be vested in some tribunal, and that tribunal should not be in the control of, or created by, those directly interested in the questions to be submitted to it. TELEPHONE SYSTEMS. The railroad commission now has juris diction over railroad, telegraph and ex press companies. The same reasons which induced the •tate to give them authority over these, demand that their power be so extended as to bring under their control all tele phone companies. The charges made by telephone corn" Daaiee shauld be fixed by the cammiaaioy ROME. GA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1897. REDWINE PARDONED At lanta Man Gets Pardon At Last. Mysterious Disappearance of John * Quillian, an Atlanta Clerk. Atlanta, Oct. 27.—Senator Bacon received a telegram from Columbu-, Ohio, this afternoon stating that Louis Redwine had received his pardon. Redwine has been in ill health for sometime, and though his term will ex pire in November every effort was brought to bear to get a pardon. Red. wine will return to Atlanta, Mysterious Disappearance. Mr. John Quilhan, who lives at 260 Ashley street. West End, has mysterious ly disappeared. He has charge of the shoe department in High’s store, and left his home yesterday morning to go to work. He did not go to the store at all, but was seen in the Kimball house yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Since then nothing has been seen or heard of him. Quillian does not drink and is con sidered a good solid man. Some six weeks ago he lost a little girl and he was deeply effected by her death. He has frequently complained of headaches, and has acted a little strangely. It is believed that his mind has be come unballanced, and that he has wandered off. Searching parties will seek for him tomorrow. Henry Hoyd* WIU’He Hanged. Gadsden, Ala., Oct. 27.—Great ex citement has prevailed for the last sev eral days at the circuit court for Mar shall county, being held at Guntersville. Henry Boyd and his wife were arrested and tried for killing Cora Starnes, all the parties being negroes In July last he split the negro’s head open with an ax, and upon the charge of murder his trial has just ended. There were sev eral mobs organized for the purpose of lynching him, and were only prevented by the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty, after but a few moments’ delib eration. Judge Bilbro sentenced him to hang Dec. 10. Mau Foitiniied For His Money. Bozeman, Mon., Oct. 27.—Bozeman is greatly stirred up by the poisoning ot a man named Garlock, and the attempt to destroy the lives of two other men, C. V. Boyer and Morris Lemay, by the same means. Garlock died before med ical aid could reach him. Garlock and Boyer had quite a sum of money with them, and it is thought that it was a scheme to kill them and make off with their money. The three men, together with another man named Ed Smith, were camped close to town. The police are unable to obtain any clew. Threatened to Kill McKinley. Chicago, Oct. 27.—Edward A. Shole der of Otter Creek, la., who threatened to emulate the example of Charles Guiteau and assassinate the president if the executive failed to secure for him certain rights which he claims have been wrongfully taken from him, has been arrested and will be examined aS to his sanity. Scholeder claims that he was swindled out of a large tract oi land in eastern Kansas. in my opinion cnery are now so excessive in their charges as to demand the inter ference of the state in behalf of the citizen. Each of these companies are what are usually termed natural monopolies, and should be controlled by the government. EDUCATIONAL interests. There has been a constant and marked improvement in our common schools. The steady and gradual increase in the appro priations for their maintenance has re sulted in multiplying the number of per manent schools, arousing greater interest among the people in education, improving the character of school buildings and in creasing the efficiency of teachers. In this campaign against ignorance our columns should not retreat, but move steadily to the front until the enemy is vanquished and the banner of light, knowledge and virtue floats in triumph over the field. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. The people of the state are to be congrat ulated upon the ever iucreasing prosperity and usefulness of their university. With the increased room and facilities furnished by your late appropriation thereto, and the purchase of the new farm, if assured of permanency of its income, its still greater usefulness cannot be doubted. On Oct. 7 last 267 students had been reg istered. Os them 67 per cent are members of various churches, to-wit: 100 Metho dists, 81 Baptists, 38 Presbyterians, 30 Episcopalians, five Catholics, six Jews, three Christians, one Lutheran and one Unitarian. Os the fathers of those stu dents, 78 are farmers, 44 lawyers, 42 mer chants, 19 doctors of medicine, nine bank ers, six teachers, six preachers, and eight insurance men, besides various other occu pations. GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY. lam pleased to note the increased attend ance at the School of Technology. The 225 students now there give evidence that practical education is receiving the serious attention of our people. The school offers scientific courses of high grade in mechan ical. electrical and civil engineering. The new dormitory is tilled with stu dents who are under wholesome regula tions and protected from evil influence by the supervision of the authorities. A high standard in scholarship and skill in shop work is required, ana the school takes (Continued on Page Two.) SELMA IS IN TERROR Reign of Pillage and BnrningTliere SHOTGUN VIGILANCE Negroes Are Terroiziog Place and Whites Are Powerless. i NO NEW CASES OF YELLOW FEVER Atlanta Has Another Case of Yellow Jack. STILL VERY BAD IN NEW ORLEANS Eleven Deaths and 52 New Cases There Yesterday—Fever Bulletins From All Infected Points. Selma, Ala.. Oct. 27. Over 6,00< white people have sought refuge in ad joining states since the official declara tion was made that'yellow fever existed here. So panic stricken were the peo ple that hundreds of them locked theii doors and took the first train, leaving unprotected their homes and their prop erties. There are not 1,000 white people left in the city. But all the negroes re main, of which there are about 7,000, and they are burning and pillaging. Incendiary fires are of frequent occur rence. The police are powerless. The few remaining citizens have organized shotgun vigilance committees, and the streets ure nightly patrolled by them Despite/ this, however, burglaries and other crimes are being committed with terrorizing rapidity, and there is great alarm in consequence. No new cases have been reported iu this city during the day. FOR THE CURE OF FEVER. This Doctor Recommends a Liberal Ap plication of Turpentine. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 27.—Dr. J. J. Knott of Atlanta, who came here tc make an experiment with his turpen tine treatment of yellow fever, regard ing it as a phosphoric poison, has re turned home. Dr. Knott came very highly recommended and was well treated, but the board of health did not encourage him to make a general ex periment at this late date. Dr. Nnott, however, saw numbers of patients with attending physicians and hundreds of people in the city have adopted the use of turpentine applied tc the spine as a preventative. Dr. Knott expresses himself as being satisfied with the results so far. What these results are, will be pub lished by him later. In the meantime he was instrumental in causing a tre mendous sale of turpentine in the city. Several • druggists declare they sold completely out. DAY IN NEWORLEANS. Crescent City Has Eleven Deaths and Fifty-two New Cases New Orleans, Oct. 27.—The record for the day here is 52 new cases and 11 deaths. she fever situation here continues monotonously the same. The new cases are being reported from all parts of ths city and the reason seems to lie in ths fact that the weather is peculiarly adapted to the development of the disease. The two Catholic priests who were reported as ill Tuesday night are doing well now. No Yellow Jack In Naehvllla, Nashville, Oct. 27. —Reports having been circulated that yellow fever had made its appearance in Nashville, Dr, N. G. Tucker, the city health officer, authorizes the statement that there is absolutely no truth in such reports. There has not been a single case im ported here, or iu this vicinity, and there is not the slightest apprehension. The city is in good sanitary condition and the climatic conditions are such as to preclude any fear of infection. Vis itors can come to Nashville with per fect safety. Many Fevwf Death. la Mexico. San Diego, OaL, Oct 27.—Dr. Mc- Kay, the quarantine officer here, has received word that nine deaths from yellow fever occurred at Mazatlan from Sept. 26 to Oct. 2. He will quarantine the Mexican steamer Albion, due here Nov. 4. from M/izatlen »utii •»»» - FOUR WERE KILLED Indians and Game Wardens Fight. Wardin Killed Indian Mortally Wounded Another and Was Killed Himself. St. Paul, Oct. 27.—A special to Jfhe Dispatch from Leech Lake reservation iu Northern Minnesota says: Informa tion by special messenger has just reached the reservation that a fight oc* curred between two Indians and a game warden iu which all three were killed, also one Indian woman. A deputy game warden, whose name cannot be ascertained, arrived at the Indian camp on an island between Midji and the Cass lake reservation and seized two guns and a trapping outfit which belonged to Kak Kah Quash and Mahchoaunequah, two Indians on the Cass lake reserve. He also made an at tempt to seize some fnrs which they had, but they resisted, whereupon the warden clnbbed the older Indian with a gun until he became unconscious and then shot him. He next shot the othet Indian and his wife, mortally wound ing both. In the meantime the oldei Indian, having regained consciousness, ■hot and killed the warden. Dr. E. S. Hart, overseer in charge ot this subagency, sent Martin Brann chand and a detail of Indian police tc the scene to investigate the matter thorough! v. clean bin of healtii. The American consul at Mazatlan declares that the officials are attempting to disguise the real state of affairs. The Mexican gov ernment has ordered a strict quarantine of the port. One Death at the Gulf City. Mobile, Oct. 27.—New cases as fol lows: Joseph M. Serd, 63 Palmetto street; Esther Bucßey, 5 Kennedy street; John O. Scott, 106 New Saint Francis street; Alice Otis, Chatham street, corner Palmetto; Frederick To ney. 309 North Pine street. One death: Carlos Ogillo, No. 1, from Italian bark Laboremmes. Recoveries: Carlo Ogillo, No. 2; 0. W. Ruth, James Edmundson, Chartres Lossing. Another Care In Atlanta. Atlanta, Oct. 27.—One new case oi fever has developed among the refugees from Montgomery, Ala., in this city. The case is that of' R. A. Hammack, who came here five days ago from that city and has been at the camp of deten tion since. The case is a very mild one indeed, and the patient is sitting up. AT MANY PLACES Reports of New Cases and Deaths From Infecfed Districts* New Orleans, Oct. 27.—The last reports tonight from various points shows the following new cases of fever and the deaths. Memphis—Five cases and two deaths. Montgomery—Seven cases. Mobile—Five cases and three deaths. Kayuga—Two cases. Raymond—One case. Biloxi—Twelve cases. Pascagoula—Two cases. Scranton—Nine cases, one death. Bay St. Louis —Five cases. McHenry—One case. Baton Rouge—One case. Harrifton Off to G'uthiiui. Chicago, Oct. 27.—Mayor Harrison, ac companied by his cabinet, a brass band and nearly 300 broadshouldered mem bers of the Cook county Democracy, all wearing silk hats and smiles of various degrees of breadth, have left for a three days’ stumping tour of Greater New York Oil Plant Begin* Operations. Huntsville, Ala., Oct. 27.—The Ala bama Oil company’s plant in this city has begun operations and will run day and night for abont six months. The mills give employment to about 100 men, divided into two forces. 'M.mplil. Heporl. On. Death. Memphis, Oct. 27.—The yellow fever record: Oue new case, James Canada, at St Joseph’s hospital; one death, Al bert Lagorio, 816 Main street Total cases to dare, 17; total number of deaths to date, three. Federal Prisoners Transferred. Atlanta, Oct. 27.—8 y order of the federal authorities, all of the United States prisoners in jail at Montgomery, Ala., have been transferred to this city. Trials In Atlanta. Atlanta, Oct. 27.—Thos. J. McClain, who shot and seriously wounded his little son, Willie, was tried and acquitted this afternoon. The jury in the case of the negro, Williams, charged with shoot ing a policeman, disagreed. Six stood for acquittal and six for conviction. Michael In Atlanta. Atlanta, Oct. 27.—Jimmie Michael, the Welsh wonder, is here and will speed on the Coliseum [track during his stay. S Increase Your Trades $ !s A Klondike Strike * * By advertisin'’ in The £ * Tribune. * * Best medium In North Georgia* PRICE FIVE CENTS SCHEME OF SPANIARDS Project For Autonomy of Cuba Outlined. PRENDER6RAST VIEW Reforms Which the Mother Country Proposes For the Island. THE COLONIAL MINISTER TALKS Colonists Will Have Complete Self Government. HOW PARLIAMEN7 IS 70 BE CHOSEN New Constitution Will Grant the Use of and Protection Afforded By Civil and Political Rights. New York, Oct. 27.—A dispatch to The Herald from Madrid says: Senor Moret y Prendergast, the new colonial minister, has outlined for The Herald his plan for Cuban reforms as follows: “The autonomy which the cabinet of Senor Sagasta purposes to bestow upon the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, in fulfillment of the engagement con tracted in the manifesto of June 24, is a special autonomy founded on the reso lutions adopted in the platform of tne Antillian Autonomists, and not identical with the other colonial constitutions. It is clear that in its essential principles the future constitutions of Cuba and Porto Rico agree with these colonial conditions that start from self govern ment as the capital idea, self legislation responsible to the government, and the supremacy of the governor, who, either under that name or that of viceroy, shall represent the mother country, and who shall choose the ministers who will be executives in that colony. “Starting from the above basis the projects of the Spanish government contain the first partition of those mat ters and concerns that belong to the co lonial parliament and to the imperial parliament—that is, to the national cortes. The partition is founded on carefnl discrimination between what interests the islands themselves in a lo cal sense and what is of national im portance. “The project in operation win inter pret in the most generous manner the phrase ’local interests,’ since it will only grant to the colonists complete control of all that relates to education, charity, public works, inter-insular nav igation, agriculture, industry, mines, etc., bnt it also intrusts to the repre sentatives of the local self government the right of drawing up their customs tariff without any limitations beyond those mutually arranged. “With the metropolis to co-operate in their respective mercantile and com mercial interests, the above functions will be performed by an insular cham ber totally electorate in nature, with out restrictions or subsequent division into two chambers —that is, the house of representatives and the senate. “The members of this parliament shall be elected by the same suffrage tystem as that which regulates the elec tions in the peninsula. The same elec toral body shall elect deputies to the Spanish cortes, who are to represent Cuba in the national parliament. Once this assembly has been constituted, the governor general, as the representative of the central power, shall choose the ministers, who are to be ths executive body responsible to the insular depart ment, thus completing their organiza tion of the parliamentary government, and endowing it with that degree of possibility characteristic of every col ony administered on the principles of self government. “The ministers shall be'responsible to the colonial parliament and every en actment of the governor general, as the representative of the executive power in all that touches local government, shall be treked in the council. “Os those ministerial functions re served to the metropolis are, first, those taat ooneern international relations; second, military and naval matters; third, organization of the law courts in conformity with their laws regulating the offices of ministers, and, fourth, those depositions that regulate relations between the church and the state. “At the same time the new constitu* tion shall grant to the Cuban people the nse of and the protection afforded by the civil and political rights sanctioned by the Spanish constitution, in such manner that they shall obtain, in all iu integrity, in tfce colonies, while, besides. 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