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LEGISLATURE AT SEA
ON CONVICT QUESTION
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Today It Is the Special Order io the Hoose
and Will Be Discussed By Members.
EXTRA SESSION IS SAID TO BE POSSIBLE
Doubtful if Amended Hall Bill Can
Pass—Lessees Jollying the Visit
ing Committees.
* Does the legislature dread to tackle
the convict question?
It seems so.
Today the convict question is the spec
ial order in the' house. There seems to
be no doubt that the lease plan must be
adopted again. But no one can tell what
the end will be.
Apropos of this subject Mr. John
Young Garlington writes to the Macon
Telegraph as follows:
The biggest and I may add the gravest
•• subject matter before the existing legis
lature is the convict question and its pro
i per 'settlement, but as yet no well shaped,
definite plan or scheme to care for the
convicts better than they have been cared
for in the past has been promulgated;
nor do the plans already offered, sub
mitted and discussed in committee and
•out of committee, seem to meet with
.approval or favor.
We have all read the reports of the
governor’s special agent sent out
weeks ago to examine the misdemea
nor campt. We have likewise read
the newspaper comments thereon, the
governor's messages thereon and re
cently we have had sorqe actions by
the penitentiary committee in reference
to both the misdemeanor and the reg
ular convict systems, but as yet, as
has been stated, the legislature is so
8 q unable to see
its way clear to the end of it, that tire
members seem to dread to have the
subject come up for consideration.
This is the situation today. Os that
there is no question, and now nearly
one third of the time of the session
has slipped away. It is singular, very
singular, that some one man in this
very intelligent body has not come
forward with a solution of this vexed
problem.
During the course of a sermon de
livered before a vast audience last
Sunday one of the most distinguished
divines in the city bitterly character
ized our convict system and declared it
was a crime against civilization and a
disgrace to Georgia. He went further
and denounced in equally bitter lan
guage the proposition that convicts
should be made to be self-sustaining
with no thought of their moral re
form. God and humanity cried out
T he smallest
lUain of aniline
I T 1 - 1 ’? w ’ l ’ color a ton
_] °f wine. A
_jjg,grain of per
manganate of
< potash will red-
A den seven thou-
'iahH I LeaßHftl'l Band times its
IW 1 ! '' i 1 weight of water.
The
— fling disorder
will disarrange
I every organ of
/ / ”’ c body and
1 cause eventual
disease and
z NM death. It is the
SW little ailments
neglected that
make the big
'Sp- v., diseases. Most
S' serious diseases
” have their in-
ception in a disordered digestion and faulty
nutrition. This is true of that most deadly
of diseases—consumption. It is also true
of nervous prostration and exhaustion and
also of all forms of wasting disease. Ail
ments of this description may not only be
prevented but cured by a resort to the right
remedy.
An unfailing cure for all diseases that
have their origin in disorders of the diges
tion and faulty nutrition is found in Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It
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tite, invigorates the liver, purifies and en
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muscle and drives out disease-germs. It
cures q 8 per cent, of all cases of consump
tion. Thousands have testified to these
facts. Druggists who suggest substitutes
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Mrs. Ursula Dunham, of Sistersville, Tyler Co.,
W. Va„ writes: “ I should have been dead had it
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Dr.*Pierce’s wonderful free book, “The
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against such an idea, ann yet no
proposition has been offered, no plan
suggested or devised whose salient
feature is not in conflict with this
preacher’s opininion.
It is quite patent to everyone that
the lease plan must again be resorted
to and it is patent also to a great many
that the present lessees are anxious to
retain their hold on their unhappy
wards. The existing lease expires in
the spring of 1899, on the Ist day of
April, if I am not in error, and it is
clearly incumbent on thia legislature,
not their successors in office, to settle
this matter in some deflnate and more
humane manner. The system has been
existing twenty years. The bill how
before the house, with the sanction of
the joint penitentiary committee, may
pass the house, though that is doubt
ful. If it passes the house it will
meet with certain death in the senate,
for majority of that body have ex
pressed themselves as opposed to it.
Os course, the leasees want this bill,
but the senate does not want it, and it
is doubtful if it would have the ap
proval of the governor if the legisla
ture should accept it.
The chairman of the senate commit
tee on penitentiary, Hon. Phillip Cook,
in a conversation with the writer ex
pressed himself emphatically against the
committee measure now in the house;
and from him I also learn, that the bill
cannot weather the senate. Mr. Cook
has a bill, prepared with great care, by
and may be
offered as a substitute for the committee
bill, if that should pass the house, and
sent over to the senate. This provides
for the leasing of the convicts for a
periods of years—five or ten—not longer
than ten. It further provides that they
be hired in lots of fifty, to the highest
bidder, the successful bidders being al
lowed to hire more than fifty at their
option, and at the price offered for the
fifty lot. The contracts and these suc
cessful bidders shall have the approval
of the attorney-general and the gov
ernor, and shall be valid without such
approval.
Another feature of this bill is that it
proposes no orison commissioner, but
enlarges to some degree to powers of the
principal keeper of the penitentiary. This
especial feature, the senator thinks, will
commend his bill as he feels quite satis
fied that the people of the state do not
want any more offices created. Still an
other and the most important provision
is that the money arising from the hire
of the convicts shall go into what is
known as a prison fund, and after a suf
ficent sum shall have been accumulated
a modern penitentiary, and reformatory,
surrounded by extensive farm lands, shall
be built.
This, briefly, is the substitute measure
that is now in the desk of Senatoi Cook,
and that he now intends to offer when
the occasion arises. He thinks the senate
will accept the bill and that it will meet
with the governor's sanction. But will
the house accept it ? No one knows.
No one can foretell now. The presump
tion is that the house wont accept it, and
if not. there will be a bind of course, and
the convict question will be like a wad in
a gun—won’t move up or down.
There is lots of quiet work going on
about this convict business, and it is
thought that no pains or expense will
be spared by the lessees to have the
sub committees now out an inspection
tours have a jolly good time.
Another view. In the event that the
convict matter is not disposed of by
the present legislature, the succeeding
legislature to be chosen next fall can
not possibly provide ways and means
to take care of so large a body of pris
oners before Jthis time of the present
lease expires, and consequently the
state will be at the mercy of the les
sees who can dictate their terms, in
case the state has to apply to them to
retain them.
These are serious, very serious mat
ters, and in the event this general as
sembly fails to agree on some plan
during the short time the, have left,
THE HOME TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER J 6, 1897.
If the present session does not ap
pear on a plan an extra sitting seems
unavoidable. There can be no ques
tion about the governor’s anxiety to
speedily remedy the ills the oonviats
are'at present subjected to.
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DIVORCE CASc. DISMISSED'.
Salt Hrnnglit bv Lorntia Small. Ford
Agal.t Her Ha-b.,id -etile,l.
Norfolk, Va., Nov. 15—-The noted
divorce case of .Loretta Small- Ford, the
daughter of Evangelist Sam Small,
against her husband, Stuart Ford, which
has exited national attention, has been
dismissed from the law and equity court
of Richmond, a mutual agreement hav
ing been signed by the parties inter
ested, which oodstitute, in this state, a
limited divorce. The terms of the agree
ment are in substance as follows:
The parties agree to the withdrawal
of the suit. There is a private agree
ment between the parties adjusting all
claims on account of alimony and
dower, and all the interests which Mrs.
Ford has as the wife of Stuart Ford
might have in the contingent interest
of the Stuart Ford estate upon a fair
basis.
Mrs. Ford will eventually benefit by
this agreement.
The plaintiff. Stuart Ford, agrees to
pay all the costs attached to the suit.
Mrs.- Ford reserves the right to apply
for divorce whenever she chooses in
any state of the Union but Virginia.
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Who goes to the club while her husband
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WHISKY HOUSE A WINNER.
Decision Rendered In Atlanta That Will
Hurt the Dispensary.
Atlanta, Nov. 15. —Judges Pardee
and Newman of the United States
court have handed down a decision in
the faihous dispensary case, enjoiuiug
the Southern from refusing to haul
liquor into South Carolina in future.
The decision is an important one, in
that the original package law is in
volved. The judges damdod that liq
uors and wines in bottles packed in
boxes and shipped in carload lots were,
under the law of South Carolina,
clearly admissable, and should be
handled by any railway.
The-case has attracted great atten
tion. The whisky company has never
had any trouble with the Southern in
this respect until a few weeks ago,
when the latter refused positively to
haul any more goods into South Caro
lina. ‘
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Colonel Boyd >• n Candidate.
Washington, Nov. 15.—A concerted
movement is to be made by southern
politicians, led by Senator Pritchard
and southern national committeemen,
to have Colonel James E. Boyd, as
sistant attorney general, promoted to
the cabinetj should Attorney General
McKenna be appointed to the supreme
bench. Mr. Boyd is the national com
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Thirty Stores Barit In One Town.
Columbia, S. 0., Nov. 15.—The town
of Kershaw has been almost wiped out
by fire. Twenty-eight stores were de
stroyed, eight of which were empty.
Loss over SIOO,OOO, insurance one-third.
The dispensary and original package
stores are a total loss.
Compromitted a Damage Case.
Raleigh, Nov. 15. —Engineer Pleas
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the Seaboard Air Line, got a verdict for
SII,OOO damages. The company ap
pealed, but now compromises the case,
paying him $4,100.
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WILL HOKE SMITH SEEL?
Gossip About the Atlanta Journal Which
is Interesting Reading?
The Atlanta Commercial publishes
the following:
It is reported that changes are con
templated in the management of the
Evening Journal.
It is said that Mr. Hoke Smith is
thinking of going to New York to enter
the practice of law there, and there is
ground for the report. It is known that
a few days ago Mr. Smith had a confer
ence with the representatives of a
wealthy Northern syndicate who had
been negotiating with him for the pur
chase of his controlling interest in the
Journal.
Two or three meetings were held and
it is said that a cash offer of $25,000 was
made, Mr. Smith reserving his answer
for holding his stock at a higher price.
It is said that he manifested his willing
ness to dispose of his stock at a sum
designated by himself. This sum is not
known.
Letters have been received in Atlanta
by local newspaper men indicating that
the deal is off, and that the same com
pany whose representatives conferred
with Mr. Smith now contemplates the
establishment of another evening paper
here about the first of January.
If this is done it will involve no ma
terial change im the political com
plexion of the Atlanta newspaper, as
tfie men who have been negotiating
with Mr. Smith are ardent advocates
of the gold standard.
The rumor is again revived that Mr.
Smith thinks he has a wider field for
the practice of bis profession in New
York than in Atlanta, and that he
can go there to better advantage now
than later.
An acclimated Georgian, whose bus
iness requires him to be in Washing
ton during the session of congress, in
speaking of the matter last night said:
* ‘Mr. Smith told me several months
before he left the cabinet—in fact,
really before he contemplated leaving
the cabinet—that he had an offer to go
to New York and be at the head of a
firm of young lawyer, and he was as
sured that he would get $25,000 per
year.”
Mr. Smith owns $51,000 of the stock
of the Journal, and was only offered
fifty cents on the.dollar, whereas one
of the stockholders recently bought
from another at seventy-five cents on
the dollar, and the deal was doubtless
declared off because Mr. Smith want
ed more for his stock.
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* Women Want Hillier Wages.
New York, Nov. 15.—A thousand
meu and women engaged in the second
hand clothing trade have bande.i them
selves together into an organization to
be known as. the Pressers’, Cleaners’
and Bushelers’ union. The members
contemplate a strike before the end of
the week looking to the betterment of
their condition, and especially in the
matter of wages It is stated that
1,900 employes in the cloak making in
dustry are still out.
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Miniate-r After i*iidian liurderert
Denver. Nov. Io. —Rev. Myron W.
Reed, pastor of Broadway temple, has
created something of a sensation while
discussing the killing of the Ute In
dians by deputy game wardens in Colo
rado by declaring tnat he intends to see
that Warden Wilcox and his deputies
are tried for murder. He also de
nounced the preachers who have re
mained silent in the matter.
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After a Si'xve Kahihig Hrince.
Laggs, West Coast Africa, Nov. 15.
Acting under instructions from the Brit
ish Niger country. Major Arnold, in
command of 180 men belonging to the
Niger constabulary, with fie.d guns and
Maxim rapid fire guns, has gone to Arku
to restore order in that territory. Thu
slave raiding Prince Idau, who is en
trenched in a place four days march
from the river Arka. for a month past,
has been raiding the Akpoto tribes for
60 miles around his headquarters.
• Nonce
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IGNORANCE in regard to
paint materials or painting
would seem in this age to be in
excusable, when full information
can be had free. If interested, it
©will pay to get pamphlet and
i color cards, also twelve pictures
of houses painted in different
shades or combinations of colors,
free. Send your address.
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MANUFACTURERS.
Petition to Foreclose Mortgage
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
K. W. Berryhill \ PETITION
/ to Foreclose Mortgage
vs. > In Floyd Superior
\ Court. No. 11.
Mrs. A. T. Chambers. J July Term, 1897.
To the Defendana--
By Special Order, the defendant is hereby re
quired, personally or by attorney, to be and ap
pear at the next term of said court, on the Third •
Monday in January next, then and thereto
answer plaintiff's petition to foreclosure mort
gage. as in default thereof the court will pro
ceed as to justice shall appertain.
Witnese, the Hon. W.M. Henry judge of said
court, this the 19th day of August, 1897.
Wm. E. BEYSIEGE L,
Cterk Superior Court, Floyd Co., Ga
Year’s Support.
GEORGIA. Fleyd County.
To all whom It may concern: Notice is hereby
given that the appraisers appointed to set apart
and assign a year’s support to Ella. John J.,
Marion and May Belle Black, minor children of
John S. Black, deceased, have filed their award,
and unless good and eofficlant cause is shown,
the same will be made the judgment ot the
court at the December term, 1897, > of the Court
of Ordinary. This November Sth, 1897.
JOHN P DAVIB,
Ordinary Floyd Connty
Citation—Leave to SelL
GEORGIA--Floyd County:
To all whom it may concern; J. P, McConnell
administrator of (Mrs. Nancy Winn deceaaed,
has in due foim applied to the urder-signed
for leave to sell the lands belonging to the
estate of said deceased, and said application will
be heard on the first Monday in December,
next. This let day of November, 1897,
M.**-JOHN P. DAVIs, Ordinary.