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We will have at our disposal during
November |~&,000 to loan on Georgia farms
or city property. We are offering money at
low ratea. (
THE GKORGAA LOAN ANT) TRUST 00.,
O. A. Coleman, General Manager.
356 Second Street.
ESTABLISHED 1884
WARM SUNSHINE MAKES
SOLDIERS HIPPIER.
Second North Carolina Regiment of Imnwnes Arrived this
Morning from Knoxville and Are io Camp Now
on the Hoff Place,
GOOD-BYETO FIRST
Regiment Has Been Mustered
Out of Service and Men
Return Home.
SOME PARTING SCENES.
All or the Soldiers in Camp Are Get
ting in Shape, and the Camps
Are in Much Better Con
dition Today.
Th< Sixth Virginia regitn. nt arrived in
the city this morning.
The regiment came tin from Knoxville
ov< r the Southern in six sections. The
train- were transferred to the Central rail
nn<l Hi,l the mm were taken out to the
Huff place when they will Im 1 camped.
The Sixth Virginia, does not come to Ma
con with the b '«-l reput ttjon possible. Ac
counts of their conduct at Knoxville 'has
pri c« l< il them here, but it is thought that
the moils from that .place are somewhat
exaggerated.
It is true that the negroes refused to
drill under white officers at one time and
It ";i in <■< - irj to call out other troops
<o make them obey Older*, yet nothing »e
--riou i. suited from it. The officers here
»ay that tlie tnen will give the people no
•troubl. and llrit they will be kept under
■the strictest discipline. The regiment Is
übout twelve hundred strong and the men
lire even larger than those of tihe Tenth
Immunes. The regiment at one time was
•in charge of negro officers, but were dis
placed on iicooiint of being Incompetent.
The regiment will camp along side ths
Tenth Imntunes at the Huff place, and
have one of she best sites around the city.
Tlie tnen were put to work this morning
i- foou a* they arrived and they wiill no
•doubt have the camp fixed up by tomorrow
• tbiiit they will be able to sleep there.
Ht will take sometime to get things in con
dition tor a winter camp. and It will prob
ably tn next week before everything isa.r
ran ged.
The city w i.s quiet last night and the
provost gu.irfl made very f-w arrests. A
majority of 'he nun staid in camps and
tin streets l.ioked sonuwhait deserved.
Tin Seeoin. Ohio is still kicking alum'
the li. a ion of their eamp. The rain of
yesterday >h. s made Chings worse than
th. y v. •rt at first, ,nd all of the soldiers
are b >ping that they be given the site
•oceupii I by t'he Fir-t Georgia. The First
Georgia site is one of the beyit in the state,
•and if tib< tnen are moved there they can
arrange their camp hi that it will be com
fortable.
'fhe only thing exciting that happened
la t night was when Private Woodward
shot young Morris on Cotton avenue. Th.'
■.shoot’ing was accidental, however, and
■nothing w.is caused bv it. Several negroes
'wore arn stcil yesterday for being drunk
on the streets They were sent out to
’their camp this morning under a 'heavy
tgua txl.
Tlie Third engineers are comfortably
Ifixx'd in their camp now. and one of the
oi’fii■< ns aid last night that he did not care
which way the wind blew. The men 'have
ti. cn worked very ‘hard for the vast few
.lays and are now enjoying a rest. Drill*
■will Aie commenced next week and the
>pl ; wHI l i g-lve'n an opportunity to wit
nes diis parades every' afternoon. It is
v<ry nrobal la that a grand review will be
held here before the troops leave. The
ma ter l as ben suggested to Genr..l Wil
son and he has It under consideration.
■phe signal i-erps is working on the tele
graVK lines and will have thi m completed
by Tu> -da;' Tlie hospital will be finished
■by tonight and xx ill bo ready for all of the
■sick patients. The number of sick men is
very -’-mall, however. ami very few of them
■will have to 'be removed from the regimen
tal hospitals T'he Wolff ,<■ Ha.pp building
has been thoroughly renovated and now
;na seats a creditable appearance. All of
the upper store* will be used .R wards
and the lower floor yvill l>e used as offices
and a dining hall. The hospital will ac
axymmodate about four hundred men.
The other regiments to come here are
the Seventh Innmni* and the Third North
■Parol ii.t This will give the city six reg
inuvts and the total number of troops will
be about 7.000. When the other regiments
; irrive the provost guard will be strength
ened and the officers give assurances of
the best of order The provost guard has
not yet had anv serious trouble with any
the tnxipts. but they are under orders
to fire on any of she soldiers who fail to
<in y their <x>mmards. This is done so as
to let the other soldier® know that the
-gu.'vrxl is sba ione.l out for business and
not for an ornament to the city.
The policemen have had very little to do
recently, and are confining their arrests to
the vir’izen*. All soldiers w h o are d’«or
dorly are turn d over to t’he provost guard
and rhe guard in turn reports all disorder
ly citizens to the police. ,
All of the troops will be in camp by
"Wednesday night and will remain here
tintU they are to Oiba.
FIRST GEORGIA
Wen Have Been Mustered Ont and Bid fare
well Xo Officers.
Tonight he First Georgia regiment will
be a thing of the past. Two companies
were paid oft and given their discharges
y« sterday afternoon and the paymasters
have been busy all during the day paying
off the other companies
The regiment has seen some hard service
and while not having the opportunity of
going w the front the men have been
worked in camp and it is a great re
lief to them to be free.
The regiment was mustered into the ser
vice about the 15th of May and watt sta
tioned at Griffin for a month. From Grif
fin they were sent to Chickamauga and
remained there ill during the summer,
suffering all of the hardships of camp life
until they were seat to Camp Poland at
Knoxville.
The regiment has been in the service
pearly seven months and in that time very
V
• few of the men have died. It is a remark-
■ able fact that very few of them were sick
at t'hiekamauga when men were dying on
all sides and disease was prevalent every
where. The regiment was recognized as
one of the beat volunteer regiments in the
service and it would have no doubt been
held had the men expressed a desire to
remain in. The officers of the regiment
are beyond doubt among the best volun
teer officers in the United States. ‘All of
them were selected from the militia and
they knew their business when they went
into the service.
Very few changes have been made in the
officers since the regiment was organized.
Several have resigned and their places
were filled from the rankn. The privates
were among the best that were in the vol
unteer army and very few of them have
left the regiment up to this time.
Colonel Lawton has been paid many
• compliments as to the discipline of the
regiment and many army officers have
said that it was a pity that there were not
more men in the regular service like him.
Ail of the men speak well of him and he
was decidedly the most popular • man in
the regiment.
The paymaster started to work yester
day at 1 o’clock. Company F, the Macon
Volunteers was the first company to be
i paid off. One more company was also
given their money. This morning the work
of paying oft the men and giving them
their discharges was commenced early and
this afternoon the work is almost com
plete.
Tlie sergeants are receiving on an aver
age of SSS, the corporals S7O, and the pri
vates SSO. The men are all given mileage
to their homes and are also given ration
money for the time that they are on the
road. The payment this time amounts to
more than the soldiers have ever received
before at one pay day and the men are
spending it freely.
The trains which left the city at noon
today carried many of the soldiers. It
seems that all of them are anxious to get
home and are taking the first trains out.
A special train will probably leave for
Savannah tonight with the Savannah men.
There are four companies of Savannah
• men in the regiment and it will take a
special train to accommodate them. All
of the railroads are making the soldiers
special rates to their homes and all the
trains that leave the city are crowded
with them.
The men express sorrow at leaving each
other and many touching scenes have been
witnessed. One of the privates on leaving
the eantain of his company broke into
tears. The men as a rule love their officers
but there are some few who have been
punished several times that say that they
will get even with the officers for the
manner in which they treated them while
in the army.
Colonel Lawton says that he is sorry to
part with the men of his regiment. He'
says that he considers them the finest
body of men that he. has seen among all
of the volunteer troops.
The tents of the regiment will be taken
down this afternoon and the Second Ohio
regiment will in all probability move to
the grounds. The last bugle call has
sounded for the First Georgia and by to
night all of the menT except those who will
have to be sent to Fort McPherson, will
be free from the services of the govern
ment.
SHOT A CITIZEN
But the Shooting Was Don 9 Entirely in Self
Defense.
Ike Morris, a young man ,about nineteen
years of age, was accidentally shot at
Goldman’s pawn shop on Colton avenue
last night by a soldier named Woodward,
from Company E, of the Second Ohio reg
iment. The shooting occurred about 7:31)
o’clock.
The two men were examining a pistol,
when ,iit went off, striking Morris in the
breast, just over the heart. For a few
, iminutes after the shot was fired no one
knew who had been shot. Finally Morris
.pulled open his vest aim said, “I believe 1
am the one that is shot.”
The people in the store saw that he was
dangerously hurt and at once sent for a
doctor. Drs. Moore, Holt. Whipple and
Jackson responded and did all in .their
power to aid the wounded man. They pro
nounced the wound serious, and 'Morris is
liable to die at any moment.
Policemtn Avant arrested the soldier
who did the shootiing and carried him -to
the police station where he was locked up.
Everybody who saw the shooting said that
it w,as accidental, and acting nn that, the
enaycy ordered the man to be turned over
to the provost guard.
When the shooting occurred the men
were examining a pistol that had been
purchased by Woodward. The pistol was
.loaded, and it seems that it was acciden
i tally discharged. Woodward was very
•much stirred up over the affair, and says
that he regretted it more than anything
• that has ever haivpeued jp him.
i Morris was resting easily this morning.
, lamd it is thought that he will recover if
penumonla does not set in. The soldier
•will not be .punlsht'd and will be allowed
to go.
TRANSFERRED TO THIRD.
First Georgia Go to the Third Georgia and
Thirty-First Michigan.
In addition to twenty men who have
been transferred from the Georgia
regiment to the Third Georgia at the syg-)
gestion of Colonel Oscar Brown, an ordex
has been issued from the war department
:ransfernng ten enlisted men of the First
Georgia over la the Third, and also three
men of the First Geprgja to the Thirty
first Michigan.
I All of the men transferred have ssked
I to be allowed to remain in the service.
all of them expected to be transferred to
I the Second Georgia before the idea of re
j forming that reginjcpt tvas abandoned.
■ The non-commissioned officers among the
! number will lose their ranx by the trans
! fee and will have to enter the Third Gepr-
I gia and Michigan regiment as privates.
. i The ten men from the First Georgia with
the twenty thai have been transferred
■ from the Second, completes the roll of the
| Third Georgia, and the regiment, muster
ed up to the limit, js ready for the service
i in Cuba which has been aesured the com
mand. The following is the order of the
. war department transferring ten men over
> from the First to the Third Georgia:
”6. By authority of the secretary of war.
the following named enlisted men of the
■ i First Georgia volunteer infantry, now at
| Macon, Ga., are transferred to the Third
THE MACGvv’NEWS.
Georgia volunteer infantry, and will be
sent to camp at Griffin. Ga., to report to
the commanding officer of that regiment
for duty, accordingly:
“Private Francis A. Turner, company
A; Gorporal Woodford H. Johnston, com
i pany B; Privates Henry Jones and Julius
A. Wood, company D; Corporal Willis C.
Alexander and Privates Theodore R. •Chris
tian. Fernando D. Deal. Fred S. Hill,
Wilbur W. Kaylor and George H. King,
I company I.”
NEWS IN KNOXVILLE.
, Telegrams Indicate that There Will Be De
l lay in Going to Cuba.
Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 19. —*A telegram
was received last night by Mr. Hemphill,
the quartermaster of the First brigade
which would indicate that no movement
to go to Cuba for several weeks is contem
plated. .
The telegram states that the quarter
master supplies for the brigade have been
ordered sent here from nine diffrnt points
so as to thoroughly equip the brigade. It
states that field uniforms will be supplied
in Cuba and hospital tents for the entire
brigade.
After the Third North Carolina goes to
Macon on Monday only one regiment of
the old division of the First brigade will
be left, the First West Virginia. Orders
for that regiment to proceed to Columbus.
Ga., are expected daily.
GENERAL LEE NOTIFIED.
Department Tells Him of Instructions ISent
to Third Georgia.
A special to the Constitution from 9a
vannalh tells of itbe orders sent the Third
'Georgia regiment to move at once. The
dispatch says the regiment will probably
remain in Savannah several days. In full,
it is as follows:
“Savannah, Ga., Nov. 18.—(Special.)—
General Fitzhugh Lee received a telegram
from the War department today stating
that the Third Georgia regiment bad been
ordered from Griffin to Savannah to camp,
pending its transfer to Cuba. General Lee
was instructed to select a camp site for
the regiment, and it will be under bis or
ders during its stay in Savannah.
“General Lee wired 'Colonel Berner to
day, mentioning the order and asking him
when he expected to bring the regiment to
Savannah. He has not heard from him
yet.
“No reports of any transports coming or
on the way to Savannah, have been re
ceived here, and the presumption is 'that
the Third Georgia will remain here In
camp for some days before embarking for
'Nuevitas, where it will go to join General
L. H. Carpenter’s brigade.
“The first shipment of the new United
States rifles for the Seventh, army corps
will arrive in Savannah tomorrow and will
be distributed to the men. on Monday.
Colonel Oscar Brown, of the Second
Georgia regiment, came down from At
lanta this morning to assist in t>e work of
mustering out the First 'battalion of h'is
regiment. He will remain in the city to
morrow to complete his part of 'the work.
Colonel Brown said that there was no
foundation for the report that there was a
chance for the Second Georgia to remain
in the service.’”
Sal.lier Notes in Ci*mp and City
Major General J. C. Bates and aide de
camp Lieutenant Reeves left last night for
Washington on important business. They
will return in a few days.
Captain Hardee, of the Third Engineers,
is in charge of moving the regiments to
their camps from the railroads, Ulis work
will be over next Wednesday, however,
and he will return to his command.
Several complaints have been made in
regard to the guard marching their pris
oners on the sidewalks when they carry
them to the camps. No attention has been
• paid to the oomplaint, however, and it is
thought by the officers that the troops do
not obstruct the sidewalks.
The Second Ohio regiment claims to
have the best football team in the South.
They say that they would like to play the
Macon team a game. The Third Engineers
claim to have a good team also and it is
improbable that a game between the two
regiments will be arranged.
All of the regiments that are here now
were paid off a few days before leaving
Knoxville and Lexington and are spending
their money freely.
All of the regiments have been worked
hard today as it is the first day since they
have been stationed here that it has not
rained. The camps of the Second Ohio
and the Tenth Immunes will be fixed up
without any trouble since it has stopped
raining.
The First Georgia regiment has been
mustered out and all of the men who live
out of the city will probably be gone by
Monday. Their camp will be turned over
to the Second Ohio.
TEMPERATURE
Os the Mediterranean Kept
William Away from
Spain.
By Associated Press.
Madrid. Nov. 18.—The Spanish govern
ment has received dispatches from Senor
Rios, president of the peace commission at
Paris, detailing the investure of Presi
dent Faure. wjth the order of the Golden
Fleece bestowed upon ‘him by the queen
regent, and giving further particulars re
garding the peace negotiatiops.
Faure conferred the grand cordon of the
legion of honor on the queen regent.
An official dispatch from Iloilo says the
situation on Vizcayas islands is less grave
than was alleged. The insurgents’ attack
on Iloiio is mentioned.
Acording to government officials here
there is no truth in the report that er
tain prelates are conspiring against the
Spanish government.
Count von Radowitz, the German am
bassador, has officially notified che Span
ish government chat Emperor William
has abandoned his Intended x-fsit to Span
insh ports, “owing to the change of tem
perature on the Mediterrean.”
FIRE AT LOUISVILLE.
By Associated Press.
Louisville. Nov. IS. —A fire this morn
ing at 611 West Main street, ocupied by
Renz Bowles & Co., wholesale drugiste,
did a damage of SIOO,OOO. with $72,000 in-
) suranee. Other losses are $15,000.
FREE QUININE
Is Recommended by the De
partment for Island of
Cuba.
By Associated Press.
Washington. Nov. 19. —The treasury de
partment has recommended to the secreta
ry of war that quinine ■be admitted into
Cuba and Porta Rico free pf duty. Under
Spanish law the duty on quinine is abput
$13.50 a pound. The war -department will
undoubtedly will concur with the treasury
recommendation.
ARRIVED AT MESSIMA.
By Associated Press.
Messina. Nov. 18. —The emperor and em
press of Germany, arrived here aud will
resume their voyage tomorrow.
MACON NEWB SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19 1898.
ALL READY FOR
OPENREVuLT.
Situation in Havana Province
is Very Serious and
Threatening.
IUH HUI UOU&
Troops and Officers Fear Him More
Than Anyone Else—Best Sol
dier in Spain’s Army.
By Associated Press.
New York, Nov. 19—A dispatch to the
Tribune from Havana says:
Havana is in a state, not of tumult,, but
‘ of unrest. The mass of the population is
not turbulent. It is as anxious as the
business men for a quiet transition from
Spanish rule to American control.
: Outside the vicious and criminal classes
■ whose numbers have unfortunately been
increasing the city dreads disorders. All
classes may be relied on to exercise self-
■ restraint and to aid the authorities. But
they do not know what the army may do
and not knowing they are feverish and ex
pectant.
It is a question with some observers,
whether trouble will yet come in Cuba or
whether the ambitious soldier politicians
will mould the troops to their purposes
and hold them in check until the return
to Spain. The proposition is not a com
plicated one. If they get a fair amount of
the back pay that is due them, the troops
will remain quiet.
That many of the battalions are ready
to mutiny is apparent. These will be the
first ones placed aboard the transports and
sent back. The evacuation is likely to be
hastened by this circumstance. The au
thorities have been slow to find pretexts
for delay, but when they themselves are
threatened if the inaction continues they
■will find it feasible to embark the troops
with some rapidity. Captain General
Blanco is himself anxious to return but he
cannot embark till the preparations for
sending back the troops in Havana prov
ince have reached a more forward step.
He is said to be urging his subordinates
to greater activity. At times there has
been a probability of a demonstration
against the captain general. That prob
ability is a diminishing one.
The hostility of the troops is now direct
ed against General Juan Arelas, the mili
tary governor of Havana province. How
deep the feeling is against him since he
cut down an “Orden publico” with his
sword cannot be judged by a person who
is not of the army. The Spanish soldiers
are sullen and undemonstrative. Their
obedience is that of dumb animals. Yet
they will forget the death of their comrade
is not believe, though there may be no
open revolt. The officers are excessively
nervous. They appear to think that the
death of the “Orden publico” will be
avenged on General Arelas.
That grim old soldier is himself the
least concerned of all. He would cut
down with his own hand every member of
the “Orden publico” if it were necessary
to maintain discipline. The “Orden pub
lico” are the flower of the Spanish troops.
Rather, it should be said, they were the
flower for as a body they have been dis
solved. Instead of being Havana’s oolice
force, they are now simply regulars in the
ranks, under the displeasure of the au
thorities, who do not dare disarm them,
and with the sympathy of their comrades.
Some of these men have toe personal
sympathy of General Arelas, who in his
Republicanism, has been cha-ged with
carlist learnings. Many of them were
cariist soldiers who in concluding a truce
with the government stipulates that, they
snould not b required to in Spam
and were therefore sent to Cuba.
Gc’if’-al Arelas himself Is one of the best
soldiers that Spain has ever sent to her
c-Nouies I. she had more like him, per
haps >xo..lcl not be jrielling her last
possessions. It is said of Arelas that the
monarchy, which was required of all the
generals and that he declares the word of
a soldier was enough to attest his loyalty.
Whether this incident is true or not, his
independence made his presence uncom
fortable in Spain and he was sent out as
governor of one of the 'Philippine islands.
Testimony to his efficiency in making
Spanish authority respected by the natives
has been given by those who were in the
Philippines at that time. It is also said
that his integrity was something the other
Spapish officials could not understand.
General Arelas arrived in rfava ta on the
afternoon of the day in January on which
the army officers precipitated the riots
against autonomy.
The officers feared him far more than
Blanco. He took immediate command of
the military forces. During the day ; that
followed he himself led many charges
against the rioters, sometimes on horse
back and some times on foot. He never
failed to clear the streets. He would rush
among a group of rioters, beat them -with
his sword and send them flying. Fre
quently the mob would tire of crying
“death to autonomy,” “death to Blanco,”
and would roar, “long live Arelas.” Then
Arelas would reply with a string of vigor
ous oaths and would scatter the rioters.
He had genpine popularity with the Ha
vana populace. It difl npj; quail before
him. but it yielded to the general who
could abuse it so heartily. In spite of his
roughness General Arelas was also popular
with his soldiers.
ASSASSINATION
Os the Ex-King of Servla At
tempted on Two Oc
casions.
By Associated Press.
London, Nov. 18. —A special dispatch
from Bucharest says that two attempts
were made recently upon the life of the
ex-king of Milan of Servia.
It appears that on a train a number of
peasants attacked the fprpier king’s oar
With pistnls and stopes, smasheq tbe win
dows and wounded some members of his
suite. Later, at Nice, a man dressed as
a student and armed with a revolver en
tered the king’s bed room, but was ar
rested before he could attack the ex-king.
GRESHAM MEMORIAL
Hospital Will Be Opened by the First of
January,
Judge T. B. Gresham, of Baltimore, the
donator of the Gresham Memorial Hospi
tal, which is now under constrnotion, was
In the city Thursday. He left yeaterday
for Sparta, but will return to Macon to
morrow.
While here he will be shown the hospi
tal building, which, during the past few
weeks has been going up rapidly, and will
be completed by the first of January.
Judge has cot peea ia the eit£ la
some time and has not yet seen the build
ing which is to bear his mime. The build
ing w«hen ornupleted will be one of the
handsomest in the city.
A large force of hands 'have been at
work on it for the past two weeks and the
Hospital Association, which has the work
in dharge, hopes to have t'he work com
pleted by the first of January.
No arrangements have been made yet
for the dedication services. Mr. Campbell
King, in speaking of the matter this
morning said that the exact rime had not
■been set, but he thought that it would
probably be some time in January. He
said that the exerehses would be very sim
ple and that he did not know yet just what
the exercises would consist of.
With the new hospital the city will have
ample room to accommodate about fifty
patients, and there will a 100 'be rooms lor
people who wish private treatment.
SUNRISE MEETING
Will Be Held at Centenary Church Tomorrow
Morn ns.
In connection with the series of inter
esting anniversary exercises of Centenary
•Methodist church, which are to be held in
the church tomorrow, the Macon Union
of Epworth Leagues will hold a sunrise
prayer service, beginning promtply at 6
o’clock, which will be conducted by Miss
Mary Cullen White, of Hawkinsville. Ga.
Miss White 'is the second vice president
of the Georgia State Epworth League, an
enthusiastic Epworth Leaguer and a
young lady of great versatility of talent,
which bespeaks an interesting and helpful
meeting. The publiic generally is invited.
GOOD RECORD
Made on the Health of the Troops in Phil
pines.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 19.—The ronowing
has been received by the war ttepartmeit:
Manila, Nov. 19. Adfutant General.
Washington, D. C.—The following deatns
(have occurred since the last report:
Jay A. Smi'th. private, company G, ot
First South Dakota, of .apoplexy toHowung
(malarial fever.
(Signed.) Otis.
The war department officials say the re
port showing such a small death rate
among the soldiers is extremely gratify
ing and indicates the improved condition
of Manila.
That only one death should occur in
20,000 tropos in a week or ten days is very
surprising. The department 'believes that
there has been a great improvement dm 'the
health conditions of th Philippines.
ANNIVERSARY DAY
At Centenary—A Full Program, Beginning
With Sunrise Service.
Tomorrow will be celebrated as anni
versary Sunday by the church and Sabbath
School at Centenary. The year just clos
ing has been a very prosperous one with
thlis church and the services of the day are
likely to be of a Thanksgiving character.
The church has been beautifully decora
ted by a committee of ladies under the di
rection of Mrs. W. F. Elder. The day be
gins with a sunhise prayer meeting led by
Miss White and Mrs. Watts, of Hawkins-
Ville, Mr. Bussey, of Sycamore, and other
visiting leaguers. At 9:45 class meeting—
live expressions from live Christians. At
11 a. m. anniversary sermon by Dr. J. W.
Roberts, of Wesleyan; 3 p. m. Birthday
Service of Sunday 'school; 7:30 p. m. con
secration service,
morFdelay
May Be Made Necessarv in
Paris Negotiations,
By Associated Press.
Paris, Nov. 19. —The American .peace
commissioners today have been closely en
gaged in formulating the terms pf an im
portant communlicatipn Jo be made to the
Spanish commissioners next week.
It is impossible at present, however, to
determine whether the work will be com
pleted for presentation on Monday or
Tuesday, thaough it 'is believed the Amer
icans will be ready on Monday. .
While the Americans fully appreciate
the necessity for making progress, they
are also under the necessity of taking very
great care of the preparation of whalt may
■possibly be the conclusive record in these
negotiations. The Spanish commissioners
consumed a week in the preparation of
the last memorandum, but the Americaps
will not require so long a tipie, and 'at
present the c}elay will ujtiipatfly prove to
have peep advantageous.
arbYtratFon
Is Suggested bv the Spaniards
on the Protocol Clause.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 19.—1 t was not until
a late hour last evening that the last par
agraph of the long translation of the
Spanish reply which was presented to the
American peace commissioners last Wed
nesday was deciphered at the state de
partment, and most of the members’of the
eabSpet wepe not aware of the full con
tents of the document urttil today, when
they were called to the White House.
It appeared that in addition to the long
argument which intended tp show thpt
word “Disposition” used In tq
the Philippines megny eqnjet|ppg e|sp, th?
Spanish note djtj ipeluqe 4 preposition to
submit the Philippines clause of the prpc
toeel to the interpretation of an arbitrator,
Another cablegram followed 'the first
long message at this time directly from
Judge Day, seeking instructions definitely
on some points to be made in the Ameri
can answer. These Instructions have been
sent forward, and it may be stated thait
they are precisely in line with the policy
the American commissioners are pursuing,
up to this point.
Mr. Day made no mention of any in
tention on the part of the comrpi>slon tq
adjourn thedr session gelt for today with
out transacting any business, but in v4ew
gs the fact that final instructions were
pcpt so recently a? to afford insufficient
time for putting them In form, u is be
lieved to be probable that nothing will be
done at today’s session.
There are several matters of real impor
tance though not ranking with the Philip
pine question, to be treated by the com
missioners, but the Instructions to the
Americans is net to call up these at the
present, or until the main pending issue
relative to the Philippines has been set
tled, in order to avoid complicating the
proceedings.
In the event that the commissioners dis
agree totally at their next meeting on the
Philippines, there will be no discussion erf
any of these subsidiary questions, but In
the other event, namely, that the agree
ment be reached in the Philippine dispo
sition of these matters may be expected to
consume at least one of two additional
sessions. One of these subjects concerns
the restoration of trade relations between
j Spain aad the United States.
DUR STATE S
FINANCES.
1
■ Governor Atkinson Takes a Turn
at it and Gives Some
Advice.
f
EASILYjIANDLED
He Says, and There Need Be
No Great and Wholesale
Retrenchment.
TALKS 01 THE TM DODGERS
Who Are, No Doubt, He Says, Re
sponsible for a Good Part of the
Trouble in State Treasury.
By Associated Press.
Atlanta,Nov.l9 —‘In view of the fact that
ex-Governor Northen has given his views
upon the state’s finances the Journal ask
edex-Governor Atkinson to discuss the
question with which the legislature is
now. wrestling.
“What do you think should be the
plan adopted by the general assembly in
dealing with financial legislation for (he
next two years?”
“There is nothing in the present finan
cial status of the state to make any one
nervous who understands what t'he con
dition really is. The problem presented
is not more difficult than others which
have been presented and solved by every
general assembly for twenty years. I am
willing to discuss the question from the
standpoint of the citizen and the taxpayer
if it is thought that by so doing I can aid
in disclosing the exact condition of our
finances and pointing out the proper legis
lative policy. In dealing with financial
problems we should carefully avoid sen
sationalism and deal with facts. The ef
fort which has the support of such power
ful influences to reduce the school fund
$400,000 should fail.
“The highly sensational manner in
which the state’s financial condition is
being discussed, and the exaggerated
statements which are being made will, I
think, warrant the conclusion that there
is a determined effort to wage war upon
Confederate pensioners and common
schools, and induce legislation tinirleiuiiy
to these interests Which could not be se
cured by fair discussion and a full state
ment of the facts. The method of dis
cussion adopted by some is unfair and un
just to the members of the "eneral as
sembly which have proposed and passed
our present laws on finance.
“The discussion started with the pro
position 'that there was a deficit in the
treasury of one and a half million dol
lars. Than the fact came out that the
state had met every appropriation and
every obligation, had $275,000 on hand
now, and would have, hr ter paying the
amounts appropriated for the balance of
this year, nearly three-quarters of a mil
lion dollars. Since the appearance of
these facts the discoverers of the one and
a half million dollar deficit haye disap
peared.
“It -was then claimed that because the
treasurer had submitted an estimate of
receipts and expenditures in 'whjoh it ap
peared that to pay the suggested appro
priation would require an Increase of the
'tax rate that, therefore, there was a de
ficit in the treasury.
“It is at once seen that this imaginary
deficit was the result of imaginary legis
lation, that the general assembly might or
might not make the appropriations sug
gested in the treasurer’s estimate, that it
would certainly not appropriate more than
the sum it would require to be paid into
the treasury, and that this estimate of the
treasurer for 1899 included about $200,000
more than was actually spent during the
last year of my administration. Haying
abandoned the claim that there was a de
ficit of one and one-half million’ dollars
in a treasury which had paid every claim,
and had now on hand two hundred and
fifteen thousand in cash, it is now said
that there will be an eighty thousand dol
lar deficit after paying qll elahps tp July
1, 1899. To find even this alleged deficit of
eighty-four thousand in midsumer, at the
time of the year when the treasury is the
poorest, there has been included in the es
timate of the amounts to be drawn out of
in addition to the amount of regular ap
propriations made for 1898, which have
not been and may not be made, and $267,-
350 aditional, which is not payable until
after that time. This does not take into
account a number of other items which
should be and by the general assembly
doubtless will be changed.
“The question as to how to meet fu
ture appropriations which may be mad«
by the present general assembly mw be
met by that body. The generis as .sembl v
must determine for itself ipr’ what pur
poses it will appropriations, what
amounts, jpd h\>w to raise the money to
meet such appropriations as they become
due, The amount of appropriations must:
be determined on the merits of each pro-'
posed expenditure. That we may levy the
lowest possible tax rate. not one dollar
should be refused Wh|oh ft is the duty of
the state (q PPiHe, o.r by making which
we piay promote the public good to an
extent which will justify the expenditure
df the amount invested. The advocates of
the policy of carrying Urge amounts in
the treasury ip excess of the amount ac
tually needed are at variance with sound
business methods and with the settled
policy of this state. The state receives no
money other than what is paid by its
citizens, and not a dollar should be tak
from them any sooner than the
che state demands. It has Lot h ~
S. 0 ' ,hI VT e “ p ' ; » up’in.n,
o lara or which it naj! no ne€f } > or
bi >t n, Uee<J ln ne4r fut hre. To nile up
IB the treasury on January 1 of each' year
enough money to pay all appropriations
and obligations of the state for the entire
year would be to deprive the citizen of
the use of his money to fatten the bank*
as they alone could profit by such a pol
icy. The business man who would on
January 1 withdraw* from his business
and hold in reserve all the money which
would be needed to pay his expenses and
taeet his obligations for the entire year
would b sent to the asylum. As near as
practicable money shuold be allowed to
remain in the pockets of the people until
Under an ideal tax system the state’s ma
turing obligation and the dollar to. pay it
would meet as they came into the treas
ury.
Do you think there is a necessity for
legislation to so adjust our finances that
a temporary loan in summer when there
« no large revenue coming into the treas
ury can be avoided'*"
“This was eveident to members of th*
general assembly when the plan of the
legislature to raise $400,000 to advance to
the succeeding year to pay teachers
failed because of a defect in the act. Full
information of the condition of the treas
ury was transmitted to me by the general
assembly. The statement in my message
that it had been necessary to borrow
$300,000, and the transmission to the gen
eral assembly of the treasurer’s report,
gning receipts and expenditures for the
of reeV i r Xr W " S dnd ,able of "Smales
...ehJ ? ,f 114 expenditures for 1899, fur
wi'h 1 Wh* I, lllforn,a,i °n of B condition
with which, 1 believed then and
now believe, the members of the general
assembly muirely capable of daling
k?. . ’ the Purpose of the general
assembly in is 96, when it provided for
increasing the school fund for 1898 $406
000 to raise the first $400,000 in 1897 to be
Pa.’.d out un the school fund of 1898?”
r -V is what jt attempted to do,
d the failure to do this presents to this
general assembly he duty of dealing with
a -condition resulting therefrom. The
in its tax act - Provideel
tot a levj of 214 mills for the school fund
ea J? h lh “ calculating
that ri u would bring into the state ireas
ur.v one million dollars in 1897 and one
million doilars in 1898. As it appropriated
only $(>00,000 for the year»lß97. it was
their idea to have the $400,000 excess rais
n.in l 2 > " Sed il ‘ IS9S * hav « she $400,-
raiseJ 111 1898 go over to the credit of
the treasury for use in 1899. It over
e faCt tJlat under The law * “nless
1 b aut hoHzed to do otherwise, the
ts' y for 1897 w °uld have to lie so fixed
iy he governor and comptroller-general
* to taise the amount appropriated for
that year only. This special authority
non f l s eD ’ 1?or this reason onl >’ ♦6OO--
000 could be levied in 1897 for the school
rund, and on account of this omission or
defect the $400,000 taxes which
is purposed to be raised in 1597
could not be collected. Therefore, when
the million dollar appropriation went into
effect m 1898 we did not have this $400.-
100, which it was expected would be
brought over from 1897, and were com
pelled to use the $400,000 collect.* 1 m 1898.
; ei / legislative scheme failed, its
u - x>n finances of the state were
readily foreseen'. The power, however
to remedy this, after the law ha.d gone
Vino P , roviding for Paying <”H the
$400,000 additional for schools, was in the
general assembly alone and there was
power nowherfe else to apply the remedy.
The members of the general assembly at
its second session In 1897 had knowledge
of the ineffectiveness of their attempted
tax levy for the extra $400,000 for that
year, and the plan was proposed to avert
coming trouble by a repeal of the
$400,000 for 1898. This, however, was not
done, presumably because it preferred to
leave to their successors the responsibil
ity of applying the remedy. This con
dition does not, however, affect the ques
tion of how to fix a tax rate to raise the
amounts appropriated by this general as
sembly for 1899. The amount of money
it. appropriated will determine the rate
of tax levy necessary to raise it. This
condition does, however, seriously affect
the question of whether or not the revenue
raised, even though sufficient to meet the
year’s expenses, will enable the state to
avoid a loan or a delay in the payment of
some of its obligations until taxes are
collected."
Has the failure of the legislative
scheme to collect the $400,000 in *1897 for
ue.e this year been the cause of any em
barrassment during the year?”
“Yes; the first difficulty oresented by
the failure to put into 4he treasury the
$400,000 which the legislature expected to
raise in 1897 to be paid out in 1898 had to
be met by the governor 'When the third
quarterly payment for feachers became
w due in July last. ‘While there was an in
creased amount to come into the treasury
from the direct tax, it could not reach it
until the latter part of the year. Not
! withstanding this amount was $400,000, it
was only necessary when informed by the
treasurer’s letter of the necessity for a
loan, to borrow $200,000 in anticipation of
half the increased appropriation which
was to be placed in the treasury as the
direct tax came in. As the public already
knows. I borrbwed the money for the
purpose of paying the teachers the $200,-
000, at 2'4 percent., and the banks, having
the sinking fyqd on deposit, paid interest
on $100,Q0« of this $200,00. The state paid
the_interest on only one 'hundred thou
sand at the rate,of 2*s. perocy/. per °n
num for five months only, iiils is the
manner in which the first difficulty was
met. The general assembly can now pro
vide against future embarrassment grow
ing out of the failure of the legislative
plan to pay the $400,000 into the treasury
the year before it is to be used in pay
ment of teachers.
“I suggest that the following correc
tions should be made in the estimate of
the treasure of receipts to July 1. The
estimated receipts should he increased to
the following amounts: Fertilizer lees,
which can be placed in treasury before
July 1, sub,ooo; insurance tax, $27,000;
which the comptroller says can be put in
treasury by July 1, and $14,236.33 from li
quor tax.
“The estimated expenditures should be
decreased to the folowing amounts: Mil
itary fund, $10,o0o; penitentiary appropri
ation, $55,000; special appropriation, SIOO,-
000. Salaries of officers Which are not
paid before July 1, but on and after that
date, and therefore, havh no place in this
estimate, $35,000; public institutions, $62,-
350, which is a full estimate of the
amounts due up to October 1, and is du
ring this season of the year paid monthly.
These sums and the publie debt should
be deducted, because they are payable in
and, chargable to the quarter beginning
(Continued ot> page.)
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•DAY OF DOOM
' FOR ENGLAND
e
Is Approaching in the Opin
j ion of a Foolish French
Newspaper.
p
j
; UNITED STATES AND EUROPE
S
e
I Will Crush the Little Island Be
r
’• tween Them, Says the Angry
! Frenchman.
I
I
> By Associated Press.
* Paris. Nov. 18.—The Rappell today,
’ threatening Great Britain with French
hostilities in the future says:
. "The of Great Britain in the
> Fashoda question have irritated Europe
. and excited the appetite of the - United
! States.
, England and America can scarcely con
, tinue to agree. Canada is a very tempt
ing morsel, and then Jamaea. British
Guiana and Cape Decade; hence Great
, Britain will be caught between Europe
and the United Stales and that day will
be Great Britain’s death.” 4
KILLED A SOLDIER.
)
Natives at Manila Engage in
a Disoute and Fight
Follows.
By Associated Press.
Manila, iNov. 19.—Three Filipino natives
last night hired a carriage and afterwards
engaged in a dispute with the driver re
garding t'he fare.
St>me members of the American military
force attempted to arrest the natives, but
the latter resHsted, and Sergeant Price, of
the 'Minnesota regiment, was stabbed and
killed.
Three other American soldiers. iMaher,
Hoyt and Montgomery. Maher shot one of
the natives dead. The others w r ere arres
ted. ,
The Spanish cruisers Isla de Cuba and
Isla de Luzon, sunk during the battle of
Manilla, have been floated and docked at
Cavite. The United States revenue cutter
McCullough has left Manila on the way
’ home.
The Philippine provinces suffered from
the severest typhoon in years. Malaylos,
the headquarters of Aguinaldo, was dam
aged and many villages were destroyed.
The merchants of this city have decided
to establish a chamber of commerce,
which, iby Spanish law, they were pre
viously precluded from doing.
CRIMINAL OOCKLI
Will Be Taken Up in the Superior Court on
Monday.
The criminal docket will be taken up in
the superior court on Monday morning.
The cases set for Monday are as follows:
Hollis McDonald, burglary, three cases.
Homer Lord, burglary, Will Green, burg
lary, George Bryant, burglary, George
Wilson, burglary, Lee Kitchens, simple
larceny; Homer Franklin, assault with in
tent to murder; John Irwin, shooting at
another; John Dixon, assault with intent
to murder.
The case against John Stevens, new trial
for the murder of James Kershaw, is set
for the ,28th.
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