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OPPOSES CHANGE
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silted that the railroads, rate bill
should be amended so M to give It
some chance ot standing the test of
constitutionality in the courts.
Though the defenders ot the consti
tution Anally obtained some of the
amendments they sought, until a test
case has been passed upon by the
Supreme Court, It will be an open
question as to -whether the rate law
Is valid, and this In spite of the fact
that a more effective and absolutely
constitutional law could have been
enacted If the President, who Is not
a lawyer, had npt Insisted on his own
particular plan being followed.
Judge Dickinson’s note of warning
came none too soon, for the admin
istration 1b not only counseling
change In the Constitution by the
courts In the abstract, but is endeav
oring to Influence the courts In con-,
crete instances, as we
special attorneys from the Depart
ment of Justice were sent to Unltted
States Courts In Tennessee and Ken
tucky to Instruct the judges as to
the constitutionality of the employ
ers’ liability act In cscesf In which
Atlanta, Jan. 24—A resolution call-
VALDOSTA, GA« SATURDAY,
Farmers Union
Fixed for Cotton This
Ing upon the next annual convention
to fix a minimum price for ootton was
the feature of yeeterday’s session of
the National Farmers’ Union In eee-;tir--*®
elon here A resolution Was passed
the Brownsville affair,
NOjjWEST POINT ASPIRANTS.
Young mee of this dlet«l$f are not
anxious
naming P. F. Parker, of Alabama as ff fBr ‘ho pis?
general supervisor of agents, and au- S^P^rthiJr^F
Fair street,!
general supervisor of agents,
thorlzlng him to call a meeting.
TO ENLIST MORE NEGRO
Orders have been received by
Atlanta recruiting office to enlfi
number of negroes to take the
IAMONDS.
Mr., Arthur F. Densett, of 210
West Fair streetAwm robbed of dia
monds to the value of $1,000 yester.
j day. The robbery /ccurred In daylight
j and A n,a 1 n Who bearded at
velt in New York Speech.
An Able Reply to the Poeltion That
Root and Roosevelt Have Taken In
Regard to the Construction of the
Constitution—He 8ays That Many
Republicans Oppose the Position of
the President.
Washington, Jan. 23—Judge J. M.
Dickinson’s recent speech before the
New Tork State Bar Association on
“Centralization by Construction and
Interpretation of the Constitution’’ .. ,
baa attracted a great dead of atten- the Unlto ? St ?*“ Tfi,” wrL bn/
tion In Washington. It Is universally tto benct "that ^d«s McCktil "• vra. .rrsaom es»ruay
looked upon here as by far the most""' 016 b “ ct V that Judges McCall *■ . w| . h 7 „ eluded road, where
.able reply that has yet been made and Evans had the conr **« to reslst ,<,rn0 ° n A ia“*‘» eh * r fl e « the ^ ^ Thai—
■ to the proposition advanced by Pres-.. thla eTecu ° Te “ d . ,J? at murd,r of hI * br# * ,r ’ J(>hn Moore ’ exeftemenf.
y<fent Roosevelt and Secretary of State ! ,udge ETan * rebukea W odmlolstra- WM f 0U nd dead in the road three A , the time
^|> Mlb*"disappeared at
of those discharged from the Twenty-j the same, tin i I. suspected. Offlcere
fifth Infantry by President' Roe.eeveltM^WHp|fe • ,'im^fcj^^.^^—
Thomas H. Moore An .ted
for Murder of
Waynesboro, Ga., Jan. 84—Thomas years. Four bullet, had teen fired In-
H. Moore wai arrested eaterday af- to th » n»n «»«> ‘ha body left In a so-
found the
Root that the plain language of the
titntloo that “the powers, not del
egated to the United States by the
constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the states, are reserved to the states,
respectively or to-the people,’’ should
be i disregarded and that the
t I ^Bmshould construe as oonstltu-
8 wJ* acts of congress outside of the
- delegated powers, or Invading those
expressly reserved to the states. It
•IgkhaHBg. the effect ot directing the
attention of thinking men ot both par
ties In congress to the danger of pres
ent tendencies In the legislative
branch of the government as well as
In tho erecutive branch.
It Is not probable that m;
of either bouse
go as far
It and Secretary RootT la favoring
radical changes In tho form of gov
ernment by /Judicial construction, but
It la a fact, .a# pointed out by Judge
Dickinson, tfmt there Is now little
consideration , by congress of ques
tions ad to | the constitutionality of
proposed laws, and there is marked
Impatience with any senator or rep
tion from the bench. ' miles from Keysvllle on last Thur«- Moor* was
As Judfeo Dickinson indicated in mepni ,-m,a-strat.
his speech -there Is no division along ' ‘ Daggett, I. s( ^
party Hue, on this question of oen- ^ „ S. *
trallzatlon by Judicial construction. * **
It is strongly opposed.by many Re-
publicans and, strange aa t It may.
seem, It Is advocated by some Dem
ocrats who profess to be followers of
Thomas Jefferson. In fact, the most
revolutionary proposition that has yet
been put forward came from a Dem
ocrat—Representative DoArmond, of
Mleeoqrt.v’. Hta bill proposing to
authorize the President, at will, to
remove any United States Judge
might weir be entitled “A Bill to Es
tablish the Empire,” as it would
make the juitidaM
servient jto t!/ • IV'Mtli such
law <$i the ‘.tatute
Judge Evans have dared- to tpl
the aafhlnlstrattanr aaA how
hare W n permlttod to re-
the beif j he bad?
Freight Wreiked at Barney.
The south bound freight train from
Adel to Quitman, on the South Geor-
resentatlvo who presumes to question gia, was wrecked at Barney Monday
whether any measure supported by 1 morning by running Into a car of
a majority' in congress and supposed coal. Three cars and the caboose
to be advocated by popular opinion Is were derailed. No one was Injured.
constitutional or not. The tendency
pn the part of men m both bouses Is
Ajk yteld to popular Olamor and vote
for bills that are on their face of
.doubtful constitutionality and then
leave the courts to discharge the un
popular duty of declaring them void.
gRjP Illustration of this was afforded
M the last session of congress when
the followers of the president denounc
ed am) branded as obstructionists and
A car load of coal was scattered for
yards around, two cars were badly
masbed up and a few hours delay In
traffic was about all the damage.—
Quitman Advertiser.
If the Louisiana State Lottery
bad been a northern Instead of a
southern Institution, It might have
had Influences behind it as powerful
as the New York Cotton Exchange
railroad attorneys every man who In- has.
John Moore, carried life Irtsi
to the amount of $3,000. The
Joe Daggett, has made a partial
faalon... A preliminary hearing
be tomorrow.
The murder was ono of the fouleet Is profeeeedly veil
committed In this vicinity In m/any arrest
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Negro Hanged to a Bj
Jackson, Miss., Jail. 24—I rtf on
reached here tonight
negro, wa«. lynch
ell,
fast night
anA txow ’ long that place some months ago and
Ai$ been In the Greenville jail for
aafe keeping. 't^tt night he arrived
ie negro assaulted .Alrj. ,
hat place some months a
Pres. Finley on Improvements.
Atlanta, Jan. iJ4.—’Tha continual
cutting down of our revenue. will In
terfere with our Installing safety ap
pliances,” said Prasldant W, W. Fin
ley, of the 8outhem Railway yeater-
day, In Atlanta. “We will adopt ev
ery safety appliance poealble to pre
vent wrecks, but tha cutting down of
our ratea la liable tt cripple our rev
enues to that It will be Impossible to
go on with the work aa fast aa we
•hould like.”
President Flnley’e predecessor Sam
uel Spencer, was killed In a wreck
on hie own road last Thanksgiving
day, It will be remembered.
Train Plunges Through Bridge.
Marietta, Ohio-, Jan. 24,r-The high water in the Ohio river
caused a Baltimore and Ohio railroad freight train to plunge
through a bridge apd the entire train was wrecked late last night,
All of the train prey wag killed.
and are now In Jail.
. It la thought tha woundad man will
dlt before morning.
Non. of th. •herlff’s poets wae In
jured.
When th. men were lurched b*
tween $3,000 and $4,000 was found
In their packets, i
Cask Staves Advanced.
The Increase In the price of naval
stores cask staves Is exciting some
Interest among the naval stores peo
ple of Savannah. White oak staves
from Arkansas or Kentucky where
the most acceptable ones come from
havo gone up In prloe fully one hun
dred per cent within tho past few
days. Excessive rains In tins states
mentioned la given aa the canse.
.turns
r ho was pfll«\4‘tf a i.. n i;if
Jain In Now York, by a |i!arir~flrn| :
which he waa indebted, lias ret-
od home. He is very indignant
bis arrest and declares -that as
as the cue I. adjusted he will bill
suit against those responsible for h
incarceration. He snys nSsocuse:
became angry because - be "propos.
to deal with another concern and
they caused his arreet at a time when
ho was unable to
“It was Just ns If I had
In Jail on a ball In trover
lng in Georgia,” he says, “when I
waa given no opportunity to deliver
tho article demanded
After a’ gtrrSutFBmrrfed and
homo she site up and takes noth
ory time hor parents buy an
Ivo drew tor the daughter
home.
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