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INCDNGRESS
ENDURED
FATE OF BILLS AND VOTES OF
CONSTITUENTS BRING MUCH
WORRY TO SENATORS AND
CONGRESSMEN.
WASHINGTON. May SI.-These are anx
k>u» days for those members of congress
who are in doubt as to their re-eiectlon.
and are uncertain as to the fate of certain
appropriation bl Us in which they have an
individual interest. •
The river and harbor, the public build
ings and the sundry civil bills have pass
ed both houses of congress, but are still
in tbe hands of the conference committee,
empowered to make such changes as may
seem beet for the interests of the coun
try. The conference on these important
money Mils weild a powerful influence at
this period of the session, and It is amus
ing to observe the deference shown by
those members who have “pieces of pie '
in the legislative closet.
Some of tbe big money bills are being
purposely held back to oe used in in
fluencing Republican bolters on the Cuban
reciprocity question. Some of the most
boisy opponents of this bill have very
vital Interests in the river and harbor
and tn the public buildings bills. In con
ference it is expected that some items will
have to be sacrificed in order to get an
agreement between the two houses. The
leaders In the senate and house are watch
ing the situation and developments very
closely and they are aware that party dis
cipline can be effectively employed in a
number of Instances for the good of the
administration, and witnout doubt this
whip will be used to get the members into
bne.
Quite a tempest tn a teapot was created
tn Washington this week, when the order
was sent forth by the secretary of war
authorising Chief Clerk Scofield to sign
curtain papers, in his stead during the
temporary absence of hrmself or the as
sistant secretary. This has been wired
ertr the country as another method of
bounding Lieutenant General Miles. As a
matter of fact it is only the revival of an
old custom under which Chief Clerk Twee
dale. Mr. Scofield’s predecessor, was again
and again made responsible for the routine
business of the departrment during the
abaence of Lincoln. Proctor and others.
These orders are all on file at the depart
ment and number as many in a single
year.
The first and only sign of the adjourn
ment of congress during present session
was the passage late Tuesday afternoon
by the house of a resolution prohibiting
tbe sale in the house restaurant of any
alcoholic liquors or wines or beers.
The resolution in question was introduc
ed by representative ladies of Indiana at
the suggestion of Representative Joy. of
Missouri, and was warmly supported by
Charles Littlefield, of the W. C. T. U.,
of Rockland. Me- It passed by a vote of
US to M.
The minority report of the committee on
inter-oceanic canals has been prepared by
Senator Kittenredge. of South Dakota, and
it is a long argument in favor of the Pan
ama route and the Spooner amendment
to the Hepburn bill.
.The Spooner amendment proposes that
Che president be authorised to purchase
the Panama canal and to complete the
construction of It; but if that route is
found to be impracticable or title of tbe
Panama company such as cannot be trans
ferred to the United States, the president
is given authority to construct the canal
by the Nicaragua route. The minority
have accepted that amendment as tbe one
for which they will make their fight in
the senate. Their report will deal with the
advantage of the Panama route and the
disadvantage of the Nicaragua route.
The probabilities now are that congress
will not adjourn before the first of Au
gust. The PI hl It ppi ne civil government
bill may not be brought to a vote in the
senate for two weeks. The debate on the
bill has now continued tor a month and
only two senators. Lodge and Dolliver,
have discussed the bill on its merits. Most
of the speeches from the opposition to
the administration have been denuncia
tions of the army. It looks now as if
the Democrats propose to keep congress
In session all summer, while they look
about for material for a political issue
for the campaign this fall. Should they
fall to find one in the Philippines they
will turn their attention to Cuba.
INJUHCTiOHSTOPS
WORK ONJAILBOJO
POLICEMEN PATROL BIRMINGHAM
STREETS TO PREVENT THE
LAYING OF RAILROAD
TRACKS. t I
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. June I—The rail
road war between the Birmingham Belt
and the Seaboard Air Line has now got
ten to the injunction stage, both sides be
ing stopped for the time being from lay
ing track. The streets on which the Sea
board Air Line has had franchises grant
ed by the city and the county are still
patrolled by policemen to prevent the belt
from laying tracks. When the Seaboard
Air Line commenced to lay tracks the
belt enjoined it and a counter injunction
followed. It is not apprehended that the
injunction war will amount to anything
more than a delay, as the Seaboard's
franchises* are said to be invincible. The
difficulty, by common consent, seems to be
in regard to the price the Seaboard shall
nay for the belt. It is understood that
Mr. H. M. Atkinson wants 51.000.000 for it
■nd that President Williams of the Sea
board. is endeavoring to make better
terms
j. HENRY BARROWS,
OF IS DEAD
OBERLIN, Ohio. June J—President John
Henry Barraws, of Oberlin college, died
at 2:50 o'clock this morning.
Dr. John Henry Barrows was born in
Medins. Mich.. July L 1847. was graduated
from Olivet< college In 1867; his theological
training was obtained in Tale. Union and
Andover seminaries. He preached In
Springfield. and Lawrence and
Boston. Mass.; he was pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Chicago for 15
years In 1893 Dr. Barrows was the or
ganiser and president of the world's par
liament of religions held during the
world's fair. In November, 189 S. he was
elected president of Oberlin college. Du
ring his incumbency as president the in
stitution has prospered greatly.
Mrs. Barrow, three daughters and a son
survive him.
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To He at the point of death for months,
to be told by the physician that there is
no hope for recovery and then to be re
stored to health and strength by Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, was
the experience of Mrs. W. H. Wake, of
No. 84 Broad street, Rahway. N. J. To look
at her now one would thiijk it hard
ly possible that she had ever had a seri
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“About three years ago I was In a con
dition generally known as run-down. I
was miserable indeed; lifeless and lan
guid. 1 had np strength at all. all de-,
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nervous and could not sleep. What was
worse I u.d not Improve, and my weight
went down from 135 pounds to 96. I was
under the care of a physician for thirteen
months but still I grew’ worse. He said
my blood had almost turned to water. I
was so weak I was obliged to lie down all
the time: If I tried to stand up or even sit
up I would faint away.
"Finally the doctor told me that un
less I began to get better within two
weeks I was doomed to quick consump
tion. Then I gave up all hope.
“But about this time a friend, who
knew something of Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills for Pale People, avlsed me to try
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third box. I began to fee! better. I con
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recommend them.”
The disease from which Mrs. "Wake
suffered was anaemia. It is character
ised by a palld complexion, pale lips, dull
eyes, tongue and gums bloodless; 'short
ened breath on slight exertion—such as
going upstairs: palpitation of the heart,
feeling of impending death. weakness,
loss of appetite and ambition: irregular
ity and pain in, the natural functions of
women.
i The one remedy that has proved itself
a specific for anaemia Is Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills for Pale People. They are sold
at 50 cents a box or six bores for $2.50,
and may be had of all druggists or direct
by mail from Dr. 'Williams’ Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
HOftSTOfuTSIBMY
WILL BE WAB CRY
. THIS FALL
9 r
BUT REPUBLICANS WILL USE IT
IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST DEM
OCRATIC NOMI- '
NEES.
WASHINGTON, June I—The Republi
can campaign managers and party leaders
believe they have secured an excellent
campaign cry from the Democratic utter
ances during the six weeks' debate in the'
senate on the Philippine civil government
bUI. Already they have begun to shout
the text: "Democrats have slandered the
army in the field.”
It will be interesting to watch the de
velopment of this Republican trick, for It
illustrates not only the methods the Re
publicans use to gain their victories, but
also their everlasting vigilance and their
ability to make political capital out of
nothing.
The Democrats, led by Patterson, . of*
Colorado, Rawlins, of Utah, and Carmack,
of Tennessee, have frequently used In the
debate Instances of cruelty practiced on
the Filipinos by American soldiers, but in
every Instance they have been careful to
protect the army as a whole from the
charge of unnecessary cruelty. They
have maintained that the boys W’ho are
fighting for the flag on the other side of
the world are not responsible for the in
human brutality which has marked so
many cases of punishment of Filipino
prisoners and have frequently declared
that the officers, not tbe men, are the
ones to whom the guilt attaches. Their
purpose in ringing in the instances of
cruelty was to show that the policy of
the administration in pacifying the islands
was neither just nor right, and should not
be continued indefinitely as the Republi
can bill under discussion proposed.
This kind of argument by the Democrats
cut the Republicans deep and before it
had been in progress two days tbe Repub
lican leaders experienced a sensation sim
ilar In effect to heart disease. They hur
riedly got together and mapped out a plan
to cjfeck the Democratic advances. In
stead of remaining silent as they had
planned at first, they put up their best
speakers and sought to stem the tide by
adroitly twisting the Democratic monou
vers into an attack on the whole army.
Thlg plar of the Republicans was vigor
ously started out by Lodge and carried
on by Spooner. Finally President Roose
velt himself took occasion at Arlington on
Decoration day to defend the army from
an attack which had never been made.
Spooner, the beat debater on the Republi
can side, drew a wonderful word picture
of our army fighting 8.000 miles away while
the Democrats In the senate, he declared,
stood slandering and vililtying every man
in uniform across the Pacific. His words
were so affecting that hundred of his
friends who had gathered in the galleries
to hear his speech cheered him as he made
up his case against colleagues across
‘the aisle who on that very day had stood
at their desks and proclaimed the honor
and courage of the American soldier. t
The president’s speech and Spooner’s
speech will be printed and spread broad
cast in every close district this fall. It Is
said that 10,000 are now on the press for
distribution in districts where the Phllli
plne regtmenu were recruited. It can
readily be seen what the effect would be
if the Democrats failed to meet the Re
publican charge as set forth In the
speeches.
But the Democrats are not asleep. They
have elected their campaign committee
with a view to meeting just this charac
ter of campaign. For every Republican
speech sent Into the close districts a Dem
ocratic speech exposing the falsity of the
Republican charge will be there to greet
it. Wherever the battle cry "Slandered
Army” is raised, another will echo from
the Democratic stump: "Brave Army, but
Brutal Orders!"
With this trick of the Republicans, and
the others they have up their sleeves—
such as the president’s attack on the beef
trust and the agitation to lower the tariff
rates, both of which are pretty bunco
games—tbe campaign promises to be ex
ceedingly lively. Both parties are deter
mined to win the majority in the next con
gress and both are already claiming to
have the best start. It is sure to be nip
and tuck until the very end and the fight
will liven up an otherwise dull fall.
Death at Cedartown.
CEDARTOWN. Ga.. June 3,-The friends
of Mr. and Mis. W. H. King, formerly
of Atlanta, will learn with regret of the
death of their infant son. James Griffin
King. Mr. and Mrs. King, when in At
lanta, lived at 146 West Hunter street.
TtM£ now reside in Cedartown.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902.
LEADERS MET
TO CONFER
MONDAY
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE WAS
THEN HELD AT THE WHITE
HOUSE ON SUBJECTS OF VI
TAL VALUE.
WASHINGTON. June B.—Senators Proc
ter. Nelson, Gamble and Kitridge called
at the white house yesterday on lnvt-1
tation, and had a conference with the
president in regard to pending legislation.'
The subjects discussed were tbe Cuban
reciprocity bill and the prospects for canal
legislation-at this session. ■ ,
The objeftt of t_e conference was to urge
upon the senators the necessity for una
nimity of action and the real necessity for;
legfslatlofi on these subjects at thia ses
sion. . it.
Another conference was helq yesterday
afternoon at the white house, at which,
other members of the senate were present
to confer on these matters. ,
As to the canal bill. It Is Known that the
president would reluctantly accept the re
sponsibility imposed by the Spooner
amendment of selecting the canal route,
but would much prefer that congress
should select the route Itself.
.The president sent for a number of sen
ators who have been known in opposition
to granting concessions on the ground
that it will seriously interfere with beet
sugar Interests of the country. He urged
upon these senators the importance of
united action, if possible, and expressed
the hope that the Republicans would act
together. The president again assured
these Republicans that In urging action
on reciprocity he was carrying out the
announcement of President McKinley, ut
tered in his last speech, which had met
with such popular approval throughout
the country, also the promises that had
been made concerning concessions to
Cuba.
The president Indicated that the adop
tion of the Platt amendment made it ob
ligatory upon the United States to treat
Cuba differently from other nations.
In one casual remark he said that events
may show that it would have been
ter to allow Cuba to be absolutely in
dependent as was Mexico. He told these
Republican senators that the party ought
not to be divided on tariff issues as it was
entering the campaign and he expressed
the hope that a Cuban bill would be
passed without the aid of Democratic
votes. One result of the conferences that
have been held at the White House was
a meeting today at 1 o’clock by the com
mittee of Senator Elkins, where those
senators who are opposed to granting
concessions in Cuba or who oppose the
straight reduction plan of the majority,
assembled to consider different proposi
tions. These are for a fiat appropriation
to the Cuban treasury, or a rebate on
duties collected upon Cuban imports to
be paid Into the Cuban treasury.
Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska.* present
ed a plan w’hich meets with some favor
and was considered in the way of a com*
promise between the straight out reduc
tion- plan and those favored by the beet
sugar men. It promises to grant a re
duction of 20 per cent on Cuban products
for • five- ’years for a like-concession on}
products of the United States going Into
Cuba. |with a proviso that the president
may at any time cancel the reduction if
It IB found that the benefit of the reduc
tion is going to others than to the jilant
ers and sugar growers. Another part of
the plan Is to remove the differential on
refined sugar and add it to all raw sugars,
except those coming from Cuba. This
provision, it is claimed, will protect the
beet sugar interests.
Eighteen Republican senators attended
the conference of those representing the
beet sugar interests. The general senti
ment was in favor of defeating any
proposition for Cuban reciprocity, but in
order to secure harmony an agreement
was made that would support a rebate
plan, the money to be paid to the Cuban
government.
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JACKSON DROWNED
IT IS SUPPOSED HE LOST HIS LIFE
WHILE BATHING—FAMILY RE
SIDES NEAR JACKSON.
JACKSON, Ga., June 3.—Dr .T. F.
Laing, a prominent physician, residing
about eight miles northwest of Jackson,
received yesterday a telegram from Sa
vannah stating that his son, Walter Eu
gene Laing, who had been working for a
large mercantile firm in Savannah for a
year and who mysteriously disappeared
last Wednesday, had been drowned on the
beach at Savannah.
From the meagre news received by Dr.
Laing from the Savannah firm Walter,
while out collecting for the trip, went
riding on a bicycle to the beach and went
In bathing and later in the day his clothes
and bicycle were found upon the beach
and it is supposed while out bathing he
was drowned. The first of last week he
wrote to bis parents that he would return
home in a few days and his delay In not
arriving on time caused Dr. Laing to
wire the Savannah firm Sunday of his
son's whereabouts. The business house
being closed Sunday Dr. Laing did not
receive any news regarding his son. Yes
terday the firm wired him that Walter's
clothes and bicycle were found upon the
beach last Wednesday and that they be
lieved that the young man was drowned
while In bathing.
Mr. "Walter E. Laing was well known
throughout the state, having graduated
at Emory college in 1901 with an excellent
record, being a freshman speaker in ’9B
and a prominent member of Phi Gamma
society of Emory college. He was about
23 years old and was a young man of
sterling character and habits. For sev
erl years he resided at 42 Houston street,
Atlanta, where his mother ran a boarding
house.
thougoiaFerwas¥ead
HIS DOG GUARDED BODY
NASHVILLE. Tenn., June 3.—Louis C.
Vanpel, aged 45 years, committed suicide
at his home in the northern part of the
city yesterday by shooting himself in the
head. When found his body was guarded
by two dogs, which kept policemen away
for an hour. Vanpel left his property to
a sister in St. Louis.
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BOURKE COCKRAN ORATOR
AT BISHOP MEMORIAL
NEW YORK, June 2.—lt has been decid
ed by the Catholics during a meeting at
the Catholic club, to hold the memorial
meeting for the late Archbishop Corrigan
at Carnegie hall next Sunday, with
Bourke Cockran as the orator.
HAYGIVENTHANKS
FOB HIS EULOGY'
AFTERJJEBATE
RESOLUTION WA$ NOT PASSED
UNTIL HEATED DEBATE
HAD BEEN HELD IN
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON. June 3.-The resolution
thanking Secretary Hay for his McKinley
address was adopted 129 tn 46.
When the house met yesterday Mr. Bur
ton pt Qhlo presented .Qie' conference re
port on the river and harbor bill and gave
notice that he would call It up today.
Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, chairman of- the
committee on foreign affairs from his
committee presented a resolution calling
upon the president, if not incompatible
with the public interest for full informa
tion concerning the invitation of the Brit
ish supply camp in Louisiana, made under
his authority. The resolution was adopt
ed.
Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, moved the pas
sage under suspension of the rules of a
joint resolution extending the thanks
of congress to Hon. John Hay, for his
address on the occasion of the McKinley
memorial services last February.
Some time ago Mr. DeArmond, of Mis
souri, objected to the request for unani
mous consent to consider this bill. Today
Mr. Richardson, the minority leader, de
manded a second upon Mr. Grosvenor’s
motion and it was ordered. 92 to 52.
Twenty minutes debate were allowed on
each side. Mr. Grosvenor explained that
Secretary Hay had been Invited to deliver
the memorial address by botu houses of
congress following which the resolution
of thanks was offered in terms identical
with that passed by congress after Bank
croft, the historian, had delivered the eu
logy upon Lincoln. Mr. Richardson then
yielded his 20 minutes to Mr. Clark, of
Missouri, who made an objection to the
consideration of the resolution in commit
tee. <
Mr. Clark said that he appreciated that
any one who opposed the pending resolu
tion would subject himself to the criticism
of every editor in tbe United States who
also was a postmaster or who hopefl to be
a postmaster. In some respects Mr’ Clark
said he had a high opinion and a high re
gard for the secretary of state. He was
an historic personage. He had made a
name m literature, both in prose and poet
ry that any man might envy. It was not
against the man therefore that his criti
cism was directed. It was because in the
presence of a great, brilliant and sympa
thetic audience he had abused the occasion
to inject into his eulogy of McKinley a
high-class stump speech.
KILLED OLD GRAY GOOSE
AND WAS AFTERWARDS FINED
The old gray goose at Grant Park Is
dead. She was run over Sunday after
noon by a young man, who was arraigned
before Recorder Broyles next morning on
the charge of reckless driving.
Henry Pittman, who lives beyond the
Fulton Cotton Mills, was the defendant.
The goose killed had long been one of
the sights of the park. She was infirm
from old age, and walked sideways. In
the lake there was nbt a duck or goose
that could keep up with her at all, but on
land she got sea sick. She was What a
fancier would call a Chinese or Hong
Kong goose, having a long swan-llke
neck.
“What say you,” asked the recorder,
"to killing the old'gray goose?”
The young man said his horse became
frightened and that he was unable to hold
him. He had tried to stop in time to save
the life of the goose, but his efforts had
been futile.
“That might have been a child, instead
of a goose,” said the recorder. “And, be
sides, a goose should not be run over.
People driving in the park should be
very careful.”
A small fine was Imposed. This was
paid and the young man departed with
the death of the old gray goose on his
conscience.
clubmTmbTecTto”
UNDERTAKER’S SHOP
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. June
hue and cry has been raised by the wsi
dents of the fashionable section where
Fifth avenue and Twentieth street inter
sects Over the proposition of an undertak
er to locate an undertaking establishment
at this corner immediately across the
street from the Southern club, the most
fashionable male institution of the kind
in the city, and in the vicinity of many
handsome homes. The city fathers have
been asked to Interfere. What the upshot
will be cannot be foretold.
POPE BARROW
WILLFIGHT
TRUST
INSTRUCTS CHATHAM GRAND
JURY TO BRING INDICTMENTS
AGAINST THE BEEF TRUST
PEOPLE.
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 3.—Judge Pope
Barrow, of the superior court of Chatham
county, who stated* last week that he
would pay his attentions io the beef trust
in his charge to the grand jury of his
court, kept his word yesterday and
tackled the big corporations.
He holds that under the Georgia laws
against the offenses of “forestalling, re
grating and engrossing,” which have slept
dormant for many years, the beef trust
can be proceeded against in the superior
courts of the state. ~
He told the grand jury if they would
indict the persons responsible for the com
bine of beef, there,was plenty of evidence
against them that could be used in the
courts of Georgia. He said in conclusion:
“If you can find the names of the lead
ing packers who have been Instrumental
in forming ‘the beef trust,’ as it Is called,
and who are members of It, the first step
will be taken. If you can then secure evi
dence going to show that they have in
fact bought up cattle throughout the
country, ‘coming ’in the way to market,’
and that they have by these means been
enabled to enhance the price of beef pro
ducts and have In fact enhanced the price
in the markets of Savannah, you will be
authorized to bring in a bill of Indictment
against them, and I believe it is your duty
to do it. In the bill filed in the United
States court in Illinois by the attorney
general of the United States the names of
the defendants can be found. In their an
swer, admissions which will be of value
to you, will be found, and in the pleadings
and evidence in that case, you will be
able to secure enough to go a long ways
towards making out a case.
“I give it to you as my opinion that an
indictment can be legally found, if the
facts are as they are publicly and univer
sally stated to be. I think it is your duty
to investigate and present these people. If
you will find a bill of indictment, I prom
ise-you that no stone will be left unturned
to bring the defendants to the bar of this
court for trial. If they can be Indicted
and punished in this court, it will settle
the question that they can be similarly in
dicted and punished in every county In
the United States, in which they sold beet,
where the law Is the same as it is in
Georgia.
“I hope you will take this matter up in
earnest and at once. I will give you all
the assistance in my power. They ought
not to be allowed to oppress the people
any longer.' They ought not to be allowed
to go on levying forced contributions upon
the men of this country by applying the
of hunger to the women and
children of this country.”
It is more than probable under this
charge that the grand jury will do some
investigating of the beef trust and indict
ments may be found.
SEABOARGPLANSTO
... ENTER BIRMINGHAM READY
NEW YORK, June 3.—The plans of the
underwriting syndicate for the extension
of the Seaboard Air Line railway to Bir
mingham, Ala,, have been completed. They
include an issue of $5,300,900 4 per cent
bonds, a first mortgage on the Birming
ham line and a direct lien on the Seaboard
Air Line. Including the underwriting syn
dicate are Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co.,
Vermillye & Co., and F. R. Pemberton, of
New York; the Baltimore Trust and Guar
antee Co., B. W. Middendorf & Co., and
several others of Baltimore, and John L.
Williams & Sons, of Richmond.
CABLE TO
IS INTERRUPTED AGAIN
NEW YORK, June 2.—The Western
Union Telegraph company Issued the fol
lowing notice today:
“The cable between Hong Kong and
Manila is interrupted. Telegraphic commu
nication with the Philippine islands, there
fore, is stopped. Frequent steamers from
Chinese ports will carry telegrams.”
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OF RICHMOND BITTER
O’CONNOR AND CLARK BOTH CON-
FIDENT OF VICTORY—DEEP IN-
TEREST IN OUTCOME.
AUGUSTA, Ga., June 3.—On the eve of
the election tremendous efforts are being
made by the various local candidates to
get each ahead of their opponents. Es
pecially stirring is the race between Messrs.
O’Connor and Clark for sheriff. Both
claim to be confident of election, and the
prospect is for one of the bitterest fights
at the polls next Thursday for this office
that has ever taken place for a county
office.
It is claimed, and reluctantly conceded
by Captain O’Connor’s friends, that from
the country precincts and the lower wards
Mr. Clark will come to the Fourth ward
with a majority, variously estimated to be
between 200 and 350. The Fourth and
Fifth wards are former O’Connor strong
holds, and here he hopes to overcome the
adverse majority and have It shifted the
other way. and hence every vote in these
wards will be fought for. Every ward
heeler is now employed by one side or the
other, and it is freely stated that there
will be rqpney to pay for votes, as high as
S2O if necessary, to win.
The chief interest in the county centers
in this fight, it being apparently closer
than any other. In the other contested
county offices it is conceded that the
incumbents will be re-elected.
GEORGIA POSTMASTERS
TO GET SALARY RAISED
WASHINGTON, June 3.—Under the re
adjustment of postmasters' salaries these
•hanges in Georgia were announced yes
terday:
Increases, Madison, from 11,500 to $1,600;
Milledgeville, from $1,900 to $2,000; Moul
trie from $1,600 to $1,700; Newnan, Quitman
from $1,700 to $1,800; Sandersville, from sl,-
400 to $1,500; Savannah, from $3,400 to $3,500;
Statesboro, from $1,200 to $1,300; Thomas
ton, from $1,300 to $1,400; Thomasville, Val
dosta, from $2,200 to $2,300; Waycross, from
$2,100 to $2,300. j Decrease, Tallapoosa, from
$1,400 to $1,300.
MOLINEAUX WILL AGAIN
FACE JURY FOR CRIME
NEW YORK, June 2.—Justice Scott, in
the criminal branch of the supreme court,
today set September 22 as the date tor the
beginning of the second trial of Roland B.
Mollneux, accused* of the murder of Mrs.
Kate Adams.
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cannTn “SECURED
FOR WALKER
MONUMENT
CONGRESSMAN LON LIVINGSTON
WIRES JULIUS BROWN THAT
GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE
NECESSARY CANNON.
Julius L. Brown, president of the Walk
er Monument association, Monday
received the following telegram from
Colonel L. F. Livingston, the popular con
gressman from this district in the United
States congress:
“Five guns aeeured; four from Alabama
and one from North Carolina. No expense
to government. L. F. LIVINGSTON.”
To this telegram Mr. Brown sont the
following answer:
“Colonel L. F. Livingston, Washington,
D. C.:
“May the Lord love you. Wire me from
what point m Alabama and from what
point in North Carolina the guns are. so
we can arrange for freight. Will see you
HJiursday morning in Washington.
“JULIUS L. BROWN, President.”
Mr. Brown will go to Washington to
day to personally invite President
Roosevelt and the secretary of war to at-'
tend the unveiling of the monument of
Major General W. H. T. Walker, on July
22d, the anniversary of his death.
The Walker Monument association was
formed a short time ago to erect a mon
ument to the memory of General William
H. T. Walker, ’the only major general
from the state of Georgia, who was killed
in the civil war. The monument is to
be an exact duplicate of the monument
erected several years ago to the memory
of General McPherson, the Federal gen
eral who was killed at the same time.
Major General W. H. T. Walker was
killqd on the 22d day of July, 1864, In the
fighting around Atlanta. He was the only
major general from Georgia who died from
wounds during the war. He was a gradu
ate of the West Point Military academy
and a native of this state. He was wound
ed in the Seminole Indian war, in the
swamps of Florida, and was again almost
fatally wounded in the Mexican war. He
was a lieutenant oolonel in the United
States army when Georgia left the union,
and he immediately resigned his commis
sion.to fight for his state. Governor Jo
seph Brown appointed him a lieutenant
colonel In the first regiment of Georgia
regulars/which wept to the front. General
Hardee Commanded the regiment. He re
ceived a commission in the Confederate
army and resigned from the service of
Georgia, but later left the Confederate ar
my and was made a brigadier general of
the forces which Governor Brown collect
ed to defend Savannah in 1861. When Gov
ernor Brown turned tnese troops over to
the Confederate government. General
Walker was promoted to a major gener
alship. He was killed at the head of Ter
ry’s mill pond, near Grant park, on July
22d, about one-third of a mile from where
General McPherson fell.
The veterans of this section have long
been talking of erecting a monument to
General Walker, but nothing has been
done until recently, when Mr. Julius L.
Brown took the matter up. and or
ganized the Walker Monument Associa
tion. This association was chartered, ana
determined to erect the monument in time
to be unveiled on July 22d, the anniver
sary of the death of General Walker.
Hon. Joseph B. Cumming, of Augusta,
who was General Walker's chief of staff,
will be asked to make an address re
ceiving the monument, and Dr. L. H.
Kennon, of Atlanta, who was also on Gen
eral Walker’s staff, will be asked to par
ticipate. The association also purposes
decorating the monument of General Mc-
Pherson at the time of the unveiling of
the monument to General Walker.
FOUR MEN GARROTfED
IN PONCE., P. R.
PONCE, P. R., June 3.—Barnabe Aceve
do. Jose Torres. Ramon Troche Cadeno
and Juan Torres, the four men found
guilty of murder, robbery and outrage
committed in October, 1898, at Guayo, a
suburb of Adjutas. were garrotted here
today. They were all put to death within
fifty minutes.
All the condemned men confessed their
crimes. Two of them aided the execu
tioner to adjust the garrote and forgave
him for putting them to death.
One of the prisoners resisted the adjust
ment of the cloth over his face. He said
he wanted to die with his face uncovered.
Finally, after fifteen minutes’ struggle,
he was subdued. There were omy thirty
witnesses of the execution.
The men were executed tor the murder
of Antonio Delgado del Pino and the out
rage of the women of his household nea»
Adjutas on September 30, 183 k
DIO GEN. MILES
BETRJY 0.5.
SECRETS?
BY INFERENCE THE CHARGE IS
PRACTICALLY MADE IN THE
SENATE BY SENATOR BEVER
IDGE.
WASHINGTON, June 3.—Senator Bever
idge, who is understood to be the mouth
piece of the administration in the Philip
pine legislation, today in the senate asked
Senator Culberson, the Democratic Philip
pine leader, if General Miles furnished the
Democrats with parts of the war records
on which the charges of American brutal
ity in the islands are based.
The question was highly significant, us it
shows the administration's suspicion of
the head of the army.
The war department has been suppress
ing reports of cruelty in the Philippines,
but somehow the Democrats have been
securing the reports and they have great
ly embarrassed Roosevelt and his follow
ers. j
Senator Culberson refused to answer the
question.
When the senate convened at 11 o’clock
today, Mr. Frye, chairman on naval af
fairs, reported the naval appropriations
and gave notice that he would call it up
for consideration at the earliest possible
time.
Mr. Foraker called up the house concur
rent resolution calling for thanks of con
gress to Secretary- of States John Hay for
his memorial address, delivered to the tvfo
branches of congress on the life and ser
vices off William McKinley.
Mr. Allison moved that the senate con
cur in the resolution and the motion wad
agreed to without comment or division.
Mr. Pettus, of Alabama, on account of
other duties, withdrew from the commit
tee of the senate appointed to confer with
a like committee of the house with respect
to differences as to conference reports, and
Mr. Teller, of Colorado, was named in hfa
stead.
Consideration then was resumed under
the 15-minute rule of the Philippine gov
ernment bill.
Mr. McLaurin, of Mississippi, denied
that the Democrats had attacked the
army, and placed the responsibility for the
outrages committed in the Philippines up
on the policy advocated by the Republi
cans. /
Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana, said the next
world's drama would be enacted on the
Pacific and it was essential that the mas
tery of that great ocean should be ours,
and It would be ours.
Mr. Berry, of Arkansas, deplored the
fact that the president on Memorial day
had seen pfroper to make “a bitter partisan
speech.” The president, he sald,,had gohe
back forty years to rekindle the fires es
sectionalism and had referred to the acts
of an infuriated mob to Justify, he sup
posed, the awful order of General Smith tn
the Philippines.
By unanimous consent, Mr. Carmack,
of Tennessee, was permitted to print in
the record the remainder of Sixto Lope*’
statement, a portion of which was read
yesterday. Mr. Culberson, of Texas, inti
mated that the war department was en
deavoring to suppress information con
cerning matters in the Philippines. He
then presented the charges of Private
Andrew K. Weir, against Lieutenant F.
P. Arnold and the report thereon by Chp
tain P. W. West, alleging cruelty against
Filipinos.
Mr. Beveridge asked if information
of the charges had come from the war
department. * 4
' Mr. Culberson, being pressed, said:
“The question of the senator might prop
erly be characterized as impertinent,” and
finally refused to answer Mr. Beveridge.
Mn Beveridge again inquired whether
the matters presented had comp from an
ofiUer of the war department:
"i have already indicated to the senator
with sufficient emphasis that I am not to
be inquired of e further,” responded Mr.
Culberson.
"I ask the senator," Mr. Beveridge per
sisted, “whether or not, directly or indi
rectly, the papers were received by him
from General Miles?”
Mr. Culberson nqade no reply.
Mr. Allison, of lowa, said if the charges
had been presented to him he would not
have given to them the publicity which
Mr. Culberson had given them.
BJFTWWE
GIVE TO ORPHANS
FIRST CHURCH SENDS A CONTRI
BUTION OF SS2O—RESULT OF
ONE COLLECTION. *'
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ROME, Ga., June 4.—The First Bap
tist church of this city sent tha
Orphans' Home in Hapeville $520 to
day for the building fund. When the
Baptist convention was in session a few
weeks ago in Rome Dr. Headden, the pas
tor, promised to maae an effort to raise
SSOO for the Orphans’ home. Only one col
lection was taken up with the result aa
stated. T|iis church gives liberally to the
orphans.
Next Monday the Teachers’ institute
will be held at the courthouse. Prof.
Bothwell Graham, of Athens, will conduct
the exercises each day. All the teacher*
of Floyd county and Rome will be pres
ent during the week. County school com
missioner Gwaltney will be chairman of
the institute. An examination will ba
held the latter part of the week and li
censes granted to teachers. Rome will ba
in the hands of school people next week.
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