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GRAND JURY IS
AFTER ROADS
POOLING
EXPECTS TO PROVE EXISTENCE
OF COMBINATION BETWEEN
RAILROADS FOR CONTROLL
ING PRICES.
The alleged pooling' of the railroads on
the handling of cotton. In violation of the
interstate commerce law Is being investi
gated by the federal grand jury.
and some of the most prominent railroad
men in the state have been subpoenaed
to appear as witnesses. John T. March
and. of Washington, general counsel for
the interstate commerce commission, is
conducting the prosecution, assisted by
District Attorneys E. A. Angler. W. L.
M«««ey and George L. Bell. Os course,
it cannot be stated what action will be
tafcen by the grand jury, but if the evi
dence is sufficiently strong it is more than
probable that several indictments will be
found If proven guilty, the penalty for
violation is a fine of $5,000.
It to alieged that the Southern, Sea
board. Central'of Georgia. Atlanta and
West Point and the Georgia roads have
entwtwc mto a contract to pool the ■***?•
men:a of cotton, fixing a price and divid
ing up the cotton shipments according to
the doo I. This Is in violation of the inter
.tate commerce law. and the commerce
commission is taking active steps to prove
or disprove these charges.
The investigation now being carried on
is the result of the efforts of the inter
state commerce commission to atop the
alleged pooling of the railroads, and has
caused much uneasiness in railroad circles,
and some sensational developments are
expected to follow. General Counsel J.T.
Werhand of the commission. who has
recentlv secured several indictments in
Memphis on this same charge, was sent
her to investigate the pooling tn Atlanta.
The allegations are that the railroads
entered into a pool, whereby each road
was to handle a certain amount of the
cotton shipped from this point, it mat
tered not to which road the cotton was
delivered for shipment. In this way. it is
charged, the roads were able to secure
higher freight rates, and were saved the
necessity of having to solicit the cotton
business from the shippers.
James 8. Akers, of Bandfcss. Swann &
Company, cotton dealers, and one of the
largest cotton bouses in the south, was
the first witness called. He was kept for
some time in the jury room.
Edward Jervey. a cotton man of Mari
etta, was the next witness.
Cyrus E. Pierson, traveling agent of the
Southeastern Freight association, was on
the stand when the jury adjourned for the
day.
Pool Hearing Continued Yesterday.
The investigation which was begun by
the federal grand jury of alleged viola
tions of the interstate commerce law re
lating to the pooling of cotton rates was
continued Tuesday. Outside of railroad
men who had been summoned to appear
before the body little Interest appeared
to be taken on what was going on behind
the closed dcora
The first witntee called was C. E.
Pierson, who was the last witness to ap
pear before the body Monday. He re
mained In the room but a short time after
which Ed Jervey went in. Mr. Jervey was
also before the body Monday.
L. L. McCleskey. division freight agent
of the Southern railway, was the next wit
ness.
Thomas C. Watters, private secretary
of Chairman Parrott, of the Southeastern
Freight Association. was next witness. He
remained Ln the room about three minutes
and when he came out he said he had
been asked his title and that was about
all.
W. L. Magill, secretary of the South
eastern Freight association, was called
and remained in the room for some time.
He was followed by D. W. Appier, com
mercial agent of the Central of Georgia
railway. Ches Howard, of Sanders, Swann
A Co., was the last witness.
Grand Jury Debating Pool Case.
Only one witness yesterday before
the federal grand jury which is investigat
ing the alleged violations of the inter
state commerce law relating to the pooling
of cotton rates. He was Joohn E. Cay. a
prominent cotton factor. Mr. Cay remain
ed in the jury room for more than an
hour.
At 11:90 o’clock General Counsel John A.
Marchand, of the interstate commerce
commission of Washington, and Assist
ant District Attorney W. L. Massey, who
are conducting the Investigation, and
Mark J. McCord, who is taking the testi
mony stenographically. came from the
room.
Mr. Marchand was heard to say goodby
to the jury as he came out of the room.
It was supposed that he had put up all the
Witnesses he wanted, which proved
to be the case, and had left the matters
to the consideration of the jury.
The jury continued in session until the
hour of adjournment, but no indictments
were returned.
The railroad men who have so far ap
peared before the body, with the exception
of representatives of the Freight associa
tion. who would be summoned without
regard to any one railroad, have been rep
resentattves of the. Southern railway. The
summons to them are to answer in the
case of the United States against the
Southern railway and others. It is thought
that the Southern is now the road under
investigation. The grand jury will re
sume the investigation today.
ROME WiITHWE
NEW SIOO,OOO
DEPOT
THE SOUTHERN HAS DECIDED TO
BUILD HANDSOME STRUCTURE
FOR PUBLIC CONVENIENCE.
ROME. Ga.. June 18.—The Southern rail
way has decided to build a new SIOO,OOO
passenger depot in East Rome. Superin
tendent Vaughn. Roadmaster Lemon ds
and Engineer Bernard are in Rome per
fecting plans for the structure.
The road has decided not to build within
the city limits of Rome on account of
topographical difficulties.
’ The depot will be placed near the pres
ent station. It will be large and will af
ford plenty of accommodations to the
public.
The structure will be a shed and depot
combined. •
Capt Clark Rear Admiral In Navy.
WASHINGTON. June 17.—The president
yesterday sent the following nominations
to the senate:
Capt. C. E. Clark, to be advanced seven
numbers in rank and to be a rear admiral
in Ujb navy.
HARDWICK NOMINATED;
HIS VIEWS IN PLATFORM
AUGUSTA. June 18.—The Tenth dis
trict convention is in session at the court
house this afternoon.
A very large delegation came up with
Mr. Hardwick on the Southern train from
Sandersville this morning. Hardwick
badges and enthusiasm blended in
profusion around the scene of the con
vention.
In the delegation and attending the con
vention were quite a number of ladies, in
cluding Mrs. Hardwick.
In the absence of the chairman of the
district committee the convention was
called to order by Mr. Shurley. of War
renton, and Mr. W. R. Logue, of Glas
cook, was elected temporary chairman,
followed by the election of Hon. J. R.
Philips, of Jefferson, for permanent
chairman. Mr. J. H. Battle, of Warren,
was elected secretary. Every county ex
cept Hancock was represented.
The convention struck a snag in fixing
the platform, the difficulty being over
the Nth and 15th amendments, his atti
tude in regard to them being insisted on
by Mr. Hardwick, and the incorporation
of this plank into the platform being re
sisted by some members.
Mr. Hardwick was later nominated by
the convention, and his platform for the
disfranchisement pf the negro was em
bodied in the convention platform.
died likeYpauper; T
BUT OWNED A FORTUNE
NEW YORK, June 18.—In the basement Os
No. US West Houston street, which was both
his home and workshop, Camille Lemoine has
been found dead. In his pocket 1178.75 and a
gold watch and chain were found. In a box
were found deeds of property estimated to be
worth 650. W. but. he lived like a man In dire
Enverty and died vincarea for and alone. A
itten that was hie only companion lay be
side the body of the miser.
Lemoine was 57 years of age and was a
clever mechanic and manufactured tools and
dyes used in the manufacture of artificial
flowers. It was said he once served in the
French army hut he never told much of hie
life even to his Intimate friends and he had
few of these. He slept on a wretched bed
in the rear of the little shop and ate sparingly
at the cheapest restaurants. The police say
he spent less than 15 cents a day for food.
Moist of the property, to which deeds were
found. Is in Hoboken.
It is not known whether Lemoine has any
relatives living or not, so the public adminis
trator took charge of the money and papers
and the body was sent to the morgue.
UM TO AGAIN
DISCUSS LAW
semis
BAR ASSOCIATION WILL TAKE UP
METHOD OF ADMITTING LAW
SCHOOL GRADUATES TO
THE BAR.
The Georgia Bar association will again
take up the question of admitting gradu
ates of law schools to practice in the
state courts without appearing before the
state examining board. Last year the
matter caused no end of discussion at
Warm Springs, but no recommendations
were made by the lawyers.
This year Judge Spencer R. Atkinson,
chairman of the committee on legal edu
cation will bring the question to the at
tention of the lawyers again, and will
urge that all the law school graduates,
no matter the length of the course at the
law schools, be required to pass a satis
factory examination before the state ex
amining board before being given a
license to practice in the state courts.
A bill introduced by Roland Ellis, of the
Twenty-second senatorial district, was
passed in the senate last year requiring
graduates of law schools to appear be
fore the board regardless of the term of
the law school course and the curriculum
of the law school. The bill was favorably
recommended by the judiciary commit
tee of the house but was never put on its
passage on account of the heavy pressure
of other bills at the close of the session
judge Emory Speer and Clem P. Steed,
members of the faculty of the Mercer
law school, have fought vigorously any
action on the question by the bar associa
tion, and this year they will probably re
new that fight. Judge Atkinson contends
that the courts should determine the man
ner In which applicants to practice law
should be admitted, and holds that the
legislature has no power to prescribe
laws. He thinks a test case should be
made in the courts.
VALDOSTAIs AFTER
SOMENEW SETTLERS
VALDOSTA, Ga., June 18.—A move
ment is on foot to bring a number of
Dutch and Scotch settlers to this sec
tion. A large lot of land belonging to
Mr. J. A. Dasher, Jr., has been surveyed
and cut up into small farms and the
matter of bringing them here is with
Mr. J. H. Stephens of the Plant system’s
immigration department. Captain Steph
ens has been here talking over the mat
ter with the board of trade and the
chances are that quite a number of them
will be located here. Lowndes county
has plenty of valuable farming lands and
the people here would welcome a lot of
thrifty farmers. It is understood that
the immigrants will follow truck farming
mostly.
President James of the Wadley and
ML Vernon railroad is 'expected in Val
dosta this week and a meeting of the
board of will be held next Friday
morning to see what is going to be done
about the extension of that road to this
city. The matter has * caused much in
terest here and a definite understanding
will be reached at the meeting next Fri
day. A good deal of stock has already
been taken in the road here and it Is
expected that a good deal will be added
to the list before Friday’s meeting.
BARTLETT, OF GEORGIA,
GETS BILL RECOMMENDED
WASHINGTON. June 18.-The house
committee on military affairs yesterday
ordered favorable report of the resolution
of Representative Barlett, of Georgia, di
recting the secretary of war to furnish
the house information as to what amounts
were paid by the United States officers in
Cuba to F. R. Thurber or other persons
for advocating Cuban reciprocity.
The action caused some surprise as a
somewhat similar resolution was voted
down about a week ago.
The change is said to have been in
fluenced to some extent by the pending
controversy on the Cuban reciprocity
bill. Representative Hay, of Virginia,
called up the resolution and his motion
for consideration prevailed, two Republi
cans as well as three Democrats voting
for it.
What are Humors?
They are vitiated or morbid fluids cours
ing the veins and affecting the tissues.
They are commonly due to defective diges
tion but are sometimes inherited. .
How do they manifest themselves 7 K
In many forms of cutaneous eruption,
salt rheum or eczema, pimples and boils,
and in weakness, languor, general debility.
How are they expelled T By
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
which also builds up the system that baa
suffered from them.
It l 4 the best medicine for all humors,
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BiNKEfISMEET
IN SMH
'TUESDAY
MR. R. F. MADDOX, OF ATLANTA,
MAKES A RESPONSE TO THE
ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY
EDITOR STOVALL.
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 18.—The Inter
state Bankers’ association, composed of
the members of the banking associations
of Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia,
conwned here yesterday.
The first day’s session was held at the
Savannah theater. There are about 175
bankers and representatives of banks in
attendance. The morning was taken up
with the delivery of an address of welcome
from Mr. P. A. Stovall, editor of the Sa
vannah Press, and responses by Mr. R.
F. Maddox of Atlanta. John F. Bruton
of North Carolina and George J. Seay of
Richmond, Va-
Ex-Governor O’Farrell of Virginia deliv
ered a very Interesting address. At 2
o’clock the first morning’s session came
to an end.
The address of ex-Governor O’Farrell,
was a splendid one. He criticised the
branch banking bill now before congress
and said he feared that if would not be
any Improvement over the present bank
ing bill. He also took occasion to round
ly roast those Virginians who live In tha
past and stand in the way of progress.
A resolution was introduced that the
branch banking bill known as the Fowler
bill be carefully considered before it is
endorsed by the Interstate bankers’ asso
ciation. This afternoon the visitors will
be entertained at Thunderbolt and tomor
row afternoon they will go to Tybee,
where a banquet is to be tendered them at
night.
Mr. Maddox, of Atlanta, made a splen
did response to the address of welcome.
Mr. Maddox said:
"I am sure that not since General Sher
man telegraphed to President Lincoln ‘I
beg to present to you as Christmas gift the
city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and
plenty of ammunition, and about 25,000
bales of cotton,’ has the key to this beau
tiful city been so gracefully tendered, or
so greatfully received as today. And, as
General Sherman said his meen on that
eventful trip had been ‘a little loose in
foraging and did some things they ought
not to have done, I hope you will allow
the bankers the same privilege.
"There is but little doubt that we are
Indebted to Sir Walter Raleigh for the
discovery of this part of the North Amer
ican continent, and according to Mr.
Oglethorpe the Indians said Sir Walter
was the first Englishman their forefathers
ever saw. So favorable was the impres
sion made by the gallant knight that their
chief king before he died desired to be
taken to a high mound of earth, about a
half a mile from Savannah in order that
he might be burled at the spot where he
talked with the great and good white
stranger. We could hardly hope that after
meeting with the ‘white strangers’ from
Virginia, North Carolina and other parts
of Georgia, the present citizens of Sa
vannah would wish to be buried on this
spot, but we trust they mav at least
survive this convention sufficiently long
lo designate their last resting place.
"Just one hundred and seventy years
ago this month the charter was granted
for a distinct province between the Sa
vannah and Altamaha rivers by the name
of Georgia in honor of the king by whom
the charter was granted, and in January,
1738. Oglethorpe and his colonists arrived
on the good ship Anne, and in the fol
lowing February selected the site of Sa
vannah. During this year the most glow
ing accounts of the climate of Georgia
and the prosperous condition of her colo
nists were sent over to England, and
about this time a pamphlet appeared in
London saying: "Such an air and soil can
only be described by a poetical pen be
cause there is no danger of exceeding the
truth," and quoted the following verse by
Waller, who writing of this section sal’d:
“The Spring, which but salutes us here.
Inhabits there, and courts them all the
year,
Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same tree
live:
At once they promise, what at once they
give.
So sweet the air, so moderate the clime,
None sickly lives or dies before his time.
Heaven sure kept this spot of earth
uncursed.
To show how all things were created
first.”
"With such location and under such in
fluences it is not surprising that Savannah
has always been distinguished. I do not
believe any other city in the United
States has taken so active a part In the
defense of freedom, or more bravely
fought out American progress than the
city which today entertains the bankers
from the three gseatest states of the
south. From the early Creek wars through
every conflict in which the nation’s
honor was at stake, down to the late
war with Spain, her brave people have
marched from these historic commons al
ways ready to lay down their lives at
their country’s call.
Fnr three years six months and thirteen
days this metropolis of Georgia lay In the
entire possession of the enemy, but when
peace finally smiled upon the land her
people, although greatly effected by the
disruption of social ties during the pro
longed struggle, and the depressed condi
tion of trade, as brave in peace as they
had been In war, at once went to work to
up-build this country and in councils of
state and nation did much to form and
foster the new republic. In proportion to
her population she has adorned her ave
nues and public places with more beautiful
monuments to brave soldiers and patriotic
statesmen than any other city In the
south.
It is, therefore, quite fortunate that we
can meet on this historic ground, amid
such hospitable and progressive people,
where "Wisdom, justice and moderation”
has always been their guiding star. It is
especially fitting that we should gather
under that motto at the beginning of this,
which is destined to be, the most potential
century which has dawned upon the world
since the babe of Bethlehem was born.
The spirit o$ American principles and pro
gress which so brightly lighted the de
clining days of the nineteenth century
have already begun to penetrate the
shadows of the far east and ere another
cycle of time shall have elapsed, the
whole world will have adopted our faith
in freedom, and all nations will worship
at the shrine of Columbia, In this century
we shall witness great wars, but they will
be the bloodless battles for control, con
ceived by kings of finances and fought out
on the sea of commerce, where capital In
stead of cannon will capture Instead of
kill
We have just heard the first firing by
the invading army of the trusts at the
outposts of our prosperity. The beef bar
ons have attempted to levy a tax upon the
people as unjust and unfair as unneces
sary and unwise as that which our fore
fathers in the colonies refused to pay. The
tea has been thrown into the harbor, and
it may not lead to a Bunker HUI or
Yorktown, but will soon lead to the great
est battle ever waged within the halls of
congress. In this country neither mam
mon nor anarchy must rule, and In the di
rection of this legislation for tha proper
control of the trusts the bankers of the
north, east, west and south should unite
their intelligent forces to make capital
what God intended it to be, a blessing to
humanity and for the best development of
our civilization.
The south especially want’s no interrup
tion to the wonderful progress It has made
In the last quarter of a century. The
waters of prosperity which were so long
confined In the middle and New England
states, checked by that invisible dam
along the Mason and Dixon line have at
last been drawn southward, and your
strong banks through which it flows will
wisely control its course to fertilize our
fields, run our factories, and float our
products to all the world. We have had but
little help in dredging from out its channel
the ruins of a long and disastrous war,
but than heaven at last the golden
stream has touched the thirsting lips of all
the southern states and their commercial
strength was never so great as today.
We belong, gentlemen, to one of the old
est guilds in the world. From the earliest
dawn of history there has been a finan
cial system. Job was familiar with bank
ers in his prosperity and knew usurers in
his adversity. ‘‘The Bible mentions In the
Old Testament both bankers and lawyers,
but nowhere speaks In complimentary
terms of either. One reason may have
been that the ancestors of our profession
were not worthy of commendation, but I
think the better and more correct view to
take is that it has required nineteen hun
dred years of civilization and progress to
bring the world up to the proper apprecia
tion of both bankers and lawyers.” Some
banks, however, must have been recogniz
ed as safe places of deposit, and in the
early stages paid interest on balances, for
we learn from St. Luke In the parable of
the nobleman who on the eve of his de
parture gave to his ten servants a pound
each and ” said unto them occupy until
I come.” We find the one who had not
increased his holdings but said: “Here is
thy pound which I have kept laid up in a
napkin” was reproved by his master who
replied: "Wherefore then gavest thou not
my money into the bank, that at my com
ing I might have required mine own with
usury.” And although this unwise man
lost e’en that which he hath by not
making the deposit, there are still some
few of his descendants who prefer to keep
their funds “laid up in a napkin.”
The standard of our fraternity is high.
Through your hands have passed billions
of dollars. You have heard the pathetic
stories of the widows and orphans as they
deposited in your safe keeping their all.
You have heard the schemes of corpora
tions and the secrets of firms and individ
uals, but out of the thousands who have
been engaged in your honorable profession
those who have defaulted or been un
faithful to their trust would not make a
corporal’s guard.
I am sure our deliberations here will
be delightful and profitable. But as there
are many distinguished gentlemen who
will address you I am afraid some of
you may feel like the traveler on the
frontier who found himself out of reckon
ing one night in an unknown region. A
terrific thunderstorm came up to add to
his troubles. He floundered along until
his horse at last gave out. The lightning
gave him the only cue to his way, but the
peals of thunder were frightful. One bolt
which seemed to crash the earth beneath
him brought him to his knees.
By no means a praying man. his petition
was short and to the point. He looked up
Into the darkness and said: “Oh. Lord, if
all the same to you please give us a little
more light and a little less noise.”
Therefore I will no longer delay the
light, and only renew the thanks of the
Georgia. Bankers’ association to your gen
erous city for your cordial greeting, and
hope that this tri-state convention may
bring pleasure to all present and result in
much good to the large Interests which
we represent.
ESTILL MOIKE
NO FORTHEB
PDDTEST
CHAIRMAN BROWN REGARDS THE
MATTER CLOSED SO FAR AS
COMMITTEE IS CONCERNED.
APPEAL TO CONVENTION?
Judging from a letter received by Hon.
E. T. Brown, chairman of the state dem
ocratic’ executive committee, Colonel J.
H. Estill, of Savannah, will hardly make
any further protest to the executive
committee regarding the irregularities
which he charged occurred in the last
election.
Chairman Brown has received the fol
lowing letter from Mr. Estill:
Hon. E. T. Brown, Chairman, State
Democratic Executive Committee, At
lanta, Ga.—My Dear Sir: Yours of the 13th
at hand and I thank you very much for
your kind attention. With very best
wishes I am very truly yours,
i J. H. ESTILE.
The letter was one in reply to one
written to Colonel Estill by Chairman
Brown in which Chairman Brown stated
that the committee had no authority to
order a recount and that the matter must
be dealt with by the convention.
Chairmaji Brown says he regards the
matter closed so far as the committee
is concerned and he does not know what
Colonel Estill will do at the convention.
SHEWANTCHERSON
TO COME BACK
TOJLEB
MRS. M. C. GARVIN ASKS POLICE
TO LOCATE MAN WlJo LEFT
HOME OVER SEVEN
YEARS AGO.
The queer case of an Atlanta boy who
left home seven years ago and has not
since been heard from was reported to the
police Tuesday by his mother, with the
request that notices be sent out broadcast
to try and find him and bring him back.
The boy, now a man, left home because
of trouble with his father and stated at
the time that he wanted to get as far
away from him as possible. The father is
now dead and the mother thinks, perhaps,
her boy will come back.
John H. Garvin, 19 years old, when he
left, but now 26, Is the man wanted. His
mother is Mrs. M. C. Garvin, of 442 Wind
sor street. She called to see Chief Ball
Tuesday and told her pathetic story
and the longing of her old mother’s heart
to see once again her runaway boy.
Young Garvin at the time he left him
was wanted by the police. He had bor
rowed some things from a neighbor and
pawned them. The owner wished to prose
cute him for larceny after trust and the
boy, finding the officers of the law were
after him. fled after first confiding the
story to his mother. His father, John H.
Garvin, Sr., the boy said, was responsible
for the whole thing. He had first led his
son into the habit of drinking and had
later planned the pawning of the goods for
which the boy was wanted. It was a case
of stealing to get money for drink. The
boy, when he realized his offense, told
his mother he wanted to put as much of
the world between nlmself and his father
as possible. He left home at once. Later
his mother heard he went to Germany, but
nothing definitely could be learned. »
STATE PRISON
SYSTEM IS
ATTACKED
SIMON O’NIELL TELLS SOME
VERY HARROWINGTHINGSHE
SAW WHILE IN GEORGIA PEN
ITENTIARY. .
Simon O’Neill, the ex-Savannah police
man who was sent to the penitentiary
with Maurice Sullivan for 15 years for
killing Preston Brooks on the corner of
Oglethorpe avenue and East Broad street
in 1896 in Savannah, has given out an in
terview In Savannah which contains some
severe criticisms of the convict lease sys
tem of the state. His statement, if true,
indicates that there might be some chance
for reform in this connection.
O’Neill has always contended that he
did nothing for which he should have
suffered and In his statement telling of
his experiences at the different caipps In
which he has been employed he says:
“If I were to relate my observations of
the Georgia penitentiary, I would tell
enough to fill a book. Now, that I am
footloose and free I do not care to take
advantage of It and, besides, the Georgia
penitentiary is almost too disgusting a
place to talk about. I do not want to score
any one, but, as I have a feeling for my
fellow-man, for the benefit of those vtoo
are now suffering in Georgia prison hells
and the hope that It may do some good,
I will relate some facts about the peniten
tiary, which is a disgrace to civilization
and a blot upon the state. The lease sys
tem is a rotten and damnable speculation.
It is a veritable slavery—worse than any
slavery that existed before the war, es
pecially inasmuch as it makes slaves of
white men.
"Every convict camp Is a carbuncle on
the state and, If the public knew of the
way they are conducted, it would cause
general Indignation. Much of the convict
system has for years been handled by two
men and has been handed down by them
to others. It is not alone the unfortunate
prisoners who suffer. Many of them have
families suffering through their imprison
ment.”
O’Neill gives a description of how con
victs are whipped that is harrowing in
many instances. Os this he says:
"When I entered the penitentiary I
soon discovered that two-thlrds of the
whole thing was bluff.
"I tried to get along without any trou
ble, but whenever they directed any ot
the bluff toward me they always found a
man. I was always willing to submit
to law, but never to bluff. I was often
made angry and sorry, too, at seeing
big, able-bodied prisoners remove theii
clothing to let a whipping boss admin
ister punishment which was disgusting
and humiliating and must have been ex
cruciating torture. It made me angry to
see a prisoner submit and, at each stroke
of the lash to cry out: ’Lordy!’ and 'Yes,
sir, captain!’ as if approving of the Igno
minious punishment which lessees and
foremen delight in having inflicted and
barbarous whipping bosses take pleasure
tn inflicting. I have often wondered how
such men could look in the faces of their
wives and daughters and sisters. I hope
the days of the lash are not many, and
that huiqan kindness will take the place
of such barbarity. It is a wonder that
It does not often result In bloodshed. I
would have*suffered death rather than
submit to such humiliation. I have read
considerable in regard to a reform of the
penitentiary system and noticed that only
one person has spoken against the lash
and the whipping bosses, and that was
Mrs. W. H. Felton. Noble woman! Too
much cannot be said in her praise. I
would rather hear the rustle of a wom
an’s skirts coming to my assistance than
the noise of a regiment of troopers.
"In all their cruelty they claim they
are backed by the state. This treatment
of prisoners does not reform them; on
the contrary, it makes the depraved man
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sink deeper in depravity; the thief more
dishonest, and the desperate man more
desperate; in facj, those in charge of
the penitentiary give no thought to re
formation but only to speculation.”
Regarding the convict guards O'Neill
says in many cases they are more de
praved than the prisoners themselves.
He charges them with brutality and cru
elty. He says:
; *There is a greater percentage of de
pravity among convict guards than
among convicts. Let a woman sink to
the depths of depravity and she may be
found in the lowest dives. Let depravity
bar some men from society and they
fetch up at a convict canap shouldering
a gun and considering themselves state
officials. Imagine that class of state offi
cials on a salary of S2O per month.
"I am averse to criticising men whose
hands are tied and whose lips are sealed
through fear and by force, but in order
that I may not appear partial I will ac
knowledge that there are many depraved
prisoners in the penitentiary. During sev
eral years’ experience on the Savannah
police force I thought I had witnessed
much human depravity, but it is as noth
ing to what I found to exist in the peni
tentiary, much of which officials are re
sponsible for. In truth of this statement
I will mention the treatment of juvenile
prisoners at the state farm and young
men, or rather boys, in coal mines, who
are given /asks which they are physi
cally unable to perform. Three of them
are white boys not much more than tots,
brought up on equality with these negroes,
most of whom are much older and famil
iar with all kinds of vice. They are fol
lowed daily by the whipping bosses and
are under the same degrading lash as
the negroes. What kind of men do the au
thorities expect to make of these boys?”
ONeill then tells of how convicts are
whipped to music. He says when a man
is tied to the whipping post a gang of
convicts is made to gather around and
sing. Concerning this he said:
"One warden when he would some
times go to whip a man, would call the
other prisoners up who were religious
ly inclined and make them sing ’Amaz
ing Grace, How Sweet th/ Sound.’ At
each stroke of the lash the whipper
would repeat the words, ‘How . sweet
the sound,’ referring, of course, to the
sound of the lasji. He would order his
victim tb join in the song. I have seen
men with broken legs made to crawl
out of bed before they were able and
sometimes, while standing on crutches
in the yard, where they could not lean
against anything, the crutches would
be taken from under them. They would
be cursed and ordered to walk. Some
times a pistol would be fired close to
their feet to make them alert and
lively.
"Men are not supposed to be sick in
the penitentiary unless they have a very
high fever. The officers of these camps
are no more fit to have charge of
prisoners than a brutal Turk would be
to have charge of a female orphans’
home."
The prison farm, which heretofore has
never been complained of, and which has
been regarded as the model prison of
the south, is badly roasted by O’Neill. He
says:
‘‘The state farm - near Milledgeville,
where I spent nine months, was, I un
derstand, a model prison the first year
of its existence. If so it has gone back
wards a great deal. Cripples of all de
scriptions, afflicted men, paralytics, and
consumptives are driven over that hilly
farm and are abused by guards. They
are exposed to all kinds of weather im
properly clothed. In winter they only
have one shirt and the food they re
ceive is little better than starvation. They
get cowpeas, fat meat, and coffee as a
usual thing.
"One of the most humiliating things
at this camp is the strict inforcement
of an order that prevents negro con
victs from adresaing white convicts as
•Mr.’
"During the first year of tha farm
the people of Milledgeville used to visit
there, but they are not allowed to do so
now. At this farm, where squads - are
at work in the field, negroes are put in
authority over white men. They aet as
foremen. This tendency to keep the whites
and blacks together at work in the camps
is too pronounced in Georgia. It will al
ways cause trouble. The races should
be separated as much as possible. As a
native of a northern state I don’t want to
make any attempt to decide the negro
question for the south, but I say there is
as much hope of whites and blacks liv
ing on an equality and getting along as
we could have experiencing daylight and
dark at the same time. Whenever we
can experience this phenomenon then
whites and negroes will get along on so
cial equality. One to Just as possible as
the other."
The cruel treatment of Fred Kent, a ne
gro, is told of by O’Neill as follows:
"Two years ago at one of the camps
Frank Kpnt, a negro sent there from
Atlanta, had a most terrible experience.
He had to serve three years. He was a
very humble negro, and was suffering
from some chronic disease, probably
dropsy. He was placed at very hard
work on a tramroad, gnd, being unable
to do the work required of him, was
whipped nearly every day. One day I
was sick in the building. The negro was
kept in that day and double shackles put
on him. About noon he was carried out
in the yard and made to carry a part of
a log on his shoulder around the prison
building in the hot sun for about an
hour and a half until he was nearly ex
hausted. He was then put in the build
ing and placed on a bunk beside a hot
stove. He was covered with a 'gattress
and 24 blankets to be put through the
sweating process. For quite a while he
was kept there. I never heard any one
beg so piteously for mercy before, and I
hope I never will again. I soon noticed
that he had a gurgling sound in his throat.
"To all his pleadings he received noth
ing but taunting replies. Finally they
pulled him out and, becoming alarmed,
sent for the camp physician. He was
unable to save him, as he died that night.
I helped to place him in a box next day
and his body was sent to a medical college
In Atlanta, His hide was torn with the
lash, as he had been whipped severely ten
times in the last 16 days of his life..”
Jflffg J. 8. Turner, chairman of the pris
on commission, when shown the statement
of O’Neill declined to discuss thef matter,
saying the same story had been told by
convicts before, and that none of the al
leged outrages told of‘by O’Neill had ever
reached the ears of the commission with
out there had been an immediate investi
gation.
O’Neil was recently pardoned by Gover
nor Candler on recommendation of the
prison commission.
BODY OF MAJOR GRANDY
LAID TO REST TUESDAY
Major Luther B. Grandy, who died re
cently in the Philippines, was laid to rest
Tuesday afternoon in Westview ceme
tery with military honors.
Funeral services were conducted at the
residence of A. G. Smart, father-in-law of
the deceased, at 263 Peachtree street. Rev.
A. G. Spalding conducteu the services. The
services were characterized by a solemn
beauty and were attended by a large
number of friends of the deceased.
From the residence the funeral cortege
wound its way out to Westview cemetery,
where the interment took place. Four
companies of United States soldiers joined
the procession at the comer of Lee and
Gordon streets and acted as an escort. At
the cemetery the usual military ceremo
nies accompanying the burial of deceased
officers were gone through. Several volleys
were fired over the grave and "taps” were
sounded.
The following were the pallbearers: Col
onel John S. Candler, Colonel R. L. Ber
ner, Major Marcus W. Beck. Major John
S. Cohen, Major E. C. Davis, Captain
Amos Baker, Lieutenant T. J. Ripley,
Lieutenant Albert O. Marbut and Lieu
tenant Thomas F. Hastings.
Death at Ball Ground.
BALL GROUND, Ga.. June 17.—A. J.
Farmer, an employe of the Atlanta Mar
ble Co., located at this place died about
noon yesterday. e |
ATDEMOCRATS
HOT SHOTS
FIRED
NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS IN
STATE CONVENTION CON-;
DEMN MEN AND MATTERS
RELATING TO DEMOCRATS.
LINCOLN. Neb., June 18.—The Republi
can state convention was called to order
at 2 o’clock by the chairman of the state
central committee. Hon. Norris Brown,
temporary chairman, was introduced and
spoke in part as follows:
After speaking of the reorganization Os
Nebraska Republicans since their defeat
in 1896. Mr. Brown said:
“This reminds me that the opposition la
now tai«ung about reorganization. Reor
ganize what? Is there anything left to
reorganize? Towne has quit. Peffer has es
caped. Stewart has reformed, Henry Wat
terson is ready and always well organized;
Tammany hall has moved its greatest fea
ture to England and his successor has re
signed. Hill is a Democrat, Chairman
Jones Is a trust plutocrat, Allen is an edi
tor, Grover Cleveland has gone fishing,
and Bryan lives in a barn. Now, what is
there left to organized’
Mr. Brown said Cuba must be encourag
ed and protected, and if she is willing, an
nexed. The Philippine islands are ours.
They must remain ours and their people
be given those blessings of education and
liberty that fall from the folds of the Am
erican language. The far eastern be
longings of this country must be civilized,
if it takes the nation and ths Republican
party the rest of the century to do it In
concluding Mr. Brown said:
“Interests of tne world of labor and
trade must have full protection of law;
labor has the right to organise and com
bine for peaceful and lawful purposes.
Capital has the right to co-operate and
congregate so long as its purpose is peaea.
ful and lawful. But neither has any right
to trample on the rights of the public by
i the use of violence or by limiting produc
tion or controlling the prices of necessa
ries of life or by stifling competition. Such
are the principles of the Republican party
and such is the work at hand for it to
i do ”
i
MILLIARD LEE SANE;
MURDER TRIAL NEXT
Continued from Page Onto
. r I
know right from wrong? Their o#n doo*
tors have said he did. and he does. Thera
is the test!” •
"Deliberation, preparation, execution,
flight! Gentlemen, in a trial for murder
I could take these facts and convict thia
man before any jury on earth.”
’’ ‘lf I can’t get her, no other man shall
have her!’ That’s what he said. Kill the
man? No, not that! But he must see those,
beautiful eyes fast closed In death! Her
freed spirit has winged its way into the
paradise of God. He said he would fix her,
and he did! And yet he comes here and.
pleads, through his lawyer, that he didn’t
know what he was doing! _ ■
Attorney Arnold Closes. ~
The closing argument was made by
Colonel Reuben Arnold for the defense.
Colonel Arnold began very quietly, saying,
that Mr. Hill had indulged In quotations
of poetry, beautiful language, and had
discussed nearly everything except the
point at issue; that his language could
have been meant only to Inflame and ex
cite the passions and emotions of tha
jury.
“The sole question,”, said Mr. Arnold,
"is the question whether this man is at
present rational. There is no grander
spectacle than a judge and a jury con
secrated to justice. Such do not look at
prejudice or oratorical display. It to
above the inflammatory passions of the
crowd. It is serene and far-seeing.
"The study of the human mind is one
of the most complicated things we can
study. The mind depends upon to many
' things. Its qualities and functions have
to be so nicely adjusted that it la a won
der, not that there are so many insane,
but that the world possesses so many
sane minds.
"If you could forget the scene in this
church, if you could get out of your
minds this homicide, you would send this
man to the asylum with no hesitation,
and you know it. Its the memory, the
knowledge of tbe horrible crime that
bothers you. I know that. ( ,7
“But we ought not to condemn a man
on whom God has laid his hand, a man
, who has already suffered infinitely more
than h<s victim suffered. In this deed of
murder was the culminating act ot the
diseased mind.
"This thing of love is very nearly al
lied to insanity anyway. Such things as
violent minds cause insanity, although it
did not have to go far in this instance.
“There are two things that show his
Insanity; first, that his parents always
treated him like a child and the treat
ment accorded him by this sainted girl
showed she knew therp was something
wrong with him. She knew how every
body looked on him as a poor, dull, af
flicted creature on whom God had al
ready laid His hand. Why, this man
knew no more what he was <doing than
a man in a dream. Pinckney says it
was hysteria that caused his spells. God
knows there were storms in his heart,
and that there were delusions there. Dr.
Pinckney tells you that the scene in that
little church, the crowd, the sermon, the
music might have excited a sudden at
tack of hysteria. And then he did that
causeless act, that motiveless deed. It
was as Insane an act as was ever done.
The history of the crime alone will show
he is crasy.
"When you come to a preponderance of
testimony, we have more doctors than
they have, and three of their doctors re
ally helped us. We have a third more
witnesses than they. He was not a dis
sipated man. He never drank. He never
had bad companions. This crime to un
accountable except on the theory of insan
ity. This man is Imbeclllc. lask you. gen
tlemen. don’t be carried away by passion.
The object of the court is to get away
from such things. Remember, you ars
trying the naked issue: Is he of sound
mind?”
This closed the argument and Judge
Candler began to charge the jury.
In charging the jury Judge Candle*
said the object of the hearing was to de
termine whether the prisoner had suffi
cient mental capacity to understand the
nature of his offense, to realize his peril
and to assist his counsel.
"The test* is not whether the defendant
knew right from wrong at the time of the
crime, but whether his mind is now suf
ficiently unsound as to prevent his assist
ing his counsel in his defense. __
“If you believe him now sane, you will
decide against him, notwithstanding you
may believe that at the time of the crime
he may have been or was insane. It is
a question of his present soundness of
mind.”
At the conclusion of the charge the jury
withdrew to make up a verdict.
Georgia Postmasters.
WASHINGTON. June 18.—Fourth-elass
postmasters appointed today: Keaton,
Appling county, J. M. Sellers, vice A. O.
McEachln, resigned; Wellston, Houston
county, W. C. Lewis, vice W. C. Watson,
I removed. _ _