Georgia Historic Newspapers

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VOL. X
COMING CONGRESS IN
ATLANTA IS STIRRING
NffIONSINTEBEST
Eyes of Whole Country Will
Be on Atlanta When the
Southern Commercial Con
gress Convenes
Arrangement* hare practically been
completed for the Southern Commercial
Congress, the most gigantic and potential
undertaking of its kind in the history
of the south, which will convene In At
lanta March •. 9 and 10. All wires con
necting with Atlanta are kept red hot
with messages from the nation s fore
most officials expressing the keenest in
terest in the epoch-making congress and
signifying determination to be present
at as many a* possible of the impor
tant sessione.
On account of the homogenous ter
ritory the many and varied intereat* rep
resented will be. the most extensive
and far-reaching that has ever before
been assembled together. The meeting
and intercourse of these interests in a
great concentrated movement for the up
building of the south represent* the weld
ing and union of the resources of the
greatest nation in the world.
From all points of the compass the
eyes of the people are now centered upon
Atlanta. Every train moving in the di
rectlon'of. the metropolis of the south
i* bringing distinguished men of the
nation to the great congress.
Extensive preparations have been made
and are still being made by the citi
xrns of Atlanta. G. Grosvenor Dawes,
managing director, and Edwin Quarles,
secretary of the congress. The cham
ber of commerce through its energetic
secretary and president are taking active
steps toward the entertainment of the
lelegates. and Atlanta will throw wide its
njspitable doors to its distinguished
•isitors. -~ s
PRESIDENT PARKER HERE.
In the vanguard of arrivals Monday
norning were President Parker, of the
Southern Commercial Congress, who
tame to Atlanta from New Orleans. He
will be joined later by the other mem
ber* of the executive committee, includ
ing ex-Governor Francis, of St. Louis:
Gen. Julian 8. Carr, of Durham. N. C.,
and Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Flor
ida, at the Piedmont hotel. During the
last two days of the congress thi* ex
ecutive body will devote Its time and
thought to the formulation of plans per
petuating the work of the great organisa
tion
Another prominent arrival Monday was
Nathan Bedford Forrest, grandson of the
"Wizard of the Saddle,” who arrived in
Atlanta at 11 o’clock a. m.. from Mem
phis, Tenn. Nathan Bedford Forrest is
the adjutant general and chief of staff
of the United Son* of Confederate vete
rana He comes to co-operate in the great
movement and will deliver an address
Tuesday evening at I o’clock to the John
B. Gordon camp. J.uUed Sm-'« of Cob- .
federate veteran.*, and other similar or- >
ganixations of the state at Cable hall.
, In his address General Forrest will urge
the co-operation of the members of these
honored organization* In the establish
i ment and maintaining of the bond of un
ion between the people of the north,
south, east and west, in the work of the
Southern Commercial Congress.
Judge Judson C- Clemens, recently ap
p ited chairman of the interstate com
8. merce commission is also in Atlanta.
.When interviewed by Edwin Quarles,
secretar of the congress, he expressed
‘hi* views in regard to the work of the
congress. He emphasised the signifi
cance of the great convention beginning
Wednesday and demonstrated intense In
terest in it* vast importance. He stated J
that he had kept in close touch with
•the work of the congress and believed it I
to be the most momentous and impor (
-tant event in the history of the nation
since the troubles of ’SI.
Judge Clemens said that it was hard
for the people of the south generally to
appreciate a* yet the true meaning and
significance of the effort* being put
forth by the Southern Commercial con
gress. but he expressed the opinion that
the time chosen for the meeting in At
lanta of the southern business forces
was most opportune and a* a result of
the communion between north and south
at the psychological moment he predict
ed wonderful and lasting achievements
in the upbuilding of the entire nation.
Managing Director Daw« received a
telegram Moodya morning from Secretary
James Wilson, of the department of ag
riculture, stating definitely that he
would be present at the opening of the
congress. Word was also received from
C. H. Markham, president of the Illinois
Central, that ho would reach Atlanta on
March 10, and would attend several ses
sions of the congress.
Th* following letter expressing keen
regret that it would be impossible for
him to be present at the congress was
received from William G. McAdoo, for
merly of Marietta, Ga-, but who has
won name and fame in the east by the
building of ths famous McAdoo tunnel
connecting New York city with Jersey
City. Hoboken and other point* across
the Hudson river.
MR. M" A DOO’S LETTER.
Mr. McAdoo is prevented from attend
ing the congress on account of an impor
tant bustnes stranaaction which demands
his attention and presence in Europe.
His letter follows:
NEW YORK. Feb. 28, IMI.
Dear Mr/Dawe: I am unexpectedly
sailing for Europe on the Ist of March,
and for thtu reason am deprived of the
pleasure ana opportunity of attending the
forthcoming session *f the Southern
Commercial congress, as I had fully ex
pected to do. It is a great disappoint
ment to me, and I beg you to accept my
apologies' and to express to your asso
ciate* the keen regret I feel because of
my ’nabilitv to attend. I have not pre
pared a speech for the occasion, other
wise I would be glad to send yoli the
manuscript as requested. •
I desire to heartily congratulate you
and your associates upon banging to
gether so large a group of forceful and
distinguished men in a congress inspired
>y purposes so noble a* the moral and
material advancement of the south. I
am sure the congress will give a new
impulse to southern progress, and that
Us deliberations will result in stimulat
ing livelier Interest tn that great section
es the country which is surely destined
to become the theater of enormous in
dus trial and commercial development
■within the next generation.
The south is rapidly regaining the po
tential influence in the political affairs
of the country which she exercised prior
to the civil war. Southern ideals of the
finer sort, those ideals which have al
ways controlled its best men and its
b*e; women, are needed in the solution
the graver problems now confront
ing Dep.’Pi'H*’*'-' institutions, and in the
contest which democracy of tbo people
is going to demonstrate its mastery. _>
New Big Figure
In U. S. Senate
Senator Coe I. Crawford, of South Da
kota. who talked eight hours and five
minutes in filibuster against Lorimer.
DEMOCRITS IN POWtfl “
DURING NEXT CONGRESS
Many Prominent in Congress
Life During Past Years Now
in Private Life
BY RALPH SMITH.
. WASHINGTON. March «.-The death of
i the 61st congress Saturday at noon mark
ed the beginning of a new era In Amer
ican politics. For 16 years the Republi
can party has been in complete con-trol
of the legislative machinery of both
houses of congress. For 14 years it has
had the presidency, and the executive
has been in perfect harmony with the
congress. The next two years of Presi
dent Taft’s term, however, will find one
branch of the government—the house of
representatives—in opposition to the ad
ministration, and a Republican senate
not entirely in accord with the presi
dent. Just as Grover Cleveland had a
Republican house and a Democratic sen
ate. Mr. Taft will have a Democratic
house and a Republican senate.
In political annals the 61st congress
will live in memory chiefly because the
I despotic powers of the speaker were curb
ed by a demand from the people which
I found voice in a coalition of Democrats
I and progressive Republicans, popularly
i called insurgents. This combination up
jset Speaker Cannon’s splendid political
1 machine, which came to him as a legacy
1 from Reed, Crisp and Carlisle. The
I friends of reform call the change a re
turn of the government to the people,
and the stand-pat Republicans call It po
litical treason, admitting that It has rev
olutionised national legislation. -
THE REPUBLICAN TARIFF.
The 61st congres will also be remem
bered largely for the enactment of a
tariff law that Is now condemned alike
by Democrats and Republicans. Even a
Republican president has found portions
of the Payne bill indefensible. It was
the popular revolt against this tariff act
that resulted in the political upheaval
of both the house and senate.
In both houses of the tlst congress
the master minds of the dominant party
have been swept from power. Senator
Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, who
bosed the senate with an iron hand son
many, many years, was forced to retire
to private life, and quit of con
fress several weeks before his term ac
ually expired. His retirement was ne
cessitated to save his little state to the
Republican party. The same desperate
expedient occasioned the retirement of
Senator Hale, of Maine, but in this case
the expedient failed—and Maine went
Democratic for the first time in years.
As the 61st congress developed the po
litical condition which retired the veter
ans who stood by the old time Republi
can policy of protection, it also gave
birth to a new set of leaders in our.na
tional affairs— LaFollette. Cummins,
Bristow, Borah. These men have at last
come into their own. They will have to
be reckoned with by the Republican par
ty in the future, and their policies will
have to become part and parcel of the
Republican doctrine. Otherwise a new
line up is inevitable.
The doings of the dead congress have
been of deep political moment. The sym
pathies of the Individuals of both parties
have become public property.
DEMOCRATIC DIFFERENCES.
The 61st congress has served also to
develop Important differences in the Dem
ocratic party, and especially is this true
of the senate. While the Republican
dissentions are far more pronounced, the
Democrats have shown several diverging
v.ews on the tariff. . There are many
so-called "protective Democrats," men
who entertain a high regard for a stiff
"revenue duty.” Bailey, of Texas, typi
fies this classification, in part, though he
is vociferous in his arguments for a tar
iff along genuine Democratic line*.
It is these differences within the ranks
of the two great parties that develops
the questions: "What is a Democrat
and what is a Republican?” The retir
ing congress has left the question un
decided in some respects, and no effort
will here ’be made to answer either
question. The national conventions of
the paties in 1912 will have to settle
the matter.
President Taft undoubtedly finds the
present situation vexatious. He had
leaned toward both sides of the Re
publican party in the past two years.
He has denounced, mildly, the Payne
law, and he has defended it He ha*
blown hot and cold with alarming Ir
regularity. His recent actions indicate
that he is not very much enamored of
the Payne law, and his Canadian re
ciprocity agreement is far from pleas
ing to the wing of the Republican party
that denounces the Payne tariff.
The Republicans are in a bad way.
There is little time now for a recon
ciliation. and the members of the rival
factions are damning each other with
pleasing regularity—to a Democrat.
The Republicans who retire from office
are cursing their successful foes—tha
and the insurgents, in turn,
are accusing the stand-pat Republicans
of wrecking the party and bringing
about Democratic victory through their
obstinacy—their standpatism.
It may require time to heal up the
wounds in the Republican party, and
meanwhile the Democrats will be
weighed in the measure. The effect of
Democratic legislation on the business ,
conditions, the-pocketbook and the ap
petite of the wage-earner may settie
the question quickly, and bring the Re
publican party back to power. Then
again it may perpetuate itself in con
trol for a long period.
TAFT WANTS HARMONY.
President Taft is anxious for harmony
In his party. The insurgents' wing
EIi«ENTERS
SIXTH WEEK OF WORK
WITH BJGRECEPTION
Train Leaves Savannah and
Is Greeted by Tremendous
Ovations of. Farmers at
Statesbororo
BY BOGEBS WINTERS.
STATESBORO, Ga., March 6.—Big
things had been expected of this place
and of Bulloch county, but the recep
tion they gave the train went far be
yond all expectations. They had a
brass band from Savannah specially for
the occasion; they escorted the speakers
from the train to the court house steps,
where the crowd could get room; they
adjourned the city schools and the
schools within a radius of flue miles;
they would have given the visitors an
automobile ride over their fine roads if
there had been time enough; and they
turned out nearly five thousand people,
an immense gathering which Included
I practically the entire local population
and a majority of the land-owning far
mers of the whole county.
The train arrived about 8 o'clock. The
reception committee came aboard at
once, and in a few minutes the speak
ing was under way at the court house.
The band played as the train came
up, and led the way to the courthouse.
Mayor J. A. McDougald headed the re
ception committee and prepared the re
ception at the court house.
BY BOGEBS WINTER.
SAVANNAH, Ga., March 6.—Sunday
was a rest day, a pleasant day, and a
thoroughly beneficial day for the party
aboard the educational train at Savan
nah. After a particularly arduous week’s
work, all hands aboard were tired and
they absorbed rest like a sponge takes
up water. Piloted by officials of the Cen
tral of Georgia railway, they saw a good
part of the beautiful city and had some
fine things to eat at Thunderbolt. Long
confinement in narrow quarters had ren
dered the live stock stiff and tired, and
so it was for them a good day as well
as for the men. Early Sunday morning
they were taken out on a platform and
walked up and down for two or three
hours. Constant traveling at a fairly
rapid schedule had shaken up the train
considerably and it came in for no small
share of the general benefit.
Saturday will go on record as one Os
the best days on the whole trip. Four
towns, in three counties, and crowds
aggregating more than 4,000. was task
enough for the strongest workers. By
the time breakfast had been swallowed
at an early hour the engineer was slow
ing down for Gordon, and from that mo
ment till bedtime there wasn’t a let-up.
FOUR LIVELY SESSIONS.
Gordon, population upwards of 600, pret
ty, prosperous and progressive, turned
mrt one es the best all-round-*receptions
met with. Surrounding tne town is a
rich and fertile territory cultivated by
farmers who proved their progressive
ness by getting up at daylight in order
to be in Gordon when the train arrived.
Toomsboro, 15 miles further down the
line, was in many respects exactly simi
lar to the Gordon stop. A town of about
the same sixe, tiie same general ground
plan, with the same air of prosperity
and progressiveness, and with a popula
tion and a gathering of farmers brimful
of exactly the same enthusiastic inter
est.
Then came Tennille, where the crowd
was so big and so bent on learning that
it overwhelmed the train; and after Ten--
nille, Wadley, whiqh wasn’t far behind
in numbers, nor a whit in interest.
Sandersville sent down a strong party
in a special train to Tennille, and the
northbound Augusta Southern waited an
hodr and a half to accommodate folks
up their way. Cheap rates prevailed on
each of the several lines coming into
Tennille.
PARTY GUESTS OF CENTRAL.
On Sunday the party were the. guests
all day of the Central of Georgia rail- I
road, and a mighty enjoyable time they j
were . given. First they were taken to
the Casino at Thunderbolt for a splendid i
dinner, consisting mainly of various sea- 1
food dishes, for which the cases at Thun
derbolt are deservedly famous. A pleas
ant hour on the verandas after dinner,
with a strong breeze straight from the
ocean blowing in their faces, made the '
erstwhile worn-out workers feel as if I
they had never been weary in their lives, i
an<J put them in fine fettle for a cruise ;
several miles out to sea from the Yacht I
club. It was night when they finally ;
got back to the city, after a long ride in |
automobiles over the magnificent shell
roads of Chatham county. The gentle
men who conducted the party were J. M.
Mallory, the Industrial agent of the Cen
tral railroad; J. F. Jackson, the immi
gration agent, and W. B. Clements, the
city ticket agent at Savannah. As gen
tlemen and as hosts there are no finer
than these three, and the party of the
agricultural train will always cherish a
warm spot in their hearts for them.
Monday morning the train leaves over
the Dublin branch ok' the Central for
Statesboro, Stillmore and Adrian. Large
crowds are sure to be on hand at each ,
of these places, but the men on the i
train are in keen trim again for arduous '
work
also professes to want peace, but the
olive branch they hold 'out is some
what arbitrary. "Take our views and
we will get together in a hurry,” they
say—and there’s the rub. The stand
patters of the Cannon type are not dis
posed to accept the progressive ideas
when congress meets again.
The congress which ended to-day com
mitted three political sins which the
people will be reluctant to forgive.
One was the vindication of William
Lorimer, of Illinois. Lorimer has his
seat, but the question may not be set
tled. If new evidence can be found in
Illinois the senate committee on privi
leges and elections may review the Lor
impr case in the next congress.
The congress did not appease the
people’s anger at the official conduct
of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger.
President Taft’s defense of his cabinet
minister has not come in for the Criti
cism which the congressional commit
tee’s whitewash gave him, and when
the congress let the Ballinger report
sleep to death without action it offended
the sense of justice of the people.
Again, the retiring senators, repudi
ated by their cos Hied t
Borah constitutional amendment for the
direct election of senators. Able minds
have argued on both sides of this ques
tion. but it is self evident that a great
majority of the country favors this re
form which was effectively killed in
the sixty-first congress. It will come
before the sixty-second congress with
greater strength behind it,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1911.
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ADJOURNMENT WITH A STRING TO IT
BAILEY WITHDRAWS
HIS RESIGNATION
Texas Senator, Urged by the
Governor of Texas, Stays
in U. S. Senate
/ (By AMoeisted Fress.)
WASHINGTON, March 4—Senator
Joseph W. Bailey added to the excite
ment and to the extraordinary episodes
surrounding the adjournment of the 6lst
congress today by resigning his office
as senator from the state of Texas, and a
few hours later withdrawing his resig
nation.
Angered by the attitude of his Demo
cratic colleagues in favoring the resolu
tion approving the new constitution of
Arizona, to whose radical features Mr.
Bailey has declared his undying opposi
tion, he wrote his resignation and took it
to the .vice president with the request
that he announce it to the senate. Mr.
Sherman .declined to have anything to do
with it Senator Bacon, importuned in
like manner to announce, took a similar
position. Thereupon the Texan tele
graphed it to Gov. O. B. Colquitt, of
Texas, who promptly refused to accept
it. replying as follows:
"I decline to accept your resignation
as a senator from Texas and respectfully
ask you to withdraw it. Please wire
fully.”
Meanwhile, the resignation was a sub
ject of excited discussion about the capi
tol, many of Mr. Bailey's Democratic
colleagues expressing surprise at ills ac
tion, and those who talked with him
urged him to reconsider his action. Not
a few prophesied that he would think
differently of his decision "after he cools
off,” and would withdraw the resigna
tion. z >
WITHDRAWS RESIGNATION.
He did withdraw it and this evening
made public the telegram sent by him
to Governor Colquitt:
"You know how unalterably I am op
posed to those populistic heresies, known
as the initiative, referendum and recall,
and I would not bo willing to remain in
the senate or in any branch of the pub
lic service if a majority of the party
friends associated with me were willing
to give their approval of them.
"I construed the vote of the Demo
cratic senators in the senate this morn
ing on the resolution approving the con
stitution of Arizona as giving their sup
port tg these vagaries and unde* that
impresiion I promptly tendered my res
ignation. The ablest and most conspicu
ous Democrats who voted that way have
given me their assurance that they did
not intend their votes to be so construed
and have made, through Senator Bacon,
a statement in the open senate declaring
that they utterly disapprove them.
"Under these circumstances and at
their earnest request as well as your own
request, supplemented by many messages
from my friends in Texas and some from
other states, I have concluded to with
draw my resignation. I am willing to
work to the limit of my strength as long
as I can serve the public and at the same
time obey what I understand to be the
commandment of Democratic principles,
but no office could tempt me for one mo
ment to compromise with a policy which
I am certain would in the end destroy
the government established by our fa
thers.”
“ABLEST IN SENATE.”
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, be
fore he heard that Mr. Bailey had with
drawn his resignation, issued a state
ment in fchich he expressed profound re
gret at the Texan’s action, character
izing it as "precipitate and unwise; the
result of passion which he will regret as
soon as he cools off.” He declared Mr.
Bailey "the ablest man in the senate
without exception, and one of the best
equipped men tn public life.” And that
he had known for years that there was
a coterie in the senate envious of Mr.
Bailey and plotting against his assum
ing leadership. The senator had played
into their hands by his action, Mr. Till
man said.
“I knew Bailey was mad,” said an
other senator, "but I never thought he
would use his rage as a hatchet to split
open his own head.’’
Eleven of the Democratic senators sent
to Governor Colquitt the following tele
«ra«; -
*- JUST WHAT CONGRESS DID ♦
*- DURING 61ST SESSION. ♦
*- WASHINGTON; March 4—Out of ♦
♦- the grist of bills that Went to the
*- mill of congress in the session that
*- enfled today emerge these results
♦ of more or less imperative inter-
♦ est; ♦
♦ POSITIVE RESULTS. ♦
Provision of 83,000,000 for the for- ♦
*- tifleation of the Panama canal. ♦
*- Provisions for two new battle- -♦
*- ships. *
♦ Recortja<rAlon- of tha-- Judicial ♦
■*■ code, regarded as most important
*■ for .the amelioration of the laws
delays. ♦
-*■ Creation of forest reserves in the
♦ southern Appalachian and White
-* mountains.
♦ Providing for the construction of ♦
embassy and legatjpn buildings
♦ abroad.
*- Requiring* the inspection of lo-
♦ comotive boilers. ♦
-* NEGATIVE RESULTS. ♦
*- Failure of the Canadian reclp- -♦
roclty agreement in the senate and
*- causing an extra session. ♦
♦ Failure of the permanent tariff
♦ board bill which passed the senate
but was kiled by a filibuster in the
•> house today.
y Failure of the resolution to ad
mlt to statehood Arizona and New
Mexico, which was killed by a fill-
*- buster In the senate. ♦
♦ Failure of the proposal to in- -*
crease the rate of postage on the
♦ advertising sections of the large
*- magazines; but provision for a -*•
*- commission to investigate the sub- ♦
♦ ject.
♦ Failure of the senate resolution
providing for the direct election of
♦ United States senators. ♦
♦ Failure of the general age pen-
♦ slon biW. ♦
Failure to act on Ballinger-Pin-
♦ chot Investigation reports. ♦
♦ Failure to enact the ocean mail
♦ subsidy, passed by the senate ♦
alone.
♦ » * ♦■»♦* »»*-**>*** ♦»*****♦.*-*-
DALTON POULTRY FAIR
DOUBLES ITS PRIZES
, —_
DALTON, Gg., March 6.—As an evi
dence that they Intend to make —e 1911
poultry show here a great one, the Dal
ton Paultry and Pet Stock association,
at the meeting Saturday afternoon, de
cided t<s just double the prizes ’offered
last year.
The meeting was attended uy a num
ber of the stockholders was an extreme
ly enthusiastic one. Officers for the
year were elected as fellows:
L. J. Allyn, president; J. L. Wallace,
vice president; F. W. Weatherly, secre
tary, and R. A. Shatzer, treasurer.
The show this year will be held in
November, beginning Monday, the 20th,
and lasting through the week. The as
sociation will go out after entries, and a
big show is expected.
ASK TAFT TO PARDON
ALABAMA LUMBER MEN
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 4.—The
Alabama legislature to-day adopted a
resolution requesting President Taft to
pardon W. S. Harlan, S. E. Huggins,
C. C. Hillton, Robert Gallagher and
»v alter E. Grace, of the Jackson Lumber
Company, Lockhart, Ala., who are serv
ing a term in the federal penitentiary at
Atlanta for peonage.
The resolution recites that "it is the
universal opinion among those who know
the facts of the case that, if guilty at
all, the defendants were only technically
guilty and had no intention of offending
against the laws.”
MONROE GROWERS SAY
PEACH CROP IS SAFE
JULIETTE, Ga., March 6.—According
to advices received her, the peach crop
in Monroe county was hurt very little
by the recent cold snap. Peach growers
throughout the county are of the opinion
after Investigating their orchards that
a big crop of peaches will be harvested
in this county this season.
FIRST TIKE IIP TMIFF
IT THE EHR* SESSION
Democrats Think Tariff Will
Be Changed and Reciprocity
< Bill Then Passed
. 'U®*- -Jr ***• -* •x, -- '4~ Ay
WASHINGTON. D. C„ March 4—The
turbulent scenes incident to the death of
the 61st -congress, and its sins of com
mission and omission, have almost been
forgotten already in the interest that re
volves around the assembling of the 82d
congress on April 4, In response to the
call of President Taft. Incidentally, it
may be stated that the president display
ed, more backbone than he was generally
credited with having. Few Republicans
of prominence and no Democrats believed
that he would make good his threat to
assemble congress in extra session If the
Canadian reciprocity agreement failed.
Scores of hats—statesmen and politicians
always wager hats—were lost as a result
of the president’s call, and* not a few
pieces of new headgear will adorn the
domes of pewspaper men who profited
at the expense of statesmen. At the
capitol yesterday it was impossible to
find a senator who believd there would
be an extra session, though all agreed
that reciprocity had no chance.
And tonight the Democrats are rejoic
ing at what they regard the greatest po
litical blunder ever made by a political
leader. They can scarcely believe that
the president has actually called a con
gress, the lower branch of which will be
controlled and dominated by the Demo
cratic party, to assemble with a view to
enacting his legislative program.
"I do not understand the reason or
necessity for the extraordinary session
of congress. Undoubtedly the commis
sioners of the Canadian government in
their negotiations with the American
commissioners knew that the president
of the United States had no power fur
ther than to submit the agreement en
tered Into to the American congress,
with his recommendation for Its adop
tion. They also knew that the time of
convening and adjourning of the late
session of congress was fixed by law.
The president submitted the agreement
to the congress with his favorable rec
ommendation, and the congress consid
ered It, but failed to enact it Into law.
I don’t see anything more that the
president could have constitutionally
promised or agreed to do other than he
has done. If he undertook to do more
than this he had no warrant under our
constitution for it.
WOULD REMIT *5,000,000.
"The proposed agrement, If made a
law, would result in our government
remitting something less than $5,000,000
in duty yearly that It now collects. If
this entire sum was applied to the re
duction of the cost of living and distrib
uted among our ninety million people,
the saving to each would be infinitesi
mal.
"The agreement does not seem to me
to be of that tremendous importance
requiring an extraordinary session of
congress. It is a fact, further, that
the Canadian parliament has not yet
ratified the agreement, and even though
the agreement was of that paramount
importance as to require an extraordi
nary session of congress it would have
been time enough to have called it af
ter the Candian parliament had rati
fied the agreement.
"Georgia is sure to fare well in the
distribution of committee places. Ad
amson will get the chairmanship of the
committee on interstate and foreign com
merce, Bartlett will land the chairman
ship of the committee on accounts and
a place on the appropriations commit
tee: Hardwick will be assigned to the
chairmanship of the committee on
coinage, weights and measures, and will
also be a member of the rules commit
tee: Edwards will hold his place on the
rivers and harbors committee; Roden
berry will probably get on the judiciary
committee: Hughes may be assigned to
public buildings committee or military
affairs in addition to his place on the
public lands committee; William S. How
ard, of the fifth, will probably land
on the labor committee and possibly on
military affairs; Lee will hold his place
on the agricultural committee; Tribble
of the eighth will get foreign affairs;
Bell will remain on postoffices.
&
JOHNSON THREATENS
CANNON WITH ORICK
ON FLOOR OF HOUSE
Kentucky Member Threatens
Lively Tilt When He Was
Not Recognized
by Speaker
BY MAJMPX SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4.—Mark
ed by acenes of the wildest disorder, w:th
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, refusing to
meet President Taft; Senator Bailey, of
Texas, handing in his resignation, and
Representative Johnson, of Kentucky,
threatening Speaker Cannon with a brick, ,
the 61st congress adjourned today.
Within an hour after adjournment
President Taft called the 62d congress
to convene In extraordinary session
April 4.
Not in the memory of the oldest veter
an in either body have such scenes been
enacted around the capitol. It was nec
essary at one point to threaten the *'
tire Democratic aide of the house vltil
arrest.
"UNDER THE MACBI”
"Under the mace.” Thia did no goo<L
The minority, individually and collect
ively, showed little respect for tha sa
cred symbol of the authority of the bosy« ,
The violent scenes continued.
The house employes, including ths
guards at the doors of the chambers,
stared wide-eyed and agape at .the un
precedented picture, and while they neg
lected their duty, hundreds of specta
tors crowfied past them and In on ifce
usually inviolate floor. Men and womeb
fought for places in the rear and around
the side of the chamber, jostling one an
other and crowding the representatives,
who were too Interested to take exception
to the invasion, which at any other time
would have been bitterly and actively
resented, in turn remained spellbound by
the incidents that occurred within klret
oscopic rapidity within the chamber.
TARIFF BILL DROPPED.
Finally, when it was apparent that ths
Democratic filibuster against tha tariff
board bill had progressed to a point
where the postoffice appropriation bill
was about to fail of passage, rendering
an extra session necessary. Canadian
reciprocity, the Republican leaders yield
ed and the administration’s pet meas
ure was thrown overboard to save the
day.
Chairman Payne, of the ways and
means committee, asked unanimous con
sent that it might withdraw, and amid
deafening cheers from the victorious
Democrats, gloomy silence from the Re
publican side, the bill was consigned to
the legislative ash heap.
Then the postoffice appropriation bill
was finally passed, and the house, with
one of those quick transitions of mcod
for which that body is famous, proceed
ed, by unanimous consent, to pass a res
olution thanking Speaker Cannon for
the manner in which he had
ever the house. With a kfndly speech
by Speaker-to-be Champ Clark, arts Ing i
salute to Speaker Cannon and a round
of crushing cheers for the veteran Dan- 9
ville warrior, the first man to serve-30
years In the body and the second to j»re
slde as speaker for eight years, the
house adjourned.
After a sequel of thrills which have
followed each other more rapidly and
more unexpectedly and more jarringly
than at the close of any previous ses
sion of congress, the senate completed
its labors at 12:18 o’clock this afternoon.
SUNDAY BILL PASSES.
Not until half an hour before the gavel
of Vice-President Sherman fell did the
members of the senate know that the
biggest of the annual appropriation billi,
the sundry civil bill, would go through.
And up to the very minute the confer
ence report on that measure was agreed
to in the senate practically every mem
ber was on pins and needle* as to the
fate of several of the big appropriation
bills.
The last 24 hour* of the session in the
senate proved a fitting climax for the
last week of the session. The week be
gan with the filibuster of the insurfpant
senators, together with a handful of
the Republican regulars and ano Jier
group of Democrats, against a vote on
the Lorimer case, resulting in an all
night session. A compromise on the
Lorimer filibuster, made possible by the
strength taxing and wearying struggle,
through a night and a day, only led
another filibuster, that of the Democrat* 1
on the tariff board bill. Another trying
ordeal for all warring factions followed.
And again a compromise was readied.
It was then desired to save the aptiro
prlatlon bills.
No sooner had lie tariff board fili
buster com* to an end when another
against • the appropriation measures
loomed upon the horizon. Many of the
biggest and moat important of th* an
nual supply measures were hanging in
the balance. Bills like the sundry civil,
the naval, postofflee, the pension and
the general deficiency measures.
SUPPLY BILLS FINALLY PASSW.
Tediously did the senate try to w md
its way through the legislative maze,
and it was nerve-racking work. There .
was a relenting of the filibuster against
the supply bills as th* hours wore on.
And finally they were pushed through at
less than 24 hours before the closing of
the session.
“The most violent day in the most
violent session of the most violsnt •
house.”
Even this is an inadequate description
of the scenes in the house of representa
tives today, according to members and
clerks of the body whose recollections
cover a period of 30 years. After a
continuous session of nearly twenty
seven hours, that tried the patience of
members, frazzled their nerves and
strained their tempers to the breaking
point, the wind up was, in away, In
evitable.
Precipitated by a determined Denu
cratic filibuster against the administra
tions—desired permanent tariff board
bill, the riot in the house in the conclud
ing hours passed all bounds of parlla-'*
mentary decorum, broke all precedents
and established a record for violence and
disorder that, it is the general hope, will,
stand undisturbed for all the years to
come.
The most distressing of all the
incidents of the day in the house
was admittedly the colloquy be
tween the speaker and Representa
tive Johnson, of Kentucky. It was
at the conclusion of a roll call, during
the coure of which the Democratic side
pdrposely created so much confusion
that there was great delay and the voice
of the clerk calling the names of mem- j
bers could hardily be heard. Mr. John
son sought to have his name recorded, »
insisting that he had been skipped, and
the speaker delayed recognition of him.
Purposely, Mr. Johnson thought
"If you were a younger mto I’d hurl |
a brick at you,” yelled Johnson, sav
agely, standing immediately in front of
the speaker’s desk and brandishing his J
first in the air, _
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NO. 48.