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Newspaper Page Text'Atlan Shwoal VOL. X. UNDER THE STMS I m ENVBVS . SIGN PEACE PACT By Fitful Flare of Blazing Matches With Fountain Pen Signatures Are Affixed to Historical Document By AtxKU'.td hml JUAREZ. Mexico. May 22-Tranquility jf an oihcially declared variety, not un like the quietude of the erstwhile gen eral armixt.ee. but possessing more of the normal atmosphere of real peace, reigned in northern Mexico today for the first time in six months. Messages were flashed today over all wires and by courier to remote parts of the country announcing that a peace agreement had definitely ended the hos tilities between the revolutionists and the ' federal government Undisguised Joy beamed tn the face of Judge Carbajal, the federal peace en voy, today as he prepared to depart for , Mexico City, his mission here being ac complished after nearly four weeks of parleys. Francisco I. Madero. Jr., tri- i umpbant leader of the revolt, will await the resigation of President Diaz, starting for Mexico City within a week, when it Is expected to become an established fact. Senor Madero smiled this morning as • he heard the story of how the peace ; agreement was signed -last night. His callers told and retold the humorous sidelight that was thrown on the signing of the domument.. ». Francisco Madero, Sr., had called on Judge Carbajal at El Paso, About 9:30 o'clock last night, and after a' tedious half hour wait for Senor Pino Saurex, the party started for Juarez in a big au tomobile. thinking Senor Suarez previous ly had gone to the. customs house here. When the peace automobile, followed by three machines filled with newspaper men. dashed up to the customs house shortly after M o'clock, neither Senor Suarez mor anyone else was there to receive them.' The customs house door was barred by a huge grating. Senor Suarez failed to appear and after a brief conference it was decided, as the document already had been drafted, - to sign the pact on the steps of the building, agreeing to allow Senor Suarez to sign it today. There, under the stars, copies of the peace ngreamer.t were signed and ex changed. while four automobiles on the opposite side of the street turned their glaring searchlights on the customs Mouse steps. The newspaper men con tributed their hard pads and some matches and huddled together to keep the matches from being extinguished by the evening breeze. It mas Francisco Madero, Sr.'s foun tain pen that was used. In watching the commissioners slowly sign their names under the agreement, one of the bystand . era forgot the burning match he held. He nearly spotted one of the signatures when he dropped the flame as the pact waa being signed. The commissioners en joyed the humor of the situation, and declared that never was a peace treaty signed under more extraordinary condi tions. When it was all over, they embraced in true Spanish fashion. RELIEF. IS EXPRESSED. The commissioners expressed great re lief thax the task for which they so long had labored had been accomplished without the introduction of disagree able conditions and without injuring the national prestige or dignity of their country. Though peace agreement provides for the gradual dispersing of the troops, it i is not believed any counter revolts or disturbances will occur. The object of the gradual disbanding of the insurrec toa. it is expected, is to maintain for a short time a good fighting force by i which to keep order among the small scattered bands who might feel inclined to disregard the peace agreement Trouble is expected with the rebels in \ lower California. Though the rebels there have never been allied with the Madero movement, the rebel chiefs here will send envoys or messages to lower California urging the acceptance of the conditions agreed upon here Should they refuse an armed expedition probably led by Pascual Orozco, will be sent to sub due them. Senor Madero, in his victory feels that he will now be responsible for the restoration of complete tranquility and will attempt to demonstrate that if he is not in control of some of the bands he at least can subjugate them. DELEMTESinraUB ■ IT GOOD BOIDS MEET Birmingham Filling With Visi tors —National Congress to Be Biggest Yet (By Associated Press.) BIRMINGHAM Ala., May 22.-Dele gates and visitors have already begun to arrive in this city to attend the fourth National Good Roads congress which convenes here Tuesday morning. Over 4,000 persons, representing 18 states, have notified the local committee of their in tention of being present. The city is gaily dressed in honor of the occasion, and is waiting to welcome what will be perhaps the largest gath erng ever held here. President Arthur C. Jackson, of Chi cago. one of the first to arrive, says that indications are ttiar the congress will be the most successful 4n the history of the organization. One of the features of the congress will be the visit of five of the governors of southern states. There will also be a number of senators, congressmen, state commissioners of agriculture, railroad presidents, and good roads experts. The good roads car of the United States de partment of road*, and the good roads train of the Southern railway will both be located here for demonstration pur poses during the congress. SENTRY HEARD NOISE; ■ STOPPED A BULLET SAN DIEGO. Cald.. May 22.—0tt0 Sonn tag. a member of the guerilla force of General Pryce, at Ti Juana, heard a rose while on sentry duty yesterday, andl Imagining an attack, discharged his rifle to raise an alarm. An enthusiast within Pryce's lines fired an answering shot and Sonntag fell mortally wounded. He died lam night. There was no attack. LARIMER'S RIGHT TOmSWE AMINJIJESTIONED Resolution of Senator LaFol lette Calling for Investiga tion of Legality of Illinois Senator’s Election Up Again BT RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON. D. C., May 22.-Wllllam Lorimer’s title to a seat in the United States senate from Illinois will be again investigated by the senate. The initial steps will be taken at to day's session when the committee on privileges and elections will be directed to reopen the case and report its findings to the senate. The pro-Lorimer senators are agreed to this move, as the personnel of the committee oh privileges and elections is favorable to the "Blonde Boss of the Chl ago Stock Yards." News of this scheme leaked out Satur day afternoon and it came from the Lori mer! tes. Senator Bailey, of Texas, it is said, is willing that the case shall be re opened, provided the inquiry is conducted by the committee on privileges and elections. Senator LaFollette's resolution, calling for another investigation of Lorimer's election, will come up this afternoon. » This resolution provides for and names a special comittee of new senators to conduct the Investigation. LaFollette, other progressive Republicans, and many Democrats, have been pressing this mat ter for some time, and the fact that It can no longer be delayed has forced the Lorimer senators to agree to a reopen ing of the case, under certain conditions. The committee on privileges and elec tions will conduct the Lorimer inquiry during vacation of congress, and report its to the senate next December. This will eliminate the Lorimer case for the time being and enable the senate to proceed with other business. It is a foregone conclusion that the com mittee will report in favor of Lorimer, as It did last time. It is equally certain that there will be a minority report. The hearing before the finance commit tee of the senate on the Canadian reci procity bill was resumed today with the prospect that hearings would continue throughout the week. The Sherral committee of the house, elected to investigate the United States Steel corporation, began work today, its first business being to communicate with the department of justice and the bureau of corporations, to obtain records of in quiries made by those departments into the affairs of the steel corporation. Taft Is Attacked By Senator Nelson WASHINGTON. May 22.-Senator Nel son, of Minnesota, attacked President Taft today before the senate finance committee for seeking to prevent the sen ate from amending the Canadian reci procity bill. He declared that the con stitution made the senate part of the treaty-making power of th e country and offer several amendments to the meas ure. . senator Nelson’s amendments would reduce about one-half the existing tariff rates on most farm products. To put farm products on the free list, he de clared. wa s legislating directly against the farmer. •President Taft is evading the consti tution of the United States, ‘ he assert ed. “when he tries to force the senate to accept this agreement as It' was pre sented. He is trifling with the senate of the United States.” > Senator Nelson urged, the committee to consider carefully his proposed amend ments de said the senate had amended previous treaties and that there was no valid reason why It should not amend the Canadian agreement. JACKSON EXPECTS BIG CROWDS TO HEAR BRYAN June 12 Will Be One of Big gest Days in History of Jackson JACKSON, 9a., May 22.—Jackson, which has the distinction of having Wil liam Jennings Bryan for <his first lecture in the south this season, is making great preparations for his lecture here on June 12 when he speaks at the Jackson Chau tauqua. Though Mr. Bfyan will sppak at other places in Georgia, yet Jackson is nis first engagement, as he will come here direct from his home. He will be intro duced by one of the best known orators in the south. Invited to sit on the stage with the distinguished Nebraskan will be Gov. Joseph M. Brown, Gov.-elect Hoke Smith, and prominent men of this section, as well as a large delegation of local citizens. Immediately after his address here Mr. Bryan will be taken by automobile to Macon to catch a train for Dublin where he has an engagement to speak that night. He will also speak at Albany while he is in this section. Thousands of people have signified their intenuon of hearing the great Com moner when he speaks here. The school auditorium, where he will lecture, is sure to be taxed to its capacity and prepara i tions are under way to take care of the ■overflow crowd by providing extra seats The day will be one of the biggest in the history of Jackson, as few towns of its size can afford to have an attrac tion of this class. The chautauqia this year promises to be the best ever held in this section. The Jackson Chautauqua has engaged some of ttie strongest talent to be had. The Chautauqua will be held from June 11 to 17. ~r. Edwin M. Poteat, presi dent of Furman university, will preach the Chautauqua' sermon. Sunday, June 11. He will also lecture during the week. The talent includes Dr. Edwin M. Po teat. William Jennings Bryan, .viarvin Williams. .om corwine, the Chicago Lyric Glee club, Miss Evelyn Bargelt, Matthiessen's Alkahest band and other splendid talent. TENNESSEE OFFERS SUMMER WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, May 22.—Offering the president a fully equipped summer White House in the Smoky mountains of Ten nessee. a delegation of Berryville. Tenn., residents, headed by Representative Aus tin. called on Mr. Taft today. The Ten nesseans propose to erect the summer White House on Bald knob, about 60 miles from Knoxville. It is not believed the president will accept the offer. It is only one of many that have come to Mr. Taft since the proposal of Min nesotans that he establish a summer cap itol near St. Paul. ON WE OF DEATH AIRMEN RACE FROM PARIS TO MADRID / 1 • Terrible Tragedy of Sunday in Which French Minister of War Was Killed Fails to Stop Race (By Associated Frei*.) PARIS. May 22.—Physicians today re ported as satisfactory the condition of Antone Monis, the French premier and minister of the interior, who was seri ously injured yesterday when an aero plane, piloted tjy M. Train, ' flashed into a group of government officials in the military field at Isay les Moulineaux. They had gathered to witness the start of the Paris-to-Madrid race. Henri M. Berteaux, the French minis ter of war, was killed and two other men were hurt. Premier Monia, who was buried be neath the wreckage of the monoplane, sustained compound fractures of two bones in the right leg, his nose was broken and his face bruised. He passed a quiet night. d’ierre Vedrlne undismayed by the wreck of his own machine yesterdhy, just prior to the disaster in which the French minister of war was killed, again started in the Paris-to-Madrid race early 'this morning. < M. Train, who in trying to avoid crashing into a squadron of curas siers galloping across the mili tary field caused yesterday's trag edy and who was entitled, under the conditions of the race, to make another start In the international flight contest, announced that he had no heart to do so because of his terrible mishap. Four other aviators, Weymann, Frey, Gamier and Terrept, also retired from the race. Vedrlne at 3:30 this morning (ook a pre liminary flight around the field at Issy les Moulineaux, testing his motor and then at 4:11 o’clock arose high in the air and disappeared swiftly in the fog to wards Augouleme, the first stage of the race. Vedrlne arrived at Angouleme at 7:60 o'clock, having covered the 279 miles in 3 hours and 39 minutes. The running time of the southern express between Paris and Angouleme is 5 hours and 18 minutes. The judges announced that Vedrlne had broken the record for the long dis tance cross-country flight. His time was all the more extraordinary when it was considered that t he air-man had made a stop at Etampes, 36 miles from Paris to regulate his motors. The aviator ar rived at Angouleme in good condition, though he suffered considerably from the cold. Roland Garros was the only contest ant, out of yesterday’s four starters, to reach Angouleme. Gibert reached Pen tleveri, but, learning of the catastrophe on the Isay field, leetded not to proceed further. Le Laseur landed near Cosne, having lost his way in a fog. Beaumont descended at Azay-Sur-Imbre, and on at tempting to resume his flight damaged the left wing of his aeroplone by dash ing against a tree. v The disaster of yesterday has plunged the whole French nation into grief and the death of Minister of War Berteaux is mourned without political distinctions throughout the republic as a national loss. Today the body of the minister lay In state at the ministry of war. The funeral, which is expected to take place on Friday, will be conducted with full national honors. The army will go Into mourning for 30 days. Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe, the vet eran patron of aeronautics and auto mobiling, and Antoine Monis, son of the premier, both of whom were struck by Train’s machine when it plunged into the group of official spectators, were not seriously injured. It is the general belief that as a result of the caithstrophe the rule prohibiting spectators on the aviation field will be rigorously enforced in the future. Gilbert Resumes Flight ANGOULEME. France, May 22.-M. Gi bert arrived here at 10:54 o’clock morning from Pontleveri, having decid ed to resume his flight in the Paris-to- Madrid race. After leaving Pontleveri M. Gibert lost his way and to get his bear ings was obliged to land at Brlzay, near the island of Bouchard. Aviator Injured RHEIMS, France, May 22.—Aviator Bardot, while making a flight here today, fell to the ground. His shoulder was broken and he sustained many contu sions about the body. The aeroplane was splintered. SCARLET FEVER AT WELLESLY BOSTON, May 22.—Wellesley college has an epidemic of scarlet fever. Five members of the freshman class are now in quarantine and It is said that if any more cases develop the college will be closed. The disease made its appear ance a week ago. NEW COMMANDER ON THE BORDER • m w * wb GEN. JOSEPH W. DUNCAN. He has just assumed command of the department of Texas, succeeding Gen. Ralph V7. Hoyt, who will command the department of Dakota. General Duncan is a Texan born and is familiar with con ditions on the border, where preservation of neutrality and order is particularly necessary Just now. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1911. SPEAKING OF PESTS 11 "“" ,V ' W. ... /Gome A \ 'lf/ _ U yfeir' o <° ow G Ik After ths typhoid-breeding fly, After the diphtheretlc cat Last of • noxious brood, doth die. Hath vanished in its burial vat. i ' /WA,HA! \ / THE SCENE. / I °F THE / When the mosquito, nimble pest, ' And when at last the plague-y rat » Hath found its everlasting rest. Hath gone, we will determine that— _j_ ' . ■ r; IT’S TIME TO PUT A STOP TO THIS NUISANCE DIPLOMATS MIKE FUNS FOB SUMMER SEASON Some of the Co/ps Will Re main in Washington, but Majority Will Not (Bv Aucciatefl Br«M.) WASHINGTON, Maj 22.—Members of the diplomatic corps are completing plans Tor the hot season. Though some thus fur have not arranged for leaving the capital, most of them have selected their summer homes and fixed upon dates for departure. The Austrian ambassador, Baron Hen gelmuller, and the baroness will go to Bar Harbor, and the British ambassa dor, James Bryca, and Mrs. Bryce to Seal Harbor. The French, German, Russian and Italian embassies w».- bt established at Majicl»ester-by-<he-Sea, though M. Jusserand, the French ambas sador, and Madame Jusserand, and Mar ch esse Confelonieri, the Italian ambas sador, and the Marchessa Confalonlerl will return home for the summer. Mr. Bryn, minister from Norway, and Mme. Bryn return to Norway, the lega tion remaining here. The minister from the Netherlands and the minister from Venezuela and his staff, go to Bar Har bor; the Chinese minister to Nyack-on the Hudson; the Dominican minister to Shawnee-on-Delaware, the legation re maining here. Count d« Buisseret, Belgian minister, will return home, the legation remaining here; the minister from Peru goes abroad, the legation remaining here; tne Siamese charge goes to Gloucester, and the Cuban minister will spend most of his time in the mountains of Pennsyl vania. Among those who have not made their plans are the Japanese ambassadors and the ministers, from Spain, Portugal, Bo livia, Nicaraqua, Panama, Sweden and Chile. EMANUEL COUNTY MOB HANGS ANOTHER NEGRO Second Lynching Within a Week in That County, After Several Years SWAINSBORO, Ga„ May 22.-The lynching of Ben Smith at Summit Sat urday night is the second aot of mob violence in this county within the past week. The first of these hvas on last Saturday night when John McLeod (who killed Benton Woods, deputy sheriff of the city court of Swainsboro, w»ho had him under arrest) was strung up and shot to death. The other occurrence was Saturday night at Summit when Ben Smith, a desperate negro, paid the pen alty of death by a mob for shooting Neal Canady, deputy marshal of Summit, who was attempting his arrest for shooting his wife. Canady is today lying at the point of death and Smith’s body Is dangling from the limb of a tree in a swamp near Summit, completely perforated with bul let holes. < After shooting Canady, Smith made his escape and the slferiff of this county with hounds had appeared on the scene, when a posse of outraged men found the negro hiding in a field, where he had fallen disabled by a wound which he received from Canady as he fell. The infuriated men lost no time in fasten ing a rope about his neck and suspending him from a tree, where he dangled as a target for the many bullets that were tired at him. After finishing their work the mob dis persed and all was quiet. The negroes seem to be more excited over these two occurrences than the white people, their having circulated among them a rumor that a wholesole lynching of the negroes of the county was being planned. It has been a number of years since a lynching took place in this county. CONDUCTOR IS SHOT UNO SHOOTS HIS ASSMT Conductor C. D. Bailey, on Augusta-Atlanta Run, Re turns Fire of Thompson (By Associated Press.) AUGUSTA, Ga., May 22.—Capt. Clem D. Bailey, conductor on passenger train No. 27 on the Georgia railroad, was shot yesterday on .his train about half a mile from Mesina. and ip turn shot his assail ant, A. J. Thompson, a well-known white farmer of Warren county. Captain Bailey was painfully though not seriously wounded, the bullet enter ing his leg between his hip and knee, and it is believed that A. J. Thompson, his as sailant, was fatally wounded. The shooting arose over the refusal of Captain Bailey to stop the train at Mes ina. a flag stop four miles from Camak, and an argument resulted. Thompson draw a gun, saying: “You will stop the train at the muzzle of my revolver!” Captain Bailey knocked Thompson’s hand down, throwing the muzzle of the gun from his breast as Thompson flred. Thompson then turned to run, and Cap tain Bailey fired and shot him between his shoulders, ‘the bullet penetrating his right lung. Thompson was turned over to the coun tyy authorities at Camak, and Bailey was taken to the company hospital. Thompson is the same man who shot Conductor D. J. Jones, at Camak, several years ago. CURETiWiftY BE . .ADVANCED FOR HEARING Attorney General Asks Court to Take Up Cases Soon as Possible May" 22,-Attorney General Hewlette appeared before the United States supreme court today and tiled motions for the. advancement on the calendar of the headlight case and the Cureton distillery case. Unless the court advances the cases, it may be three or four years before they are decided. The headlight case involves the consti tutionality of the Georgia law requiring the railroads to equip their locomotives with electric headlights. The Coast Line railroad contested the issue in the lower courts, and the law was sustained. The supreme court will finally pass upon the question. George Cureton, a Dade county distiller, was convicted —ore Judge Fite of vio lating the prohibition law. He appealed , to the court of appeals of Georgia, which passed the case on to the state supreme court. Here Cureton again lost, and ap pealed to the United States supreme court. MOB AT CRAWFORDVILLE TAKES NEGRO FROM LAW GREENSBORO, Ga., May 23.—News reached Greensboro thia morning from Crawfordville that Joe Moore, colored, was summarily dealt with some time dur ing last night. The negro was in jail, charged with the murder of Henry Googer, about 50 years of age, a well known farmer of Tailiaferro county, Sallie Moore, the negro's wife, was brought here yesterday and lodged in jail. This was done to keep the two from communicating. The murder of Googer was a brutal one, he being shot down in the field while at work, and his head terribly pounded by some instrument. I . ~ Il CITIES ARE AFTER PRESBYTERIAN MEETINC Fight Has Narrowed Down to Choice Between Richmond, Va., and Bristol, Tenn. - i . (By Aaieatataft Brets.) LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 22.—Tho fourth day’s session of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church In the United States began this mopping with the hear ing of committee reports. AH committees have been given their work and have been busily engaged in threshing out the matters that came be fore them. Everything of a routine na ture ha s been disposed of, communica tions and overtures have been referred to the committees having jurisdiction, and the rest of the session will be devoted to disposing of the recommendations of the various committees. As the time draws near for the selec tion of the next meeting place, the rep resentatives of the different cities which are trying to get the next assembly, grew more Active. The fight has nar rowed down to Richmond, Va., and Bris tol, Tenn., although the Chattanooga, Tenn., representatives are making a stubborn fight. Texas, so a majority of the commis sioners say, could have the next assem bly for the asking, inasmuch a B Rev. French, D. D., was defeated for the moderatorship, but, according to the Texas representatives, Fort Worth would be the only available place, and as the general assembly met there in 1905, they do not feel disposed to ask for it. To Hear Arguments x In Heresy Cases ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 22. Consideration of reports was the prin cipal business called for at today’s ses sions of the Presbyterian general as sembly. The Judicial commission ex pected today to hear argument in the heresy case against the Rev. William D. Grant, of Northumberland, Pa. MOTOR CARS ARE USED BY FLORIDA LYNCHERS Tallahassee Party Take Ne groes From Lake City Jail on Bogus Telegram LAKE CITY, Fla, May 22. —Masquerad- ing as officers of the law, a dozen men appeared before the county jail at 2 o’clock this morning and presented a bogus telegram to the credulous 16-year old son of the sheriff ordering the release of Mark Norris, Jerry Gusto and four other nefroes, who had been held for safekeeping on the charge of murder ing B. B. Smith, a sawmill man at Wadesborough, Leon county, and wound ing another man, named Regitser, on May 12. The men, who had come from Tallahas see to lake City tn automobiles, carried the negroes about a mile outside of | Lake City , compelled the negroes to 1 stand abread and about ten men com menced firing with Winchesters and pistols until everyone of the six had been riddled with bullets. The firing lasted about half an hour, and a few strggling I citizens at daybreak found the negroes butchered beyond recognition, juts after the automobiles left the scene of the lynching. The men who planned the execution of the six negroes came overalnd from Tal lahassee, a distance of 106 miles .and covered most of the distance at night. The telegram which the leader of the mob showed the boy was supposedly from the sheriff of Leon county, and stated that the sheriff had received Intimations that a mob was being formed in Talla hassee to take the negroes from the Lake Cit” jail. The message ordered that the men be carried further south to frus trate the suspected mob. The telegram appeared authentic, as the six negroes have been moved frequently. LAWMAKERS GATHER FOfi 1811-12 TERM ■ 1 ' FIVE IMS BE Governor Brown Goes Out, Governor Smith* Goes in.. Session Will Be Construe • tive in Its Work Five weeks from this approaching. Wed nesday, the legislature of Georgia for the . years 1911-1912 will convene in Atlanta. Senator John M. Slaton, of Atlanta, will t be elected president of the senate. John N. Holder, of Jefferson, the represents.- I | tive from Jackson county, will be elected * speaker of the house. Both of those ger.- t tiemen will succeed themselves In office. It may be that either or both of them 1 will be defeated. But the probabilities are the other way. Shortly after it convenes, the legislature will receive the farewell message of l Governor Brown and hear the inaugural address of Governor Smith. Governor Brown’s message is not yet on paper, even as to notes. The governor ' stated, Monday, that he has jnst begun a to formulate it in his own mind. He said that he did not know yet whether ha s would again recommend that “the control of municipal public service corporations f be taken out of the hands of the state railroad commission, or that the state election laws be changed. It was his message upon those subjects, last year, that precipitated the gubernatorial cam paign. The governor will emphasize his belief that the pardoning power should Ise used with great discretion. AGRICULTURAL BETTERMENT Governor Smith, on going into office, will stress every angle of improvement in * agricultural education and methods. His attitude on this big question is well known. He has stated It himself, often. Governor Smith will urge the impoiffanee of the state studying agricultural meth ods and disseminating her information among the people. Governor Smith will recommend hat the state co-operate with the national* gov ernment in a soil survey—an analysis of the soils throughout Georgia/ the object of which is to determine what degree aid kind of soil enrichment each particular neighborhood needs. Governor Smith will also In his inau gural address, urge the need for im- - | provements along agricultural linea in the rural schools of Georgia He will ejnphasiza the importance of the state f f co-operating with the national govern ment in the county demonstration farms. He will ask more funds a fid more facilities for the state college of agriculture and the experiment station. And he will urge provision for the pub lication and dissemination of all the val uable information along farming lines I I that the'state can get hold of. Some effort will be made during the legislature to establish an agricultural •’d editor at the state agricultural college— a sort of publicity bureau. The old biennial sessions fight 'will come up again and there win ue a split! over it. Governor Smith opposes bion- « nlal sesslona * Four-year terms may also come up. They will find strong opposition. ANTI-LOBBY BILL WILL PASS. It is predicted that an anti-lobby bill ■ will pass. A filibuster in the last leg islature killed the anti-lobby bill that « the house passed. It is strongly probable that the Incom-, , ing legislature will create a state high way commission or make some provis-, | ion for central and expert supervision of the convict road building forces. A, highway engineer will doubtless be pro; j vided. The prison commission may,, . however, be given the duties of a high- s way commission to perform. There will be change in either the prohibition law or the near-beer tax law. There may not even be a fight. Both sides are apparency willing to ? maintain an armed truce for a while yet- It is quite possible that the legisla ture will change the time of the gov ernor’s inauguration to January 1. Governor Smith has expressed himself in favor of the change, and has offered six months of his own term as governor ft for the purpose. This change may call '»| for a constitutional amendment of per mit the secretary of state or some special ommlssion to onsoildate the eletlon re turns, or to permit the assembling ot the legislature for a day or so to in- J augurate the governor. Governor Smith has, recommended that the October state election be con solidated with the November congress ional election. Tnis will be one of the questions before the legislature. The legislature may pass a law put ting county jails under the supervision of the state prison commission. ' The prison board has been strongly urging this, because of the direct connection, (through convicted prisoners) between' i the county jails and the state camps. Filthy conditions are described in num erous complaints filed with the board, ’j and those same conditions are spread in to the state camps. But the commission is powerless to help matters. The automobile registration law will ,'l be changed In one or two jjainor par :ic-‘ ulars. It may result, though, in even an amendment to the constitution, mak-« • W ing a substitute tax for the ad valorem J tax on automobiles 'fis personal prop erty, making it payable annually, and J devoting it to the expenses of a state! "v highway comnyssion or some similar j purpose. An appropriation of 15,000 will be voted by the legislature, as the states, co-operation fund in the national gov ernment’s expense in making a survey 9 of the water powers of Georgia. ST. LOUIS POLICE AFTER DRUMMOND ST. LOUIS, May 22.—The police of Los ] ■ Angeles, Long Beach and San Francisco, Z : Cal., have been asked by local authorities to arrest Charles R. Drummond, member . lof a wealthy St. Louis family, who is M wanted for alleged violation of a parole, granted after he was fined and sentenced ’ to jail on a plea of guilty of bigamy. ' Sheriff Grueninger said today he had' learned that Drummond is in California, living under the name of Charles R. Dun- a bar, SENATOR CULLOM WRITING A BOOK J WASHINGTON, May 22.—Senatoi Cullom has been devoting the spara 9 moments of his 82d year to the prepara tion of a volume of reminiscences which will be published early next fait Tha work will be illustrated and cover u.e ' past 50 years of American history, with, 3 which the venerable Illinois senator has j been identified with in anactlve capac- 1 ity. J NO. 70.