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VOL. X.
ROOSEVELT TELLS OF
SMOTHERING PANIC
BY QUICK ACTION
Former President Makes Dra
matic Appearance Before
Steel Probe Committee and
Voluntarily Submits
NEW YORK. Aug. 5 Theodore Roose
velt stalked boldly before the house of
represent stives committee of Inquiry in
to the United States Steel corporation
here today and voluntarily told how his
action in consenting tothe absorption of
the Tennessee" Coal and Iron company
'by the steel corporation in 1807 averted a
disastrous panic.
The former chief executive's action in
submitting to a congressional review of
his own administration was almost un
precedented in the history of the United
States and was thoroughly Rooseveltian.
He arrived unheralded at the city hall,
vigorously shook hands with members
of the committee, declared himself de
lighted to see everybody and got down
to business
First and foremost he placed upon
’ himself responsibility for approving the
absorption to save a perilous financial
disaster tn Wall street, and condemned
any man who would be so weak as not
to act as he did tn that crisis.
DRAMATIC APPEARANCE.
Probably nothing in the vigorous life
history of Theodore Roosevelt was more
dramatic than hts public appearance to
day at the crisis of the investigation in
to the transact feri which has been re
corded in hundreds of pages of congres
sional inquiry.
After declaring that his object in ap
proving the sale of the Tennessee com
pany was to restore confidence, the
former president, in response to inquir
ies by Representative Littleton relating
to the memorable white house confer
ence in November, 1907, at which Judge
Gary and H. C. Frick were present,
said: - .
"The situation was so critical that it
was liable to break at any moment until
the action was taken, and the instant it
was taken an enormous improvement for
the better occurred.”
Then Mr. Roosevelt launched into a dis
cussion with Chairman Stanley on the
general trust question, saying that the
United States had something to learn
from Germany.
“Mr. Stanley." Mr. Roosevelt bro... in,
switching the line of inquiry tn progress,
"may I say in connection with what has
been said on the general trust question
and of this particular corporation, the
steel corporation, that I know you will
not accept silence on my part as indi
cating anything as to my attitude on the
general trust question as you know it?"
FOR NATIONAL CONTROL
"I have stated again and again while
I Was president, in messages to con
gress. which were not always received
"with as much enthusiasm as they were
written, and since then in articles and
speeches, just wnat 1 have felt the at
titude of congress toward these great
corporations should be, and as you
know. 1 believe in a far more drastic
and far more thorough-gooing supervis
ion and control over them by the na
tional government than we have yet
achieved.
"On another occasion I should have
been very glad to have spoken with you
on trust remedies. I am sure you will
not achieve your purpose by splitting
up the big corporations.
“While something can be done along
that line, the work must be done by
our national government acting as the
government of Germany has. 1 think,
in the potash matter acted—by actual
ly, in the interest and all the people, in
terfering and exercising a degree of
control over a big corporation, which
it would be wholly unecessary to exer
cise over a corporation that has no
monopolistic taint.”
“I wish to say,” Mr. Stanley re
plied. “that I am not of the opinion
that the dissolution of the United
States Steel corporation into its con
stituent parts Is an adequate remedy."
“You are quite right.” said Mr.
Rooaevelt.
“I believe, the chairman continued,
“that we must divorce absolutely the
United States Steel corporation from
every common carrier on the continent
and by law force the common carriers
to charge the steel corporation
just what they charge other people.
We must destroy a rebate which is
against the spirit of the law as well a«
a rebate which is in violation of the
letter of the law. If that Is done, and
if tn addition—"
“Judge Landis tried to do that and
failed,'* interjected Mr. Roosevelt, his
comment provoking loud laughter.
.The chairman said he would prevent a
director of the steel corporation from
becoming a director of railroads and de
nounced the system of interlocking di
rectors.
“With the general purpose of what you
propose,” said Mr. Roosevelt, “I am
in hearty sympathy and I should go
farther still in exercising direct control
over these big corporations. And ollow
me to say, sir. you have known them
at some distance. I have lived near them
and I know them well.”
In responding to queries directed to the
Tennessee Coal and Iron transaction, and
the testimony of Grant B. Schley that
he did not know whether he would have
failed had it not been for the sale of
the Tennessee company to the steel cor
poration. Mr. Roosevelt aroused the
committee with the terse statement
that if Schley did not know It he was
the only man in New York who did not.
•‘I never had any doubt as tothe wis
dom of my action. Every particle-of in
formation he had since received had
confirmed him,” he said, that his action
»&« wise.
Representative Bartlett, of Georgia,
suggested that with reference to the
proposition of more drastic control of
large corporations, Judge Gary hid
been won over.
Mr. Roosevelt replied. “I hope so.”
“Judge Gary’” suggestion.” said Mr.
Bartlett, “was that the Sherman anti
-5 trust law had remained dormant for
nearly W years and had never been
sought to be enforced so drastically as in
recent years—”
“As It had been during my adminis
tratlon.” said Mr. Roosevelt sharply,
leaning forward and smiling his broad
est smile. “I am sure as I can be of
anything that the course I advocated
repeatedly while I was president ulti
mately will commend Itself to the judg
ment of the people of the United
States.”
To the extent of the government fix
ing prices T’ asked Mr. Bartlett.
"If 1 bad made that suggestion in-
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DEMOGBITS ARE =
FIBM FOB LOWER
DOTIESONWOOL
Conference a Deadlock So Far,
Senator LaFollette’s Argu
ment for 35 Per Cent Find
ing Underwod Unyielding
>Y RALPH SMITH
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. s.—Os
ear Underwood put down his firm foot
in conference today, and Senator La-
Follette. who with him is considering
the wool and free list bills, went back
to the senate insurgent camp with the
news that the house will not accept a
35 per cent rate on raw wool. He prom
ised to see Mr. Underwood again before
nightfall if he had made any progress
with Senator Bristow and other insur
gents, who Insist that ths house accept
the senate bill.
By the time Mr. ’ Underwood was
dressed to take dinner with the presi
dent and Admiral Togo, no word had
come from Mr. LaFollette, so the tar
iff matters went over until the first cf
next week. Needless to say, Senator
LaFollette had no invitation to dine
with the president.
AGREEMENT UNCERTAIN
In the belief of Mr. Underwood it will
require patience and probably time, to
agree on wool, but he expects that be
fore many days of next weeK ye passed
a bill will be reported back to both
houses and accepted.
Senator LaFollette today advanced the
view that if a 35 per cent bill is sent
the president he will have less, excuse
for vetoing it than if the bill carried
a duty of nearer the 20 per cent im
posed in the house.
Mr. Underwood, none the less anxious
for the revision of the tariff, believes
that the president will veto any bill
they send him until his tariff board has
reported, and theres ~e he is determined
Ito stand on a measure which can be
defended on the stump as Democratic
bill, and which the president cannot
undercut in duties when he transmits
his revision message next December.
ADJOURNMENT SOON
Os course the longer the jockeying
lasts the more hazy grows the date of
adjournment, but there is an undercur
rent of belief that the legislative log
jam will break some time soon and a
concurrent adjournment resolution will
be passed.
When the full wool conference commit
tee met today, the free list bill was tak
en up
A motion was made at once to report
a disagreement on the free list bill to
both houses so that another bhance to
vote on the meat and flour amendments
would be afforded the senate.
SENATOR BAILEY, AGAIN.
Senator Bailey, whose single vote de
feated the Democratic house measure
this week, promptly objected, however,
saying that he was unwilling to report
a disagreement until Mr. Underwood and
Senator LaFollette had tried their hands
on the free list bill as wel las the wool
bUI.
Both bills were then referred to them
and they went into conference, taking
up the wool bill again before they part
ed, with Mr. LaFollette promising to let
Mr. Underwood know if he had secured
any concessions from his colleague*.
“W edldn't agree, and we had secured
actly disagree,” said Hr. Underwood.
■ “But if I can’t get much lower rates
than 35 I won't report any wool bill.”
PRESIDENT'S VETO CERTAIN.
Meanwhile the information that the
president intends to veto all tariff, acts
and that the house will attempt to re
pass them over his veto, received fresh
i corroboration.
| Senator Bradley called on Mr. Taft
And talked over things with him.
He received the distinct Impression
| that the president has no thought other
; than vetoing the bills.
i Senator Crane reported to Mr. Taft
. that an attempt to repass the wool and
free list bills, after he had disapproved
; them, would be futile as many Repub
licans who voted for them before would
not fly in the face of their president a
i second time.
♦ HAS BOLL WEEVIL'S ♦
♦ HEMESIS BERM FOUHDf ♦
♦ ABBEVILLE. La., Aug. 5.-Cot- ♦
♦ ton planters of this section have ♦
♦ discovered that the South Amerl- ♦
♦ can ant is an enemy of the dread- ♦
♦ ed boll weevil as fields infested ♦.
♦ with these ants are reported to be ♦
♦ free of weevils. In several fields ♦
♦ the plants were found to be cov- ♦
♦ ered with ants, and after invest!- ♦
♦ gation it was found that they were ♦
♦ feeding on the weevils. ♦
OSGIB FITZGEBALD,
METHODIST BISHOP.
DIESJNMILE
Leader of Southern Methodism
Passes Away After Several
Days Illness With Neuralgia
of the Heart
NASHVILLE. Tenn., Aug. s.—Bishop
O. P. k.tzgerald. of the Southern Meth
odist church, died this afternoon at
Mont Eagle. Tenn., at 2:55.
He had been suffering for several
days with neuralgia of the heart.
SKETCH OF LIFE.
Oscar Penn Fitzgerald was the son
of Richard and Martha James Hooper
Fitzgerald, and was born in Gaswell,
N. C., August -4, 1829. xxis middle
name was taken from that of the Rev.
Dr. Abram Penn, who baptized him in
infancy, praying at the time that he
might become a Methodist preacher. As
a lA>y in North Carolina he received a
common school education very early in
life, catching the four-horse stage coach
for Virginia, where he went in search
of work. His first service was in the
composing room of the Lynchburg Re
publican. Later he became a clerk In
the office of the Lynchburg Post; and
while so engaged the Mexican war came
on. His father, responding to the call
of his country, marched to Mexico with
General Scott.
When the elder Fitzgerald went to
fight his country's battles, his son re
turned home to North Carolina to sup
port his mother, doing so by teaching
In the neighborhood. When the war
was over the young man returned to
his newspaper work, going to Richmond
and, obtaining a place on the Richmond
Examiner, of which the late John M.
Daniel was then political editor, and
of which Edgar Allen Poe was about
to be .made literary editor when his
genius was stilled in death.
It was a favorite reminiscence with
Bishop Fitzgerald, this acquaintance
with Poe. On one occasion he heard Poe
lecture, the impression being a profound
one. Bishop Fitzgerald at this time was
about 20 years of age.
MOVED TO GEORGIA.
From Virginia, th# young man went to
Georgia, where, after a trying spell of
typhoid fever, his attention was directed
to the ministry. In 1854, at the Georgia
Methodist conference meeting at Atlanta,
with Bishop Capers presiding, he was
admitted, and was sent to Savannah as a
junior preacher. A short time later he
went to the far west as a missionary.
In 1867 he was chosen superintendent of
public instruction of California, continu
ing in the position for four years. While
in California he was for a time editor of
the Pacific Methodist and Christian Spec
tator. Returning to the south In 1878, he
was elected editor of the Nashville
Christian Advocate, an organ of the
Southern Methodist church, succeeding
Rev. Dr. T. R. Summers. In 1886, when
the general conference of the church met
in Richmond, he was suggested as a
bishop and four years later, when the
conference met in St. Louis, this honor
For many years Bishop Fitzgerald had
been incapacitated by age and failing
strength, but his interest in his church
never flagged. To the end of his days,
too, he retained his interest in the news
paper business in which he had started
hts career. He wrote extensively him
self, and a son, the late Lee Fitzgerald,
was at one time editor of the Nashville
American, later absorbed by the Ten
nessean. In 1855 Bishop Fitzgerald was
married to Miss Sarah Banks, of Enon,
Ala., who survives him with the follow
ing children:
Mrs. G. F. Nye and Mrs. J. B. Robert
son, of Nashville. Tenn.; William S. Fitz
gerald, of Tullahoma, Tenn., and Oscar
P. Fitzgerald, Jr., of Charleston, W. Va.
The body will arrive at Nashville at
10:50 o’clock Monday morning and be
taken to the residence. 17 Garland ave
nue. The funeral will be held from
West End Methodist church at 2:30
o’clock Monday afternoon. The services
will be conductetd by Dr. G. B. Winton,
Dr. R. K. Brown, Bishop Collins Denny
and Dr. Fltlzgerald Parker. Burial will
be at Mount Olivet cemetery.
Pall bearers will be:
Honorary—J. W. Manier, Sr., Dr. W. J.
Ewing. W. R. Cole, Dr. I. Lowenthal,
Dr. J. H. McNellly, Rev. R. Lin Cave,
Jesse Cage, D. M. Smith, Rev. Henry
Beech Carre. z
Active—Chancellor J. H. Kllrkland, Dr.
Allen G. Hall, G. M. Neely, John Bell
Keeble, John Early, Will Vaughn, J. E.
Hart, W. E. Park.
BROOKLYN TROLLEYS IRE'
RUN WITH POLICE COARD
Strikers Will Ask Mayor Gay
nor’s Mediation-Few Pas
sengers Risk Ride
NEW YORK, August 7.—The striking
Brooklyn street car motormen and con
ductors announced today that they would
call on Mayor Gaynor as soon as he
would see them, in an effort to terminate
the strike, which already has resulted
in much rioting.
They want the mayor to intercede with
the company, with the expectation that
it will grant their demands. The presi
dent of the company declared today
that there was nothing to arbitrate and
that the company would operate its cars
with non-union men ajid by the aid of
the police.
The routes traversed by the two lines
<vere heavily patrolled by police today,
officers riding o neach car that the com
pany attempted to run. Police Com
missioner Waldo instructed his subordi
nates in Brooklyn to capture stone
throwers and rioters, without fail, it be
ing his belief that the police duty ends
in preserving peace and preventing vio
lence. Many arrests have been made,
and the company plans a vigorous prose
cution.
Strike Leader Patrick J. Shea is quoted
as saying that the union can raise more
than 1200,000 to support the members
while conducting the strike.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1911.
LONGING FOR LAND
SOLONS SEE MACON,
EAT BIG BARBECUE
AND HEARSPEECHES
Lawmakers of Georgia, in a
Body, Are Guests of Central
City in Full Day of Many
Events
MACON, Ga., Aug. s.—Burgundy
punch buttermilk bgrbecue and beer
were served nearly 200 members of the
legislature who assembled in Macon to
day as the guests of the Central Capitol
association. The legislators and about
125 legislative and state house attaches
and friends cajjie to Macon on a special
train over the Southern, on which there
were also seven possible candidates so«
governor. They were met at the depot,
by 5,000 citizens and were Installed in
automobiles, then they were taken to
Central City park where officials of the
State Fair association pointed out thq
need for a state appropriation for more
buildings.
Here they were also given punch by
eight of the prettiest young ladies ot
the city. From the park the procession,
nearly two miles long and headed b>
brass bands, moved through the prlncv
pal streets of the city amid the throng
of cheering people.
The visitors were shown two sites,
Colleman’s hill and Tatnall Square park,
which have been suggested as possible
location for the capitol building. The
tour ended at the Log Cabin club, where
a feast of enormous proportions ana
splendid variety was served under the
shade of the big oaks. More than 5,000
bottles of beer, 100 gallons of butter
milk and 100 gallons of lemonade were
drank, while nearly 2,000 pounds of
barbecued meats and brunswick stew,
besides other viands were consiumed.
Fully a thousand people of Macon,
including many ladies, sat at the tables
with the Georgia aolons and betweei.
mouthfuls argued that Macon is the
logical place for the capitol.
The legislators and state house offi
cials return on the special train this af
ternoon.
ALL SERENE AFTER STRIKE
ON DES MOINES TROLLEYS
Legal Aspect of Case to Be Ar
gued Monday in Court of
Injunction
DES MOINES, Aug. 7.—Normal con
ditions existed ta Des Moines today.
With •treet car traffic resumed and
every street car in the entire system
of the city railway running on schedule
time, there were no surface indications
that there had been a strike at all.
The controversy between Manager J.
R. Harrigan and the carmen’s union,
which, under the mandate of Judge
Lawrence DeGraff, of the district court,
Saturday night, became a legal' ques
tion, was apparently forgotten so far
as the conductors and motormen and
their passengers were concerned.
The legal aspect of the strike and
its cause was expected this morning to
be taken up in Judge DeGraff’s court to
day. This expectation was based upon
the attitude of the company, which,
while it conformed to the terms of the
temporary injunction, questioned the
legality of the order.
Patents Issued
WASHINGTON, Aug. S.—Patents is
sued: Georgia, C. B. Stillwell, Savannah,
nut lock; William W. Temples, Columbus,
fluid pressure valve; John H. Watters,
Augusta, feed water strainer valve.
-ais. --A?. a
ARKANSAS PRIMARY MAY NAME
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 7.—ln ah
probability the Democrats of Arkansas
will determine the state’s choice for the
presidential nomination at a primary
election. ’ Thia plan, originating with
the Woodrow Wilson club, has been en
dorsed by the supporters of others
mentioned in connection with the noml- i
nation, and members of the state ex
ecutive committee have expressed them
selves as favorable to the proposal. Ar
kansas will be one of the first states
to adopt this plan, Oregon and Nebras
ka being the only onesAin which this
method has been establrahed. Hereto
fore, as in most states, the convention
has made the selection.
SPIRITED CAMPAIGN.
Although party primaries will not be
held until March 4 of next year, fac
tional leaders are organizing their
forces, and a spirited campaign is in
prospect.
The Woodrow Wilson club has been
in existence for several weeks, and now
those who espouse the cause of Gov
ernor. Harmon, of Ohio, announce their
organization ready to be launched.
From Governor Wilson a message has
been received stating that the endorse
ment of Arkansas would be gratifying.
Guy B. Tucker, Democratic national
committeeman, however, does not sanc
tion the presidential primary proposi
tion. In a card addressed to the voters,
he asks that it be sidetracked for the
present.
“This early movement,” the card
JUST OUT OF ATLANTA PEN,
JOHNSON FACES THEFT CHARGE
t (By Atsociated Preu.)
SPARTANBURG. S. C., Aug. s.—Just
out of the federal prison in Atlanta,
where he served seven years for a |lO.-
000 safe robbery at Enoree, in thia coun
ty, in which postofflee funds were stolen,
James S. Johnson, alias Portland Ned, a
noted criminal, was placed on trial in
the state court here today for the same
crime.
With all the resources of the federal
and state governments arrayed against
him and his criminal history on the rec-
NEGRO WOMAN IS SENTENCED
FOR STEALING WHITE GIRL
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.) lleved she was under the influence of
MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. s.—Essie Hen- the negro woman. She has been held in
don, a negro woman, who was charged jail as a, witness for several weeks and
with kidnaping Pauline Thompson, a has been sleeping in the same cell with
white girl, daughter ot a farmer living the negro woman, the sheriff saying he
near Nlckajack, in Cobb county, and had no other cell in which to place her.
who took the girl to Knoxville, was con- The grand jury in the presentments filed
victed yesterday and sentenced by Judge yesterday censured the sheriff for placing
Morris to five years in the penitentiary, the white girl in the cell with the negro
The white girl testified that she went woman. The case against the negro wo
voluntarily, but the jury evidently be- man will be appealed.
TIM SCALDED TO DEAHI
. IN WRECK ON SEABOARD
(By Associated Press.)
PETERSBURG, Va., Aug. 7.—Two men
were scalded to death and two were se
, rlously injured when a passenger train
on the Seaboard Air Line plunged
through an open switch and struck a
freight train on a siding near here to
day. The dead men wsre the fireman
and enginer of the freight train.
Daniel Hicks, of Raleigh, N. C., was
the engineer, and Robert Tately, a ne
gro, of the same city, was the fireman.
A switch, one mile sotuh of Peters
burg, at which their freight train had
backed into the siding to let a sotuh
bound passenger train pass, was left
open and the passenger train crashed in
to their engine. The passenger engineer
saw the open switch in time to apply his
emergency brakes.
reads, "In behalf of one particular in
dividual is evidently Inspired by those
wh<i look upon Governor Wilson as the
prospective standard-bearer of the Dem
ocratic party, and are anxious to get in
on the ground floor."
Notwithstanding alignments are be
ing made, and supporters of the plan
insist that, besides state and county of
ficers, the presidential nomination will
be an Issue of the March primary.
OTHER CONTESTS ON.
Several interesting congressional
contests are also in prospect. In the
First district a controversy is on as to
whether the nominee be selected at a
blanket primary or In district conven
tion. Congressman Bruce Macon is
seeking renomlnatlon, and is to be op
posed by former State Senator M. H.
Patterson, of Augusta, and Prosecuting
Attorney T. H. Carraway, of Jonesboro.
Already five candidates have announced
that they will try for the Sixth district
nomination. Judge George M. Chap
laine, of Lonoke; Judge James Gould
and T. Havls Nixon, of Pine Bluff, and
Judge Thurston P. Farmer and W. H.
Martin, of Hot Springs, are already in
the field. Congressman Robertson, of
that district, aspires to the guberna
torial nomination. Governor George W.
Donaghey has not announced as to
whether he will seek re-election. At
torney General Hal T. Norwood is also
an avowed candidate for governor.
United States Senator Jeff Davis will
be opposed by former Congressman
Brundidge.
ord, Johnson acted as his own attorney
with remarkable skill, adducing testimo
ny in his favor in his cross-examination
of the score or more of state’s witnesses,
and being frequently sustained in his ob
jection to testimony which the state at
tempted to introduce*
His address to the jury was impas
sioned.
Johnson was sentenced this morning
to serve ten years in the state peniten
tiary for robbery. His robberies were
committed in November, 1902. He obtain
ed 110,000.
| FREE LIST BILL WILL
I GET PRESIDENT’S VETO
BT RALPH SMITH.
J WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—The situation
L in congress today, summed up briefly. Is
1 this:
The free list bill will be agred to by
i both houses and put up to the president,
who will veto It.
The wool bill is the rock on which the
Democrats and Insurgents may split, and
there is much talk today that it may go
over until December.
The cotton bil stands a good chance of
parsing the senate.
The date of‘adjournment, it is gener
ally believed, will occur somewhere
around August 15.
TIPPINS MEASURE
NOT YET REACHED;
FIMCmiN |
It Is Scheduled to Come Up
Tuesday as Soon as Fertili-.
zer Bill Has Been Disposed
of by House
The Tippins bill to prohblt near-beer
in Georgia was further jeopardized Mon- f »
day by a two hours’ discussion in the
house of the fertilizer bill, which pte-j
vented this latter measure from coming
to a vote and, at the same time, de
fered action on the Tippins bill. In spite:
of this Increased opposition, however,
supporters of the Tippins measure believe
that it will be enacted at this session!
of the legislature; and an opponent of
the bill said Monday morning that he 1
thinks it will get through the house* i i
though not in time for passage by the*
senate.
The fertilizer measure is still the spe-i
cial and continuing order before the
house, and will be resumed Tuesday I
morning. After it, the Tippins Mil is next:
in order. The Tippins measure was the
special order for Monday morning, but'
was displaced by the fertilizer bill, which
being the special order for Friday and
not being finished then went over until
Monday. Because of this displacement, p
the Tippins bill is the special order for
Tuesdays, after the fertilizer bill.
HAS RIGHT OF WAY.
This condition makes the appropriation <
bill still the crux of the situation. The
fertilizer bill probably will be completed
Tuesday morning and next in order will
be the Tippins measure. But the alterna
tive that looms large is the Intervention
of the appropriation bill. This bill has
the rigth-of-way and precedes .all other
measures. If It Is called for by the chair
man of the appropriation committee Im
mediately after the ocnclueion of the fer
tilizer bill, the Tippins measure will be
put aside until after the adoption of tne
fertilizer bill. It could then be brought
before the house and passed, but pass
age at such a late date would not given
time for consideration of the bill by the
senate. _ '
Neither supporters nor opposers of the
bill know when the appropriation bill will
be called for by Mr. McEJreath of Ful
ton, chairman of the appropriation (com
mittee. Opponents are of the opinion
that he will have the bill brought up
Tuesday afternoon. He has made no
definite announcement, however, of what
he will do.
If consideration of .the appropriation
bill does begin Tuesday afternoon, the
Tippins bill probably will be deferred
until after the adoption of the appropria
tion measure.
Once thef Tippins bill is put to a vote it
will pass the house by a safe majority.
Efforts for the passage of the Tippins
bin prohibiting the sale of near beer i .
were resumed Monday morning immedi
ately after the house met, by Mr. Alex
ander ,of DeKalb, tnoving that the house
continue in session Monday afternooon.
Mr. Hall, of Bibb, insisted that an
afternoon session will interfere with the
work of the reapportionmefit committee
and urged that the' Tippins bill be de
layed until the appropriation bill has
been considered.
“I didn’t mention the Tippins bill," re
plied Mr. Alexander. “But the gentle- j
man who suggested that this measure.
be postponed until after consideration of! I
the appropriation' bill knows that such:
delay would merely be a means of kill
ing the bill.”
By a vote of 68 to 57 the motion of'
Mr. Alexander to have the house meetj • I
at 3 o’clock for an afternoon session
was defeated.
c. lecWtakTslime
BY FORELOCK IN HAITI j
Revolutionary Leader Beats
His Rival, Firmin, to It-Fir
min Arrives Monday
PORT AU PRINCE Haiti, Aug. T.—
Cinclnnatus Leconte, the revolutionary
leader, made a triumphal entry into the
capital yesterday. Arrangements were
made forthwith for a joint session of the
senate and chamber of deputies, which,
meeting as a national assembly, were
expected to eelct Leconte president of
the negro republic in succession to the
deposed Simon. This was not in har
mony with the program of Antoine Fir
min, the rival revolutionary leader, who
expected to elect Leconte president of
and who has already announced that he
had been promised the presidency by
Lecotne. »
'lmmediately upon his arrival Leccmte
attended a tedeum at the cathedral, con
ducted by the archbishop. Later he
made a tour of the city, finally entering
the national palace to a salute of 101
guns from all the fortifications.
Later a new ministry, wholly replac
ing that of the Simon administration,
was tentatively agreed upon.
Simon’s Son on Way
to Paris With Gold
NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Antoine Simon, J
son of the deposed president of Haiti,
with the six officials of the negro repub
lic who *fled from the troubles there, I
came into port today on board the steam- .3
er Alemania, from Port au Prince.
Simon and his friends brought with 3
them a number of boxes of gold, which
were locked in the steamer’s safe.
The value of the gold was not learned
by the passengers. The negroes are on
their way to Paris.
♦
PICKPOCKET POLITE I. Y ♦
♦ BETUBNS ALL BUT CASH ♦
e- NEW YORK, Aug. S.-Joseph M. ♦
♦ Hayes, of Bt. Louis, will be out •
♦ only $75 as the result of his en«
♦ counter with a pickpocket here a ♦
-e few days ago, although the pick- -*■
♦ pocket got away Wtih a pocketbook ♦
containing nearly $2,000 in checks, ♦
steamboat tickets and securities. ♦
The pocketbook was returned by ♦
♦ mail late last night with its con-
tents intact, except for the remov- .♦
e- al of $75 in cash. The remainder ♦
e- of its contents were not negotiable. ♦
♦ and the pickpocket returned them ♦
•e with a polite note expressing re- e
-e gret that his haul was so small. ♦
NO. 92.
