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® f Atonic ibmusd VOL. XL CONGRESS ADJOURNS Si N E DIE AT 4:30 | MONDAY AFTERNOON LaFollette Shoots His Measure Through in Face of Impend ing* Break-Up of the Sixty- Second Congress Oy AMoeUt«d Pxsm.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 36.—At 3:S the senate adopted a concurrent resolution to adjourn at 4:30 o'clock. Immediately upon the passage of the resolution the senate went into execu tive session. The bouse lost no time adopting tho resolution to adjourn sine die at 4:30 o’clock Both houses then marked time for the engrossment of the general defi ciency bill and Presk|ent Taft waited in his room at the capitol to sign IL ’' (By Ansciatsd Frew.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 26 The Pen rose resolution to extend the inquiry of the Clapp committee investigating campaign funds into correspondence or financial transactions between John D. Archbold. George W. Perkins. Colonel Roosevelt and members cf congress, passed the senate today without a roll call. Senator LaFollette finally got the .Pen rose resolution before the senate and after its perfection with several minor » amendments Senator Bailey spoke against it on the ground of unconstitu tionality he had advanced Saturday. This brought LaFollette's fight for a record vote on an investigation of the Archbold-Penrose-Roosevelt controversy directly before the senate. CHAMBERLAIN GIVES WAT. Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, today I abandoned his filibuster against ad journment of congress on provision that I the genera! deficiency bill, carrying "state clai ma" in which Oregon has an interest, go over until December. The house is believed to be agreeable to that. "If it Is decided to let the bill go i until winter I will consent to an ad journment,* said Mr. Chamberlain. T i will not consent, however, to its pass age without the state claims." Maryland, Virginia and Texas also j are interested. The bouse spent its first hour doing \ practically nothing. Majority Leader; Underwood declared that he and Speak er Clark would stay in Washington and I “keep house summer if necessary . . Until tbe-aeaaca got through with its | filibuster After repeated conferences, senate | leaders announced an understanding by I which the senate was to recede from' its demand for the immediate payment of the '■can'tested state claims'' in the , general deficiency bill, but providing! that the claims oe included in the next general deficiency bill. Dead Man Turns Up To Pay the Expenset Os His Own Funeral (By Aseocited Pew.) SCHENECTADY. N. V- Aug. 24.—W. M Clark, a former reaident of this city, but now of Elizabeth. N. J., is in Schenectady thia week to pay his burial expenses, he being supposedly dead and buried for more than six weeks. Early in July a man was killed at Binghamton, who. through cards in his pocket, was thought to be Clark. His sister was notified, went to Binghamton and identified the body as being her brother’s. The burisl was arranged for and the slater paid the expenses. Last week a friend who had been advised of the death met Clark on the street in Eliza beth and told him he was dead and burled. Clark contradicted the statement and being advised of the facts hastened here. Dragged to Death Over House Tops By Wild Balloon (By Associated Frew.) NEW YORK. Aug. 26.—Frederick Owens wss dragged along in a balloon, jumping over and against the roofs of large buildings, on the Jersey side of the Hudson yesterday afternoon until he dropped to the ground fatally in jured. Owens had been making success ful ascensions for the Plattdeautcher Volkfest society st Union Hill, N. J. The crowd watching him yesterday no ticed that his balloon was rising poorly, when caught by a gust of wind it shut northerly, bounded against the roof of 1 a five-story building, smashed against the cornice of another large structure, broke through some electric light wires, then crashed the fire escape of buTiAing and collapsed. Owens fell into the street. His skull was fractured and there is little chance for his recovery. SECTION FOREMAN IS INJURED BY TRAIN (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ROCKMART. Ga.. Aug. 24. It is re- ported here that John M. Davis, former section foreman at Brass ell. Ga . was struck by‘a train at Chattahoochee yes terday and that one leg was cut off > and one arm was broken. He was watching one train and stepped in front of another going in an opposite direction. 11 DISHONEST DEAL. SAYS JOHN BULL OF NMHIMI BILL English Newspapers Repre senting All Factions Say the United States Has Repudi ated a Direct Bargain (Bj AsncUted Fraas.) LONDON. Aug. 26.—The Panama capal bill is characterized this morning as practically a dishonest repudiation of a direct bargain, by newspapers rep resenting the views of all the British political parties. Meanwhile no definite procedure by the British government in regard to the bill can be framed, for nearly all the cabinet ministers are scattered over the European continent at . various watering places, or else shooting grouse on the Scottish moors, and most of the prominent politicians outside of the cabinet are engaged in similar ways. It is certain, however, that the gov ernment will propose the reference of the question to The Hague court of ar bitration. although no details of the methods of submitting it have yet been .. v . GRAFT AND CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN NEW ORLEANS Wm, J, Burns Alleged to Have Unearthed Situation Like Atlantic City’s (By Associated Preu.) NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 26—Follow ing the publication in a local newspa per’ of an article stating that Detec i tive William J. Burns, at the instance ' of several citizens, is making an in j vestlgation of municipal conditions tn New Orleans which has been produc tive of sensational revelations. Mayor Martin Behr man today requested Judge Chretien, of the criminal <Us < trict court, to convene a special set ■ sion of the grand jury to make an im | mediate investigation. It is said an investigation by the , Burns agency has brought to light : conditions almost as startling as those j which existed in Atlantic City, Detroit and other cities where Burns had been 1 called upon te expose graft and cor ruption, ’ • • ■• ■ ' "I demand facts, not rumors nor > bints," asserted Mayor Behrman. 'lf ! there 1 any corruption in the police or I any other department of the city gov- I ernment. I want the public to know It, ' and so far as I am concerned. I pledge’ the people that no man. what ; ever his position, will be shielded from ' prosecution, and, if guilty. punish- I ment." I ■■ Cold Wave Is Coming By September i, Says Amateur Forecaster The announoejneait is made by Regin ald Paschall, the amateur meteorologist of Atlanta, that the first cold spell of the coming winter season, will over spread the United States sometime be tween August 28 and September 1. "Immediately before the appearance of the cold wave the weather will be very rainy and stormy over the middle and eastern United States, showing unusual activity considering the earliness of the season." says Mr. Paschall. "During the cold wave freezing weather and frost’ will be reported from Montana. Wyoming and the Dakotas and a blast of chilly air will penetrate the whole middle and eastern United States about August 30 or September 1. The weather will re main cold with high barometric pressure over the northern United States inter mittently for about 10 days. "During the same period the weather along the gulf coast and in Florida will be warm and very rainy at intervals. A brief period of cloudiness and some rain over the whole country will manifest itself between September 3 and Septem ber 6. After September 6 an extensive area of high barometric pressure will probably hang over the eastern United States and adjacent ocean for several days, causing heavy rain in Florida and adjoining neighborhood." CALIFORNIA SWEEPS EVERYTHING IN TENNIS Maurice E. McLoughlin Wins Championship ip Singles t From Wallace Johnson (By AnecUted Preu.) NEWPORT. R. 1.. Aug. 26.-California's , sweep of the' lawn tennis honors of the country was completed today when Mau rice E. McLoughlin, of Skn Francisco. I won the championship in singles from Wallace F. Johnson, of Philadelphia, in three but of five sets. The scores were 3-6. 2-4. 6-3. 6-4. 6-2. McLoughlin hold’ the championship In doubles with Thdm as G. Bundy, of Los Angeles. Miss Mary t Browne, of San Frghclsco. who saw the , finals today, Is the national women's title I holder. SICK AND HIS WIFE DEAD, MAN KILLS HIMSELF (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) COLUMBUS, Ga.. Aug. 26.—H. N. Pendergrass, age 46. many years a member of the Columbus police force, shot himself in the mouth early this morning, dying in a few minutes. He had been ill for several weeks and re cently lost his wife. He leaver four children. TILLMAN SOUNDED DEFEAT OF DLEASE, INSIST JONES MEN They Claim a Majority of 15r 000 to 20 ( 000-Blease Gives No Figures Since Senator Tillman’s Statement (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 26.—Tuesday the voters of South Carolina will de cide the controversy as to who shall be governor of South Carolina for the next two years. Not since the days of re construction, when Gen. Wade Hampton and his followers redeemed South Caro lina from the Republican negro misrule have the people been so aroused over a gubernatorial election. The whole state is wrought up to a high pitch of ten sion and everything is at a standstill awaiting the decision at the ballot box. The spectacular and bitter campaign had scarcely closed and the people had barely had time to draw their breath when Senator B. R. Tillman broke his silence and his neutrality and declared for Judge Jones, and in a passionate ap peal called on South Carolina to elect Judge Jones governor. "The state has been disgraced in the eyes of the whole world, and its good name made a by-word, and nobody can cleanse it and redeem it excer* its own people. I implore the people to take care of the state’s good name next Tues day." said Senator Tillman in issuing his statement, which caused a political Aen sation and started what many believe to be a stampede for Jones. Senator Till man declared that Blease was morally unfit to be governor, and said that if .re elected he would make South Carolina the worst governor since the days of the reconstruction. TILLMAN IS BOMBSHELL. The appeal of Senator Tillman was a bombshell in the Blease camp and many Blease supporters are now ready to ad mit that Blease will be beaten. They are bitter against Tillman and declare that they will defeat him for what they term his "meddling.” Tillman is opposed for re-election by W. Jasper Talbert, a former congressman, and N. B. Dial, a banker and cotton mill mpn. However, many of the hitherto bitter anti-Tlllman ites have declared their intention to vote for his re-election since he came out for Judge Jones and Mr. Tillman Jias always been able to carry the farmer vote practfealfy solid. It is therefore reasonable to surmise that he will de feat both of his opponents and be given a fourth term in the United States sen ate. Senator Tillman is far from be ing a well man and his physical condi- ( Continued on Page T, Column 3.) Employe of John D r Shot From Ambush While Picking Beans (By Aaiooiated Press.) TARRYTOWN. N. Y.. Aug. 26—Gius seppe Rosso, an employe on the John D. Rockefeller estate, was shot yesterday afternoon while picking beans in his garden. He was carried into his house, where Mr. Rockefeller's physician probed for the bullet in vain. The wounded man was taken to Fordham hospital in a serious condition. He re fused to describe his assailant. 1 The deputy sheriffs on duty at the Rockefeller estate, because of recent troubles with the employes there and of several holdups that have taken place nearby, have increased their guard. Romantic Couple Are Married While Speeding in Auto u 1 (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ALBANY, Ga., Aug. 26.—Standing in 1 a swiftly moving automobile, with his head uncovered. Rev. J. A. Rumney, Al bany's famous parson," Fri day afternoon married H. R. Cromwell and Miss Bertha Lucile Clark. Miss Clark formerly lived In Albany, but has been living in Birmingham a year or more. While there she became engaged to Mr. Cromwell. While on a visit to relatives here with her mother, Mrs. T. E. Cook, she was visited by her sweetheart, and they decided to be married. The idea of having the ceremony performed in a moving automobile occurred to them and so appealed to their romantic senti i ment that they adopted that novel I method. Rev. Mr. Rumney, who has performed many odd marriage ceremonies, readily consented to add anethe” to his long list. He says that all he lacks to cake ; his record complete iq to perform a wedding in an aeroplane. The wedding In the moving automo- i bile was witnessed by the bride's moth er, Mrs. Cook, and her aunt, Mrs. Avera, ■ ' who were also passengers i nthe car. The bride is a beautiful and charming ■ young woman, and the groom is a prom inent young business man of Birming ; ham. DEAD JAP EMPEROR IS NOW “MEIJI TENNO” (By Associated Press.) i TOKIO, Aug. 26.—The posthumous title of "Meiji Tenno,” meaning "Emperor of the Era of Enlightenment," is to be conferred on the late Emperor Mutu shlto, during a ceremony to be held at the palace here tomorrow morning. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUCUST 27, 1912. J HA ' / ow/a/G to A ' wreck at VETo-V/lle ROom QN THE 3ROWN ROUT£ I THE MILEAGE -bill 1K So UP TO THE RAILROAD COMMISSION NOW POTTLE-BROYLES RACE A ORAW,SAYS WRIGHT Recheck Fails to Change Re sult-Change of Richmond Vote to Be Investigated A recount of the official returns of Wednesday’s Democratic primary by W- C. Wright, chairman of the state J)em ocratlc executive committee, has fail ed to breaJc the tie in the race be tween Judge Nash R. Broyles and 'Judge John R- Pottle for the judge of the court of appeals. Mr. Wright has the official returns from all counties except Bibb, Frank lin and Habersham. With these coun ties omitted, the official figures give. Pottle 176 convention votes and Broyles 152- convention votes. The Journal's verified reports from the three counties, which have not report ed to Chairman Wright, show that Pot tle carried Bibb and Habersham, which will make his total convention vote 184. and Judge Broyles has car ried Franklin, which will give him a total vote of 184 In the convention. Omitting Bibb, Habersham and Franklin, the popular vote, according to the official returns, is Pottle. 31,- 246. and Brovlss. 78.922. RICHMOND COUNTY. The battle in the state convention at Macon for the place on the appel late bench for which Judge Nash R. Broyles and Judge John R. Pottle are contesting will hinge, ,lt is now believ ed, on Richmond county. The change of Richmond's six votes given by the newspapers of the state to Broyles and switched to the Pottle column by the official- returns to Chairman W. C. Wright, of the state Democratic executive committee, has mystified the friends of the former contestant. Chairman Wright figures the popu lar vote in Richmond county 'as Broyles 1,254; Pottle 1,399, a majority for the latter of 145 votes. Mr. Wright states that he has wired i.he Richmond county managers for a con firmation of those figures, but as yet has had no answer. Judge Broyles is now in Highland, N. C„ for a short vacation, but his brother, Arnold Broyles, clerk of the superior court of this county, who is acting for him, stated Monday that Hon. W. H. Fleming, of Augusta, is now engaged in an investigation of the Richmond vote. “I want It stated.” said Mr. Broyles, "that we do not charge fraud or anything like that, but we simply do not understand the change, and for that reason we have asked Mr. Fleming to represent Judge Broyles in an investiga tion. "The morning after the primary the Augusta Chronicle declared that Broyles had carried Richmond. The Journal cor respondent and the Constitution corres pondent sent in the same statement. “Two days after the primary The Journal wired Richmond for the exact figures, at my request, and got back a statement of a Broyles majority. CHANGE TO POTTLE. 'Later, after it became known that six Votes would tie the contest, and three days after the primary, the official re turns of the county, giving it to Pottle by 145 majority, was received by Chair man W. C. Wright. “Since then we have wired Augusta, YOU CAN’T GET YOUR MAIL ANY MORE ON SUNDAY Asjcc'tted WASHINGTCfrJ. Aug. 26—A1l first and second class postoffices will b$ closed on Sunday as a result of one provision of the new postal bill pass ed by congress and signed by Presi dent Taft. Every .mportant city in the United States. is affected. Hereafter only special delivery letters will pass through on that day and no mail will be placed in loek boxes. WILSONLEHDINC IN _ AIL BUT Sil STITES —S3WATOR KOBE SMITH. 3 ■ All That Democrats Need Is to Stand Together and Keep Up Fight Senator Hoke Smith, who returned Sunday afternoon from Washington, said that all that fs necessary to secure the election of Woodrow Wilson as president is for the Democrats to stand together and keep up an intelligent fight. “If the presidential election were to take place now,” he said Monday morn ing, “there is no oubt about Gov. Woodrow Wilson’s election. » “Neither the Taft nor the Roosevelt supporters in the senate doubt that Gov ernor Wilson would be victorious if the j presidential election were held now in stead of in November. “The supporters of both President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt claim that they will do much between now and the time of the election. But if the Demo crats will press their campaign in the proper manner, there is no doubt that they can count upon an overwhelming victory. I hesitate to say how great Mr. Wilson’s majority will be. I know now of not more than half a dozen states in which he is not stronger than either of his opponents. "To • assure the election of Gov ernor Wilson the Democrats need only to stand together and keep up an intelli gent fight." Senator Smith will remain in Atlanta until the middle of September. From then until the time of the election he will devote his efforts toward a Demo cratic victory in the presidential elec tion. For a part of the time he will be occupied at the Democratic headquar ters as a member of the advisory com mittee; during the remaining while he will speak in various states. and the only answer we can get is that later returns give' the county to Pottle. We do not understand just how the re turns could be so late. “I have watched the Augusta Chron icle closely and that paper has yet made no statement in which it con cedes a change in the county's vote, which gives it to Judge Pottle.” Friends of the Atlanta recorder from all over the state have been deluging him with wires asking about the Rich mond change, and many of them declar ed that they are mystified by it. Fostoffices in several cities have been closed Sundays heretofore. The postmaster general has permitted that ' under a regulation where it was evi dent that local sentiment demanded it The closing is now compelled by law. At the postoffice Monday it was said that a letter relative to Sunday mail had been received, but that nothing could be said about it until Postmaster Mc- Kee's return to the city during the day. ® hopes to Hur "1LIBI” 81 WM. LOEB, JR. Roosevelt Says He Was Spe cifically Told Standard Oil Gave Nothing (By Aassctated Preu.) OYSTER BAY, N. Y.. Aug. 36.—What Colonel Roosevelt knew and .did in the matter of John D. Archbold's alleged 3100,000 contribution to the Republican campaign fund in 1904; what President Roosevelt said to the late E. H. Harri man and what Mr. Harriman said to President Roosevelt about • Harriman's $260,000 contribution, are matters to which William Loeb, Jr., formerly Roosevelt’s secretary, is prepared to testify before the senate committee in vestigating campaign contributions, ac | cording to an announcement made here today by Colonel Roosevelt. “Mr. Loeb told me last 'bight that he had seen statements that he was to be brought down before the committee,” Colonel Roosevelt said today. TOLD HIM TO GO. “I told him that if he was called he was to go, of course, and testify to ev erything." . , "While under no circumstances would 1 1 myself ever have Mr, Loeb to j testify,” Colonel Roosevelt declared, "J am more than pleased that the commit tee cnoses to do so. "For Instance, when I made my state- I ment about/Mr, Harriman in Mr. Harri- [ man's life time, I let It rest only on my j written letters, yet as the committee has chosen to listen to hearsay gossip by ' Mr. Odell and Mr. Arehbold as to what I i Mr. Harriman said took place at that in- < terview, I shall be glad to have them listen to Mr. Loeb, who was present at the Interview.” "Mr. Loeb heard Mr. Harriman ask me to get Mr. Bliss or Mr. Cortelyou to contribute funds to himself and Mr.' Odell for the big campaign (neither Mr. I Harriman nor 1 ever so much as spoke of Mr. Hafriman contributing to my i campaign), and Mr. Loeb himself com municated to either Mr. Bliss or Mr. Cor-1 tell you transmitting Mr. Harriman's re -quest of me. Mr. Loeb also telephoned to Mr. Bliss and Mr. Cortelyou about the alleged Standard Oil contribution making in my behalf the same request that 1 had made directly tn the two letters and telegrams that have been published and receiving the same assurance that I had : (Continued on Psgs 7, Column 4.) "WIRELESS" WILSON DIES SUDDENLY HI THE FEDERAL PRISON Was Taken 111 Sunday Night About 8 o’Clock and Expired in the Prison Hospital Two Hours Later Christopher Columbus Wilson, of New York, better known throughout the coun- . ■ try as "Wireless" Wilson, because of his former connection with the big wireless syndicate whose operations led to his downfall, died Sunday night at the Unit ed States penitentiary. He was taken ill 11 at 7:50 o'clock and died at 10:10. Urae mic poisoning was given as the cause of his death. Colonel Wilson was sitting in the li brary at the prison, smoking, when oth er prisoners in the room noticed some thing wrong with him. He was found to be desperately ill, and was taken to the prison hospital, where shortly after wards he lapsed into the coma which ended with his death. He was 67 yea.'s old. The spectacular career of the prisoner . made him probably the most notable among all those confined at the prison, the pardon and release of Charles W. Morse by President Taft putting Colonel J Wilson at the top of the list. He was convicted in New York of using the mails with intent to defraud, in con nection with the organization of his wireless company, and sentenced to serve three years in the federal prison. H<» was received at the prison on August 23, 1911. It is reported that the funeral arrange ments will be designated by the deceas ed man's daughter, who is married and lives in Pennsylvania. He is survived also by his former wife, whom he di vorced to marry his young stenographer.' r ROMANTIC WEDDING. He is survived by his present wifs and a baby boy about a year old. Not a little romance has been woven about the arrest and conviction of Colonel Wilson. He was engaged to marry bis young stenographer, and she was pres ent in the office when postoffice inspec tors first raided the place and put the president of the United {(Tireless com pany, of New York, under arrest ' Colonel Wilson gave bond the same j afternoon and that evening he and the 22-year-old stenographer were married. The trial dragged along tor nearly aSB year. Finally the promoter was con victed and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Just one week after sentence was pronounced Mrs. Wilson announced the birth of a bouncing baby J boy. Francis X. Butler, general counsel and a director in the wireless swindle, was convicted of using the mails to defraud, at the same time that Colonel Wilson was tried, and the former is still servo ing his two-year sentence In the federal prison. Prison officials said today that Colonel Wilson had been enjoying good health up to the time he was stricken. Ths colonel’s young wife has been notified and the body is being held at the prison awaiting instructions. LIBERTY CAUSED PROBE. Colonel Wilson was taken to New York last May by one of the prison guards ® to testify in the bankruptcy proceed ings Instituted against the United Wire- a less company. Several postponements of the case necessitated his bein£ held in New York for more than a month and it became known that the guard was allowing him a great deal of person al liberty during that period. Instead of being kept in the Toombs he was per mitted to stay in a private house. On one occasion, it is said, he was seen near his former haunts in Wall street. The department of justice took no tice of these reports and ordered an j investigation. As a result, the guard was dismissed and early last month Wilson was returned to the Atlana pen- -•' tentiary. » Left Only a Watch • and Cuff Buttons (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Aus. 26. —Col. Christo- R pher Columbus Wilson's death leaves his financial affairs still unsettled :ind' a -tangle of litigation growing out ofi the failura of the United Wireless Tel egraph company, of which pres- . i ident, to be adjusted. Last May he produced a schedule showing now he had spent more thau $1,000,000 in four years. He also tes- I tiffed that although worth $500,000 in 1909, his wealth had shrunk to a gold, watch and a pair of cuff links. oCk>- nel Wilson lived regally before bis conviction, but the receivers’ sear-h for assets has been almost a fruitless task. / GIRL'S BODY STOLEN? AUTOPSY WAS FEARED CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—Warfare between the reform element and the owners of alleged disorderly saloons in West Ham mond, a suburb, continued yesterday j when women, working under direction of | Miss Virginia Brooks, caused the arrest of two women and ttyee men in a re sort. George Rosenbaum, who last week caused Mayor K. M. Wossecqnski’s ar rest on a charge of accepting a bribe, was arrested, charged with offering a bribe. He was released on a bond of J sauu. The warrant for his arrest was / issued by Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCul- * lought. suffragist, and justice of the peace in the town of Evanston. Miss Brooks announced last night that tomorrow she would take steps ton sx humation of the body of Esther Harrison, who died under mysterious circumstances in a resort several weeks ago. A report S was current yesterday that the girl's body had been stolen by persons who feared the result of an autopsy. * i NO. 97.
