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VjDLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA TUESDAY. JANUARY 7, 1913.
NO. 31.
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Ways and Means Committee
of the House Begins Its
Hearings on the Tariff,
Schedule by Schedule
(By Aisooiated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan.* 6.— Democratic
revision of the tariff got a start today
when the house ways and means com
mittee began heatings which will be the
basis of the new tariff bill of the next
congress to repeal the Payne-Aldrich
law.
Today’s hearing was on schedule "A,"
the chemical schedule. The committee
plans to % go down through the list,
taking a new schedule every other day
until all have been covered.
With the full membership of the com
mittee sitting in the big hall in the
house office building, the first hearing
of a month-long series, aiming at the
preparation of a law to carry out the
Democratic party’s pledges of an "im
mediate downard revision” and “tariff
for revenue only" was begun.
Most of the Democratic majority of
the present ways and means committee
will go into the next congress, which
is to convene in extra session probably
between March 15 and early in April.
When the tariff hearings are ended,
Democrats of the committee will de
vote themselves to the formulation of
the tentative tariff legislation, whictji
they hope to have ready by March 15,
If not earlier.
The concrete result of their delibera
tion, the new tariff rates from acids
to zinc, the expansion of the free list,
and so on, will be formally passed up-
«.n at a caucus of the representatives
cf the new house to be called soon af
ter the opening of the extr§i session.
This caucus will determine whether
the rev/, ‘ariff legislation shall be in the
form c( a single measure or in the
bills, schedule by schedule, along the
lfne^ of the tariff procedure of the last
session when chemical, wool, cotton and
steel and free list bills went through
both hotoses. but met presidential veto.
Chairman Underwood, of the ways
and means committee, and ms associates
are inclined to favor the same course
as that of last session. By that pro
cedure it is urged by its advocates,
“log-rolling." or trading on rates on
various articles cotild be avoided.
The chemical schedule is one of three
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revision along the lines embodied in
the chemical bill of last year would
save American consumers $1,700,000,000
by reducing the prices of all chemicals
and at- the same time Increasing the
revenue to the government.
The plan of the committee is to le' r y
low rates of duty upon non-competitive
articles produced in this country, es
pecially the chemicals used in the tex
tile industry and chemicals and drugs
used for medicines.
FIRST WITNESS.
The first witness today was Henry
Howard, of New York, representing the
Manufacturing Chemists’ association.
He contended the committee; should
delegate the entire question of the chem
ical schedule to a subcommittee for an
expert examination. Mr. Howard in
sisted that the association felt very
strongly that no bodies the size of the
ways and means committee could as a
whole conduct an investigation so es
sentially technical.
He favored a non-partisan commit
tee or committees.
“The most radical increase in rates
of raw materials imposes hardships that
would, if followed through other sched
ules, inevitably bring disaster to many
industries with consequent hardship to
th^ labor employment in those indus
tries.’’
H. J. Krebs, president of the Krebs
Pigment and Chemical company, of
Newport, Del., objected to the changes
in t the tariff as proposed by the last
session chemical bill, vetoed. Louis L.
Brigham, of the Brigham Sheet Gelatin
company, of Randolph, Vt., asked for
relief from the present chemical tariff,
saying it was not scientifically ad
justed.
TARIFF ON GELATIN.
He held up specimens of domestic and
foreign gelatin and protested that there
was now protected just as much duty
on raw materials as a finished product.
. ^He contended that put him on the same
' basis as the foreign gelatin manufac
turer. He thought that about double
the present duty on the finished gela
tin product would be fair in the propos
ed tariff.
T. E. Schoelkopf, of Buffalo, said
the proposed reduction of <Tu*y on coal
tar dyes or colors, of which about
$7,000,000 worth annually are brought
in, from 30 to 18 1-2 per cent, would
operate unjustly to the American man
ufacturers.
Chairman Underwood drew from him
that he regarded his total labor cost
as 20 per cent, of the cost of tht fin
ished product, and that ir the coal tar
dyes or colors came in free he still
would have to pay virtually a. ten per
cent, duty because of the freight
charges, etc., from the customs house.
TRUST CONTROLLED.
"This Is a trust controlled product?”
“Yes,, so far as the parents are con
cerned.' ^
The witness said that while a num
ber of patents on coal tar colors anu
dyes were expiring, there were many
yet controlled by patents held by two
bigg«r manufacturing companies.
“Then," suggested Representative
Hill, "the effect of the proposed re
duction would be to give absolute con
trol of these products in this country
by trust syndicates to the detriment
of American enterprises?’’
‘That is well known," replied Mr.
Schoelkopf. He asked the committee
to let the present tariff of 30 per cent,
ad valorem on coal tar dyes or colors
and 20 per cent, ad valorem on all
other products or preparations of coal
tar, not colors or dyes and not medi
cinal, stand unchanged. He agreed to
open his books to the committee to
show the profits of his company.
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Railroad Company Must Find a
New Way to Dissolve
Merger
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The supreme
court today held that the plan ad
vanced by Union Pacific attorneys for
the disposition of the entire stock hold
ing of the Union Pacific Railroad com
pany in the Southern Pacific company,
by transfer to the stockholders pf the
Union Pacific company, would not so
effectually end the Union Pacific merger
as to comply with its dissolution de
cree.
Union Pacific attorneys claimed for
th.> Union Pacific stockholders the ex-
cli sive privilege of taking over the
$126,550,000 worth of Southern Pacific
stock, which the supreme court found the
Union Pacific Railway company owns
in violation of the Sherman anti
trust layv.
Attorney General Wickersham opposed
any plan that gave the Union Pacific
stockholders an exclusive privilege of
buying the Southern Pacific stock in
question. He was willing to approve,
however, a plan for the Union Pacific
stockholders to share in the distribu
tion with the Southern Pacific stock
holders other than the Upion Pacific
Railroad company.
Announcing the decision of the court
today, Justice Day said:
"The proposal to distribute the stock
among the shareholders of the Union
Pacific company, or to sell the stock
to such shareholders, if granted, will,
in effect, transfer the stock from the
Oregon Short Line company, which now
holds it for the Union Pacific company,
to the stockholders who own and con
trol the latter company. Tne court is
of the opinion that this distriDution of
sale cannot be ordered. The ultimate
termination of the affairs of a corpora
tion rests with its stockholders and
arises from their power to choose the
governing board of directors. After
such distribution as is now proposed,
the stockholders of the Union Pacific
company may dominate and control,
not only the - nion Pacific company,
but the Southern^gfccifcc company as
well.
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(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Senator
Bristow, of Kansas, presented to the
senate today a proposal for an indus
trial commission of seven members to
take over the work of the bureau of
corporations and exercise control over
all persons, firms or corporations doing
an itnerstate business with gross re
ceipts of more than $5,000,000 per year.
Explaining the bill to the senate he
said that it proposed to create a body
similar to the interstate commerce
commission to have the same power
Qver industrial concerns that the lat
ter exercises over transportation com
panies.
"The purpose is to protect the people
with some degree of promptness from
the extortionate practices of powerful
corporations without destroying the
businesses they represent,” he said.
He declared that the proposed com
mission and the powers given to it
would not “interfere with big busi
ness operations if such operations are
along honest and creditable lines."
He declared that the Standard Oil and
tobacco trust cases had demonstrated
that the courts were ineffective for the
supervision of big business.
ANOTHER EDITOR NAMED
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Heiskell, of the Arkansas-Ga-
zette, Succeeds Late Sen- ‘
ator Jeff Davis
(By Associated Press.)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 6.—Gov
ernor George W. Donaghey today ap
pointed Editor J. N. Heiskell, of the
Arkansas-Gazette, of this city, United
States senator to succeed the late Sen
ator Jeff Davis.
The appointment is for the short
term, ending March 4.
John Netherland Heiskell is forty
years old and is a native Tennes»seean.
For a number of years he was engaged
in newspaper work in Knoxville and
Memphis, and served in an editorial ca
pacity in the Chicago and Louisville off!
ces of the Associated Press before com
ing to Little Rock us editor of the
Gazette, of which he i*s part owner.
Mr. Heiskell has never held a politi
cal office and today said with the elec
tion of a senator at the coming ses
sion of the Arkansas legislature, he
will return at once to Little Rock and
resume his editorial work.
NO RACE SUICIDE IN
FRIEDMAN FAMILY
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—A call for a
reunion of the Friedman familly in
New York brought an unusual gath
ering last night when Mrs. Miriam K.
Friedman, who came to this country
from Warsaw over eighty years ago,
as the head of the family, was en
circled by her eleven children, sixty-
five grandchildren and seventy-four
great-grandchildren. There were near
ly 200 other Friedmans present..
SUPREME COURT
ITS WILL STREET
Most Important Holds That to
Corner Any Food Commodity
Is Violation of the Sherman
Anti-Trust Law
. BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The United
States supreme court today smashed
Wall street squarely between th e eyes
in a number of opinions it rendered. Not
the least important and significant of
these was a decision that James A. Pat
ten, Colonel Robert M. Thompson ,and
others involved in the spectacular cor
ner in cotton are liable to criminal pro
secution for violating the Sherman anti
trust law.
The famous Patten corner in cotton
will be instantly recalled throughout
the\south. It resulted in boosting the
price of cotton to a high water mark,
and was followed by the indictment of
Patten, Thompson and others for form
ing a conspiracy in restraint of trade.
It was charged at the time that the
indictment of the cotton "bulls” was the
outgrowth of a movement by' the Wall
street cotton "bears” who had lost heav
ily in the market as a result of Pat
ten’s speculative operations.
Several resolutions were introduced in
congress to ascertain why the govern
ment. had made no attempt to prosecute
the "bears" for. their effort to hold
down the price of cotton. Nothing came
of these resolutions, but southern peo
ple generally condemned the action of
the attorney general in persisting in his
prosecution of Patten, Thompson, et al.
Probably the most important aspect
of the cotton prosecution case is the
fact that it is the first time the supreme
court has held that corners in any food
community are in violation of the Sher
man law, and that persons engaged in
the corners are liable to criminal prose
cution and the penitentiary for their ac
tivities. f
Attorney General Wickershom, fol
lowing the announcement of the deci
sion, declared that in his judgment the
epislon
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The decision means, he says, that ma
nipulators in wheat, corn, coffee and
other foodstuffs are liable to prosecu
tion.
He believes the decision will have
a salutary effect and result in the im
mediate and permanent abandonment of
the efforts to boost the price of these
and other necessaries of life, which
have gradually soared higher and high
er within the past few years.
Following the indictment of Thom
son, Patten and their -associates, the
federal district court, in which the
case was called for trial, threw it out
on a demurrer, which set up that it
was no restraint of trade between the
states| to bolster the price of cotton
by means of extensive buying. The
supreme court rejected this plea en
tirely and dwelt upon the fact that
the cotton "bulls" conspired to boost
the price of cottop by buying more cot
ton than had really been - produced,
taking their profits from the fluctua
tions that followed.
Thompson, Patten and their associates
are said to have made millions out of
the cotton corner.
Tody’s decision means that these op
erators will be placed on- nrial for a
criminal, violation of the Sherman law.
Another decision of importance hand
ed down today was that refusing to ac
cept the solution offered by the attor
neys for the Union Pacific railroad for
dissolution. The manner proposed by
the road’s attorneys was not accept
able to the United States supreme
court.
Rockefeller
Found Again;
Is at Nassau
(By Associated Prers.) ^
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 6.—William G
Rockefeller, wanted 1*8 a witness be
fore the Pujo money trust investigat
ing committee, is a guest at a hotel
at Nassau, Bahama Islands, according
to visitors who returned today from
the islands to this city.
Statements by steamship officials are
to the effect that Mr. ^Rockefeller sailed
from Miami on the steamer Miami last
hTrusday, after arriving here from
Palm Beach in the private car of Presi
dent Parrott, of the Florida East Coast
railroad.
HORTICULTURALISTS TO
MEET IN ALABAMA
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 6.—The
annual convention of the Alabama
State Horticulture society will be held
at Bay Minette January 23, 24 and 25.
Several addresses will be delivered
by horticultural experts and steps tak
en for the advancement of the industry
in Alabama.
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ZERO WEATHER EXTENDS
INTO TEXAS PANHANDLE
Cold Wave Will Bring Ex-
Throughout South
(By Associated Press.)
‘ WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.—The east
ward advance of cold weather has beer.
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retarded by an area of high pressure
over the western Atlantic ocean and
coast states, the weather bureau an
nounced today. Very low temperatures -
prevail throughout the west, the line of
zero temperature extending into the
Texas panhandle.
The cold wave will reach the east
gulf states and the Ohio valley by
Tu ;3day. It will ibe accompanied by
rains over the southern districts.
Cold wave warnings have been order
ed for Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississip
pi and northern Alabama.
Storm and Cold Wave
Warnings x>n Gulf Coast
(By Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6.—A north
west storm warning for the gulf coast
from New Orleans to Brownsville,
Tex^Sy, 1 was issued .this morning by the
local weather bureau. Brisk to high
winds are forecosted this afternoon and
tonight and freezing to th e coast
Tuesday.
LEAGUE DRAWS
First Convention of Organiza
tion Opens Tuesday in
Washington, D, C,
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—With the
opening of the first annual convention
ol‘ the Women’s National Democratic
League, set for tomorrow, hundreds of
.women from # throughout the United
States are arriving today to get ready
for the election of officers and com
mittees. *They are creating almost as
much aj| political flurry in the hotel cor
ridors as generally is observable in the
heat of a national presidential conven
tion. There a're several candidates, for
the position of head of the league.
The leading part thus far in the pre
liminary work of the convention has
been taken by the wives of the senators
and representatives but as the delegates
rt presenting the Woman’s Democratic
clubs of the various states arrive a
lively struggle for supremacy is expec
ted. The election will be held Wednes
day and on that day also the letter on
“Democracy” by President-elect Wilson
will be read.
WILSON’S PORTRAIT IS
TO BE PAINTER BY CHASE
SENATOR WORLEY DEAD,
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Picture Will Be Ready to A(
Wfiffe House Dy ThFu ^'
gu rati on Time
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-—The painting
of the portrait of President-elect Wil
son may occupy much of the time of
the president-elect for sittings between
now and March 4, as it is understood
the portrait is to be ready to hang
in the white house soon after the in
auguration. It was learned here to
day that.W. M. M. Chase, one of the
many portrait painters who have sought
thx opportunity, has received the com
mission to paint Governor Wilson.
President-elect Holds
Conference With Palmer
(By Associated Press.)
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 6.—President
elect Wilson got up unusually early
today and was at work on his corres
pondence before 9 o’clock. He had an
appointmetn for the afternoon with
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, na
tional’ committeeman from Pennsylva
nia, whose name frequently has been
mentioned as *a possibility for the cab
inet. Mr. Palmer was floor leader of
the Wilson candidacy at the Baltimore
convention.
Paul F. Myers, president of the
Woodrow Wilson club of Princeton uni
versity, talked with the governor about
the proposal that Princeton undergrad
uates take part in the inaugural pa
rade. If the president-elect wanted a
small ecort, Myers suggested that only
the senior class of about 1,000 under
graduates could march.
NEILL IS RENOMINATED
President Taft Sends His Name
to the Senate on ' *
Monday
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—President
Taft today renominated Charles P.
Neill to be commissioner of labor. Oth
er nominations included:
For postmaster: George F. Rock-
hold, Dallas, Texas.
Morgan Seeks Buried
Treasures in Egypt;
To Sail oh Tuesday
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan: 6.—J. P. Morgan
sailed today for Egypt on the steamer
Adriatic to interest himself In buried
treasures. About a year ago Mr. Mor
gan visited Egypt to see the progress
of an expedition which he fitted out to
make excavations near Khargeh. It is
expected he will visit the same vioinity
on the present trip,.
SOUTH GEORGIA EXPECTS
BUMPER CROP IN 1913
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
THOMASVILLE. Ga., Jan. 6.—Real
estate men here # are firmly of the opin
ion that business in their line this year
will be the finest that has ever been
known in this section.
They say that south Georgia is being
better advertised than it ever was be-
for and as a result of it they are get
ting more letters of inqulrj' from would-
be settlers, -showing that attention is
being drawn to this section of Geor
gia from all parts of the country. Pros
pectors who come to see for themselves,
rarely fail to become settlers and these
settlers soon draw others, thus helping
along the advertising.
3own Georgian Dies
Acute Indigestion
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CANTON, Ga., Jan. 6.—Hon. S. T.
Worley, state senator, mayor of Can
ton, former sheriff of Cherokee county
and a never defeated candidate for of
fices for which he ran, dlea suddenly
at his home in Canton at 2 o’clock Sun
day morning from an attack of acute
indigestion. He retired in his usual
health, but his wife awaketf to find
him in a dying condition. No man in
this section was more influential or
higher respected.
At the time of his death he was a
member of the state senate, serving
oh several important committees, was.
mayor of Canton, a member of the
light and water board and and active
member of the Masonic lodge and order
of Odd Fellows. u
He was never defeated Tor any office
desired, having served several terms as
sheriff of Cherokee county, and as a
member of the board of alderjnen. He
was the oldest son of Alison Worley,
born near Hickory Flat, September,
1871. He was a student of Emory col
lege and later a graduate of the Atlan
ta Dental college. He was married
about ten years ago to Miss Lowe Scott.
His aged mother, wife and three sisters,
Mrs. W. W. Scott, Canton; Mrs. John
Quarles and Miss Alice Worley, of
Hickory Flat, survive him. He was
buried in Canton Monday afternoon.
Wife of Accused Jurist Wi
Testify at Impeachment
Trial in Senate
(By Associated Pro»ss.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.—The climax
of the impeachment trial of Judge Rob
ert W. Archbald, of the commerce court,
was reached weh nthe senate court re
convened today prepared to hear the
testimony of Judge Archbald himself
and of rMs. Archbald. The accused
jurist has determined, after consulta
tion with his attorneys, to take the
stand to answer personally questions
as to his relations with railroad offi
cials and charges that he had used
his judicial office to influence rail
roads to -make advantageous coal land
deals with him in the Scranton, Pa.,
fields.
Mr. Archbald was to tell of the kin
ship between himself and Henry W.
Cannon, whose invitation to Archbald
to enjoy an European trip at his ex
pense has brought into the impeach
ment case as indicating Judge Arch
bald’s right of favors from possible lit
igants.
SUPREME COURT REPORT
NO. 138 IN BOOK FORM
Mrs. M. B. Cobb, state librarian,
makes the announcecment that volume
No. 138, Georgia Suprece Court reports
has been finfshed by the publishers and
can .be procured for $2.40. This new
volume contains all of the supreme
court decisions rendered since the pub
lishing of the last volume several
months ago.
U. S, Supreme Court Holds
That He and Others Must
Face Trial for an Alleged Vi-
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olation of the Sherman Law
(By Associated Frost.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.—By uphold
ing: certain disputes, counts against
James A. Patten and others, charged
with a violation of the Sherman anti- '
trust In running a so-called cotton cor
ner, the supreme court today sent tha
case against the men to trial In the 1
lower courts.
Patten, Eugene G. Scales, Frank G.
Hayne and William P. Brown were In
dicted in New York on charges of con
spiring on January 1, 1910, to corner!
cotton by extensive buying on the New
York cotton exchange as a result of!
which the price would be enhanced and|
ultimately bring arbitrary and excessive’
prices. The conspiracy was described)
as calculated to yield $10,Of.
profits.
The alleged violation of the Sheritoan]
law was set forth In the indictment 1
in eight different ways In as many|
counts, the defendants being liable for
trial on any one. Before the defet, ...nts!
could be. placed on trial, the Unltedi
States circuit court for southern New!
York held Insufficient four counts, asi
not stating art offense. The govern- 1
ment appealed from that decision to>
the supreme court
Because of similarity In the four
counts held Insufficient, the controversy,
In the supreme court narrowed down to
the validity of the third and seventh
counts;
Children Were Playing
"Indian" Around a Box
of Dynamite When Found
WASHINGTpN, Jan. 6.—Gingerly
digging up a box of dynamite sticks,
from the earth, where they had buried
it last night, after the explosive had 1
been taken from children .using .it to
play “Indian,” three policemen tiptoed
through Langdon, a suburb, today and
carefully sunk thqjjh burden In the Po-
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William Simond, a resident of Lang
don, returned yesterday from his Sun
day afternoon stroll to find the four
children of a neighbor playing ‘‘Indian'’
on his front lawn. They were dancing
around a curious appearing box, from
otfl which they had wrenched the lid.
Stopping the war dance, Mr. Simond
discovered that the war "clubs” the
youngsters were Brandishing were
sticks of dynamite He separated the,
children from the explosive with ex
treme gentleness. Then he telephoned
for the police.
It is not known where the dynamite
came from, but it is supposed to have
fallen from a dray on its way from a.j> |
railroad freight yard.
Kindness to Peddler
4 Years Ago, Brings
Girl $8,000 Rewarc
(By AsBOcaated Press.)
HARRISBURG, Pa.. Jan. Marj
garetta Jane Brown’s kindness fouiL
years ago, in helping an old peddle!
onto a trolley car here, has won heq
a reward of $8,000.
The young woman received In heitj
mail yesterday a check for this amountj
and a note addressed "to the little gtrlj
who helped me on a trolley car fou!
years ago.” She had almost -forgotten!
the Incident. The reward was frorat
Valentine R. Cortlas and was mailed
from California.
Foreman of Dynamite
Jury III From Threats;
Goes to Florida to Rest
(By Aisooiated Press.)
NEW CASTLE, Ind., Jan. 6.—Franki
Dare, foreman o£ the jury which re
turned a verdict of guilty against thei
alleged dynamite conspirators, who has
received two letters threatening his!
life, left today for Florid'a to spend the
winter. His health has been impaired
worry over the letters and by long J
confinement during the trial.
GUNBOAT WHEELING
ORDERED TO C0AS1
SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 6.—Under or-l
ders from the secretary of the ijavy,l
the United States gunboat Wheling, \
which has been in Savannah for ten
days, left today for a two months’
cruise along the gulf coast. She will
probably be sent back to San Domingo
about March 1. The Wheeling was At
San Domingo before coming to Savqp-
nah.
AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING
BUSINESS PICKS UP
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—Shipbuilding
in the United States during the last}
six months of 1912 amounted to 791
vessels, aggregating 163,584 tons. Thlsi
was an increase of 4 9,000 tons and seven
vessels over the corresponding period
of 1911. Seventy-three vssels were
steel and the remainder of wooden con
struction.
The total steel tonnage was 98,109.