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m IS i i mmm VjDLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA TUESDAY. JANUARY 7, 1913. NO. 31. II 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 MMBwHL tnfSdl 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. IT 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. ut the Southern^fi»c iflfNh ime Commission Would esffM teguiate ‘Big Be Com- ?-„ to StS “‘ira IremSlTWnrelHpSrMi (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 wm 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. It 5 a GR£AT CON\/ENlEN CE f y tfELLO HENRY PLEASE MAIL /AE AT ONCE a MICE 5f£AK. SOME A/slO A FEW POTATOES Fopi. piM — I HAVE JUST MAILED YOU YourT OVERCOAT AS I THIN/C IT5 TOR.HINQ COi.DE/R } & ‘I / woof j I s, poS" iT MAS®1 HAS "To Up HiSpptf -rA& S-TA AhJt) The^y go 5 WHew Y Y Go OUT T ° PLAV- Roo&H ow THE Postman - -a cat and J>oG To PELIVER. oh the 'ffA SAME \ Route. " T ^ll Pos ™ an THEY Get lost. \T MIGHT ? The P.0. DEPARTM Does hot Limit o do irs happen (or.,getting . n/M *- ' THEIR goat) ,6 'garlic 9>\ & TOO T (l WA>iT TO mail this , CA|CE I home to MOTHER. r UNFRESH £6GS /'% There IS A WEIGHT J-IMIT ! m OH. YOU PARCEL POST! 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. 9 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, Fi' : ' 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- » 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- U( Yllii.-"' m 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.