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■ : '<V ' ■ 0t$ I VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1913. NO. 33. GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC BY LETTERS!.CHICAGO Negro Lawyer Declares That “Gangsters" Kidnaped Him and Carried Him to the Ex aminer Office : Members of Electoral College Cast Ballots for Wilson and Marshall (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—A story of how copies of letters from John D. Archbald to former Senator Foraker and other public men were taken from the l Standard Oil company’s office at 26 * Broadway by W. W. Winkfield and ‘. Charles Stump, negro messengers, em- ’ ployed by the' company, was told to the senate campaign fund investigating com mittee today by Gilchrist Stewart, a ne- ■fc-ro law clerk. The negro Stewart says he was em ployed by Mr. Foraker to investigate whether certain photographs of letters were forgeries. Winkfield was found in Chicago Stewart said and told him a story of how he and Stump took copies of letters from the Standard Oil files and disposed Of them to a representative ot the New York American. While fn Chicago on December 31, the negro declared he was kidnaped by '‘gangsters/’ taken to the office of the ' Chicago Examiner and robbed of a num ber of letters and papers, including two letters to him from former Senator Foraker. The men who kidnaped him, he said, told him they were policemen, exhibited what purported to be warrants, and at tempted to make him believe the Ex aminer office was a police station. HOUSE ANNULS TAFT’S CIVIL SERVICE ORDER Amendment to .Postoffice Bill Puts Fourth Class Un der Appointments (Bv Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—An amend ment to tbs postoffice appropriation bill to annul the executive orders which placed fourth-class postmasters and assistant postmasters and clerks of first and second-class potoffice Un der civil service, was adopted by the house today sitting as a committee of the whole. It was offered by Rep resentative Cutlop, of Indiana, and wilt have to come, before the house again when it finally passes on the bill. All Republicans refrained from voting. IT IE OE MERGER BOARD Alleged Differences Between Faculty and President of College Will be Heard (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MACON, Ga., Jar.i. 13.—Charges not yet made public and not even known to President S. Y. Jameson, of Mercer uni versity, will be heard before a special committee composed of the board of trustees next Wednesday afternoon, when they gather here to make an in vestigation of the administration of President Jameson. T. A. Parker, of Waycross, will act as chairman of the investigating committee. Since the Mercer removal question first arose, dissatisfaction is said to have prevailed between the head of th e college, the faculty and certain mem bers of the board of trustees. It is said a hard fight was made at the last an nual meeting-of the trustees against his re-elf-ction as the college head. At the investigation those who have grievances against Dr. Jameson will be allowed to testify. HASN’T SEEN CHARGES. President Jameson refused to make a statement this morning regarding the investigation, stating that he had not yet been presented with a copy of the charges and was not prepared to make a public statement. He declared, how ever, that he would demand a written charge and would be ready to establish proper defense when the time came. He is now serving his seventh term as col lege president, having been at the col lege head since 1906. A* committee • of the board of trustees of Mercer univer sity, charged by resolution passed at the last special meeting ot that body here in December with a thorough in vestigation of the administration by President S. Y. Jameson of the college affairs, is expected to begin work during this week. It is understood the committee will have particularly to do with th^ re lation of the president of the univer sity to the faculty. Dissatisfaction has been heard coming from certain laculty members which has given rise to current talk that all is not harmony between the head of the uni versity and his subordinates. Not Unlawful to Call Man an Ass —In Switzerland (By Associated Press.) SEURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 13.—It is lawful in Switzerland to call a man an Ms either in anger or otherwise, accord ing to a decision by the cantonal tri bunal here today. The court declined to award damages in a suit arising out of a quarrel between two prominent citi zens. Georgia went Democratic by a unan imous vote Monday when all fourteen of the members of the state electoral col lege cast their ballots for Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, for president of the United States and for Governor Thomas R. Marshall, of In diana, for vice president. The Georgia electors met at noon in the senate chamber, at the capitol, and at the same hour the electoral colleges in all of the states of the union held similar meetings. Judge Andrew J. Cobb, of Athens, tvas chosen president, and B. M. Blackburn, of Atlanta,. was. elected vice president. Walter E. Steed-, of Butler, was the temporary chairman. None of these gen tlemen had opposition. John C. Reese, Atlanta correspondent for the Macon Telegraph, was elected messenger to convey the Georgia vote to Washington. Mr. Reese won out on the second ballot over Flynn Hargett, messenger of the Georgia senate, and Harllee Branch, a reporter of The At lanta Journal. Mr. Reese is one of the best known and most popular newspaper men in Georgia. On the first ballot for messenger the vote was: Reese, 6; Hargett. 4. and Branch, 4. The second and final ballot stood: Ree^se, 8; Branch, 4, and Hargett, 2. Friends of the other candidates then moved that Mr. Reese’s election be made unanimous, which was done. At 1 o’clock the electors took a recess of half an hour in order to afford Sec retary Blackburn time in which to pre pare the three certificates, which will officially show that Georgia cast its vote for Wilson and Marshall. Each of these certificates, one of which must be filed with the United States district court, one with the secretary of state, and the other be sent to the national senate by the messenger, had to be signed by each of the electors. Members of the electoral cellege'were: State-at-large, Judge A. J. Cobb, of Athens, and Walter E. Steed, of Butler; Fir^t congressional distnct, Judge E. C. Collins, of Reidsville; Second dis trict, B. W. Fortson, of Arlington; Third district, John B. Hutcheson, of Ashburn; Fourth district, C. C. Min- ter, of Cusseta; Fifth district, John B. Suttles, of Fairburn; Sixth district, O. J. Coogler, of Jonesboro; Seventh dis trict, J. M. Laing, of Calhoun; Eighth district, J. C. Williams, of Greensboro; Ninth, district, W. E. Simmons, of Law- rencevilierTehth district, H. P. Blount, of Grovetown; Eleventh district, Ty. R. Frier, of Douglas; Twelfth. district, J. Hunter Johnson, of Jeffersonville. Ways and Means Committee Closes Hearing on Revision of Lumber Schedule 0.5. ARCHBALD GUILTY OF MISUSEJF OFFICE Noted Jurist is Found Guilty of Misusing His Office and Power as Judge for His Own Personal Gain (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Judge Rob ert W. Archbald, of the commerce court, was found guilty today by the senate sitting as a court of impeachment, of having misused his office and power as a judge for his personal gain. The penal ty is removal from his high office. Archbald was convicted on the first count of the thirteen the house of rep resentatives brought against him. It charged that he had used his position as a judge to persuade the Erie Railroad company to give him and E. J. Williams, of Scranton, Pa., an option on a coal dump at a price probably $30,000 less than Its real value. On this, the first charge, the senate 'Voted 68 to 6 for his conviction of “high crimes and misdemeanors/' Although the verdict insured Judge Archbald’s removal from the bench and the service of the United States courts, the senate proceeded to vote on the other twelve counts of the articles of impeachment. At his trial the accused judge admit ted practically all the facts of every ac cusation brought against him, but pro tested in defense that none of them was wrongful nor corrupt, nor could he have been convicted in any court of law for them. The conviction upon the first count came with an unexpected majority against Judge Archbald, only two-thirds being necessary for a conviction. As the roll call proceeded sixty-eight sena tors rose slowly in their places and pro nounced the world “guilty," in low tones. As the vote on the first article was announced, Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, moved that the senate go into executive session. He said that he be lieved that a vote on the other counts mi^ht be dispensed with or abridged by secret deliberation. Senator Culberson and Senator Poin dexter objected that the senate should not vote on the-articles in executive ses sion, After some discussion Senator Smith withdrew his motion and the clerk proceeded to read the second ar ticle. Senator Bacon, who had presided throughout the impeachment proceed ings, asked to be excused from all votes unless his vote was necessary to a de cision. On the second count Senator Smith, of Georgia, also asked to be ex cused from voting. Before the first article of impeach ment was read, Senator Kern, of Indi ana, Senator Dillingham, of Vermont, and Senator Bradley, of Kentucky, asked to be excused from voting, because they had not been present throughout the trial. (By Associated Pr6ss.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—“Free lum ber” as part of the Democratic tariff program of the coming extra session of congress seemed assured today at the hearing beforp the house committee on ways and means. The lumber schedule was closed so far as the hearings were concerned. The colloquies Detween the Democratic members of the house and j witnesses indicated the intention of a majority of the committee upon put ting rough and dressed lumber, hewn and squared timbers, shinglaf?, laths tnd fence posts on the free lists. Representative Kitchen. of North Carolina, Democrat, referred incident ally to meats, and Representative Longworth, of Ohio, Republican, asked: “Do you Democrats purpose to put meat on the free list?” “Yes,” replied Mr. Kitchen. “I’m going to vote for it.” Reprosntative James, of Kentucky, Democrat, in the cross-examination re ferred to the “greater necessity for conserving the interests of the poor people than of conserving lumber.” The lumber and silk sched ules of the tariff were the issue in testimony today before the house ways and means committee. There was no Democratic bill for these sched ules at the last session, as in the case of chemicals and iron and steel, to afford a tentative plan for the committee. Schedule “D" of the present law cov ers timber, sawed boards, posts, clap boards, laths, caskets, blinds, cabinet furniture and so on, at ad valorem du ties ranging from 10 per cent on posts, 30' per cent on boxes, barrels, casks j and hogsheads to 45 per cent on willow furniture and a variety of rates on vari ous classes of lumber. Schedule “L” covers silk, velvets, cheniles, handkerchiefs, ribbons, laces, yarns and threads. Silk no further ad vanced than carded or combed is as sessed 35 cents a pound; spun silk or silk yarn at a sliding scale with a min imum of 35 per cent ad valorem, and silk manufactures 50 per cent. The Silk Association of America was among the organizations represented to day. With the passing of these two schedules the committee will have dis posed cf five of the fourteen schedules of the tariff law so far as the hearings are concerned. The program is to take up tomorow the left over witnesses on the metal schedule. Those expected, practically all of whom have assured their appearance, include W. L. Kann, of Pittsburg; S. P. Ker, president of the Sharon, Pa., Steel Hoop company ; J. T. Rose, of the Atlan ta Steel company; George L. Hamilton, of Boston, for textile manufacturing in terests; Walter Laidlaw, of New York, for pumping machinery manufacturers; R. E. Jennings, of Reading, Pa., for the Halcomb Steel company; Edwin K. Ba con, of Mansfield, Ohio, for the Globe Steel company; E. P. Reichelf, of New York, for the American Swiss File and Tool company. The free list which President Taft vetoed included hewn and squared tlm- ENTRYMEN AND RAILROAD FIGHT FOR OIL LANDS Southern Pacific Road Has Patents on Lands Now Gushing Oil (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—An empire of oil lands worth probably mor e than half a billion dollars was the prize which brought groups Of opposing law yers today before the supreme court. tfhe occasion was the argument #of what reply the court should make to a request for instruction from the United States circuit court of appeals for the Ninth circuit, which was unable to decide . whether the Southern Pacific Railroad company or Edmund Burke and other separate entrymen were entitled to val uable tracts of land, now said to be gushing forth oil in California. The railroad company has received patents to the land. The government recently brought proceedings to have the patents cancelled, but that question is not before the court. The patents contained a provision excepting all mineral lands from the grant. It is this provision which now furnishes the principal contention. Burke and those in a similar position claim that the exception prevented the land passing to the railroad and that they arc entitled to thd land under pres ent entry. The railroad contends that the exception is void and, anyway, that evidence cannot now be produced to show the lands are “mineral” or oil j lands, the government having issued a j patent for them and no fraud having j been practiced upon it. Primarily the Southern Pacific rail- 1 road alone is concerned in the present, controversy, but the same exceptions | are contained in patents to practically every land-grant railroad traversing the j west, and so all will be affected by the j decision. •vi / / / BoomwI BRIGHT; PULL; p o / / 7 V. IP ./( r. U( / THE NEW BUSINESS BAROMETER BLEASE AND HIS EOES WILL STIR LEGISLATURE Factional Fight on All Legis lation Will Mark South Car olina General Assembly (By Associated Press.) COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 13.—The gen eral assembly of South Carolina will convene in its annual session at noon Tuesday. There are sixteen new mem bers of the senate and twenty-eight who have held over and were re elected. In the house only 34 of the 124 members who served in the last assem bly were returned. All members are Democrats. The session is expected to be fea tured by the introduction of several important bills, among which will be a measure providing for compulsory edu cation. On the recommendation of F. H. McMaster, state insurance commis sioner, a bill to provide for the grant ing of life insurance and annuities by the state to its citizens under the su pervision of a commission composed of state officials will be introduced. Members-elect of th e general assem bly have announced their intention of offering a bill to provide for the sale of intoxicating liquors under the con stitutional provision that this can be done when the goods ar e contained in the so-called “original packages.” As a rule the state officials in their annual reports to the general assem bly have made few legislative recom mendations. The measures recommend ed by Governor Blease will not be kihown until his annual message is read to the general assembly. Benjamin Ryan Tillman will be re elected to the United States senate by this legislature, having been selected over two opponents at the primary last summer. There is a decided probability that a strong factional fight on all legislation will develop in the South Carolina legis lature similar to the one of the ses sion of 1912. 162,576,320 PAID EOR ENGLISH TELEPHONE LINE British Government Now Owns Its Own System Through out Kingdom MEYER ASKS FOR THREE NEW BIG BATTLESHIPS WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.—Renewal of the fight for an increase in th e number of the battleships to be built during the fiscal year, for which appropriations soon will be mi.de, has started a cam paign by the two battleship program advocates looking to a compromise on a single battleship. ber, shingles, laths, fence posts and rough or dressed lumber. William Uptegrove, of Brooklyn, N. Y., today asked the committee to retain the present tariff of 15 per cent ad valorem on sawed boards, planks and cabinet woods not further manu factured than sawed and 20 per cent ad calorem on veneers. (By Associated Bress.) LONDON, Jan. 13.—The British gov ernment is to pay to the National Tele phone Company of the United Kingdom the sum of $62,576,320 for its property, according to a decision reached by the railroad and canal commission sitting as a court of arbitration The whole of the telephone system in the British Isles passed into the hands of the state on January 1, 1912. The National Telephone company orig inally asked $105,000,(H>* for its inter ests, but during the seventy-three-day trial just ended this claim was reduc ed by many millions. It had been expected by stock ex change experts, however, that the com pany would receive from $80,000,000 to $90,000,000. The stock of the company immediately upon announcement fell from 141 to 109. The arbitration has been one of the most important in the history of the country. During the trial the parties came to an agreement as to the cost of the THOMAS TEACHERS ASA FOR BETTER SALARIES Resolutions Will Be Sent to the Teachers of Every County of Georgia (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) THOMAS VILLE, Ga., Jan. 13.—Just before their adjournment here yester day afternoon, the members of the Thomas County Teachers' institute passed the following resolutions: “Whereas, the teachers of the public schools of Georgia are employes just as others employed in the various de partments of the state. And where as, an unjust discrimination is made in the payment of salaries as between the teachers and other employes, the latter being paid promptly, while the teachers are compelled to take what is left in the treasury or discount their claims in order to meet their obliga tions. “Therefore, Resolved, that we, the teachers of Thomas county, Georgia, in institute assembled this tenth day cf January, 1913, do respectfully ask the general assembly of Georgia to enact such laws as will place the teachers of Georgia upon the same footing as other employes of the state, either by keep ing the general and special appropria* tions for the common schools separate,, or by devising means by which the object of this resolutions can be at tained. “That we respectfully ask all other teachers of the state to co-operate with us in this matter. “Be it further resolved that a copy of these resolutions shall be sent to the daily press of the state.” A copy of these resolutions will be sent to the teachers of every county in the state and the members of the institute of Thomas county state that this is the initial step in a general ef fort on the part of all the teachers In the state to have laws enacted tending to the prompt payment of the salaries of the teachers. They seem very much in earnest in the matter, and say that all of the teachers are as one with them and will no doubt join in this great ef fort they are beginning to change mat ters. ESSEX CAVALRY TROOPS WILL ESCORT WILSON PEACE LOOMS BRIGHT AS TURKISH CABINET QUITS Announcement That Cabinet Will Resign Greeted as Sign of Peace New Jersey Cavalrymen Se lected as Personal Escort for President at Inauguration (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Jan. 13.—Turkish newspa per Easflr-I-Efkiar says that the Otto man cabinet has decided to resign, ac cording to a dispatch today from Con stantinople. This is believed to indi cate the predominance of the influence of the war party. The issue of peace or war will rest with Constantinople after the Anal drafting of the note to the Ottoman gov ernment, which will be settled at today's meeting of the ambassadors at the British foreign' office. The ambassadors will today decide also the mode and time of presentation of the document to the porte. The convocation of the Turkish grand council Is considered a sign In favor of peace. If Turkey were ready for war, the calling of the council would be un necessary. Like that of I87S, at the time of the Russp-Turkish war, the present grand council appears destined to share with the Turkish cabinet the responsibility of making peace, on this occasion by yielding the fortress of Adrianople. This, however, is not the view held by the Ottoman peace delegates here, who persist In the opinion that nothing can possibly induce the porte to renounce the historic Mohammedan capital. Envoys of the Balkan allies express the opinion that the note drafted by the European powers would acquire greater weight If presented to the Otto man government collectively by all the European ambassadors in Constantino ple. They think that if it should be presented by the Austro-Hungarian am bassador in his capacity as dean of the diplomatic corps, it might lose impor tance owing to the Austrian embitter- ment against some of the Balkan states. Negotiations continue between M. Jonesou, of Roumania, and Dr. S. Dan- eff, leader of the Bulgarian peace dele gation. It seems that Bulgaria ques tions strongly Roumania’s neutrality, and it is declared she is able to prove that Bucharest allowed 800 trucks of war material from Germany to pass through Roumania territory on the way to Turkey. Citizens in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Kentucky Cities of Covington, Newport and Dayton Seek Shelter (By Associated Pros,.) CINCINNATI, Jan. 13.—The Ohio river continued to rise steadily, but more slow ly here today, the stage at 9 o’clock' be ing 61.2 feet. The government forecaster predicted that the rise would continue today and tomorrow and that probably a maximum stage of 63 feet would he reached. This prediction was made on the assumption that there would be no more rain In the next two days. It was estimated today that 3^000 per sons had been driven from their homes in Cincinnati and the cities of Covington. Newport and Dayton, across the river in Kentucky. Many factories have been flooded and hundreds of persons thrown out of work The authorities in the four cities are doing all in their power for the flood sufferers. In Cincinnati Dr. Otto P. Geler, of the department of charities and corrections, has been placed in charge of the relief work. He has opened soup houses and inaugurated other means of succor. Mayor Hunt has issued a proclamation asking for funds to aid sufferers. In addition he will ask council to approve a 320,000 special bond Issue which is to be added to the fund. In Kentucky cities churches, school houses and police stations are shelter- ingr the homeless. Cold Weather Checks Rise of Lower Ohio (By Associated Press.) PADUCAH, Ky„ Jan. 13.—Cold weath er had checked the menacing rise in the lower Ohio river today, and it was be lieved the flood stage would not be ex ceeded at this point. This morning the gauge read 40.2 feet, a rise of seven-tenths of a foot during the night. The crest was ex pected to reach here Tuesday. Government forecasters had Issued a warning Sunday that the river would reach forty-seven feet at Paducah, but it was thought this morning that the gauge woiUd- nci-axcettd forty t r , Train service was resumed today as washouts were repaired. 1,000 Reported Homeless In Vicinity of Louisville (By Aa.oo4.ted Press.) LOUISVILLE, Jan. 18.—Police and fire department employes working to move families from districts menaced by the Ohio river flood were cheered this morning by news that the rise was less rapid than registered last night. While nearly 1.000 persons were home less today and the outlook was that this number would be doubled, yet It was believed property damage would not be as heavy as in previous "rec- ord” floods. When the river broke over the “cut off” embankment east of Louisville this morning it began to flood an area of several square miles, out of which some / 300 families already had been moved. The embankment, calculated to keep off the water until the stage reached thirty- seven feet, resisted until 37.6 was reach, ed. At 10 o’alook the river touched thirty-eight feet and was rising at rate of one-tenth an hour. The weather bu reau predicted a maximum of forty-one feet by Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, six inches less than the high water of 1907. Workers in boats today were anchor ing light buildings likely to be moved when the water reaches its highest. Refugees of the poorer classes were be ing quartered in the school houses and cared for by charitable organizations. BECKER EXPECTS LIBERTY IF NEW TRIAL IS GRANTED (Bv Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.—Major Gen eral Leonard Wood, chief marshal of the inauguration day parade, has received word from President-elect Wilson that the latter has determined upon the Es sex troup of New Jersey calvary as his personal escort on March 4. Applications for favorable places in the lino of the parade are beginning to pour in on the committee and before the end of the week General Wood expects to have a definite idea of the extent and character of the comfng pageant. Marshals for the naval contingent and the veterans’ organizations probably will be named this week. .The extent of the naval representation in the parade will not be settled until the return of the Atlantic fleet, now in Cuban waters, to Hampton Roads. JUDGE THURMOND WILL PRESIDE AT JACKSON plant, the sum being $51,568,825. The court then had to decide the percent ages which should properly be added to that sum and also the depreciation. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) JACKSON, Ga., Jan. 13.—Judge A. S. ! Thurman, of the Monticello city court, ! has been secured by Judge Fletcher to j preside during the trial of the damage j cases against the Central Georgia Power ! company. The defendant company holds that Judge Fletcher, of the city court of j Jackson, is disqualified to hear these cases, owing to the fact that he repre- | sents certain citizens of the county in proceedings seeking to have the com pany abated as a nuisance. This mo tion was argued before Judge Fletcher, who held that he was qualified. The matter has been carried to the court of appeals. There is a large number of these cases set for trial the second week of city ct urt, which convenes here Monday. The damage cases are set for a hearing the week of the 20th, *md Judge Thur- xuaD has agreed to preside at that tim6. Spends Time in Death House Singing and Reading Bible, Says Another Prisoner (By Associated Pros*.) NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, under sen tence of death for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal, continues in a hopeful frame of mind In hie cell at Sing Sing prison, according to one of nls recent fellow-inmates. Lawrence J. Spohr, former corporal of the United States army, who was condemned to die for the murder of his sweetheart, but who has just been sent from the death house to the JalJ at White Plains for a second trial, tells the story of Beckers days at Sing Sing. Spohr says he was known as the "mayor of the death house,” by virtu, of being the best educated man there, until Becker arrived and succeeded the title. "Becker confidently expects to get a new trial, and that he will eventually be acquitted,” said Spohr. "He is the most religious man in the place and every night reads the Bible and leads In the singing of two or three hymn, and sometimes popular songs la which the 'gunmen' Join. Beclcar doe* not talk about his case, but epends most of his time studying the legal points of it and he is usually In a hopeful frame of mind.”