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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913. 5 v ^pUAITRY ^WCTED BIOKT-SEEINQ IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Washington, D. C., May 22, 1913. Dear Semi-Weekly: Since Tuesday morning: I have ridden over miles and miles of Washington City streets. The town was never more beautiful in its spring attire. It is the most perfect of all cities on this western continent, as tourists say. The Speedway, which was known as the Potomac Flats when I was here in • the seventies, is the most beautiful of ; places for driving. , Not only has this ' beautiful place the profusion of green I trees and velvety grass, but the river i i has been * deepened and the grounds j drained, until it has been made into a > scene of bewitching beauty, with water SECRETARY BRYAN’S NOBLE POSITION BISHOP W. A. CANDLER OUR FREE VEHICLE AND HARNESS CATALOG WILL SAVE YOU scenery. I have been through Chevy Chase park, where millions of dollars have been expended in these later years, and through miles of Rock Creek park, where the native woods are still pre served and in beautiful profusion. How these woods have been so well ; taken car© of, and so near this great city. I cannot understand, wheA I think of the vandalism that has prevailed in our southern country; I am enjoying the trip very greatly. My right eye, which was injured in a wreck some eighteen months ago, has been troubling me for several weeks, and I found it needful to hold up on reading, etc. So I decided to come on this little Jaunt and try to give the eye its needful rest. I can ride and see these fresh and beautiful scenes when I might be longing (if at home) to read, as was always my habit during a long life. By the courtesy of Hon. Gordon Lee, who instructed his chauf feur (who, by the way, is one of our Cartersville boys) to drive me in his fine new car to these delightful parks and over Washington City streets, I have been greatly favored. It was really the very thing that pleased me most, as I have been more or less lame since the wreck on the Southern rail way occurred in September, 1911. I accompanied the Old Guard of At lanta to the White House on Tuesday morning, in company with a dozen or mor© Atlanta ladies, and enjoyed their *con5pany and the White House cere mony very greatly together. President and Mrs. Wilson were introduced to the Atlanta party by Senator Hoke Smith, and I also met Representative W. Schley Howard and Hon. Thomas Hard wick in the East room, with the sol diers, at the same time. The Old Guard made a fine display as they marched from near the capitol down Pennsylvania avenue to the execu tive mansion. I expected to see the Misses Wilson, but theye were absent on that day, perhaps entertaining the crowds of sightseers who throng the city in %he lovely springtime. We were admitted at a side entrance into the gallery, where the portraits of .former presidents’ wives are placed. I shall ex pect to see Mrs. Wilson’s portrait in the same gallery if I ever visit the White House in later years. I knew Mrs. Hayes better than all the presi dents’ wives to whom I have been ever introduced, and I had seen her in the beautiful ruby velvet robe which the artist faithfully copied in this hand some portrait that I glimpsed on Tues day. The Old Guard were not in the White House exceeding fifteen minutes, but they bore themselves proudly and the people on the avenue gathered in great crowds to witness this military parade of Georgia soldiers. As the house of representatives is not holding regular sessions I do not see much of the congressmen, and a number of them are at home on brief visits. I propose to go this forenoon to the senate and hear th^se distinguish ed senators talk on popular subjects. I so well remember the distinguished men who occupied these congressional posi tions more than thirty years ago that I can, I hope, see our later statesmen as worthy successors of Hon. Allen Thurman and Senator George F. Ed munds. of Vermont, wh<? were very in teresting to me in gone by days, because I appreciated their active and virile patriotism In pushing forward that won derful "Thurman bill," which saved to the United States government many millions of dollars at a time when the Pacific railroads were determined to avoid this righteous payment of its ob ligations. But these old veterans in statesman ship are gone, and there are but a very few of those senators between 1876 to 1881 left on earth to recall the scenes that occurred at the time mentioned. I w.ill write you something of what these * newer statesmen talk about in a later article. MRS. W. H. FELTON. trussed and bandaged on their lower limbs. On top of this, you generally see a hat expansive enough for a para sol, and with a perfect garden of flow ers or mayhap a forest of plumes to decorate the headgear. I can never for get a likely young woman I saw at the old depot in Atlanta one of the hottest of last summer’s days. She might have tipped the scales at less than 200, but I thought she would have cleared 240. She was corseted to the limit, trying to hold the extra fatness in place, and the tightness around her body made her face more than rosy, and her fat arms were sweatin gjust as her face and neck were performing on that hot day. The dress was lingerie, made elaborately with lace and tucks and it had possibly been fresh washed and ironed the day before, but the heat, the dust and the skin-tight goods had all stamped their marks on the outfit. She sat down be cause she was dead tired ,with fatigue and adipose tissue, but when she took a seat the tight skirt pulled up and gave all of u^ a view of her stockings ^nd far above those bovine ankles. Ev erything had been made fine as to tex ture, but now drabbled with sweat and dust-. On her head there was an immense fine hat wtih a magnificent ostrich plume on it. I suppose she paid some where between $75 and $100 for the headgear, and she had considerable jew- elery thrown in to add to the expense. Everything she wore seemed to increase her very ample proportions, and yet she wore such a tight skirt that there was no difficulty in outlining her an atomy, whether she was standing up br sitting down. She had the money, I guess, and yet she had no judgment or private perception as to what would be suitable for her wardrobe. I recall the pity and even sympathy I felt for this overgrown woman, and I think of her when I urge the necessity for a convention or a. caucus of patri otic women to study the subject of fe male attire from a sensible standpoint. Why, even Chicago preachers are tell ing their congregations that something must be done to abate these vulgarly suggestive, skin-tight dresses! And if Chicago has a spasm of vir tuous impulse certainly the rest of the country should set up and take notice. I commend this new organization to the energies of our reform clubs, who are actually in straits cnocasionaly for “new worlds to conquor.” WALKER Li TO REST; FLOWERS HIDE GASKET A NEW ORGANIZATION PROPOSED As we have conventions without num ber, conferences galore, and political caucuses continually, and the women’s clubs tackle everything in sight, for dis cussion and. aotion, why shouldn't wom- enkind get .together, to convene. con fer and caucus on a suitable kind of fashions for women’s wear? I saw a young woman go down our street the other day, and the^hind part of* her frock was so narrow and so awkward that she kicked it out at one step and kicked it in at the next step, until I agreed with some visitors that she had certainly reached the limit for .ugliness as well as uncomfortableness In her style of dress. It was Just long enough for her high-heeled shoe to catch the hem and jerk it back and forth as herein noted, automatically. I asked myself why we women were eo utterly incapable of making fash ions for our own wear? When you consider the amount of time, study, money and material that this subject of dress covers, it is just astonishing that women must wear frocks that are skin-tight on the limbs, and almost nude on the neck and bust, and so scant that they must hobble like they were Young Macon Banker Sleeps in Monroe Grave, Long Fight Over MONROE. Ga., May 26.—With the casket literally hidden under great banks of flowers, the body of B. San ders Walker, the young banker whose week-long fight against bichloride of mercury poisoning was ended by death Thursday, was laid to rest here Fri day. A great concourse of friends and ac quaintances attended the last services. The body of the young banker was accompanied from Macon by relatives, friends and escorts. The Walker lot in the cemetery at Monroe is filled. Next to it is that of Ex-Governor H. D. Mc Daniel, who immediately wired that he would give a port of his plot to inter the latest dead of his neighbors’ house. Father and Daughter Are Drowned Together RUSSELLVILLE, Ark., May 26.—A father, his daughter of nineteen and two young women school teachers, members of a camping party from Rus sellville, were drowned near here late today while bathing in the Illinois river. The dead: W. A. CRAWFORD. MISS FRANCES CRAWOFRD. MISS RUTH VAN LANDINGHAM. MISS VERA MEADE. The Crawford family and a number of young women school teachers ar rived at the river today for an outing. All went bathing. Miss Crawford got beyond her depth, and her father, Miss Van.Landingnam and Miss Meade went to her rescue. After struggling in the current for a moment, all four appar ently stepped from a sand bar into deep water and sank from sight. The bodies were recovered. Mr. Crawford was principal of the public schools at Russellville, secretary of the Arkansas Athletic association and one of the most widely known educators of the state. Miss Van Landingham was one of his assistants and Miss Meade was principal of the high school at Ola, Ark. She was the daughter of U. G. Meade, a Russell ville attorney. T HE country is to be congratu lated that' the President, the i Vice President and the Secreta ry of State of the Republic are all to tal abstainers, and* have banished wine from their social entertainments. A few British editors have underta ken to deride Mr. Bryan because he excluded wine from the banquet which he gave in honor of Mr. Bryce, the retiring Ambassador of Great Brit ain at Washington. Some editorial runts also in our own country have undertaken to ridicule our honored Secretary of State; but Mr. Bryan de serves the cordial approval of all good people for the stand which he has ta ken upon this subject. London editors may allude to Washington as "Wishy- Washington” because of Mr. Bryan’s winesless banquet: but it is better to have a “Wishy-Washington" for this republic than a "liquored London.’’ Mr. Bryan sets a good example to people of position in the United States; and following his leadership they should make a declaration of independ- e: ce from all those social usages in conformity to which wine has beerr considered indispensable to a dinner party. The drinking habits of "soci ety" can not be defended on any rea-, sonable grounds; and it is time refor mation were Degun in this matter of social wine drinking. There is not a sensible person in America who will not admit that wine drinking at social entertainments has been the ruin of multiplied thousands of young men. Even women have not escaped demor alization through this wine drinking custom. Doubtless there are many good men and women in what is called "society" who have secretly lamented these de moralizing social usages, although they have refrained from openly condemn ing them. Now is a good time for these people to assert openly and em phatically what they have long be lieved, but have hesitated to express. Let them declare that the indiscrimi nate offer of wine at dinners and other social functions is not only improper but positively vulgar, as it undoubt edly is. Let them affirm flatly and finally that for the sake of the young, the weak, the wayward—for the sake cf personal purity and family* peace, for the sake of social propriety and tne national welfare,—they will banish wine from tneir feasts from this time forth aftd forever. > It is worse than idle for men and women to indulge in private intemper ance which they dare not defend In public. They can not, without stulti fying themselves, stand for temper ance publicly while promoting intem perance by their serial customs. Many more people now travel in Eu rope annually than was the case twen ty-five years ago. There they see wine drinking and beer drinking, both pub licly and privately, as we never see it in this country. Some may be misled by what they thus observe in European cities. It is very easy for half-educated people to imagine that whatever they see abroad must be all right. But peo ple of sense know we have nothing to learn on the subject of temperance from European customs. It does not become us to ape the evil things of Europe, but to copy only the good and make it bet ter. It is time Europe learned some things from America; and Mr. Bryan has set a conspicuous example of virtue which should be copied by European statesmen and social leaders. But whether our friends across the sea im itate this good example of our honored Secretary of State or not, we in Amer ica should follow his leadership in the matter. All the talk about the sobriety of wine-drinking countries is the veriest nonsense. Any man who has visited Paris, or Berlin, or Vienna knows that there is not a syllable of truth in the claim that the people of those capitals are more sober and virtuous than the people of our own country? But even if it were true that those wine and beer drinking countries are more tem perate than ours, it would ,not follow that we will become more temperate by drinking wine as they do. Our case is bad enough as it is, without superadding their vices to our excesses. We can gain nothing in the way of sobriety by adding their wine drinking to our whis- QOLDEN EAGLE AND WHITE STAR VEHICLES are built of the finest materials the mar- hot affords: designed for beauty, easy riding, lightness of draft, durability and permanent satisfaction. Finely painted and finished. Best split hickory wheels. GOLDEN EAGLE BUGGY COIRPANY, f . >in —IIB— WRITE TODAY FOR FROM $15 TO $40 EE CATALOG and wholesale faetory prices. We save you the jobbers’ commissions, drummers' expenses and dealers' enormous profits, and guarantee safe delivery and satisfaction to every cus tomer. 32-42 Means St., Atlanta, Ga. LAGRANGE WILL HAVE BIGGEST COUNTY FAIR GEORGIA TO HAVE FOUR BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER. Chamber Commerce Launches Fair for This Fall for Troup! County to Be Largest Fair in the State PRINGE OF CUAABEREAND UNITED SHOE PEOPLE BOUGHT OUT RIVALS? BOSTON, May 26.—Further evidence of the buying up of rivals and the dis appearance of the latter from the field of their former activity was presented by the government today in its suit to dissolve the United Shoe Machinery com pany. The government contends that all of these companies were acquired in pur suance of a plan to monopolize the shoe machinery business of the country. The defense admits the acquisition of the companies but denies the plan to monop olize. ky guzzling. Our case has its own characteristics, and we must do our duty to ourselves, to our neighbors, and to our children in view of the conditions which are hround us and not in view of the remote condition of other lands. Prohibition has spread very widely in our country, and it can not be doubted that the legal * prohibition of the liquor traffic has greatly reduced intemper ance in America. There have been dif ficulties in enforcing prohibitory laws, and oft-times they have been nullified in some communities. Nevertheless prohibition has done much good, and it will do more- But temperance re form can not be brought to perfection by prohibition alone. We must have a change in those social usages which are prevalent in what is called the higher classes of society and which constantly produce a fearful crop of drunkards and drunkenness. Locker clubs would die of inanition blit for the prevalence of these evil social cus toms. The responsibility of destroying the social usages which produce intem perance in our land rests upon the men and women who occupy positions of prominence in the community. The editor of Scribner’s Monthly, years ago, put this matter most cogently and conclusively in a strong editorial under the caption of "The Wine Question in Society.” The dosirw paragraph of that editorial may suitably close this article. The editor spoke as follows: “If the men and women of good so ciety wish to have less drinking to ex cess, let them stop drinking moder ately. If they are not willing to break off the indulgence of a feeble appe tite for the sake of doing a great good to a great many people*, how can they expect a poor, broken-down wretch to deny an appetite that is stronger than the love of wife and children and even life itself? The punishment for the failure to do‘ duty in this, business is sickening to contemplate. The sac rifice o^ life and peace and wealth will go on. Every 'year young men will rush widly to the devil, middle-aged men will booze away into apoplexy, and old men will swell up with the sweet poison and become disgusting idiots. What will become of the women? We should think that they had suffered enough from this evil to hold it under everlasting ban, yet there are drunken women as well as 'drinking clergymen. Society, however, has a great advantage in the fact that it is vulgar for a woman to drink. There are some things that a woman may not do, and maintain her social standing. Let her not quarrel with the fact that society demands more of her than it does of men. It is her, safeguard in many ways." The course of Secretary Bryan is not ■fanatical; it is conscientious, patri otic, and worthy of universal approba tion. Let men and women in promi- ent position everywhere follow nis lorty example in this important matter. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) LAGRANGE, Ga., May 26.—The La- Grange chamber of commerce has just perfected plans for the holding in La- Grange this fall of a fair for Troup county to be the biggest fair held by any colinty in this state and probably in the south. The general secretary of the chamber of commerce announced yesterday the appointment of Mr. H. H. Wadsworth, ;i« fair secretary of the chamber of commerce, and he will devote his entire time to the fair from this time for ward. Mr. Wadsworth is a native of Ohio and has been in Troup county for about eighteen months, having been in charge of the Southern Poultry Farms, which he has given up to take charge of the Troup county fair. He has had experi ence in fairs held in Ohio and is a clean, aggressive and conscientious man. It took a handsome salary to secure his services, and if the fair is a suc cess this fall it will be a permanent proposition and Mr. Wadsworth very likely will be retained as permanent fair secretary of the chamber of com merce. Plans already outlined for the fair are the most elaborate and expensive of any county fair ever undertaken in Georgia. In fact, it will be a miniature exposition. Plans are now being drawn for the necessary buildings, and con struction work will begin on them as soon as plans are complete. BASEBALL GROUNDS. The grounds secured will be the ones now being used by the baseball club, and are just two blocks from the court house square. The baseball diamond will be fitted up for a race track’, ahd all the judging of stock and outdoor sports ’will take place in front of the grandstand, which seats about 1,000 peo pie. The bu angs to be edected will be built on the corner of the lot toward town, and will be two-story structures, having place for exhibits on both first and second floors. Fireworks will blaze at night from the center of the opening in front of the grandstand, and a flrstclass mid •way will be open all afternoon and up to midnight. Full details of the exposition will be ready and the premiums within the r.ext ten days and will be announced by the secretary. BIG CHAMBER WORK. The announcement of the appointing of a fair secretary, who will doubtless be a permanent factor of the work of the chamber of commerce of LaGrange, is but another step forward by the livest and most aggressive chamber of commerce work in Georgia or the south. This addition to the chamber of com merce force gives in addition to the general secretary and two stenogra phers, thre,e strong and aggressive men in charge of various departments. They are: O. E. Wilson, real estate secretary; T. J. Moultor.. promotion secretary; H. H. Wadsworth, fair secretary, making six active workers in the chamber of commerce office. The general secretary of the chamber of commerce at LaGrange has daily re quests for details of the workings of the LaGrange chamber, and to most of them he replies that the secret of the great work being done lies in the splendid snd very active board of directors. They are men who seldom miss a meeting of the board and represent every walk of life in LaGrange and Troup county. 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Tired and worn from eight days of hard committee work and strenuous debate that at times bordered on the sensational, developing many tense and dramatic mo ments, the commissioners moved about restlessly In their seats as the hour of permanent adjournment neared. FINAL HOURS LISTLESS. Reports of minor committees were re ceived and adopted with a listlessness that sp-ke plainly that all were anxious to get back to their home pulpits for Sunday. Debate in the final hours was unenthuslastic and the conservative ele ment of the conference, constituting the minority, seemed to have lost its spirit of aggressiveness manifested during the morning in the tense fight for withdrawal from the federal council of the Churches of Christ in America. The only interesting phase came at the opening of the afternoon session and threatened for a moment to delay ad journment indefinitely. The "select com mittee on closer relations with other ec clesiastical bodies," headed by Dr. R. F. Campbell, of Asheville, N. C., presented a report e mbodying a plan recommending an eventual federation of each branch of the Presbyterian church in America into a "Greater Presbyterian congress”— formed on the basis of the congress of the United States with an upper and low er house, vested with supreme power ever all Presbyterian affairs in the country. ODOM IS ACQUITTED OF OVERSTREET’S DEATH (By Associated Press.) SYLVANIA, Ga., May 23.—Morgan Odom was acquitted late Thursday by a jury of the charge of murdering Spur geon Overstreet, w r hom he shot last Thanksgiving day. Odom’s plea was self-defense. WOMAN GOULD NOT WALK She Was So Ill—Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. MADE FLIGHT FROM PADUCAH TO ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS, May 26.—Tony Jannus made a hydro-aeroplane flight from Pa ducah, Ky., to St. Louis, today, reach ing this city at 4:56 p. m. 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The presence of three of the most powerful sovereigns of Europe—the German emperor, the Russian emperor and the British king-emperor—on terms of intimate friendship made the event a demonstration of international peace. The civil ceremony was performed half an hour earlier in the great elec tors’ hall, a small room in the most an cient part of the castle. It was at tended by only the immediate families of the bride and bridegroom. A state banquet is to be given at the castle this evening, followed by the historic "torch dance" and the distribu tion to the guests of souvenir "gar ters." These are in the form of silk ribbons, bearing the bride’s initials and the date in gold letters, which modern delicacy has substituted for pieces of the bride’s garter, formerly cut up and distributed by the pfinces of the j*oyal family on the points of their swords. Congressman William Schley Howard Will Have Place on Military Committee COUNTIES IN NEW YORK MUST PAY MILITIA BUFFALO, N. Y., May 26.—The state courts here today handed down a de cision ordering the county to pay mem bers of the National Guard called out for duty during the recent strike of the street car men. The sum amounts to $20,000. Payment of the bill was refused by the county on the ground that the sec tion of the military law under which the troops were called out by a justice of the state supreme court was uncon stitutional In that it gave a civil officer powers that were derogatory to the powers of the governor conferred by the state constitution. Justice Marcus, in his decision, holds that "the suppression of riots is dis tinctly* a Judicial function under the code of criminal procedure. >A lantic Squadron “Sinks’' Under Fire Of U. S. Submarines (By Associated Press.) NEWPORT, R. I., May 26.—Eleven of the biggest battleships in the navy, constituting the Atlantic squadron, were sunk, theoretically, today in an en counter with five submarines off Block Island sound. The attack took place tjiree hours after dawn and under a dull sky and streaks of fog. The battleship fleet expected the at tack and all hands had been mustered to quarters when the gray back of an underwater craft arose out of the sea off the bow of the flagship Wyoming. Be fore the guns of the flagship could be trained on the "enemy," a “dummy" torped.o struck the Wyoming well below the water line. The 20,000 ton warship, which cost several million dollars to build, foun dered, carrying down most of her 800 men, according to the umpires. One by one the other battleships were torpedoed and sent to the bottom, then the beet returned to.Narrayansett Bay with the victorious submarines. BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, May 26.—The state of Georgia will fare unusually well in the reorganization of the house of rep resentatives by the ways and means committee. She will com© out with four desirable chairmanships, and rep resentation of practically all of the im portant standing commitees, unless the program is changed. Congressman W. C. Adamson, of the Fourth, and T. W. Hardwick, of the Tenth, will continue as chairmen of the commerce and coinage committees re spectively. Congressman Thomas M. Bell, of the Ninth and Dudley M. Hughes, of the Twelfth, will get chair manships. The former will head the census committee and the later will.be chairman of the education committee. Congressman William Schley Howard, of the Atlanta district, will be given a place on tjie military affairs commit tee besides holding what he already has in the way of assignments. He will suc ceed to the vacancy occasioned by the retirement from this committee of Mr. Hughes. Mr. Howard feels particularly fortu nate in landing this assignment. The military committee deals with many matters of legislation in which the city of Atlanta has a direct interest. Mr. Howard feels that he can be of genu ine value ‘through his wofk on this committee. It will enable him to press legislation for the development of the army pest at Fort McPherson and the construction of a military road. AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL * CLOSES AT DOUGLAS, (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) DOUGLAS, Ga., May 26.—The Eleventh district agricultural school brings to a close its fifth annual session with the following exercises: The graduating class for 1913 is com posed of nine young men and young wo- men, as % follows. Mr. G. M. Yarbrough, Jeff Davis county; Mr. Otis Woodard, Laurens county; Miss Allie Fales and Mr Emmett Welchel, from Douglas, Coffee county; Mr. R. B. Wilson, from New York state; Mr. J. P. Joiner, from Brooks county; Mr. G. P. Crews, from Charlton county; Mr. K. F. Baldwin, from Clinch county, and Mr. R. G. Jen nings, from Savannah, Chatham county. NEGRO WANTED BY MOB CARRIED TO NEBRASKA LINCOLN, Neb., May 26.—Walter Bal- lew, negro, charged with assault on a white woman, of Falls City, is in the penitentiary. He was brought here at 1:30 o’clock this morning. Sheriff Aldriehl said he puposed to keep Ballew in the penitentiay because of the intense feeling against him at Falls City. MINISTER DE LA BARRA. TO LEAVE OLD MEXICO MEXICO CITY. May 26.—Francisco de la Barra, minister of foreign affairs, has been granted a leave of absence. He announces that he intends to go abroad. He probably will visit (he United States, and later proceed to Europe. It is understood that sub- Secretary Carlos Pereyra will act as minister. Senor de la Barra’s object In leaving Mexico at the present time is to Sep arate himself from politics, in the be lief that his withdrawal from the po litical struggle will best serve the in terests' of. his country. He will ar range affairs in his department so that he can leave as soon as possible. EVIDENCE IS GIVEN AGAINST BURTON GIBSON NEWBUGH, N. Y., May 26.—Taking of testimony in the case of Burton W. Gibson, charged w^th the murder of Mrs. Rosa Szabo at Greenwood lake «ast July, was begun here today. Deforest Chauncey, clerk of the hotel at Greenwood Lake, told of the arrival I of Gibson and Mrs. Szabo, the death of ' the woman and the recovery of the ■ body. Alexander McDowell, a boatman, tes- ' tided that on the day of the drowning j he rented to the couple the light row boat which figured In the fatality. At Soda Fountains or Carbon ated in Bottles. Send for Free Booklet. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, ATLANTA, GA. FLORIDA HOUSE VOTES TO PAY GOVERNOR MORE TALLAHASSEE. Fla., May 26—The | house this morning passed a bill in- ; | creasing the governor’s salary to $6,000 J Locdl bills weer considered in the i house and senate. A baseball game between the mem- ■ hers of the two houses is the feature planned for this afternoon. Governor ! 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