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ATLANTA, GLL, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1913.,
NO. 78.
.President Tells Congressmen
That Country Expects Im
mediate Action in Revising
Laws on Money Questions
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 23.—Bearing
a personal plea for immediate action
by congress to revise the banking and
currency laws, that business may be
aided in meeting tariff revision. Presi
dent Wilson for the second time went
to the house of representatives today
ana personally read his address on the
subject to both houses of congress as
sembled in joint session.
Although shorn of some of the nov
elty that attended his first appearance,
when he upset presidential traditions
of more than a century, today’s visit
of the president to congress took on a
deeper significance.
On his first visit he delivered a mes
sage, long anticipated, urging the car
rying out of the party’s pledges for
immediate revision o fthe tariff.
His address today was an appeal to
every member of the house and senate
to lay aside personal considerations
and sacrifice comfort and even health
if necessary, to secure at once a re
vision and reform of the nation’s bank
ing system. Only in that way he de
clared. could the country secure the
benefit of the tariff revision soon to
be completed.
“IT IS s OUR DUTY.”
“It is perfectly clear that it is our
duty to supply the new banking and
currency system the country needs, and
that it will immediately need it more
than ever.” said President Wilson.
“Shall we hasten to change our tar
iff laws and then be laggards about
making *it possible and easy for the
country to take advantage of the
change? There can be only one answer
to that question. We must act now,
at whatever sacrifice to ourselves.”
The vigor and strength of his special
message held the attention of his large
audience through its delivery. The
chamber was filled with senators and
representatives, galleries were crowded
with men and women from the official
set and corridors were jammed with
those unable to gain entrance.
The president gave no direct indorse
ment to the Glass currency bill, which is
to form the basis for the Democratic re
vision of the banking laws, but indirect
ly made it known that it had been pre
pared with his counsel and approval.
“The committees of congress to which
legislation of this character is referred
has devoted careful study to the means
of Accepting* those objections,” he said
in conclusion. “They have honored me
by consulting me. They are ready to
suggest action.”
Speaker Clark announced Representa
tives Underwood, Fitzgerald and Mann
as members of the committee to escort
President Wilson to the chamber. The
vice president announced Senators Keru,
Reed and Gallinger as the senate mem
bers.
Just before 1 o’clock the house door
keeper dashed into i;he chamber and
shouted:
“The president of the United States!”
Galleries and the floor arose as the
president walked in from the speaker’s
lobby and with a nod to the speaker
and the vice president, mounted the
steps to the clerk’s desk.
“I present to the sixty-third con
gress the president of the United
States,” announced Speaker Clark.
Addressing first the two presiding
officers, the! president turned to the
desk and in a low, even voice that was
never raised but which penetrated
clearly to every ear in the chamber,
began the reading of his address. Not
a stir from the audience interrupted.
At 1:10 o’clock the president had fin
ished reading his address and left the
house chamber.
Long before the capitol doors were
opened today hundreds^ of people lined
up in a steady rain in the hope of get
ting in to hear President Wilson deliver
his address to congress on currency re
form. Although the attendance had
been rigidly limited to one card of ad
mission for each member of either house
with provision for the president’s fami
ly and the cabinet circle, hundreds clam
ored for admission.
Railings were erected near the en
trance doors and guards placed in
charge of the entrances.
FLECKED
VETERANS’ TENTS
40,000 Confederate and G, A,
R, Veterans to Hold Re
union on Battlefield
MAY EXTEND GULF LINE
FROM CAMILLA TO COAST
Georgia Southern and Florida
to Take Over Gulf Line,. Is
Reoort in Camilla
CAMILLA, Ga., June 23.—It is re
ported her e on good authority that
the Georgia Southern and Florida rail
road has bought the Gulf line and
plans an extension from Camilla to the
Gulf of Mexico. Although the deal has
no* been consummated, it will probably
be closed within a few days.
The Georgia Southern and Florida
now operates from Macon to Palatka,
Fla., with a line running from Valdosta
to Jacksonville. The extension of the
Gulf line would give a new road
through a big farming section of south
Georgia and Florida.
The Gulf line has connections with
the Southern railway, the Wrightsville
and Tennille railway, and Ocmulgee
river steamers; with the Seaboard Air
Line, Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlan
tic; the Georgia Northern and the At
lantic Coast Line railways.
U. S. EXPERT MAY WATCH
PACKERS OF ARGENTINE
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 23.—Acting up
on representations made by Representa
tive Kinkaid, of New Jersey, the de
partment o fagriculture is considering
the dispatch of a department expert to
the Argentine Republic to investigate
the beef situation there. If the inquiry
Is made, special attention will be given
to the methods of slaughter used by
the Argentine packers.
(By Associated Press.)
GETTYSBURG, Pa., June 23.—The
hills of Gettysburg, where the armies of
Meade and # Lee pitched their tents fifty
years ago, are flecked today with canvas
harbingers of the tented city which will
soon arise on the battlefield.
The army of Civil War veterans from
the north and the south—40,000 of them
—are coming, some few in thread worn
uniforms and all without their muskets,
to hold a jubilee reunion on the fiftieth
anniversary of the battle.
Some of the scouts are already here;
the advance guard will bivouac on the
field within a week; the rank and file
will follow them not moj*e than forty-
eight hours later.
Every star of the forty-eight in the
American flag, is expected to have here
its own quota of veterans. They will
come as the guests of the National gov
ernment, and of their respective states
and territories, which jointly will spend
more than a million dollars for their
entertainment and comfort. To receive
them the government and the state of
Pennsylvania have made elaborate plans.
One detail alone provides for furnishing
the veterans more than 800,000 meals.
Pennsylvania has been planning for
the celebration of the battle for more
than four years. She has appropriated
$415,000 as her share of the expense.
Congress has appropriated $150,000 to
defray the expense of the government’s
participation ,and named a commission
to help carry out the plans. Every state
and territory also accepted the general
invitation to participate and nearly all
of them appropriated money to trans
port veterans and commissions.
The big camp is pitched on that part
of the battlefield which lies southeast
of Gettysburg. On nearly 300 acres of
contiguous ground 7,000 tents and m~re
are going up under the supervision of
the war department. The camp lies
partly on the scene of the first day’s
fighting and is not far from High Wa
ter Mark, where Pickett’s famous
charge shattered against the Union
lines.
Five thousand tents have been erected
for the exclusive use of the veterans.
The camp has been laid out like a city.
Each street and each tent has a num
ber, so it will be easy for any veteran
to look up a former comrade or foe.
In the center of the camp will be the
headquarters of the chief quartermas
ter. The veterans will be encamped ac
cording to states.
Although each tent is designed to ac
commodate twelve men, it has be?n
planned to assign only eight veterans
to each, so as to make them as com
fortable as possible. Each veteran will
have a separate cot, blankets and a
mess kit. which will contain a plate,
cup, knife, fork and spoon and will be
come his personal property wjien he
breaks camp.' Each tent also will have
two hand, basins, a water bucket, can
dles and two lanterns. With the prep
aration of meals the veterans will have
nothing to do. These-will be wholesome
and substantial and will be served at
the ends of the company streets.
“Only vterans of the civil war may
be provided food, shelter and entertain
ment within the great camp around the
battlefield,” reads the announcement of
the commission.” Therefore, no woman
or child or any man not a veteran will
be given food, shelter or entertainment.
No veteran should bring to Gettysburg
any member of his family or other per
son for whom he will have to obtain
food and quarters outside the camp un
less all arrangements therefor have
first been made for them before he or
they come to Gettysburg.”
No veteran will be permitted to
bring a trunk into camp, his baggage
being restricted to that which he can
easily carry himself. The care of it
will rest with him.
The principal events of the celebration
will be held on July 1, 2, 3 and 4, but
in order to avoid congestion of traffic
on the railroads and confusion at Gettys
burg, the camp will be opened on Sun
day evening, June 29, the first meal to
be served at supper time. Twenty meals
will be served to each veteran during
the week if he is in camp that long
and the camp will come to an end after
breakfast on Sunday, July 6.
Veterans have planned to visit his
toric places in and about the great area
where the battle was fought and where
skirmishes occurred that led up to it,
and to hold reunions. The great cele
bration will be in full swing on the
morning of July 1, exactly fifty years
to the day from the time the battle
opened to the west of the town.
The program for the four big days
is briefly as follows:
July 1.—Veterans’ Day.—Appropriate
exercises under the joint direction of
the Pennsylvania commission and the
commanders-in-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic and the United Confed
erate Veterans.
July 2.—Military Day.—Under the di-
reotfon of the chief of staff of the
United States army.
July 3.—Civic Day.—Under the direc
tion of the governor of Pennsylvania,
presiding and participated in by the
governors of the states, if they so de
sire. Addresses and music.
July 4.—National Day.—Patriotic ex
ercises, orations, with fireworks in the
evening.
The exercises will be held in a great
tent, one of the largest in the United
States, capable of accommodating about
15,000 persons. This tent is at the
southern end of the camp, beside the
Emmittsburg road, down which Lee’s
army went after the close of the three
days’ battle.
HIS CIUCY
All Differences Between
son and His Secretary of
State Are Settled, and Com
moner Backs Glass Bill
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23,-Back
of the formation of the Owen-Glass-
McAdoo currency bill and its introduction
in the house today lies another story of
vital significance to the Democratic par
ty and the country generally. It con
cerns itself with the achievement of Pres
ident Wilson In winning Secretary of
State Bryan over to the bill.
The complete meeting of the minds ot
the master minds of the party on this
question—one which dragged down the
second Cleveland administration and kept
his party from power and in dissension
during all the sixteen years of Bryan’s
leadership—has a significance extending
far- beyond the drafting of a currency
measure that commands the united sup
port of the administration forces.
It means that Bryan’s radical reason
ing is now i naccord with the thinking ot
his chief, the president, and the very
lively fears of a break between the pres
ident and the Commoner, which have
been a subject of common gossip and
conjecture, are overcome with a success
that a short time ago seemed to be im
possible.
There has been an honest dread of that
break between Wilson and Bryan. Both
men have been getting along famously,
but Bryan’s own statement this morn
ing carries an intimation of what the
president has been up against in his de
termination to have immediate currency
legislation. There is a world of meaning
in this sentence by Bryan: “Conflicting
opinions, honestly entertained and strong
ly adhered to, have been reconciled with
a success hardly to be expected.”
STATE LEGISLATORS-
ARE GATHERING FOH
Candidates for Speaker of
House and President of Sen
ate Are Corralling Votes in
Advance of Session
NINE U. S. ENGINEERS OIE
Only One Engineer and Four
Deck Hands -Survive When
Boat Capsizes
(By Associated Press.)
NEW MADRID, Mo., June 23.—Nine
of a, .party of fourteen United States
engineers and mother government em
ployes were drowned near New Madrid
late yesterday, when the United States
survey boat Beaver, which the party
was aboard, capsized during a wind
storm. »
Those drowned are:
C. S. WILLIAMSON, chief engineer,
Mason, O.
J. M. M’CONNELL, of Memphis, a
recent graduate of the law department
of Cornell university.
CAPTAIN LAMB, pilot.
A. D. CQSTON, engineer.
HARRY SHERRELL, mate, Cotton
wood, Tenn.
PHIL WRAY, Jackson, Tenn.,
: — FREEMAN, deck hand.
Two rod men, names not known.
The body of Chief Engineer William
son has not been located. None of the
others has been found. '
Mr. Williamson had been stationed at
Memphis for several years.
J. H. Miller, civil engineer, of Millers-
burg, Ky., and four deck hands were
the others of the party who reached
the bank in safety.
The Beaver, a small craft of the
canal boat type, left Memphis last Fri
day for Snakey Bend, in the Mississippi
river, about seven miles north of New
Madrid, where a survey was to be
made preliminary to the construction
of revetments.
The boat had proceeded to a point
about four miles above this city and
was near midstream when the <,storrxi
broke with but little warning. Before
the craft could be made ready to brave
the wind it was overturned and sank.
Thctee drowned presumably were caught
in the wreckage and drawn down with
the boat. Williamson’s body floated to
the surface within an hour.
Snakey Bend is in a remote section,
and until the return of boats sent from
this city further details are improbable.
The United States steamer Chisca
left Memphis early last night for the
scene of the accident to search for the
bodies.
When the storm broke the Beaver
was making a hurried run back to New
Madrid to secure medical attention for
McConnell, who had been taken sud
denly ill, and was within sight of a
quarterboat, anchored near this city,
when the wind tipped the boat over.
Skiffs which put out from the quarter-
boat rescued Miller and the four deck
hands.
WASTEEUL GEORGIA
POWERFUL BACKING GIVEN
TO T3 CORN CLUB PLANS
Business Leaders Commend Purpose of Great Economic
Movement to Strike Cotton Thralldom From State,
Campaign for Show’s Expense Fund Begins Monday and
Ends Wednesday »
Fate Overtal^es
- Joyride Party
In Stolen Auto
Hot Weather "Dont's"
By Dr, Carl Alsberg
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 23.—The last
word in hot weather “don’ts” was issued
in brief form today by Dr. Carl Als
berg, who succeeded Dr. Harvey W.
Wiley as chief of the United States bu
reau of chemistry. Dr. Alsberg, it de
velops, would abolish the thermometer
because of its dispiriting influence on
the minds of perspiring men and women.
Here are his “don’ts:”
‘Don’t eat to excess.
“Don’t wear too many clothes.
“Don’t drink ice cold beverages.
“Don’t look at the thermometer and
keep thinking how hot it is.”
Ieed drinks are one of Dr. Alsberg’s
abominations, for, he says, they disor
der the stomach and interfere with di
gestion.
The secret of keeping cool in the dog
days, according to Dr. Alsberg, lies
largely in temperate eating. Taking
just enough sustenance to keep off the
pangs of hunger.
(By Associated Press.)
QUINCY, Mass., June 23.—Beneath an
automobile, overturned in a ditch in
Braintree, a trolley car conductor early
today found the body of Alto Tripp,
twenty-one years old, and 'ying nearby
waa his companion, Daniel Dowling, in
a semi-conscious condition. The auto
mobile was one of two which had been
stolen during the night from Nantucket
garage, where a fire was in progress.
According to Dowling, who is on the
dangerous list at the Quincy hospital,
with a fractured skull, he and Tripp
were at a hotel in Nantucket? when in
vited by a stranger to ride in the auto
mobile. The driver of the car, the man
supposed to have stolen it, is believed
to have escaped uninjured when the car
overturned.
Mulberry Trees Burned
(By Associated Press.)
MANHATTAN, Kan., .Tune 23.—Be
cause women claimed that the ripe fruit
dropped on the sidewalks discolored
their skirts the city commissioners to
day passed an ordinance requiring all
mulberry trees in the city to be grubbed
out and burned.
Backed by a wide and enthusiastic
sentiment in favor of making the 1913
Georgia corn show the greatest in the
movement’s history, the special com
mittees of the Atlanta chamber of com
merce will enter in earnest this week
into XtieU- whrrliifckKi campaign to mi»0
money for thfe sfiiow. A considerable
portion of the necessary sum already
has been subscribed, and all the com
mittees expect to finish by Wednesday.
The movement has been endorsed by
leaders in every business and profes
sion, and particular stress has been
laid on the fact that not only the pros
perity of the rural districts, but the
growth of Georgia’s cities and the ad
vancement of the state as a whole is
dependent on learning the lesson of
crop diversification.
“The movement which the corn club
work represents,” ibays Governor-elect
John M. Slaton, “is more important
than any legislation. It lies at the
very base of prosperity for the indi
vidual and the state. It is ‘beyond’
legislation. It represents the greatest
work that can be carried on, and de
serves the support of city and country
alike.”
STRONG ENDORSEMENTS.
Colonel W. L. Peel, of the American
National bank, says:
“The corn clubs have accomplished
already a great work. I am informed
that the yield of corn in Georgia was
increased Jast year by over 25,000,000
bushels. The best of it is that these
boys are teaching their daddies how to
raise corn. The movement is one that
everybody interested in the prosperity
of Georgia should help along. We need
diversification of crops, and we need
it badly. If we have plenty of corn,
grain and potatoes planted when the
boll weevil comes—and it will come—.
Georgia will derive a blessing from
what might otherwise be a curse.”
“We had four of the corn club boys
in .our home last year, and four the
year before, and we are going to have
four again. They are fine, manly young
sters.”
DIVERSIFY TO SAVE.
Frank Hawkins, of the Third Na
tional bank, says:
“Crop diversification is the salvation
of any section. That means in Geor
gia that we must learn to raise our
food stuffs. I think the Georgia Corn
club work is the greatest influence now
operating in this direction. I contrib
uted to it last year and I will contrib
ute gladly again this year. If we raise
corn, then we can raise meat, and that
means that the farmers will have
money. I was raised in the copntiy
and I never saw a farmer who hac\
corn to sell who was not fixed all rignt
for cash.”
Coionel Robert J. Lowry, president
of the Lowry National bank, says:
“The corn dub boys Are beginning
to th'each their fathers something. The
old man used to be satisfied with fifteen
bushels to acre, and was inclined
to laugh at the boy when he set out
t- beat it. Now he knows better aud
is helping the boy.
“I don’t know of any greater agri
cultural movement than this, and it
should be encouraged in every possible
way. If we can get 100,000 Georgia
boys into these corn clubs, it will b«
worth as much or more to Georgia than
the entire cotton crop of the state. - ’
BOLL WEEVIL A BLESSING.
Mr. W. S. Lounsbury of the Travel
ers’ Bank and Trust company, says:
“Th^ future prosperity of Georgia
depends on her becoming a self-sustain
ing state. She must "aise her food
stuffs. Records have shown us that in
Texas the boll weevil was a blessing in
disguise, because it forced on Texas
the wisdom of crop diversification,
Georgia is warned in advance. The
remedy is at hand. If we plant plenty
of corn and grain, the boll weevil can
not hurt us. Now Is the time to pre
pare. The corn club is doing more than
any one influence in the right direction,
and deserves everybody’s support.”
J. K. Ottley, of the Fourth Na
tional bank, says:
“The whole state is alive to the value
of corn club work, and we are begin
ning to realize more and more what a
splendid incentive and stimulus to the
boys the annual Georgia corn show is.
I entertained some of these boys at ir.y
home last year and will be glad to
have some of them with me again this
year. They are fine youngsters and I
believe the agricultural future of the
state is safe in their hands.”
Charles E. Currier, of the Atlanta
National bank, says:
“Georgia has simply got to raise her
food stuffs to make her cotton crop on,'
and the sooner we realize it the bet
ter. The farmers can not pay $1.25 a
bushel for imported corn, and then
make cotton growing pay. I think a
start is being made in the right direc
tion by the boys’ corn clubs and Geor
gia corn show work.”
Similar expressions have been re
ceived by Secretary Walter G. Cooper
from scores of other prominent Atlan-
tians; and support is coming in from
all branches of business and industry.
NEW CUSTOMS DISTRICTS
Savannah to Be Georgia
Headquarters, Abolishing
Office in Atlanta
ACTION POSTPONED ON
LONGSTREET APPEAL
Senate Postoffice Committee
Puts Off Passing on Record
of Gainesville Postmaster
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 23.—Final action
by the senate postoffice committee on
the appeal of Mrs. Helen D. Longstreei
for its approval of her record as post
mistress at Gainesville, Ga., was post
poned today on account of the absence
of a quorum of the committee.
Mrs. Longstreet is the widow of the
Confederate general whose name she
bears. The confirmation of her successor
at Gainesville has been held up by the
senate until the postoffice committee
passes upon Mrs. Longatreet’s record.
DEATH OF MISS MOORE
ACCIDENTAL, SAYS COURT
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SAVANNAH. Ga. June 23.—That the
tragic death of Miss Mary Moore, who
was run down by an Automobile at York
and Dayton streets Thursday night, was
accidental and could not be attributed to
KING GEORGE TO RECEIVE
OF FRANCE
President Raymond Poincare
Leaves Paris for Four-Days’
Stay in London
(By Associated Press.)
HARIS, J une 23.—President Raymond
Poincare left here today for London,
where he is to pay his first official visit
since his election. He is to pass four
days in London.
Elaborate arrangements have been
made for his reception by King George,
the government and the municipality.
Everything possible has been done to
make the meeting of the two members
of the entente cordiale as Impressive as
possible. Premier Louis Barthou and
nearly all the cabinet were at the station
to bid the president farewell. Their min
isters accompanied him to Cherbourg. At
that port President Poincare, accompa
nied by Stephen Pinchon, minister for
foreign affairs, will embark on the bat
tleship Courbet for Portsmouth.
the criminal recklessness of negligence
of Frank Rivers, the colored chauffeur,
was the decision of Recorder Schwarz
In court this morning.
(By Associated Pi ess.)
WASHINGTON, June 23.—Secretary
McAdoo, of the treasury department,
has just settled all disputed questions in
the south over the redistrie,ting q£ _t$e
customs service and is now practically
prepared to effectuate the sweeping cus
toms reorganization the country over
on July 1.
Jacksonville will be the headquarters
of the Florida district. While some
treasury officials believe Tampa should
be the headquarters of the district be
cause, it is said, the import business of
that port is far greater than that of
Jacksonville, It has just been decided that
under the plan ol reorganization as
sent to congress by former President
Taft, it is imperative tnai Jacksonville
be designated as the headquarters of
the collector for Florida. To meet the
requirements of the service, it is added,
however, the collector will spend much
of his time at Tampa,
The prolonged controversy In Vir
ginia between Norfolk and Newport
News for the honor of possessing the
headquarters of the collector of customs
has been decided in Norfolk's favor.
Treasury officials, in drawing the re
organization plan, originally compromis
ed the situation by making Norfolk and
Newport News the dual headquarters of
Virginia, empowering the collector to
divide equally his time between the two
ports.
While there is some ambiguity in the
phraseology of the plan as sent to con
gress by former President Taft with ref
erence to Virginia, it is said that un
doubtedly the former president meant
Norfolk to be the headquarters and that
cannot legally be changed without leg
islation. Like the situation? in Florida,
the collector, although his headquarters
will be Norfolk, will spend some of his
time at Newport News.
As finally decided upon, the new south
ern districts and the ports of entry, con
tinued or created, are as follows, the
first port mentioned in each instance be
lng the headquarters of the collector:
Virginia (except Alexandria county):
Norfolk, Newport News, Richmond, Pe
tersburg, Cape Charles City, Chinco-
teague, Reedville.
North Carolina: Wilmington, Eliza
beth City, Newbern, Manteo, Beaufort.
South Carolina: Charleston, George
town, Beaufort.
Georgia (except St. Marys river sec
tion): Savannah, Brunswick, Darien,
Atlanta.
Florida (including St. Marys river
north bank): Jacksonville, Tampa, Key
West, Punta Gorda, Boca Grande, Miami,
Pensacola, St. Andrews, St. Augustine,
Fernandina, Cedar Keys Port Inglis, Ap-
palachicola, Carrabelle.
Mobile (including Alabama and part of
Mississippi): Mobile, Birmingham, Gulf
port, Scranton.
New Orleans* (including Louisiana and
part of Mississippi): New Orleans and
Morgan City.
This reorganization of the customs
service of the entire country is the most
drastic ever attempted at one time. It
reduces the number of districts from
162 to 49 and abolishes 113 collectors
of customs, including a number in the
south.
ONE GOVERNMENT REPORT
TO BE MOST INTERESTING
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 23.—In the be
lief that the average government report
is too dry and uninteresting to com
mand much attention, Dr. P. P. Claxton,
United States commissioner of educa
tion, has edited and issued his annual
leport along wholly different lines.
It is intended to appeal to the reader
interested even casually in the science
of education, at the same time seeking
to set forth fully the work and the alms
of the bureau of education.
“Unlike some government documents,”
says a statement issued by the bureau
today, “this report has been edited with
the idea that the information in it is
to be read by the general public, or by
that very large part of the general
public which is interested in education.
Especial efforts have been made to have
the material concise and readable as
well as accurate.”
Up to 2 o’clock Monday afternoon
between seventy-five and a hundred'
members of the general assembly had
reached Atlanta, arid others were arriv
ing on every train. The legislature does
not meet until Wednesday morning, but
the spirited contests for president of
the senate and speaker of the house
has served to bring many of ,the sen
ators and representatives here ahead of
time.
The lobby of the Kimball house pre
sents a scene of activity such as is
visible during the annual sessions of
the legislature and. upon occasions of
political conventions. Politicians are
swarming about in clusters, exchanging
information, canvassing for votes for
one or the other of their favorites, and
discussing prospective legislation..
All of the candidates, assisted by
friends, are working hard to corral the
elusive vote. Many former members
are on hand; they just couldn’t stay
away during the period that “things
were opening up.” Among the ex
members who are present are former
Representative W. I. McIntyre, of
Thomas; former Representative Carl
Vinson, of Baldwin; former Senator
Emmett Shaw, of the Eleventh district;
former Senator I. A. Bush, of the
Eighth district, and former Representa
tive Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb.
The races for speaker of the house
and president of the senate are being
waged diligently and aggressively. Ac
cording to the dopesters, Hon. J. Ran
dolph Anderson, of Chatham, is leading
in the race for president of the senate,
and Hon. W. H. Burwell, of Hancock,
for speaker of the house. Both Mr.
Anderson and Mr. Burwell claim their
elections by large majorities.
Judge John T. Allen, of Milledgeville,
who is opposing Mr. Anderson, claims
twenty-eight votes, the same number
that is claimed by Mr. Anderson.
There are only forty-four votes in the
senate, and but twenty-three are re
quired to elect.
CLAIMS OF CANDIDATES.
For the speakership Mr. Burwell
claims 130 pledged votes, and that he
will win on the first ballot: Hon. R. N.
Hardeman, of Jefferson, another candi
date for speaker, says he will go into
the election with seventy pledged votes.
Hon. J. E. Sheppard, of Sumter, thel
third candidate for speaker, is making
no claims, but is working hard. His
friends say that he has fifty votes
promised him. All that he will say on
the subject is that “somebody is too
liberal in his claims” and that this fact
will be developed when the roll is called
Wednesday morning. Mr. Sheppard does
not believe that either of the candidates
has enough votes to elect.
There are 186 members in the house.
A majority of these, or 94 votes, will be
necessary to elect a speaker. There is
a possibility that more than one bal
lot will be necessary in which event
the line-up may change considerably,
making the result doubtful.
OTHER CONTESTS.
Second in importance to the races for
president and speaker are those for
president pro tern and speaker pro tern.
The candidates for the first office are
Senator W. J. Bush, of the Eighth dis
trict, and Senator E. L. Smith, of the
Ninth district.
There are four candidates for speaker
pro tern, and they are Representative E.
H. McMichael, of Marion; Dr. A. J. S.
Stovall, of Elbert; Hon. John C. Foster,
of Floyd, and Hon. John P. Cheney, of
Cobb.
SLAIN WITH HUSBAND AS
SHE RUSHES TO HIS AID
Laurens County Merchant and
Wife Called From Bed and
Shot-Three Held
DUBLIN, Ga., June 23.—J. T. Howell,
thirty-five years old, a merchant, of
Long Branch, near here, and his wife
were murdered early Sunday morning,
after being called from their beds, a
shotgun being the weapon used. Blood
hounds, taken to the scene of the mur
der, led a posse to the cabin of three
negroes—Smith Harris, Joe McKay and
Henry Kitchens—who were hurried to
the jail and heavily guarded.
From evidence at the scene of the
murder, it was supposed that shortly
before daybreak Howell was called from
his bed and went outside, carrying a
lantern. His murderers riddled his
head with shot. Mrs. Howell, It ap
pears, hearing the shots, ran outside
and was killed at the doorstep. ’ A
neighbor who heard the shooting noti
fied the sheriff, who took a posse an<J
hurried to the scene. When he ar
rived Howell was still alive, but died
while being brought here. He was un
able to talk intelligently, but Is said
to have been robbery, as Mrs. Howell’s
the shooting.
The motive for the murder appears
to have been robbery, as Mrs. Hewell's
trunk was ransacked, suit cases
searched and thrown into the yard, and
a small grip in which Howell Is sup
posed to have kept money was found in
the woods near by. Barefoot tracks
were found here and at the scene of
the murder.
GIFFORD PINCHOT’S PLAN
INTR0DUCEDJN CONGRESS
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 23.—Gifford
Finchot’s plan for a national rivers
commission was introduced in congress
today by Representative Temple, of
Pennsylvania, as a progressive party
measure. Senators. representatives,
governors, heads of waterways im
provement and conservation organiza
tions and various government officials
would compose it. all serving without
pay. Flood prevention, stream pollu
tion, water power and like subjects
would be taken up by the commission.