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I l&mnml volume xii. 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.