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.—j. VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913. NO. 87. SENATE PISSES BILL 1010 ADDITIONAL APPLYING WEBB VOTED TO TEACHERS If TO GEORGIA Measure Was Adopted by Vote of 36 to 3 After Two Hours of Heated Debate Wednesr day Morning The Georgia state senate Wednesday morning passed the Hixon-Searcy bill applying the provisions of the Webb act against the importation of spirituous liquors to Georgia. The passage of the bill came only after two hours of bitter argument and only after four amendments to the measure had been voted down. Yet the final vote was 36 to 3 in favor of the bill, as reported by the temperance com mittee with one amendment, the com mittee's own. » The bill has but two important sec tions. The first, which prohibits the importation, of spirituous liquors into the state for illegal use, was favored almost unanimously by the senators. This measure will not apply to near- beer, to locker clubs lawfully conducted, . nor to persons ordering liquor for. pri vate use. The second section was the bone of contention. It fixes the burden of proof in case the legality of a shipment is questioned. The committee’s amendment which was adopted says that when the ques tioned shipment is in excess of three gallons (one case), the burden shall be upon the carrier, or express com pany, to show that it was ordered for legal purposes. When less than ’three gallons it shall be up to the state to show that the shipment was for illegal purposes. DEBATE GROWS LIVELY. The prohibitionists, led by Senators llixon and Searcy, wished to strike out the threeg-allon cla*use entirely, leaving it to the carrier in every case to prove the legality of the shipment. They be gan their fight by offering an amend ment to this effect. Senator McNeil, in a fiery speech op posed striking the amendment. He be gan as every senator who took the floor began by saying that personally he was a prohibitionist. According to Senator McNeil, he was a prohibitionist in a restricted sense. His speech was a vigorous arraign ment of the present prohibition law. That it allowed blind tigers to operate and was thus the cause of murders, burglaries and felonies which he said had increased 66 2-3 per cent since the law was passed. Senator McNeil defied the* prohibitionists to deny. r He characterized the first section as a good law. The second, he claimed, worked an illegal hardship on _th.a car- rler .unless carrying the tnree-gallon clause. Without this clause, he said, any sheriff or deputy could indict any ship per who might order one pint a month, continued to hit the prohibition law. “Every one knows,” he cried, "that every bottle of beer sold in Georgia is alcoholic as well as intoxicating. You start with near-beer and got ‘nigher’ and ‘nigher’ and ‘nigher.’ If the prohi bitionists had their way they would close up the state of Georgia tighter than the tightest clam on the Atlantic coast. That’s tjie very reason I don’t favor absolute prohibition, because if we had i*t, our very good friends, the antis, would make an exodus once a month.” The -senator's point occasioned much laughter. President Anderson began to call on the speakers by alternating from side to side. HE OPPOSED CLAUSE. Senator Searcy spoke against the three-gallon clause, declaring that he “had never touched a drop of liquor or bought a drop of liquor” in his life. One who supported his view was Sena tor McGregor, who made a ringing speech. Senator Sweat, Senator Smith and Senator Harrell all were in favor of putting the burden of proof on the state and not the carrier. Senator Dickey proposed to amend the three-gallon clause by. changing It to one-gallon, but was voted down by the close count of 23 to 0. Senator Hixon’s amendment striking -out this clause entirely was voted down, as were two amendments by Senator Harrell, which provided for seizure of liquor in the hands of the carrier. The bill, as amended with the three- gallon clause, will go to the house with in the next few days. TEXT OF BILL. The text of the bill as amended and passed by the senate follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the state of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, public or private carrier, to ship or transport into this state, in any manner or by any means whatsoever from any point out side of the state, or from point to point within the state, any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other alcoholic liquors to be received, possessed, kept or in any manner used in violation of the laws of this state. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that when the legality of any shipment, or transportation of the liquors mentioned in section 1 of this act, from a point outside of the state into this state, is brought in question in any court of this state, and t..e state has proven the shipment, the burden shall then be on the transporter of the same if in excess of three gallons to show that such ship ment or transportation is authorized un der the act of congress regulating com merce between the states, and foreign •ountries, and in default thereof such shipment, or transportation shall be held to be in violation of this act. * Sec. 3. Be ft further enacted, that the transportation of each package of liquors, where the same is shipped in violation of the act of congress, regula ting the commerce bet- en the states, and foreign countrys, from a point out side of this state into this state, as svell as in shipments in this state from point, shall constitute a sperate of fense. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, that any person, firm or corporation or pub lic or private carrier, violating any of the povisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Code of 1910. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be, and ttie same are here by repealed. House as a Committee of the Whole Increases Appropria tion From $2,500,000 to $2,550,000 REJECTED 0 Y VOTES OE STATESENATORS Seventeen Votes Were Cast Against the Constitutional Amendment, When Only 15 Were Needed to Kill It Further provision for of the school teachers’ the payment salaries was Barrow' county failed to receive the constitutional majority of two-thirds , r m, i j vote in the senate Thursday afternoon made in the house Thursday morning and was killed. The vote stood at the conclusion of the roll call 25 for and when the body as a committee on the whole voted to increase the appropria tion for their payment from $2,500,000 as set forth in the ••general appropria tions bill, to $2,550,000 per year. The vote In favor of the amendment which was introduced by Dr. Stovall, of El bert, was SO to 45. In accordance with this action on the part of the committee of the house the* paragraph in section five of the bud get is amended and stands as follows: “For the support and maintenance of the common schools of the state, the sum of $2,550,000 for each of the years 191-1 and 1915; said sum including poll tax, one-half of the rental of the West ern and Atlantic railroad, show taxes, dividends from the Georgia railroad, stocks -and funds realized from the taxa tion of dogs and other funds set aside by law to the common school fund.” A resolution which would authorize Governor Slaton to bororw $500,000 for the purpose of paying the state’s school teachers their overdue salaries, was in troduced in the house Thursrday morn ing by Representative Slater, of Bryan county. This resolution would put to a prac tical application the opinion rendered to the governor the other day by At torney General T. S. Felder. The at torney general construed the recent con stitutional amendment to mean that the governor can borrow as much as $500,000 to cover temporary deficits oc casioned by delay in the collection of the state’s revenues. The resolution will need the concur rence of the senate, if the house pass es it. Other resolutions of a similar nature, to empower the governor to borrow to meet other obligations, have been read in the legislature and now are pend ing before committees. But six sections of the appropriation bill have been read up to adjournment of the house Thursday at 1 p. m., and it is a noteworthy fact that but one other item in the budget has received an in crease. That was the soldiers’ home in Atlanta, which was given $30,000, or $5,000 more than allowed in the bill. It was seen at the outset, however, that the house was determined to come to the rescue of Georgia’s teachers tj,nd despite arguments that the state was too much in debt to make this advance a big majority in favor of the increas ing amendment was shown in the count. The expected fight on the appropria tion of $100,000 to the State Agricul tural college from Mr. Connor, of Spald ing, came when he introduced an amend ment providing that the amount be cut to $91,000. There was less debate on this question than any other, and no di vision was necessary after the viva voce vote which was almost unanimous against the proposed cut. With adjournment in sight at this juncture the committee reported prog ress and asked leave to sit again for further consideration of the bill on Friday. The house adjourned at 1 o’clock to meet again Friday at 9 a. m. 17 against the new county. But fif teen votes were necessary to defeat the constitutional amendment for the crea tion of the new county with Winder as the county seat. When the result was announced a great cheer broke out in the chamber. Senator DuBose immediately an nounced, that at the proper time, he would move for a reconsideration. The entire morning session of the senate Thursday was occupied in de bate upon the first of the so-called “new cpunty” propositions to come be fore that body for decision—the prop osition to create Barrow county, passed by the house, and reported favorably by the senate committee with a minor ity committee report against it. Hot arguments for and against th measure were passed. Everything else was sidetracked for the day—measures of general Interest, important measures of local interest—in order that the sen ate might get an earful of talk on both sides of the question as to wheth er or not Barrow county should become a fact. Senators DuBose, Sweat, McNeil and Elkins spoke in favor of the measure. Senators Longino, Burtz, McrGegor and Foster spoke against it. The chairman of the committee majority, and the chairman of the colnmittee minority each was to be allowed twenty minutes more of argument. The senate extend ed its session, which would have ter minated automaticaly at 1 o’clock, to last until the bill had been voted upon. The galleries and anterooms of the senate chamber were crowded with in terested citizens from the neighborhood of the proposed new county. The sen ate rules were enforced, prohibiting all unofficial visitors from entering the hall. This was done in order that the senators might not be overwhelmed by lobbyists for or against the proposed new county. The vote on the bill follows: Ayes—Allen, Bulloch, Bush, Chen- nault, Converse, Dickey, DuBose, El kins, Ford, Irwin, Jones of the Twenty- first, Jones of the Thirty-ninth, Kea, Kelly, McNeill, Miller, Moore, Rushin, Searsey, Smith, Sweat, Tarver, Tayor, Turner and Watts—25. Nays—Blown, Burtz, Foster, Harrell. Hlxon. iHuie, Johnson, Longino, Mc Gregor. Oiff, Parrish, Perry, Peyton, Pope, Spinks, Stark and Tyson—17. „* .**1. . *** > i/ ***. ■Jf A*^ A**4 jl ir * WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES SUITES BUREAU SHERIFF ASKS FOR TROOPS S SCHORLS TO QUELL STRIKE VIOLENCE ra in UNCLE SAM REGULATE MARRIAGES AND DIVORCE WASHINGTON, July 24.—A constitu- tional amendment to empower congress to regulate marriage and divorce was proposed in a joint resolution today by Representative Edmunds, of Pennsyl vania. The resolution would amend the con stitution to provide: “Congress shall have the power to es tablish uniform laws on the subject of marriage and divorce for the United States and to provide penalties for vio lation thereof.” j Government Educational Au thorities Make Vigorous Re ply to the Critics PARCEL POST WEICHT Representative Lewis, in Sup porting Burleson, Says Max imum Limit to Be Extended WASHINGTON. July 24.—Support ing Postmaster General Burleson in his proposed extension of parcel post ser vice, Representative Lewis, one of the authors of the parcel post law today declared that sooner or laj^r the gov ernment must take over transportation of all parcels up to 100 pounds. Representative Lewis contended that under the law the postmaster general has complete authority to increase the weight limit on parcel post business, and he assails the railroads for their support of the express companies in opposing Postmaster General Burleson’b order. SUFF MAKES ATTACK Police Prevent Injury to Pre mier When Suffragette Springs at His Auto (By Associated Press.) ! DONCASTER, England, July‘24.—An END OF DISPUTE NEAR Whether Case Will Be Taken to Higher Maryland Court Not Decided (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) BALTIMORE. Md„ July 24.—Indica tions this afternoon were that the dis pute over the viscera of E. O. Painter, the Jacksonville. Fla., millionaire fer tilizer' manufacturer, w*ould be ended late today or early tomorrow, as far as Judge Duffy in the circuit court is concerned. attempt by a militant suffragette to assault Premier Asquith while he was on his way today to the town hall of Morley, Yorkshire, to receive the free dom of the city was frustrated by the police. Miss Key-Jones, suffragette, sprang to the step to the premier’s automobile, shouting. “Stop torturing women, you scoundrel!” and tried to pull Mr. As quith from his seat but the police drag ged her away. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 24.—Aroused by the growing criticism of present day educational methods in the public schools, the Untied States bureau of education today came to the defense of tse present system in a vigorous statement. It declared that not only are the “three r’s” being taught as taoroughly as in the “Little Red school house,” but that they are being taught more scientifically and with a modern view to the needs of the indi vidual child. “We frequently hear that there are ‘too many subjects and too many fads and frills,’ ” says the report, “and hence neglect of the three r’s. The critics who utter this sort of criticism seldom agree on exactly what the ‘fads and frills’ are, but they invariably look back to a golden past when the so-call ed ‘fundamentals’—reading, writing and arithmetir—were taught in such a way as never to be forgotten. “As a matter of fact, the system of today is unmeasurably ahead of the school system of the past. The growth has been steady. Whatever may be said against the enrichment of the course of study by its ‘fads and frills,’ the contention that the essentials, so-called, have suffered in comparison with the past, falls flat.” The report declares that the edu cational system of today seeks to edu cate the children for the kind of life, economic and social, which they will lead, when they leave the public schools. The bureau bases its defense of the present system principally upon this ground. Michigan Copper Miners At tack Deputies and Strike- Breakers (By Associated Press.) CALUMET, Mich., July 24.—Strike vi olence, occasioned by yesterday's walk out of the copper miners in this dis trict, grew beyond control of Sheriff Crune today and he wired to Governor Ferris, asking that state troops be dis patched to maintain order. The local militia companies were ordered to hold themselves in readiness for service. The chief attack of strikers today was directed against the Calumet and Hecla properties. Three hundred men armed with steel drills, clubs and stones and with a few of them dis playing and firing revolvers, divested of their stars all the deputies sta tioned at No. 2 Conglomerate shaft of the company. The strikers then moved over to the Hecla branch mine and repeated their tactics. Several men were badly beaten and sent to hospitals. The strikers visited all surface plants of the companies affected and closed them. Mining Captain Thomas Matthews, of the Calumet and Hecla mines, was attacked by strikers last night and knocked unconscious. A large body of strikers went from one shaft to an other at the Calumet and Hecla and Tamarack, and several employes were attacked with stones and severly hurt. This morning strikers gathered about the shafts to keep the men with dinner pails away. A large number of depu ties have been sworn in and it is be lieved that they can control the sit uation for the present at least. SOUTHERN SENATORS GET TIPS ON BOLL WEEVILS They Confer With Experts on Best Methods of Fight ing Cotton's Enemy (BY BAIPH SMITH.) WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24.—A number of senators and representatives from the cotton belt conferred this morning with Secretary of Agriculture Houston concerning a plan of campaign to combat the spread of the boll wee vil. Among the senators attending the conference were Hoke Smith, Williams and Vardaman, of Mississippi; Rans- dell, of Louisiana; Sheppard, of Tex as; Gore, of Oklahoma, and Smith, of South Carolina. Secretary Houston called into the conference a number of experts in the department, who outlined a comprehen sive campaign against the weevil, which is expected to invade Georgia next year. The government now provides $300,0b0 annually to fight the weevil. As a result of the conference today, congress will extend further aid to the department of agriculture. Senator Ransdell, in opening the dis cussion, declared there was urgent need for an immediately more aggressive fight against the boll weevil instead of the indirect methods now employed by the department. In reply it was point ed out that these methods thus far had proven effective and that they could be made more so through the ex tension of the work. E. F. Evans, an expert of the depart ment, declared that there was only a small section in Mississippi and Louis iana where the boll weevil could not be checked through proper agricultural methods. He said there were not enough men in the. work to reach the vast territory involved and urged that the demonstration work be extended. E OF 15 LATEST PROPOSAL Discussion at Washington Takes Turn of Popular Elec tions and Establishment of Constitutional Government (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 24.—The dis cussion of the Mexican situation to day turned toward proposals that the United States act as a mediator while elections are held and a constitutional government established. Although such suggestions have at various times been made to Presi dent Wilson, Secretary Bryan and mem bers of congress by persons in this country and Mexico, the proposition never has reached the stage of seri ous consideration because of the in sistent attitude of the constitutional ists that they would not entertain me diation under any circumstances. NOT FAVORED BY REBELS. “Who will guarantee the honesty of an election? The only guarantee we can have is to take possession of the gov ernment by arms, put in a provisional president, and hold elections when the country is pacified. Elections with most of the country up in arms will, be impossible.” , This was the answer of the constitu tionalist representatives in Washnig- ton today to the reports that mediation was about to be undertaken through t..o offices of the United States. The constitutionalists profess to see! in such a proposal an effort on the part of the Huerta government to se cure a suspension of hostilities during j which it would take retaliatory meas ures to suppress the constitutionalists' cause. The constitutionalists point out that i the same kind of proposals repeatedly were made in the declining days of the Diaz administration. SENATOR BACON’S VIEWS. ”1 have had many letters," said Sena tor Bacon, as he left the White House, , “and there has been much talk among senators about the possibility of media tion, but we recognize that it all de pends on the attitude of the factions in Mexico. We would have to be in vited to mediate; we could not exer cise any authority. I don’t know how practical it would he. "Perhaps the best thing would be if both sides could get together with out mediation by any one else and name a provisional president, who would be satisfactory to both, and hold an elec tion. But the chief point about all the discussion is that it shows how anx ious the American people are for a peaceful solution of the trouble in Mex ico, and that we are not thinking otV anything like intervention. The value of these suggestions is that wo test out public opinion both in this country and in Mexico." NO ACTION AS YET. Senator Bacon said that so far as he knew, no formal recommendation for mediation was being considered by the president, and that the matter had reached only the state of discussion. A number of senators, in discussing the Mexican situation wtih President Wilson today, learned that he was hope ful that the senate would refrain from debate about Mexico at this time, or at any rate until after Ambassador Wilson returned and a definite policy was for mulated. It was said the president pointed out that expressions by sena tors might arouse ill feeling in Mex ico. E Rome Young Man Charged With, Misapplying Portion of Father’s Estate BOMBS KEEP POLICE . WEBB NOMINATED FOR ARKANSAS IS SWEPT BY ACTIVE IN NEW YORK POSTMASTER AT CANTON IE “Cheese" Baffle Noted Prisoner Probably Wi Be Given His Freedom Within Few Weeks and “Meat" Bombs Bureau of Com bustibles Announcement That McAfee Would Be Named Was Cler ical Error George W, Hays Probably Have Plurality of 34,000 for Governor (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 24.—Julian Hawthorne and Dr. William J. Morton, serving a year’s sentence in the Atlan ta penitentiary for misuse of the mails, have been recommended for parole by the parole board and the question of their release is now under consideration by Attorney General McReynolds. Rattlesnake Kills Three Children; While Mother Looks for Them Her Fourth, an Infant, Drowns (By Associated Press.) KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 24.—Three children of Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper, near Townsend, Tenn., were fatally bit ten by rattlesnakes and were found dead yesterday afternoon. While the mother was searching for this trio, her eigh- teen-months-old infant fell into a stream, on the banks of which sho had left it, and was drowned. The three children had been sent to a barn for hen eggs. The mother was near the river washing colthes. The long absence of the children caused motherly anxiety and she went in search of the children, leaving her infant near the river bank. The four tragedies were soon revealed. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, July 24.—The study of bombs is proving exciting to the New York police and amusing to many on lookers. Patrolman John Weisenreider, hearing a mysterious explosion in front of a boarding house on the East Side early today ran to the place and picked up a package covered with black silk. It had been partly torn open by a small explosion and the officer and a detective ventured to rip off the cover. ‘‘Its corned beef,’ they exclaimed when they saw what looked like two thick slices of meat, between which lay a powerful fire cracker. They recalled the recent “cheese bomb” sent to An drew Carnegie which had deceived at first even the experts at the bureau of combsutibles. Weisenreider and the de tective were making a still closer ex amination of the supposed corned beef when Inspector Egan of the bureau of combustibles arrived. He declared with a certainty that the two pieces of meat like substance were two sticks of dyna mite softened by some process. Boaters Are Found (By Associated Press.) TRENTON, N. J., July 24.—The motor boat party of nine, reported missing last night, returned to their homes to day. They had spent the night at the home of a friend. . BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, July 24.—The Con gressional Record today shows that Wil liam J. Webb, and not Joseph M. Mc Afee, was nominated yesterday by Pres ident Wilson for postmaster at Canton, Cherokee county, vice William T. Ed wards, whose term expired last Janu ary. Judge Webb’s nomination was recommended by Senator Hoke Smith, while Captain McAfee was supported by Congressman Thomas M. Bell. The ac curacy of the Congressional Record with reference to the nomination is support ed by the original list of nominations sent to the senate by the president and bearing his name. The publication of McAfee’s name as the nominee at Canton was due to an honest and unavoidable mistake on part of the newspaper correspondents. It appears that the “flimsies” of the nominations, which were distributed for the information of the correspondents, bore the name of McAfee, whereas the original list of nominations contained the name of Webb. The correspondents accepted the “flimsies” as correct, and based their stories of the nomination on ‘his misinformation. Senator Smith will urge the confirma tion .of Judge Webb, whose nomination is now’ pending in the postoffice commit tee. of which the-senator is a member. Mr. Webb is Mr. McAfee’s son-in-law. (By Associated Press.) LITTLE ROCK, Ark., .July 24.—With scattering returns in from all sections of the state and approximately two- thirds of the vote at yesterday’s elec tion accounted for, indications today aYe that George W. Ha^s, Democratic can didate for governor will have a plural ity of about 34,000 votes. Meyers, Re publican; Murphy, Progressive, and Debber, Socialist , ran in the order named. The Socialists cast only 2„100 votes. The Democratic vote was lighter than expected. CLAIMS DISCOVERY OF PERPETUAL MOTION (Ey Associated Press.) TURIN, Italy, July 24.—Tests have been made before scientists here of a machine invented by a mechanician named Florio, by which, it is claimed, perpetual motion is demonstrated. The basic -principle underlying the method employed is the contraction and expan sion of gas. The'mechine collects the caloric en ergy of the air and transforms it into mechanical energy. The air is supplied automatically and the apparatus is in continuous motion by reason of the passage of the gas from the warmer to the cooler atmosphere. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ROME, Ga., July 24.—Dabney Dough erty, a well known young man, and one of the heirs of a big estate, has been located In Atlanta and brought here to answer to a charge of embezzling funds of the estate. For awhile Dougherty was the admin istrator of the affairs of his father, the late A. Dougherty, one of Rome’s wealthy pioneer residents. It is alleged that he misappropriated some funds during this period, and he was Indicted by the Floyd county grand Jury, but left town before he could be arrested. The case against him is being pushed by a bcflnding company. | Two Men Defy Death At Niagara Falls to Save Drowning Dog (By Associated Press.) NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y„ July 24.— Two men risked going over the Ameri can falls, that they might save a small dog which was clinging to some rocks only a short distance above the cataract late last evening. The animal had been running along the river bank and slipped into the water about 100 feet above the falls. It was quickly swept down the river but finally managed to get a slight foot-* hold anrt clung for his life. Park Constable Alexander and Frank Glassbrook went to the rescue. Glass- brook grasped Alexander’s hand and waded out into the swift curcnt. He reached the dog and brought it safely to shore. A woman who saw the rescue asked for the dog as a souvenir and it was given to her. Families Reconci'ed After Row of 30 Years (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) VALDOSTA, Ga., July 24.—The family and friends of two of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Lowndes county are rejoicing over their reconciliation, which has just followed an estrangement of about thirty years. Thev fell out over some trivial mat ter, land have not spoken to each other in the past thirty years and have avoid- j ed each other as much as possible, i