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Ij c UilwJ w Wwuwl VOLUME XVIII. MIM SMITH MUST! TESTIFY TO CAMPAIGN DONATIONS OF L. & N. Chief Counsel Folk Files Brief in Supreme Court to Sus tain Interstate Commerce Commission (By AMOCiatad Presa. ) WASHINGTON. Aug. 10.—The right of the interstate commerce commission to inquire into the political expendi tures of a railroad was upheld today in a brief hleu in the District of Columbia supreme court by Chief Counsel Folk in the commission’s action to compel Pres ident Milton H. Smith, of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. to testify in re gard to that carrier’s campaign contri- Mr. Smith refused to answer questions propounded by the commission during an investigation based on a sen ate resolution and resort was had to the courts to compel answers. Mr. Smith in a brief died several weeks ago. contended that expenditure of funds by a railroad official for political purposes was a private matter and that it was beyond the power or the commission to go into such questions. The brief filed by Mr. Folk denies that campaign contributions by a ear ner can be considered private and says the commission has*uuthority to inquire into any railroad expenditure. The commission under the powers delegated to it by congress through the act to regulate commerce.” says the ortef. “has a legal right and is subject to the legal duty to te informed as to carrier expenditures, and it is a step toward the abuses of the past for any carrier serving the public to attempt to xeep them secret. That secrecy m tne matter of expenditures and rates has been the principal source of evils in the railroad business cannot be denied. Corruption, discrimination, and favorit ism breed In the dark and shun the light. The evils to be fairly apprehend ed from the governmental information as to the expenditures of the funds of interstate carriers are not to be com pared with the Ails that would surely result from secrecy. •There can be no effective regulation of Interstate carriers if they may Keep their expenditures covered up. With out information regulation would be im potent and blind. "The operation of a railroad is not rhe private concern of those who run it. but It is subject to the public use and to governmental regulation and govern mental visitation. There can be nothing private or confidential in the expendi tures of the funds of a carrier engaged tn interstate commerce as against the .'igltorlal power Os the government. It must submit all of its business and all of its expenditures to the commission upon suitable demand being made. That demand has Seen made in this case and it is to enforce that demand and to compel the carrier to perfom its duty under the ait to regulate commerce by informing the commission as to its ex penditures that this proceeding is now before this court.” Negress Attempts to End Her Life By Setting Fire to Her Clothing Matilda Tucker, a negro woman about forty years old. is believed to have at tempted suicide in the most terribly grewsome way Thursday at noon, when she ®ft fire to her clothing while alone in her house in the rear of 240 Central avenue. She was found, her body • charred all over, still breathing, and was rushed to the Grady hospital, where authorities said she could live only a short time. Last Saturday night the woman went to a negro undertaker and asked to be buried, saying that she was going to "die anyway and burn in hell.” The people in charge of the establishment carried her to the police station, where she was recognized as being demented, though thought to be harmless. At that time her hands were bandaged up with -trs, and she declared them to have been already burned in the “flames of hell." She was found Thursday, her clothes burned completely off, unconscious and in a dying condition. VV E BELIEVE this to be absolutely the W i ▼ V t> es t combination offer we have ever ■B I made to our friends. These two great gg I newspapers will cover every angle of all the great happenings of the day. In this ' Presidential election year you need just such newspapers as these in your home— The Semi-lTeekJy Journal The Neu) York World You get five issues a week! [ kP J 7/ J 260 issues a year—ALL TOT V r' " a year Uae Thia Coupon---Write Plain l y---and Mail at Once S’ The Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.: IGN the coupon—en- | Enclosed find Si. 10. Send The Semi-Weekly close Sl.lO, • either | Journal and The Thrice-a-Week New York World to by check, postoffice mon- , the address below for one year. ey order, stamps or cash | ■ by registered mail and ♦ NAME ? Kg g| mail to The Semi-Weekly * Journal, Circulation De- * P. O ■■ ■ ■ Partme,lt, Atlanta ' Ga ' I H ' P ' STATE.■■■■■■■ BIG CROWD HEARS JOE POTTLE SHE HUGH M. DORSEY Candidate for Governor Makes a Powerful Vote-Getting Speech and Wins Hundreds of New Supporters Here To one of th® larsrest audiences tnat ever crowded the Grand opera house, the largest theater in the state, which seats between 2.500 and 3.000 persons. Joseph E. Pottle, of Milledgeville, candidate for governor. Thursday evening delivered a powerful speech in behalf of his candi dacy. Included in the audience were delega tions of Pottle supporters from Athens, Augusta, Macon, Milledgeville, Madison, Greensboro and various other north and middle Georgia cities. Several aouta Georgia cities and tewns were also rep resented Owing to the size of the crowd many were unable to gain admit tance to the theater. Marion Smith, son of Senator Hoke Smith, and one of the leading attorneys of Atlanta, introduced Mr. Pottle. Seated on the stage with Mr. Pottie were representative citizens of Atlanta and many other sections of the state. Mr. Fottle made a vote-getting speech and hundreds of those who heard him were outspoken in declaring themselves his supporters. He made a profound impression and received the congratula tions of hundreds who came forward to shake his hand at the conclusion of his speech. That Mr. Pottle’s speech here has giv en a tremendous impetus to his cam paign thrqughout the state is admitted or. every hand. Mr. Pottle vigorously assailed the rec ord of Hugh M. Dorsey and insisted that his public and official acts disqualified him to be governor of Georgia. He also scored Mr. Dorsey for failing £o meet him in joint debate in his (Dor sey’«s) home city Rome Friends Plan Big Reception for- Pottle tSnecial Dispatch to The Journal.) ROME. Ga-. Aug. 10.—Friends of Joe Pottle, candidate for governor, here are making great preparations for his ap pearance here on Saturday. August 12. Mr. Pottle is to speake at three places, at the courthouse in Rome at 11 a. m., at Cave Springs at 3:30 p. m., and at Lin ( dale at 7:30 p. m. TWO CASES OF YELLOW FEVER FOUND ON SHIP 'By Associated Press.) NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 10.—Two cases of yellow fever were discovered today among the crew of the M ard line steamer Eorglum, which arrived at the federal quarantine station near the mouth of the Mississippi river yester day from Progreso, Mexico. The quar antine officers stated that the sick men are the second mate an dthe second en gineer. The two patients and twenty-three other members of the crew have been placed in Isolation wards at the sta tion. Two passengers on the steamer and the crew will be held at quaran tine until the period of incubation has passed. Erigmeer Loses Life In Head-On Collision J. G. Harris, engineer on No. 11 pas senger train of the Southern railway, which crashed head-on with a north bound freight at CrowelL S. C., late Wednesday evening, was killed instant ly A few passengers were slightly in jured. Mrs. J. E. Smith, of Greenville, S. C.. had her lips cut by her teeth; L. O. Gllliand suffered a sprained shoulder, and J. B. Mcßayer. an Atlanta negro, in attempting to jump from the train, had two fingers cut off in the vestibule door. According to Southern officials in At lanta. Mr. Harris was a resident of Greenville, S. C., and his body was taken there. The trainmen on the freight gave as a reason for the collision the fact that the brakes refused to hold when they attempted to stop in time to avoid an ccident. TRAINMEN INSIST OH DEMANDS ID THINK I MEDIATION IS FUTILE U. S. Board is Informed; Brotherhood Chiefs See Lit tle Hope of Reaching Satis factory Agreement t (By Associated Press.) • NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—The United i » States board of mediation and concilia -1 tion held its first conference r t today with a committee representing .. the four brotherhoods of railway em ployes in their attempts to mediate the ■ controversy between the railroad men; ’ and 225 railway systems over the de j mand for an eight-hour day and extra , i pay for overtime The mediators held ’ - their first conference with the national 5 conference committee of railway man agers yesterday. » William L. Chambers, one of the medi ’• ators, said afterward that the railroad managers explained how far they would go to avoid a strike. These deliberations are secret. There are three possible results of the' 1 mediation. One is that the federal board I 1 will be able to get the managers and I I workers to sign an agreement. Another , _ is that the mediators will be able to in- I duce both parties to consent to arbitra- | ’ tion, if mediation fails. The third possi- ; ’ bility is that the federal board will fail in both these endeavors. WILSON MA YTAKE HAND. ’ It was predicted today that if the 1 board should be unable to compose the differences. President Wilson would ask ’ representatives of the contending sac- j tions to meet him in Washington and ! that he would ask them to arbitrate their differences. The mediators announced | that no statement would be forthcoming until they efther have succeeded or 1 failed. It is understood that the labor leaders pin their hopes of settling the • dispute upon mediation rather than ar bitration. They are opposed to arbitra- | tion. W. S. Carter, president of the Brother- I i hood of Railway Enginemen and Fire-1 men. said: “Arbitration is a gambling game, even when the dice are .not loaded. Railway employes have lost faith in the justice of arbitration boards. They believe arbitra tion is as fickle as chance. If there is arbitration of this eight-hour demand and every effort is made to appoint neu- I trals free from prejudices, it is but toss i ing pennies to decide the question. Why I has none suggested that matter be set- I tied by "pulling straws.’ and relieve ev- I erybody of the bother?” Nothing officially was disclosed as to i the success the mediators met but it was learned on good authority that "the | brotherhoods had shown no disposition to modify their demands. "‘The status is unchanged,” was the. only comment which A. B. Garretson, head of the conductors’ brotherhood, was willing to make after the confer- • ence. ONLY SCRATCHED SURFACE. ( “We have only scratched the surface,” ’ said G. W. W. Hanger, one of the media tors. “The situation may be cleared up within twenty-four hours and then ne gotiations may continue for a week." The mediators arranged for a second conference w’ith the railroad managers this afternoon and to meet the brother hoods' representatives again tomorrow morning. Today's meeting was held in a down town assembly hall and was attended not only by the chiefs of the four broth- ; erhoods —the employes’ official spokes men— but by the six hundred delegates of the unions who are here. It lasted , less than an hour. Kills Doctor Accused Os Attacking His Wife (By Associated Brest.) HENDERSON, Ky.. Aug. 10.—Dr. M. C. Dunn, fifty-two. president of the ' Henderson school board, and widely . known among physicians in Kentucky, 1 was shot and killed on the street here today by Charles M. Wyne, thirty-one, a carriage worker. < Wyne recently filed suit against Dr. I Dunn for 310,000 damages, alleging that the physician had attacked Mrs. Wyne in his office. Wyne was arrested. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1916. THE BRIDGE! / THAT S -nil \ life/ in Y ~ I " • r Ir-' .fik. PAULK'S W. & I. BILLS ABE PASSED AL SENATE State Bond Issue of $10,000,- 000 for Road’s Extension Provided For The two bills of Senator Paulk, of the Sixth, one empowering the Western and Atlantic lease commission to consider propositions to extend the state road ro the sea ar.d the other a constitutional amendment providing for a state bond issue of $10,003,000 for such extension, if it is deemed avisable, passed the sen ate by safe margins Thursday morning. On the extension bill the vote was 32 to 4 and on the constitutional amend ment the vote stood 3« to 3, several sen ators being absent when the tlrst bill was .placed upon its passage. The extension bill of Senator Pauik does not directly provide for the exten sion of the Western and Atlantic road but simply increases the powers of the commission that it may take under con sideration the proposition of J. A. Hen uerson, of Ocilla, and any other like pro ject that may be brought to its attention subsequently. The companion constitutional amend ment was introduced and passed in the event that the commission recommends the extension of the railroad. EDUCATIONAL FUND. The senate heard for the first reading a joint resolution by Senator Harrison, of the Twenty-fifth, designating the state board of education as the body to receive and aminister Georgia’s share of the $1,00(1,000 federal educational fund as provided in the Smith-Hughes bill which was introduced in the senate by Senator Hoke Smith and in the house by Congressman Dudley Hughes, of the Twelfth congressional district. In accordance with his statement made Wednesday under a point of per sonal privilege, Senator Roscoe Pickett of the Forty-first read extracts from a letter said to have been written by the man who made an affidavit to the effect that Thomas B. Felder received a fee of SI,OOO from Mayor W. J. Pierpont, of Savannah, to lobby for the prohibition bills. BILLS PASSED IN SENATE. The following bills were passed in the sen ate Thursday: By Mr. Jones of Wilkinson—To create a new charter for Gordon. By Mr. Sloan of Forsyth—To amend sec tion 1,249, volume 1. of the code of 1910. By Mr. Dart of Glynn—To change the term of the commissioners of Glynn county. By Mr. Collier of Stephens—To amend the charter of Avalon. By Mr. Bintz of Gilmer—To amend the char ter of East Ellijay. By Mr. Marshall of Taylor—To al>olish the office of treasurer of Tnylor county. By the Fulton delegation—To fix the salary of the treasurer of Fulton county. By the Klchmond <lelegation—To extend the city limits of Augusta. By the Coweta delegation—To amend the chn>ter of Newnan. By Mr. Stark of Jackson—To amend the char-' ter of Jefferson. By the Meriwether delegation—To amend the I charter of Bullochville. By Mr. Peacock of Dougherty—To amend the charter of Albany. By the Wilkes delegation—To repeal an act establishing the city court of Washington. i By the Gwinnett delegation—To amend the] charter of Lawrenceville. By the Washington delegation—To amend the 1 act creating the city court of Sandersville. By Mr. Perkins, of Habersham—To incorporate I Tallulah Park. By Mr. Duffy of James—To provide for the pay of the treasurer of James county. By Senator McLaughlin of the Thirty-sixth— To allow county convicts to work city streets By Senator T-awrence of the First—To con fer ’on the lessors of railroads the right to condemn, lense, or buy land for use in con nection with the lensed roads. By Senator Boykin of the Seventeenth —To provide for the office of notary public for the state at large. LOCAL BILLS PASSED. The following local bills were passed by the ISENATOR SMITH REPLIES / TO CHARGES OF HUGHES Commends Appointment of Harris and Durands’ Re moval From Office ) BY RALPH SMITH.. 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—The effort • of Candidate Charles E. Hughes to make i a nation?! campaign issue of the re l tnoval of E. Dana Durand as director of I the census and the appointment of Wil , Ham J. Harris, of Georgia, flared up in the senate today. Senator Townsend, of ■ Michigan, from which state Durand hails, sought to sustain Candidate Hughes In his contention respecting Durands re . moval and the appointment of "an inex perienced politician to administer the af fairs of this statistical office.” Senator Hoke Smith accepted Mr. ‘ Townsend’s challenge, applauded the re . moval of Durand, commended the ap . pointment of Harris and very clearly . demonstrated that President Wilson dis played rare judgment in the selection of the Georgian for this position. The senate spoke as a former secre i tary of the Interior, binder whose im mediate charge came the census bureau. He declared that observation, study and inquiry developed very clearly that Du rand was wholly inefficient and lacking in administrative capacity. Moreover, he asserted that his experience with the census as a cabinet officer, charged with 1 its supervision, ha*d convinced him that a business man and not a statistician is better qualified and equipped to admin ister its affairs. He showed that Har ris’ administration of the census bureau had proved far more satisfactory arid had been much more efficient than had Durand's, and challenged any one to sus tain a contrary contention. In the course of the debate, Senator Smith ridiculed and poked fun at t he plight in which Candidate Hughes and the Republican party finds itself for an issue. He suggested that if it is to be the policy of the country, and the gov ernment, to retain only tried and experi enced officials in office, and never to ele vate an inexperienced man to high of fice in the government service. Candidate Hughes should be entirely consistent and retire from the presidential race in favor of President Wilson, whose sane and sat isfactory administration has well estab lished his efficiency and given him and the country the benefit of valuable ex perience. Judge Hughes, he pointed out, is entirely without presidential experi ence. bouse Thursday morning: To repeal town charter of Leon in Dodge county. To amend LaFuyette city charter. To amend Madison city charter. To create recreation commission in eity of Savannah. To abolish Bryan county treasurer. I To amend Helena city charter. To provide for county depository In Bryan > county . To repeal act authorizing clerk and sheriff of Bryan county to keep their offices In their I residence. ’! To create new town charter of Milan In coun ' ties of Dodge and Telfair. I To abolish Walker county treasurer. I To incorporate Rockingham school district In Bacon county. NEW HOUSE BILLS. The following bills were Introduced In the house Thursday morning. By Mr. Walker of Ben Hill—To authorize ad ministrators to obtain loans upon the security of property of their Intestates. By Mr. Hopkins of Thomas and others—To appropriate $5,000 to employ an auditor to form i ulate a modern fiscal system for the state. By Mr. Ayer of Bibb—to authorize the state board of education to receive the state of Georgia ’sshare of the federal appropriation un der the Smith-Hughes act. BODIES OE 23 VICTIMS OF FLOOD RECOVERED Total Loss of Life in West Virginia Cloudburst Is Es timated at 100 (By Associated Press.) CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 10.— Twenty-three bodies have been recovered from the debris carried down by the flood which swept the Cabin creek val ley near here yesterday. Rescue parties have penetrated some distance above Cabin Creek Junction and meagre reports indicate that the loss vs life has been heavy. Persons driven from their homes to the mountains are returning to find W'hole villages of min ing cabins swept away, while distress and suffering is seen on every hand. Two companies of the Second West Virginia infantry left Camp Kanawha by trolley this morning and were taken to Cabin Creek Junction with orders to penetrate the valley and extend relief. They carried provisions and tents. A special train was being made up here on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad and will go as far as the hastily repair ed tracks will permit. From that point numbers of men provided with provisions Will seek out the spots where destitution is most pronounced. Reports reached here today from United States Commissioner Howard C. Smith, who led a relief party for a number of mining companies last night, that looting had commenced and a num ber of arrests had been made and some property recovered. RELIEF NEEDED BADLY. Coal companies with mines in the valley estimate that many thousands of dollars will be needed to feed and clotha the helpless miners and their families, as scores of them have lost all of their possessions. R. Jaco, a lineman of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone company, reach ed Cabin Creek Junction shortly before noon after a walk of over thirteen miles of the company’s lines between Miami and DeSoto. He declared that forty per sons had been drowned and twenty bod ies had been recovered. Jaco was unable to get up the Kay ford branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio, but expressed the belief that damage and loss of life there was greater than in other sections. The entlr valley be tween Miami and DeSoto w-as devastated, he said, everything movable having been washed away. The excursion train carrying 410 per sons, mostly w’omen and children, ma rooned by the flood, was located today between Main Horse creek and Little Horse creek, with washouts on both sides. Relief was sent from St. Al bans. Soon after 11 o’clock the sold’a-.s reached Ronda, where headquarters were established and from which point the relief work will be carried on. An esti mate of the dead remained at 100. Big Alligator Is Caught In Creek Near Albany (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ALBANY, Ga., Aug. 10.—An alligator six feet two inches long was caught In the Klnchafoonee creek, near here, yes terday, by Asa Tift and Harry Mercer, two well-known young men of Albany. The alligator was found in a gill net which the young men had in the creek, and was almost dead when caught. It was dispatched with little difficulty. It tore the net badly in its efforts to es cape. NUMBER 89. RETREATING AUSTRIAN ■ GIVEN NO REST AFTER GOBffl'S FILL Notable Success in Capture of Stronghold and 20,000 Pris oners Is Vigorously Follow ed Up (By Associated Press.) ROr:E, Aug. 10.—(Via London.)— The Italians have pierced the .strong Austrian entrenchments northeast of. San Michele on the Isonzo front, and near the village of San Martino, the war onice announced today. They have oc cupied Bochlni. The statement sayg' that more than 12,000 Austrians have been captured. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—News from the Isonzo front indicates that the army of the Duke of Aosta is rapidly follow ing up the notable success won by the Italians in the capture of the Austrian stronghold of Gorlzia, with some 20,- 000 prisoners. Italian troops are reported In fore® over the Isonzo, vigorously pursuing th® retreating Austrians, whose big seaport of Trieste, twenty-two miles to th® southeast, is threatened. Along the Somme the British and French are making slow but reasonably steady progress in their thrusts to ward Bapaume and Peronne. Last night French troops pushed for ward farther in the Hem wood sector, where the most telling blows have been struck in the recent fighting. The British pressure continue® to he exerted northward from Poziere®, where they are struggling to gain complete command of the ridge overlooking Ba raume. They made a new advance last night. I Another Important advance for tho Russians in Galicia Is announced today. l General Letchltzsky’s army has pushed west of the Stanislfu-Kolomea railway line and cut the Stanislau-Nadvorna rail way at Kryplin. ’i, This progress brings the Russians to the southwest of Stanislau, whose speedy evacuation by the Austrians is now considered probable. The drive of the Russians northwest 5 of Stanlslau has brought them to the junction of the Zlota Lipa river with the Dniester. This point is barely twenty miles from Halicz, on the Dnies ter, one of the strongest of the outlying defenses of Lemberg. Northwest of Lemberg the Russian offensive is again developing Berlin today reported a renewal of the battles in the Zalecze region, southeast of Brody, where the Russians have been comparatively inactive since their nota ble advance west of the Sereth. Italians Took 20,000 • ’ Prisoners at Gorizia (By Associated Press.) ROME, Aug. 9.—About 20,000 prison ers were captured by the Italians at Gorizia, according to an official an nouncement by the war office. The statement says an accurate estimate is impossible at present as numbers of prisoners are being brought in hourly. Russians Get Railway Station of Kryplin PETROGRAD, Aug. 10.—(Via Lon don.) —The capture by the Russian® of the railway station of Kryplin on th® Stanislau-Nadvorna railroad was an nounced officially today. Pushing westward from the Koropieo river, the Russians have reached the) Monasterzyska-Niznioff railway and the mouth of the Zlota Lipa river, north west of Nlznioff. Berlin Reports Repulse Os Russian Assaults BERLIN, Aug. 10.—(Via London.)— Heavy attacks have been made by the Russians at various points along the Stokhod line in Volhynia, east of Kovel,’ the war office announced today. All the Russian advances were repulsed with heavy losses, it is declared.- Attacks by both the British and the, French on the German lines in the' Somme region yesterday and last night were repulsed, according to today’s army headquarters statement. • Heavy damage was inflicted by bombs dropped from Zeppelin airships in the' raid over England Tuesday nigl>t, sayz an official statement issued today. Grand Jury Indicts Officials and Citizens Os Russell Co. Ala. COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 10.—The Rus sell county August special term grand jury made its first returns today in the extraordinary investigations it is mak ing into the county’s affairs and return ing a large number of true bills. It is stated they were against officials as well as citizens of the county, charging a wide range of violations of laws. Some of the others already indicted are on hand, one of whom is expected to turn state’s evidence, while many here put the line of other states be tween them and Alabama. Thursday’s session of the court prom ises to be the most productive. Sheriff Lindsey is in Girard with a batch of papers to serve tonight. Couple Who Eloped Six Years Ago Are Wedded (By Associated press.) NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Announcement was made today of the marriage in Bos* ton on Monday last of Mrs. Elinor Hoyt Hichborn and Horace Wylie, whose elopement in Washington Mx years ago caused a sensation in social circles. The marriage occurred just two weeks afceß Mrs. Catherine V. H. Wylie, former wife es the clubman, obtained a divorce. Mrs. Wylie is the daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, coun sellor of the state department in the Taft administration. Her former hus band, Philip Hichborn, Jr., son of Rear Admiral Hichborn, committed suicide about two years after his wife’s elope ment and shortly after he had filed suit for divoice.
