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CONVICTED, MAYOR
MARSHAL
AND CLERK ARE ARRESTED,
*IN LIQUOR CASES.
llsnd, August 4-
srs between 4-
rman warships 4-
era Flushing, +’
, according to a 4-
thing to -The ♦
The chief obstacles In the war °<
acceptance Is the refusal of the rail
roads to give tbs eight-boar day and
the Insistence of the workers tor
time and half tor overtime.
Administration officials announced
that negotiations be continued until a
peaceful solution Is found.
Six hundred and forty representa
tives of the tour brotherhoods roach-
(By Assoo
Washington, At
plan tor the settl
ened nation-wide;
ed by President
will be subndttof
ably will be proposed that a federal'
commission be appointed by the pres
ident or created by congress to In
vestigate problems which hare arisen
during the present discussion.
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ESTABLISHED 1M.
ATHENS,
GOVERNOR VETOS BILL
JUST BEFORE ADJOURN
MENT; WAS SUSTAINED.
(Special to the Banner.)
ATLANTA, GA., August 1S.—About
20 minutes before the Joint agreement
far the hour of adjournment, acting
on offlelal Information given him that
the Nelli election bill had been
ed by both house*, Governor Harris
sent to the general assembly a special
meaaaga vetoing the bill/
Upon Its dstlvsry to th« house, Rep
resentative Cecil Neill of Mi
author of tha bill, moved to override
the governor’* veto.
A substitute motion was offered to
sustain the governor’s veto and on
vote Gov. Harris was sustained by
a vote of 84 to 4t, or more than two
to on*.
All day there waa a question of
whether or not the bill would get
through the session, Inasmuch as the
definite statement came from the sen
ate that members who had
amendments to the bill to which tha
house disagreed would refuse to rs-
cede from the amendments.
Late this afternoon, however, the
senate voted to recede from all
amendments and ths bill became
law.
It was then aicertalned that Gov
ernor Harris, having already made up
tils mind to veto ths bill, had prepar.
ed a message to be transmitted to ths
intmbly IfwwfdWtly that official In*
formation cams to him that th* bill
had passed.
Thlj he did.
Th* effect of sustaining ths gov
ernor’s veto Is that ths ststa election
laws remain Just as they have been
and th* state executive committee 1s
not shorn of any of Its powers.
Ths bill was supported by ths Dor-
soy following In tha house to a man
and throughout that following has
boon persistently behind ths bill.
Ths unsuccessful effort to over-rid*
Governor Harris on ths floor of ths
house Is a measure of that situation
and Indicates an unexpected strength
of tho governor and a weakness of
the Dorsey forces that necessarily
mutt be alarming to his supporters.
LEGUME COMPLETED ITS
MG OF THE EERIE
LAST HOURS . WERE MARKED
BY THE USUAL RUSH OF
TRYING TO DO WORK
WHICH HAD DEEN
DELAYED
form MU by 119 to 4.
A Veto is Likely.
The Nelli primary MIL writing th*
county unit Into the stats law, re
quiring a second race for nominations
and taldng away largely the authori
ty and powers of the state executive
committee, wilt go to the governor
Saturday for his signature.
On good authority It is understood
that the governor will veto the bllL
that he would have done to betort
adjournment of the, legislature had
It been transmitted to him, is beHev-
ed to be a fact.
HOU8E GOT BUSY EARLY
ON YESTERDAY MORNING.
Atlanta, Ga., August 16.—The bouts
this forenoon refused to accept
Joint Resolution to adjourn at
o'clock, to change It to 6 o'clock or to
fix any hour tor sine die adjournment
Ths resolution wsa Introduced by
Representative Anderson of Jenkins,
Who declared the night session is si
ways a more or last useless waste of
time and, if the two branches stick
to business this afternoon everything
that la going to bt dona can b* dear
ed away and members who desire
wlH have an opportunity to go boms.
His resolution provided for adjourn
ment at 6 p. m., to which Mr. Bdwarda
offered an amendment making it
(Mr. Sheppard of Sam ter moved
to table the resolution, but his mo
tion lost, the amendment by Mr. Nelli
of iMusoogee to postpone action on
the the resolution Indefinitely carry
ing 69 to 46.
Did 8om* Rapid Work.
For the lint couple ot hour* the
bouse did s great deal ot work, but
as the midtday adjournment drew
near Speaker Burwell had consider
able trouble heaping th* member* in
RAPID-FIRE WORK IN THE
LAST LEGISLATIVE HOURS.
The Bakes-Dorris bill providing for
payment of 7 cents to ordinaries and
3 cent* to express agents on each
shipment of Hquor unanimously pass
ed the senate. It had already gone
through tho house and will be sign
ed by the governor Saturday.
The Bakes bill to pay ordinaries $1
ouch tor handling pensions in ISIS
and 1916, provided for last session
but never paid, was put on the sen
ate afternoon calendar, but may not
bo reached.
The house and seriate conference
agreed on the Mil revising the game
laws and the MU patted.
The house pasted the general bill
providing for a state board of elec
trical examiners, 97 to 2.
By a vote of 96 to 60 the bill to Is
sue ten million of bonds to extend
the w. t A. Railroad to the sea fail
ed to pass, requiring 186 vote*.
The MU providing for a board of
osteopathic examiners passed ths
house 101 to 0.
Nelli Elsetlon Bill.
The aenste petted the bin to ap
propriate $300,000 for needed build
ings at the state sanitarium and $12,-
M0 tor the girls’ training school at
Atlanta.
The senate this afternoon receded
from all Its amendments to the Neill
Section bill by 32 to 8, which had
the effect of enuwing the bill a* W
was passed by the honee.
The bill providing for the creation
°f * state auditor, on vote of 76 to 60,
*** lost, requiring 95 to carry.
The hotue called up the compel-
wry education MU by Red wine of
layette to disagree to the senate sub-
stitute, that motion carrying.
The senate pasted the house bill
Prohibiting newspaper popularity eon-
te *ts, without amendment.
The boom passed ths Gober legal
Jh* hUX to grunt lessees of rail
Wadi the Tight of sulaaut domain
was lost through tack of three votes,
the vote being 92 to 53 tor
of the MU, 95 votes being required.
The purpose of the MU, as explained
by Mr. Wheatley, Is lltostiuted In s
condition In Americus, where the
railroad company wants to run a side
track through a stretch of stTeet, for
which permission has been grunted
by Che city. On that siding a num
ber of warehouses, one of them
bonded warehouse, are to be erected
One property owner objeoti and the
entire thing It blocked, thus killing
the chance of a big city development,
The Mil to amend the act to pro
vide for the leasing or other dispo
sition of the Weetern A Atlantic
Railroad, rotative to improvements
that may be made by the lessee was
passed by a vote ot 126 to 0.
Th* Military War Has Ended.
The bill providing for a revision of
the Georgia military code, to conform
to the new federal regulations, pasted
by a vote of 107 to 10. In calling the
bUl on Us passage Speaker Burwell
announced that "the warring tactions
of Clay and Sumter counties have
reached a peace agreement”—refer
ring to the point raised by Repre
sentative Arnold,of Clay wtien the
first effort was made to put the bill
the house calendar, and oret
which there arose a controversy with
the adjutant general, leading to pep
tonal privilege remarks by Mr. Ar
nold as a result of a card printed by
Adjutant General Nash. In the in
terval between that Incident and the
present time the adjutant general's
office, the gentleman from Sumter,
Mr. Wheatley, and Representative
Arnold have gotten together and the
changes in the original bill demanded
by Mr. Arnold have been made.
This having been done Mr. Wheat-
ley, In asking for passage of the bllL
said "the measure does not endan
ger paralleling of the Weetern and
Atlantic Railroad, it has nothing to
do with the Savannah recall nor Is It
connected with the capltol removal
movement—it'a just a military Mil.”
Speaker Burwell asked: "Does the
ctalr not understand that the gentle
man from Sumter and the gentleman
from Clay have gotten so close to
gether on this measure that there Is
no chance to parallel?"
"The speaker It eminently cop
reet," replied Mr. Wheatley, "the
gentleman from Clay and the gentle
man from Sumter have gone to had
_ the situation In perfect pea*# *«L
tarmony"—and the bin passed.
The Mil providing that, where a
bonding company reinsures Ms bus
iness In th® rtate, It may b# p*p
mltted to go out ot business on con
stat of the comptroller general, was
passed by a vote of 99 to 0
The MU providing for a change in
the method of apportioning state con
ylcta, from a basis of population of
the several counties to a basis ot road
mileage, was passed by a vote of 103
to 15. Representative Blackburn
moved tor reconsideration and lost,
after which a motion to Immediately
transmit the blit to the senate waa
carried 127 to 13.
The Persons senate MU, to give ths
governor supervision over sheriff* of
the state, providing tor their removal
for non-performance, come up end
amendments were offered In th*
house. A strong fight was made on
tha MU and finally a motion by Mr,
Wohlwender of Muscogee to table
the MU and all amendments carried,
113 to 29.
The MU providing that th* stats
shell submit to th* people a consti
tutional amendment providing for an
Issue of $10,000,000 with which to ex
tend the Stats road to the sea—either
SL Mery’s or Savannaji, or other port
ss the W. A A. Commission may de*
cide, if It decided extension Is advis
able, provoked a strong fltfit sad was
unfinished at the mid-day adjourn
ment. Many of those members who
voted yesterday tor the HU giving
the oomndetlon power to go Into th*
question of extension are now op-
proposed legislation which
they say endanger throwing the state
Into debt $10,000,000 more.
Mr.. Smith of Dade offered a mo
tion to table the bill, but the motion
loot, and further consideration went
qver to the afternoon session.
IN THE SENATE.
In s busy session this moraine the
senate passed s substitute to th*
house compulsory education Mll, a
bill placing a tax ot ten cents upon
express companies for every package
of liquor shipped Into the state, and
a bill repealing an old act allowing
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad to
s* a part of the W. A A. Railroad
right-of-way. The senate defeated th*
two bills passed by
to rial districts. .
Atkinson county toiled to receive
the requisite oonitKut local majority
by nine votes. Ths following Is the
vote:
For the new county: Adams, Akin,
Boykin, Burnside, Dobbe, Bakes, Pa
gan, Fletcher, GtUls, Goolsby, Haral
son, Holden, Lawrence, Smith, Sto
vall, . Thomas, Tlson, Trammell,
Ward, and walker.
Against the new county: Sooner,
Buchanan, Harrison, Mlnter, Moon,
iMcCrory, McFarland, McLaughlin,
Pauta of the Sixth, Pmilk of th* Fif
teenth, Peacock, Tracy, and Wren.
In speaking agalnat the paaeage of
the MU providing for the creating of
five new senatorial districts, four of
which were given to South Georgia,
Senator Bonner said that Just as aura
as the senate began pasting any such
Mils ts that that the capltol would
be moved to Macon. The following
It the vote on the MU:
For the new districts: Akin, Boy
kin, Buchanan, Fagan, OUUs, Haral
son, Holden, Paulk of the Sixth,
Paulk of the Fifteenth, Pickett of the
Eleventh, Pickett ot the Forty-flnt,
Stovall, Thomas, Tracy, Trammell,
Ward, Walker, Way. and Wren.
Against the new districts: Adams,
Bonner, Burnside, Fletcher, Goolsby,
Harrison, Mlnter, Moon, McFarland.
McLangbHn, and Smith.
At passed by the senate the whis
key tax bill places a tax of ten cents
upon every package of Uquor shipped
Into the state, three cents of which
to go to the express agent and
seven cents to the ordinary of the
county in which the Uquor was re
ceived. All taxes amounting to more
than $600 received in this way goes
to the state treasury.
The compulsory educatltffl blU, at
passed by substitute, requires chil
dren between the ages of 8 and 14
attend school at least 4 months each
year until the work of the fourth grade
haa been completed. While the bill
a makeshift in some respects, nev
ertheless it Is a step toward* a more
stringent MIL
BUI Passed By Senate.
The following bills were passed by
the senate Wedneeday:
To create a new charter for Rock-
ledge.
To create the city conk of Macon.
To repeal an act allowing the Cin
cinnati Southern Railway to nte part
right-of-way ot W. A A. Railroad.
To tax alt whiskey shipments into
the state at 10 cents par package.
To require children to attend school
unto they have passed up 4th grade
FRIDAY
NINO, AUGUST 18, 1916.
11.00 PER YEAR
IND FRENCH STRIKE
FIERCE BLOWS THREE
PARIS REPORTS MANY PH
SONEBS TAKEN IN BIG
DRIVE TO SOUTH
—|—
(By Associated Proa*.)
♦ Amsterdam,
4- 16.—Two
4: the British
+ were observi
4- Holland,
4< dispatch from
4- TelegraaL”
4- 4' 4-4-4-
London,
and British
i in three
Somme front,
nearly throe
driving forward at points to a
depth of 100 to 500 yards.
Msaropsa ’and C'lery have been
flanked on both tides by the British
end French, acco&Ung to Berta.
His rood between Maurepas and
GnlUemont has been reached. Outl-^
BRIBERY nuiuiB,
GIRARD OFFICIALS
Baris reports a considerable num
ber of prisoners taken in the drive
s southerly direction from BeUoy-Bta-
Glanlerre.
News dispatches from Milan
nonnee that German troops will be
employed in defense ot Trieste,
against the Italian advance.
If reports era true It means that
Kttly and Germany at last will enter
an active state of war.
Berlin announces fighting at Do
rian on ths Balkan front .
Hie Allies srs silent atxrat this
theater.
FRENCH VICTORIES ON
OLD 8ALONIKI FRONT.
Paris, August II.—Allied fores* on
ths Sslonlkl front have captured tha
railroad station at Dolton and tour
villages at other points on that front,
according to an offlelal statamsnt is
sued by the French war office to
night. The statement tells of
tlnuous fighting from August .first to
the present time.
CLARKE TO REMAIN IN HER OLD
SENATORIAL DISTRICT FOR WHILE
(Special to the Banner.)
Atlanta, Ga.. August 16.—Ths open
declaration Is made that today’s so-
tton on the pert ot th# senate In kill
ing the bill providing tor the creation
of five new senatorial districts, after
It had been clearly Understood the
MU would pest, is a straight chal
lenge to the people of the lower pert
of the state, and that those people
are now ready to take up the battle
and fight It to a finish.
The bill for tbe creation of the
proposed new districts, which would
equalise the state representation gen
erally, leaving only four districts In
the state with four counties each, two
In north end two In south Georgia,
was passed by tbe bouse and sent
to tbe senate where It was under
stood It would go through
without question.
When it cam* to a rot# today, how
ever, 30 senators voted for it and 11
against It. (Eleven senator* were ab
sent or did not vote.
Tbe MU proposed the creation of
new districts by tha following
changes:
Forty-fifth district—Pierce, Wayne
and Bacon.
Forty-sixth—Irwin, Ben Hill and
Telfair.
Forty-seventh—Crisp, Turner end
Tift.
Forty-eighth—Ctarits, Oconee end
Barrow.
Forty-ninth—iBupllocb, Candler and
Evans.
The bill will be renewed In the
next session of tbe legislature.
Young Virginia Corporal Shot
And Killed When He Went To
Rescue OF This Mexican Gin
Brownsville, Texas, August if.—
Corporal James ClenAnt, C. Company,
8eoond Virginia regiment, was shot
and killed here tonight and Sofia Val
des, a Mexican gtri, probably fatally
shot by another corporal named
Dunohes.
Relatives of the Valdes girl say
the was threatened wWh violence
whan the repulsed the advances ot
Dunches end called tor help. When
Corporal Clement appeared, It is
charged Dunches fired, killing Clem
ent, end wounding the girl.
University Y. M. C. A. Secretary
In The Service On The Mexic Border
Student Secretary R. M. Guess of
tbe University of Georgia Young
Men's Christian Association, after a
stay In the conference camp* In North
Carolina, and then a Util* vltK to the
home folks In "Old Mist.” It now on
the border—in th* ssMctarional work
among the soldlem. In s latter to a
friend her* he says of the work,
among other tatereatlng things:
"Soon after reaching home In Mis*
tlsslppi, I wua called to coma to th*
border tor Y. M. C. A work among
our troops.
"The V.' M. C. A. I* doing a gnat
work down here on the bt-rder. T.
M. c. A. buildings wooden frame
buildings 40 by 10 feet have M
built In ell ths camps—one building
tor each 4.000 or 6,000 men with four
Y. M. C. A. secretaries to each one.
In these buildings stationery, maga
zines, books, dally papers,' religious
and other periodicals, graft solas,
MEDICAL HEN OF IDE
DISTRICT HE! ON
Girard, Aim, August 16.—John
Oakes, city marshal, was convicted
in the circuit court at Seal*, Ala*
today of accepting a bribe tor pro.
Ion of Illegal Uquor sellers la
Girard.
Oakes on th* witness stand swore
the city councU voted to levy $26
monthly tag on liquor dealers sod he
aa ordered to coUsct this.
Oakse wsa corroborated by Alder
man Botnar Holliday,
After Oakes’ conviction Mayor Bari
Morgan and City Clerk L A. Weaver
ware arrested on bribery charges.
They gsv* bond.
Atlanta,-Ga., August 16.—Tha can
didates who had paid their registra
tion fees by Tuesday at noon and are
qualified to enter the various races
for stats house offices are:
List Of Qualified.
For governor, N. B. Harris, Joseph
B. Pottle, Hugh M. Dorsey end L. G.
Hardman.
For prison commissioner, W.
Flanders, Wrlghtavin*: A. H. Hentlee,
R. B. Davison and H. C. Tuggle.
For railroad commissioner, J. H.
Peeples, Canon; S. G. McLendon, Jas,
A. Perry and Charles Murphey Can
dler.
For Commissioner of agriculture, J.
:o and J. J. Brown,
state treasurer, W. J. Eakes
and W. J. Speer.
For state superintendent of schools,
Alex. B. Keese and M. L. Brittain.
For comptroller general of Georgia,
William A. Wright and a P. Dobbs.
For attorney general, Clifford Wal
ker.
For chief Justice of ths
court of Georgia, WlUlam H. Fish.
For associate Jostles of the supreme
court, Marcos W. Bock.
For commlstiontr ot pensions, J,
W. Lindsey.
For commissioner of commerce and
labor. H. K. Stanley.
For Secretary of State, Philip Cook.
For lodge of circuit court of ap
peals (two to be elected), Robert
Hodge* and Peyton L. Wade.
The annual convention of the
Eighth District Medical Association
was held in this city yesterday—well
attended and full of Interest In all its
features to the profession*! men ot
the section.
Forty or forty-five out-of-town phy
sicians were present—from Atlanta,
Dawson, ftoyston, Slloam, Elberton,
Bogart, comer, Colbert, WatUnsvlUe,
Martin, Monroe, Lexington, Ashland,
High Shoals, Jersey, Good Hope,
Ihimtagton, and other points In the
district—with fifteen or twenty from
Athens, members of the Clark* Coun
ty Medical Society, tbs hosteoclety.
Several of the doctors were accom
panied by their wives and daughters
and tha meeting was on* of social
pleasure as wall aa professional co
operation.
Program Carried Out
Hi* program fit published la the
Banner yesterday morning was car
ried out In ful|—and additional im
promptu remarks ware made by a
number, with discussions of many
questions of Interest were participat
ed In by many preeent.
President Stewart Brown presided
over the maetlqgs.
The Invocation was said by Rev.
Troy Beatty, of Emmanuel church.
In a brief aqd appropriate address
Mayor R. O. Arnold welcomed the
doctors to ths city.
Dr. L O. Goes welcomed the asso
ciation on behalf of the Clarks Coun
ty Medical Society.
Tht response to theee welcome ad-
-esses was made most gracefully by
Dr. J. R. Robins of Slloam.
Interesting Papers.
The address of the session was
mad* by Dr. Dean of Dawson, Ga.. ths
president of ths Georgia Slat# Med
ical Association.
Dr. Louis H. Gains* of Atlanta de
livered a specially interesting Im
promptu talk on “Nervous Condi-
Other paper® read wen:
A simple method of packing tha
Me in aever* Bplstaxis, Dr. J. C.
BJhoomfleld. At&ens.
The Dotage and Method of Admin
istration of Diphtheria Antitoxin, Dr.
W. E. McCurry, Hartwell.
Insufficiency of the Extra Ocular
Muscles as a Factor in th* Producing
of Headaches, Dr. W. H. Cabonlsa,
LISTS TO BE RE-OPENED.
Atlanta. G*., August 16 —Announce
ment Is mtde today by Mr. SL Elmo
Mastengels, secretary ot th* stats ex
ecutive committee that, on account of
ths Mil providing for three additional
judges of the-couit of appeals having
been passed too 1st* for entries to be
mod* and candidates to qualify be
fore the 15tb. the entry list for that
office only will be reopened next Sat
urday for one week from that data.
Judge Reagon, stats chairmen, was
hers today conferring with Mr. Mas-
sengale, and that conclusion was
reached, after the understanding that
the Mil will be prepared and sent to
Governor Harris In time for his signa
ture Saturday.
There ere already eight candidates
In tbe race for tho three places, those
principally mentioned being Henry J-
Fnllbright, M. J. Yeomans, John B.
Hutcheson, Judge Cotart, ot Colum
bus. end Mr. Alex. Stephens, of At-
lsnts.
moving pictures, singing, social af
faire, religious service* and Bible
classes are tor the soldier*.
lAiffleUc contests are being ar
ranged for between different com
panies. Speakers on sex hygiene and
vearious either topics go on bouts
to different buUdfngS- These build
ings are packed almost an tha time
and men and officers can not show
enough appreciation for the work th*
M- C. A. It doing.
"There are over ninety secretaries
down on tbe border and are hare
shoot thirty buildings Including tome
tho email building* where there
only two secretarial. The Y. M.
C. A. la to rota* some $200,0 K> or more
carry on this work.
"1 hope to gat hack to Georgia by
September 16th, in time tor the open-
tag.”
Surgical Dtagnotta, Dr. J. P Proc
tor. Athens.
Tbe Deed-Boat, Dr. J. R. Robins,
Slloam.
Tonsil*, Dr. B. M. Coleman, Athens.
New Officers Named.
The election of officers resulted in
tbe choice of Dr. i. 8. Smith of Ath
ens ss president; and Dr. John Gor
dins of Jersey, as vice president. Dr.
E. M. Coleman ot Athens, holds ever
for two years yet as secretary-treas
urer—baring been elected lost year
tor a term of three yean.
Monro* was named aa the meet!**
place for the third Wednesday In An
gus!, 1917. A resolution waa adopted
declining to noma a permanent mesh
tag place—and agreeing to hold the
meetings about in the different town*
of the Eighth.
After the session* th* entire ss
•oc lotion body present enjoyed a de
lightful luncheon at the Georgian—,
as guests of tha Clark* County So
ciety.
DECREASE IN DEATHS
AIIB CASES PARALYSIS
(By Associated Frees.)
New York. August 16—Another de
crease occurred In the deaths and new
cases of Infantile paralysis today,
thirty-four deaths and 113 nsw case*
being reported, making th* total
fatalities daring the epidemic 1,497
and 6,616 cases total.
One thing shout this war. Th*
aama* of the places have so many un
usual consonants in them that there
are many unworn typefaces that win
have n chance to become worn down
to the average wear of the other ones
of ths touts.