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ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS
Georgia Lawmakers Close Their
Labors and (io Home.
brief of work done
Extra Narrowly Averted
*;st ihe't v t Moment--Some
Bills That Failed.
The Georgia general assembly was
adjourned sine <lio Sunday morning
at 5 o'clock. The bouse, which had
hold out strenuously for Boction 16 of
lln- tux not, finally, at 4:45, gave in to
the, fhiu ('-ure and stand of the
h ■ •;> , ■ -id remained throughout
: . ?a r*i Hiust the stamping of
p< ;. f ue convening of an extra
re: ion w.ik narrowly averted by the
cooler hvnuß m tho house and'the
firmness ol the speaker’s rulings. The
calm of the senate remained undisturb
ed throughout the night.
Section 10 of the general tax act was
the bone of contention. The section
as amended to suit the house called
for the return of all notes, accounts,
judgments and choses in action for
taxation; tho notes to he stamped by
the tax receiver and this stamp to con
stitute evidence of their validity. It
was this clause that threatened the
call of an extra session of the general
assembly. This extra session would
have cost the state, according to re
liable statements, between .$15,000 and
$20,000. The senate and the minority
in the house opposed the acceptance
of the proposed tax and declared that
the revenue raised from this source
would not pay the co.-t of the extra
session.
The session just closed is a remark
able one in the small number of meas
ures of a general application which it
places on the statute books. Tho
labor of the session is distinctly of a
negative character, although among
the bills that did pass both houses
are some for which, like the Soldiers’
Home bill, a hard light has been made
iu years past.
The feature of the session to which
public attention was widely attracted
was the consideration of the depot bill
in the house of representatives. The
successful effort to defeat the construc
tion of the new uuiou station on the
property of the state iu Atlanta was
led by a few men who doubted the
constitutionality of the proposed bill,
in that it made use of the public prop
erty fund of $432,000. The opposi
tion to the depot was based on the
claim tkat this fund could not be used
except to pay tho principal on the
bonded debt of tho state, aud further
that the depot should be built by tho
lessee of the road and not, by the state.
On the last duy of the session tho
senate and hou.se took a step which
may result finally in depot legislation.
This final and unanimous recognition
of the necessity for u now depot on
the property of the state came in the
form of a resolution by Min Gross, of
Wilcox, appointing a joint committee
of five from the house and three from
the senate to confer with the lessees of
tho Western aud Atlantic relative to a
depot being built by the lessee road.
Probably the most important work
of the session was the liberality shown
in the appropriation bill to the insti
tutions of learning under the protec
tion of the state. Iu order to meet
these increased appropriations the sen
ate, at the eleventh hour, added an
additional mill to the tax rate for 1901
and 1902 and the house, which had
agreed to a rate of live and one tenth
mills, accepted the senate amendment
and allowed the rate to be fixed at 5.2.
Of this 2.1 is to beraisied for the sup
port of the common schools aud the
remaining 3.1- is to be raised for gen
eral purposes, under which head come
the institutions of higher learning.
The university of Georgia at Athens
lias been given $15,000 for two years
in addition to the regular annual ap
propriation of SB,OOO. This addition
al amount is to be used for maiutaiu
ance and for repairs aud buildings for
the campus.
After a hard fight the total appro
priation for the Technological school
was raised to $56,000, of which 81G,-
000 is to be available only when the
friends of the school have raised from
outside sources the sum of $25,000 ei-
BRYAN TO RE EDITOR.
Nebraskan Will Publish a Weekly News
paper In Lincoln.
W. J. Bryan gave out the statement
Saturday that he will establish a week
ly newspaper at Lincoln in order to
keep in touch with social, economic
and political problems.
The paper will be called the Com
moner, and will defend the principles
set forth in the Kausas City platform,
Greensboro Sells Ronds.
The aldermen of Greensboro, N. C.,
have disposed of 3135,000 of municipal
improvements thirty year live per cent
gold bonds to Seasongood and Meyer,
•of Cincinnati, 112.17.
ther in money or machinery. Tin
Technological school is to have an elec
tr eat building and < mplete equip
ment for its textile department.
The Fum of $22,500 for each of the
two years ha: 1, ■> given to the State
Normal School it Athens and $7,000
to tho North Georgia Agricultural
College at Dahlonega. Ample provis
ion is made in the appropriation bill
fur the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College at Millodgevillo and fur the
colored school at Savannah.
The fight for $1,000,0)0 for the com
mon .schools of the state failed on tho
last day because the appropriation
would, it was urged, bring the state
face to face with a serious deficit. The
appropriation for the schools was left
just where the house had fixed it—
sßoo,ooo.
With the appropriation for the com
mon schools, where it was last year and
the year before, and with the tax rafe
fixed at 5.2 instead of 5.1 there will be
no depreciable deficit in the treasury
as a result, of the increased appropria
tions, and the usual loan the governor
is authorized to make will, it is be
lieved, more than place the stifle on a
firm financial basis.
The passage of the ‘soldi .tf’s Home
bill came to a great many as an agree
able surprise on account o? the failure
of former legislatures to provide for
the veterans who are unable to take
care of themselves. Thp success of
the lpfeasu-o is due largely to the.ef-J
forts of Major Gary, of Richmond, fend
Senator W. T. Smith, of the thirty
fourth.
After tho signature of the governor
has been given to tbe Soldiers’ Homo
bill, tho next step before the prepara- |
tiou of the Homo is begun will he the
appointment of the board of trustees
to govern the instillation. There are
quite a number of applicants for
for the trusteeships already before
Governor Candler, and tb appoint
ments will be made soon in order that
there may be no delay in the opera
tion of the homo. The support of the
institution for tho term of twenty
years will call for practically $5,000 a
yeur. * *
SOME HILLS THAT FAILED.
Foremost among the bills that failed
of a constitutional majority ranks the
depot bill, and after that comes the
child labor bill, in which perhaps
greater interest was taken by the pub
lic at largo than in tho last general as
sembly.
Senator Hiram P. Bell, of tho thirty
ninth, made a hard but uphill fight for
his measure to divide the taxes of the
state, giving to negro education just as
much as is raised by the taxation of
property held by the colored race.
For the second time the osteopathy
bill met defeat; this time iu the senate.
In the house the bill by Represen
tative Wright, of Floyd, to provide
dispensaries for cities of 5,000 and
over failed of the necessary majority,
demonstrating that in the house a full
majority of members are opposed to
state prohibition.
REVENUE REDUCTION RILL
Passed tn House of lteprenen tat Ives By
Vote of 131 to 155.
A Washington special says : The
house Saturday passed the war reve
nue reduction bill. The opposition
sought to recommit the bill with in
structions to report back a measure
reducing the revenue at least $70,000,-
000; ami including a provision for au
income tax so drawn as to escape an
adverse decision of the supreme court.
The motion failed 131 to 155. There
upon the bill was } assed without the
concurrence of the Democratic minor
ity who refrained from voting.
The amendment placed in the bill
Friday to tax express receipts was de
feated on an aye and nay vote in the
house —125 to 139. The peusion ap
propriation bill, carrying $145,145,130,
was passed in exactly fifteen minutes.
Robert W. Wilcox, the delegate
from Hawaii, was sworn in immediate
ly after the approval of ihe journal.
After the oath had been administered
many members came forward to con
gratulate Mr. Wilcox. The considera
tion of the war revenue reduction bill
was then resumed and passed as above
stated.
Queen Had Little to Say.
A Loudon special says: “Parliament
was dismissed Saturday until the mid
dle of February with the reading of
the shortest of the queen’s speeches.
It was as follows: “My Lords and
Gentlemeu: I thank you for the liberal
provision you have made for the ex
penses incurred by the operations of
my armies in South Africa and China. ”
SCHOOL GIRLS CREMATED.
Normal mnl Training School at Dunkirk,
New York, Burned Down.
From the smolderiug ruins of the
Fredonia Station Normal and Training
school, at Dunkirk, N. Y., which was
; destroyed by lire Friday morning six
charred bodies have been removed.
There were seventy-five young
: women students in the building, of
whom seven perished. The other
victim was the aged janitor. The
property loss is $200,000.
Workmen while removing debris
found five bodies at the foot of a fire
escape. They were piled across each
] other and burned beyond recognition.
AIRING BGOZ CASE
Board of Inquiry Begins faves
tiption of Cadet’s Death.
PARENTS GIVE IN TESTIMONY
Unfortunate'Boy’s Letters Are
Presented As Evidence—Board
Goes to West Point.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: The*
taking of teffflmony in the case yf
Osc/.r L. Booz, the West Point cadet
who died some tivo weeks ago from
injuries which bis parents alleged
were inflicted at the West Point Mili
tary Academy, was begun Monday by
the board of inquiry appointed by the
secretary of war. Two sessions were
held at Bristol, the home of the Booz
family, and another in Philadelphia
in the late afternoon. /The members
of tho board are Generals Brooke,
Clbus and Bates, accompanied by
Captain Bean, of the Fifth artillery,
who acted as recorder.
The court sat in the study of the
church which adjoins the Booz home
stead. The witnesses were William
H. Booz, father; Mrs. Sarah Booz,
mother; Nellie Booz, sister of the
young man; Rev. Dr. Alison, Dr.
Weaver, a Bristol physician who at
tended Oscar Booz, and several others.
The board left for New York Monday
night aud from thence to West Point
to continue the investigation.
Mr. Booz, the father, testified that
his son had written home on several
occasions that he had been hazed. He
entered the academy in June, 1898,
and in August he wrote home that he
had been in a fight aud had received a
pair of- black eves, and that he had
been knocked out by a blow over the
heart. Mr. Booz said he went to West
Point to see his son and told him he
must stand it. Oscar told his father he
expected to be hazed, but he did not
want to be treated brutally. The
father said Oscar did not want his
mother to know how he was treated.
Mr. Booz then told how CKcar had
informed him that tabasco sauce had
been forced down his throat. Oscar
said thp cadets would pull the blankets
from him and pour hot wax from a
candle on his body. Mr. Booz thought
the officers at the academy could stop
the brutality, but he would not say
they condoned it. He could not un
derstand why they treated his son in
such a brutal manner. Oscar spent
an of last year at home in an endeavor
to build up his health. He never
would reveal the identity of his perse
cutors.
Mrs. Booz testified that her pon had
written her that West Point was uufit
for a young man who wanted to do
right and that parents should not send
their sons there.
Nellie Booz, a sister of the deceased
yonug man, testified that in a letter
received by the family ou* August 7th
Oscar told of the tight he had with an
other cadet and that he fought until
he was winded. The cadets called him
a coward and a disgrace to the corps.
If he did not go into the fight, he said,
the “fellows would make life unbear
able for him.” He asked his father
for permission to resign. Oscar de
scribed many little indignities which
were practiced on him. If he had not
swallowed the tabasco sauce he would
have strangled. They were holding
him down aud he could do nothing
else.
Dr. J. Solis Cohen, a throat special
ist, testified that Oscar had tuberculo
sis of the larynx and that when he
came to Philadelphia for treatment his
case was hopeless. He thought if
tabasco sauce had been forced down
Booz’s throat it may have made him
more susceptible to tuberculosis.
Sigmund S. Albert, a classmate of
Oscar Booz, said that Booz was not
hazed more than any other cadet. He
was one of Booz’s tent mates while in
camp. He and Booz and other fourth
year, men, he said, were made to do
“ridiculous stunts,” such as making
the upper classmen’s beds and “other
nmnanlv and disgraceful” things.
What he meant by the latter, he said,
was none of the public’s business.
One night some fourth year men were
forced to opeu their mouths and shut
their eyes, when some odo squirted
into then- mouths what he believed to
be tobasco sauce.
MAYOR WANTED TO QUIT.
Atlanta’s Chief Executive Sent In Resig
nation to Council.
The resignation of Mayor James G.
Woodward, of Atlanta, was presented
to the city council Monday afternoon
aud was laid upon the table until Fri
day afternoon at 3 o’clock.
This was done after a lengthy dis
cussion by members of council as to
the best disposition to make of the
resignation. Some members were in
favor of accepting it, others wanted to
refuse to accept it, while others favored
deferring action until auother day. It
was the latter class that won when the
vote was takeu.
ATLANTA TEXTILt EXPOSITION.
Citizens Meet and Inaugurate
Plans For a Big Shoyv Dur
ing the Year 1902.
Tho city of Atlanta, Ga., the citi
zens, business houses aud railroads
entering the city will Re asked to
contribute SIOO,OOO toward a prelimi
nary fund fur the purpose of tho In
ternational Textile exposition.
This definite decision was reached
at an enthusiastic meeting of the gen
eral textile exposition committee and
the board of directors of the Interstate
Fair Association, held Mead ay after
noon in the rooms of tho Business
Men’s League. ,
That a big exposition should be held
in-1902 was positively decided, aud
plans were formulated and set in mo
tion looking to the acquisition of im
mediate coutrol and ownership of the
buildings now at Piedmont- park. In
cidently a resolution was adopted re
commending that a fair be held as
usual next fall. If the present plans
of the exposition committee are car
ried out an interstate fair is guaranteed
every year for the next ten years.
A central executive committee was
appointed with plenary power to form
ulate the scope aud a detailed plan of
organization, and engineering the gen
eral movement for a great textile ex
hibition in ]902. The adoption of the
above resolution was the most import
ant and definite Btep accomplished at
the meeting. They were offered by
Colonel W? A. Hemphill.
DENTIST IS EXONERATED.
Whs Charged Willi Trying to Kiss a
Young; Ludy Customer.
An Atlanta dispatch says: The pro
ceedings against Dr. John S. Thomp
son, who was arrested on a charge of
assault ou Miss Ida Hollingsworth,
were stopped in court, the warrant
withdrawn and the dentist exonorated.
The story of the arrest together
with the charges of improper couduct
toward Miss Hollingsworth, who had
gone to his office to have some dental
work done, caused a sensation owing
to the high standing of the dentist. #
The attorneys on both sides and the
parties interested reached a mutual
agreement and there will be no further
proceedings.
*
PRESIDENT COMING SOUTH.
Ho Will Pas Through This Section on
His Way to San Francisco.
President McKinley will pass
through the south some time next
May. The date is not yet fixed, but
it will probably be about the middle
of the mouth, lie will then be on his
way to Shu Francisco, his route being
over the Southern railway, the Atlanta
and West Point and the Louisville
and Nashville to New Orleans, and
from there to Sau Francisco by the
Southern Pacific.
The Pacific coast people have for a
long time been endeavoring to get the
president to go out there and witness
the launching of thebattleship Ohio at
the Union Iron works, aud this fur
nishes a special reason for his visit at
that time.
DR. BROUGHTON EXPLAINS.
His Charges Against Atlanta Policemen
W ere Misconstrued.
Dr.L.G. Broughton appeared before
the Atlanta, Ga., police board Monday
night for the purpose of explaining
his remarks in a recent sermon about
the mayor aud policemen drinking and
gambling at the races.
The doctor tuck the position that he
spoke of the mayor aud the police
conjunctively, and that the word
“driuking” referred to tbe mayor, and
the word “gambling” referred to the
police. He 6tated he had proved that
the police were bettiugou horse races,
and that that was gambling. The
outcome of the meeting was satisfac
tory to all concerned, aud the matter
was promptly dropped.
HUSSAINS FEEDING CHINESE.
Over *700,000 Worth of Rico Is Purchas
ed For Destitute “Pig-Tails.”
Advices from Pekin state that the
Russiaus have purchased $700,000
worth of rice, which is being given to
destitute Chinese. General Chaffee,
the American, is also having a large
amount of rice issued and the other
nations are displaying liberality.
M. De Giers, the Russian envoy,
says that Russia is making no excep
tion in favor of Christians, because the
latter have the least needs.
INTEREST MANIFESTED
In Brunswick Maritime Congress—Cities
Naming Delegates.
Official notification has been received
in Brunswick, Ga., of delegates to the
national maritime congress, having
been appointed from Denver, New
York, Louisville,“New Orleans, Phila
delphia and other places. Interest is
growing in the cougress, which con
venes January 30th next.
The Brunswick board of trade has
issued u statement regarding the con
gress, -which states that free and uu
trammeled discussion will be accorded
to all who attend, and the large num
ber of delegates booked already indi
cates a big success.
TRAINING SHIP SINKS
fcsre Ilian 3 Hundred Oennsa
Cadets Go Down With Her.
CAUGHT IN STORM OFF MALAGA.
Unable to Stand Heavy Seas Ves
sel Breaks Up and Officers
and Students- Are Lost.
Advices from Madrid, Spain, an
nounce that the German training fri
gate Gneiseneau lias fonudered of
Malaga, sixty five miles fast-northeast
of Gibraltar. According to the naval
pocket bcok, the Gneiseneau, which
was built at Dantzic in 1879, was an
iron vessel sheathed with wood, and
had a displacement of 2,BsG'tons. She
sms 242 feet nine inches in length and
forty-five feet eleven inches in the
beam. Her armament consisted of
fourteen 5.9 inch Krupp breech load
ers, two three-quarter inch quick
firers, one boat or field gnu, aud seven
torpedo beats. Her complement was
461 and she was used for training boys.
The Gneisenau foundered at the en
trance to the port of Malaga, where
she was about to take refuge from the
terrible storm prevailing. After the
vessel went down only the masts were
visible and a large number of cadets
could be seem from the shore clinging
to the rigging. They were shouting
aud signalling for help. The captain
and many of the cadets wore drowned.
It is believed that forty who left iu
one of the ship’s boat3 and have not
been seen siuce are also lost.
The total loss is thought to be no
less than one hundred. Some reports
say 140. Forty of thoso saved are
badly hurt. The training ship had
been at Malaga since November Ist
practicing with guns of large caliber.
She ha l been previously at Megador,
Morocco.
KITCHENER REPORTS LOSSES.
New British Commander In South
Africa Tells Straight Story
Of Defeat.
A’London special says: Lord Kitch
ener reports that eighteen officers and
555 meu are missing from General
Clements force. They consist of four
companies of the Northumberland fusi
leers. Judging from the message
these were captured by the Boers.
Clements’ casualties December 13th
amounted to five officers and nine men
killed aud apparently many wounded.
Lord Kitchener’s message to tho war
department is as follows:
“Pretoria, December 14. — Clements
brought in his force to Commando Nek
unopposed. The casualties were, I re
gret to say, heavy—killed five officers
aud nine of other ranks; missing,
eighteen officers and 555 of other
ranks. These latter were four com
panies of the Northumberland fusiliers,
who were stationed on the hill, and
some yeomanry and other details sent
up to support them. Names aud na
ture of wounds are being telegraphed
from Capetown.”
Under date of December 15th, Lord
Kitchener reports to tho war office
from Pretoria as follows:
“Clements has come to see me. Ho
says the four companies of the North
umberlands held out on the hill as
long as their ammunition lasted. The
Boer force attacking the hill was 2,000
strong, while another force of 1,000
attacked Clements’ camp. By 6:30 a.
m. the hill was carried. Reinforce
ments of one company of the York
shires failed to roach the top. Clem
ents’retirement was carried out with
regularity, but as many native drivers
bolted a considerable amount of trans
portation was lost. All their ammuni
tion not taken away was destroyed.
He reports that all behaved well.
Will Compete With Sugar Trust.
It is stated authoritatively that the
formation in Philadelphia of anew in
dependent sugar refining company is
contemplated aud that among those
interested are citizens who have been
identified prominently with the sugar
making industry.
LITTLE WORK IN HOUSE.
BuiiliPM Relating; to District or Colum
bia Coninmei a Pay’# Session.
A Washington dispatch says: The
houso devoted the day Tuesday to
District of Columbia business. The
whole time was occupied iu the con
sideration of a bill to change the ter
minal facilities of the Pennsylvania
railroad in the city, aud to provide
for the elevation of its tracks across
the Mall south of Pennsylvania ave
nue. The opposition was persistent,
but after much filibustering the friends
of the bill succeeding in securing a
recess until Wednesday to coutiue con
sideration of the bill.