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FALSE DIVISOR mED BY ROADS In Wrighnj: Mail Carried by Them for Uncle Sam. GREAT SIM LOPPED OFF 3* 'Congress is Ordered to Make Change in Tactics Used and Railways Wiil Loose Sam of $12,000,000. A Washington special says: It is ■estimated that $12,D00,C00 will be cut 4rom the annual mail pay of the rail roads by the action of the postoftice committee Saturday. Seven millions of this is saved by the reduced rates of mail on account of the new method of computation which reckons Sun day as a working day. Formerly the mail wan weighed only six days m the week, and computation made ou this basis. Representative Victor Mur dock, of Kansas, started the agitation against this system last December, de claring it has cost the government $50,000,000 in ten years. Representative Murdock said that the department was using a false “di visor” in that it weighed mail for seven days and divided the amount by six to ascertain the amount on which to base the compensation of roads. The provision agreed upon re quires that weighing shall be done for seven days and the amount divided by seven. Railroads which have a contract with the government for carrying the mails will be required to make th* schedule time of their mail trains reg ularly, or pay a heavy penalty pro vided the bill decided upon today in vided the bill decided upon is enacted into law. The postoffice department now Im poses a small penalty for delays In the time of their mail by railroads, but the congressional committee pro poses to give them wider authority in order to force compliance with con tracts in keeping advertised sched ules It was also decided to reduce tho present mail pay 5 per cent where the average each day per mile is from 6,000 to 48,000 pounds. Where the average is under 5,000 pounds no re duction is contemplated. The bill will cany a total of $209,- 180,561. This is the largest amount over carried for the expenditures of the postal service. The total recom mended in the bill is more than $3,- 000,000 in excess of the amount estP mated for the department and is an increase of $17,509,562 over the cur rent appropriation. The salaries of postal clerks and of both city and rural carriers are in creased to a total of $7,000,000. A pro vision is inserted in the bill for the classification of postal clerks, and the positions of clerks and carriers are made interchangeable. There are various provisions in the bill intended to reduce the pay of railroads for carrying the mails. The bill cuts off all pay to roads for haul ing empty mail sacks, which is esti mated will save between $3,009,000 and $4,000,900 a year. Postmaster General Cortelyou Satur day reported to congress the record from July 7 to December 31, 1906, of all second class mail matter receiv ed for free distribution at the one cent-pound rate, in compliance with a provision in the current appropria tion act. It was found that morn than 90 per cent of all second class matter originated in 429 cities. The total weight of this ciass of mail for the period was 370,008,915 pounds. The weight of the daily newspapers was 141,123,856 pounds, all of which was carried an average of 255 miles; weekly and other than daily pers carried weighed 77,736,648, haul ed 440 miles. Iwfitv in Circulation■ Chief Wilkie, of the secret service, has announced the appearance of a new counterfeit S2O national -mnk note, on the Marietta National Bank, Marietta, Indian Territory. D/lOJtt FOKtSIAILtD I>Y DEAIH. Mew Orleans M.Hionaire Dies Suddenly in Yankton, South Dakota. George 11. Meyers, a multi-million aire of-New Orleans, died in Yankton, South Dakota, Friday. On his person was found Standard Oil stocks valued at $1,000,900. Meyers arrived in Yankton nearly six months ago with the Ucrfition of securing a divorce from his wife. H sun lacked one week before he would have become a citizen of the state when his divorce petition would have been filed. ALABAMA SENATE SHIES At Resolution Passed in House Endors ing President Roosevelt in Oust ing Negro Soldiers. A special from Montgomery, Ala., says: The Rattray resolution commen ding President Roosevelt for disenurg ing the negro soldiers tor the Browns ville incident, after being handballed from the house to the senate for over a week, was pocketed Thursday by the senate, when it was referred the third time to the committee on rules, with the understanding that it will stay there. Before its reference, Senator Moo dy, a banker of Tuscaloosa, 14 years a member of the senate, made a sharp reply, criticizing the president for his alleged overthrow of the con stitution on many occasions. He assail ed the president sharply for his “un constitutional aid to the Panama gov ernment,” intimating that Washington supported a revolution, and declared there was grave doubt, if the president had authority to discharge soldiers from the army. “We go too far in endorsing the acts of such an official,” said Senator Moody. “Besides the passing of reso lutions is beyond the scope of the senate’s authority.” Representative Rattray of Cherokee, author of the resolution, was a colonel of the fifty-seventh Illinois regiment, in the war between the states. He is a lifelong democrat, and a cit'zen of Alabama forty years. PAKAOtO IN KOIL Ot “Pikth” Is Allegation Against Wimpy Who is Charg • o With -Srautj"!iq Woman. Characterizing W. E. Wimpy, a real estate nian of Atlanta, Georgia as a “piker,” or a man other wise known as one with smail means who gives the impression that he is operating on large capital, Mrs. Lucy J. Wade of New York city Thursday brought action against him in the Ful ton superior court to recover SBO,OOO worth of Atlanta real estate. Wimpy is the man who persisted in ranting a house in a white neigh borhood of Atlanta recently to negroes, and for this reason came into consid erable notoriety. Mrs. Wade alleges in effect that ■he was prevailed on by Wimpy, who “poisoned her mind” against R. J. Grif fin, her former agent, to give him SBO,OOO of property without so much “as a scratch of the pen” to show his obligation, not even his note. She declares that he has ever failed to give bond in the sum of SIO,OOO to insure certain improvements on the property he agreed to make. Not only does the bill allege that "Wimpy is a “piker,” but it declared he went to New York with the ex press purpose of getting hold of the Atlanta property from its owner by fraud. The property in question is a trian gular block on Peachtree street oppo site the Candler building and just north of the Piedmont hotel. It is claimed that although this property is worth SIOO,OOO at the present time, Wimpy secured it from Mrs. Wade by agreeing to pay SBO,OOO for it at tbs end of thirty years, and in the mean time pay her interest quarterly at the rate of 4 per cent. Mrs. Wade says in her suit that she had not been in Atlanta in sixteen years and was not acquainted with the value of real estate. Neither was she acquainted with business methods or law. In fact the petition alleges she knew nothing about such matters. RtCE.VtK NAVSf.D tOO NtW sI’aPI R. Creditors of Atlanta News Pnb’ishing Com pany 1 l-vm that ( onr„r;? in so *e t. Late Thursday afternoon four cred itors of The Atlanta News Publishing company filed a petition asking that it be adjudged a bankrupt, and as a result of said petition Referee in Bankruptcy Percy Adams appointed John K. Ottley receiver of the plant. The creditors of the newspaper al lege that The Atlanta News is insolv ent, owing debts which it is ur.able to pay, and which it has acknowledged its inability to pay. WILL Bf GOO) CASH IHHOV* aWaY. Cost of Investigation of Brownsville Alfa i vt-*v : e ftv’r $5 4,00 • The senate comaiittee on military affairs is beginning to realize the dif ficulties in the way of securing wit nesses for the Brownsville inquiry. The discharged soldiers are scattered from Maine to Cilifomia. Most of them are without funds and the government must advance the money for their fare to Washington tc testify. One member of the commit tee predicted the investigation wouid cost more than $50,000. FINAL DECISION YET IN THE AIR In Regard to Letting Out Contract for Digging Canal. NO CERTAIN fY ABOUT IT All Bids May Be Reacted and Task Delegated to Engineer Stevens. Erroneous Reports Corrected. A Washington special says: It is still possible that the administration may determine to dig the Panama ca nal, placing the work in the hands of Chief Engineer Stevens instead of having it done under contract. Thb final decision will rest with the pres ident and the secretary of war, and will depend ou their opinion as to whether the administration is justified in accepted the bid to do it by con tract. It was pointed out Wednesday on liig'h authority that the government has not promised to accept the bids of W. J. Oliver, who has been given an opportunity to associate himself with two other contractors to do the work at his bid of tf 3-4 per cent. The pres ident and Secretary Taft feel that the question of cost is net the one thing alone to be considered, and that they would be justified in- declining to enter into a contract to dig the canal if they felt that the government interests would be best subserved by not doing so. The following statement was made public at the white bouse Wednesday by Secretary Loeb; “Reports in the papers seem to indi cate a belief that the canal contract has been conditionally awarded to Mr. Oliver. This is not so. No decision has been made even that the contract vmJl be awarded to any of the bidders. Mr. Oliver's bid was so hopelessly defec tive that it could not be even consid ered, and time was given him to com plete it in a shape that will enable it to receive consideration. If it is put into shape it will be considered, together with the bid already made by the Giilespie-McArthur combination, which may itself be altered, and then whichever bid, after the most careful examination, seems meet advantageous may bo taken, or both bids rejected and the canal be constructed under the direct supervision, of the govern ment. In such case, the government would, wherever it chose, use contrac tors simply as agents. The real object in contracting the work is to have assembled a large number of the best specialists in each class of work, and the prime consideration will be the ability and fitness shown in a variety of directions by the men making the bid. The president and the commission would not even consider a bid of merely one or two men. The work is already going well. Over a half mil lion cubic yards were taken out of the CulebriA cut in January, and the amount being taken out is steadily in creasing.” SMALL HOPE IOK DISPtNSARY. Another Blow is Struck at South Carolina Institution by Solons. From present indications the South Carolina state dispensary, on which was based the initial prominence of South Carolina’s senior United States senator, will be abolished by the gen eral assembly. At Wednesday’s ses sion the Carey-Cothran local option bill passed by a vote of 74 to 48. The dispensary forces, realizing their defeat, offered as a substitute for the local option measure, a pro hibition bill, hoping to gain tha sup port of that element and defeat the anti-dispensary folks. The substitute was rejected by a vote of 68 to 55. The fight Is given up in the house and every conceivable Influence is be ing used to secure the defeat of the local option bill In the senate, which Is closely divided. It is the opinion of all factions, however, that, what ever follows, the state dispensary will be abolished. Ht MsKUak*>> cO.MaiiiMlON. ->ntli is Charge Lodged Against President iwiMveil bv Viafvlrtiid Seunf-r. Disclaiming any intention of assail ing President Roosevelt and professing for him profound personal esteem, Sen ator Rayner, cf Maryland, Thursday addressed the senate at considerable length in critical review of what he terms the president’s usurpation of governmental functions not conferred upon him by the constitution. He first alluded to the recent speech of Sena tor Root in which was described the grandual enlargement of federal pow ers at the expense of the stated. PITTSBURG LIKE ATLANTA Incipient Race Riot Raged Rampant in Heart of Business District of Pennsylvania City. C. A. Jackson, a negro, bleeding from many wounds on the head, was locked up in the central police sta tion at Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday night, fellowing an exciting auu al most successful attempt to lynch him uy. a crowd of several hundred per sons in Fifth avenue, in the heart or the business district. A newsboy asked tne negro to buy a paper. Jackson shoved him roughly into the street. The boy threw a stone and struck Jackson on the head. The negro jumped to th e street and began cooking the boy. The street was thronged with men, tne incident occurring about 7 o clock, and in a moment several men caught the ne gro and began beating him. Someone cried “Lynch the negro!” and hundreds of men and boys rushed upon Jackson. Stones and closed fists were chief weapons used by the mob. Backed up against a building, Jack son, trembling with fear, shielded him self with his arms, while the crowd beat mm and tore bis clothes. About this time several other negroes took part in the affair and endeavored to protect Jackson. Immediately there cries of “Lynch them" and “Kill the niggers.” The mob then turned its attention to Jack sou’s negro protectors, and soon there were several rough and tumble bat tles along Fifth avenue. The mob crying all the while, “Kill all the negroes,” caught several oth er negroes and proceeded to bump then heads up against tne stone build ings. Jackson, bleeding and his clothes al most torn off, was temporarily forgot ten, and he ran down Fifth avenue, but was followed by several persons. He was rescued by the police after much difficulty and locked up. WOULD UKIVt IKOjPs 10 CHURCH. billy Orders Given by Commandant of Barracks m Chicago. There is much excitement at the barracks in Columbus, 0., because of au order issued by Col. Glenn, com mandant, before he left for Texas on Wednesday, to defend Major Penrose in the Browiisvile courtinartial, order ing the Roman Catholic soldiers to at tend church services. Some of the men declare that they will mutiny and it is probable that the matter will be taken up by the war department. The order says that “the Roman Catholic non-commissioned officers will march the men to and from church and see that order is preserved during the services.” COUKI RtSIKAiNS KAILKOAD From Double-Tracking, Thereby Preventing Erection ol $50,004 Depot. In the injunction suit to restrain the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad from double-tracking Ocmul gee street. Judge Whipple at Fitzger ald, Ga., Wednesday morning made the injunction permanent. This will prevent the erection of the new $50,- 000 depot, for which the company bought ground. ItUbS ASbASSINN NULL Al WOitK. Governor of Political Prison and Wielder tf Lash is Latest Victim- M. . Guidema, governor of the po litical prison on Vasili Ostroff, a sub urb of St. Petersburg, was shot Wed nesday aud died almost immediately. The assassin, who was a youth of eighteen, emerged from a tea house as M. Guidoina was passing on his way home and shot him twice in the stom ach. The slayer escaped. 148 Miners Given Up lor Head The search of the galleries of the Reden mine at St. Johanr.-omSaar, Rhenish Prussia, where the explosion occurred January 28, continues. More bodies were brought up and identified as being among the list of 148 men already given up for dead. Miib. sA(il. LOMAIt!) A MILLION le Found New College Department in Hon or ol Her tale imvbdnd. At the annual meeting of the Alum ni Association of the Rennselaer Poly technic Institute at New York Friday night, announcement was made of the gift of Mrs. Russell Sago of $1,009,090 to that institution. It is understood that yie fund will be applied to the establishment of anew department ifl be called the “Russell Sage School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineer- Lag:' PROBING BILL PASSES hou: I Cotton Exchanges Will Be Inve gated by Committee in Congres i COL. LIVINGSTON WINN Measure Went Through by Nar 1 Margin--Several Speeches Wer Made on Bill Pro and Con. The Livingston-Burleson resolu. calling for an investigation of the ton exchanges of the country, p ed the house Monday, with barel dissenting vote. The work of the by for the cotton exchanges, wh Harvie Jordan predicted would bo evidence, did not materialize. Representative Fitzgerald of Is York made a speech, in which he dared that the New York cotton change was all right, and its c tracts and operations perfectly lc\ imate, and that any investigat should be directed not against tne change, but against the Southern C. ton Association. His attitude seemed to be that was all right for the cotton exchai gamblers to depress the price of c ton, but that for the southern tarn to attempt to combine, and refuse make a big cotton crop, and take tj same money from a small crop tfj would follow from a bumper crop, w all wrong. He said the complaint ff forth in the resolution differed frd! the usual protests against corpot tions, and trusts in that the us’i plan was to enter objection again putting up the price of a produ. He said he always look the side the consumer in such fights. He and not favor a tariff in the interest I the producer, and he did not belie 1 * in the combination of southern eolte associations in the interest of the pr ducer. He said llie south was so pro perous she was becoming rupuciou John Sharp Williams of Misslssip] explained that it was not a questio of a lower or higher price, but tb object sought was a fixed stapi price, so that the market would nc; be continually affected by violei fluctuations. He protested that thi fixed selling price, such as the Soutl ern Cotton Association seeks to matr tain, was for the best interest of hot the producer and the consumer, th farmers and the mill men. He sail the 'south is not too prosperous, bu is laying up in fat years for lean years, putting aside in her years o plenty for the years of need. He de clared that if Fitzgerald had lived ii the days of Joseph he would have have declared the combination mad< by Joseph and Pharaoh, at the decis ion of God, was an iniquitous trust. Colonel Livingston made a strong clear presentation of the facts that led up to the introduction of the res olution, saying no fight on the ex changes was Intended, but tne mow. f ment was simply agaiiißt. some of the rules and methods. He said; “When they come to honest coiM tracts, and ceaee to use the ex changes to control prices, and ob struct interestate and foreign com merce, the object of the framers of the resolution would be attained. All they wanted was the square deal.” In conclusion, Col. Livingston said: “The cotton producers for thirty years have struggled for a square deal in marketing cotton, handicap ped by the obstinate interference and manipulation on the part of the col> ton exchanges. We have begged for relief, and our appeals have been treated with silent contempt. Recent ly when we appealed to one of th* great departments of the government for relief, we wer threatened and laughed at by the New York cotloa exchange. We were threatened with libel suits and subsequent Imprison ment. We appealed for the adoption of this resolution believing it will ba a starter at least, and result in tho cotton farmer being given a square deal.” AOULD HAVL ijVliOitvl HI SP.tlfcJ. Roosevelt lakes Ip light in Behalf of A..,oier- a-tl .- >n If President Roosevelt can bring such a thing übout congress will pass a lav/ which will prevent discrimina tion against the uniform of the army or the navy. Several cases involving this question are pending in the state courts, but the more recent case of the refusal of a skating rink proprietor at PlaltsLurg, N. Y., to admit two sol diers in uniform, which, was sustained l>> Judge Everest, has given an impe tus to tho movement set on loot.