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TEDDY’S PLANS
IN. LIMELIGHT
Bryan Thinks He Has Laid the
President's,Scheme Bare.
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SEEKING MORE POWER
Nebraskan Attacks Recent Speech of
Roosevelt and Says Cat Has Been
Let Out of the Bag.
William Jennigs Bryan, in comment
ing on President Roosevelt’s speech, in
Lincoln, Neb., Saturuday night, said:
‘*The president has at last disclosed
Lis scheme for centralization at which
he has hinted in former speeches. In
his address he proposes the national
incorporation of railroads and o.her
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce.
“Here is the secret. It is cut at
last. The states are anncying the cor
porations and the corporations demand
federal protection from state legisla
tion. The president thinks that action
must be pressing as regards those cor
porations which, because they are
common carriers, exercise a quasi
public function.
“The states have been enacting 2-
cent laws and laws reducing freight
rates, and the railroad managers de
mand that they shall be relieved from
further fear of such legislation. The;
president’s ideas make him an easy
victim, and he yields to the entreaties
of the railroads.
“If it was the public he sought to
protect he would recommend federal
remedies which would not interfere
with state remedies, but it is the rail
roads and hot the public that demand
the removal of authority to Washing
ton. The democrats can be depended
upon to oppose with all their might
this movenfent toward centralization.
If ahy democrat wavers, his constit
uents should look into his business re
lations and see whether he is under
obligations to the railroads.
“A Hamiltonian republican like the
president may honorably think that the
farther the movement is removed from
the people, the better it will be, but a
Jeffersonian democrat does not.
“It is very doubtful whether the re
publican congressmen from the west
will dare to support the president’s
proposition, but if an atiempt is made
to put such a measuure through con
gress the democrats will stand a good
chance of retiring every western re
publican who votes for it. Let the dem
ocrats present an unbroken front on
this vital proposition."
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BONDHOLDERS TO BRING SUIT.
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Don’t Like Treatment Accorded by Cen
-1 tral of Georgia Directors.
Saturday morning the third income
Central railroad bondholders in Sa
vanah received telegraphic inqui
ries from Lazard Frerers, a French
firm on Wall street,. New York, advis
ing them that the firm -would go into
court. They propos'd to contest in a
legal decision of the directors
withholding the dividend* OH.the four
millions of third-iheeme: . • .■ .
This firm called''6‘tf Savanna^',
bondholders to *be-.
assumed *>L their,.<p-.ope?ai|fm in such
a suit. ‘An:affirmative answer was sent
at once.-i •< v
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" GRAF'fER PROMISES TO SQUEAL. ,
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Shumakflsr Brings.Serjoua Charge Against
•- ’. Pennsylvania .State. Official.
Jarnrs .M. Shumaker, former super
intendent of public buildings
grounds at Harrisburg, Pa., who is iim,
hiedfoffr4>y. reports of. the capital
investigation commission, has declared
he will make a full, confession of al,
he knows, in connection with the capi
tol scandal. He claims that the manip
ulation of the funds was engineered
by a high official of the state to cover
up a shortage in the state treasury.
SEEK TO PROTBCT STATE ROAD.
Bill in Georgia Senate to Forestall Parallel
ing Western and Atlantic.
A bill, which will prevent the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad from par
alleling the line of the state road, tha
Western and Atlantic, in Georgia, was
introduced in the senate Tuesday
morning.
Under the provisions of the hill, tha
corporation desiring a charter shall
appear before the railroad commission
and present all facts connected with
their application, such as rights of
way and condemnation rights*
PROVIDES CROP MONEY.
Secretary Cortelyou Plans in Advance to
-.- Have Cojn Sufficient to Move
the Fall Business.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou
announced Friday anew plan of de
positing government funds in New
York, Boston and other cities, to af
ford relief*', to. the money market in
the appropaching crop movement pe
riod. 1
Commencing next week, he will
place each week at such points in
the country as he shall designate, gdv
ernment funds to such an amount as
he deems sufficient to pr£vent an acute
monetary stringency and possible panic
when the demand foi money is great
est at the height of the crop-moving
period.
The new plan of the secretary for
monetary relief, he believes, will
prove more efficacious than the old
method of waiting until the country
was severely shaken financially and
then coming to the relief at the last
moment by placing large deposits in
New York banks. Secretary Cortel
you did not state how much money
he will deposit each week.
The plan was-made known in New
York Friday in the rollowing official
statement to the Associated Press:
“Secretary Cortelyou announced
that beginning with next week the
treasury department will make (ach
week for a period of not less than
five weeks, deposits In national banks
at New York, Boston and other points,
the seem-ity required to be approved
ou state, municipal and railroad Donas
acceptable under the existing require
ments of the department with the un
derstanding that, if called for, such
deposits shall be returned after Jan
uary 1 in installments to be fixed by
the secretary of the treasury.
“This action is taken to m et the
commercial and industrial needs of
the country at this season, and Is be
lieved to be preferable to waiting until
a time of acute stringency when the
only alternative would be a large gen
eral deposit. The latter policy the sec
retary desires to supplant by one
which shall have as its ultimate objet
the adjustment of the operations of
the treasury department, as rapidly as
may be practicable under existing law,
in such manner as shall preclude their
being any sens? a disturbing factor
in the business world
“Under the new plan, the secretary
will place the government funds in
amounts large enough to meet the
situation. For this purpose, he may
deposit all custom funds which he is
permitted to under the Aldrich act,
and if these are not sufficient he will
augment them from the treasury bal
ance which increases each week after
the usual July deficit.
“Secretary Cortelyou In ...placing the
government funds wilt depend much
upon the bureau *irgeat/y established
In the* treasury dephi/tnent to Inform
him where stringyficy is being felt,
most. He lieliev/s tnat by not announc
ing in advance the ‘amounts to be
.deposited" he will j'tfevent speculators
'from taking .['advantage' of the situa
tion and obtaining, money which he
believes should go Into other chan
nels.
• “la previous years the sudden out
pouring of money from the national
treasury, when a crop moving strin
gency was absorbing all availabl
fund3, made a good export movement
possible by the very violence of the
reaction. The financial situation ha*
,occqjr|ed Secretary Cortelyou s at. en
•tiou, f£tr spme time, and he is doing
what he can to bring relief. Notwith
standing heavy demands for the $30,-
000,000 Panama bonds which are still
unused, the secretary declines to place
them oh sale as the government does
not need money and their purchase
by the banks would tie up additional
millions.”
SECOND PRIMARY IN MISSISSIPPI.
Two Gubernational Candidates Contest for
Honor in a Run-Off
The second i rimary election for /he
democratic gubernatorial nomination
was held in Mississippi Friday, the run
off b-.ing between E. F. Noel, of ihe
county of Holmes, and Lari Brewer, of
the county of Coahoma. Weather con
ditions were good and early returns
Indicate that the vote polled was near
ly as large as that cast in the Ve.rda
man-Willianus senatorial primary of
August 1. The initial returns gave Noel
n lead.
COMMISSION IS
REORGANIZED
New Georgia Railroad Board is
Made Ready for Business.
M’LENDON IS CHAIRMAN
Appointment of Callaway and Hillyer by
Governor Fills Out Quota of Five
Members Under New Law.
Georgia’s new railroad commission
was completed Monday by the appoint
ment of two additional members, or
ganized by the election of a chairman
and other officers, and is now ready
for business.
Announcement was made during the
morning of the appointment of Fuller
E. Callaway of LaGrauge and Judge
George Hillyer of Atlanta as the two
new members of the commission.
Mr. Callaway is a well known mer
chant, banker and cotton mill man of
LaGrauge, who has mule remarkable
success in the business world. Judge
Hillyer is a well known Atlanta law
yer, now retired. Both are able men,
and will undoubtedly give the people
good service on the board.
Both Commissioners Callaway and
Hillyer were sworn in by the govern
or immediately after their apointment
were announced by him, and their
commissions were issued.
The new commission, as reorganiz
ed, is composed as follows:
Hon. S. G. McLendca of Thomas
ville chairman. Mr. McLendon was
appointed in place of Commissioner Jo
seph M. Brown, who was suspended
by order of the governor.
Hon. H. Warner Hill of Greenville.
Hon. O. B. Stev'.ns of Cornelia.
Hon. Fuller E. Cu taway of La-
Grange.
Hon. George Hillyer of Atlanta.
Judge James K. Hines of Atlanta,
attorney.
George F. Montgomery of Marietta,
secretary.
In accordance with the requ st of
Governor Smith a meeting of the new
commission for organization had been
called by Secretary Montgomery for
noon.
The board was called together with
all members pr'sent at that, hour by
the retiring chairman, H. Warner
Hill. Judge Hines, the attorney to the
commission, could not be present, ow
ing to a previous court engagement,
but will be with the commission at its
next' meeting.
\ The commission proceeded first to
the election of a chairman. Commis
sioner McLendon was nominated for
this office by Commissioner Stevens,
and was unanimously elected.
Later in ttre-meeting George F. Mont
gomery, secretary to the board, was
unanimously re-elected to that po
sition under the new commission.
It was deqided to leave the selection
of a stenographer to the commission
to Chairman McLendon for the reason
that the stenographer will principally
Serve the* chairman, who will be in the
office daily.
The s'lection of a rate expert, as
provided for In the new act, was l£ft
over for the present, but will probably
be taken up at Friday s meeting.
While the new commission took no
formal action upon any subject at Its
organization meeting, considerable im
portant work was discussed.
When the new railroad commission
got through with Us preliminary work
of organization it adjourned until Fri
day morning.
Subsequently it learned that certain
railroads wished to be heard upon the
question of a modification of the pas
senger rate order passed by the old
commission to go Into effect Septem
ber 2.
In order to accord tnis hearing, the
commission decided to hold a meeting
Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock.
A number of railroads, particularly i
the Atlanta and West Point and the
Western and Atlantic, which were put j
in the 2-cent class, and the Georgia
railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line, j
which were put in the 2 1-4-cent class, I
are anxious to have the commission
modify Us order so as to put in a flat |
rate of 2 1-2 cents on ail the principal
railroad systems of the state.
The reason for this inquest grows
out of a desire for uniformity and, it
is stated, the 2 1-2-cent roads desire j
the change made for the reason that
at points where they compet • with the
roads of the lower rate, they would
have to charge the lower rate also, j
OFFER TO COMPROMISE.
Railroads of Georgia Will Suggest Flat
Passenger Rate of Two and a
Half-Cents Per Mile.
According to representatives of im
portant interests<Yery close to the rail
roads, the lines in Georgia will make
no fight against the order of the state
railroad commission making reduced
passenger rates effective September
2d, but will offer a compromise propo
sition instead, asking for the estab
lishment of a fiat 2 1-2 cent a mile
basis on the larger railroads, if not
upon all lines.
This proposition is said to have been
studiously considered by practically all
the executive officers of the different
roads operating In the state. A meet
ing behind closed doors has been held
In Atlanta. One of the officials pres
ent laconically remarked that the Ala
bama situation was being discussed.
Notwithstanding the report that the
Georgia rate reductions were not final
ly disused of, it is known that, ac
cording to the present plans, no fight
will be made against the reductions.
The rumors that have constantly in
creased in their circulation prescribe
the following method of proceedure by
the railroads:
The suggestion that the new com
mission, which will be organized by
the last of the week, revoke the pro
posed graduated rates ordered by the
present commission, and establish, in
stead, a flat 2 1-2-cent a mile scale,
has been made. This scale to be ef
fective upon all the larger railroads,
including the Central of Georgia, the
Southern railway, the Western and At
lantic, the Atlanta and West Point,
the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard
Air Line, the. Georgia railroad, the
Georgia Southern and Florida, the
Charleston and Western Carolina, the
Louisville and Nashville and the Ma
con, Dublin and Savannah.
It Is not known whether the smaller
lines will-be a party to the 2 1-2-cent
basis or not, but it is possible that
they will continue to operate upon u
3-cent or more bases, as they could
not be affected any more under the
compromise scale than the proposed
rates of the present commissloy.
Although the Louisville and Nash
ville and the Macon, Dublin and Sa
vannah lines are classified at 3 cents
a mile, under the proposed rates ef
fective September 2d, it has been
pointed out that owing to their con
nections with some of the larger roads
they will be placed ur.d r the 2 1-2-cent
a mile basis.
The larger roads connected with
these interests, so it is said, will be
willing to sacrifice the possibilities of
the 3-cent a mile basis so as to placa
the roads upon the same fooling for
convenience of arranging the tariffs
as well as the profit of the patrons.
Although the Western and Atlantic
railroad would be in class “A," the two
cerfts a mile class, and tha ? Louisville
and Nashville in class' “D,” at three
cents a mile, the Western and At
lantic is virtually a Louisville arid
Nashville interest, and under a rate df
2 1-2-cent a mile basis, the Western
and Atlantic would be raised to that
basis and the Louisville and Nashville
. lowered a cent a mile. t
The Macon, Dublin and Savannah
would operate upder the three-cent a
mile scale under the 'proposed rate*,
but the Seaboard Air Line which op-
the M. D. and S., is in class
“C” at 2 1-2 cents a mile, and the
basis would place them both under
the same tariffs.
If the smaller roads are not able
to operate under a 2 1-2-cent a mile
basis it is not probable that the larg
er roads will ask for any reduction
as the establishment of the compro
mise rate will not affect them.
The principal reason that is said to
govern the roads is the alleged dis
criminations that the rates make when
two parallel lints are placed in differ
ent classes.
OFFICERS shoot each other.
Deplorable Mistake Made by Two Parties
of Revenue Men on Raid.
Two parties of revenue olEcers,while
attempting to destroy a blockade s ill
near Chapel Hill, N. C., Friday morn
Ing just before dry, fired on each
other. Two men wtre desperately and
two ethers slightly wounded.
Through some misunderstanding the
parties missed each other, each think
ing the o'her had been detained from
gome cause. Each and elded to proceed
with the raid, with the result stated. :
HALIBUT WITH TOMATOES.
(A Creoie Recipe,)
Make a rich sauce of tomatoes
fresh or canned, seasoning with but
ter rolled In flour, sugar, pepper,
onion juice and salt, adding, if you
have it, a sweet green pepper, seeded
and minced. Cook fifteen minutes,
strain, rubbing through a colander,
and cool. Lay the halibut in oil and
lemon juice for an hour, place upon
the grating of your covered roaster,-
pour the sauce over it; cover and
bake twelve minutes to the pound if
the oven be good. Sift Parmesan
cheese over the fish and cook five
minutes longer. Servo upon a hot
dish, pouring the sauce over it.—•
Washington Star.
OVENLESS BAKED BISCUIT,
fuix and cut out as for baking in
an oven. Have a spider well greased
and hot. In this place the biscuit,'
greased on top; cover, and when;
they are half done, which can bej
judged by their puffiness, turn each
biscuit carefully, and finish the bak
ing without cover. One can bake
biscuit in, this way In less than half
the time it takes to get an oven hot
enough, and does away with the heat,
as moderate baking Is necessary, and
but little heat Is required. It can!
be all done over one hole of a cook
stove or burner of gasoline. If the
latter is used, it is well to place an
asbestos mat under the pan, to pre
vent browning too quickly. One can
have hot biscuit without the dread
of heating an oven, especially in hot
weather, or when one is hurried in
getting a meal. This plan, I am
sure, will please all who try it. A
little baking powder, even if soda
and sour milk is used, will make bis
cuit lighter, and makes leas short-!
ening necessary.—M. D. E., in the
Ladies' World.
STEAK BERNAISE.
As the delicious French sauce re
quires close attention In its making
i it is safer to have butter creamed
I and tbe eggs beaten before commenc
ing to broil the steak. The rest of
1 the process can be attended to while
; the meat is cooking. Rub in a small
j bowl four rounded tablespoonfulg ■
J of butter until creamy, adding a sift
j ing ol paprika and half a teaspoon
ful salt. Beat the yolks of four eggs ;
in a small saucepan and set on one
side. In another saucepan put four
tablespoonl’iils each hot water and
tarragon vinegar with a slice of
onion and cook ’■ f*til reduced ,one
half. Strain out the onion, add the
! hot vinegar to the beaten egg yolks,
little by little, set the nan over the,
lire in a hot water bath and stir
i rapidly as the egg thickens. As
soon as creamy and thick take from
the lire, add a portion of the creamed !
butter, incorporate thoroughly, add
more of the butter, and so on Until
all is in and well blended. Then pour
at once over a hot broiled sirloin or
j tenderloin Bteak. When fresh tarra
! non cannot be obtained a little of
the One minced herb Is added just
before serving. Minced parsley or
chives are also used and
garlic may be substituted for the
onion.
TTOUSE=
Mints
A ....
Tea und coffee and some fruit
stains can be removed from linen by
rubbing them with butter. Rub thor
oughly into the linen, then soak in
hot water.
In buying canned goods examine
the can carefully, and if the sides
bulge reject them, as this denotes the
presence of gas, which renders the
contents unfit for food.
Kerosene oil may be tmed with
very satisfactory results In taking out
wagon grease or tar spots If used
while the grease is fresh; then wash
out in cold water, using no soap.
For a iiot fomentation a much eas
ier way than wringing cloths out of
hot water Is to fold the cloth to the
required size, put it Into a steamer
and place it over boiling water.
Hard water can be easily softened
for toiler, purposes if a muslin bag
containing line oatmeal be squeezed
out In the water before using. Fresh
oatmeal should be used every day.
To prevent making a great dust in
sweeping use moist sawdust on bare
floors. If the floor 13 carjieted, mois
ten a newspaper, tear It into small
pieces, and scatter over the floor. The
carpet will look much brighter tha;i
If swept lu the ordinary way.