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POINTED TALK
ON IMMIGRANTS
By Score of Members Took U?
Day's Sessioa of House.
DIVERGENT OPINIONS
Interesting Discussion Came Up Over Bill
to Establish Immigration Station
at Philadelphia.
A Washington special says: Unre
strained opportunity to express views
on the immigration question was af
forded members of the house Monday
by a decision, soon after convening, to
take up and consider a bill appropriat
ing $250,000 for an immigration station
in Philadelphia, and many took advan
tage of it. The code of laws bill was
temporarily sidetracked.
Members from both sides of the
chamber clamored for recognition,
■which carried with it the right to speak
for an hour.
The discussion served to develop vio
lent opposition, led by Mr. Hepburn of
lowa and Mr. Byrd of Mississippi, to
certain classes of immigrants coming
to the United States, while others
made earnest pleas fo rthem upon the
ground that the prosperity of the coun
try had been advanced because of their
presence in this country.
The entire session was devoted to the
consideration of the bill, which was
passed, and at 4:30 p. m. the house ad
journed.
Condemnation was heaped upon the
steamship companies by Mr. Hepburn
of lowa, who said they were responsi
ble for the large immigration to the
United States, and the government
should not encourage them by increas
ing their facilities. He had, he said,
seen advertisements of steamship com
panies in Europe holding out false in
ducements to the Ignorant class to go
to the United States. The races coming
to this country, he declared, were
wholly undesirable.
Mr. Hepburn further made an im
passioned plea for tighter restrictions
for imniigrans in answer to a ques
tion from Mr. Bartholdt, Mr. Hepburn
said an immigrant was not a producer
or valuable consumer when he cannot
have satisfactory wages. His contribu
tion must depend upon whether there
is a demand for that labor, “and,” he
said, “I do not want him to be permit
ted to glut the market of iabor to the
detriment of our people that are here.”
Mr. Burnett of Alabama called at
tention to the fact that at least one
third the number of immigrants that
come to this country each year return
to their fatherland, taking back with
them large sums of money which
should have gone to American work
men.
The negro question was -discussed by-
Mr. Byrd of Mississippi, who said that
the salvation of the south depended
upon the negro passing out of that sec
tion, and allowing the south to be cul
tivated' by the white people.
“Where will you get the white peo
ple?” inquired Mr. Cochran.
“Oh,” replied Mr. Byrd, “they will
come flocking from the north and all
over the country.” If it was desired
to impoverish and bankrupt "the people
of the south he declared, “just bring in
a cheap class of labor, and put them in
competition with dagoes, who can live
almost on rats and snakes.
Mr. Byrd made a bitter attack on
Italian immigrants generally. He did
not object, he said, to good stock like
the Irish and Germans coming to these
shores. He provoked laughter when he
remarked that when an Irishman ar
rived in the United States the first
thing he did was to take a drink and
then inside of a year he was running
the government.
Mr. Favrot of Louisiana took issue
with Mr. Byrd On some of his state
ments as to the Italians, and said that
in Louisiana they had proven desirable
citizens. The bill was then passed and
the house adjourned.
MANY CORPSES IN SINGLE GRAVE.
Sad Sights Connected With Burial of Boy
ertown Theatre Victims.
Despite many pleas Coroner Straus
ser at Boyertown, Pa., announced on
Saturday that all the unidentified dead
must be buried at once.
Twenty unclaimed bodies were con
signed to one huge trench in Fairview
cemetery Saturday afternoon One o
the saddest sights of the whole horror
occurred when six boys and girls ; e s
ters and their cousins, were buried to
gether in one grave.
REPORT OF RECEIVER
Showing Assets and Liabilities of Broken
Neal Institution at Atlanta
Presented in Court.
According to the report of the re
ceivers filed in the superior court In
Atlanta Friday, in answer to the peti
tion of several creditors, the liabilities
of the Neal bank exceed the assets,
minus all worthless claims and those
on which something may be realized,
by $260,513.31.
The report, which can hardly be
considered a complete one, in view
of the haste with which it was pre
pared, lias the assets, not including
bad debts, at $2,449,361.17 and the lia
bilities at $2,709,857,448
Including all accounts the total as
sets are $3,159,725.82, well above the
liabilities.
This report was gotten up for the
hearing of the intervention of the state
of Georgia in Judge Ellis' court, but
carried over until Monday on the mo
tion of Attorney R. M. Blackburn, who
represents several depositors, who ob
ject to the state being made a pre
ferred creditor, as it desires to, in order
to recover some $200,000 in taxes on
deposit when the Neal bank failed.
These objectors allege that from De
cember 9 to 26 the state made deposits
amounting to $126,000 when the bank
examiner had charge, and they hold
that he should have then had knowl
edge of the condition of the bank, and
should not have taken the risk.
Attorney General llart agreed upon
the continuance of the case, but stated
that the points in question were pure
ly ones of law
The Central Bank and Trust Corpora
tion, in answer to the intervention of
the state, alleges that $192,502.90 was
credited to the state at the time of the
closing of the bank; $22,382.43 was re
ceived from T. R. Floyd, tax receiver
of DeKalb county, running the total
to over $200,000. The answer further
showed that the state was indebted to
the bank to the amount of $50,000 in
two promissory notes, due January 15
of this year. One of the notes was
placed with the Citizens’ National bank
of Baltimore to secure a loan of $25,-
000 made to the Neal bank.
The Neal bank is debtor to the At
lanta Clearing House Association for
$170,958, balance due on a $200,000 is
sue of certificates. As security for
these was deposited with
the Trust company of Georgia, $29,002
of this having been collected. It will
be necessary to settle this Indebted
ness before March 1 to redeem this
collateral. This, of course, is set out
in the answer.
Furthermore, the Central Bank and
Trust Corporation has evidences of in
debtedness against, the Alabama Sul
phur Ore and Copper company, total
ing §277,000 and in order to secure
these it will be necessary to spend
in the neighborhood of $25,000. The
master of the state’s prior claim is set
out as a matter of law.
Judge Ellis stated at the start of
the hearing that he was legally dis
qualified on the case, as he was a de
positor in the Neal bank, but the at
torneys involved waived the disquali
fication.
GIRLS JUMP ’’TO THEIR DEATH.
Fatal Stampede and Panic Results from
Fire in Knitting Mills. -
TJiree girls ere killed, ten seriously
injured and a score or more slightly
hurt at a fire in the Imperial ..Knitting
company’s mill at Scranton, 'Pa., Fri
day.
Eightv-five girls were at work on the
third floor when the fire broke opt on
the ground floor. It quickly ascended
the elevator shaft and drove the girls,
panic stricken, to the’ window opening
cn the fire escape. The girls on the
upper part of,'the fire escape crowded
those in front! With the flames envel
oping them halt of them jumped from
the third floor/ ' * '
SON’S DARE TAKEN BY FATHEJ.?.
Crossed Dead Line Drawn With Ax and
Was Instantly Killed.
A brutal murder was committed at
Davidson, N- G-. Thursday morning,
when Ezekiel Gregory, a farmer, over
sixty years of age, was killed with an
ax by his son, Dave.
Following an altercation in regard
to arising, the son went from the house
Into the yard and defied his father to
„ross a line drawn with the blade of an
; x in the earth. The father crossed
the line, and was felled instantly. Greg
ory is in jail in Charlotte.
CUT IN WAGES
BY SOUTHERN
i
Pay of Whole Clerical Force to Be
Redu:ed 10 Per Cent.
BEGINS FEBRUARY IST
Knifing Applies to Entire Railway System.
Employees Earning SSO Per Month,
and Less, Not Affected.
The Southern railway, according to
well authenticated information, has
made a cut of 10 per cent In the sal
aries of its entire clerical force, ex
tending over the whole system, effect
ive February 1.
The reduction applies to every office
employee of the system, including offi
cials of the road, who is now receiving
a salary above SSO a month.
The cut, it is staled, affects all clerks,
stenographers, passenger and freight
agents, clear up through the official
heads- of these various departments.
So far no reduction has been ordered
In the pay of any of the employee 1 ' of
the operating department, such as en
gineers, firemen, switchmen and the
like, and whether a similar reduction
Is contemplated in this department
cannot be learned.
So far as the office forces are con
cerned, however, the reduction ordered
is sweeping, and affects every one alike
except the men making SSO and under.
The Southern first let out a large
number of its mechanics, followed that
with cutting out a large number of pas
senger trains and now as a further
step toward retrenchment is using the
knife on salaries.
PUBLIC MORALS JEOPARDIZED.
Judge Requested to Clear the Court Room
When Evelyn Thaw Testifies.
A series of surprises brought the
Thaw trial at New York near a crisis
Friday. Both Evelyn Thaw, the wife,
and Mrs. William Thaw, the mother
of the defendant, were oil the witness
stand, and just as the former was about
to relate anew the story of her life,
as she told it to Thaw in Paris in 1903,
District Attorney Jerome arose and sug
gested that, in the interest of public
morals, all persons save those immedi
ately interested in the case should be
excluded from the court room during
the recital of what he termed a “horri
ble tale.” The motion included the
representatives of newspapers as well
as the public generally. Attorney Mar
tin W. Littleton of the deefnse Joined
In it to shield the young woman from
hundreds of curious eyes, and said that
so far as the constitutional right to
an open hearing was concerned, he wa3
ready to waive that point In any iron
clad manner the court might suggest.
Proceedings were suspended and de
cision withheld until Monday.
AFTER DISPENSARY GRAFTERS.
Warrants Issued in Investigation of South
Carolina Dispensary.
Alleging conspiracy to defraud the
state of South Carolina, the state dis
pensary commission at Columbia had
a warrant issued Friday for about fif
teen persons, including M. A. Good
man, the representative of a Baltimore
liquor house, who was arrested Thurs
day.
Major Black, a former member of the
board of control, was arrested Friday
afternoon and later released on a bond
of SIO,OOO. Warrants for former Direc
tor John Bell Lowell and L. W. Boykin
1 were also sent out for service. The
names of other parties wanted are
withheld because, it is stated, it Is
feared their publicity might interfere
with their arrest.
M. A. Goodman, the whiskey house
representative, has given bond in the
sum of $25,000. These arrests are the
results of investigations by the com
mission and with the aid of Attorney
General Lyon.
GEORGIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Called By Chairman Miller to Meet ia
Atlanta February 6th.
A call for the state democratic ex
ecutive committee of Georgia to meet
in Atlanta February 6 next, ba3 been
issued by Judge A. L. Miller of Macon,
chairman of the committee. The com
mittee, it is understood, will have for
its principal object the fixing of a date
for the state primary to elect delegates
to the national democratic convention,
which meet3 at Denver, Col., July 7.
WILL DOOM LOCKERS.
Judge Speer to> Charge Grand Jury That
Clubs Keeping Liquor Will Violate
Uncle Sam’s Law.
A Savannah special says: Trouble of
deep nature is looming ahead for the
locker clubs of Georgia, those oases
in (the desert into which 'the pro
hibitionists have converted the state
and unto which those who are sore
a-thirst are wont to wen their way.
This trouble is not that which Is
lurking in the approaching session of
the legislature, either, but it awaits the
clubs In the term of the United States
court for the southern district of Geor
which, which is to convene in Savannah
on February 20.
Monday Judge Emory Speer sounded
tlie docket for the term. He will return
to hold court beginning February 20.
Asked about the status of the locker
clubs In Georgia, Judge Speer caused
great surprise when he said that he
would charge the United States grand
jury that the clubs are conducted In
opposition to the statute requiring that
each place where liquor is sold or dealt
in any way shall pay a license of $25
in the federal government. Each and
every member of the clubs, said Judge
Speer, is under the law liable for such
a license. He is required to take out
suoh a license and to post it in a con
spicuous place. Thus far the members
have in no case compiled with this law,
and the Judge says he will charge the
jury to Investigate this omission.
This, of course, would mean the death
of the locker clubs.
Judge Speer said the Impression pre
vails up the state that no Savannah
Jury would take congnlzance of failure
to observe the prohibition law. This
he is not inclined to believe, he said,
for he had found Savannah citizens
ever ready to do their duty as jurors.
However, the judge naively continued
that if be found it necessary he might
call upon the ‘sturdy yeomanry” of Bul
loch, Emanuel, Screven and other
neighboring counties to come to his
aid In enforcing the law.
It was quite evident that Judge Speer
was fully informed of the rapid growth
of the locker clubs In the city.
POLICE INSPECTOR SUSPENDED.
Mqst Answer Before Commission and
Court fer Attempted Murder.
Charges of malfeasance in office
have been made in New Orleans
against Police Inspector Whitaker for
shooting at L. M. Leveque, a newspa
per editor.
Whitaker, who was suspended, with
five of his detectives, who were with
him, has isstied a lengthy statement
defending his action. Whitaker says
he believes himself justified in respit
ing the abuse Leveque had heaped
upon him in the editorial columns of
The World.
The inspector and his five detectives
were arraigned in the first city crimi
nal court and given a preliminary hear
ing. , All. of them pleaded not guilty.
Bail was fixed at $2,000 iu the case
of Whitaker and at SI,OOO in that ol
each detective. The charge against
all of the men was shooting with in
tent to kill. The maximum sentence
for this offence in Louisiana is twenty
years in the penitentiary.
CREDITORS WANT CO-RECEIVER.
Clearing House Collateral Figuring in Case
of Defunct Neal Bank.
A potltion has been filed in the su
perior court at Atlanta by six deposi
tors of file suspended Neal bank, ask,
ing that a co-receiver with the Cen
tral Bank and Trust company be ap
pointed, and alleging that the Central
Bank and Trust company, as a member
of the Atlanta Clearing House Assocl
tion, is, attempting to make itself a
preferred creditor.
The petition says that $170,000 col
lateral notes are held by the trust com
pany of Georgia, as security for bal
ance due the clearing house, and asks
that these notes be turned over to the
receiver and distributed to the credit
ors without preference.
RESOLUTIONS ARE ACTED UPON.
Governor of Georgia Sends Letters to Chief
Executive* of Other State*.
Acting upon resolutions passed at
the mass meeting at Atlanta by the Ap
palachian National Forest Association,
has sent Governor Hoke Smith has
sent out letters to the different south
ern states urging that they appoint
delegates tc meet with he assoclaion
In Washington on the 29th of this
month to aid in the passage of the
White bill before congress on the 30th.
MILLIONS HELD
BY THE BANKS
Many Industries in Various Sec
tions Take on New Life.
OUTLOOK IS ROSEATE
New York Banks Show Increase of Cask
on Hand of $26,185,000 Over Previoaa
Week-Reports Encouraging.
A telegraphic request to various
towns, especially in the south, for in
formation on industrial conditions has
brought remarkably favorable re
sponses. Prosperity and healthy nor
mal Industrial and commercial condi
tions are returned throughout the south
and middle west.
The railroads, iron and steel mills
and coal mines, which are America’s
barometer of trade and Industry, report
a general resumption In all parts of
the country. Banks have plenty of
money to lend, and are fostering the
industries. Payrolls are increasing in
mills and factories, and business houses
are taking back men who were sus
pended. Prospects are declared bright
er than at any time since the financial
flurry In New York drove into
hidirfg. This money is again in circu
lation.
From all parts of the country come
reports of the resumption of those in
dustries which were temporarily af
fected by the flurry In Wall street. Men
are returning to the mills, the mines
and the factories. Railroad work fs
proceeding healthily and construction
work Is being projected.
The trade In groceries, dry goods,
grain, iron and other branches all re
port good improvements.
A tremendous flow of cash from the
banks throughout the country to the
New York city banks was Indicated
Saturday by the hank statement which
showed an Increase of $26,185,800 in
the amount of cash held by the New
York clearing house institutions. This
Increase in cash is not thought to be
a record or.e, but it is believed to ap
proach within a few millions of the lar
gest Increase ever recorded in a single
week In the city. Financier declare
that it showed clearly that the Interior
banks were entirely reassured by the
■bowing of the banks last week, when
for the first time dr.ee October a
surplus of reserve was established In
the face of the deficit which had long
existed. In consequence the interior
banks were sending their surplus and
cash to New York where It found em
ployment not only In the stock market,
but in financing at least one large bond
issue by the New York Central and
Hudson river railroad.
The return of this amount of cash
from the interior was regarded by th
bankers in New York as the end of th
pevious disposition to withhold cash
In the Interior and as showing that
there will hereafter be no shortage
of funds for all legitimate purjioses.
An increase In the surplus reserve this
week of $10,551,423 bringing the sur
plus up to $22,635,475, shows that th
position of the banks Is greatly
strengthened over last week notwith
standing the renewed activity in the
stock market and the increased loans
incident thereto.
OBEDIENCE AVERTED CIVIL WAR
Declaration of Federal Judge Jone* Created
Surprise in Alabama Court.
Judge Jones of the United State*
court at Montgomery, Ala., hearing the
railroad litigation, stated from the
bench during the argument of Judge
Weakley for the state, that the state
Judges by obeying the injunction of
the federal court, when they were urg
ed to disobey it by other interested
parties, prevented a civil war.
He made this statement when Judge
Weakly had Just completed his argu
ment about the federal court not hav
ing Jurisdiction In the matter, and that
it was a matter of the state judges.
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DEPOSITORS WANT TO SHARE.
Demur to State of Georgia Being Rale
Preferred Creditor in Bank Case.
Another intervention in the litlga
tlon between the State of Georgia and
the Central Bank and Trust Corpora
tion, growing out of the claim of the
state for a lien on $204,373.98, state
funds on depof.it in the Neal Bank, has
been filed in the superior court at Atr
lanta by several of the depositors
who ask to l>e allowed to participate
in the distribution of the bank’s es
tate, and demur to the claim of the
state. The demurrer was allowed.