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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. ■ ■" —V— ' ii i 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.