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HONOR OF WIRZ
ENRAGES G.A.R,
Daughters of Confederacy Attacked
in Bitterest Criticism.
WRANGLE GROWS ACUTE
Wording of Inscription on AndsrsonviUe
Monument Cause of Fresh Outbreak
of Denunciatory Comment.
“When the accursed soul of Captain
Wirz floated into the corridors of hell
the devil recognized that his only pos
sible competitor was there.”
With these gentle and brotherly
words, says a Washington dispatch,
Corporal James Tanner greeted the
announcement of the inscriptions that
the Georgia division, Daughters of the
Confederacy, has selected for the
monument erected forty-three years af
ter the surrender at Appomattox to the
memory of Major Henry Wirz, Confed
erate States of America, just outside
the gates of Andc-rsonville.
The comment of Mrs. Isabel Worrell
Ball, president of the G. A. R. wo-
man’s relief corps, on the action of
her sisters in the south, was hardly
less bitter and vengeful. She said:
“In my opinion the erection of the
monument to Wirz is the crowning in
famy of an organization of women
which does more to keep alive the fires
of sectionalism than anything else in
the world.”
Corporal James Tanner, past com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic, was asked his opinion of
the Wirz monument, and the inscrip
tions that have been placed thereon by
the United Daughters of the Con fed
•eracy.
“In the first place,” said Mr. Tar
ner, “there is not an atom of truth in
existence, and never has been, of the
story of Wirz being offered immunity
hy the federal government if he would
implicate Jeff Davis.”
The inscription in question follows:
“In memory of Major Henry Wirz, C.
S. A., born in Zurich, Switzerland, tried
by illegal courtmartial under false
charges of excessive cruelty to fed
eral prisoners, sentenced and judicially
murdered at Washington, D. C., Novem
ber 10, 1865.
“That the United States government,
not Major Wirz, is chargeable with
the suffering at Andersonville, there is
abundant proof furnished by friend
and foe. Let the fact that he chose an
ignominious death rather than bear
false witness against President Davis,
speak for his high qualities of honor,
fortitude and self-sacrifice.”
Captain William V. Dawson of the
Union Veterans’ Alliance said that
while he did not care to discuss the
Wirz monument affair he had no doubt
the Grand Army posts and the patriotic
women would be heard from in angry
protest against the proposed inscrip
■tions on the monument.
“The site of the Andersonville pris
on pen,” he added, “is now owned by.
the Woman’s Relief Corps to the Grand’
Army of the Republic, and the propos
ed monument will certainly not be al
lowed on that reservation, if such an
act was contemplated.
Colonel John McElroy, past senior
vice commander-in-chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and an ex-prls
oner of war, who was an inmate at
various times of seven prisons, includ
ing Richmond and Andersonville, says.
“The proposed inscription on the
monument of Captain Henry Va- is
glaringly false in every sense, and is
strongly contradicted by documentary
evidence. I have personal knowledge
of the greater portion of the history
of Andersonville, as I was in the rs
squad that entered the prison, which
was February 24, 1864, and I remained
there until the prisoners were run out
of the stockade to avoid Snerman.
WITHDRAWALS SWAMPED BANK.
Kational of America, at New York, PKced
in Hands of Receiver.
Comptroller of the Currency William
B. Ridgely Sunday ordered the Na
tional Bank of North America at New
York closed for liquidation, and ap
pointed Charles Hanna, national bank
examiner, as receiver.
The failure and persistent withdraw
als, the result, according to President
Havemeyer, of insistent rumors set
afloat respecting the banks condition.
PRESIDENT ANGERED
At Charg. That He is Using Peonage la
Aid of Taft-Stinging Puj..^
R *ply is Coming.
A Washington special says: Pres
ident Roosevelt feels very keenly the
charges recently made against the ad
ministration of the use of federal pa
tronage to secure delegates to the next
republican national convention pledged
to the nomination of Secretary Taft.
This feeling has been strongly em
phasized and a vigorous sentiment of
autagonism aroused by the action of
the senate recently in holding up ex
ecutive appointments for confirmation.
Accordingly the president called the
members of his cabinet together
Ihursday morning and discussed with
them the subject of making a public
reply to these charges. All the mem
bers of the cabinet were present ex
cept Secretary Cortelyou. Several of
the cabinet officers had engagements
to appear before congressional com
mittees on various subjects of pend
ing legislation, and were compelled
to cancel them when the urgent sum
mons from the white house were re
ceived. The president instructed all
the members of his cabinet to prepare
as soon as possible a full list of the
recent appointments in his department
with the facts in each case. The
time which the order covered was left
indefinite, and several members were
in doubt as to whether all recess ap
pointments since the adjournment of
the last congress were meant or sim
ply those made since January 1.
At any rate the records are being
looked up, and when the facts ar
placed in the hands of the president he
will issue a public statement It will
will issue a public statement. It will
not be addressed to congress.
It will be recalled that among the
first appointments held up were those
of postmasters at Toccoa and Conyers,
Ga., to succeed the Incumbents, who
are women. The new appointments
were referred to the postoflice cabinet
and pigeon-holed. Next the senate or
dered an investigation in the Pensa-
cola, Fla., postoffice affair. It ap
pears that In this case a postmaster
has been illegally holding office for
a year after being rejected by the
senate for incompetency.
Next the senate rejected certain ap
pointments on the ground that they are
made for political effect and in the in
terest of Secretary Taft. Finally, a
New Hampshire appointment was made
without consultation with the senators
from that state, and a man was se
lected whom they opposed.
The president has indignantly de
nied making use of the executive ap
pointive power for political purposes,
and In each Instance has asked for
specifications and premised those in
terested a square deal.
In Georgia the announcement was
made that the changes ordered were
for incompetency on the part of the
incumbents. For several days it has
been reported that the president In
tended to retaliate against the senate
for thus blocking practically all ap
pointments sent in. Just how this was
to be done is not apparent The veiled
insinuation contained in the letter of
Governor Hughes to the republican
club is said to have been particularly
exasperating to President Roosevelt
and to have determined him upon the
present course.
CASH PAID THE GOVERNMENT.
New York Banks Return Installment of
Ten Millions to Treasury.
New York banks paid over to the
government Thursday the first install
ment of the $10,000,000 public depos
its that Secretary Cortelyou called on
them to surrender in order to strength
en the treasury’s working balanee. The
banks of the city now hold $72,027,000
of public deposits. $41,000,000 of which
was placed with them during the Oc
tober disturbance.
SHORTAGE OF HUNDRED MILLIONS
Is Faced By United States Treasury Say*
Chairmen Towney.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill occupied the attention Ol the
house Thursday to exclusion of a:l
dtber business.
A surprise was sprung when Chair
man Tawney of the appropriations com
mittee warned the members that the
country was confronted with the cer
tainty of a $100,000,000 deficit; unless
the estimates for the next fiscal year
ghould be cut down materially.
ANTIS BLUFF
GIRARDPROHIS
Bomb Exploded in Front of Homes
oi Prchi Leader and Ministers.
IN RESENT OF ARRESTS
Use of Dynamite Token as a Warning in
Booze Agitation- No Damage
Was Attempted.
Feeling between the members of the
Law and Order league at Girard, Ala.,
and persons opposed to the prohibi
tion laws, reached its height Friday
night when dynamite bombs were ex
ploded In front of the residences of G.
T. Gifford, president of the league,
and two Girard ministers active In
the league. No damage, however,
was done to persons or property.
The explosion followed the arrest of
six men, three whites and three ne
groes for violating the prohibition
laws. The Law and Order league
swore out eleven warrants on Informa
tion secured by a detective in the em
ploy of the league. The detective says
he got so close to the whisky vendors
that one of them offered to take him
into the business as a partner.
So much feeling was engendered
against the Law and Order league
that the officers were moved to Issue
\
a statement, in which they told that
the resentment against the organiza
tion Is unwarranted.
“We are prepared to protect any and
every man who has been in our em
ploy,” says the statement, "we want
It known that we assume all responsi
bility.
“These violations have been in a
sneaky form, and yet the violators
seem to be surprised when we get a
secret man to catch them.”
Officers of the league express the
opinion that the dynamite explosions
were effected to intimidate them.
Friends of the antl-prohlbltionists de
clare that mischievous young men
men caused the explosions.
MAKE STOCKHOLDERS RESPONSIBLE
Is Purport of Petition Filed in Cue of
Neal Bank at Atlanta.
Upon the petition of R. C. Bosche,
a depositor of the Neal Bank, before
Judge Ellis at Atlanta Friday morning,
a temporary restraining order was
granted to keep E. H. Thornton, W. F.
Manry, H. G. Caldwell, Arthur C. Kee
ly and Mi's. L. N. Pittman from sell
ing or transferring any property they
may possess until further instructions
from the court.
The Central Bank and Trust Corpora
tion, the receiver of the Neal Bank,
were likewise enjoined from transfer
ring or disposing of collateral they
hold or may liokl as security for loans
made by the Neal bank.
The petitioner claims that he de
posited $l,OOO in the bank, and desires
to join in the demurrers, special and
general, filed by other Ittervenors. He
alleges that the stockholders are re
sponsible for the bank’s indebtedness.
FLORIDA TRUCK GARDENS DAMAGED
Cold Wave Struck Many Points Along the
Gulf Coast.
The coldest weather experienced in
Pensacola since December, 1906, was
that of Friday, when the temperature
went as low as 28 degrees. The cold
wave has struck many points along
the gulf coast. Much damage has
been done to early crops and gar
dens.
THIEVING CASHIER MAKES FIGHT.
William Walker Will Resist Extradition
from Mexico to United States.
According to dispatches, William F.
Walker, the absconding cashier of the
New Britain, Conn., Savings Bank, will
fight extradition proceedings in Mexico
and will not return to the United
States until every means of defense
in Mexico has been exhausted.
EMPLOYEES MUST NOT DRINK.
Baltimore and Ohio Railway Issues Strin
gent Order Against Booze.
It is officially announced that here
after employees of the Baltimore and
Ohio railway having anything to do
with the direction or running of trains
will not be permitted to use intoxi
cants at any time, either while on or
off duty and every effort to prevent
using beverages will be employed.
A woman would rather break a $3
bill than a 10-cent dish.
QUESTION OF SLAVERY
Brought Up in Senate During Discussion
of Criminal Code Bill—A Jab
at Secretary Taft.
Greatly to the surprise of everyone,
the subject of slavery was introduced
in the senate Monday during consider
ation of the penal code bill. Secretary
Taft was directly charged with hav
ing a knowledge of slavery in the
Philippines. The debate was pertinent
to the sections of the bill revisiug the
criminal code of the United States,
which provides penalties for dealing
in slaves.
The old laws against the slave trade
have been retained in the code by the
committee, reporting it with a change,
by which the word “persons” is sub
stituted for the words "negroes mulat
fcoes and colored persons.” Mr. Hale
declared that slavery being a thing of
the past all reference to it should be
taken out of the code.
Mr. Heyburn, in charge of the bill,
contended for the retention of the pro
vision saying that there are forms of
slavery other than those Unit wero
abolished by the civil war. He cited
coolie slavery, and slavery for immoral
purposes, wuich he said exists in this
country, and said the prohibitionj
would apply to such practices. He said
that he had heard It charged that slav
ery of the old-fashioned kind still ex
ists iu one of the islands of the Philip-
pine group.
Mr. Hale said he was glad the sen
ator from Idaho had in his researches
found so good a reason for continuing
this prohibition against slavery.
He declared, however, that he had
never supposed slavery existed In the
island after American occupation.
“I am surprised,” asserted Mr. Till
man, "to hear any senator on the re
publican side disclaim knowledge of
what buß been notorious since* we took
possession of the Philippine islands
and known to exist there.”
Mr. Tillman said he was still more
surprised that “tlie party which had
gathered so much glory from the de
struction of slavery in this country,”
and which has absolute control of our
foreign affairs, had done nothing to put
an end to slave trade in tue Philip
pines “Why don’t the men,” he said,
“who are responsible for the Philip
pine government enforce tile law?”
Senator Stone called attention to an
agreement made by General John C.
Bates with the sultan of Sulu for con
tinuing slavery and polygamy.
“We have even gone further,” Mr.
Tillman said, “and have given saia
ries to the sultan and his dattos.”
Mr. Hale here again said that If
these monstrous conditions exist in the
Philippines and receive the sanction
of this government or of the senate
the fact had certainly not been appre
ciated by him.
Mr. Hale then asked that the para
graphs relating to slavery be passed
over in order that full information
might be received and Senator Hey
burn agreed.
ROCKEFELLER DISCHARGES DAGOES
! Places of Italians to Ee Filled by Ameri
can Unemployed.
To aid the large number of unem
ployed of Tarrytown, N. Y., who have
j appealed to him for help, John D.
Rockefeller sent word from Augusta,
I Ga., to the superintendent of his es
late at Poeantico Hills to lay off all
of the foreigners, and give employ
ment to needy residents. In addition,
Mr. Rockefeller has given permission
to those In want to go to his woods
and cut wood to warm their homes.
COUNTERFEIT CERTIFICATES.
Passing of Bogus Clearing House Money
Gets Negroes Into Trouble.
Charley Walker, colored, was bound
over to the superior court at Rome,
Ga., Monday morning on bond of $2,-
000 for passing counterfeit clearing
house certificates. Will Collier, col
ored, will be tried for the same of
fense. He is held under SI,OOO bond.
GREATEST AUTOCRAT EXTANT.
Power of Speaker Cannon Attacked in the
House by Missouri Congress nan
An attack of the power of the speak
er was made in the house of repre
sentative Friday by Mr. Shackelford
of Mlssturi during the consideration
of the urgency deficiency appropria
tion bill. He said Speaker Cannon
was the ablest, boldest champion of
autocracy this age has produced, and
declared that the speaker exercised
“a greated despotism than exists iri
any monarchy in Europe.”
LABOR UNIONS
GIVEN A BLOW
Through Important Decision ol
United States Supreme Court.
L. AND N. WINS CASE
Railway Companies Have Right to
charge Employees for LeUnging
to Labor Organizations.
A Washington special says: Tb
consUtutionality of the act of congres*
of June 1, 1908, prohibiting railroad
companies engaged in interstate com
merce from discriminating against
members of labor organizations in th
matter of employment, was called into
question by the case of William Adair
against the United States, which was
deckled by the supremo court of the
United States Monday favorable io
Adair.
The opinion was by Justice Harlan,
and held the law to be repugnant to
the constitution. The court held that
Adair, as master mechanic of the Louis
ville afnd Nashville Railroad company,
had a right to discharge an employee
becauso he was a member of a labor
organization, just as it was the em
ployee’s right to quit such employment
because of hi a membership In such or
ganization;'
The case came to the supreme court
on a writ of error from the United
States district court for the eastern
district of Kentucky. Adair Is the mas
ter mechanic of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad company, and he
was proceeded against on the chnrge
of threatening to discharge from the
employ of the company a locomotive
engineer named Coppage, because the
latter was a member of a labor union.
The act of 1898, which was one of the
results of the great Chicago strike, was
invoked for Coppage’s protection, and
the district court flood Adair SIOO. The
constitutionality of the act was stren
uously attacked In the district court
by the railroad attorney, and when the
decision was announced they promptly
brought the case to the supreme court,
with the result that the decision or
the lower court was reversed. In his
decision Justice Ilarlan hold It was
Adair’s right to serve Ills employer
as best he could, so long as he did
nothing forbidden by law as contrary
to the public welfare.
Supreme Court Justice Holmes also
expressed the opinion that the law
should be construed as intended. He
thought that the right to make oon
tracts had been stretched to the limit
by the court's decision In this case.
That congress had a right to so legis
late as to encourage labor organiza
tions was another suggestion of Justice
Holmes.
"While,” said Justlco Harlan in bis
opinion, "the rights of liberty and prop
erty guaranteed by the constitution to
the United States against deprivation
without due process of law la subject to
such reasonable restraint as common
good or the general welfare may re
quire, It Is not within the functions of
government—at least In the abs; nee of
contract between the parties—to com
pel any person In the course of his
business and against his will to accept
or retain the personal services of an
other or to compel any person against
his will to perform personal services
for another.
"The right of a person to sell hi*
labor, upon such terms as he deems
proper, Is in Its essence the same as
the right of the purchaser of labor to
prescribe conditions upon which he
will accept such labor from the person
offering to sell It. So the light of an
employee to quite the service of tho
employer, for whatever reason, is the
same as the right of the employer, for
whatever reason, to dispense with the
services of such employee. In all such
particulars, tho employer and the em
ployee have equality of rights and any
legislation that disturbs that equality
Is an arbitrary interference with the
liberty of contract which no govern
ment can legally justify In a free
land.”
CASE RESTS WITH ROObEVELT.
Hancock Courtmartial Matter to Be Passed
Upon by President.
The case of Major Hancock, coast ar
tillery corps, station! and at Fort Baran
cas, Fla., has been received at the
war department for action of the pres
ident. Hancock was tried by court
martial at Atlanta, Ga., on charges of
alleged violation of a pledge to ab
stain front the use of intoxicating li
quor.