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The Jones County News
V«fc. X.
REJECT ALL
Strikers and Packers Try in
Vain to Reach Agreement,
BOTH SIDES OBDURATE
Proposals and Counter Proposals Ga¬
lore arc Turned Down With
Frompt Regularity—Many
Conferences Held.
Negotiations for peace in the stork
5 ’ards at Chicago were practically at
a standstill Friday night and the
strike will continue until one side or
the other abates something of the
demands made up to the presfnt time.
Both sides are anxious for a peace¬
able settlement, hut the stumbling
block 13 a final adjustment is that
neither side is prepared to allow the
other to dictate the basis of arbitra-
tiqti. 1
The packers Friday afternoon con¬
sidered Mr. Eonuelly’s reply to their
proposition of Thursday night, but it
proved unsatisfactory and the union
officials were notified that it would be
impossible to reach an agreement
along the lines suggested by Mr. Con¬
nelly. In their answer to Mr. Donnel¬
ly the packers declared themselves
willing to arbitrate, but stipulated
that the arbitration should include the
entire scope of the strike and not bo
subject to the restrictions or limita¬
tions of any kind.
'c'his communication of the packers
was- identical with the one sent previ¬
ously by them to Donnelly and to
which his counter-proposition of Fri¬
day is a reply.
Mr. Donnelly's latest proposition to
the packers was as follows:
All grievances to be submitted to
erbitration; all strikers to he reinstat¬
ed in a body; men employed by the
packers since the strike may be maln-
vained f use can be found for them;
Shat the temporary wage scale to be
that in effect previously tc May 28.
This means that unskilled labor is to
be paid pending the decision of the
arbitrators 18 1-2 cents instead of 15
o IT 1-3 cents, the prices paid since
May 28.
The following is the reply of the
Tpa-cltOrs to the proposition of Mr. Don¬
nelly:
Ail grievances to be submitted to
arbitration; the strikers to be re em¬
ploye-1 as rapidly as places can be
found for them; preference to be giv¬
en the strikers in the order of their
applications for work; all men now
at work to be retained and the tem¬
porary wages to be in accordance
with the schedule in effect at the time
of the strike.
The allied trade unions at the
stock yards are becoming restless,and
unless a settlement is reached in the
near future they may decide to stop
work in sympathy with the men al-
rea 'y out. The members of the allied
crafts at the yards in Chicago num¬
ber 14,000 or 15,000, and a majority
of them belong to a union.
| MILES INDORSES PARKER.
Former Head of Army Writes Letter
, to the Judge at Es°pus.
Judge Parker received a letter Fri¬
day from General Nelson A. Miles.
The entire letter is in General Miles’
town handwriting and in part is as fol¬
lows:
“It, is fortunate that the democratic
party has given to the country a can
didate for president in whom that
council of representative men
every confidence, and \W have
the best of reasons for beliving that
that confidence will be confirmed by
the intelligent patriotic people of tho
count ry.
■ i believe you will be elected and
thereby liavo an opportunity of ren¬
dering our country a service of im¬
measurable value that will redound to
the honor of the democratic party and
the glory of the republic.
“I have the honor to remain very
tru.y, NELSON A. MILES.”
WHO OWNS MAINE WRECK?
Cubans Anxious to Rid Harbor of the
History Making Hulk.
R. H, F. Sewell, of New Orleans,
has informed the navy department that
he has made a contract with the Cu¬
ban government to raise the wreck of
the battleship Maine, which has lain
in the mud of the harbor of Havana
since tiie explosion on the night of
February 15, 1898.
Before proceeding with the work, Mr.
Sewell rays he desires to know what
claim, if any, the United States gov¬
ernment has in the wreck,
MIGHT AS WELL KEPT IT.
m York Man Confessed to Stealing
Money and Made Restitution.
Robert B. Taylor, if New York, who
confesed stealing unsigned bank
notes to the amount of $6,720 from
the Citizens’ national bank, of New
York, has made restitution. This, how¬
ever, will make ikj difference in the
prosecution of the case, as the United
States district attorney says Taylor
will be tried in November.
BRYAN andplatform.
Nebraskan Dissects Declaration Adopt-
i cd by Democrats and Renders
: Judgment,
j A. dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says:
! W. J. Bryan Thursday made public the
following statement relating to the
i democratic platform adopted at St.
: Louis:
“The plank on Imperialism is posi¬
tive, strong and satisfactory to the en¬
tire party and this question becomes
the paramount issue of the campaign.
“The tariff plank Is good, hut it was
made &o on a close vote in the com¬
mittee -ind largely against the oppo¬
sition of, Mr. Paraer’S" adherents. The
plank which was voted down favored
•a wise, conservative and businesslike’
revision, made ‘with due regard to ex¬
isting conditions.’ The committee
thought that these qualifying words
emasculated the plank and left it. so
weak as to give no hope to tariff re¬
formers.
“The anti-trust plank is a good one.
It demands the ehfohcement bf ihb
criminal iuvv agairtst the trusts; it dJ-
mands the abolition of rebates and dis¬
criminations and it. demands the with¬
drawal of the interstate commerce
privileges from trusts when otico con¬
victed. The plank is infinitely supe¬
rior to the republican plank, and, with
h president who desired to destroy
trusts, would be a sufficient plank, hut
as this trust plank was also substitut¬
ed by the full committee, there is rea¬
son to fear that it may not be in keep¬
ing with the ideas of the candidate.
“The labor plank is all that could he
desired. It declares against govern¬
ment by injunction; it favors arbitra¬
tion and the eight-hour day and de¬
nounces the methods that have been
resorted to in the Colorado strike-, hilt
as these planks were added in the full
committee, some uncertainty exists as
to the candidate’s position.
The platform declares in favor of
the reduction of the army. Upon this
the committee was unanimous. The
sub-committee reported a plank in fa¬
vor of an increase of the navy, but
this was stricken out in the full com¬
mittee.
“The platform deelaies in favor oi
the enlargement of the scope of the
interstate commerce commission and
in favor of irrigation.
“The general clauses of the plat
form excite no dispute, and the appeal
against the introduction of a race is
sue ought to have weight with the so¬
ber, thinking American^.
“On the whole, the platform is good.
From a western standpoint, its great¬
est defect is that it makes no men¬
tion of the money question. An at¬
tempt was made to secure a plank op¬
posing the melting of the silver dol¬
lar, opposing the asset currency and
branch banks, and expressing a pref¬
erence for the United States note (or¬
dinarily known as greenbacks), over
the bank note, but having refused to
put in a gold plank, the committee
was not wiling to have any phase of
the money question alluded to.
“While the motion to reaffirm the
Kansas City platform was voted down,
there was a considerable vote in favor
of its reaffirmation, an.l the Western
members' of the committee, together
with a few from the south, stood to¬
gether and secured enough changes in
the platform to make it a presentable
document and worthy of the support
of the party.”
INVESTIGATORS GIVEN ROAST.
Lively Time at Meeting of Appropria¬
tions Committee of Georgia House.
There was a lively time before the
bouse committee on appropriations
Thursday afternon, when the trustees
of the state sanitarium appeared to
urge the committee not to cut the
appropriation of $325,000 which has
been given it for the last two years.
The committee had at a former meet
ing cut the appropriation to the sani¬
tarium to $300,000, but bad reconsid¬
ered this action, and left the matteT
open until the trustees could be heard
from.
Judge Thomas E. Lawson, of Eat-
onton, vice chairman of the board of
trustees, was first heard and he han¬
dled without gloves the report of the
legislative investigating committee of
which Toe Hall, of Bibb, was chairman,
and which severely criticised the
methods and system employed in the
conduct of the state sanitarium.
During Judge Lawson’s address Mr.
Hall made reply t f> some statements of
the speaker and Judge Lawson said
he did not want, to be interrupted.
“It is folly for any roan to say that
an institution of his magnitude, with
its ten trustees, has been conducted
for a period of fifty years, without an
intelligent system of bookkeeping.”
Judge Lawson said: “It's not true, no
matter if one member of the commit¬
tee said it, no matter if forty members
said it.”
TWENTY-SEVEN SURVIVORS.
Arrive at Boston from Liverpool on
Board Cunard Steamer.
On board the Cunard steamer Saxo-
nia, which arrived at her dock in east
Boston from Liverpool Thursday fore-
noon were twenty-seven persons who
were on the Seandinavian-American
line steamer Norge, wrecked off the
the north coast of Scotland while on
a voyage from Copenhagen to New
York.
GRAY. JONES CO. GA.. THURSDAY. JULY 21. 1904.
bryan for PARK [ R
Nebraskan Says He Will Work
and Vote for Nominee.
PUBLIC STATEMENT MADE
Condemns Part of Platform Adopted at
St. Louis—Gives Plain and Une¬
quivocal Reasons for Hi#
Proposed Action.
At Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday Wi. J.
Bryan gave out the following state¬
ment:
“I shall vote for Parker and Davis,
the nominees of the democratic na¬
tional convention, and shall do so for
the following reasons:
"First, because the democratic tick¬
et stands for opposition to imperial¬
ism, while the republican ticket stands
for an imperialistic policy. On this
question, which was the paramount is¬
sue in 1900 and which must remain
an important issue so long as an at¬
tempt, is made to hold colonies under
the American flag, on this issue the
convention was unanimous, the plat¬
form emphatic, and I have no doubt
that the candidate will carry out tho
platform.
"Second, Mr. Roosevelt is injecting
the race issue into American politics,
and this issue, if it becomes national
will make it impossible to consider
economic questions that demand solu¬
tion. The election of a democratic
ticket will put a quietus upon this
attempt and permit the race question
to work ilself out without the bitter¬
ness which Mr. Roosevelt’s conduct
has engendered.
Roosevelt Too Warlike.
“Third, Mr. Roosevelt stands for the
spirit of war. His friends represent
him as a man of blood and iron. He
believes in strenuousness and incul¬
cates a love for warlike things, Tiie
democratic ticket stands for peace, for
reason and for arbitration rather than
for force, conquest and bluster.
“Fourth, the democratic platform de¬
clares in favor of the reduction of the
standing army, and as this plank was
unanimously adopted, there is rfason
to believe that democratic success on
this subject would bring some advan¬
tage to the people.
"For these four reasons I feel justi¬
fied in supporting the ticket, but I
shall not misrepresent the situation or
appeal for votes for the ticket on false
grourrls. A democratic victory will
mean very little, if any, progress in
economic questions, so long as the
party Is under the control of the Wall
street element. On the money question
Mr. Parker is sb thoroughly committed
to the side of the financiers as Mr.
Roosevelt. If he dors not go as far as
the republicans would in retiring sil¬
ver dollars, in establishing branch
hanks, in enlarging tho powers of
the national banks, and in the substi¬
tution of an asset currency for the
present currency, it will be because
he is restrained by the democrats in
the house and senate. Nothing good
can be expected of him on the money
question.
Parker No Trustbuster.
“On the trust question the demo
eratic platform is very much better
Ilian the republican platform, but the
nomination of Judge Parker virtually
nullifies the anti-trust plank. Unless
in his letter of acceptance he com
mits himself to attempt anti trust leg¬
islation we need not expect him to
pursue a different course from that
pursued by Roosevelt.
“In the full committee planks Were
adopted in favor of arbitration, the
eight hour day and against govern¬
ment by injunction; also a plank on
the Colorado situation.
“If Judge Parker is silent or am¬
biguous on these subjects it will mean
that tho financial influence back of
him will not let him take the labo;
side of these disputed questions,
"On the tariff question some little
progress may be hoped for, but the
Parker men on the committee were
necessarily in favor of a very conserv¬
ative tariff plank, and it remains to be
seen whether Judge Parker will carry
out the positive and definite plank
which was submitted by the full com¬
mittee. This is the situation.
Has Nothing to Retract.
“Judge Parker stands for enough
things that are good to justify me
in giving him my vote, but, as I have
tried to point out for several months
the triumph of the Wall street ele¬
ment of the party denies to the coun¬
try any hope of relief on economic
questions. I have nothing to take
back. I have nothing to withdraw
of the things that I have said againsl
the methods pursued to advance his
candidacy.
STEAMER BURNED AT DOCKS.
Vessel cf Mallory Line Practically Do
etroyed at Chester, Pa.
^he fi t ea mship San Jacinto, of the
Mallory line, was practically destroyed
by fire Tuesday while lying at. Roach’s
ship yards, Chester-, Pa., v.-here she was
laid up for repairs. The vessel was
built a year ago at a cost of $500,000.
The fire originated in a room used
tor storing oil and varnish.
aimed AT southern,
Packers Insist on Retaining New Em'
ployes, But Will Reinstate Old
Men in Order of Application.
In the Georgia house of representa¬
tives, Wednesday, after a warm debate
which was participated In by
of the ablest speakers in the house, a
bill requiring that all railroad com-
panics which enjoy the privilege of
doing business in Georgia, and of occu¬
pying its roads ami streets, shall se¬
cure a Georgia charter, was passed by
a vote of 97 to 29 and ordered imme¬
diately transmitted to the senate.
It is said that this hill, while gen¬
eral in Us terms, is aimed primarily
at the Southern railway, as that la
claimed to be the only railroad system
in the state which conus within tiie
provision of the bill as it is drawn.
Should the bill become a law the effort
of it would be to- require the Southern
tt> take out a state charter, unless the
measure should be declared unconsti¬
tutional by the courts.
“All that this bill requires,” said Mr.
Hall, its author, in addressing the
house, “is that those railroad corpora
tions which exercise the right of emi¬
nent domain, which enjoy the valuaole
franchises of this state, shall become
citizens of Georgia and abide by its
laws.”
Mr. Hall claimed there was no right
or justice in a great railway corpora
tion being incorporated in a foreign
state and enjoying the valuable privi
leges granted by Georgia, without eon
forming to its laws and statutes. A
great principle is involved, he do
Glared.
“This great corporation,” said Mr
Hall, referring to the Southern rail
way, "controlled by Wall street pow
er, can make or unmake any man oi
community in the state of Georgia.”
“One man in Wall 3treet can touch
a bell and destroy any citizen or com
munlty in the state of Georgia.
"Have the people of Georgia lost al
their rights? Shall we remain a do
pendent of Wall street?” Mr. Hall ask
ed in conclusion.
Mr. Slaton, of Fulton, made the only
speech in opposition to the bill. Mr.
Slaton said he considered there was
An existing evil to be remedied, bul
he was sure it could not be done
through the bill of the gentleman from
Bibb. The United States supreme
court, he said, had passed on the ques
tlon involved and had held that, such
measures were unconstitutional. The
bill was retroactive, Mr. Slaton said
No such law could be passed and made
to apply to a railroad that has beer
here fourteen years.
Tho remedy, Mr. Slaton declared
was in application to the interstate
commerce commission or the national
Mr. Slaton declared that no burdens
were imposed on tho people of the
state by the Southern that are not. im
posed by other roads. Within the slate
the power of the railroad commission
to remedy evils complained of is full
and explicit. But when it comes to a
shipment from outside the state it be
comes a national question, dnd lhe
legislature cannot deal with it.
The decision of the TJnited Stains
supreme court referred to by Mr. Sla¬
ton was in a case brought against s
similar law passed by the legislature
of North Carolina.
FEREE VOLUNTARILY RETURNS.
Embezling Louisiana Postmaster Is
Brought Back from Canada.
United States Postoffiee Inspectoi
Anderson reached New Orleans Thttrs
day with Horace S. Fereo, the 'de¬
faulting postmaster of Jennings, La.
whom he arrested some days ago in
Montreal.
When the postoffice department dis
covered that Force was a fugitive from
Jennings, Anderson was put on tlie
case. He found Fereo had registered
in New Orleans under an assumed
.tame with a woman represented as his
Wife. Ho got away before he could
be arrested, Anderson traced the
pair to Cincinnati, thence to Chicago,
thence to Toronto and finally to Mon
treal
TO REPOSE IN TRANSVAAL.
England Gives Permission for Kru¬
ger’s Body to Be Sent to Africa.
At a meeting of the privy council
at Buckingham palace, in London, Fri¬
day, at Which King Edward presided,
the request of the relatives of the late
•Mr. Kruger, former president of the
South African republic, for the inter¬
ment of his remains in the Transvaal,
was considered, and it was suhse-
quently announced that the desired
permission had been telegraphed to
Clarens, Switzerland, where Mr. Kru-
scr died, through the British minis¬
ter at Berne.
8AVANNAHIANS THANKED.
Parker Sends Message to Club of
Which He is Honorary Member.
A message was received in Savan
nah, Friday, from Judge Parker by
the Citizens' Marching Club of Ha-
vannah, thanking the club for its ex-
presslon of good will upon his receiv-
ing the presidential noniinaton. Judge
Parker is an honorary member of the
club, having been taken in when he
was in Georgia last summer.
i PAUL KRUCER
Ex-President of Transvaal
Republic Goes Hence.
^ NOTABLE CHARACTER
]
’ Fruitless
As Leader of Boers in Their
Contest With England He Won
Patriotic Plaudits of the
World.
Paul Kruger, former president of the
Transvaal republic, in South Africa,
died at Clarens, Switzerland, Thurs¬
day morning from pneumonia and su¬
pervening heart weakness.
Mr. Kruger lost consciousness Mon¬
day. His daughter and son in law
were with him at the time of ills
death. He had been out only once
since his arrival at Clarens at the be¬
ginning of last month.
The ex-president’s body was em¬
balmed at once and the remains placed*
in a vault pending funeral arrange¬
ments. Application wilt be made to
the British government for authority
to transport the remains to (he Trans¬
vaal. In tho meantime they will he
temporarily interred at Clarens.
Mr. Kruger, who was staying at the
Villa du Roiclu t, had been gradually
failing for a long time, hut he was
able to attend (o affairs, read the
newspapers and received visits until
Saturday-
A change for the worse set in on
Sunday. Ho became unconscious Mon¬
day and 1‘cma'ned so until his death.
On several occasions Mr. Kruger
had expressed a desire to be burled
beside his wife, in his own country.
The post mortem of the body show-
edp that Kruger died of senile inani¬
tion. The slate of the ex-president’s
health had been kept secret.
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger,
ex-president of the Soulh African Re¬
public, was born in Coles-burg, Capo
Colony, October 10, 1825. His ances¬
tor, Jacob Kruger, went from Berlin
in tho Dutch Hast. India Company’s
service in 1713, at the time when the
foundations of many of the leading
Boer families were being laid by Immi¬
gration. In 1836 young Paul shared
with his family the hardships of the
great trek, when the blunders of thd
British colonial administration made
enemies of the leading Boers of Cape
Colony and drove them to a self-im¬
posed exile which resulted in the
founding of a new South African no-
public beyond the Vaal.
In preparation for the struggle with
England which he liad long regarded
as inevitable, Kruger had put the
Transvaal into an excellent, defensive
state Ly the purchase of largo quanti¬
ties of arms and ammunition.
The events and results of the Boer
war are matters of history.
After (he fall of Pretoria (June 5,
1900), President Kruger fled into Por¬
tuguese territory, and on October 19th
sailed from Lourenzo Marques for Eu¬
rope in the hope of securing foreign
aid or intervention. He was received
with enthusiasm In France, but failed
to obtain an audience with the Gor¬
man emperor and took up his resi¬
dence in the Netherlands, making ills
Mffne in Utrecht and The Hague. His
efforts to secure foreign intervention
failed, but ho continued to exhort the
P.oers to stand fast lo the Iasi.
Causes Sorrow in Paris.
A Paris special says: The death of
the president of the Transvaal, Paul
Kruger, at Clarens, Switzerland,
arouses widespread regret, owing to
French sympathy for the Boer cause
and personal admiration for the ex-
president.
He avoided reference to the Boer
war, but when it, was occasionally
mentioned, ho showed no resentment
and expressed the belief that Provi¬
dence would eventually render justice
to the Boer cause.
Berlin Eulogizes Kruger.
The evening papers of Berlin, Ger¬
many, print warm eulogizes of former
Premier Kruger, studiously avoiding
anti-Ilritish expressions.
TO FIGHT CORRUPTION.
Memphis Citizens Hold Meeting and
Roundly Score Many Officials.
Resolutions were unanimously adopt¬
ed by a largely attended mass meet¬
ing of citizens of Memphis, Tenn.,
Thursday night which, in substance,
demand*! that lawlessness and crime
must be rooted out of Memphis. Tiie
resolutions severely criticise certain
public officials for not enforcing the
laws and a committee was named to
visit these officials with a request that
they make a public statement as to
what may be expected of them in the
future.
WAGE CUT AT FALL RIVER.
Mill Officials Post Notices of 12 1-2
Per Cent Reduction.
A committee, representing the Fall
qi ver Manufacturers’ Association, 1 b-
Bue(1 0 fci<;fal notice Thursday that the
wageg G f the cotton mill operatives in
fall River would he reduced 12 1-2
per cent on Monday, July 25. The cut
? ff c . etg 80 mills, employing about 25,-
000 hands.
MEAT CUTTER i 0N STRIKt
Big Packing House* in Chicago, Kan-
sas City, Omaha and Other Cities
Have Closed Down.
t
A Chicago dispatch says: As the rc-
suit, of a stubborn disagreement, chief-
ly over wages for unskilled labor, one
of tho most extensive strikes in the
history of the packing industry In tho
United Stales began in Qhicago, Kan¬
sas City, Omaha, St. Joseph, Mo., and
other cities where large packing plants
are I located, on Tuesday morning.
The unanimity of the strike was
complete. More than 45,000 employees
are directly Involved. In Chicago alone
18,000 men are on a strike.
The walk-out at Chicago was started
by the employees of tho killing de¬
partments ns fast as tiie current work
left by the slaughterers could be clos¬
ed up. Thus, as the workers In each
department disposed of their part oi
ihe work they threw eft their aprons
and departed. This consideration was
shown the packers, the labor officials
announced, because it was not tho de¬
sire to carso the employers any finan¬
cial loss ar, a result of neglecting
moat that was on hand to be dressed.
Watched by cordons of police, the
strikers filed briskly out of the pack¬
ing houses, carying overalls, rubber
hoots and knives, cleavers and steels.
One hundred girls employed In the
label department of Nelson, Morris &
Co., struck with the men.
As a result all the plants shut down
and 12,000 employees in the various
departments are affected. Those out or
affected by the strike of the meat cut¬
ters nil 1 butchers are distributed as
follows:
Armour 3.500
Swift . 2,800
Cudahy 2.500
Schwarzchild & Sulsbnrger. . 2,000
Fowler 1,200
Ruddy Brothers .... .. .. 800
The packing houses were Itl unus¬
ually good condition, having hut a
small quantity of slock on hand to
work ii]), and In all this was cleaned
up Ly noon, the molt working until
tills had been accomplished.
Stagnation marked the cattle mar¬
ket, as the packers had previously
warned the, commission firms that
there would be no buying Tuesday.
BOOSTS HIS FATHER-IN-LAW.
Steve Elkins Says Hon. H. Q, Davis
Should Have Headed the Ticket,
Ex-Senator Stephen B. Elkins, tem¬
porary chairman of the West Virginia
republican stale convention, Bounded
the keynote of the campaign in his
speech before tho convention at Whee¬
ling Tuesday upon taking the chair.
He said, in part:
“The democratic party, in its desire
to capture this state, haB nominated
for vice president one of our most
distinguished citizens and the fore¬
most democrat in tho state, hut in
this, as in most everything else, the
democrats- mode a mistake.
“Senator Davis, to whom I am so
nearly related and for whom I cherish
feelings of the highest regard, admira¬
tion and affection, is a man of affairs
and on experienced statesman, having
served Ills state creditably In the sen¬
ate for 12 years. With these qualifica¬
tions and tills Illness, he should liavo
been named for the first place Instead
of n man without a record and without
business or political experience.
"West Virginia cannot be gulled in¬
to giving up protection and sound
money to make Judge Barker presi¬
dent even if by so doing they inako
Senator Davis vice president. I have
no doubt as to republican success In
November, (here is no good reason
why any republican should change Ills
vote on state or national issnos, but
many and weighty roasons why ho
should not. Our people are contented
and happy, busy and prosperous. What |
more could be had or what more could j
we wish?
Tuesday night the convention pro¬
ceeded wit Ii nominations for governor. ’
Charles F. Teter was named by Con- |
grossman O. A. G. by Dayton ex-Governor and William Goorgo! M. j
Dawson
Wesley Wilkinson. On the roll call
of counties Dawson received 436 votes
and Teter 331.
NEW TREATY PROCLAIMED.
Amsrlosn and Russian Corporation*
Now on Equal Footing.
The corporation treaty between tho
1
United States and Russia negotiated
by Ambassador McCormick was for¬
mally proclaimed at St. Petersburg
Tuesday. i
The treaty provides that American
and Russian corporations may sue In
the courts of both Russia and the Uni-
ted States previous to the promulga-
tion of the treaty among concerns con-
nected with Russia, but could not bring
suit in that country.
ADVICE GOES UNHEEDED.
Mioaiselppi Rpubllcans Not Hankering
After Congressional Honors.
President. Roosevelt's intimation tc
the republicans of Mississippi some
time ago that he would like to have
them put congressional tickets in the
field this year does not seem to have
been heed eel. Only one republican has
thus far ventured to offer himself feu
congress, and there are no indication!
that oilers will do so.
NO. 86.
NEW BALLOT LAW
>
Is Passed in Georgia House
by Handsome Majority.
i
! (JP TO THE SENATE
|
Measure Is of Far-Reaching Impor¬
tance and is Intended to Fore¬
stall Dishonest Election Meth¬
ods—A Decided Reform.
By the somewhat unexpectedly largo
vote of 102 to 40 tho ballot reform bill
; or Australian ballot bill was passed by
tho Georgia house of representatives
Tuesday and will go at once to the
senate for Its uction.
The measuro was passed after five
days of debate practically as reported
by tho special joint committee of tho
j house ami senate with only one inipor-
, tant change. Tho house struck out
j the section providing for the late pri¬
maries and loft that matter to be set¬
tled just as it is now, by the executive
commitloes of such parties as hold prf-
nmry elections. The sections referred
to provided that no primary election
should lie held more than sixty days
prior to the regular election to whicU
it related. After several ineffectual at¬
tempts to satisfactorily amend thin gee-
lion, it was stricken out entirely. Tho
other amendments were of minor im¬
portance, so far as the general effect,
of the bill is concerned, and were
adopted with a view simply to perfect¬
ing the measure in all its details.
The house spent he entire session on
the measure Tuesday, disposing of tho
final sections of the hill and amending
them In several unimportant particu¬
lars with a view to preserving the se¬
crecy of the ballot and making it a
fair one in every respect.
The action of the house is quite it
Compliment to the special committee
which had charge of the matter of
making report on the hill. This com-
mltee was composed of Dr. T. .1. M.
Kelly, of Glascock, chairman; Presi¬
dent Howell, of tho senate; Senators
H. W. Hopkins, of the Seventh; H. A.
Mainows, of the twenty-third, and J.
II. Skelton, of the Thirty-first; Speak¬
er Morris, of the house; Messrs. Akin,
of Bartow; Stovall, of Chatham; Hall,
of Bibb, and Candler, of DeKalb.
Dr. Kelly, author of the bill, is high¬
ly gratified over the action of the
house.
“I felt confident (hat the measure
would go through by a good vote,” he
said. “I know the people of thin state
want a pure ballot, and only by this
law can thoy have It. The house has
done a good week’s work and I am sure
tho senate will pass the hill on to tho
governor. If the legislature does noth¬
ing else this session hut put a pure
ballot law on the statute books, It will
have done a great work.”
Summarized, the hill calls for the
adoption of the Australian ballot sys¬
tem In all general and primary elec¬
tions in tho state. It provides for so-
cret booths, election managers, th«
Australian ballot, for the punishment
of Illegal voters, for the manner in
which illiterate voters shall cast thoir
ballots, for the time of holding elec¬
tions In the state, and for the counting
of ballots.
MORE GEORGIA COUNTIES. !
Measure Passes Both Houses Increas¬
ing Number from 137 to 145.
The feature of Tuesday’s session of
the Georgia senate was the unanimous
passage of the bill introduced in the
house tty Mr. Cromartie, of Appling,
calling tor an increase in counties in
Ilio state from 137 to 145. This hill has
now become a law, having already, af¬
ter some discussion, been passed by
tho house.
The bill calls for the division of cer-
tain of the larger counties in South
Georgia into new counties. This was
thought necessasary on the score of
convenience and expansion, as in these
large counties many of the residents
were put lo serious inconvenience In
traveling from their homes to tho
c0urt8 anf , f . ollnty It was also
thought to be pari and parsol of tho
Greater Georgia movement.
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WOOD FORCED TO VACATE. '
A'abama Probate Judge Quits His Of¬
ficial Position Under Fire.
Probate Judge J. Calvin Wood, of
Lowndes county, Ala., against whom
impeachment proceedings are pending
in the supreme court, resigned Thurs¬
day, effective at once. He haB been re-
uomlnalort f ov re-election next Novem-
j lfJr | )|)t j s not ^ nown w aetiicr ho
. vj]| rrllnqll)s , h thf(i or not .
Wood was charged with purchasing
votefJ aflf) j- a j| llre t 0 discharge the du-
ties of his office. The impeachment
proceedings will be abated.
TOLEDO MAYOR PA88E3 AWAY.
He Won Renown Under Sobriquet of
"Golden Rule Jones.”
Samuel M- Jones, ‘ the Golden Rule
Mayor,” died at his home in Toledo,
Ohio, Tuesday, as the result of a com¬
plication of diseases.
The immediate cause of his death
was an abscess on his lungs.
Tho death of Mayor Jones has caus¬
ed the greatest sorrow all over tho
city.