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VOLUME XVI.
CLAYTON, RABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5* 1913. NUMBER 48.
CONGRESS NOW IN
NEW ALABAMA SENATOR £
IANIELS OUTLINES
PRESIDENT E. J. JAMES
ARMY SURRENDERS
CONGRESS BEGINS 3ESS10N THAT
MAY CONTINUE INTO NEXT
SUMMER.
SPECIAL SESSION CLOSES
Galleries Crowded to Wtiness the
Opening, But Formalities Were
Curtailed.
Washintgon.—Congress closed the
extraordinary session, which began on
April 7, and settled down to the reg
ular “long” session, expected to con
tinue Into next summer. Only the
absolutely necesaary formality marked
the ending of the old session and the
beginning of the new.
An attempt to institute the proposod
drastic program of day and night ses
sions for consideration of the adminis
tration currency bill failed, the Demo
crats agreeing to allow Anal settle
ment o of the program to go over
to give the Republicans time to con
sider It.
Republican Leader Gallinger and
Senator Smoot comforted tho Domo-
crast with the announcement that the
Republicans would make no effort to
filibuster or obstruct in any way the
passage of currency legislation and the
Democratic leaders predicted the en
actment of the measure before the
holidays.
The currency bill, as completed by
the Democratic conference, was print
ed and prepared for the senate, and
Senator Owen presented It as a sub
stitute for the hill originally reported
by himself and the administration
Democrats of the banking &ud .cur
rency committee.
The house contented itself with a
brief meeting, formally opening the
new session. The galleries were
crowded to witness the opening, but
the formalities were curtailed.
Senator Burton, Republican, of Ohio,
introduced a currency hill of hla own
whtch would provide for the formation
of a central bank to be owned by the
public and operated by the govern
ment.
Representative Gray of Indiana In
troduced a bill which would provide
for an international conference next
fall for the purpose of agreeing to a
plan for disarmament and suspension
of naval construction programs. The
bill would authorize an appropriation
of $50,000, the United States to enter-
tain the delegates from foreign pow
ers.
HARRISON HEADS SOUTHERN
He la Chosen to Succeed the Late
President Finley.
New York.—Fairfax Harrison, for
merly vice president of the Southern
Railway company, and for the last
three years president of the Chicago,
Indianapolis and Louisville Railway
company, of which the Southern is
part owner, was elected president of
the Southern Railway company to suc
ceed the late William Wilson Finley,
Mr. Harrison is a Virginian, his
home being at Belvoir, Va. He' is pe
culiarly identified with the South, as
his father was private secretary to
Jefferson Davis while president of the
Confederate states, and all his railroad
experience has been with the Southern
and its associated lines. Mr. Harrison
was born in 1869, and was graduated
from Yale with the A. B. degree in
1890 and from Columbia with the A.M.
degree in 1891. He was admitted to the
bar in New York in 1892,'and contain-
ued the practice of law in this city
until 1896, when he entered the serv
ice of the Southern railway in the
legal department as solicitor.
President Harrison gavo out the
following statement:
“I am in entire accord and sympathy
with the policies of my lamented
friend, Mr. Finley, under whom I have
worked for seventeen years. I hope
to continue to build the Southern as
he built it by promoting and enhanc
ing its usefulness to and its cordial
relations with the people of the South.
I count on the support of the entire
present working organization of the
Southern, rank and file. Having grown
up in the service with most of them,
I know how to value them and I am
proud to believe that they are my
friends,”
Frank P. Glass, who was appointed
by Governor O'Neal of Alabama to fill
the vacant seat In the United States
senate resulting from the death of
Joseph H. Johnston, Is editor of the
Birmingham Ne%rs and head of tho
Montgomery Advertiser,
TRYING TO BREAK HUERTA
GENERAL VILLA IS NOW MAKING
HEADY FOR’AN ATTACK ON
CHIHUAHUA CITY.
Spanish Residents Appeal to the
American Consul for Protection
for Lives and Property.
El Pnso, Texas.—Rebel scouts re
ported to General Francisco Villa at
Juarez that they had sighted the Fed
eral outposts at Villa Ahumada, 84
miles south of Juarez. The presence
of the Federal forces at Villa Ahumada
has caused no little concern in Juarez,
as the rebel officers do not know defi
nitely whether they are the troops
which retreated from Tierra Blanca
after their defeat or are relnforce-
ments»from Chihuahua, again moving
north to engage Villa.
“I wiil leave to attack Chihuahua
just as soon as I can get my trains
loaded with provisions and troops,"
said General Villa at Juarez.
General Villa will hold a review and
parade of his troops In celebration of
the victol-y over the Federals at Tierra
Blanca. After the parade the troops
will make Immediate preparations tor
leaving for the south.
Villa expects to have at *least 12,-
000 men when he attacks Chihuahua.
He said he had sent word for Gen.
Thomas Urbina to bring 3,000 men
north from Torreon district, and that
Gen. Manuel Choa is now in the vi
cinity of Chihuahua with 2,000 rebel
troops. Villa will take 7,000 soldiers
from Juarez, leaving a garirson of
about one hundred men to protect the
city.
NO BAIL ALLOWED ZELAYA
Former Ruler of Nicaragua la Held on
the Charge of Murder.
New York.—Jose Santos Zelaya, the
former president of Nicaragua, arrest
ed in bed at midnight on charges of
having committed murder in Nicara
gua, was held without bail for exam
ination. Pending the arrival of a re
quest for extradition to Nicaragua, he
was remanded to prison.
General Zelaya was arrested as a
fugitive from justice on complaint of
Roger B. Wood, an assistant United
States attorney. Mr. Wood charged
that a warrant for Zelaya’s apprehen
sion for murder had been issued in
Nicaragua, but did not name the al
leged victims. It was said, however,
that they were two countrymen slain
twelve years ago and that the death
of f-eroy Cannon and Leonard®Gnee,
Americans slain in Nicaragua, In V09,
In an uprising against the Zela*a re
gime, had nothing to do witn G-neral
Zelaya’s arrest.
POLICY roe NAVY
GOVERNMENT OIL AND GOVERN
MENT ARMOR PLATE
FAVORED.
SECRETARY MAKES REPORT
Wants Two More Drbadnaughts,
Eight Destroyers and Three Sub
marines During Coming Year.
Washington. —- Immediate acquire
ment and operation of oib wells and
refineries to furnish fuel wF the navy,
an international conferuce to secuVe
a reduction of naval construction, the
addition of two dreadqaughts, eight
destroyers and three ^umnarines for
the navy during the cofulng year, gov
ernment manufacture of armor, more
naval chaplains and religious leaders,
better educational facilities for en
listed men and a graduated retire
ment law are chief recommendations
in the first annual report of Secretary
Daniels, made public.
The secretary departs from the
usual custom in addressing the pres
ident in the first person singular,
thereby adding to the directness and
force of the report’s statements. The
report reflects his enthusiasm over
the navy, declaring that the story of
the year’s work “by ,tjils patriotic
body of efficient defenders of the re
public Is replete with examples of
courage, 'devotion, sacrifice and prog
ress.”
The secretary says the navy was
never in such a high state of efficien
cy as today, and that in considering
its future needs he has given less
thought to the guns than to the men
behind the fains, Sailing that the
efficiency of the navy afc a ’ fighting
force will be. in the highest sense pro
moted by the adoption of a serious
and systematic course of instruction
aboard ship and at shore stations, he
points out that the department is try
ing to make the navy a great universi
ty. Not only ordinary seamen, but
even petty officers have too little ac
curate knowledge and this will be cor
rected by a systematic course of In
struction. Midshipmen of the graduat
ing classes will be utilized as Instruc
tors “with mutual* benefit to the men
and themselves," and to fit them for
this work a short normal course will
be added to the naval academy curric
ulum. As the war college is the apex
of the navy system of education the
department will try to have all offi
cers pass through this training, using
mall courses where advisable.
WOMEN CAMPAIGN FOR VOTES
They Will Urge Congress to Adopt
Constitutional Amendment.
Washington.—A week’s campaign by
the National American Woman Suf
frage Association to secure the adop
tion of a constitutional amendment to
enfranchise women was launched at
a mass meeting in Washington. It
was the formal opening of the forty-
fifth annual convention of the associ
ation. An assemblage, which packed
the edifice from footlights to gallery,
listened for nearly three hours to dis
cussions on various phases of the suf
frage cause by conspicuous advocates
of the woman movement. Suspended
above the drop curtain Was a, huge yel
low banner hearing thel egend:
“We Demand an Amendment to the
United States Constitution Enfranchis
ing Women.” i -
The association- adopted almost
unanimously a set of resolutions in
troduced by Mrs. Helen Ring Robin
son, a member of tljjjj Colorado state
senate, calling upon President Wilson,
“in his forthcoming* ^ issage to con
gress to adopt the mi«n suffrage
constitutional amendr/ifit as an admin
istration measure sifJjF to urge con*
gross to take immedf -' N^uid favorable
action upon 1L”
President Edmund J. James of the
University of Illinois has begun work
on a bill to be Introduced at the next
regular aeaalon of congreaa providing
for the establishment of a great fad*
aral university at Waahington. It la
planned to be on the order of the Uni
versities of Parle and Beriin. The
bill Is to carry an Initial appropriation
of $000,000. Tha university Is to be
governed by a board aeleeted by the
president of the United States, and
.an advisory committee consisting of a
delegate' from every state will mist
and form a definite policy for the'In
stitution, If the present plana go
through. ,
IKK IU U
ALLEGED DEALERS IN LARGE
CITIES ARE BUYING UP THE
. SHORT SUPPLY.
Country Endorsee Justice Depart
ment's Endeavor to Break High
Food Price*.
. Soldiery
Zabern,
patrolled
in check
highly in
measures
am® the v gK
leged disorde
sens who,
by the civil
tha measures!
uo sign* of rid
jabarn.
ny.--Soldiers
^rder to hold
*>ie, who are
W the repressive
ran army officers
“ » for al-
foirty citi-
* discharged
So strict were
hat there was
mm
Washington.—A new phase Qf the
cost of living problem was brought
to the attention of the department of
agriculture. T. P. Gill, secretary of
the Irish board of agriculture, told
Secretary Houston that speculators in
the large cities of the United States
were actively buying up this year’s
Bhort American potato crop and plan
ning to hold out for high prices, count
ing on the existing quarantine against
potatoes from many foreign countries
to aid them in their undertaking.
Mr. Gill is here to urge the removal
of the embargo on potatoes from Ire
land and has been getting private ad
vices from various sources on the po
tato situation.
■ Secretary Houston and the Federal
horticultural board held a conference
after Mr. Gill’s statement, but no ac
tion was announced.
Representative McKellar of Tennes
see, author of a pending bill to pro
hibit the keeping of products in cold
storage for more than ninety days,
was lh conference with department of
justice officials over the department's
investigation of the storage of eggs,
poultry and dairy products. It is said
a preliminary Inquiry has revealed
that 65 per cent, of the present egg
supply held in storage is in the hands
of the great meat packers of the coun-
try.
Letters and telegrams poured In
\from all parts of. the country, ( from in
dividuals, associations of various kinds
and from business mejx praising the
department’s efforts to break high
food prices by proceedings against the
alleged combination of cold storage
dealers., Interest in Attorney General
McReynplds’ declaration that a sweep
ing investigation will be made of the
alleged combination and that if vio
lations of the pure food act were dis
closed prosecutions could bo looked
for, apparently Is greater than In any
mq'Tb the department baa made In a
long time.
SEVEN GENERALS OF MEXICAN
ARMY ANNOUNCE THEY WILL
FIGHT NO LONGER.
WILL TREAT FOR PEACE
Peace Proposal* Sent to General Villa
by General Mercado, Who Is In
Command of Huerta Troops.
Juarez.—Seven general of the Mexi
can regular army are ready to sur
render and the backbone of the Huerta
dictatorship In the north has been
broken.
A peace commission is in Juarez
bearing terms of surrender. The
commission was headed by Odilon
Hernandez, and came from Chihuahua,
bearing a proclamation signed by Gen
eral Salvador Mercado, Huerta’s mili
tary governor and commander of the
Federal forces In all the north.
The proclamation stated that the
Huerta government was bankrupt, and
was unable to pay Its soldiers.
The simultaneous evacuation of other
Federal strongholds in the north Is
believed by the rebels to be the re
sult of a concerted decision to aban
don tho whole of northern Moxlco.
The peace proposals were sent Dy
General Mercado to Gen. Franclsca
Villa, rebel leader, through Frederfco
Moye, civil governor of Chihuahua
state, appointed ad Interim. Along
with It came an appeal signed by all
the foregn consuls In Chihuahua call
ing upon Villa to give police protec
tion to the citizens of Chihuahua City.
General Mercado's proclamation
read:
“Under the circumstances which
have existed ia Chihuahua It has been
deemed necessary for the .Fede:
troops to evacuate, I leave in cha j
Fvedor’cp Mov« a nerxou who
identified with politics and wh
therefore, qualified to glvef ull pro
tection to foreigners. It is impos
sible to remain here longer, as there
is ■ no money with which to pay the
troops.”
i been
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rjm
BULLETS DROP STRIKERS
8pecial Officer* Kill One Man at In
dianapolis and Wound Others.
Indianapolis, Ind. .— A movement
looking toward a general strike in
sympathy with the teamsters and tha
chauffeurs’ strike, was started at a
meeting of the Teamsters’ union here.
Tho strike has beer, marked by one
fatality. When a crowd interfered
with an Ice wagon In charge of six
men on whom special police powers
had been conferred and began throw
ing bricks and trying to prevent the
wagon moving, the special officers
fired, killing Claud Lewis, a negro,
and wounding four other persons, one
fatally. The special officers were
taken to police headquarters, but were
released on their own recognizance
without being slated.
Another crowd was fired upon by
William Whorton, negro, when the
wagon owned and driven by himself
was atateked. Jack Long, a teamster,
was wounded in the right leg. Whorton
was arrested# There were several oth
er minor disorders, but no others were
seriously Injured.
Tobacoc Concern* Found Guilty.
Morganfleld, Ky.—Verdicts of guilty
were returned here against the Impe
rial Tobacco Company of Great Brit
ain and Ireland and the Imperial To
bacco. company of Kentucky, which
have been on trial for alleged viola
tion of Kentucky’s antitrust laws.
Two separate verdicts were returned,
a fine of $3,500 assessed against each
defendant. The two companies were
indicted for alleged conspiracy to de
press prices paid ior tobacco to the
farmers of this region.
Chicago Orders 71,630,000 8tamps.
Washington.—Chicago again holdn
the record for having placed the larg
est order for postage stamps. The
postoffice department here has receiv
ed an order from the postmaster at
Chicago for 71,630,000 stamps with a
total value of $1,808,000. Recently the
postmaster at Philadelphia placed an
order for 91,730,000 postage stamps
having a value of $1,730,000 which was
considerably in excess of the record
previously held by Chicago. '