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miBTT.MNTH TEAR.
*EXTBA SESSION
MN BE CAUSED
BYBIBJEEICII
ATLANTA, Ga., August 13. —The ac
tual discrepancy between the gigantic
appropriations passed by the house and
the visible income of the state with
which to meet these appropriations is
$1,070,033.60.
The compilation made up in the ex
ecutive department shows the financial
predicament brought on by the action
of the house of representatives, and
which it is feared will be put through
by the senate, to be as follows:
Gioss appropriations for
the session $8,270,033.60
Total estimated visible in-
come 7,200.000.00
Excess in appropriations $1,070,033.60
The details from the official figures
showing how the money was appro
priated are as follows:
Appropriations,
Eleemosynary institu-
tions $ 969,500.00
University of Georgia
and branches 752,943.28
Public school system 4,000,000.00
Pensions 1,200,000.00
Agricultural Department..* 127,800.00
Board of Health 30,500.00
Military Department 35,000.00
Geological Department ... 15,500,00
Prison Department 116,000.00
Contingent funds 35,200.00
Deficiency funds 144,500.00
Printing fund, public
records, purchasing
books for courts and
State Library 56,600.00
fund 244,687.50
Reward fund 3,000.00
Public buildings and
grounds 30,000.00
Solicitors-general 6,285.00
Civil establishment,
including legislative
expense 372,217.82
Total appropriations <..58,140,733.60
Special appropriations:..
For vocational education $ 15,000.00
Special pension relief bills 900.00
W. & A. Commission 5,000.00
' G. N. & 1., Valdosta 12,500.00
Sixth District Agri-
, cultural school 20,000.00
'Georgia Tech 30,000.00
.State Ma ket Bureau .... 15,000.00
Third District Agri-
1 cultural school 5,000.00
Total general and
spec appropria
tions pa55ed58,244,133.60
Special appropriations pending to
be passed today:
Home Guard bill $ 25,000.00
Pension relief bills 900.00
Gross appropriations
for 5e55i0n58,270,033.60
Estimated Income of State
From ad varolem taxes... .$4,750,000.00
Special taxes, W. & A.
and all other sources.... 2,100,000.00
Total visible income... $7,200,000.00
Deficit between income
and appropriations .....$1,070,033.60
Extra Session is Imminent
That the bill as it stands will not be
accepted by Governor Dorsey may be
accepted as a settled fact. Whiie the
governor himself has declined to dis
cuss the situation, except among those
very close to him, there is left no
room for mistake in the comment they
make on the situation. Unless the
senate backs the amount in the bill
•' down to a point where it will not ex
ceed the income of the state during
the peribd in which it has to be paid,
an extra session of the legislature
will be called. Moreover, there will
be in such a call a sore disappoint
ment for those who are openly in
favor of it, since it is just as much a
cettled fact, or may be so taken, that
there will be no lapse of time between
the regular session and the time fix
ed for ordering the legislature back
on the job. If, as a last resort it be
comes necessary to declare an extra
ression, that session will, it is con
clusively stated by those in position to
Snow, be ordered to convene Thurs
fay morning and the legislature will
le permitted to consider absolutely'
THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS-COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL AND TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE—THE HOME PAPER PAR EXCELLENCE
id FINANCES
CONTINUE TO BE
IOPIG IN SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 13.
While the senate continues debate on
the $2,066,000,000 war tax bill this
week initial steps will be taken in the
house toward raising part of the addi
tional $6,000,000,00 needed to carry on
the war until July 1, 1918.
More ready money, possibly SI,OOO,
000,000 or $2,000,000,000 will be neces
sary to meet current expenditures be
fore congress can appropriate it at
the next session, so Secretary McAdoo
has arranged a meeting with Demo
cratic Leader Kitchin for early in the
week to discuss the situation. Members
of the ways and means committee, both
democrats and republicans, expressed
wilMngness to pass without delay leg
islation for any reasonable amount the
government may require. Senate lead
ers also are ready to co-operate. Sen 7
timent for raising additionad funds at
this time by a bond issue and certifi
cates of indebtedness ,and not by tax
ation, is strong in both houses.
Administration officials have not
stated the exact amount they desire
authorized now, but a request for more
than two billion dollars additional
would meet with strong opposition in
the house. The “pay-as-you-go” ele
ment is strong in the ways and means
committee.
A movement to make the next issue
of bonds or certificates taxable and
with a 4 1-2 per cent, interest, instead
of being non-taxable and bearing 3 1-2
per cent, is gaining influential follow
ers in the house.
Reports that a certain United States
citizen acquired $60,000,000 worth of
the first issue of Liberty bonds in order
to escape taxation, has helped enlist
advocates of the plan to tax the next
issue, y
Debate to Last a Month .
Senator Simmons having concluded
his opening statement Saturday, gen
eral discussion of the revised house
revenut bill was begun in the senate
today. If it is finished in less than a
month many of the older membtrs will
be surprised.
Senator LaFollette -will offer, early
this week, his substitute for the pend
ing bill, which would place virtually
the entire burden of.taxation on war
profits, incomes, liquor and tobacco.
Senatore Gore is expected to support
the measure.
Activity in both houses of a few
members who want the government to
define immediately its peace terms cou
pled with reports that President con
templates drastic action against dis
turbing elements in the country, are
arousing interest and may lead to spir
ited debate this week. Senator La-
Follette's resolution asking for a
statement of terms and another by Sen
ator King, of Utah, declaring there
shall be no peace until the Allies tri
imph, will come up for debate early
in the week.
Administration leaders are expected
to assail both the peace resolutions, as
they regard all peace talk at this tiem,
as extremely unwise, particularly be
cause of the effect it might have upon
Russia. Charles Edward Russell, one
of the commissioners to Russia, said
on his return that one peace resolu
tion in congress was of more value to
the Kaiser now than 1,000 men in the
trenches.
Immediate consideration of the
“soldiers insurance bill” may be urged
in itc house by Representative Adam
:ion, and if taken up it probably will
be pat'sed speedily.
MfiRRIED COUPLES TO
fOOD
BERLIN, August 13.—The municipal
food bureau at Strassburg announces
that newly married couples are entitled
to draw double the amount of food in
dicated on the foods cards. This priv
ilege is to be continued for only six
weeks after couples marry.
nothing except the state’s > finance
' sheets.
AMERMS?»tffiBffIRDER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNCLE SAM MOT GOT
OOWN GASOLINE USE
WASHINGTON, D. S., August 13.
Possibility of drastic government ac
tion against the excessive use of gaso
line for pleasure riding is indicated in
a statement issued by Director Man
ning of the food bureau.
The statement suggests that “joy
riding” cease, and that the man who
takes his family out on Sunday cut
down the mileage traveled. The state
ment says the warning does not mean
that owners should lay up their cars
altogether, but ask co-operation in the
saving of gasoline.
gebmanylenies
KAISER WILLIAM
AOMITTED GUILT
BERLIN, August 13.—The semi-offi
cial newspaper “Nordeutsche Allege
rneine Zeitung” in its issue today de
nies the existence of a certain tele
gram alleged by James W. Gerard,
former United States ambassador to
Germany, to have been sent by Em
peror William to President Wilson dur
ing August, 1914, wherein the emperor
is quoted as having said Belgian neu
trality “had to be violated by Qermnay
for strategical grounds.”
Another alleged telegram which has
reached Berlin via Switzerland, has
Emperor William saying that King
■George sent him word through the
emperor’s brother, Prince Henry, that
England would remain neutral if war
broke out on the continent and involv
ing Germany, France, Austria and Rus
sia.
SMALL ACTIONS BA
WEST FRONT TODAY
NEW YORK, August 13.—(Compiled
by the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—With the ex
ception of spirited small actions, the
Aisne front and on the Champagne was
comparatevely quiet today. The Brit
ish statement says nothing important
transpired on the Flanders front.
The Germans maintained artillery
werk near Allies and then tried to
take the trenches lost during Saturday,
but failed. The French also held back
the Teutons east of Rheims.
MEMBERS CHARGED
m coiispiiffl
NEW YORK, August 13.—Louis
Cherry and Dr. Samuel Bernfeld, re
moved as members of the local exemp
tion board and arraigned charged with
conspiracy to accept pay for exempting
eiigibles on physical examination,
waived examination today, and fur
nished bail in the sum of $5,000 for
their appearance later. Kalman Gru
ser, accused of having a part in the
plan, was released under $2,500 bail.
W 5 MUMERINC
MEEHL «
CAIRO, July 20—(By Mail to New
York) —The situation in Palestine this
summer is mast serious, a war scheme
lor looting Jerusalem being executed
throughout the whole countryside. The
Turks have embarked on a calculated
policy of plundering and killing the
natives, so if they are forced to re
tire they will leave behind them only
a desert. The only hope for the in
habitants is that the British may soon
drive out the Turks.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 13, 1917
♦ BRITISH GOVERNMENT ♦
♦ BUY EGYPTIAN SEED CROP. ♦
♦
. ♦ ALEXANDRIA, August 13. ♦
♦ The r.gytian (British) govern- ♦
♦ ; i has purchased the whole of ♦
♦ the 1917-18 cotton seed crop of ♦
♦ Egypt. ♦
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AMERICAS BOYS TO
GET COMMISSIONS
Every young man from this city who
completed the course at the officers’
training camp at Fort McPherson will
rective a commission either in the Offi
cers Reserve Corps, the new national
army, or the United States Regular
Army, according to the official an
nouncement sent out by the War De
| partment today. I
I The commissions will be awarded on
Wednesday, August 15, when the train
ing camp will come to a close. The
young officers will be given short fur
loughs, it is understood, before being
ordered to their posts of duty.
The following commissions have
been awarded to young men from this
city:
Hollis Lanier, 2nd Lieut., Infantry
Division, Officers” Reserve Corps.
Sion B. Hawkins, 2nd Lieut. Infan
try Division, Officers’ Reserve Corps.
John D. Mathis, Ist Lieut. Infantry
Division, Officers’ Reserve Corps.
Frank D. Stapleton, 2nd Lieut.
Quartermaster’s Corps.
Leon H. Brooks, 2nd Lieut. Infantry
Division, Officers’ Reserve Corps.
James E. Kemph, 2nd Lieut. Infantry
Division, Officers’ Reserve Corps.
John W. Wheatley, And Lieut. iFeld
Artillery Division, Officers Reserve
Corps.
Evan T. Mathis, Ist Lieut. Infantry
Division, Officers’ Reserve Corps.
Cranston Williams. 2nd Lieut. Infan
try Division, assigned to United States
Regular Army.
James L. Fort, Captain, Field Ar
tillery Division, Officers’ Reserve
Corps.
I Oliver Quimby Melton, Captain, In-
Ifantry Division, Officers’ Reserve
Corps.
Edwin H. Agnew, 2nd Lieut. Infan
try Division, Officers’ Reserve Corps.
Bryant W. Bullock, 2nd Lieut., In
fantry Division, Officers’ Reserve
Corps.
W. S. Moore, of Plains, this morn
ing received a telegram from his son,
Dennis M. Moore, stating that the
young man had been awarded a cap
tain’s commission in the infantry divis
ion of the Officers’ Reserve Corps. He
has been at the training camp at Fort
Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis,
Ind.
THREE DRAFTED MEN
WITHDRAW THEIR CLAIMS
Three exemption claims filed with the
Sumter Exemption Board have been
withdrawn by the men who originally
expressed their.intention of securing
discharge, if possible.
Charles Clements, a well known
citizen of this ciunty, was the first
man to withdraw his claim, declaring
to the officials that after carefully
studying the blank forms furnished
him by the exemption board, he found
that he could not conscientiously ask
for an exemption. He expressed his
desire to be posted as eligible for ser
vice without delay.
Jesse Will Luke and James Monts,
negroes who were drawn on the first
call, and who passed the physical ex
amination, have also withdrawn their
exemption claims, and will be posted
by the Sumter Exemption Board as eli
gible for service in the new national
army.
TWO GERMAN AIRPLANES
OESTROTEDJT BRITISH
LONDON, August 13.—Two German
airplanes which yesterday raided the
southeast coast of England, were de
stroyed by naval airplanes, it is offi
cially announced today.
FUNERAL OE TOONG
WOMAN YESTERDAY
The funeral of Mrs. George McDon
old, who died Saturday afternoon at
the Plains hospital after a three weeks'
illness, occurred yesterday afte/ioon
at 4 o’clock at Oak Grove cemetery,
in this city. Mrs. McDonald, who be
fore her marriage was Miss Irene
Boone, was well known throughout
this section and the obsequies were at
tended by a host of friends.
Rev. Leroy Henderson officiated at
the funeral, the pallbearers being C.
H. Burke, Samuel L. McDaniel, W. C.
Wright, A J. Timmerman, M. M. Jen
nings and E. M. Oliver.
11. sTgUNCREW
IS CAPTURED BL
GERMIH-BOIT
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 13.
Sinking of the American steamer Cam
pana, a Standard Oil tanker, with the
probable capture of her captain and
fur members of the naval guard by the
attacking German submarine has been
announced by the navy department.
The state department issued this
statement.
“The Standard Oil tanker Campana,
American steamer, was sunk by a sub
marine on the morning of Aug. 6, 143
miles west of lie de Re. Forty-seven
survivors reached land in safety. It is
believed that the captain of the steamer
and four of the armed guard are pris
oners on board the German subma
rine.”
Formerly the Dunholme.
NEW YORK. Aug. 13.—The Campana
was formerly the steamship Dunholme.
She was built in 1901 at Westhartle
pool, England, and was registered at 3,-
313 tons gross, 2,123 tons net. She was
£35 feet long with a beam of 47 feet.
The Campana was the thirty-eighth
American merchant ship destroyed by
German and Austrian submarines and
raiders since the war began. Thirteen
of these ships were sunk before the
United States entered the war, April 6,
1917, and twenty-five since that time.
The total tonnage of tha ships lost is
about 113,000 tons, including 64,000
tons sunk since April 6th.
No American ships fell victims to
the Central Powers in 1914, and o nly
two in 1915, and the some number in
1916. When Germany began her un
restricted submarine warfare, however,
attacks on American shipping became
more frequent, and America lost nine
ships between that date and the time
when the United States declared a I
state of war existed with that country. I
The first American ship was the Wil-I
n’am P. Frye, January 28, 1915.
BRITISH DELEGATES NOT
TB ATTEND CONVENTION
LONDON, August 13.—Andrew Bonar
Law, chancellor of the imperial ex
chequer, spokesman for the govern
ment in the house of commons, stated
in the lower house today that govern
ment authorities had decided not to
grant permission to British socialist
delegates to attend the Stockholm con
ference.
TO CALL DRAFTED
MEN IN SECTIONS
WASHINGTON, I). C., August 13
Provost Marshal General Crowder an
nounced this afternoon that thirty per
cent, of the men drafted to constitute
ti e first national army and reserves, or
785,000 men, will be called into active
service September sth, another thirty
per cent, will be summoned September '
15th, and the remainder of the men
will be called to the colors as soon
thereafter as possible.
BOARD COMPILES
LIBI OF CLAIMS
FOR EXEMPTION
The Sumter Exemption Board has
been busy today compiling a list of
men who have either filed notice of
intention to claim exemption, or who
have already brought in their claims
supported by affidavits. This task
must be completed before any other
steps are taken to secure Sumter coun
ty's quota of 187 men for the new’ na
tional army, as the list must go for
ward to Washington without delay.
Tomorrow five men will appear for
re-examination, as additional instruc
tions regarding physical qualifications
change somewhat the status of men re
jected for physical disability on ac
count of discrepancy in weight.
The exemption officials were today
making out discharges to be sent to
tl:e men finally rejected on the physical
examination, there being 118 in this
class.
It is expected that the board will
begin to pass on exemption claims in
a day or two, taking up affidavits sup
porting such claims and if necessary,
securing additional information con
cerning each case. Ten days are al
lowed claimants for the filing of affi
davits in support of exemption claims
land the local board will be obliged to
delay consideration in some cases until
the time limit has expired.
The men who claimed exemption
are:
Allen, Webster, wife and child.
Ansley, Elbert Carl, son of widow.
Anderson, -Feorge, wife.
Armstrong, Samuel D. brother and
child under 16.
Attyah, Elias, resident alien.
Bryan, Johnnie, wife and child.
Blackshear, Warren, wife and 2 chil
dren.
Bivins, Olden, son of wido .w
Buchanan Cloyd, wife and 2 children
Breedlove, Johnnie, wife.
Brown, Fate, wife.
Blewett. W. 0., wife.
Bell, Arlington, father motherless
child.
Bivins, John, son of widow.
Bell, Andrews, wife.
Blackshear, Willie, wife.
Battle, Clifford, /ife.
Brannon, Barney, wife.
Bivins, Eariy, son of widow.
Baldwin, Henry son of widow.
Black, Roy Edward, wife.
Bell, Mark Howell, wife and child.
Bruce, Henry, wife.
Crawford, Seaborn, wife and 2 chil
dren.
Clements, Arthur, wife.
Carter, James, wife and 5 children.
Cameron, Marcellus, son of infirm
parents.
Chambliss, Will, wife.
Clark, Loyd, son of infirn] parents.
Clements, Johnie 8., wife.
Callaway, Steve, wife and 4 children.
Casey, Thomas, son of infirm parents.
Cottle, John, brother child under 16.
Coogle. Jesse Lee, son of widow and
brother child under 16.
Chambliss, William L., son of widow
and married man.
Collier, Eli, wife.
Cooper, Albert, wife
Crittenden, Jake, wife.
Clayton, Joe, father motherless child.
Cherry, Will, married man.
Clark, Alex, wife.
Carter, James E., son of widow.
Clemens, Idus, wife.
Clawton, Gilbert, wife.
Cutler, James Edward, mother and
married man.
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AMERICUS BOY PROMOTED
BI BIS PACKING CONCERN
Inman Griffin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fletcher W. Griffin, of this city, has
been promoted to be assistant mana
ger of the Macon branch of Swift &
Company, assuming his duties im
cediately.
Mr. Griffin has been in the employ of
Swift & Company for the past 5
'years and has traveled quite an ex
tensive territory in south Georgia,
making an excellent record, upon
,which his present promotion is based.
pitv
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DRASTIC RULES
FDR EXEMPTIONS
RECEIVED HERE
The Sumter Exemption Board will
te compelled to be much more drastic
in passing upon exemption claims, un
der the latest instruction: received
from Provost Marshal General Crow
der. The question of dependency is
taken up in detail in the new rulings
and in view of the announcement, it
appears that in order to secure exe
emption on the ground of dependents,
the applicant must prove to the satis
faction of the board that his depend
ents will be left totally without ade
quate means of support in the event
of his being drafted into the national
army.
In other words, the ruling makes it
plain that where a wife, children or
other dependents can be supported by
relatives other than the applicant for
exemption, no discharge is to be grant
ed. Where the wife’s parents are able
to support her in the absence of the
husband, the exemption board is re
quired to refuse exemption under the
latest instructions.
The rulings just received by the
Sumter Exemption Board covering this
phase of the matter are as follows:
Number 1985. Under Presidential
regulations, Section 20, Paragraph H,
the term "Dependent for Support” has
given rise to several further questions
of principle affecting large numbers of
persons. The general basis for ruling
upon such questions should be the
spirit and purpose of the act in provid
ing for such discharge, wherever the
terms of the act and of the regulations
are not in themselves conclusive. The
act authorizes the president to dis
charge wherever the parties drafted
are “In a status with respect to per
sons dependent upon them for support
which renders their exslusion of dis
crarge advisable.” Such dependency
ordinarily renders discharge advisable,
because since the drafted person loses
his civil income and thus loses his
means of support, the wife is left with
out support, and this lack of support
is the effect which the act aims to
avoid. But wherever such effect does
not in fact follow, and the wife is
not without reasonably adequate sup
port, but will receive such support
from other sources, there is no rea>
dependency rendering discharge ad
visable. The following classes of cases
are within this ruling:
A. Wife and Children:
1. Where the parents or other rela
tives of the wife or the husband are
able, ready and willing to provide reas
onably adequate support for her (and
children, if any) during the absence
of the husband.
2. Where the wife owns land which
has produced income by the husband’s
labor, but which could with reasonable
certainty be rented, during his ab
sence, to other persons so as to pro
duce an adequate support.
3. Where there exists some ar
rangement by which the salary or
wage of the husband is continued,, in
whole or in part, by third persons, be
ir. 2 employers or insurers, or others,
and such portion of the salary or wage,
either alone or with an allottment of
his soldier’s pay or with other definite
income, will furnish a reasonably ade
quate support.
B. Other Dependents:
1. Where in one of the foregoing
ways a reasonably adequate support is
provided for a widowed mother, in
firm parents, or orphan child under
sixteen years (as enumerated in Sec
tion 20, Paragraph H, 2. 3, 4 and 5) of
a son, brother or father called into ser
vice. Under Presidential regulations.
Section 23, Page 2, provisding that
“any certificate of discharge may be
withdrawn, modified or renewed by the
Iccal board,” the board is authorized
to re-open any claim of exemption al
ready passed upon and still awaiting
disposition on appeal to the district
board, for the purpose of receiving
any affidavits or making other inqui
ries relative to dependency as defined
in the present rulings, and the local
board shall transmit to the district
board such affidavits and its own min
ute thereon for consideration on ap
peal.
The foregoing rulings are calculat
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