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POSTPONEMENT MAY
KILL INCOME TAX
Washington, May 31. —The ac
tion of the senate in deferring un
til June 10, further consideration j
of the income tax will have the]
effect, it is believed, of defeating
the proposition. When the ques
tion comes up on that date, it is
believed to be the plan of the Re
publican leaders to move its refer
ence to the judiciary committee, j
asserting at the same time that
the provision will be unnecessary
as the customs measure will afford
a sufficient revenue. Senator
Aldrich expects that all of the
schedules of his bill will be dis
posed of at that time, and will
maintain that as passed they will
yield to the government an in
come tax. It is this argument
which succeeds in drawing off
the advocates ot the tax and in
ducing them to vote for the post
ponement.
BLAMES TOBACCO COMPANY
FOR TENNESSEE OUTRAGES.
Washington, May 31. —That
bln; outrages of night riders m
Kentucky and Tennessee resulted
from the oppression of the Ameri
can Tobacco Company, and that
unless the internal revenue tax on
leaf tobacco in the hands is re
pealed, these outrages .will again
occur, was the declaration made
by Senator Bradley, of Kentucky,
today, in arguing the adoption of
his amendment to the senate bill.
This amendment proposes to re
store in the tariff bill the house
provision for the free sale of leaf
tobacco by the farmer, which was
stricken out by the finance com
mittee of the senate. After re
viewing the growth of the Ameri
can Tobacco Company. Mr. Brad
ley said that, not content with de
stroying all competition in the
United States, this concern drove
the Imperial Tobacco Company of
Great Britain, its chief competi
tor, to a compromise and obtained
an agreement by which the Im-I
perial yielded up all competition
m the United States.
France, Austria, Italy, Portugal i
and other countries, each mean
while decreed that the govern
ment would buy and import to- j
baceo as a business, the profit!
going into the offers of the govern
ment under what is known as the
Segie system,” said Mr. Bradley, j
“The American Tobacco Com-j
pany, seeing the danger in this!
direction, entered into a con-j
spiracy with the Regie agents by j
which the territory should be and
was divided, all agreeing to pay
the same fixed price and allotting
the territory into well-defined dis
tricts, so that there could be no
conflict of interests.”
Thus the producers,“themselves
are powerless and hemmed in
on every side,” continued Mr.
Bradley, and after appealing to
congress without effect, as a last
resort organized the pooling so
cieties, which resultes in a sat
urnalia of crime in Kentucky and
Tennessee. While denouncing
night-rider outrages, Mr. Bradley
declared that the tobacco leaf
growers were so sorely pressed
that they were forced to coinbffie
to protect themselves, and that
the 'crimes which resulted were
due to the trust’s oppression.
FEARING ARREST
HE KILLED SELF,
Augusta, Ga., May 31.—George
P. Humphreys, white, baggage
master on the Southern railway,
who was on the train on the night
of the recent sensational express
robbery', cut his throat on the!
streets here Wednesday and died 1
shortly after midnight. Pinker- j
tons searched his home yesterday, j
In a note to his wife lie denied j
participating in the robbery and
said he would kill himself to save;
her and her two babies from the
disgrace of his arrest. When the:
woman saw the note shej alarmed
the man’s brother. The brother
went in search of Humphreys and
under an electric light a square
ahead saw him slash his throat
with a razor.
A FLOUR FAMINE
IS THREATENED.
Chicago, May 31.—The supplies
of Hour in *he United States fol
lowing sensational advance in the
cost of wheat, have shrunk almost j
to famine size. A startling de
crease in the suplus stocks was
revealed in reports from four large
cities of the country, presented at
the seventh annual convention of
i the National Millers’ convention
at the Auditorium hotel. For
weeks the mills have not been
grinding enough flour to keep
pace with the actual demands of
customers and the ordinary sur
plus stocks have melted away like
snow in the sunshine.
If for any reason the big mills
should be shut down for more than
a week a famine in flour, accord
ing to the millers, would become
a serious possibilty. With prices
at almost unprecedented levels,
merchants and bakers have been
buying only flour enough to sup
ply their wants from day to day.
It also developed that alio milling
delegates are “sour” at Secretary
Wilson because of the govern
ment’s estimate of 1T>0,000,000
bushels of reserve wheat on the
farms March 1. This was the es
timate which “Wheat King”
Janies A. Fatten ridiculed as ex
travagantly high and which he
said was based on reports of small
merchants and country postmas
ters.
“By count made a few days
ago,” said W. R. Gregory, of New
York, in a report to the conven
tion, “there were only 128,000
barrels of flour in warehouses and
stores of New York city, as com
pared with 000,000 barrels a year
ago. Twenty thousands barrels
are consumed every day in New
York, and if our supply for any
reason should be cut off, you can
figure how long our bakeries would
run.”
Mr. Gregory also declared the
supply of flour in Boston was 180,-
; 000 barrels below the normal. H.
; T. Lawler also reported that there
were 82,000 barrels of flour in
New Orleans, which was one-half
■ | the normal storage there. Re-
I ports from other centers of the
j same tenor startled the flour men.
j Tne crop reports also submitted
by delegates bore out the prog
nostications of James A. Fatten,
WILLIAMS BUYS
G., F. & A. RAILROAD.
Bainbridge, Ga., May 7 20. —The
i directors of the Georgia, Florida
and Alabama railroad who had
been in session continuously here
for two days yesterday afternoon
arrived at an amicable adjust
ment of the company’s direction
for the ensuing three years. The
meeting of the directors resulted
in J. P. Williams, the majority
stockholder buying out the in
terests of the minority stock and
bondholders, thus making him
practically sole owner of the road.
He also purchased practically
all of the bonds of the road out
standing outside of his own hold
ings.
On account of President.!. P.
Williams ill health, Captain Jno.
It. Sharpe, of Bainbridge, was
elected to succeed him in this
position; J. (>. Hatch, of Savan
nah, was elected vice president;
J. W. Callahan, of Bainbrdge,
second vice president; J. C. Odell
ot Bainbridge, general manager; j
B. C. Prince, of Bainbridge,traffic
manager; J. A. Nesbit, of Savan-1
Mali, secretary and treasurer, and j
Hawes A Pottle, of Bainbridge. '
j general counsel.
This prosperous company is
now extending its lines to coo-*
j nect with the Seaboard at Rich-j
| laud, and with tins efficient corps !
iof officials it goes without saying !
j that their plans will be carried to ;
a successful completion.
Velvet Beans.
For sale at $2.00 per bushel.;
Call on or write me at once.
J. W. Oai.houn,
Route 2, Mt. Vernon, Ga. j
32ott
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, JUNE ' 1000.
1 SAM CLAXTON SUFFERING
WITH HYDROPHOBIA.
Wrightsville, Ga., May 20. —
! Mr. Sam Claxton, a resident of
! this county, living near Kite, has
been suffering with that terrible
malady, hydrophobia, for nearly
two weeks and the last reports
from his bedside were to the effect
that ho was still living and there
was a slight hope for saving the
man’s life by the attending phy
sicians.
Mr. Claxton was bitten by a
dog supposed to have been mad
about two months ago, though it
was not thought that the dog was
mad when he attacked Mr. Clax
tou. In fact, it is said, that very
little attention was paid to the
matter, and no suspicion was
aroused until Mr. Claxton begun
acting very strangely, and within
a short while he begun having
convulsions, at which time it re
quires several men to hold him.
The case of Mr. Claxton is a
peculiar one, for in most cases
a person afflicted, with rabies gen
erally survive only a short while.
The physicians, however, pro
nounce the case hydrophia m a
mild form. Claxton is a brother
of the late J. 11. Claxton, who
was killed by Georgia Mixon sev
eral months since, and is said to
be in an unbalanced state of
mind.
TIME FOR FINAL VOTE
IS FAST APPROACHING.
Washington, May 30. —Al-i
though progress on the tariff bill I
is slow, it is moving steadily for- i
ward between speeches. Leaders |
feel that the time for the final
vote is fast approaching. They
predict that the work will be dis
posed of iii time to permit con
gress to finally adjourn early in
July.
There is coming, however, to be
a suggestion of doubt when this
approximate times is mentioned i
and there are very few who can
give reasons for the faith that is
in them.
The outlook for the present
week is for many speeches and for
slow progress on the schedules.
The probability of night sessions
is not so great as it was a week
ago.
The work of the week will begin
with a discussion of the rate on
lemons and after the agricultural
schedule is disposed of the cotton
and woolen schedules will receive
attention. The senate will sit on
Decoration Day.
If the house succeeds in obtain
ing a quorum when it meets Tues
day it will continue the discussion
of the Porto Rican bill and when
action is taken on it, the bill
inuking appropriations for the
next census probably will be taken
up.
COTTON AND GROPS ARE
HARD HIT BY STORM.
New Orleans, May 29. —By the
heaviest rains in the history of
certain sections of Mississippi,
Louisiana and Alabama within
the past three days inestimable
injury to crops, no little property
damage and a general interference j
with railroad traffic over a wide
area has been occasioned.
The central portion of Missis- \
jsippi suffered most severely from
| the terrific down pours and conse- |
!<|uent floods. Railroad schedules
have been thoroughly demoralized S
and a resumption of service is still j
a question of many hours. Jt is.
I believed that the damage to the j
;cotton crop in Central East Mis !
!sissippi will amount to more than
30 per cent, of the acreage.
, In Louisiana and Southwest ,
Alabama railroad lines have not
i been seriously damaged, but the l
| crops have suffered severely.
At Enterprise, Miss., the flood
went into residences and stores
and in the surrounding section
; much cattle was lost.
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ROAD NOTICE.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
15. Adams and others having j
applied for the opening and es
tablishment of a new public road
at or near J. M, I). Me(L tgor’n
land about a mile and u-huifsouth j
of Ailey and running in. the di
rection of the Oconee llrivcr to
the residence of U. C. McHuo. j
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CITATION.
Georgia—Montgomery County. i
John A. Livingston has in pro
! per form applied to the under
signed for letters of administra-
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E. Livingston, late of said cotin-!
|ty deceased, this is to cite all {
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jif any they can why said admin-!
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I prayed for. Witness my hand j
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Itli day ot May, 1909.
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