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With Our
Lawmakers
Uy the bare majority of' ore there
Was a quorum present in ih< house
on Friday ar.d with that s’atus < f af
fairs very little was attempted or ac
complished. The house set for .al
(he bill of Mr. Smith of Campbell
to reorganize the s'a.e troops in ac
cordance with the provisions of th-
Dlck military law, so that this state
could receive annually $52,000 from the
federal government for the mainte
nance of the state militia. The leg
islators were not quite sure as to the
meaning of the measure and con idtr
able time was spent in explanations.
It was not until Mr. Candler of De-
Kalb made it clear what the bill
meant was i: voted upon and passed.
He explained: “This bill s mpiy has
the state troops organ zed in compli
ance with the military regulations pre
scribed in the Dick law. If this bill
is passed and the troops so organized
the state will draw annually $52,000
for the support of her sate mLitia.
it it is not passed it will mean that
cither our militia will be disbanded
or the state will have to appropriate
$20,000 annually to keep them up.”
Following this statement the hill was
passed. In it there is provided that
the adjutant general shall receive an
annual salary of $3,000 instead of $2,-
000, as is now the case, but. with this
there is a saving of $720, for the po
sition of assistant adjutant general is
abolished.
At tlie session of the senate Friday
morning an interesting debate was
precipitated by a bill introduced by
Senator Gordy, placing ail marriage
licenses at $2 instead of $1.50 or $1.75
as it now is in several counties. Sen
ator Hayes introduced an amendment
to the effect that the lioens s should
cost only $1.50. Quite a number of
the senators placed themselves on rec
ord as being in harmony with the
views of Preside nt Roosevelt cn the
question of “race suicide,” and in elo
quent speeches pleaded that the li
cense fee be placed at $1.50, so that
no impediment be placed in the way
of any young man who had an ambi
tion to become a benedict. Senator
Hayes said that ho was in harmony
with the views of Mr. Roosevelt, and
that he wanted all the young men to
get married who so desired. Senator-
Knight pleaded for the unmarried
members or the senate, and urged the
adoption of ihe amendment. Others
who spoke in favor of the amendment
were Senators -Peacock and Camp. At
this point Senator Gordon moved that
his bill be tabled, and by a close vote
in which the presiding officer partici
pated, the bill was tabled and the
regular routine of the senate contin
ued The house bill by Mr. Candler,
which Senator Hardman introduced in
the senate, making the salaries cf tht
appelate court judges $4,000 a year,
and providing for an annual contin
gent fund of $1,200. was passed. The
hill introduced by Senator Williford,
inaklpg it a misdemeanor to have in
one's possession a pistol or weapm
al a public meeting of any descrip
tion, was also passed. For a number
of years the law lias been to “carry”
a pistol to a gathering of any de
scription, and many offenders have
escaped punishment because it was not
proved that they carried” the w ap
on to the gathering. The bill of Sena
tor Williford inserts the clause: “Or
have la his possession at.”
Judge George F. Gob.r of Marietta,
Howard Thompson of Gainesville and
A. L Hull of Athens were Monday re
appointed members of the board of
trustees of the state university by
Governor Smith for terms of eight
years, while Judge E. H. Callaway of
Augusta and John W. Bennett oi
Way cross were dropped from the boaid
a«d their place filled by Bowdrt Phln
wy of Augusta and Warren Lott of
Waycross. Judge Callaway is president
alumni society of the s ate university,
which, in connection with the Yeung
Men’s Christian Association, raised a
fund of SIOO,OOO for the purpose of
erecting a handsome alumni hall and
Young Men’s Christian Association
building and gymnasium on the cam
pus at Athens. Judge Callaway per
sonally did much of the work in con
nection with the raising of this fund,
wud both he and Mr. Bennett have
given a large amount of their time to
that important state insti.uticn.
It is said the governor dropp'd
because they were, according to his
view, “politicians.”
If the members of thy legislature do
not want to take upon them selves the
responsibility for an extra se sion of
that body they will have o put through
the administration measuie-i before
the expiration of the scssitn by law
at midnight Saturday night, Augu.t
17. Governor Smith has practica ly pu
the general assembly on no.ice that
the administration measures must be
passed. He has so informed a number
of members of both bod eu who have
(onf rred with him r.c ntly on this
and other subjects, and gi'.en them to
understand, it is stated, that unless th;
platform measures are euae od the y
may lock for an extra se.sicn The
house of representatives has not yet
enacted one of these platform meas
urea with the exception of the anti
lobbying bill which is now under con
sideration by the senate. The house
still has before it the d sfranchlse
ment bill, the railroad commission bill
and the anti-pass bill. There are sev
oral other pending measures the en
actment of which is considered itu
jortant, but these are the main mat
ters.
By an almost unanimous vote the
general judiciary committee of the
house Monday af ernocn refused to
ask the bouse to recommit the Adams
bill to that body for reconsideration.
This measure by thy gentleman from
Chatham makes it a misdemeanor to
charge more than 5 per cent per month
on borrowed money. Several days ago
the bill was reported favorably, and
opponents to the measure wanted it
returned to the committee for recon
sideration.
Governor Smith has signed the bil
which fixes the salaries for jus.ices
in the court o'f appeals at $4,(J00 per
annum. When the court of ap ; eils was
created no salary was fixed in the law
and it was left to, the general assem
bly, and this was the result. The
justices have been paid, up to this
time, out of the contingent fund of
the s ate, and a voucher for the back
salary due each, with that for the sec
retaries, was at once drawn on the
state treasury.
Because he regards it as excessive,
Governor Hoke Smith has declined to
pay H. M. Beutell’s bill of $720 for
nine desks and chairs now in use in
the hall of the house of repreeen a
lives. The furniture was purchased
by Janies A. Hall, who was
and grounds ketper under Governor
Terrell's administration. When the bill
was held up by the executive depart
ment Mr. Beutell stated that he had
a contract for the furniture, and
thought he should be paid. He was
notified that the account would not
be paid and that he would have to
get his money from the legislature by
a special appropriation.
A prohibitory tax of SIO,OOO upon
all clubs not open to the general pub
lic, which permit intoxicants to be
kept in lockers for the use of members
or on the premises for any purposes
whatever, is proposed by Mr. Shef
field of Decatur to be added to the
general tax act. Mr. Sheffield was one
of the staunchest supporters of the
prohibition bill as passed by the house
and his atnendm nt seeks to cut oft'
any possible escape which the gen r 1
prohibition bill permits to remain open.
Monday morning Senator Deen ir«
troduced a bill in the senate whi h,
if enacted into law, will make i: un
lawful to sell or give away cocaii.e,
alpha or beta eucaine, opium, mor
phine, heroin, chloral hydrate, etc., ex
cept on a physician's prescription.
This is a companion measure of one
introduced by Mr. Whitby of Doug
las, and is aimed at the habitual users
of narcotics.
CLOSING BILL SIGNED BY COMER.
Saloons in Alabama Must Close Up Early
After First of January.
The saloons of Alabama, after the
first day of next January, will have
to close up early. Those In cities of
over 15,000 at 9 p. m., 15,000 down
to *IO,OOO at 8 p. m. and below that
at 7. The bill to this effect has been
signed by Governor Comer and be
comes a law the first of the year.
COOL DAY FOR MONTH OF AUGUST.
Thirty-Seven Year Record Was Broken at
Chicago on the Second.
Friday, Augus. 2d, was the coldest
in the history of the Chicago weather
bureau, covtring a period of thirty
seven years, with a minimum temper
ature of 54. The nearest to this rec
ord was made in 1872, when the min
imuin wag 56.
SOUTHERN HIT
BY ALABAMA
License to Do Business in the
State is Revoked*
NEW LAW IS VIOLATED
Action Has No Connection With Present
Fight Before Federal Courts But
May Reach That Stage.
A Montgomery special says: The li
cense of the Southern railway to do
business in the state of Alabama has
been revoked by action of Secretary
of State Frank N. Julian, who has
caused to be entered upon the stub
of such license, in the records of his
office, the statement that for violation
of senate bill No. 86, approved March,
1907, and effective July 1, just passed,
the said Southern railway has been
deprived of its right to do business
in the state.
It is aiso a fact that the action of
the secretary of is not in resist
ance to restraining orders issued by
the United States court of the fifth
circuit, as this law is not among those
combatted by the railroads and not In
cluded in any of the litigation now
pending in the court of Judge Thom
as G. Jones of the middle Alabama
district. Hence the situation is not
that of conflict of the state and the
federal tribunals. While it may come
to this in the end, there is nothing of
it yet.
The case upon which the revocation
was made came from the circuit court
of Taladega county, in the shape of a
notification from Clerk J. D. McNeel
that a suijj had been removed from
the state court to the federal. Secre
tary of State Julian looked carefully
into the law aud found that there
w r as nothing else to do hut mark the
license cancelled, as the action of the
statute is automatic.
So far there is no contest between
at least, there is no contest be.ween
the state and the federal court. It is
also hard to,figure out just how the
matter will come to a head, as the
Southern does not run into Montgom
ery and service in any sort of con
tempt proceedings would have to made
on the line of the road somewhere, it
is thought.
The act requires that after July 1,
every corporation outside the state
shall pay a license of $lO a year, for
the balance of this year, six months
$5; that the secretary of state shall
keep a complete record of moneys col
lected, and that it will be unlawful
for any corporation to do business
in the state without paying this li
cense.
Section 4 provides that when any
foreign corporation is sued in the
state courts and removes such suit
from the state to the federal court,
the clerk of the court from which the
removal was taken will at once cer.
tify such action to the secretary of
state, “who shall thereupon immedi
ately cancel said license and make
and enter upon the stub thereof an
order in substance: ‘This license is
canceled for a violation of the act
under which issued by the removal oi
a civil cause from the court of this
state to the federal court.' ” This shall
be evidence of the revocation of the
license in any court of the state. It
also says that after suen revocation
“ahy contract .agieement or undertak
ing with or by or to such corporation
shall be utterly null and void.”
After a license is canceled in this
way it can only be renewed by the
payment to the secretary of state of ‘a
sum in cash equal to one-tenth of one
per cent of the capital stock.” After
renewal in the way indicated the new
license can be revoked in the same
way and for the same reason as the
old.
INSULT TO WIFE RESENTED.
Gilmore Went After Burnside in Sleeping
Attire and Shot Him Dead.
Thursday night W. Gilmore shot
and instantly killed N. A. Burnside
on the D. M. Den farm, ten miles from
Baxley, Ga.
Gilmore claims Burnside made an
Improper proposal to his wife.
Gilmore arose from his bed in his
night clothes. He took a shotgun and
went to the house of Burnside, who
had just retired, and killed him. Later
Burnside surrendered to the sheriff.
NEW YORKERS FURIOUS.
Arcuied to Ljn:hing Spiiit Over Murdeis
of -Women and Little Girls.
Three Men Mobbed.
Another murderous assault was add
ed Sunday to the police record of re
cent crimes against defenseless wo
men and girls in New York. Toe vic
tim was Miss Ellen Bulger, a woman
of middle age, who was attacked in
her apartments in the Bronx, cruelly
beaten, and left in a helpless state.
The woman was removed to a hespi-j
tal,where it was found that her skull
had apparently been fractured, her
face and hands lacerated, and her
body otherwise bruised. There was evi
dence that the woman had made a
courageous fight. From what the po
lice were able to learn from her, she
was surprised by a smeo h faced stran
ger, perhaps forty years of age. He
was coatless and were an outing shirt
and dark trousers. He escaped.
The dangerous tempi r of the peo
ple, particularly in the f-’reigu quar
ters, who had ben aroused by the re
ports of attacks upon women and girls
was exhibited Sunday night in repeat
ed instances. A cry that a stranger
had approached a child with familiar
ity was enough to star: a mob.
Sadie Hamberger, aged eight years,
playing in the hallway of her tene
ment home in East Fifty-ninth street,
late in the evening, cried out that a
man had seized her. The child s fa
ther seized George Keshner, a Rus
sian bcokbind r, by the throat. The
excitement attracted 500 men and wo
men, who fought with each other to
get a chance at the Russian. Thirty
policemen rescued Keshner, bleiding
from a score of wounds, when all his
clothing but his shoes had been torn
from him. The police wrapped the
prisoner in a blanket and hurri d him
away. Sadie’s sister corroborated the
story of the attack, and the father
says that he saw his daughter in the
grasp of the Russian.
About.*the same time Hyle Saloda,
nearly lost his sculp in Thirty-fourth
street. He was accused of having of
fered pennies to a girl of 12 years
The father wanted to know why, and
Saloda showed fight.
He slashed about him with a pen
knife, and then knocked down a po
liceman. A crowd of perhaps a thou
sand persons attempted to reach Sa
loda, but police reserves beat thorn
back and took Sa’.oda to the station.
Louis Conealia was the victim of
vircumstances. A man and wife quar
reled in One Hundred and Seventh
street, and their youthful daughter
went out to the sidewalk and wept.
A passing boy slapped her, and ran
away. The girl’s cries and the running
boy aroused the neighbors, who chas
ed the lad. The boy escaped and Uon
colia, who had outfeoted other pur
suers, was mistaken by the mob for
the giri’s assailant.
Overtaken at last. Concclia was set
upon and knocked down and kicked
until he was nearly dead. The police
rescued him after he was dang rcu.ly
injured.
This wave of crimes against women
and children has reached a stage
where severe measures are called for.
Acting Police Commissioner O'Keefe
late Sunday issued orders directing
that every plain clo'hes officer on the
force lay aside all o her work and
devote himself entirely to an attempt
to bring to justice the perpetrators
A FRENCH RAILWAY HORROR.
Crowded Train Plunges Into River and
Forty Passengers are Drowned.
Forty passengers in a third ciasa
railroad car and the engineer of the
train were drowned Sunday afternoon
in a ailroad accident, near Angiers,
Fance.
The locomotive jumped the track
when entering the bridge over the
river Loire. The stone railing gave
way and the engine plunged into the
river fifty feet below, dragging with
it the baggage and third class cars.
WASHINGTON IS ALL AC 03
Over Coming Marriage of U- S. Grant HI
and Daughter if Secretary Root.
The announcement of the engage
ment cf Miss Edi h Root, daughter of
Secretary Root, to U. S. Grant 111,
thrills Washington with the expectan
cy of a grand w-edding in the fall.
However, no plans for the event have
been allowed to leak out as vet.
Miss Root is a g rl of high imellec
tual attainments, and has never cared
a great deal for s-c.e y.
FINE IMPOSED
IS $29,240,000
Standard Oil Company Given Tre
mendous Wback by Judge Landis.
Decision is Rendered in Notorious Rebating
Case—Rockefeller’s Corporation De
clared Worse Than Counterfeiters.
Judge Kennesaw M. Landis, in the
United Slates district court at Chi
cago fined the Standard Oil company
of Indiana $29,240,000 for violations of
the law against accepting rebates
from railroads. The fine is the larg
est ever assessed against any individ
uals or any corporation in the history
j of American criminal jurisprudence,
and i 3 slightly more than 131 time 3
as great as the amount received by
the company through its r bating op
erations. The case will be carried to
the higher courts by the defendant
| company.
The penalty imposed upon the ccm
i pany is the maximum permitted un
der the law, and it was announced at
the end of a long opinion in which
the methods and practices of the Stan
dard Oil company were mercilessly
scored. The judge, in fact, declared,
in his opinion, that the officials of the
Standard Oil company who were re
sponsible for the practices of which
the corporation was found guilty, wd-e
no better than qcunterfeiters and
thives, his exact language being:
“We may as well look at this sit
uation squarely. The men who thus
deliberately violate this law', wound
society more deeply than does he who
counterfeits the coin or steals letters
from the mail.”
Judge Landis commenced reading
his decision at 10 o'clock and occu
pied about one hour in its delivery.
He reviewed the facts in the case,
took up the arguments of attorneys
for the defence, and answered them
and then passed judgment on the com
pany, which he declared violated the
law for the sole purpose of swelling
its dividends.
The court held that the roads have
no more right to make a secret, rate
for a shipper than a board of assess
ors would have to make a secret as
sessment of any particular piece of
property.
The court expressed regret that the
law failed to provide more serious pun
ishment than a fine, out insisted that
the penally should be sufficiently large
to act as a deterrent and not of such
a size as to encourage the defender
to persist in lawlessness.
At the conclusion of his opinion and
after announcing the amount of the
fine, Judge Landis directed that a spe
cial grand jury be called for the pur
pose of inquiry into the facts tu the
Chicago and Alton Railroad company,
it having been proved in the cave just
closed that the oil company accepted
rebates from that corporation. Tht3
Jury is summoned for August 14.
This decision of Judge Landis arous
ed almost as much public interest as
did the presence of John D. Rocke
feller and the other officials of the
Standard Oil company in the court
room on July 6. The crush was 30
great that a large force cf deputy
marshals had much difficulty in con
trolling the crowd that was anxious
to force its way into the courtroom.
The case will be appealed and it is
expected that it will be heard during
the January *erm of the United States
court of appeals.
Under the seven indictments still
pending against the Standard Oil com.
pany an additional fine amounting to
$88,440,000 may be levied against the
company if it is found guilty on trial.
There are in these seven indictm ats
a total of 4,422 counts, and the maxi
mum fine in each suit would be $20,-
000.
NEW ATTORNEY FOR THAW.
Former Tennesseen Will Have Charge of
Defense on Next Trial.
Martin W. Littleton, former presi
dent of the borough of Brooklyn, a
lawyer and an orator of wide reputa
tion, and a native of Tennessee, will
be chief counsel for Harry K. Thaw
when he again f&fces a jury to «nswer
to the charge of killing Stafford
White. Thaw announced the selection
of Mr. Littletor. Thursday, after a
conference with! his mother and hi 3
wife. It is saU that Mr. Littleton’s
’ee will be $251000.
