The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, August 09, 1907, Image 2
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.