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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1907)
TEDDY’S PLANS IN LIMELIGHT Bryan Thinks He Has Laid the President's Scheme Bare. SEEKING MORE POWER Nebraskan Attacks Recent Speech of Roosevelt and Says Cat Has Been Let Out of the Bag. William Jennigs Bryan, in comment ing on President Roosevelt’s speech, in Lincoln, Neb., Saturuday night, said: “The president has at last disclosed his scheme for centralization at which he has hinted in former speeches. In his address he proposes the national incorporation of railroads and o her •corporations engaged in interstate commerce. “Here is the secret. It is out at last. The states are annoying the cor porations and the corporations demand federal protection from state legisla tion. The president thinks that action must be pressing as regards those cor porations which, because they are common carriers, exercise a quasi public function. “The states have been enacting 2- cent laws and laws reducing freight rates, and the railroad managers de mand that they shall be relieved from further fear of such legislation. The president’s ideas make him an easy victim, and he yields to the entreaties of the railroads. “If it was the public he sought to protect he would recommend federal remedies which would not interfere with state remedies, but it is the rail roads and not the public that demand the removal of authority to Washing ton. The democrats can be depended upon to oppose with all their might this movement toward centralization. If any democrat wavers, his constit uents should look into his business re lations and see whether he is under obligations to the railroads. “A Hamiltonian republican like tke president may honorably think that the farther the movement is removed from the people, the better it will be, but a Jeffersonian democrat does not. “It is very doubtful whether the re publican congressmen from the west will dare to support the president’s proposition, but if an attempt is made to put such a measuure through con gress the democrats will stand a good chance of retiring every western re publican who votes for It. Let ths dem ocrats present an unbroken front on this vital proposition.’’ BONDHOLDERS TO BRING SUIT. Don’t Like Treatment Accorded by Cen tral of Georgia Directors. Saturday morning the third income Central railroad bondholders in Sa vanah received telegraphic inqui ries from Lazard Frerers, a French Arm on Wall street, New York, advis ing them that the firm would go into court. They proposed to contest in a legal way the decision of the directors withholding the dividends on the four millions of third income. This firm called on the Savannah bondholders to know if they could be -assured of their co-operation in such a suit. An affirmative answer was sent at once. GRAFTER PROMISES TO SQUEAL. Shumaker Brings Serious Charge Against Pennsylvania State Official. James M. Shumaker, former super intendent of public buildings and grounds at Harrisburg, Pa., who is im plicated by the reports of the capitol investigation commission, has declared he will make a full confession of ah he knows in connection with the capi tol scandal. He claims that the manip ulation of the funds was engineered by a high official of the state to cover up a shortage in the state treasury. SEEK TO PROTECT STATE ROAD. Bill in Georgia Senate to Forestall Parallel ing Western and Atlantic. A bill, which will prevent the Louis ville and Nashville railroad from par alleling the line of the state road, the Western and Atlantic, in Georgia, was introduced in the senate I uesday morning. Under the provisions of the hill, the corporation desiring a charter shall appear before the railroad commission and present all facts connected with their application, such as rights of way and condemnation rights. PROVIDES CROP MONEY. Secretary Cortelyou Plans in Advance to Have Coin Sufficient to Move the Fail Business. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou announced Friday a new' plan of de positing government funds in New York, Boston and dt'ner cities, to af ford relief to the money market in the appropaching crop movement pe riod. Commencing next week, he will place each week at such points in the country as he shall designate, gov ernment funds to such an amount as he deems sufficient to prtvent an acute monetary stringency and possible panic w'hen the demand foi money is great est at the height of the crop-moving period. The new plan of the secretary for monetary relief, he believes, w'ill prove more efficacious than the old method of waiting until the country was severely shaken financially and then coming to the relief at the last moment by placing large deposits in New York banks. Secretary Cortel you did not state how r much money he will deposit each week. The plan was made known in New York Friday in the following official statement to the Associated Press: “Secretary Cortelyou announced that beginning with next week the treasury department will make each week for a period of not less than five weeks, deposits in national banks at New York, Boston and other points, the security required to be approved on state, municipal and railroad Donas acceptable under the existing require ments of the department w r ith’ the un derstanding that, if called for, such deposits shall be returned after Jan uary 1 in installments to be fixed by the secretary of the treasury. “This action is taken to m et the commercial and industrial needs of the country at this season, and is be lieved to be preferable to waiting until a time of acute stringency when the only alternative w’ould be a large gen eral deposit. The latter policy the sec retary desires to supplant by one which shall have as its ultimate obj et the adjustment of the operations of the treasury department, as rapidly as may be practicable under existing law, in such manner as shall preclude their being any sense a disturbing factor in the business world “Under the new plan, the secretary will place the government funds in amounts large enough to meet the situation. For this purpose, he may deposit all custom funds which he is permitted to under the Aldrich act, and if these are not sufficient he will augment them from the treasury bal ance which increases each week after ihe usual July deficit. “Secretary Cortelyou in placing the government funds will depend much upon the bureau urgent/y established in the treasury depai/ment to inform him where string/ucy is being felt most. He believe tnat by not announc ing in advance the amounts to be deposited he will prevent speculators from taking advantage of the situa tion and obtaining money which he believes should go into other chan nels. “In previous years the sudden out pouring of money from the national treasury, when a crop moving strin gency was absorbing all available funds, made a good export movement possible by the very violence of the reaction. The financial situation has occupied Secretary Cortelyou’s atten tion for some time, and he is doing what he can to bring relief. Notwith- | standing heavy demands for the S3O,- i 000,000 Panama bonds which are still , unused, the secretary declines to place them on sale as the governm nt does not need money and their purchase by the banks would tie up additional millions.” SECOND PRIMARY IN MISSISSIPPI. Two Gubernational Candidates Contest for Honor in a Run-Cfl The second primary election for the democratic gubernatorial nomination was held in Mississippi Friday, the run off being between E. F. Noel, of the county of Holmes, and Earl Brewer, of the county of Coahoma. Weather con ditions were good and early returns indicate that the vote polled was near- i ly as large as that cast in the Varda- i man-Williams senatorial primary of ; August 1. The initial returns gave Noel j n lead. COMMISSION IS REORGANIZED New Georgia Railroad Board is Made Ready for Business. M’LENDON IS CHAIRMAN Appointment of Callaway and Hillyer by Governor Fills Out Quota of Five Members Under New Law. Georgia’s new railroad commission was completed Monday by the appoint ment of two additional members, or ganized by the election of a chairman and other officers, and is now ready for business. Announcement was made during the morning of the appointment of Fuller E. Callaway of LaGrange and Judge George Hillyer of Atlanta as the two new members of the commission. Mr. Callaway is a well known mer chant, banker and cotton mill man of LaGrange, who has male remarkable success in the business world. Judge Hillyer is a well known Atlanta law yer, now retired. Both are able men, and will undoubtedly give the people good service on the board. Both Commissioners Callaway and Hillyer were sworn in by the govern or immediately after their apointment were announced bv him, and their commissions were issued. The new commission, as reorganiz ed, is composed as follows; Hon. S. G. McLenficn of Thomas vilh? chairman. Mr. McLendon was appointed in place of Commissioner Jo seph M. Brown, who was suspended by order of the governor. Hon. H. Warner Hill of Greenville. Hon. O. B. Stevens of Cornelia. Hon. Fuller E. Ct».;away of La- Grange. Hon. George Hillyer of Atlania. Judge James K Hines of Atlanta, attorney. George F. Montgomery of Marietta, secretary. In accordance with the requ st of Governor Smith a meeting of the new commission for organ zation had been called by Secretary Montgomery for noon. The board was called together with all members present at that hour by the retiring chairma«, H. Warner Hill. Judge Hines, the attorney to the commission, could not be present, ow ing to a previous court engagement, but will be with the commission at its next meeting. The commission proceeded first to the election of a chairman. Commis sioner McLendon was nominated for this office by Commissioner Stevens, and was unanimously elected. Later in the m eting George F. Mont gomery, secretary to the board, was unanimously re-elected to that po sition under the new commission. It was decided to leave the selection of a stenographer to the commission to Chairman McLendon for the reason that the stenographer will principally serve the chairman, who will be in the office daily. The selection of a rate expert, as provided for in the new act, was left over for the present, but will probably be taken up at Friday's meeting. While the new commission took no formal action upon any subject at it* organization meeting, considerable im portant work was discussed. When the new railroad commission got through with its preliminary work of organization it adjourned until Fri day morning. Subsequently it learned that certain railroads wished to be heard upon the question of a modification of the pas senger rate order passed by the old commission to go into effect Septem ber 2. In order to accord this hearing, the commission decided to hold a meeting Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock. A number of railroads. Particularly the Atlanta and West Point and the Western and Atlantic, which were put in the 2-eent class, and the Georgia railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line, which were put in the 2 1-4-cent class, are anxious to have the commission modify its order so as to put in a flat rate of 2 1-2 cents on all the principal railroad systems of the state. The reason for this request grows out of a desire for uniformity and, it is stated, the 2 1-2-cent roads desire the change made for the reason that at points where they compete with the roads of the lower rate, they would have to charge the lower rate also. OFFER TO COMPROMISE. Railroad* of Georgia Will Suggest Flat Passenger Rate of Two and a Half-Cents Per Mile. According to representatives of Im portant interests very close to the rail roads, the Hues in Georgia will make no fight against the order of the state railroad commission making reduced passenger rates effective September 2d, but will offer a compromise propo sition instead, asking for the estab lishment of a flat 2 1-2 cent a mile basis on the larger railroads, if not upon all lines. This proposition is said to have been studiously considered by practically all the executive officers of the different roads operating in the state. A meet ing behind closed doors has been held in Atlanta. One of the officials pres ent laconically r; marked that the Ala bama situation was being discussed. Notwithstanding the report that the Georgia rate reductions were not final ly disposed of, it is known that, ac cording to the present plans, no fight will be made against the reductions, j The rumors that have constantly in creased in their circulation prescribe tbe following method of proceedure by i the railroads: The suggestion that the new com mission, which will be organized by the last of the week, revoke the pro posed graduated rates ordered by the present commission, and establish, in stead, a flat 2 1-2-cent a mile scale, has been made. This scale to be ef fective upon all ’the larger railroads, including the Central of Georgia, the Southern railway, the Western and At lantic, the Atlanta and West Point, (he Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air Line, the Georgia railroad, the Georgia Southern and Florida, the Charleston and Western Carolina, the Louisville and Nashville and the Ma con, Dublin and Savannah. It is not known whether the smaller lines will be a party to the 2 1-2-cent basis or not, but it is possible that they wili continue to operate upon a or more bases, as they could not be affected any more under the compromise scale than the proposed rates! of tbe present commission Although the Louisville and Nash ville and the Macon, Dublin and Sa vannah lines are classified at 3 cents a mile, under the proposed rates ef fective September 2d, it has been pointed out that owing to their con ! nections with some of the larger roads they will be placed und r the 2 1-2-cent ! a mile basis. The larger roads connected with i these interests, so it is said, will be ! willing to sacrifice the possibilities of the 3-cent a mile basis so as to place the roads upon the same footing for | convenience of arranging the tariffs as well as the profit of the patrons. Although the Western and Atlantic railroad would be in class “A,” the two ! cents a mile class, and the Louisville I and Nashville in class “D,” at three cents a mile, the Western and At lantic is virtually a Louisville and Nashville interest, and under a rale of 2 1-2-cent a mile basis, the Western and Atlantic would be raised to that basis and the Louisville and Nashville lowered a cent a mile. The Macon, Dublin and Savannah would operate under the three-cent a mile scale under the 'propos d rates, but the Seaboard Air Line which op erates the M. D. -and S., is in class “C” at 2 1-2 cents a mile, and the flat basis would place them both under the same tariffs. If the smaller roads are not able to operate under a 2 1-2-cent a mile basis it is not probable that the larg er roads will ask for any reduction as the establishment of the compro mise rate will not affect them. The principal reason that is said to govern the roads is the alleged dis criminations that the rates make when two parallel lints are placed in differ ent classes. OFFICERS SHOOT EACH OTHER. Deplorable Mistake Made by Two Parties of Revenue Men on Raid. Two parties of revenue officers,while attempting to destroy a blockade s ill near Chapel Hill, N. C., Friday morn ing just before day, fired on each other. Two men w re desperately and two ethers slightly wounded. Through some misunderstanding the parties missed each other, each think ing the other had been detained from some cause. Each d cided to Proceed with the raid, with the result stated. HALIBUT WITH TOMATOES. (A Creole Recipe,) Make a rich sauce of tomatoes fresh or canned, seasoning with but ter rolled in flour, sugar, pepper, onion juice and salt, adding, if you have it, a sweet green pepper, seeded and minced. Cook fifteen minutes, strain, rubbing through a colander, and cool. Lay the halibut in oil and lemon juice for an hour, place upon the grating of your covered roaster, pour the sauce over it; cover and bake twelve minutes to the pound if the oven be good. Sift Parmesan cheese over the fish and cook five minutes longer. Servo upon a hot dish, pouring the sauce over it.—- Washington Star. ' V OVENLESS BAKED BrSCUIT. Mix and cut Out as for baking in an oven. Have a spider well greased and hot. In this place the biscuit, greased on top; <over, and when' they are half done, which can be; judged by their puffiness, turn each biscuit carefully, and finish the bak ing without cover. One oau bake biscuit in this way in less than half the time it takes to get an oven hot enough, and does away with the heat, as moderate baking is necessary, and but little heat is required. It can be all done over one hole of a cook stove or burner of gasoline. If the latter is used, it is well to place an asbestos mat under the pan, to pre vent browning too quickly. One can have hot biscuit without the dread of heating an oven, especially in hot weather, or when one is hurried in getting a meal. This plan, I am sure, will please all who try it. A little baking powder, even if soda and sour milk is used, will make bis cuit lighter, and makes less short ening necessary.—M. D. fi., in the Ladies’ World. STEAK BERNATSE. As the delicious French sauce re quires cuise attention in its making it. is safer to have butter creamed and the eggs beaten before commenc ing to broil the steak. The rest of the process can he attended to white the meat is cooking. Rub in a small bowl four rounded tablespoonfuls of butter until creamy, adding a sift ing oi paprika and half a teaspoon ful salt. Beat the yolks of four eggs in a small saucepan and set on one side. In another saucepan put four tablespoonfuls each hot water and tarragon vinegar with a slice of onion and cook until reduced one half. Strain out the onion, add the hot vinegar to the beaten egg yolks, little by little, set the pan over the fire in a hot water bath and stir rapidly as the egg thickens. As soon as creamy and thick take from the fire, add a portion of the creamed butter, incorporate thoroughly, add more of the butter, and so on until all is in and well blended. Then pour at once over’a hot broiled sirloin or tenderloin steak. When fresh tarra gon cannot be obtained a little of the fine minced herb is added just before serving. Minced parsley or chives are also sometimes used and garlic may be substituted for the onion. Wf/, ITOUSE= Hold Hints r i ea and coffee and some fruit stains can be removed from linen by rubbing them with batter. Rub thor oughly into the linen, then soak in hot water. In buying canned goods etamine the can carefully, and if the sides bulge reject them, as this denotes the presence of gas, which renders the contents unfit for food. Kerosene oil may be used with very satisfactory results in taking out wagon grease or tar spots if used while the grease *is fresh; then wash out in cold water, using no soap. For a hot fomentation a much eas ier way than wringing cloths out of hot water is to fold the cloth to the required size, put it into a steamer and place it over boiling water. Hard water can be easily softened for toilet purposes if a muslin bag containing fine oatmeal be squeezed out in the water before using. Fresh oatmeal should be used every day. To prevent making a great dust in sweeping use moist sawdust on bare floors. If the floor is carpeted, mois ten a newspaper, tear it into small pieces, and scatter over the floor. The carpet will look much brighter tkati if swept in the ordinary way.
