The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, November 15, 1907, Image 3
CUT TARIFF TO KILL TRUSTS Is Remedy Urged By W. J. Bryan * in Banquet Speech. QUICK ACTION NEEDED INebraskan Declares Speculation Caused Present Flurry—Suggests More Strin gent Railroad Regulations. William Jennings Bryan was the guest of honor at a banquet on the twenty-first anniversary of the Jeffer son Club of Milwaukee Monday night. Covers were laid for over five hundred guests. Mr. Bryan was received with tumul tuous applause on his arrival at the banquet. Mr. Bryan responded to the toast, He discussed the demo cratic theory of government as pre sented by Jefferson, contrasting it with the Hamiltonian idea, and speaking of the spheres of the nation and the state, took occasion to condemn the national incorporation of railroads, a 3 proposed by the president, saying that however honestly the president intended it, it was in the interest of the railroads, which desired not greater federal reg ulation, but to escape from state reg ulation. On the trust question he favored the enforcement of the criminal laws against the trusts, the enactment of new laws, one of which is known as the license system, to be applied to corporations when they control as much as 25 per cent of the total out put in their respective lines. Accord ing to this system no one corporation would be permitted to control more than 50 per cent of the total product. On the tariff question he favored im mediate revision beginning with the tariff on articles which come into com petition with trust-made articles. Such a tariff, he thought, ought to be entirely removed. He believed that the fear of removal will compel the dissolution of such trusts as are pro tected by the tariff. He regarded a tariff commission as merely an excuse for delay of revision. The protection ists, he said, never favor tariff revis ion until they arc threatened with de feat, and then they favor it only to postpone reductions. On the railroad question he express ed hirnself as in favor of more strin gent regulations, that regulation to take the form of legislation ascertain ing the present value of the railroads And preventing the watering of stock and reducing rates. He argued that a reasonable rate would be a rate that would enable the railroads to maintain their stock at par when the road was honestly capitalized. He discussed the present money stringency, saying that it began with speculation in New York, but that it has extended owing to the timidity of depositors. He thought that this tim idity was not justified and that the banks of the west are sound. He favored legislation which by In creasing the security of depositors would remove even an unreasonable lear. DRAWS THE LAW ON TEXAS. Attorney General Advises That Issue of Emergency Money is Illegal. Hon. W. H. Atwell, United States dis trict attorney for the northern district of Texas, Monday issued to the press of Texas a statement in which, after quoting portions of the federal con stitution and statutes, he uses the fol lowing language: “Section 5138 provides as follows: “ ‘No national banking association shall issue any other notes to circulate as money than such as are authorized by the provisions of this title.’ “The provision of the title mentioned allows the issuing of certain national bank currency, with which we are all familiar, and no other. “In line with the law, therefore, if there be a money stringency in the northern district of Texas, due to a failure of money centers to pay what they owe our local banks, no clearing house in this district will issue any promises to pay or any scrip which violate any of the provisions of the above quoted law’s.” ROD WILL NOT BE SPARED. Corporal Punishment is Reintroduced in Public Schools of Savannah. The Savannah, Ga., board of educa tion, at a meeting Monday night, voted to reintroduce corporal punishment into the public schools of the city and county, from which it has been exclud ed for twenty-two years. The order became effective at once. Home Treat ment J-20 THE UNWRITTEN LAW. Will Be Plea of Mrs. Biailey, Slayer of Senator Brcwrn in a Washing ton Hotel. A Washington special says: On ac count of the death of Justice McComas, of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, criminal court No. 1, in which Mrs. Annie M. Bradley was to have been on trial Monday on the charge of murdering former Senator Arthur Brown of Utah, took an ad journment, upon convening at 10 o’clock, until Wednesday morning at the same hour. Mrs. Bradley was in court, as were also her attorneys and many witnesses, and all was in readi ness for the trial. Mrs. Brdaley came intq the court room soon after the entrance of Judge Stafford, who will preside over her trial, and was unaccompanied except by a member of the marshal's staff. Her entrance was so quiet that it was scarcely noticed. She was dressed in black, and took her seat on the left ol her counsel, Mr. Wells. The court room was crowded, and not since the Bonine trial has so much interest been manifested* in any case before the dis trict court. Mr 3. Bradley was led from the room after spending five minutes in the courtroom. Within this short time, how’ever, Mrs. Bradley had faced one of the most crucial moments in her eventful life, coming face to face for the first time with the judge to whom she must give an accounting for the tragic happenings of that night near ly a year ago, when she entered the room of Senator Brown at the Raleigh hotel and took his life, sayjng: “He is not my husband, but he is the father of my two children.” The killing of ex-Seuator Brown, oc curring, as it did, a month before the date set for his marriage to the mother of Maude Adams, the actress, caused a great sensation, as it revealed his Ha son with Mrs. Bradley, and the fact that he had Induced her to desert her husband under promise that he would marry her. Brown cared for Mrs. Brad ley and their two children for several years, but when free to marry her, he refused, and planned marriage with another. Knowledge of Brown's infi delity came to Mrs. Bradley and she made her way from Salt Lake to Wash ington, called on Brown at his hotel, and shot him to death. It is said that Brown, when dying, asked that Mrs. Bradley be not prosecuted. Mrs. Bradley’s attorneys had planned to have her two little boys, sons of Brawn, as witnesses, but it is said the judge refused to permit this, holding that the testimony which the boy 3 w’ould give would be “irrelevant, incom petent and immaterial.” Mrs. Bradley's lawyers claim that they can bring proof that Brown was the wrecker of other homes. The trial will be held in the old city hall, the scene of the Guiteau and other famous trials. It is said that the presi dent, disturbed over the publicity given the Thaw case, will exert every influ ence to eliminate as much as possible the sensational features of the Brad ley trial. EDITOR ESTILL LAID TO REST. Funeral Largely Attended and Faithful Negro Servants Bore Body. The funeral of the late Colonel J. H. Estill took place at Savannah, Ga., Monday afternoon from St. John’s church, and it was one of the most notable seen in the city for many years. The attendance was large, and genuine regret for the loss of so up right and valued a citizen and so true a gentleman as Colonel Estill was expressed on all sides. A striking feature of the funeral was the attendance in a body of nearly every one of the 200 employees of the Morning News. Every department oi the paper was closed down for the pe riod of the funeral and the entire body of employees followed the remains to beautiful Bonaventure cemetery, where the intermnt took plac. For many years Col. Estill had been president of the company that, owned and con trolled the cemetery in which his body now rests. You naturally would prefer to treat yourself at home, for any form of female trouble, wouldn't you? Well, it can be done. 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A Washington special says: The consolidation of the two internal rev enue collection districts In Tennessee, announcement of which was made Sat urday by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Capers, is only the begin ning of what will be a general aofal gamatlon of revenue icollectioD dis tricts throughout the country as the result of the growing temperance movement. The Georgia collection district is to be consolidated with that pf South Carolina and the Mississippi and Ala bama districts are to be made one ac cording to present arrangements, but this action will not be taken until after the republican national conven tion is a thing of, the past. Political considerations are responsible for the delay. The administration, which is making a determined effort to control the na tional convention, does not wish to give offense to southern republicans by consolidating these collection. dis tricts at this time. ( The headquarters of the new Ten nessee district will be at Nashville, and the president has appointed Rob ert S. Sharp of Chattanooga collector of the new district of Tennessee. The new’ district will be divided into di visions, each in charge of a division deputy collector instead of eleven, a 3 at present, w’hich will afford ample force to handle the Internal revenue work in connection with the field force of internal revenue agents. Mr. Sharp has tendered to Mr. But ler, the present collector of the sec ond district, the position as chief dep uty collector, and International Inter nal Revenue Collector Caper 3, the present collector of the fifth district, a revenue agent. Commissioner Ca pers explained because, under the ex isting condition, that the reorganiza tion was imperative; the present or ganization is entirely too large for the amount of work involved. “In the entire ninety-six counties of deputy collectors,” said Mr. Capers, “there are only forty-nine grain dis tilleries, sixteen tobacco factories, thirty-two cigar factories, four brew eries and 104 liquor dealers paying special taxes, excepting those located in Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and La Follette, the only cities where intoxicants can now be purchased in the state.” CASHIER AND MONEY DISAPPEAR. Bank in Lawton, Oklahoma, is Found Shy $50,000 in Funds. D. R. Rankin, cashier of the Mer chants and Planters’ Bank of Lawton, Okla., who mysteriously disappeared with a shortage of cash in the bank of about $50,000, is still missing. The estimated liabilities of the In stitution are $119,250, with assets es timated at $55,169. Only S4OO in cash was found in the vault by the bank examiner. JOB PRINTERS WALK OUT. Employees of Knoxville, Tenn., Firms, Strike to Enforce Demands. Union printers in two of the largest job printing establishments in Knox ville, Tenn., quit work Saturday fol lowing the employers’ refusal of the Typographical Union's request for an eight hour day, an increase in wages ard other concessions. The employers also announce their establishments wiU be conducted as open shops. WITH A GOLDEN CARGO Great Steamer Lusitania Reaches New York—Breaks Her Previous Speed Record by Over an Hour. The marvelous record established less than a month ago by the giant turbine Cunarder Lusitania when she cut several hours from the passage time across the Atlantic, already has been broken. I The Lusitania stiil retains the title of queen of the seas, as it was she herself that established the new low mark and incidentally she added seve ral new records to her credit. These Include the best single day’s run—6lß knots, mad 9 November 6 —an average •tf more than 600 knots for every full day and an average hourly speed of 24.25 knots for the full 2,781 miles. On her last voyage the Lusitania covered the distance in four days, nine teen hours and fifty-two minutes. The voyage ended Friday, over the same course, was completed in four days, eighteen hours and forty minutes, thus clipping one hour and twelve minutes from the previous low mark. In the Lusitania's big vaults wa3 stored nearly 12,000,000 in gold, more stored over $12,000,000 In gold, more which had been engaged abroad by American bankers since the present al most unprecedented movement began. This gold will be added to the coun try’s available circulation of currency. As soon as the big ship was warped into her dock, preparations were made for discharging the twenty-four tons of golden treasure in her specie room. The work was under the personal su pervision of Vernon H. Brown, gen eral agent of the Cunard line. Long shoremen were soon at work carrying the small but heavy steel-bound wood en cases, of which there were 334, ashore. Purser Lancaster checked each box as it was brought down the gangplank. Plain clothes men and policemen were on guard, and a portable wooden fence placed across the end of the dock, where the gold was being handled, served to keep back the curious. 1 CUSS WORDS LEAD TO MURDER, j i - ■ ■ - - - Man Used Ladles’ Bath Room and Killed Fellow Eoarder Who Protested. Robert N. Mitchell shot and killed Joe M. Sloop early Friday flight In front of the Central hotel in Rome, Georgia. it seems that there had been some trouble between Mitchell and Sloop, I both of whom boarded at the Central hotel. Mitchell, it Is claimed, had per oisted in using the ladles' bath room, 1 to which Sloop objected. Friday morn ing, it is alleged/ Mitchell attempted to get into the bath room while Sloop:/ j wife was in there, and it is alleged » that Sloop applied a vile epithet to any man who would do that kind of a thing. Mitchell, it seems, had been brood ing over the matter all day, and wait ed for Sloop to come to supper. When he saw Sloop, he reminded him of what he had said in the morn ing, and called him a vile name three times, and then shot him in the breast four times with a 48-caliber revolver. Sloop died almost immediately. Mitchell is a musician and leader of the orchestra at the Rome opera house. Sloop was a cigar maker and a quiet, inoffensive man. The friends of Sloop were very in dignant over the killing ami expressed themselves quite freely on the subject and a good many threats were made against Mitchell. DECREASE IN COTTON SHOWN In Report of the Census Bureau as to Num ber of Bales Ginned. At Washington Friday, the census bureau issued its bulletin showing the* total cotton crop of this year’s growth ginned up to November Ist to be 6,- 167,000 bales, as compared with 6,- 906,395 bales for 1906. In the com putation round bales are counted as half bales. There were 26,135 ginneries in oper ation, as compared with 27,370 for. 1906. EXTRA SESSION IN ALABAMA Begins Grind With Ters: Mkss:ge From Governor Comer. RAILROADS HIS TARGET Attacks President Milton Smith of L. & N. F.ood of Bills Introduced at Opening of Session. The Alabama legislature met in spe cial session at Montgomery Thursday. In his message Governor Comer in sisted that the control and regulation of the railroads by the state is a question more important than the mak ing of rates or any other thing; that it involves the question of the right of the state to control it 3 internal af fairs. The message goes on to say that President Smith of the Louisville and Nashville has held out against the Ala bama laws, while others have put them in, has defied the state and its people by conducting a lobby at the capital and openly admitting that his company has Influenced legislation in the past, has called the governors of Alabama and Georgia populistic, has raised rates overnight in defiance of state laws, and has generally refused to recognize the right of the state to make laws ap plying to transportation companies. That the Alabama rate laws are not confiscatory is evidenced, the governor says, by the fact that they prevail iu other nearby states and prove profit able. Financial troubles have not grown out of the laws made to control corporations, but the rascality of the high financiers, and the producer of the of the south is now coming to gave the country from panic. The Louisville and Nashville railroad Is charged with manipulating to prevent use of waterways, to make rulfes handling coal, demurrage and freight that are arbitrary, and generally to control the state to the hurt of the people. Laws are also suggested for the preservation of the forests, regulation of the sale of cocaine, lowering excess baggage charges and providing that city officers may ride on street cars on passes. The first day of the extra session was productive of a large number of prohibition bills, amongst them one for a constitutional amendment to elim inate the right to make and sell liquors from the organic law. This last was presented by Chairman Ballard of the temperance committee in the house. A number of railroad hills were in troduced in the senate. Mr. Hayes had one to allow street railways to issue passes to certain city officials. Mr. Wilson one to prevent dscrimination on the part of railroads, and Mr. Lusk one to prevent carriers from charging a higher rate for traffic than the stat utes allow. Half a dozen bills for prohibition were presented in the house and one in the senate. It was agreed that mat ters not mentioned in the call for the session could be taken up and passed if two-thirds of the members voted on them for final passage. Milton Smith Replies. Milton H. Smith, president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, on Thursday night made a reply to the message of Governor Comer, In ref erence to his road and himself. "Permit me to call your attention to some of the many erroneous state ments contained in your message,” says Mr. Smith. The letter is address ed to the governor. It is denied that railroads have tried to influence legislation. It is asked if the state has a right to take proper ty of private individuals and not give ' the defendants the relief that they have in the courts.* He charges the governor with many errors, and say* that “by disseminating such misin formation you have secured prefer ment.”