EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLATURE PROCEEDINGS
JN THE HOUSE.
The house having adopted the Hol
der convict lease bill presented it to
the senate. The upper house killed all
the original sections of the Holder
bill and substituted in place the dit
ferent sections of the “skidoo" bill.
They then passed it and returned it
to the house, who refused to accept
it as amended.
A system of parole and conditional
pardon for the Georgia penitentiary
was passed 'by the house when the
bill providing for this by Mr. Persons
of Monroe was passed unanimously,
133 memibers voting. The bill provides
for all convicts except those convict
ed of two or three certain crimes,
to receive the advantages of a parole
and conditional pardon, but it is pro
vided that each convict shall serve
the minimum sentence prescribed for
the crime of which he was convicted.
Mr. Persons made an interesting
speech and a good impression on the
other members of the house, and sev
eral announced that they had changed
their minds on the subject. As Mr.
Slater of Bryan later pointed out, it
gives the poor man—the man without
money or political influence—a chance
to redeem himself and have hope for
the future. The bill was by unani
mous consent transmitted immediate-.
ly to the senate.
The house of representatives pass
ed the Wise ‘'near-beer” tax, by a
vote of 99 to 32. A tax of S2OO is
placed on dealers and SSOO on manu-j
facturers of imitation beers.
The provision of the bill limiting
the amount, of alcohol the imitation
beer may contain to one one half per
cent was defeated.
The senate is committed to a tax
of SIOO on dealers and SSOO on manu
facturers of imitation beers, but it
is not apprehended that the two
houses will experience a great deal of
trouble getting together on the ques
tion.
The bill passed by the house pro
vides that the funds derived from the
tax shall go to support the convicts.
The bill by Mr. Perry of Hall to
stop the convict lease system by
amendment to the state constitution
at the termination of the present
leases, March 31st next was lost by
a vote of lit; to 39. The bill net hav
ing received the requisite two-thrids
majority of 152, required for amend
ments to the :cnstitntion, was there-
IN THE SENATE.
Emasculated in proposed executive
features, but. otherwise intact, the
substitute to the Felder convict bill,
known as the “skidoo" or “23" biHj
was passed iby the senate by a vote
of 33 to 10. ' ■; ’ ;
The bill is one of the most compre
hensive that has yet been offered in
solution of the question that m troub
ling the state, one of its most inter
esting features being the levying of
an income fax.
The provision abolishing the pris
on commission and creating in its
place a board of control, consisting of
the governor, eommisisoner of agri
culture and atteorney general, was
stricken from the substitute.
The provision for an income tax of
-one-half of one per cent on all in
comes was eliminated.
The proposed tax on imitation beers
was reduced fr6m one to two hundred
•dollars; the tax of 3500 on manufac
turers of imitation heeds remained un
changed.
An amendment requiring the mem
bers of the prison commission to give
all of their time to the discharge of
their duties was passed.
The essential details of the substi
tute follow;
The state has direct supervision cf
all felony and misdemeanor convicts.
The misdemeanors may, however, be
worked by the counties.
The lease system terminates on the
night of March 31, 1909.
The money derived from the hire of
convicts in the meantime shall be
set aside as a prison fund.
The money already appropriated for
the support of the prison department
is made immed’ately available.
The money derived from the imita
tion beer tax shall go into the fund
to maintain the convicts.
The felony convicts now hired out
to lesses and used by the counties
shall be givenu over to the commis
sion on April 1, 1909.
The commission may, in its discre
tion, purchase one or more farms.
The convicts shall be divided into
gangs or squads, and, under the su
pervision and management of the
state, shall work in the several coun
ties of the state upon the public roads
or other public works.
The work to be done in the respec
tive counties shall be apportioned by
the commission in proportion to pop
ulation.
The material used in road improve
ment shall be furnished by the coun
ties for which the work is done.
The action of the directors of the
Savannah board of trade in abolish
ing the grades of C and A of rosins
amounts to a decided innovation in
the naval stores world. Ever since
naval stores have been marketed
there have been three low grades, A,
B and C. They have in recent years
been bunched together so far as quo
tations are concerned and some of
the foreign buyers have been kicking
recently that when they bought low
grade rosins they got more A's than
anything else. To overcome this ob
jection it was decided to abolish en
tirely the A and C grade and bunch
the rosins that have been placed un
der one or the other of the three low
er grades as B's. It is expected this
will stop the kicking of our English
and German cousins.
Vicious and long feral men shall be
held on the farm or farms.
None of the products of the farms
are to be sold in competition with
free labor. The convicts are to raise
such products as will be used by the
state institutions and road gangs, also
the convicts shall make tools, machin
ery, etc., such as will be required by
the road gangs.
The money for the purchase of the
required land and the road equipment
will be taken from the special prison
fund, to be accumulated as indicated.
STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Beal Brothers bottling w'orks at
Monticello werre entirely destroyed
by fire. The origin of the fire is un
known. The loss is estimated at
SI,OOO, with SI,OOO Insurance.
Contract was awarded for a jail in
Polk county, Georgia, that will cost
nearly $20,000, and for the building of
a $50,000 fertilizer factory at Cordele,
Ga.
Meigs enjoys the distinction of hav
ing a bank whose deposits have doub
led in the year 1908, notwithstanding
that the year was ushered in amid
sadly troubled business conditions.
Owing to the 6 weeks’ drouth dur
ing July and August, the cotton crop
in Hancock county will not be over
(10 per cent of last year’s yidld, ac
cording to estimates of close observ
ers of the crop.
W. B. Spence, who attempted to
commit suicide at Columbus, by cut
ting his throat with a razor, and who
is in the hospital for treatment, is im
proving slowly. His physicians say
he will recover.
The city of Hartwell held an elec
j tion to determine whether or not the
city should have public schools, re
sulting in a large vote and only four
against public schools.
The Georgia and Alabamma Indus
trial Index says: "Another interest
ing testimonial of the superiority and
growing popularity of southern mar
ble is found in the beautiful Girard
building, which has just been com
pleted in Philadelphia. Of Georgia
marble it is, within and without, and
it is regarded as one of the hand
somest structures in the Quaker me
tropolis. While the New England
marble is soft, white and beautiful,
it absorbs readily the smoke and im
purities of a great city. The marble
found in the hills of north Georgia
being of a harder and more crystal
line formation is non-absorbant and
is regarded as peculiarly adapted for
construction purposes in large cities."
Fourteen fires occurred in Macon
during the iffonth of August, while in
August, 1907, only nine alarms were
answered by the Macon fire depart
ment. During the past month only
one bad fire occurred and that was
Huhn’s hardware store early in the
month. The ‘Other fires were small
ones and the damage done amounted
to very little. ,
J. A. Bagwell of Lawrenceville, Ga.,
has bought the Marietta Courier. Mr.
Bagwell recently sold the Gwinnett
County Journal, of which he was edi
tor and came to Marietta.
One of the most successful revivals
ever held in Tallapoosa has just been
brought to a ciose by the Baptist
church. Over a hundred members
were added to the church by letter
and profession of faith. The ordinance
of baptism was administered to the
new members at the Tallapoosa river
and one of the largest crowds ever in
attendance upon any occasion was
present, it being estimated that there
were two thousand people at the
river.
The resignation of Judge J. H. Mar
tion of Columbus of the superior
courts of the Chattahoochee circuit,
which was sent to the governor some
time ago, took effect, and Honorable
S. Price Gilbert, who w r as apponted
by the governor to succeed him, was
sworn in, Judge William Redd, of the
ordinary’s court of Muscogee county
officiating. At the same time that
Captain Gilbert was sworn in as
judge he vacated the office of solici
tor general of the circuit court and
Honorable George C. Palmer, who had
been appointed by the governor to
succeed him, was also sworn in as so
licitor general. Judge Martin retires
with the confidence, esteem and good
will of the people of the entire cir
cuit, and the new officials enter upon
the ’ discharge of their duties under
most favorable auspices.
More than $6,000 was subscribed in
Savannah for the relief of the Augus
ta flood sufferers. This is the largest
amount raised in any city. Heavy
contributions were made on the floor
of the Savannah cotton exchange. The
American Naval Stores company sent
the Press fund SSOO, and Spencer H.
Shotter, chairman of the board of the
same concern, sent the Morning
News’ fund, a similar amount.
In a determined effort to rid the
city of blind tigers the city council
of Albany has offered a standing re
ward of SSO to any citizen, policeman,
sheriff or deputy or any other city
or county officer who will supply In
formation, with evidence to convict,
of the operation of any blind tiger.
The permits issued by the building
inspector of Atlanta shows that dur
ing the month of Auguts just closed
there were issued permits aggregating
over a third of a million dollars, or
to be exact $359,305, a clear gain of
$46,633 over the month of Aug., 1907.
With this appreciable increase the
total increase for the eight months
of 1908, over the same number for
1907 is $226,026. The total for the
year 190 S up to date being $3,796,573,
as against $3,569,547 for last year.
COTTON CROP MIMED
Heaviest in Years According to
Reports From Over the Slate.
ESTIMATE LOSS $25,000,000
Heavy Rain Caused Cotton to Shed Its
Bolls, Blooms and Squaros.
Crop Will Be Short.
Atlanta, Ga. —Reports from every
one of the 146 counties of Georgia in
dicate that the cotton crop has been
damaged to the extent, of $25,000,000
at least during the past three cr four
weeks. It is stated that the total pro
duction of Georgia will, at the lowest
calculations, fail 500,000 bales short
of the yield last year.
In a word the total production in
Georgia this year will not exceed one
a half million hales, as against a pro
duction last year of two million, one
hundred thousand bales.
Commissioner of Agriculture Hud
son believes that even this estimate
is too liberal, and he predicts that the
crop will come nearer to approximat
ing one and a quarter million bales.
The extra session of the legisla
ture has furnished an unequaled op
portunity to get a line on the cotton
crop of the state. It has brought to
Atlanta citizens of every county in
the state, and most of them, as is
w'ell known, are engaged directly or
interested in farming pursuits.
Commissioner Hudson, assisted by
Representatives Atkinson, Reid of
Macon; Heard of Doolv and others,
have made a careful canvass of the
situation, and they have been genuine
ly alarmed at tire information they
have received.
Out of the 146 counties, in only two
Is the cotton crop anything like as
good this year as heretofore. The
other 144 counties report damage
ranging from 10 to 20 per cent.
“The heavy rains, which were gen
eral throughout the state two or
three weeks ago, followed by the
exceeding hot weather, accounts for
the damage,” said Commissioner Hud
son. "The two excesses —too much
rain and too much heat —caused the
cotton to shed its young bolls and
squares to such an extent that every
acre of farm land in Georgia was lit
erally covered with them.
"The damage is greater this year
than ever before in mv knowledge,’
he continued, "and the worst uf it is
that it is now too late to offset or
counteract the damage. The crop is
made, and it is the shortest in the
history of the state in recent years.”
WILL KOT CUSE COPPER MINES.
Attorney General Gives His Reason
For Not Enforcing Injunction.
Atlanta, Ga. —In a statement relat
ing to the insistence of the people
of Fannin county that the Ducktown
copper mines be closed at once in
order to abate the nuisance arising
from the fumes of smoke and gas.
Attorney General John C. Hart has
set forth the reasons why he has not
enforced the injunction secured by the
state against these companies.
The injunction was to go into ef
fect only after reasonable time had
been allowed the mines to. aoate tne
nuisance complained of, and the at
torney general shows that in the ef
fort to do this they have already
spent about $1,000,000 installing sul
phuric acid chambers to convert the
fumes into sulphuric acid.
“The companies are making an hon
est effort to correct the evils com
plained of,” said the attorney general,
"and it is only a question of time un
til the cause of the complaint will be
entirely removed. To close down
these companies would mean the loss
of a million dollars to the people of
Georgia. They are shipping into the
state the sulphuric acid converted
from the fumes and that will mean a
reduction in the price of fertilizer to
the farmers of the state.
"I have insisted and shall continue
to insist that the copper companies
take care of these fumes, and I believe
they are now making an honest ef
fort to do so, and they are succeed
ing."
17 INSURANCE CCIKPANIES BARRED.
Failed to File Semi-Annual State
ments as Required by Law.
Atlanta, Ga. —Seventeen life and
fire insurance companies in Georgia
have failed to comply with the state
law, which requires them to file with
the governor semi-annual statements,
and, as a result, they will be debar
red from doing business in Georgia
for the balance of the year. When
they resume, they will, under the law,
be required to take out new licenses.
Teh companies are: The Cosmopoli
tan Fire Insurance Company, New
York; the United States Lloyds In
surance Company of New York; the
Great Western Life Insurance Com
pany of Kansas City; the Ridgely Pro
tective Association of Worcester,
Mass.; the South Atlantic Life Insur
ance Company of Richmond. Va.; the
General Accident Association Corpo
ration of Perth, Scotland; the Metro
politan Surety Company of New
York; the United American Life and
Accident Insurance Company of Phil
adelphia, Pa.; the Union Health and
Accident Insurance Company of Den
ver. Col.; the American Assurance
Association of Atlanta, Ga.; the Fire
Insurance Company of Georgia. Dal
las, Ga.; the Great Southern Home In
dustrial Association of Birmingham,
Ala.; the Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany of Cordele, Ga.; the Mutual Ben
efit Industrial Life Association of Sa
vannah, Ga.; Union Benefit Associa
tion of Savannah, Ga.
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LA 13011 WORLD.
Tim Central Federated Union of
City voUd to aid the girl
cigarmakers on strike in Newark,N. J.
Governor Hughes spoke in Albany,
N. Y., at the dedication of a tubercu
losis pavilion erected by the Albany
Labor Federation.
J. Eads How arranged for a mass
meeting of the New A'ork City unem
ployed and asked the Central Feder
ated Union for aid.
It is estimated that there are 54,-
100 men idle in the building trade in
New A’ork City. Of the 100,000
skilled mechanics in the city 40,000
are stiil idle.
The law limiting the work of wom
en and children in factories to fifty
four hours a week was amended by
the Massachusetts Legislature to read
fifty-six hours.
New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad clerks’ lodges will
make an effort to have a system
agreement made between the road
and ths clerks.
The Central Federated Union, New
York City, called upon four unions to
withdraw thei v delegates following
investigation of charges of graft in
connection with the Quigg mass meet
ing.
A wage agreement for the ensuing
year was adopted recently at a con
ference between representatives of
the steel interests and of the Amalga
mated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers,
held at Pittsburg, Pa.
The average hourly wages in the
United States in 1907 were higher
than in any other year of the period,
1890 to 1907, and more than twenty
per cent, higher than the average in
any year from 1890 to 1900.
The French laundries at San Fran
cisco, Cal., have reported that the
Japanese laundries are seriousiy af
fecting their business, and have prom
ised to support the Anti-Japanese
League morally and financially.
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
Six of the largest colleges in Switz
erland have 219 3 female students.
Evelyn Thaw denied that she had
spent more than half of $54,000 in
the past two years.
Italia Garibaldi, a granddaughter
of the Italian patriot and a Methodist,
is at the head of the Methodist Girls’
School at Rome.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, 108 years old,
of Brooklyn, N. Y., received many
birthday visitors and was in remark
ably good health.
Mrs. Esther Davis celebrated her
114th birthday at the Home of the
Daughters of Jacob, in East Broad
way, New York City.
There are seven women physicians
in New' Orleans, and all of them aid
struggling to be admitted to mem
bership in the Orleans Parish Medi
cal Society.
The Alice Freeman Palmer chimes
were dedicated at the University of
Chicago during the recent meeting.
Mrs. Palmer was the first dean of
women for that university.
After granting women the parlia
mentary suffrage Norway has gone a
step further and voted to give all
women employed in the postal serv
ice the same pay as the men.
Mrs. Ellen Tompkins won the Cur
rins prize for oratory at the State
Presbyterian College, Hastings, Neb.
The junior essay prize and the Greek
essay prize were both won by 'Miss
Ingalls.
A man is not necessarily dishonest
because he takes pictures.
R. O. JACKSON,
Attorney-at- Law,
McDonough, ga.
Office over Star Store.
E. M. SHITH,
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Attorney at Law,
Me Dongugh, Ga.
Office over Star Store, south side square.
All work carefully and promptly attended
to. ZHT’ Am premared to negotiate loan*
on real estate. Terms easy.
PORATABLC AN O STATION ART
AND BOILERS
Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills. Injectors,
Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters,
Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Kngines.
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AU4UBTA, QA.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
Georgia, Henry County.
Notice is hereby given to all creditors
of the estate of J. B. Price Jr, late of Hen
ry county, deceased, to render in an ac
count of their demands to me within the
time prescribed by law, properly made
out. And all persons indebted to said de
ceased are hereby requested to make im
mediate payment to the undersigned
Thin the 3d day of Aug. 1908.
S. S. PRICE, Administrator of
J. B. PRICE, Jr.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Poston merchants indorsed the pro
posal for an alliance with China.
Persian nationalists, at Teheran,
are holding out defiantly against the
Shah.
Song Piung-Chun, Korea's Home
Minister, favors Japanese rule in his
country.
Japanese immigrants in Brazil
proved useless for work on the coffee
plantations.
Cardinal Vannutelli, the Papal
legate to the Eucharistic Congress,
left Rome for London.
. The Portuguese Chamber of Depu
ties passed the budget, in which the
deficit is estimated at $2,000,000.
Monroe, the Ulster County, N. Y.,
desperado, fooled the police by writ
ing letters announcing his own death.
Word was received in Wall Street
that it v. ould be a felony to conduct a
bucketshop hereafter in New York
State.
, Chairman Hitchcock announced
1 xiat he would ask Republicans to
make campaign speeches without re
muneration.
Li Sum Ling, editor of the China
Mail, declared Japan, if she felt able,
■would shut the "open door" in the
Far East against the world.
Governor Fort won his fight for
the closing of saloons in Atlantic City,
N. .1., on Sundays, and side doors as
well as front doors were locked.
To Dorothy May Trible, of New
Aork City, attired in a sheath gown,
was awarded the grand prize in the
Asbury Park, N. J., baby parade.
Advices from Casablanca tell of
victories won by followers of Abd-el-
Aziz over the forces of Mulai Hafig
the former Sultan says that he may
return to Morocco Citv.
