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renate Side-Stepped Issue
And Tabled Gore Resolution
resident Disappointed That
Question Was Not Square
ly Met and Settled.
WASHINGTON.—By a vote of 68
) 14, a greater majority than they
Xpected, administration forces in the
enate today tabled Senator Gore’s
esolution to warn Americans off the
rmed ships of the European bellig
rents and thereby finally quelled in
he senate an agitation which has
mbarrassed President Wilson in the
übmarine negotiations with Ger
hany .
Senator Gore's resolution, a substi-
Ite by Senator McCumber, a republi
an, and an attempt by Senator Gore
O strengthen his original proposal,
Il were defeated at onme time on a
01l call on motion by Senét()r James,
né of the administration whips, o
able them,
Senators Chamberlain and O'Gor
nan were the only democrats to vote
‘€ainst the administration. The oth-
I twelve anti-administration votes‘i
Vere all republican.
"Orty-seven democrats and twenty
¢ republicans voted to table thf-‘
Gor, resolution. 1
g L
Senator Gore, author of the orig
’.:A""‘ resolution, voted with the ma-‘?
.u,i].:-lx.;. |
“ille the vote was supposedly a
CloTy for President Wilson, who had
flianded a “‘showdown” on the sub
e warfare question, later it was
Fiblained that many of the senators
Uisidered the result more in the na
‘“— Ol a **Scotech wverdict’”” than a
L’;.?"' tout victory for the executive
H4leh of government.
, I€V based this contention on thel
. ' that at the last moment Senator
‘,:;f' Coupled with his original reso-
O A flat declaration that the de
saction of an armed merchant ship
t \mericans on board would ‘“be
, ‘4use of war.” Senators insisted
ot adoption of such a resolution,
g arning Germany and Austria,
k. . 4 have taken from the hands of
b, 'T¢sident any discretionary power
'€ Might now possess.
Wilson's Friends Disappointed.
w;‘f-‘u:::w of this amendment, which
acted on simultaneously with the
o, 41 resolution, several senators
o€ o the President’s submarine
oy . ' Oted to lay the entire matter
1‘(;;'“' table, and other senators, in
. 1N Senator Smoot, of Utah, lead
.. °1 the republicans, declined to
THE DAWSON NEWS.
' Undoubtedly many of the close
friends of the administration are bit
terly disappointed that the senate did
| not meet the question of passing the
| warning resolution fairly and square
’]y, as demanded by the president. As
{a matter of fact, the senate dodged
the issue by laying the Gore resolu
!tion, with its amendments, on the
|table, which, in a parliamentary
| sense, merely begs the question and
| holds it in abeyance by putting it off
'to a more convenient season.
““At best, or worst, whichever way
you care to view it,”” said a senator,
following the vote to table the Gore
resolution, ‘‘the president’s victory is
| doubtful.”
i Vote Fails to End Debate.
' The tabling of the Gore resolution
'did not stop the debate of the inter
national situation. Senator Reed, of
Missouri, took the floor to explain
his vote. He denounced Senator Wil-i
liams' declaration that the time has‘
come to decide whether to sing
“America First” or Deuschland Überi
Alles.”
“Germans would find in that state-(
‘ment more encouragement to believe
‘that the United States is divided than‘
in anything else said on the subject."‘
said Reed. ‘There was much talk
‘here yesterday. This is no time to
be casting aspersions on the loyalty |
of any of us. There are not 10,000
disloyal citizens in the United
States.”™
Senator Reed said there was good
reason to believe favorable news
would be received from abroad in
‘the next few days.
Senator Jones, of Washington, de
clared the vote on the Gore resolu
tion had settled nothing and said he
would renew the fight immediately.
WWM M\A’
JUDGE COX WILL
ANNOUNCE APRIL 1
Camilla Jurist Will Enter the Race
For Congressional Honors Against
Judge Park, Incumbent.
ALBANY, Ga.—Judge E. E. Cox,
of Camilla, who is in the city today,
stated that his announcement for
congressman from the Second district
would be issued about April 1.
It has been generally understood
for several months that Judge Cox
would get in the race against Con
gressman Park, but this emphatic
statement of the date of the issuance
of his formal announcement sets at
rest any doubts in the matter.
Judge Cox and Congressman Park
are the only candidates considered
likely to get into the race, though
some other gentlemen are said to be
considering the matter. Both the
congressman and the judge have a
strong following in the Second, and a
race between the two would be a
lively one, with plenty of excitement
for all.
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1916.
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etc. Don’t fail to visit our store during this sale. A
treat 1n store for every one.
“We have decieded nothing today
except that the senate can be gagg
ed,” declared Jones. “We have stuck
our heads in the sand like ostriches.
Wi have not complied with the pres
ident’s request.”
! Read Wilson's Letter.
~ He then read the president’s letter
to Representativ Pou, urging free
discussion of the submarine issue in
congress.
“The genator from Washingion
does not seem to be in touch with
the subterranean channels.”” suggest
ed Borah.
“I think I am, but | did not intend
to mention it,’ zzid Jones. “‘The fact
remains we hav2 decuted nathing.
The world knows that we have not
passed on the submarine issue.
“It will be an easy matter for me
to introduce another resolution on
this subject.”
A hot exchange followed between
Jones and Senator Mevers of Mon
tana, v he defended the action tak.n.
Meyers declared it vas the ‘‘best way
of getting rid of a had thing.”
Senator Clark of Arkansas declar
ed that by its action on the Gore res
olution the genate, in a manner not
creditable to itself, had abrogated its
right to be heard on all subjects.
f AR A
SUBSTITUTE FOR GANOLINE
WORKS ALL RIGHT, BUT GOSH,
HOW IT SMELLS. SUPPLY IS
LIMITED, SAYS OFFICIAL.
Stimulated by the scarcity of gaso
line and its soaring price chemists of
a railway and light company at Roch
ester, N. Y., have discovered a substi
tute for use in gas engines. The new
fuel‘ is being manufactured in suffi
cient quantities for use in the com
pany’s service automobiles. In speak
ing of the welcome substitute one of
the officials of the company said:
“This is not to be taken as a dis
covery of a substitute for gasoline
for which the automobile werld has
been waiting so long. However, we
found a way of distilling a motor en
gine fuel from a by-product of oil
used in the manufacture of water
gas. There will be no difficulty in
supplying our demand or gas engine
fuel at a material reduction from the
price of gasoline. But the supply of
fuel is somewhat limited, and will
mean nothing commercially so far as
the company is concerned.”
But like every welcome and eco
nomical discovery there is something
about the new fuel which threatens
to “take the joy out of life,” as the
popular saying goes. That thing is
the smell. The official describing the
important discovery admitted that
some sections of the city would start
a prompt investigation if a whiff of
the highly scented fuel was borne to
¢heir nostrils.
" The substitute for gasoline is said
to smell like water gas—only worse.
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~ WEST INDIES ISLANDS ?
BELIEF IN COPENHAGEN UNITED
STATES WILL BE OFFERED
GROUP NEAR PORTO RICO.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark.— The
recent strike of negroes in the Dan
ish West Indies has reopened the old
question of the sale of the islands to
the United States.
If the question of the sale comes
up again in parliament the general
belief here is that it will receive a
favorable majority in both houses,
provided the United States offers a
greater sum than the $4,000,000 of
fered in 1901.
Mr. Hageman, the wealthiest plant
er in the Danish West Indies, has
published here a pamphlet on the sit
uation from the point of view of the
most influential Danish residents of
the colony. Mr. Hageman favors the
sale.
In the pamphlet he recognizes the
efforts made by the Danes to improve
conditions in the islands, but views
their future under Danish rule pessi
mistically.
BILL: TO PURCHASE ISLANDS,
Some years ago a bill was present
ed in congress asking an appropria
tion of $4,000,000 to buy the Dan
ish West Indies, which were consid
ered of both commercial and strate
gic value, especially with the com
pletion of the Panama canal. The
project fell through.
In 1910 Denmark offered to sell
the islands to the United States, but
before the transaction could be clos
ed the offer was withdrawn.
The Danish archipelago includes
the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix
and St. John. The islands lie to the
east of Porto Rico.
SHERIFFS MUST RUN
DOWN MOONSHINERS
Revenue Officials Tire of Sendinz
Men to Take Risk Off Shoulders
of the State Officers.
ATLANTA. Responsibility for
moonshine distilleries is to be thrown
more largeély on the state authorities,
according to information from Wash
ington reaching the internal revenue
collector’s office -here. After Wednes
day of this week the department’s
appropriation for the services ol in
formers, possemen and guides will be
cut off altogether and the deputyv col
lectors will do practically all of the
raiding. In discussing the matter
Colonel Bouldin, federal reverue
agent, said it is now for the people
of Georgia to decide whether they
will tolerate this moonshine traffic.
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NEARLY $30,000 LOOT TAKEN IN
OCTOBER FOUND IN SAN AN
TONIO MAN'S SHOP.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—John Harri
son, involved in the big West Vir
ginia train robbery in October, has
been spirited out of town and now
is probably at Fredericksburg, W,
Va., in which federal district he is to
be brought to trial on a charge of
putting in jeopardy with a deadly
weapon the life of a United States
mail clerk.
Harrison was taken from the coun
ty jail here by J. L. Dibrell, United
States marshal. The time of the de
parture of the two from San Antonio
and the route to be taken to West
Virgina were kept secret, partly, it
is said, to circumvent any plan of an
outlaw gang to rescue the prisoner.
Detectives Depart for North,
San Antonio for the moment ap
parently has ceased to interest the
postoffice inspectors and railroad de
tectives who have been seeking to
solve the various circumstances sur
rounding the robbery. The New York
and Whashington detectives have gone
to West Virginia or points in othen"
states. : ‘
The arrest of Harrison and the un
earthing of approximately $30,000,
one-third of the money stolen by the
three men involved, under the floor
of a machine shop here ¢f which Har
rison was proprietor, in the opinion
of some, have exhausted the live
clews here. But the federal officers
do not tell all they know in these
cases, and the detectives may return.
J. O. Chapman, local postoffice in
spector, and other sleuths are pick
ing up all loose ends which may re-]
solve thefselves into clews. They
are said. also, to be anticipating de—}
velopments in some clews not fully
worked out. |
It became known that $20,000 of
the $28.000 stolen money that was
recovered in a small closet of the ma-|
chine shop was in an iron pipe ahout\
three feet long sealed at the ends.
The rest of the booty was in three
fruit jars. |
Negligence lLeft Clue. |
The money was buried about a foot‘
under the surface of tire earth by a
concrete wall dividing the shop into
two equal portions. The floor of the
closet was concreted with the excep
tion of a strip six inches wide near
the wall. The detectives noted this,
dug, and their shrewdness was Te
warded with the uncovering of one of
the biggest sums ever unearthed in
Texas. i
The rubber stamps for signing the
bank notes with the names of the
bank officers, the making of which
provided the inspectors their first
Boyden and Bostonian Oxfords
for men—MNone better. Let us
show you.
Notions and Fancy Novelties
Of every description; worthy of
your inspection.
clew, were found in the tiench also.
Harrison has not made any state
ment. At times he is said to be sul
len and morose; at other times talk
ative, but contradicting one time
what he says at other times.
The train robbery, committed at
Rock Cut, near Central, W. Va., on
October 8, 1915, at 1:15 a. m,, is one
of the bggest ever accomplished in
;the United States. Three men ob
tained $lOO,OOO in unsigned national
‘bank notes on their way from the
‘treasury to western banks. Nothing
else was taken. The robbery was
committed shortly after the govern
ment began sending its money by
mail instead of express.
STEEL CARS SAVE
LIVES OF MANY
Four Coaches Containing 200 Per
sons Roll Down High Embank
ment, and Not One Killed.
What is considered one of the most
remarkable wrecks in railroad his
tory occurred recently on the Sea-l
board Air Line near Richmond, Va.
The four cars containing more than
200 passengers left the track and
rolled down an embankment, and no
lives were lost. This is considered'
almost unbelievable, as the train,
which is known as the ““Florida Spe
cial,” was making fast time when
the accident occurred.
Doctors were rushed to the scene
and from the appearance of the
wrecked train it was first believed
that the death list must be heavy. It
was found jthat th econdtion of the
injured was not serious. Some were
cut by flving glass, but here was al
noticeable absence of broken bones,
which is common in wrecks of wood
en car trains.
That scores of persons were not
killed is due entrely to the strength
of the steel cars, which were able to
stand the shock of derailment and
fall without collapsing. This acci
dent has proved in a convinecing way
to railway officials the value of steeli
cars. ‘
GRAIN FROM GRAVE 1
OF AN ANCIENT KING
]
Texan Has Wheat Said to Be Four
Thousand Years Old. lls in Her
metically Sealed Glass, |
DALLAS, Texas—When the late.
John Caldwell of Austin was l]nite<ll
States consul at Cairo, Egypt, he sent
to his old friend, Col. F. P. Holland,
of Dallas, a small quantity of wheat
that he had taken from the tomb of
the ancient kings in newly explored
ruins upon the Nile.
This wheat was known to be more
than 4,000 years old. The glass con
tainer which holds the grain is her
metically sealed. To all outward ap
pearances the wheat is just as sound
ags the day it was flayed from the
head in the long ago, when the earth
was inhabited by a ecivilization that
is now forgotten. The grains are
plump and large.
VYOL. 34—NO. 21.
ONE SKELETON SIX FEET SIX IN
LENGTH. POTTERY AND AR
ROWHEADS ALSC FOUND. !
A prehistorie burial mound of the
Seminole Indians has just been found
at Magnolia Springs, Fla., Dr. E. J.
Tomson and John Kendrick, a well
known artist of New York, made the
discovery a few days ago, and after
‘two days of excavation. ;
~ Three skeletons, half a doz Zen
skulls, four arrow heads, and pieces
of pottery were obtained on the first
day, and on the second day three
more skeletons and six arrow heads
and stone axes were dug up. Dr.
Tomson said it was impossible to say
how long the bodies and relics had
been buried there, but he believed
them to be prehistoric.
Skeletons Over Six Feet Long.
The skeletons all measured more
than € feet. One measured 6 feet 6
inches ig perfectly preserved, and in
the skull the teeth remain perfect.
The size of the jaw is remarkable.
The root of a tree has grown in the
exact shape of another skull.
The skeletons were found lying face
downward with heads to the south,
It is a known fact that the aborigines
buried with their chiefs and priests
their favorite pieces of poitery con
taining food to nourish them on their
journey to the happy hunting ground.
It is also known that the tribes
burned the sand so as to preserve
their dead, and Dr. Tomson says the
sand excavated has the gqueer look
of burned sand. As there ig no suit
able stone in Florida the deetor has
concluded that the arrow heads orig
inally came from some of the north
ern tribes.
Large Trees Mark the Mound,
The mound is 60 feet long, 30 feet
wide and 12 feet high. It is located
in a clump of live oaks and long leaf
pines 200 feet from the St. John’s
river. The largest four trees almost
mark the four corners of the mound.
They are nearly 50 feet high and four
feet in diameter.
LADY SLEUTH VICTIM
OF PURSE SNATCHER
Enterprising Thief Robbed Her on
Whitehalj Street.
ATLANTA.—Determined to uphpld
Atlanta’s reputation for being ‘“al
ways ahead’” an enterprising White
hall street purse snatcher established
a new record yesterday by filching
the silver mesh bag purse of Mfs.
‘Hattie Barnett, a licensed female de
tective who operates in this city. Mrs.
Barnett is quite disturbed by the lit
tle affair, and is determined to ap
prehend the thief if it’s the last act
of her life.