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GEORGIA ASSEMBLY
ENTERS THIRD WEEK
GOVERNOR WALKER OPTIMISTIC
OVER WHAT HAS ALREADY
BEEN ACCOMPLISHED
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here
And There From All Sections
Of The State
Atlanta—With the Lankford in
come tax bill and other measures pro
posing drastic reformation in the
basic taxation system of the state
scheduled to come before the house
of representatives, political observers
expressed themselves as confident
definite action to carry out the ob
jects of thi! special session, as set
forth by the governor, would be taken.
After a week of debate which re
sulted in passage by the house of the
■general tax act -amended in several
important particulars from the form
in which it was passed at the regular
session—and passage of the bill pro
viding for the repeal of the tax equal
ization law, it is felt that construc
tive legislation, placing on the con
stitution of the state those provisions
which will form the foundation for a
complete reformation of the state’s
taxation system, will be enacted.
The senate has now before it the
general tax act passed by the house.
At the regular session the upper
house failed to pass this act chiefly,
it is believed, because of heavy taxes
placed upon insurance premiums and
a tax clause affecting banks which
would have resulted in double taxa
tion. These features have been amend
ed by the house and It is hoped that
the measure as it now stands will at
least come elosh enough to satisfying
both houses us to make agreement
comparatively easy in conference.
Governor Clifford Walker express
ed himself as confident that tax re
form would be achieved at an early
date.
“I am still," he said, “as at the
start, supporting the program mapped
out by the special tux commission in
its report and recommendations sub
mitted to the assembly when the spe
cial session began.
“However,” he added, “I am like
wise maintaining the position taken
from the start, that the only hope
for solution of our problem lies in us
all approaching It in a spirit of com
promise. We must all accord fullest
consideration to tho other fellow’s
views, und I feel that this attitude is
just as incumbent upon me as it is
upon anyone else. Only by acting in
a spirit of give and take can we agree
upon a method of taxation which will
be acceptable to the people of the
state, and only by compromise can we
bring all factions to agree on any one
program.”
The governor still believes tho pro
gram outlined by tho tax commission
is best for the state, but he is willing
to accede to the best thought of the
majority, if that thought sees fit to
amend the commission plan in various
details.
Undercurrent developments of the
past week were chiefly remarkable by
the growth of the sentiment in favor
of entirely abolishing ad valorem tax
ation for state purposes, except for
payment of interest and principle of
bonded indebtedness.
It is the idea of those sponsoring
the plan that an income tax witli
low exemptions so as to provide for
some state taxes for practically every
citizen, and with a gradually rising
scale of rates up to probably five per
coni, will raise sufficient revenue to
offset the loss suffered by wiping out
tlu> ad valorem system, if certain
other hills are passed. These in
clude the Ennis bill, providing for a
state revenue department for collec
tion of delinquent tuxes. It is claim
ed that the state is now losing nearly
$2,000,000 per year In special and
occupation taxes which are never
pqid. w Inch would be collected by
such a revenue department. Then
there is the proposal to create a bud
get commission for tho state with
enlarged powers which, it is believed,
would result In greater economy in
the expenditure of the state's money.
Also the bill of Senator Pace, provid
ing for a state auditing department,
to work in conjunction with the bud
get proposal to economize in the con
duct of state affairs.
Rogers Is Guilty Of Two Slayings
Ado!. -Guilty of murder was recom
mendations to mercy was the verdict
returned by the jury here in the case
of John Rogers charged with killing
Sherrod and Tally McGill, the lat
ter his sou in law. The verdict auto
matically carries a sentence of life
imprisonment. The court room was
crowded when the verdict was an
nounced, many women being in the
audience. Lengthy arguments were
made by counsel for both sides
Wilson Remembers Birthday Of Child
Waycross.—Rowena Wilson, 11-year
old girl of this city, was horn on the
afternoon that ex • President Wilson
was elected to the office of chief ex
ecutive of the nation, awoke on the
morning of her birthday here recently
to find a package for her bearing the
postmark of Washington, D. C. In the
package was a large photograph of
the former president and a letter from
Mr. Wilson’s secretary saying that
Mr. Wilson had remembered her birth
day and wished to express his wishes
for many happy returns of the day.
Rowena is the feminine of the Anglo-
Saxon name Woodrow and she was
named for the former chief executive.
Rowena prizes very highly the photo
graph and is delighted that a man
who has held the nation's highest
office, and who is beset with worries
and ill-health, should have remember
ed her birthday.
Poultry Raising Bringing Wealth
Athens.—Forty-five hatcheries with
a capacity of 532,000 eggs are now in
operation in the state according to a
statement by J. H. Wood, professor
of poultry husbandry at the State
College of Agriculture. This repre
sents an increase of more than 340,-
000 over last year, and indicates some
of the progress made under the new
agricultural program throughout the
state. “More than $40,000,000 worth
of poultry products were consumed in
the state last year,” stated Professor
Wood, "and less than half this
amount was produced here. While
the value of poultry and eggs pro
duced in Georgia increased more than
$1,500,000 this year we are still im
porting about $19,500,000 worth. Ac
cording to statistics available, 2,491
cars of poultry products were ship
ped into the state during the past
year.
Court Fight Starts For $30,500 Bonds
Atlanta. —A temporary . injunction
restraining George E. Golding, special
agent of the United States treasury
department, from disposing of bonds
and securities amounting to $30,500,
which it is alleged the officer “ille
gally seized” from Joseph Duden
hoeser, of Milwaukee, Wis., on Sep
tember 13, 1921, was signed by Fed
eral Judge Sibley. This action fol
lows the filing of a petition in equity
by Andrew A. Baumstark, of Athens,
Ga., attorney for Dudenhoeser, claim
ing that Mr. Golding, while acting
as an agent for the treasury depart
ment “but without authority" seiz
ed the securities and had never re
turned them to the owner or other
wise used them as evidence in the
case.
Christian Church Raises $200,375
Atlanta.—in the most successful
campaign ever conducted by a church
in Atlanta the First Christian church
raised $200,375 in collectable pledges
for a program of building expansion
it is to inaugurate at once. This sum,
added to the value of property already
owned by the church, provides nearly
$350,000, which will be used in erect
ing anew edifice on the north side
and another on the south side. An
allday home-coming and memorial
service was held, starting at 9:30
o’clock Sunday and closing with the
night service at 10 o’clock. At the
noon hour a basket dinner was serv
ed to more than a thousand persons
in tho basement of the church build
ing. It was estimated that three thou
sand persons attended the morning,
afternoon, and night meetings.
Heads Stone Mountain Drive
Atlanta.—Georgia’s quota outside
Atlanta for Stoue Mountain Confed
erate Memorial will be raised by a
state committee headed by Governor
Clifford Walker, it was announced by
Hollins N. Randolph, president of the
memorial association. The Georgia
campaign has been held up pending
completion of Atlanta’s quota of $250,-
000, Mr. Randolph stated, and with
this now virtually in sight the Geor
gia quota will be started at once with
the confident expectation on the part
of the governor and all officials of the
memorial that it will be raised speed
ily. Atlanta’s quota was $250,000 and
Georgia’s outside of Atlanta is the
same amount, making a total contri
bution of $504,000 by the people of
state in which the great memorial is
located.
Atlanta Store Looted By Yeggs
Atlanta. —Smothering the sound of
exploding nitroglycerin with valuable
overcoats found on the scene of their
operations, cracksmen blew the safe
of the Liberty Tailoring company. 7
West Mitchell street, broke the same
in the offices of W. C. McCoy, located
on the floor above the tailor Bhop,
and escaped with cash totaling $740
and a quantity of costly wearing ap
parel. according to a report made to
police headquarters several hours
later when the crime was discovered.
The safe-blowers gained entrance to
the building by means of the outside
stairway leading to the second floor
and ropes enabling them to swing
down to the rear window. The win
dow was jimmied, leading to the tailor
shop.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
THE WEEK’S EVEHTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATE, NA
TION AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
ROUND ABOUT_THE WORLD
A Condensed Record Of Happenings
Of Interest From All Points
Of The World
Foreign—
Begging and beggars have become
so common now that the public gen
erally carries small hills to meet the
pleas of all sorts of mendicants, who
stand on street corners with extend
ed hats and hands, says a Munich
dispatch.
Great Britain probably will approve
the drafts of the convention by the
state department conferring upon the
United States equality of commercial
opportunity in the former German
possessions of western Samoa, the
Island of Nauru in the Pacific, and
the southwest African protectorate,
it was understood in authoritative
quarters.
Premier Poincare had the last word
in a recent speech at Neuilly, the
word that France would press new
penalties against disobedient Germany
and tighten its grip upon the Rhine
land, whether or not Great Britain
desires it.
Dispatches to The Daily Express,
London, from Sofia, capital of Bul
garia, say that at least 500 persons
are believed to have been killed in
Massacres that have been committed
during the past ten days in and
around the towns of Kotchana, Rado
vishta and Istib, in Jugo-Slavia.
Former Premier Lloyd George, in
a political speech before a large au
dience, Northhampton, England, con
demned the protection policy of the
conservatives as not being a remedy
for unemployment. The real reason,
he said, was the impoverishment of
Great Britain’s customers in conse
quence of the war.
An attempt is to be made to recover
from Lake Nemi near Rome the float
ing palace of the Emperor Tiberius,
consisting of two galleys, which have
been buried in the mud for 19 cen
turies and are believed to contain
marvels of ancient curios are equal
to those found in the tomb of Tutank
hamen.
A court at Eleusis has sentenced
to death Generals Leonardopoulos and
Gargalides and Majors Avrambos and
Nicolareas, leaders of the recent rev
olutionary movement. Many other of
ficers of high rank involved in the
revolt were sentenced to imprison
ment for life or long terms according
.o Athens dispatches.
The body of Clifford Throne, wide
ly-known lowa lawyer and econom
ist, will be sent to the United States
on the Berengaria, November 17, it
was learned at London.
Genistal Machaeo, a nationalist, has
been commissioned to form a cabinet
succeeding that headed by Antonio
Maria Silva which resigned on Octo
ber 30, according to Lisbon dispatch
es.
Germany has decided to repudiate
the treaty of Versailles and not to
comply with either the reparations
clause or any other of the clauses of
the treaty as long as the French and
Belgians occupy the Ruhr, says a dis
patch to the London Daily Mail from
Berlin.
General Jan C. Smuts, prime min
ister of South Africa, wants the Uni
ted States and Great Britain to go
j ahead with the proposed reparations
inquiry regardless of France’s atti
tude. In an open letter published in
the London Times he again urged
Great Britain to co-operate with the
United States in calling the confer
ence.
Washington—
Proposals of short line railroads in
Alabama, and the Mobile & Ohio and
the St. Louis-San Francisco lines in
Mississippi to increase lumber rates
to mid-western territory were block
ed by an interstate commerce commis
sion order.
Acceptance of Henry Ford's offer
for the Muscle Shoals, Ala., water
power and fertilizer project, through
government construction of anew
steam auxiliary power plant to re
place the Gorgas plant disposed of
recently to the Alabama Power com
pany, is provided in a bill prepared
by Representative Madden. Republi
can, Illinois, for introduction immedi
ately upon assembly of the new con
gress.
President Coolidge had an extended
conference with Senator Lodge, of
Massachusetts. Republican leader of
the senate. The meeting was the first
of any considerable length between
the two since Mr. Coolidge entered
the white house.
More systematic use of calcium ar
senate poison by cotton growers in
combatting the boll weevil and other
insects is shown in reports to the
Department of Agriculture from the
crop correspondents.
Plans for an around-the-world flight
next March by four or five big air
machines have been mapped out for
army air pilots. Secretary Weeks has
approved the project as submitted by
Major General Mason M. Patrick,
chief of the army air service, and the
state department has asked the con
sent of foreign governments for pas
sage of the American craft across
their homelands and territorial pos
sessions.
Delegates to the Southern Medical
association concluded their annual
convention in Washington with Presi
dent Coolidge and the election of offi
cers. At the white house, the formal
ities of the customary handshake
were dispensed with and President
Coolidge spoke briefly. He declared
the members of the medical profes
sion were rendering “ a service that
reaches beyond any trade or occupa
tion.”
Hog cholera is becoming more prev
alent this fall than in any year since
the decline of the last extensive out
break, which reached its height in
1914, the department of agriculture
anounced. Reports show the disease
has appeared recently in communities
which have been, free from it for 25
years. In many localities it gained
considerable headway before hog rais
ers realized the nature of the trouble.
Domestic—
George Sunday, Los Angelse, Calif.,
son of William A. Sunday, the great
evangelist, real estate broker, was
found in his home there overcome by
gas, a tube from a nearby gas jet lead
ing to his mouth, according to the po
lice.
The board of bishops of the Meth
odist Episcopal church concluded its
semi-annual session in New York City
by adopting resolutions favoring a
child labor amendment to the nation
al Constitution and approving next
December 13 for the observance of
law and order day throughout the
land, with special reference to prohi
bition laws.
Five prisoners broke out of the Bar
tow (Ga.) county jail one night re
cently. Two of the prisoners returned
to jail later, but no trace has been
found of the other three.
The impeachment trial of Gov. J.
C. Walton has been speeded toward
an early conclusion. The former ex
ecutive dropped a bombshell into the
senate court, announcing that he
could no longer bear up under the
“humiliation of an unfair trial" and,
with his counsel, walked out of the
court room.
Recommendation that a national
convention of the “farmer-labor na
tional conference” be called to meet
in the Twin Cities —St. Paul-Minneap
olis, Minn. —on May 30, 1924, to nom
inate candidates for president and
vice president of the 1924 election, is
contained in a resolution adopted by
the conference, meeting at St. Paul, it
is announced by William Mahoney,
St. Paul labor leader.
The High Shoals cotton mills at
High Springs, N. C., one of the big
gest textile plants in the South, has
been sold for one million dollars, ac
cording to announcement in Gastonia,
N. C.
John Koren, Boston, international
prison commissioner, jumped over
board to his death from the prome
nade deck of the Neiuw Amsterdam
during the tea hour on November
9, officers of the vessel declared on
her arrival at Boston.
Magnus Johnson, says that, despite
the charge of his opponents that he
could not make himself understood in
the United States senate, he will give
all classes a fair deal, and will stand
for a constructive program.
It is announced at Charleston, W.
Va„ that the United Mine Workers
will make an attempt to organize the
non-union miners—about 75,000 in
number—in the West Virginia coal
fields.
A wild swing at an opponent who
ducked just in time, cost the life of
M. J. Muse, a truck driver of Dallas,
Texas.
A bomb believed to have been sent
from San Antonio exploded in the
home of J. A. Barnes, prominent Cor
pus Christ! (Texas) real estate deal
er, killing Mr. Barnes and his 12-year
old son.
Identification of the body found in
a burned negro church building near
Tuscaloosa, Ala., was established as
that of Irene Corley, of Bessemer,
Ala., and Alf 'Winchester, insurance
man and farmer arrested in connec
tion with the case, was held without
bond on a charge of murder at the
preliminary hearing of Winchester.
Lambros A. Coromilas, former
Greek minister to the United States
and later minister cf finance under
Premier Venizelos, died at the Hotel
Seville, New York, it was announced.
GENERAL TAX ACT
PASSED BV HOUSE
LEVY TO BE ONE PER CENT ON
FIRST SIOO,OOO, FIVE PER
CENT ON $600,000
SOFTDRINKSTAX IS RAISED
Steering Committee Is Decided Upon
At Meeting Of House Members
Favoring Reform
Atlanta—By vote of 104 to 11. the
house of representatives recently
passed the general tax act, following
three days of debate on numerous
amendments. This action was follow
ed by a caucus of house members
favoring the program of tax reforms
recommended by the tax commission,
at w r hicb resolutions were adopted
calling for appointment of a steer
ing committee to lead the fight for
passage of some form of income tax
amendment in the house. At its morn
ing session, the senate passed the
Lankford income levy measure by a
vote of 33 to 6.
When the house convenes, the first
subject on the calendar is the bill
calling for repeal of the tax equaliza
tion law. It is predicted that there
will be a sharp fight over this bill.
Several new amendments were add
ed to the general tax act before it
passed the house. It will be trans
mitted to the senate,! though it is not
thought likely that body will consent
to pass it in its present form. Should
they further amend the bill it will be
necessary for conference committees
to be appointed and an effort made to
reach a compromise.
The final amendment adopted by
the house, introduced by Represen
tative McMichael, of Marion county,
increases the occupation tax to be
paid by manufacturers of soft drink
syrups in the state. The bill formerly
provided that the rate for this tax
should be computed on a basis of one
per cent of the gross receipts. The
McMichael amendment leaves this
rate the same for the first $100,009
of gross receipts per annum, but
above this amount increases it as
follows:
One per cent on the first $100,009
gross receipts annually; 2 per cent
from SIOO,OOO to $200,000; 3 per cent
from $200,000 to $400,000; 4 per cent
from $400,000 to $600,000; 5 per cent
above $600,000.
It was explained by the author of
the amendment that the 5 per cent
rate would apply to only two com
panies now operating, the Coca-Cola
company and the NuGrape company.
The vote on this amendment was 67
to 64.
Another amendment adopted, offer
ed by Bussey, of Crisp, fixes the occu
pation tax on Pullman cars at an
amount equal to the total surcharges
charged on tickets by the company.
Representative Smith, of Bryan
county, introduced an amendment to
strike out that clause imposing a tax
of $2,500 on grand opera in Atlanta,
but it was overwhelmingly defeated.
The clause fixing the rate of tax
on gross premium receipts of all in
surance companies was finally fixed
at two per cent, with an amendment
extending the provision remitting the
tax on that portion of premiums re
turned to the insured as unearned, to
casualty companies as well as fire in
surance companies. ?
Numerous amendments introduced
by Bussey, of Crisp, seeking to in
crease the tax rate on banks and oth
er forms of business enterprises were
voted down, including one whicn
would have made it against the mw
to collect interest on any notes, mort
gages, or other acknowledgements for
debt, which had not been returnee
the payment of taxes.
At its session, the senate adoptea
the Lankford income tax measure >
a vote of 38 to 6, and unanimous
action was voted on the resolution >
Senator Beauchamp, providing 0
creation of a special textbook com
mission. Both measures have been
transmitted to the house and scheuu -
ed for action soon. ~
An amendment to the Lan n
- was voted before the 1
was adopted, providing for reduction
of 10 per cent in the ad valorem t-*
rate should the former measure o
ratified as a constitutional ainem
meat by the voters of Georgia.
The Lankford measure, as
perfected, authorizes the legislature
to levy a tax on net incomes as u
ignated by the assembly, with a -‘ n "
, of five per cent and a provision
would allow stipulated exemptions
SI,OOO to all single persons;
to all married persons, and ?->■'
each dependent.
A credit provision which allow? * -
sons, firms, or corporations P’ 1 -*'
an income tax to credit against
taxes whatever amounts sue.. *
sons, firms or corporations me.-
is ad valorem taxes to the state, *>•
was voted bv the senate.