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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.