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The Lee County Journal
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The House Favors Deposing
Florida Federal Jurist,
Must Go Before Bar of Senate to An.
swer fcr High Crimes Which
Have Been Charged
Against Him.
A Waschington special séys: Sitting
as a grand jury, the house of represen
tatives Tuesday, with almost full mem
bership, and afetr more than five
hours’ discussion to the exclusion of
al] other business, adopted a resolu
tion providing for the impeachment of
Judge Charles Swayne, of the north
ern district of Florida, for ‘high
crimes and misdemeanors.”
The case against the respondent
wags clearly set out by Mr. Palmer,
of _Pennsylvania., chairman of the sub
committee, which heard the evidence
in the case. He carefully dissected.
the evidence bearing on each of the
specifications, and said that if it were
found that Judge Swayne had done
well, he should be vindicated, but it
he had done ill, he should be gent to
trial, “where his excuse and apologies
may not receive consideration.” He
was followed by Messrs. Clayton, of
Alabama; Powers, of Massachusetts;
Henry, of Texas, and Lamar, of Flor
ida, each of whom in most vigorous
terms advocated impeachment. Messrs.
Gilbert, of California, and Littlefield,
of Maine, in speeches opposed their
colleagues on all the specifications ex
cept one as to the account rendered
to the government by Judge Swayne
for traveling expenses.
"~ Throughout the session intense in
terest was shown by members. Fol
lowing tue adoption of the impeach
ment resolution, a provision was made
for the, appointment of five members
to notéfy the senate of the impeach
ment and for a committee of seven to
present the case to the senate.
The day’s proceedings were the first
of their kind since the impeachment in
1876 of General W. W. Belknap, who
was secretary of war in President
Grant’s cabinet,
After Mr. Hemenway, of 'lndiana,
from the committee on appropriations,
reported the urgent deficiency bill and
gave notice that he would call it up
Wednesday, Mr. Palmer, of Pennsyl
vania. from the judiciary comrr.littee,
ecalled up the Swayne resolutions.
Speaker Cannon compelled silence
while it was read, remarking that ev
ery member should hear it. Mr. Pal
mer then read the specifications
against the judge, upon which the com
mittee had based'its action.
In support of the charge of mishe
havior, Mr. Palmer said the evidence
showed that out of each year Judge
Swayne spent on an average of 212
days somewhere else, neither in his
distriet holding court nor outside of
hig district holding court. Judge
Swayne, he said, never voted in Flor
LEESBURG. GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1904
ida, never registered there and never
lived there in any proper sense of the
term. .
Mr. Palmer then turned his atten
tion to a review of the evidence taken
before the committee, the main fea
tures of which already have been pub
lished.
ROADS MUST CONNECT.
North Carolina Supreme Court Hands
Down Important Decision.
The North Carolina supreme court
Tuesday, decided the very important
case of the State Corporation commis
sion against the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad, involving the power of the
commission to require this railway to
make connection with the Southern
Railway at Selma by putting on an
extra train.
The supreme court holds that the
commission has full power to compel
railways, as public highways, to make
connectiong with other lines, even if
an extra train has to be put on to do
this.
MONEY STOLEN FROM TRUNKS.
$1,400 was stolen from a prominent
citizen of Abbeville, Ga, a few days
ago. He had collected the money, and
instead of putting the same in a bank,
ae carried it home and put it in his
trunk. The hinges were taken off
his trunk while he was up town and
the money was stolen.
A merchant in our town had $175,
which he intended paying out on Mon
day morning. On Saturday night he
left the money in his trznk aad ran to
the warehouse to help sav: a bale of
cotton that was burning. Some one
picked the lock and when he returned
the money wag gone and has never
been recoverd.
So many people in the country make
this same fearful mistake.
The safest and most reliable place
to keep your money is to deposit the
same in your home bank, where you
can always get it when you want it.
The BANK OF SMITHVILLE, Ga.,
is insured against robbery, fire and
dishonesty, besides it carries DEPOS
ITORS’ INSURANCE for $100,000.00,
which absolutely secures DEPOSIT
ORS Against LOSS. - :
We invite you to call on.the Cash
ier and become -acquainted and open
your Bank Account. :
BANK OF SMITHVILLE, GA,,
J. C. McCLAIN, Cashier. '
PETITIONS OF RCADS GRANTED.
City of Atlanta Reciprocates for Re
~ duction of Freight lates,
As a result of the satisfactory ad
justment of the diffcrences between
the Atlanta, Ga., freight bureau and
the railroads regarding the freight
rate question, council Friday afternoon
granted all pending petitions of rail
roads for improvements in the city.
GRAFTERS GO TO PEN.
Appellate Court Decides Case: of Ma.
chen, Lorenze and the Groffs,
The District of Columbhia court of
appeals Tuesday affirmed the decision
of the criminal court in the postal con
spiracy cases of August W. Machen,
George F. Lorenz, Samuel A. Groff
and Diller B. Groff, who were sentenec
ed to two years’ imprisonment in the
West Virginia penitentiary and to pay
a fine of $10,600.
Is Injunction Issued to Plant
ers of the South
BY COTTON CONVENTION
Growers Must Get Together to Coms.
bat Spread of Dreaded Weevil,
Call for Great
Gathering.
After passing resolutions com
mending the aid of the government ex
perts in their efforts to exterminate
the boll weevil, and urging the farm
ers of thé infected districts in Texas
and Louisiana to burn all cotton stalks
in the early fall, the national conven
tion adjourned at Shreveport, La., late
Wednesday afternoon,
The resolutions feature what are
generally recognized to be the most
successful methods of combatting the
pest. ,
Prior to the adoption of the resolu
tions, a spirited fight was precipitated
on the fioor of the convention by the
proffering of a majority and minority
report. The bone of contention was a
plank inserted by a Georgia delegate
to the effect that the only way to de
stroy and prevent the spread of the
boll weevil igs to prevent the planting
of any cotton within the infected sec
tions of 'Texas, or any other state or
territory, wherein infected lands. ex
ist, for th eperiod of one year.
The minority report agreed to all
recommendations of the majority, ex
cept the plank outlined above, which
wag finally voted down.
The resolutions of the convention in
part, follows:
“That we extend our sincere thanks
to the department of agriculture of the
United States for the timely assist
ance it has afforded in an effort to
overcome .the cotton holl weevil.
“That we thank the department of
entomology, headed by Dr. W. D. Hun
ter which has accomplished excelient
results in educating the people regard
ing the nature and habits of the boll
weevil conceived 'plang and work of
experimentation along the line.
“That we desire these departments
to continued their work in the infect
ed districts, as well as to closely
watch other sections which might he
come endangered by the boll weevil;
and that we invoke a continuance of
the national aid whenever and wher
ever it may be nceded.
““That we heartily approve the
methods already employed as being
both scientific and practical, and that
we emphasize the idea of thorough
preparation of the cotton lands, a re
duction of acreage, the rotation of
crops and the intensive cultivation,
with most vigorous efforts to secure
early maturing cotton for all the bholl
weevi]l districts,
“That the cotton planters through
out the infected districts are herehby
urged to co-operate with the general
government in the plans for overcom
ing this devastating pest.”
It was also resolved:
“That it is the sense or this conven
tion that the legislatures of the cotton
states be memoralized to enact strin
gent laws for the protection of all in
séctivorous bifds, their eggs and
young.” .
“Whereas, The pernicious idea that
the boll weevil ig not an unmixed evil,
in that its ravages must of necessity
result in diminishing the quant}y
of cotton harvested, raise the price
of the staple, and that, therefore, its
propagation zhould be encouraged by
the farmers, is daily gaining ground
in many sections, particularly during
seasong of depression in prices, either
through ignorance or the criminal self
ishness which would strike down an
industry, therefore be it
‘Resolved, That this convention en
dorses and recommends for adoption
by ‘the legislatures of the cotton
states, a law relative to the importa
tion of the boll weevil in any of its
stages of growth.”
WIDOW AGITATES NAN. :
Wife of Caesar Young Appears as Wit.
ness in New York Court. :
Mrs. Young, widow of Caesar Young,
was a witness in the Nan Patterson
trial at New York Wednesday although
she was on the stand only long enough
to identijfy a letter which another
witness had received. Mrs. Young’s
presence developed one of the most
intense situations of the trial. As the
wife of the dead man took the stand
Miss Patterson became deathly pale,
but watched intently every movement
of the witness during her brief exam
ination.
HUNDRED ALGERIANS DROWN.
Frenéh Steamer Goes Down After Hav
ing Been in Collision.
Advices from Bona, Algeria, staia
that a hundred persons were drowned
Thursday night by the sinking of the
French steamer Gironde, after having
been in collision with the French
steamer A. Schiaffino near Herbillon,
23 miles from DBona,
Tha Gironde left Bona with 110 pos
sengers, of whom 100 were Algerian
vatives. :
ALL VISITORS ARE BARRED.
No One Allowed to See Mrs, Chadwick
Except Per Special Permit,
At Toledo, Ohio, Friday, United
States Judge Wing issued an order to
the effect that no visitors are to be
permitted to see Mrs. Cassie L. Chad
wick unless they have an order from
United States Marshal Chandler. The
order is designed to prevent Persident
Beckwith, of the Oberlin bank, from
seeing Mrs. Chadwick, :
RAILROAD WAR IMMINENT.
‘Frisco Company Serves Notice on Ak
ton and Wabash,
The St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad Company has sent a formal
notification to Eben E. MclLeod, chair
man of the Western Passenger AssO:
ciation, Chicago, that unless the eight
hour schedule between St. Louis and
Chicago was resumed by the Chicago
and Alton and the Wabash- railroa«3s,
the 'Frisco system would riduce the
fare between these two points,
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