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The Lee County Journal VO T L A 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, NQO. 21.