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The Lee County Journal YOl. IX. LAWS FOR PHILIPPINES. Senate Passes Bil| Relating to Our In sular Possessions After an Extended Debate. A 'Washington special says: The senate Friday, by a vote of 44 to 23, passed the Philippines civil govern ment bill. The final vote was preced ed gy- the presentation of many amendments and a general discussion of thém as well as of the provisions of the b}tll The discussion ‘wag confined quite“generally to the merits of the measure. On some of the amendments suggested by democratic senators sev eral ivestern‘republicans voted in the affirmative, but Mr. McCumber was the only republican who voted with the democrats against the final pass age of the bill. The most notable change made dur ing the day was the lowering of the rate of interest on railroad bonds to be guaranteed by the Philippine govern ment from 4 to 5 per cent. The bill as passed exempts from taxation all bonds issued by the Phil ippine and Porto Rico governments; authorizes municipalities in the Philip pines to incur a bonded indebted ness-amounting to 5 per cent of the as sessed valuation of their property at § per cént interest; authorizes the Philippine government to guarantee the payment of interest on railroad bonds atf the rate of 4 pétr cent per an num; ' provides for the administration of the immigration laws by the Philip pine laws; establishes a system for the location and patenting of mineral, coal and saline lands; fixes the metric system for the islands and gives the civil “gevernor -the title of governor general. : During the day Mr, Beveridge, from the committee on territories, reported the statehood bill, and he will make a motion on the first day that the sen ate convenes in January that the con sideration of the bill shall be entered on at once. During the debate on the Philippine bill the provision exempting bonds from taxation met with opposition from Mr. Gorman, who contended the exemption was wrong in principle. Mr. Carmack said he was opposed to the railroad bond provi‘sion because it would make it more difficult for the United States to get out of the Philip pines. He quoted the president’s hope that our Cuban policy might at some time be adopted in the Philippines. This he characterized as a renuncia tion of the republican policy, and in line with the democratic platform. “We welcome the president to the ranks of the anti-imperialists,” he said. “He is all if not quite eligible to membership in the Boston anti-impe rialist league.” The senate then adjourned untjl Monday. el = MAY SETTLE BIG STRIKE. Operators and Workers at Fall River to Hold Conference, Renewed hope of a gettlement of the prolonged cotton mill strike in Fall River, Mass, was given Friday night by the announcement that another conference had been arranged hetween representatives of the strikers and the mill owners. i It is understood that every effort LEESBURG. GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 390. 1904 will be made to put an end to the strike which has thrown nearly 26,000 operatives out of employment and been attended with much suffering. President Golden, of the United Tex tile Council, and Secretary Albert Hib bert, returned Friday night from New York, where they met -President Sam uel Gompers, of the American Federa tion of Labor. The conditions in the local mills were explained to Mr. Gompers. Soon after President Gol den and Secretary Hibbert returned to the city a meeting of the textile goun cil was called and ‘atsitswonclysion the decision ©f the strikers. to -meet the mill owners was announced. The con ference was arranged by persons not directly interested in the strike. . ‘Constable Kills Detective. Dispensary Constable Rowell shot and instantly killed Joe Blount, an At lantic Coast Line detective, at Flor ence, 8. C.,, Friday night over a pe sonal matter. Rowell was drunk. 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, ne carried it home and put it in his trunk. The hinges were taken oft his trunk while he was up town and the money was stolen. A merchant in our town had $176, which he intended paying out on Mon day morning. On Saturday night he left the monaey in his trupk 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 was 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 ig 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 ahsolutely secures DEPOSIT ORS Against LLOSS. 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. NEW COLONY BOOMING. ; Many Northerners to Settle on St Mary’s River, in South Georgia. The new colony which is being opened by P. H. Fitzgerald, on the St. Mary's river, on the southern bound ary of Georgia, is attracting wide spread attention, and there will be an immense rush for the spot as soon as the survey is commenced. ‘ ~ Besides the thousands of northern people who will follow Mr. Fitzgerald to this new mecca in the south, near ly every little city in the state will furnish its quota of the population of the new settlement. A student of the population of the anthracite region of Pennsylvania re ports that there are 630,000 people, inhabiting that section, of whom 430, 000 are foreign-born. OI this latter number more than 50,000 carnot read or write. WILD HOOTS AND JEERS Greeted Advent of Mrs, Chadwick at " Her Home Town—Unruly Mob Surrounded Train, Five times indicted by the United States government at the exact mian ute that her train rolled into the station, Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick reached Cleveland, 0., from New York Wednesday afternoon. She was greet ed ‘wjth jeers, hoot and hissds by the crowds that gathered in the ero't when her train arrived, and howled at by thousands gathered in front of: the federal building. The last sound that reached her from the outside world as she passed into the suffy, ill smelling office Jf Sheriff Barry, in the county jail, was the hoot of derision from the people who passed in front of the doorway. She made no attempt to give bail, and after a brief stop in the office of the clerk of the United States court, was. taken to jail. She is held in woman’s department of the jail, and her palatial residence on Euclid avenue, of which the fur nishings alone are valued at $200,000, is occupied by her maid. Her courage held to the test, but her body failed her and wiien she had mounted the three Lights of stairs leading to the tier of cells where she is to remain she collapsed utterly and fell in a dead faint. " Water wag quickly brought to her and in a few seconds she revived, and was again a woman of business. Her first request was that her lawyer be sent for, and she was soon efigaged in. a conference with him concerning ‘her_ defese.. - - e . There- are now- seven - indictments against ber; five .additional charges having been laid" against her in the federal . court ~at Cleveland Wednas day afternoon. It’ would require sure ty to the amount of 4t least $lOO,OOO to give her freedom, and there is no body in Cleveland who will furnish that amount for her. She fids herseil no idea of giving bail and will remain in jail. ' . " Mrs. Chadwick’s train was sched uled to arrive at 11:10 o’clock in the morning, but it was three hourg later before it reached Cleveland. The de lay of the train served but one pur pose, that of increasing the crowd ol curious at the depot. When it fin ally rolled into the station there was a rush from the further end of the iron fence that kept the crowd of eu rious from the tracks. This mob had broken through the police, swarmed over the fence anl through the gate and upon the tracks, so that when the train came to stand still there were about a thousand per sons about the cars, ; SOUTHERN PRESS ASSOCIATION Organized in Atlanta and News Ser : vice Arranged For. The Southern Press ~ Association wag organized and officers elected at a meeting of representatives of a num ber of the well known southern after noon papers held in Atlanta, Ga., Wed nesday. 4 The ‘purpose of the organization is to perfect a telegraphic news service, and committees were appointed and the proper steps taken to carry out the purposes of thg association. The following officers elected at the meeting were: President, Charles Daniel, of The Atlanta News; - vice president, E. M. Holmes, Memphis News; secretary, J. J. Smith, Birming ham Ledger; treasurer, R. A. Russell, Jacksonville Metropolis. PENALTIES OF BICYCLISTS. Riders Who Quit Six-Day Race are E 5 Called to'Account, * - The eight bicycle riders who refused to finish in the six-day race in New York “18st “week have ‘been penalized b¥ the National Cycling - Association. The action of the board is as follows: R A. Walthour and James F. Mo ran, suspended for one year; Otto Maya and James B. Bowler, suspend ed for six months; Hugh McLean, sus pended for six months or pay a fine of $100; Nat Butler, J. D. Newkirk, Me nus Bedell and John Bedell and Ben nie Munroe, suspended for six months or pay a fine of $5O each. o ———————— . GOES OVER TO FEBRUARY. Noted Bank of Americus Case Post. poned to Future Date. : The celebrated Bank of Americus case, wherein former stockholders are being sued under a charter clause rendering them individually liable for the bank’s indebtedness, was entered upon at Americus, Ga., Friday morn ing. - . - iDefendants’ counsel asked for a con tinuance until an amended declaration could be ' irvestigated. The feourt granted a continuance until February. LUNATIC RUNS AMUCK. Young Man in Birmingham Uses Pig ~~ tol With Doubly Fatal Effect. ~ Monroe Wells, aged 22, of Norta Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday morning secured a pistol and fired at his mcth: -er, the bullet narrowly missing her. * Miss Addie Beale, an aunt, rushed to the rescue, when the young man shot her in the neck, inflicting a fa tal wound. He then turned the weap on upon himself and blew out his own brains. PHILANTHROPY OF BLIND MAN. Ralph Voorhees Dionates $lOO,OOO to Maryville, Tenn., College. Maryville, Tenn., college has re ceived a donation of $lOO,OOO from the blind philanthropist, Ralph Voorhees, of New Jersey. Dr. Samuel T. Wilson, president of the college, received the check Thursda’y, %at kept the donation a secret untl] chapel exercises of Fri day. Fifteen thousand dollars are to be spent in building a chapel and as sembly hall and $85,000 goes into the sndowment fund. : NEW YORKERS GET LINE, Deal About Closed for Chattanooge : Street Railway. s It was learned at Chattanooga Tues: day night that the General Electrie Company, of New York, had- aboui elosed a deal for the Rapid Transit street railway system of Chattanooga The General Electric Company boughti ‘the Chattanooga FElectric ' Company, the 'local lighting concern, and the Chattanooga Rlectric Railway some days ago. The three properties are valued at about $2,000.000. ; NO. 22.