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VOI. X,
Democrats Show Where They Stand
Regarding the Question
DISCUSSION WAS GENERAL
Opportunity Presented During Consid=
~ eration of Philippine Measure.
Mrs. Morris Case Mentioned.
A vigorons speech in favor of the
Philippine tariff bill by Mr. Dalzell
of Pennsylvania opened the proceed
ings in the house Wednesday. It was
. followed by several others against
the measure, most nctable of which
» Was a iwo-hour address by the vetei
an statesman, Mr. Keifer of Ohio, an
ex-speaker, who returns to the housé
, fter retirement of twenty years. Mr.
Keifer bespoke “stand pat” doctrine
©of the most pronounced tyre, and said
he should oppoie the pending bill, be
<cause it was a ‘concession to the dem
ocratic principles.
Opposition to the bill was made bhe
cause of fear of rice competition by
Mr. Pujo of Louisiana. :
As the result of an interdibtion,
Champ Clark of Missouri made this
comment regarding the Dingley tarift
law: “I think it is an infernal curse
to the whole American people.”
Mr. Williams, the minority leader,
interjected into Mr. Pujo’s speech
what he considered the exact demo
cratic position on the tariff.
: “It should be levied solely with
regard to the maximum revenue pro
duetion.. lli. it ‘preotecis in ecertain
places, well and good; but that should
not be its primary object.”
Mr. Williams @©xplained that his
party did not believe in free trade,
and that the declaration in its plat
form that all forms of protection are
robbery, to which attention was call
ed by Mr. Grosvenor, did not mean
free trade. :
The recent ejection of Mrs. Minor
Morris from the white house office
‘was made the subject of remarßs by
Mr. Sheppard of Texas. .
Messrs. Payne and Groxvenor raised
the point of order that Mr. Sheppard
was not discussing the \lll under- con
sideration, but the pointi was not sus
tained by the chair, and Mr. Sheppard
<continued, saying:
“If the president had heard’ the howl
of a wolf or the growl of a bear in
the adjoining room, he would have
been on the scene immediately.”
He characterized the occurrence as
an “unwarrantable and unnecessary
brutality, which demanded investiga
tion and merited censure.”
“If congress,” he continued, ‘“com
posed of American fathers, husbands,
brothers, permits this incident to go
unrebuked, it will add a passive and
cowardly approval of this violation of
the most sacred grinciple of American
life.” :
Mr. Grosvenor replied, saying that
congress was not a police court, and |
that he did not believe a sensation |
should be spread abroad damaging to ‘
the character of the American admin
istration. ; i
The' house adjourned until Thurs
day. l
ALABAMIANS ARE PLEASED '
Dver Proposition to Have Convention Name ’
Members of Supreme Court.
‘While there is all sorts of com
‘ment on the action of the Alabama
state democratic committee in laying |
-out the plan of the campaign in the :
siate this year, it is a fact that every- |
body seems pleased with the provis- |
ion for a comvention to name mem- |
bers of the. supreme bench and to |
‘keep the party organization intact. t
Batch of Senate Confirmations. ‘
The senate, in executf + session, |
‘Wednesday confirmed tk following |
rdominations: Frank Franl, avernor |
of Oklahoma; H. J. Hagert\, , gov- |
ernor of New Mexico; receiver of ’
land office, N./ H. Alexander, at Mont
gomery, Ala. | I
COTTONGROWERSADJOURN
Reduction of Acreage Was Proposition
Discussed at Closing Day’s Session
in New Orleans.
With the matter acreage as the
most important question remaining to
be settled, the Southern Cotton As
sociaticn began the last day of .its
work in New Orleans Saturday morn
ing. The question of permanent
headquarters, the election of officers
and the proposition to establish an of
ficial organ will be settled by the ex
ecutive committee at its sessions to
be heid later.
The executive commitee will also
arrange to put into effect the plan
of holding the remainder of the cot
ton for 15 cents. It is directed to
select one reépresentative of the us
sociation from ecach state and territo
ry, one banker from each state and
territory and five cotton men at large
to perfect the follcwing plan:
The adoption of a form of contract
by which the farmer or owner of cot
ten can deposit with his banker the
receipts or pledges to hold his cotton
for 15 cents, the contract to provide
that the cotton cannot be sold for less
than 15 cents, basis middling, at
southern ports, except with the ccn
sent of this committee. The owner
of the cotton has full power and au
hority to sell this cotton at i 5 cents
or over, the banker to retain 1 cent
per pound to be held in trust until
such time as all of this cotten sO
pledged has been disposed of, when
this committee will meet and arrange
disposition of the balance ' as the
interest may appear.
A resolution by M. V. Calvin of
Gedrgia was adopted, instructing the
executive ccmmittee to publish for
distribution of 100,000 copies of the
proceedings of tha comveation.
Hon. John Temple CGraves of Geor
gia was introduced, and addressed the
convention. He was given a special
vcte of thanks.
At the opening of the afterncon
sessicn, Chairman W. D. Nesbitt pre
sented the report of the committee
on warehouses. It recommended the
extension and improvement of the
present warehouse system.
Chairman Hanccek reported for the
finance committee. It provided for
"dues of 10 cents per bale, allowing 20
per cent to national fund, 30 per cent
to the state fund and the remainder
to the county fund. The executive
committee was requested to employ
Hon. E. D. Smith of Scuth Carolina
4s national organizer to more com
pletely organize the various states:
The association completed its lahors
with its afternoon session and ad
journéd without delay. Declaring the
adiournment, President Jordan con
gratulated the convention on the suc
cessful manner in which it had per
formed its work. The new executive
commtitee will meet in ‘New Orleans
the coming week and arrange to carry
out the various recommendations
1 which have been made by the con
vention. It will probably be in ses
sion for two or three days.
DEATH DEALT FOR “JISLOYALTY.” ‘
Russian Student Loses Life for Refusal to
Honor the Oid Regime.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says: A
tragedy in which a student paid his
life, the penalty of refusing to do hon
or to the old regime, took place in]
the famous restaurant, “The Bear,” |
shortly after midnight Sunday uighr.‘
The annual ceremony of watching the ‘
old year out was being observed. L'g-’
on the stroke of midnight the orchefi-{'
tra burst forth with “God Save the |
Emperor.” l
The guests, with the exception ofi
a student named Davidoff, a member |
of an aristocratic family, vose to their }l
feet and the officers preésent demand- |
ed an encore, being determined tog
turn the celebration into a loyalisti
demonstration. ' |
Count Sherometieff applied an epi-|
thet to Davidoff for refusinz to houus |
the national anthem and pulled his |
chair from under him. Hot words}’
followed and suddenly in the miaet |
of joyous acclamation of new year.!
the guests were startled by five shots |
in rapid succession, and the corpso‘
of the student lay on the floor.
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1906.
PLEAS ARETURNED DOWN;
Gaynor and Greene Losz Qutin First
Round--Judge Speer’s Decision
’ Emphatic.
In the United States court at Sa
vannah Friday morning Judge Emory
Speer rendered a decision overruling
every plea that the crime of conspir
acy with which Greene and Gaynor
are charged was not extraditable.
The decision was a sweeping one
in favor of the government. It means
| that'the defendants must go to trial
on the two old indictments in which
there are fourteen counts regardless
of whether they are tried upon the
indictments recently found or not.
The opinion of the court was, in
part, as follows:
“The plea alleges that the court is
without jurisdiction for the reasons
therein stated. They are that the de
fendants were lately under the sover
eignty of Great Britain; that under
the treaty and under extradition trea
ties between this government and
Great Britain the defendants were in
dicted to be tried on the charges; first,
for participation in fraud by agent
ard trustee; second, participation in
embezzlement; and, third, receiving
| money and property, knowing the
same to be fraudulently obtained.”
The judge saia: j
i “If'or many years the United States
has been trying to bring to the bar
of public justice the men whom suec
cessive grand juries have indicted
for alleged violation of its laws and
alieged misappropriation of enormous
sums appropriated by the liberanty
of ccrngress for the benefit of this
city, of the Georgia sea coast, and the
mwighty values involved in the trans
rortation by water of the interstate
and foreign commerce of our coun
try. On the other hand the rignts of
an individual are nct less sacred, not
iesg to be carefully conserved by the
courts than the rights of the public
in 8o far as they may be properly
involved. The court has, therefore,
listened attentively and carefully con
sidered tae exhaustive arguments of
counsel.
“Why is the court asked at one
stroke to hew down the arm of je
tice as it would hold the scales in
equal voise between the governmen?
and the accused?
“It is said that to uphold this in
dictment would be a reflection upon
the national honor, but in view of this
action of all the ccurts of Great Brit
ain and the ample sufficiency of these
indictments, it will appear, I think,
to annul them would scem a reflec
ticn upcn the naticnal intelligence.
“The whole contention of the ac
cused may be summarized in a sin
gle sentence. The indictment charges
conspiracy .and the priscners were
returned to the bar of this court
'for something else. It lis further
charged that the priscners are pnt
on trizl fer crime scther than those
for whicn the extradition was granted.
“Tke ruling of this court in 115 fed. |
rep., 344, on the demurrer to a sim
ilar indictment has been cited as au
thority to support the plea of the de
fendants. It is urged that the court
reiterated the word conspiracy a§ a
' designation for the offense, but the
-fact should rot be disregarded that
along with this expression was the
fullest and miost circumstiantial de
tail of the facts, which were set out |
in the indictments, which were adopt ,
ed by all the Pritish and Canadian
courts, which passed on the question, !
which brought the above,extradition,
which gave the information to the
prisoners of the character of the
charge against them and which must {
be proven substantially before the gov
ernment can expect a verdicet of con
viction. It was described not merely
as a con:-:pirzicy, but as a joint and
succeossinl endeaver to defraud the |
United States by participation in the ‘
crime of its trusted agent and offl
cer.” ]
" Conlirmations by the Senate,
Senor Obaldia, minister from Pan
ama, in Washington, has received the
following cablegram from his govern
ment: “Deny uprising of San Blas In
dians.” Personal differences between
chiefs caused circulation of the re
mrt-”
Is Edict of Growers Decided Upon
at New Orleans.
DIVERSIFICATION IS URGED
Second Day’s Session of Great Coa
vention Was Replete With Most
Interesting Features.
By a unanimous vote the Southorn
Cotton Asscciation in session at New
Orleans adopted the report of its com
mittee on hoelding, recommending that
the balance of the crop of 1905-¢ be
held for fifteen cents a pound. A
joint committee of bankers and farm
ers from each state and territory is
to carry the plan into effect. Co-op
eration with the growers of sea island |
coiton is provided for, long staple cot.- l
ton to be held at 24 cents.
“That the.sum of work of the South
ern Cotton Association was to be a
declaration for fifteen cents cotton
with reduction in the form of diversi
fication was practically settled at the
Friday afternoon session of the ccn
vention when Chairman Dancy of the
committee on holding, in advance ot
the presentation of its report, an
nounced that the committee had unan
imously decided favorably on that
proposition. ‘'The announcement pro
voked the cenventicn to a whirlwind
of cheering,. :
L The nremature announcement of the
cenclusicns of the commmittee was
forced by advices from New York to
the .effect that newspaper dispatches
and Wall street reports printed and
circulated there indicated a lack of
harmony among the elements making
up the cenvention and dissensions
over the 15 cents propcsition.
R. Bancy, chairman of the holding
comrmaittes, then said that in view of
cu¢ reports which !g;,.'.‘. heen circulated
in the cast oMisscnsion in the con
venticn, he desired to announce. in
advarce of its repert that the com
mittee was unanimcus in its decision
to ask the convention to stand by the
propesition that the southern farmers
will hold their cotton for 15 cents.
Chairman Walker of Sparta, <a.,
who piesided over the meeting of the
bankers, then anncunced that the
benkers had enthusiastically adopted
the following resolutions:
“The southern bankers in conveu
tion congratulate the Southern Cottost
Ascociaticn on the success which it
has already attained in its efforts to
maintain a fair and equitabie price
for the south’s staple crop, and rec
ognizing that the interests of the far
mers, bankers and business men of
tne south are inseparable; therelore,
i be it l
“Resolved, first, That we, represen
tatives of southern banks, hereby re
new our pledge of moral and financial
- support Lo the Southern Cotton Asso
ciation, in their efforts to carry out
this purpose; and second, we urge
the importance of a better and more
cnmplete system of warehousing and
caring for cotton.”
Chairman J. H. White presented the
report of the committee on foreign
trade relaticns, It indorsed that made
by the standing committee, The lat
ter signed by ex-Senator MclLauria,
as chairman, said the committee met
President Roosevelt and cabinet offi
cers in Washington after the last con
vention, and explained to him the de
gire for a commission to enlarge the
cotton trade in foreign countries.
By invitstion Secretary Blackwell
of the National Ginners’ Association
made an address to the convention.
“There are not 300,000 bales of cot
ton yet to gin in the entire south,”
he said. *“More than 50 per cent of
the ging everywhere are closed. Many
of the others have only five to seven
bales to gin. Dry goods have been
constantly advancing in price during
the year past, and we have only to
stand together to get the reasonqble
price the association has asked for
cotton.” :
“WHERE IS THE MONEY”’
Is What Colored Policy Holders in aa
Atlanta Insurance Company Want
to Know=-Go to Court.
An insurance investigation has been
started in Atlanta, Ga., by three ne
groes, policyholders in the Industrial
Life and Health Insurance company, a
local institution.
The investigation takes the form
of a suit for $200,000 and for injunc
tion on behalf of all the policy hold
ers cf the company, the defendants
being J. N. McEachern, president; I.
M. Sheffield, secretary; R. H. Dobbs,
J. Covington and J. N. McEachern,
as directors.
The plaintiffs are Istella Evans,
Laura Manning and Gus Davis, the
latter of whom sues in the name of
his next friend, Laura Manning.
They allege that the company,which
has oflices in the Austell building, and
which insures negroes almost exclu
sively, is a mutual concern, and that
they, as policy holders, have a right
to participate in the distribution o§
all funds left over after the payment
- of all claims and proper operating ex
- penses.
~ The several plaintiffs aver that they
have paid sums of from 10 cents to
25 cents a week each, and that nei
ther of them is now in any way be
~hind with his or her payments, or
in any way indebted to the compuny.
It is alleged that in the last report
| of the ccmpany the balance on hand
was set down as only $17,000, while,
it is alleged, this should have been
an amount eof from $300,000 to $400,-
000. They charge that' the cfficers of
the company have in some way im
properly gotten rid of or lost at least
$200,000 belonging to the poliey hold
ers, and suit is brougbht for that
- amount,
~ The charge is specifically made that
~ since the year 1900 the officers of the
ccmpany have diverted 350,000 a year
that justly should have gone to the
policyholders, who, by virtue of the
company being mutual, are also stock
holders. 2 :
The following allegations concern
ing the year 1903 are used as an illus
tration. It is alleged that the income
of the company during that year was
$299,723.25, and that the claims paid
amounted to $83,421.90, or $216,311.35
less than the income for the year. But,
it is alleged, of this large excess over
claims all but $1,969.83 was got rid
of in somie way by the officers of the
company, “contrary to equity and
good morals.” o
It is alleged that each policyholder
is compelled to give up his proxy to
one or two officers of the company,
and that they now hold the proxies
of all policyholders, by which means,
it i alleged, the officers have managed
to maintain their control of the com
pany. It is alleged that President
McEachern adminigters the property
of the company as theugh it belonged
, to him personally.
THa further allegation is made that
‘ the officers have threatened to wind
up the company and transfer all its
business by February 15 to a new
company, for which a charter has
been secured, and the name of which
is to be the At}anta Industrial Life
Insurance company,
If this alleged intent is carried out,
so the petitioners declare, they will
be absolutely without recourse. There
fore, they ask an injunction forbid
ding the transfer.
SENATORS AFIER CRITIC BIGELOW,
Author Must Answer for Aspersions on
Members of Canal Commission,
The senate committee on interoce
anic canals Thursday placed In the
bands of Sergeanat at Arms Rans
dell a subpoena for Poultney Bigelow
the author and traveler, whose attack
on the management of canal affairs
was denounced by Secretary Taft ina
communication sent to congress by
President Roosevelt.
The committee’s purpose is to let
Bigelow substantiate his story if pos
sible, and, if that is not done, to re
move the stigma placed upon the
names of several officials of the istn
mian canal commission. _
NO. 30.