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PBRRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1923.
No. 49
M'A100 IN LEAD
IN SOUTH DAKOTI
WALTON IMPEACHED GEOROIA ASSEItl?
A TRAPP IS GOBI!
SWEEPING VICTOR FOR SUPPORT
ERS OF McADOO OVER HENRY
f FORD IS CLAIMED
DEPOSED LEADER WtLL TAKE
FIGHT INTO THE UNITED
STATES COURT
OTHER CHARGES SUSTAINED
.Oklahoma Governor Is Convloted 01
| Abuse Of Pardon - Parole Power
By Unanimous Vote
BARE FACT8
Governor J. C. Walton held
guilty as charged In 11 articles
o£ Impeachment
Acquitted on 6 charges.
Court dismissed 6 charges.
Governor Walton formally re
moved from office by unani
mous vote.
Lieutenant Governor M. EL
Trappy Democrat, now gover
nor.
Governor Trapp has been act
ing governor since October 23,
1923.
Governor Trapp stood trial
In Impeachment proceedings,
brought against him In 1921,
and was acquitted through a
motion to quaBh which carried
by a vote of 27 to 16.
Governor Trapp, when he be
came chief executive was serv
ing his Becond four-year term
as lieutenant governor.
ENTERS 111 1
GOVERNOR WALKER OPTIMISTIC
OVER WHAT HAS ALREADY
BEEN ACCOMPLISHED
FORD WINS IN FEW COUNTIES
Returns Have Been Received From
Nineteen Counties Representing
More Than 23,826 Votes
Sioux Falls, S. D.—A sweplng vic
tory for the supporters of William G.
McAdoo was claimed by W. W. Howe,
Democratic Btate chairman, oh the
basis of returns from the county pro
posal conventions held throughout the
state.
At the Bame hour, F. H. Hildebrand,
of Watertown, and Eric Ellison, of
Sioux Falls, leaders in the fight to
pledge delegates to the state conven
tion for Henry Ford, Issued a state
ment claiming four full counties and
{scattered individual delegates, wield
ing a total convention vote of approxi-
C itely 8,000.
"Returns from 19 counties, repre-
nting 23,826 votes out of a total
of 60,409 in the state convention, make
the McAdoo victory a certainty by bet
ter than two to one,’,’ Howes said In
claiming the state proposal conven
tion majority. ,
The Democrat meetings generally,
Darned uninstructed delegates, though
several counties went on record wltbj
specific orders to their representa
tives.
Tripp and Hamline counties in
structed their delegations for Ford, In Oklahoma City, Okla.—J. C. Walton,
Codington county the Democratic and fifth governor of Oklahoma, was re
farmer-labor conventions Issued a moT6 d from office by unanimous vote
Joint Indorsement of F. H. Hilde- . ..
Ibrandt, president of the South Dakota' f thQ ® tatG senat0 court of impeach '
Ford for President club, for the con- men ^ a ^ er h* 6 trial on charges of cor-
Igresslonal race. j ruptlon in office, neglect of duty,
In Spink and Brookins counties,' moral turpitude and general incom-
jthe delegations, while uninstructed, 1 petence.
STATE NEWSJF HEIST
-Brief News Ttems Gathered Hera
And There From All Sections
Of The State
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were olakned by the Ford Democrats,!
,who also listed in their forces partial
representation from Lincoln county.
All of the claims, some of which are
denied by the McAdoo men, would
give the Ford delegates a representa
tion about equal to one-sixth of the
state voting power.
Four counties Instructed for Cool-
ldge and another adopted a resolution
indorsing the national administration.
Three counties, Ineluding two of the
larger ten units, Indorsed Johnson,
and in six other counties delegates
were instructed for state officials who-
have been active in behalf of the
California senator throughout the
state during the last three weeks.
On the basis of returns from approxi
mately one-half of the counties, how;-
ever, Republican leaders assert that a'
large majority of the state representa
tion will be uninstructed.
In the farmer labor conventions the
Ford candidacy was indorsed in two
counties, the remainder reported
naming uninstructed delegations.
Three counties adopted resolutions
urging a third party presidential
ticket, but without stating a choice
for the nomination. In two counties
the democratic meetings indorsed pro
posals for coalition between the third
party and .^the democratic forces, but
here, too, the presidential choice was
omitted.
Japanese Prince Renounces Rank
Tokio.—The democratizing influence
v of the Japanese army so deeply af
fected his imperial highness, Prince
Kunihisa Kuni, that he has been re
tired from*; imperial rank, at his own
request, and has descended to the
status of a common subject. Here
after the prince will be known as Mar.
quis Kuni. While he retains a title,
$4? he has been divorced officially from
bis royal connections. Kuni is a broth
er of Princess Nagako, the bride-elect
of the Japanese" prince regent, Hiro-
hito and was otherwise prominently
connected with the empire.
. A formal verdict was returned after
the executive had been found guilty
of 11 of the 16 charges presented. The
vote was 41 to 0.
She of the original charges con
stituting the impeachment bill were
dismissed by order of the court.
< The court, by a standing vote, de
nied a motion for a new trial which
Governor Walton’s counsel filed Im
mediately after the verdict was an
nounced. '
The governor’s removal, although
not formally ordered until after a ver
dict had been returned on each
dharge, Was made certain when the
court found Trim guilty of abusing his
pardon and parole authority, the first
oharge to be voted upon.
Forty-one senators lacking only one
of the total membership of the body
voted for conviction. Senator Jack
Barker, who has consistently voted in,
the governor’s favor throughout the
1§ days of the trial, was absent.
, The articles of impeachment were
filed by the lower house of the state
legislature, which leBS than two
months ago the executive had dis
persed by military force.
By the removal of Governor Walton,
Lieutenant Governor M. E. Trapp be
came governor. Trapp has been lieu
tenant governor during two four-year
administrations and has been acting
governor since October 23, when the
senate suspended Governor Walton
after the filing of the impeachment
charges.
The vote followed with surprising
suddenness after the examination of
the last witness, E. W. Marland, .presi
dent of the Marland Refining Com
pany, had barely left the stand when
W. E. Disney, chairman of the house
board of managers which conducted
the prosecution, announced that the
Evidence was concluded.
Woman Shoots Her Fifth Husband
Chicago.—Mrs. Mary Culouski, 30
years old, shot and probably fatally
unded Simon Culouski, her fifth
jband, after a quarrel. She told
e police that her act was the result
a- pact into which the couple had
ntered that if either left the other,
e one who left must die. Her hus-
,nd, she said, accflsed her of infidel-i
and threatened to leave, so site to enforced
of
Georgia Gas Tax Brings $948,252 Total
Atlanta.—During the fiscal year
which ended on October i Georgia
collected through the one cent per
gallon . tax on gasoline sold in the
state the sum of $948,252.04, according
to W. B. Harrison,- chief clerk in the
tax office of the comptroller general.
This is an increase of $210,096.16 over
the previous twelve months, when
the total collected wa's $738,166.88.
This difference is largely attributed
payments from delin-
him.
... J quent taxpayers.
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 como before the house
of representatives, political observers
expressed themselves as confident
definite action to carry out the ob
jects of the special session, as set
forth by the governor, would be taken.
After a week of debate which re
sulted iu passage by the house of the
general tax act—amended iu several
Important particulars from the form
jn 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
jgeneral tax-act passed by the house.
(At the regular session the upper
•house failed to pass this act chiefly,
jit is believed, because of heavy taxes
placed upon insurance premiums and
a tax clause affecting banks which
would havo 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 cIobo enough to satisfying
both houses as to make agreement
.comparatively easy In conference.
Governor Clifford Walker express-
led 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 tax commission in
its report and recommendations sub
mitted to the assembly when the spe
cial session began,
"Hswever,” he added, *T am like
wise maintaining the position taken
ifrem the Btart, that the only hope
for solution ef our problem lies in us
nil approaching It In a spirit of com
promise. We must all accord fullest
consideration to the other fellow’s
views, sad I feel that this attitude is
tfaet as Incumbent upon me as it Is
upon anyone else. Only by acting in
a spirit ef give and take can we agree
upon a method ef 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 the pro
gram outlined by the 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 la the idea of those sponsoring
the plan that an income tax with
low exemptions so as to provide for
some state taxes fbr practically every
citizen, pnd with a gradually rising
Beale of rates up to probably five per
cent, will raise sufficient revenue to
offset the loss suffered’ by wiping out
the ad valorem system, if certain
other bills are passed. These in
clude the Ennis bill, providing for a
state revenue department for collec
tion of delinquent taxes. It is claim
ed that the state is now losing nearly
$2,000,000 per year in special and
occupation taxes which are never
paid, which would be collected by
such a revenue department. Then
there is the proposal to create a bud
get commission for the 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-j
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