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JOURNAL. BOTmrm JOHN H. HODGES, Proper.* DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a Year In Advance . "i <rg S$K*'. VOL. LIU. 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 S / 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 1 npuaoaooaucaaQuoaoncaoanrnaaanr.-.jjK^cmnecKsraaaooaeaa High Grade Fertilizers || We are On the Job from January to January, twelve months each year. You can buy One Sack or A Hundred 1 Tons, or More, any day in the year and get prompt delivery. Our Customers get this kind of Service without any Extra Cost. “ITS WHAT’S IN THE SACK THAT COUNTS.” oaaaeaaMHMHMHaDaaaDoaaaaaaoiwa«anaDaaaaaaa~aacteacM&Moa HEARD BROTHERS. Manufacturers of High Grade Fertilizers. 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