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PlilN 11 IS KILLED
GEORGIA SENATE TURNS DOWN
MR. TURNER’S MEASURE.
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THE CHILD LABOR BILL IS KILLED
A Brief Summary of F.ach Day’# Pro¬
ceeding# In the House and
the Senate.
The legislature ° signalized the day
N on day oy important action on sev
eral subjects. Football was voted a
misdemeanor bv the bouse. The sen
ate also voted the way open for Judge
Boynton’s dispensary bill by a recon
aid oration on the lurnei bill, and Mi.
Blalock’s bill to pay the teachers of
the common schools quarterly passed
the house bv a vote of 101 to 2. The
Dole anti-football bill, which passed
the house by a vote of 91 to 3, without
HiKcussimi is as follows:
“Section 1. Be it enacted by the
general assembly of tbe state of Geor
gia, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority aforesaid, that from aud
after the passage of this act, it shall
be unlawful for any person or
persons to come together and play
a prize or match game of football in
any park or other place in this state
where a fee is charged for admission
to the same.
“Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by
ihe authority aforesaid, that each and
every person violating the provisions
of this act shall be guilty of a misde
meaner, and on conviction therefor
shall be punished as prescribed in sec¬
tion 1,039 of volume 3, of the code of
Georgia of 1895.”
In order to give Mr. Turner the
privilege of withdrawing his anti-bar¬
room bill the senate passed by a vote
of fourteen to twelve a motion to re
•consider.
In the event that the prohibition
bill pending in the house reaches the
senate it will not be barred by the de¬
feat of Mr. Turner’s bill. If the house
passes such a bill it will mean a re¬
newal of the light in the senate.
Three of the senators who voted
★gainst the Turner bill Friday, voted
Monday to reconsider. Senator Tur¬
ner then formally withdrew the meas¬
ure. The senate held over until 1:30
o’clock to give time for the completion
of routine business. The time was
spent in reading house bills for the
first time.
Thursday.
Thursday was an important one in
both houses of the legislature. The
senate spent the morning discussing
the Turner prohibition bill, Senator
Battle opposing and Senator Gray ad¬
vocating that measure. It did not
reach a vote, but the indications are
that the senate is nearly equally divi¬
ded, with the chances in favor of that
bill or some modification of it.
The bill prohibits the manufacture,
Bale and keeping for sale of intoxicat¬
ing liquors, fermented or distilled, in
the state, excepting in prohibition
counties by local option, and goes in¬
to effect in such counties when local
prohibition expires. The bill excepts
the manufacture of domestic wine,
without admixture of alcohol, from
grapes or other fruits grown by the
manufacturer, and also excepts the
sale of such wine for non-beverage
purposes in quart or larger packages.
Places for the sale or mauufaeture
of liquors in violation of the act are
declared nuisances, aud violations of
the law are made misdemeanors under
code section 1039.
On motion of Senator Turner the
bill was made the special order for
Friday. Thursday, bill
In the house, the to
perfeet. in each county a record of Con
ferate soldiers was passed by a good
majority. the birthday of
The bill to make
Jefferson Davis a legal holiday came
up on an adverse report, but after
some spirited speeches the report was
almost unanimously disagreed to. The
bill is expected to pass on third
Tending. Blalock committee’s
The effect of the
Teport was seen in a bill by Mr. Cope¬
land to ablish the office of state geolo¬
gist and another by Mr. Swift to re¬
peal the university funding act.
Friday’# Proceeding#.
The legislature had a busy day Fri¬
day aud many important measures
came before it.
The senate killed the Turner pro¬
hibition bill by a vote of 23 to 18.
Senator Turner, seeing that the bill
was drifting against him, moved a
postponement for further considera¬
tion of the bill. The motiou w as lost.
The vote to sustain the report of the
.committee, which was favorable to the
bill, was 23 to 18 against the report.
The bill was then put upon its passage
and lost. The following was the vote:
Ayes—Atkinson, Brinson, Brooke,
Culver, Everett, Llewellen, Flynt,
Gray, Kemp, Kilpatrick, McFarland,
Starr, T. D. Stewart, Thompson, Tur¬
ner, J. Y. Walker, Witcher, Wooten
— 18 .
Nays—Allen, Battle, Blalock, Car
ter, Comas, Cook, Dunwody, Goldin,
Goligbtly, Ham, Hopkins, Hudson,
Mann, Redwine, Sheffield, Shropshire,
Stevens, J. A. Stewart, Strother, Van
Buren, B. F. Walker, Westmoreland,
Wilcox—23.
That the public interest had in no
way abated concerning the fate of Sen¬
ator Turner’s bill, which was made a
cl* an-cut prohibition measure by tli£
adoption of Senator Kilpatrick’s
amend meat,Thursday, was fully evinc
ed I v the large assemblage that crowd¬
ed the senate gallery i'll l * > uornng
long b jfore the hour of come ting.
No measure that has been intro¬
duced in the Georgia legislature in
recent years has attracted the wide
spread interest that has been maui
f fel in the Turner bill.
The house passed several important
bills, among them one requiring judg
meats to be recorded in the county
^ become Ueus agaiust mQO ,
cent third parties.
Another bill to make landlords’
Hens superior to laborers’ liens was
passed after some discussion.
The call of the roll for new matter
brought out a numter of bills, sev
eral of which are important. Mr.
Berry, of Whitfield, proposes to re¬
duce the salary of the railroad com
missioners from $2,500 to $2,000; Mr.
Rutherford, of Walton, wants to cut
the salaries of supreme court stenog
raphers to $1,000 and reduce their
number from six to three; Mr. Bates,
of Murray, seeks to prohibit judges
from asking questions of wisnesses
in trials of fact; Mr. Thomas, of
Clarke, has a hill authorizing county
school commissioners to buy school
books and furnish them to pupils at
cost; and Mr. Blalock, of Fayette, pro¬
poses to reduce the fees of fertilizer
inspectors from $125 to $06.66 per
month, and Mr. Duncan, of Houston,
introduced a bill to make penal the
running of excursion trains on Sunday.
Mr. Stone, of Walton, introduced a
bill for a straight lease of tbe peni¬
tentiary convicts, and Mr. Armstrong,
of Wilkes, put in one for the inspec¬
tion of misdemeanor convicts by grand
juries.
Saturday in the House.
Saturday Avas au unimportant day in
the legislature. The senate was not
in session and the house sat only au
hour and a half, without a quorum,
hearing new hills read the first time
and others a second time.
The only matter of importance out¬
side routine work was the adoption of
a joint resolution by Mr. Pace, of
Newton, inviting Hon. J. L. M. Curry
to address the general assembly at
noon on November 16th.
A number of new bills of minor im¬
portance were introduced.
Tuesday’s Proceedings.
The house Tuesday by an emphatic
vote killed the bill to prohibit child
labor. It was a spirited debate, iu
which a number of prominent gentle¬
men took part, but when the test vote
came on au amendment excepting cot¬
ton factories, the vote of 98 to 39 in¬
dicated the death of the bill.
The bill prohibited the employment
of children under 13 years of age in
any manufacturing establishment,
laundry or workshop, excepting or¬
phans w ho have to support themselves
and excepting saAV mills, grist mills,
cotton gins and like mills and Avork
shops in the rural districts.
An important senate bill providing
for the trial of all questions of fact, by
jury, including cases now submitted
to auditors, was under discussion
when it was displaced by a special
order. The bill is adversely reported.
The house refused to pay Colonel
W. S. Thompson, of Atlanta, a $600
fee for his services as attorney for the
state in the tax case against Mr. G.
W. Collier. The house took the posi¬
tion that every county should collect
its taxes, including the state’s part.
There was barely a quorum present
iu the senate Tuesday, and the session
was devotod principally to the trans¬
action of routine business. Only one
important bill Avas introduced, aud
that was offered by Mr. McFarland,
of the Forty-fourth district. His bill
has for its pm pose the abatement of
the cigarette evil, and not only w’ould
preA’ent the sale of cigarettes in Geor¬
gia, but also provides against bring¬
ing them into the state.
The session Avas adjourned at 11:30
o’clock until 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning.
Tile School Book Report#.
Governor Atkinson sent the major¬
ity and minority reports of the school
book commission to the general as¬
sembly Tuesday, accompanying them
with a short but Aerv pointed message.
The governor limits his message to
a brief statement of facts and presents
a table of comparison between the
cost of books uoav and the prices of¬
fered him by a prominent publisher if
given a contract to furnish the state’s
school books. This publisher has of¬
fered to give bond to comply Avith such
a contract. The difference iu price is
interesting and not far short of start¬
ling.
The governor expresses the confi¬
dent belief that the law-makers possess
the wisdom to discern and the courage
to apply the remedy.
In the message the governor also
had something to say of the right of
way of the Western and Atlantic rail-
way at Marietta. He hopes the matter
can be disposed of at the present ses¬ the
sion of the general assembly, as Bail
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern
road company is now occupying this
right of way and should be required
to pay for its use or be removed from
its possession.
AGAINST IMPORTED TOBACCO.
Florida Growers of the Weed Are Up
In Arms.
The Florida tobacco growers are up
in arms now and are prepared to de¬
fend what they believe to be their
rights. They ask the co-operation of
the tobacco growers throughout this
country in their fight for protection
against imported tobacco. The law
regulating the duty on the imported
article has been hoodwinked for years
and the government has been the
loser to the tune of thousands of dol¬
lars, while the effects of it have kept
the industry in this country under the
thumb of the manufacturers, who are
the principal importers. The great
abuse of the law has been in the clas¬
sification of tobacco at the different
ports of entry as the following instance
clearly demonstrates:
Major Linck, the treasury agent at
Tampa, had the appraiser draw exam¬
ples from the thirteen bales of import¬
ed leaf. Five of these were pronounced
as wrapper by the appraiser, -while
Major Linek thought all of them
should have been classed as wrapper.
He accordingly sent these samples to
New York, where ten of them Avere
classed as wrapper. They were then
sent to New Orleans aud received the
information that ail were filler. The
New Orleans classification would have
collected $546 duty. Tampa’s collec¬
tion would have been $1,446, while
that of New York would have amount¬
ed to $2,346; but if the matter had
been left to Major Linck he would
have assessed $2,886 duty on that
small lot of tobacco.
A meeting of the appraisers of this
country assembled in New York last
Friday as a result of this instance, to
establish a uniform classification of
tobacco at all ports of entry in this
•country. The manufacturers have
employed the ablest lawyers in the
country to look out for their interests,
which is not the interest of the gov¬
ernment or the tobacco growers of
this country. They wish to secure a
liberal classification for themselves,
and wish also to have the ruling of the
secretary of the treasury modified like¬
wise in their favor.
The board of trade of Bartow, Polk
county, Florida, which is a great to¬
bacco growing center, realizing that
the growers were doing nothing for
their own protection, and appreciating
the fact that the influence of the im¬
porters is a mighty power, called a
meeting of their organization Friday
night and passed the following resolu¬
'‘Whereas, the tobacco growing in¬
dustry in this state promises to be im¬
portant in its development, and where¬
as, to grow tobacco profitably it is
essential that the duties on imported
tobacco be honestly collected, there¬
fore be it
“Resolved, That the Bartow board of
trade hereby wholly and unreservedly
indorses the recent rulings of the sec¬
retary of the treasury as to the tariff
and classification on imported tobacco,
knowing it to be in the interest of the
growers of this country.
“Resolved, further, That copies of
this resolution be forwarded to the
secretary of the treasury, our senators
and congressmen, and that the state
press, boards of trade, tobacco asso¬
ciations, county commissioners, city
councils and all organizations interest¬
ed in the future of our state be urged
to take similar and speedy action, in¬
sisting that the secretary of the treas¬
ury adhere to his rulings, which are
just and righteous.”
This is considered to be the proper
step to take, and it is hoped that the
tobacco growers of every state in the
union will co-operate in the movement
which is designed for mutual protec¬
tion. It is believed that the success
of domestic cigar leaf hinges upon this
movement.
WILL ARBITRATE.
The Threatened Big Strike In England
I# Averted.
The crisis in the cotton industry
which Avas threatened through the ac¬
tion of the operatives in instructing
their delegates to inform their employ¬
ers that they would not consent to a
reduction in Avages, aud the announce¬
ment by the employers of their inten¬
tion to make a reduction of 5 per cent
iu the pay of their employees, has been
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averted.
The executive committee of the Op
erative Spinners Association hav*
adopted a resolution to accept the offer
made by the masters to submit the
matter to arbitration.
Stupid Color Blindness.
Professor Holmgren of the Univer¬
sity of Upsala. Avho has just died, es¬
tablished the first physiological insti¬
tute in Sweden. He was chiefly known
through his researches on color bllnd
ness and his plan of testing the color
sense by means of wools.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
New Industries Established in the South
During the Past Week.
Among the most important new in¬
dustries reported for the past week are
the following: A flouring mill at
Lebanon, Tenn.; gas works to cost
$60,000 at Newport News, Va.; the
Tisdale Mining and Manufacturing
Co., capital $33,500, at Butler, Ga.;
the Huguenot Mining and Milling Co.,
the Arctic Circle Mining Co., capital
$1,000,000, and the Grand Encamp¬
ment Mining and Milling Co., capital
$500,000, at Charleston, W. Va.; the
Morgan County Cannel Coal Co., cap¬
ital $25,000, at Frankfort, Kv.; the
Carter Coal and Iron Co., capital $100,
000, at Pulaski, Va., and the Jackson
Meshier Mining Co., capital $60,000,at
Borne, Ga. The Peerless Clay Co.,
capital $18,000, has been incorporated
at Butler, Ga.; the New York Petro¬
leum Co., capital $500,000, at Parkers¬
burg, W. Va.; and the Frost Cotton
Oil Co., capital $20,000, at Frost, Tex.
A knitting mill will be erected at Bur¬
lington, N. C.; a rope and twine mill at
Griffin, Ga.; a furniture factory at Lit¬
tle Bock, Ark.; a $10,000 lumber mill
at Hamilton, N. C.; a $20,000 saw mill
at Mineola, Ga., and a $45,000 lumber
mill at Vinton, La.
Other wood-working plants will be
established at Brandford and Holley,
Fla., Belaiv and Gordele, Ga., and El¬
kin, N. C. -—Tradesman (Chattanooga,
Tenn.)
CRANK SOUGHT >1’KIN LEY.
Spain’# Note in The Cabinet—Belief For
Whalers—Buck Heard From.
A Washington special says: A crank
appeared at the white house Tuesday
aud demanded to see President Mc¬
Kinley. He said the president had
not treated him right. He was so per¬
sistent that the police were ordered to
arrest him. At police healquarters
he said his name was Henry Rocket,
of 1241 Fourth street, Southwest.
There is no such name and address in
the city directory.
The full text of Spain’s reply to the
Woodford note w as read at the cabinet
meeting Tuesday. Its tone was very
pacific, instead of being at all warlike,
was regarded by the cabinet as very
satisfactory, and as calculated to allay
any fear of a hostile outbreak.
The cabinet also gave consideration
to the ice-bound Bering Sea Avhaling
fleet. Two plans have been decided
upon, one to send the Bear, from Seat¬
tle, which cannot be got ready for two
weeks, and another to send the Thrash¬
er, a whaling vessel at San Francisco.
United States Minister Buck at
Tokio has cabled the department of
state that the Japanese minister of
foreign affairs resigned Saturday and
that Baron Nishi has been appointed
his successor.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR MEET.
Session of tlie General Assembly of
Knight* Begin at Louisville.
The general assembly of the Knights
of Labor Avas called to order in Hiber¬
nian hall at Louisville, Ky., Tuesday
morning at 10 o’clock by Grand Master
J. R. Sovereign. Among the dele¬
gates were a number of the most promi¬
nent leaders in the movement in this
country and abroad.
After the appointment of commit¬
tees on credentials, press, etc., the
meeting adjourned until the afternoon.
There was nothing done at the after¬
noon session.
The master workman was not ready
to make his appointments, and as the
committee on credentials and the com¬
mittee on finance were not ready to
report, adjournment Avas taken until
Wednesday.
NEGRO ASYLUM BURNED.
Collossal Structure at Milledgeville, Ga.,
Laid In Ashes.
The negro building of the Georgia
state lunatic asylum in Milledgeville
Avas totally destroyed by fire Tuesday
afternoon.
The 700 patients in the building
w'ere saved by the most heroic work.
At first there was a stampede, but by
the cool and collected efforts of the
attendants they were successfully con¬
fined in the walled asylum yard.
The negro building Avas capable of
housing nearly a thousand. It covered
two acres of ground and was built by
act of the legislature in 1884 .
Wales Is Fifty-Six.
The birthday of the prince of Wales
was celebrated Tuesday with the usual
flag hoisting, bell ringing and artillery
salutes. He was born NoAember 9,
1841.
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HAMPTON MAKES HIS REPORT.
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ons “ n ** as e ‘* r j
( J° ueral Wad « ^amp on, who has ,
If . * 1 ^ eeu succeeded by General Long
street as commissioner of railroads,
^ submitted to the interior depart
hl ‘ s report for the past ^ealyear
IIe sa ? 3 that the reached the
. low water mark . of f railway -thirty-four construe
tion. During the year
coil ipanies, with 5,441 miles of roads,
passed into the hands of the courts,
and fifty-eight others previously placed
xn receivership, were sold at fore
closure.
A steady improvement in railroad
earnings during the first six months of
the current year is noted.
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CONFEDERATE VETERANS WILL!
MEET IN ATLANTA NEXT JULY.
ANNIVERSARY OF THREE BATTLES.
CommadeM of Georgia Camp# Hold Meet
ing In Atlanta and Make Arr ange
menta for the Occasion.
The confederate veterans have de¬
cided on the date for the great reunion
to be held in Atlanta next year.
A meeting of the commanders and
representatives of all the Georgia cam ps
of veterans was held in Atlanta Fridav
to take the first steps in arranging f ‘
the great event. It 0 r
was the recom¬
mendation of the meeting that the re¬
union be held at some time between
the 20th of July and the 20th of Au¬
gust. The two battles of Atlanta were
fought on July 20 and 22. The first
battle of Manassas on July 21. The re¬
union will continue during three days
and it can thus be made to celebrate
three important anniversaries.
The final decision in the matter is
left with the committee appointed at
the Nashville reunion, but it is custom¬
ary for the committee to choose such a
time as is most pleasing to the people
where the reunion is to be held.
The meeting was called several
weeks ago by General Clement A.
Evans, for the purpose of inaugurating
plans for the entertainment of the
veterans who will gather in the Gate
City in 1898. More than 100 repre¬
sentatives of the Georgia camps were
present. General Evans presided and
opened the meeting with a brief but
stirring address.
A resolution was passed calling upon
the representatives of the various
camps to exert every effort to bring
every Confederate veteran in Georgia
to the Atlanta reunion.
Another resolution thanked tbe city
council for its cordial invitation in be¬
half of the people of Atlanta, and
pledged the hearty co-operation of all
the state camps in making the reunion
a grand success.
Thus the first gun in anticipation of
the reunion has been fired. It is pro¬
posed to have a great crowd in Atlanta
in ’99, and a resolution was passed
calling upon the camps in all the coun¬
ties of the state to appoint a commit¬
tee for the purpose of collecting sub¬
sistence stores and money to assist
Atlanta in taking care of the veterans.
There are at present 90 camps of
Confederate veterans in Georgia and
others will be formed before the re¬
union occurs.
General Evans is highly pleased and at
the success of the first step taken,
looks forward to an unparalleled cele¬
bration.
TRAIN MAKES FATAL RUN.
Carried Death All Along the “Cotton
Belt” Route.
The passenger train on the St.Louis
and Southwestern road, known a» tbe
“Cotton Belt” route, was ill-fated and
death marked its run Friday. Near
Mount Pleasant, Texas, the train ran
over J. C. Beasley, an ex-section fore¬
man, who had fallen asleep on the
track. He was killed instantly.
About thirty miles further west, near
Greenville, three negro children vere
playing down among the timbers ot a
trestle bridge. They scampered np to
the track trying to escape. They bad
not been seen by the engineer an
were so close to the engine that- e 7
were run over before being discovered,
Two Avere killed between the runs.
The other died an hour later.
A few miles further west, near wy
lie, a passenger named and J. committed 0. UfJ 19 ’
entered a toilet room throug
suicide by shooting himself
the head. His home was at Cedar
Hill, near Dallas. His friends canno.
account for his killing himself.
trial of crew.
Competitor’# Prisoners -VTill Be Arrttiened
Before Naval Court.
A special of Friday from Havana
^ o{ tbe crew o{ the schooner
Competitor before the naval
tial, whose decision must ^
by the Madrid governmen , wn o
Monday morning. •n «nndoct
Senor Masa Domingez am
the defense.
HUNTER GETS A JOB.
the preside 11 *
Kentuckian Appointed by
Minister to Guatema - te ,j
^ ident Monday, appm ^
, of Kenta^
Go(]frev Hunter , nd Un¬
be enT oy extraordinary Guatemala » and
P J . tentift ry to
of the*** of
Huater is one He
^Ve/as T1T1 y.liran party in Kentucaj the
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a member of congress
aad has given u0 *™ iu
house contest for a - ni
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