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CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
m HONORS MEMORY OF CRISP
E-ief (Summary of Each Day’s Pro
ceetlius 8 In the House and
the Senate.
jr r Kevin's bill for a constitutional
invention came up as the special or
. r at jo o’clock in the house Friday
y after much debate was defeated
bra large majority. The committee’s
Ustitute providing for ten delegates
[each [ore congressional district aroused
opposition than Mr. Nevin’s bill
L helped to defeat it.
h[r, Hill’s bill to -protect dry coun¬
ties from liquor drummers passed with
Lndments protecting dry towns and
I* districts in wet counties. Speaker
lakics left the chair to support the
Hr. Moore, of Carroll, won a pre
uiiiary fight on his bill to tax surren
i values of life insurance policies,
«] the recommitment of the bill was
considered by more than seventy
indicating that the bill has.con
jderable strength. It was opposed
it Hr. Knowles, of Fulton, and Mr.
[ctree, of Houston.
i Lera! Friday was a dull day in the senate.
important bills were intro
Led, but the session the was transaction almost en- of
feelT consumed in
[ratine [Senator matters. Carter’s denial of inter
an
Lv reflecting on Hon. Tom Watson
|hich Scon was recently printed in the
Telegraph, was the only inter
ping incident of the session.
Wednesday's Routine.
I The bouse had a day of discussion
■ednesday. The child labor bill died
Ld Ij’s on a motion to reconsider Tues
action, but it expired under a
of 29 to 100.
MThe bill to submit auditor’s reports
equity cases to the jury triumphed
er an adverse report by a vote of 70
39, Mr. Watkins’ omnibus pension
was killed by a decisive vote of 51
66.
■The great debate of the day was on
payment of the convention bonds
have been repudiated a number
times by previous legislatures. The
ight of authority and argument was
the side of the bonds, but the house
down a proposition to pay them.
In tbe senate Wednesday a number
minor appointments were confirmed
two important bills were passed.
were by Senator Turner. One
Mbits tbe wearing of buttons or
Iges of secret societies for fraudu
purposes, and the other seeks to
len d tbe constitution of the state so
to enlarge the power of exemption
taxation of all places of religious
( ship and property of educational
fruitions.
The governor’s message, submitting
* pol Majority book minority reports of the
commission, was received
P read. The senate adjourned at
p o’clock.
I Thursday’s Proceedings.
Pe bouse honored the memory of
F es Frederic Crisp Thursday by
$500 to pay for a life-size oil
to be placed in the capitol.
Resolution spoke significantly of
18 services in defeating the infa
force bill.”
message was received from the
'por pf tbe informing the general assem
of destruction of the negro
. tbe lunatic asylum, and ask
f pt the asylum committee of the
Mure meet the trustees at a called
be held at Milledgeville.
r e 1 ^ ur w t hich to revive voted tbe omnibus down by pen- the
L * was
r IJ1 Wednesday, to failed signally, of
u make penal the hiring
<meanor convicts to private par¬
ked • bblvin’sbill a like fate. making eli
women
a s assistant physicians at the
asylum passed by a good ma
- ill for the election of judges
' ueitorg by the people was fav
|* ^Ported, .^ and one for the re
b padversely. e registration act was re
r a *= the new bills introduced
Treasures t° give to the repeal railroad the registra- commis
" bo00 “Ority to make schedules, to
to the indigent pension
Ration, -’i' where to discretion require juries is given to fix by
. ; J the common school term at
jh phs, judicial to establish the “wire
^ q-°m 48 circuit, to reduce jury
i ^o 38, and to withdraw
jJ jpversity. cr fpt and Morrill funds from
L ,q na te held a verv important
F. Thursday. Senator Turner’s
aur ^earing sday bill, which was
t was reconsidered and
typ[ - a to t w secure as precipitated the reconsidera- by Mr.
,
P hill for the benefit of church
Rional property which also
7 s enate Wednesday.
~ ni bill, establishing a board
of dental examiners, was passed ana
otiier business of less important nat
ure was transacted.
Senator Hopkins’ bill providing for
be election of judges and solicitors by
the people was made the special order
for next Fridav.
Saturday in the House.
When the house convened Saturday
morning there were scarcely half the
members present. The first business
was that of reading bills for the sec¬
ond time, as there was no quorum
present. A large number of bills came
up for a second reading. The next
■work was receiving reports of commit¬
tees.
Only one 'eport was deserving of
notice. That was the minority report
from the committee of county and
county matters. This report was sign¬
ed by four of the committee, and was
in favor of the court house and county
seat of DeKalb being retained in De¬
catur.
Thirty thousand unmarked graves
of confederate soldiers may be marked
and provided with tombstones as a re¬
sult of a resolution adopted by the
house. The resolution was by Mr.
Calvin, of Richmond, and provided for
the appointment of a commission of
seven members to confer with legisla¬
tures of other southern states in re¬
gard to a plan to mark the graves of
soldiers who lie buried in unmarked
graves in the far north.
Two bills were introduced which if
passed will place very stringent re¬
strictions around the street railways.
Behind the introuction of at least one
of the bills may be a scheme to secure
transfers in Atlanta. Mayor Collier,
the advocate of the transfers, was on
the floor of the house for quite a while
during the morning, and it was whis¬
pered around the house that the mayor
was working for his cherished idea of
street car transfers.
Mr. Fogarty, of Richmond, intro¬
duced a very important bill which
exactly fits the present commercial
conditions in this country. The meas¬
ure is intended to break the too com¬
mon practice of firms breaking full
handed. So many firms and business
houses have recently gone to the wall
after making mortgages to members of
the families of the members of the
firms, that Mr. Fogarty thought some
law was necessary to stop this.
Monday’s Proceedings.
The fight on the state university be¬
gan in the house Monday morning
when Speaker Jenkins introduced a
resolution providing that the general
assembly in joint session bear the
trustees of the university on the criti¬
cisms which have been made of the
management of that institution.
This wasobjected toby Mr. Blalock
and ex-Governor Boynton, of the com¬
mittee, whose report recommends the
withdrawal of the agricultural funds
from the university.
Speaker Jenkins and Mr. Slaton of
Fulton, replied with spirit, saying it
w r as a sorry day when Georgian’s re¬
fused a hearing to public servants.
Mr. Blalock declared his willingness
to give the trustees a hearing, but in¬
sisted that it be done in committee of
the whole, where the trustees could
be questioned by members of the
house. His substitute to that effect
was accepted by Speaker Jenkins, and
the debate ceased.
The resolution by the speaker grew’
out of a special message from the gov¬
ernor, including a letter from Hon. N.
J. Hammond, president of the board
of trustees, asking a hearing. The
governor urged the general assembly
to hear the trustees at a time when a
full attendance could be had.
The remainder of the session was
devoted to the consideration of new
bills and other minor matters.
Monday morning’s session of the
senate was opened by Senator Battle,
of the Twenty-fourth, asking a recon
sideration of the senate’s action Fri¬
day on the house bill by Mr. Calvin
regulating the benefits of debentures
or redemption companies. He stated
as his reason for a reconsideration
that the senate journal does not dis¬
close what amendments were made to
the bill or whether they were adopted.
On motion of Senator Stewart the
bill was recommitted to the committee
on banks.
A message from the governor was
read stating that the trustees of the
university had written him a letter re¬
questing an opportunity to explain to
the legislature their management of
the university. referred to the
The message was
committee on rules.
EVANS TO FOUND SCHOOLS.
Kicli American In Bari* Will Be a Phil¬
anthropist.
Announcement is made at New York
that Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the Arner
«rious“yertimSe” 8 *»t , from $3o!<Wo”
000 to 335,000.000, will spend a part
of that bu^e fortune in founding and
maintaining educational institutions in
different cities of this country.
Dr Evans left for Pans on the
JrreD French liner La Tonraine, which sail
~
ed for Havre Saturday.
if wish .. to
Advertise with ns yon
keeD the people posted as to the
p nnalitv hn.Utj
.mount, A the ,, character, .___. _ tbe
and prices of goods yon have for sale.
An ad will bring ’em every time.
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HE WAS TO HATE BEEN EXECUTED
LAST FRIDAY.
SAVED AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
Attorneys Contended That Superior Court
Acted Too Hastily In Sentencing
The Condemned Man.
A special from San Francisco says:
W illiam Henry Theodore Durrant was
not hanged at San Quentin Friday af¬
ter all, the supreme court of California
having granted him another respite at
the eleventh hour.
Up to 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon,
when the news flashed over the wires
from Sacramento that the court, now
in session there, had granted a writ of
probable cause and instructed Warden
Hale not to carry out the execution of
Durrant until further orders, there
was apparautly no further hope for the
condemned murderer of Blanche La
mont aud Minnie Williams, as his at¬
torneys had made a futile effort to se¬
cure another writ of habeas corpus in
the United States court, and had not
even been granted permission to ap¬
peal from that decision to the supreme
court of the United States.
Meanwhile, however, Attorney Du
prey hastened to Sacramento and ap¬
plied to the state supreme court for a
writ of probable cause, for the pur¬
pose of staying the jiroceedings against
his client upon the grounds that no
official knowledge of the action of the
supreme court of the United States in
the matter of Durrant’s appealing from
the decision of the federal court had
yet been received; that the superior
court had acted too hastily in sen¬
tencing Durrant to be hanged Friday,
as the law required that he be given at
least sixty days’ grace; and thirdly,
that the pendency of an appeal in the
supreme court affecting the condemn¬
ed man was of itself sufficient cause
for a of execution.
The matter was partially argued in
chambers and later argued before the
full court and taken under advise¬
ment. Shortly afterwards the court
announced its decision, granting the
writ apptied for, in which all the jus¬
tices concurred.
When information of the reprieve
was given to the condemned man,
Durrant received it without auy great
display of emotion but fell on his
knees and prayed silently for several
minutes.
When Mrs. Durrant, the mother of
the prisoner, reached the prison the
news was told to her. She said that
she had put her faith in God and felt
that He would not desert her. The
death veil was removed and Durrant
was carried down to the office, and it
will not again be placed over the
prisoner unless required by future de¬
velopments in the case.
CREDITORS FILE BILL
Against Southern Home Building and
Loan Association at Atlanta.
A bill was filed at Atlanta by attor¬
neys representing complainant credi¬
tors against the Southern Home Build¬
ing and Loan association.
Almost immediately there was a re¬
sponse from officers of the association
who claim that the association is in
good standing and that there will be
no trouble in their making a good
showing. allegations
They say that the are
based upon certain propositions that
are entirely untenable, and that no
court will support the pleas made by
the petitioners, when the proper show¬
ing of the standing of the company is
made through their attorneys.
SAVANNAH FREIGHT BUREAU
Will Continute to Fight Alleged Kail way
Discrimination.
At the annual meeting of subscribers
of the Savannah, Ga., freight bureau
held Thursday, it was decided to con
tinue the bureau another year.
Commissioner D. G. Purse read the
annual report. He poured such hot
shot int ° th ^
discrimination against Sa ■
a resolution was passed preie ng the
report from bemg g.ven to the new
pfl P e ”
Colonel nol W w w W. Gordon rTOrdon wa was r re e-elect- e ect
ed president
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SOVEREIGN IS AMBITIOUS.
A Report Tliat Retired Master Workman
Wants To Be President.
The Louisville Courier-Journal in
Jhe crpD^on^lo^refgu^Tanhing Am
bit ion,” saws: last. J.
“The great secret is out at
B. Soveregn, the retiring general mas
ter workman of the Knights of Labor,
resigned his position in order that he
migh t push his candidacy for president
United it States in 190U.
“While is said that Mr. Sovereign
aaJ thg Hon w j B ryan are on the
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f rien <Jiiest terms, the supporters
«. Mr. a n „ r6 ; ffn fi»v he will make every
m.
B’-van seeks to socuri.”
INDIANS LYNCHED.
They Were Charged With Murder of the
Spicer Family.
A special from Bismarck, N. D. says:
£ Ie * aude f Cou J ot ’ I nd i a “, hslf b f eed ’
Paul Holytraek and J Philip T Ireland,
full blooded Indians, the first of whom
was sentenced to death for the mur
der of six members of the Spicer fain
the latter two self-confessed accesso¬
ries in the murder, were taken from
the county jail in Emmons county Sat
day night and lynched.
The lynching had been apparently
coolly planned and was carried out
without a break in the program.
Williamsport, where the hanging
took place, is about forty miles from
Bismarck and off the railroad. The
news of the hanging was received Sun¬
day afternoon when a mounted mes¬
senger arrived and announced that the
three men had been lynched.
The sheriff of the county, Peter
Shier, was in Bismarck at the time the
hanging occurred. The men had been
in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Tom
Kelly, and they were taken from his
control by a mob and hanged to a beef
windlass several hundred yards from
the jail, where their bodies were left
swinging to the breezes during the
day.
There were about forty men con¬
cerned in the lynching. They rode
into Williamport on horseback late at
night and tethered their horses a short
distance from the city, that they
might secure them again after the
deed was done. The jail in which the
prisoners were confined is a substan¬
tial stone structure.
RECEIVER NOT NEEDED.
Southern Home II. & L. Mnkea Satl»
factory Showing.
The appliention for receiver made
by. Alabama stockholders in the South¬
ern Home Building and Loan associa¬
tion of Atlanta was denied Saturday
by Judge Pardee in the court of ap¬
peals. order granted No¬
The restraining
vember 10th, was, at the same time,
dissolved.
The show iug made by the associa¬
tion’s attorneys convinced the court
there was not sufficient ground for a
receivership. There was no proof that
the company is insolvent. On the
other hand, the company presented
affidavits showing they were not only
perfectly solvent, but had a large Hum
in the treasury. The Southern Homo
Building and Loan Association count
the decision a great victory.
The plaintiff’s attorneys failed sig¬
nally to prove the company was insol¬
vent. Their main charge was mis¬
management. This, Judge Pardee
ruled, was no grounds for receivership,
but for injunction. If the prosecu¬
tion had brought forth sufficient evi¬
dence show ing that the association is
insolvent, the result might have been
different. Another ground for the
ruling wms that there wore no judg¬
ments involved in this case against the
company.
MUST HAUL LIQUOR.
Important Ducislon Rendered In "Origi¬
nal Package” Case at Atlanta.
The Southern Railway Company
will be compelled to haul the goods of
Blutheual & Bickart, the Atlanta whis¬
ky dealers, into South Carolina.
Judges Pardee and Newman, of the
United States court at Atlanta, Ga.,
handed down a decision in this fa¬
mous dispensary case Saturday morn¬
ing enjoining the Southern from re¬
fusing to haul such goods in future.
The decision is an important one in
that the original package law is in¬
volved. The judges decided that liq¬
uors and wines in bottles, packed in
boxes and shipped in carload lots were,
under the laws of South Carolina,clear¬
ly admissible, aud should be handled
by any railroad.
The case has attracted considerable
attention throughout the south, and
the decision will largely affect the sale
of Atlanta goods in South Carolina in
the future.
HAYTI BORROWS LARGE SUM.
°« Conxion of * ™ Loan at **?£*?££ .f »4.ooo.ooo
The United States minister to Hayti
Hayti J an government has included a
, oa for $4,000,000, through Lazard
j, ^ York at 9 per cent to
the paper
currency ^ to be destroyed, the fractional
gUver CO pp e r coin to be recoined
. q thfi mint8 o{ the United States.
NEW YORK’S HORSE SHOW.
A Great Society Event at the Metropolis
Opens.
A New York dispatch says: Tho
entertainment on the first night of the
thirteenth annual exhibition of the
>ew York horse show opened with a
parade of stallions, which was wit
nessed by very few, indeed, of the so
ciety folks hereabouts.
While the animals were being led to
their quarters the boxes began to fill
with late comers and there were about
300 people in the first tier of boxes
when the saddle horses began their
Six performances. There were twenty
tUroogl.orcd. in thi. d.«.ud
they looked extremely pretty.
MASTER WORKMAN WAS WILLING,
HOWEVER, TO BE RETIRED.
NEW YORK MAN HIS SUCCESSOR.
Sensation Sprung In th» General Assembly
of Knights of Labor In Session at
Louisville, Ky.
James R. Sovereign, who has been
general master workman of the
Knights of Labor for the past four
years or more and who, before and
during that time, has been one of the
ablest champions of the order and its
doctrines, was relieved of his office
Friday afternoon by the general
assembly, in session in Louisville, Ky.
Under ordinary conditions Mr. Sov¬
ereign’s term of office would not ex¬
pire until the next meeting. This,
however, it is said, makes no differ¬
ence with the order whose general
officers during a meeting are always
in the hands of the assembly aud can
be chosed and deposed at the will of
the majority. Along with Mr. Sover¬
eign there were three other officers re¬
tired because of this special election,
viz: T. B. McGuire, general worthy
foreman, of Amsterdam, N, Y.; Daniel
Brown, of Montana, and H. B. Mar¬
tin, of Minnesota, members of the ex¬
Henry A. Hicks, of New York dis¬
trict 253, New York city, was chosen
to fill Mr. Sovereign’s place, and I.
D. Chamberlain, of Pneblo, Col., was
selected as general worthy foreman.
Senators Field Fitzpatrick, of Mon¬
treal, and Henry Bostock, of Assem¬
bly 300, glassworkera, were chosen as
the two members of the executive
board, the third member being Andrew
D. Best.
This very decided change in the
corps of general officers of the Knights
of Labor will cause considerable aston¬
ishment in labor circles throughout
the country. Save to those who were
on the “inside,” so to speak, for the
past three months there was absolutely
nothing of this known. It is said,
though the eliange was sudden and
totally unlooked for, was done with
the amicable consent of all. In some
quarters it iB hinted that it had been
prearranged. learned good authority that
It is on
it was with Mr. Sovereign’s hearty
approval that he steps down and out.
It is, likewise, with the appreciation,
and in fact, love of his brethren of the
order that this is done. The same
holds good with the other officers who
were relieved. Mr. Sovereign stated
that he wished retirement. He want¬
ed rest from the labor which the office
entailed upon him.
Henry A. Hicks, the general master
workman-elect, was seen after the
meeting. He said that he did not in¬
tend to outline the future policy of the
order under his administration for
several days yet. Ho expressed
the highest admiration for hia
predecessor, saying that he thought
him one of the greatest exponents of
the age of the prime idea represented
by the Knights of Labor,
I. D. Chamberlain, the worthy fore¬
man-elect, is a newspaper man.
All the business transacted at Fri¬
day’s meeting went through in the
most amicable manner possible.
The afternoon session was princi¬
pally taken up with the delivery of
Mr. Sovereign’s annual address.
Mr. Sovereign prefaced his speech
with the statement that the opening of
this regular session of the general as¬
sembly presents to the world the “same
undismayed membership through
whose fortitude and courage the spirit
of progress combats greed and avarice
and defies the cant and hypocrisy of
the age.”
He then dwelt briefly on the triumph
of the principles of the order, saying
that it had survived the crimes of its
traitors, and prospered in spite of the
contumely of its enemies. The order,
he said, was today stronger in mem¬
bership, stronger in character aud
stronger in the hearts of the people
than it was a year ago. He recom¬
mended that this session confine ita
deliberations largely to the work of
organization, and to this end plans
should the'eervice be put in operation which will
in.ure of the Urge,t po«i
ble number of experienced and efficient
organizers in isolated and unorganized
fields.
SETH LOW HOLDS ON.
Columbia College Will Still Detain Him
ft* 1 to I'renldent.
A New York special says: When Seth
Low decided to become the candidate
of the citizens’ union for mayor of
New York he sent bis resignation as
president of Columbia college to the
board of trustees.
The latter, at their last, meeting, de
cried to lay the matter of President
Low ^ resignation over until the next
monthly meeting, which was held
Monday. of which Rev. Dr.
The committee,
Morgan Dix was chairman, decided
not to accept the resignation and re
qneated -Mr. Low to withdraw it. To
this President Low consented.