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VOL. XXII. NO. 93.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE OPENS IMPORTANT SESSION
B. A. Jenkins Declares He Will Nominate M'Adoo
PROHIBITION LOOMS
15 BIG QUESTION IS
SFLEGITES ARRIVE
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Cummings Thinks Its a
"Good Bet" That Fight
Will Go to Floor of Demo
cratic Convention
No “Wet” Can Get
Nomination, Asserts
William J. Bryan
GREAT FALLS, Mont., June
23.—Speaking before several hun
dred people here last night, Wil
liam J. Bryan declared that no
candidate who stood against the
policy cf prohibition should be
nominated by the Democrats at
San Francsico.
I
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 23.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —In a tele
gram sent from Pueblo, Col., from
the train bearing Missouri delegates
to the Democratic national conven
tion, Burris A. Jenkins. Kansas City
clergyman and publisher, announced
that he had definitely decided to
place the name of William G. Mc-
Adoo before the Democratic' national
convention for the presidential nomi
nation.
PROHIBITION QUESTION
LOOMS LARGE AT FRISCO
SAN FRANCISO, June 23.—Rum
blings of Democratic disvord over
the prohibition issue became hourly
more ominous today as delegates and
party chiefs arrived in increasing
numbers for the national convention.
Hope that the gathering storm
might spend ttself behind the closed
doors of the platform committee vir
tually was abandoned by the leaders
and they prepared to face an out
break of tempestuous debate on the
floor of the convention itself.
Such a development, it was agreed
everywhere, would hold many dra
matic possibilities, including a further
complication of the uncertain out
look as to the presidential nomina
tion.
Already the overshadowing issue in
pre-convention conferences, the ques
tion of a platform declaration against
the present “bone dry” law almost
j toSk the whole stage for itself to’day
as the gathering delegates heard of
Postmaster General Burleson’s an
nouncement for a modification of the
Volstead act. By many accustomed
to regard the postmaster general as
a political spokesman for the White
House, the development was accepted
as a warning of which way the wind
of administration influence would
blow.
|. Others among the party leaders
| refused to"take that view, but no one
I here assumed to know with certain
|ty how far the sentiments of Presi
|dent Wilson might be in accord with
I those of Mr. Burleson.
Floor Fight Forecast
| The latter, who announced his
j stand yesterday at San Antonio, Tex.,
Iwill not San Francisco until
I late in the week.
.1 What everyone here does know,
Ihowever, is that both sides of the
■ controversy are cementing their lines
land bringing their heaviest artillery
■ for a finish fight. After man con-
Iferences in an effort to lay a basis
■for harmony, Homer S. Cummings,
Ithe national chairman, said today it
(seemed a “fair bet” that the question
■would be taken to the convention floor
(for a settlement, regardless of what
■decision was made in the platform
(committee.
I Closely intertwined with the pro-
Ihibition question is the problem of
■selecting a nominee in accord with
Ithe platform as finally agreed on, and
■among many of the practical poll
fticians there is a feeling that the two
[decisions aiufft be settled virtually at
lone stroke. So the pleas of candi-
Idates* managers are falling on deaf
■ears for the present while the leaders
■get their bearings on the more im-
Eriediate question of a bone-dry or a
■beer platform.
9 The League of Nations disagree-
Jnent, along with several other dis
muted platform Issues, has followed
■he question of candidates into tem
porary eclipse. Among most of the
Headers it is agreed that whatever
■ rouble develops over the treaty will
Ke only a drop in the bucket com-
Kared to the prohibition fight.
? Complicating Feature
J Leaders of the bone-dry forces,
■-.ere confident today that they would
■ ommand a good majority in the plat-
■ orm committee, where each state
Bias only one member, and could keep
■rut of the committee report any
declaration for a change in the pres-
Knt law.
I With this view, most of the op
losing managers privately agreed,
■ _,- they declared that when an ap
■eal was taken to the convention it-
Kelf. the vote would tell a much dif
ferent story. The .large states, it
■vas pointed out, wmle having only
Kne vote each in the committee, will
save a much greater voice in the
■vhole body of delegates who make
Kn the final court of appeals. And
of the largest delegations are
KoWited on for support by the ad
Kccates of a beer plank.
■ A complicating feature of a con
tention floor fight would be the unit
Kule, under which many state dele
Katea are instructed to vote as a
Body. It was suggested today, how-
Kver, that fhere might be a general
Kgreement to let each delegate be
Kounted according to his convictions
■then the prohibition issue came to
■ts final showdown. On that basis
Koth sides were predicting victory
Knd many of those in a position to
Know were declaring the outcome
K-ould be close.
K Some of the oldest leaders declared,
Kn fact, that the division might be
Klose enough to make argument and
Kratory on the convention floor the
Keciding factor. In any case, such
Kn open fight would be likely, it is
Kredicted, to furnish many thrilling
Ku ms.
BRYAN DISCUSSES
PARTYLEADERS IN
“THE COMMONER”
LINCOLN, Neb., June 23—Dis
cussing possible Democratic candi
dates for the presidency, William J.
Bryan,/ in an article in his newspa
per, the Commoner, declares that
William G. McAdoo is handicapped
as a candidate “by his cldSe rela
tionship with the president,” while
President WiliSon, himself, he says,
“need not be considered.”
Asserting that Mr. McAdoo also is
handicapped by “his silence on the
peace treaty,” Mr. Bryan declares
Mr. McAdoo is unable to call to his
support “those to whom the presi
dent’s candidacy appealed with spe
cial force.” and that he would “fur
nish an easy mark for all of the
president’s enemies.” The article
says, however, that Mr. McAdoo has
considerable strength among wage
earners.
Referring to President Wilson. Mr.
Bryan says that “while vague hints
and suggestions have been thrown
out occasionally, no one claiming to
speak for the president or near
enough to him to be assumed to ex
press his wishes, has announced his
candidacy.”
Herbert Hoover is eliminated from
the list of candidates whom Mr.
Bryan ‘ considers “available,” while
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, and Sec
retary Meredith are described as be
ing “among the few available men
thus far mentioned.” To be available
this year, Mr. Bryan asserts, a can
didate must be known to be for
woman suffrage, for prohibition and
“against Wall street.”
As to Attorney General Palmer.
Mr. Bryan says he entered the, cam
paign in a position to “deal sternly
with the profiteer and an expectant
public stood ready 'to applaud, but
the profiteer seems to have things
all his own way and the attorney
general now is suffering from the re
action.”
He adds that the attorney general
is “unfortunate, too, in having to
espouse the ratification of the treaty
without reservations.”
Former Speaker Champ Clark is
mentioned as having his own state
behind him, while opposition to Gov
ernor Edwards, of New Jersey, and
Governor Cox. of Oh to. is reiterated.
“Governor Cox’s friends,” the ar
ticle declares, “will urge him as a
compromise between the ’wets’ of
the Edwards type and the bone drys.”
Vice President Marshall is assured
of “making a feeble bid for the wet
vote.”
z “Judge Gerard’s candidacy has
South Dakota’s support and he has
many personal friends among other
delegates,” Mr. Bryan savs.
“Mysterious Woman
In Black” Ready for
Elwell Case Questions
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 23.
Miss Elly Hope Anderson, “myste
rious woman in black from Minnea
polis,” prepared today to return to
New York City to add her mite of
information concerning Joseph Bowne
Elwell, murdered whist expert and
turf man.
Miss Anderson was with Victor
Von Schlegell While Elwell, Von
Schlegell’s divorced wife and a party
dined at a nearby table the night of
the murder. She has told of the ap
parently pleasantry when Elwell and
Von Schlegell met on the dance hall
floor.
She and Von Schlegell arived at her
home shortly before 10 o’clock the
eve of the murder, _Miss Anderson
said. Next morfiing she breakfasted
with him at his (ipartment. Miss An
derson said she started for the train
to Minneapolis immediately after
breakfast. “It was on the train that
I first learned of Mr. Elwell’s death,”
she said today. “A neWsboy came
crying ‘All about the Elwell mur
der.’
“I do not see' why they called me
the mystery woman,” she protested
today. “I was here all the time
ready to tell what I knew if anyone
came and asked me.”
Engagement Notice
Printed, Dublin School
;Girl Kills Herself
DUBLIN, Ga., June 23.—Miss Jo
sie Eloise Parker, fifteen-year-old
High school student and daughter of
Mrs. L. H. Parker, of this city, com
mitted suicide Tuesday afternoon by
swallowing a quantity of strychnine.
The girl, it is stated, has been de
spondent ever since the appearance
of the announcement„of her ap
proaching marriage to a young man
of this city, 'n one of the Atlanta
papers last Sunday, origin of which
was denied at both the home of the
young man and the mother of the
girl, both of whom declare that they
were the objects of a cruel hoax.
The yong man left Monday for
Atlanta to investigate the origin of
the announcement.
The announcement referred to did
not appear in The Atlanta Journal.
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M'IDOO FORCES IN
SAN FRANCISCO ARE
LITERAmP IN im
Strength Already Disinte
grating as Result of His
Statement That He Does
Not Want Name Used
BY DAVID lAWBENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.'
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.—Gov
ernor Cox, of Ohio, has profited most
by the efforts of William Gibbs Mc-
Adoo to eliminate himself from the
list of avowed candidates for the
Democratic presidential nomination.
That isn’t saying Cox wil be nomi
nated, for the stiuation has hardly
crystalized an dthe real purpose of
Messrs. Wilson and McAdoo have
not yet carried conviction with the
delegates.
They can’t believe that' Mr. Wil
son wants a third term and they
can’t believe that McAdoo doesn’t
want the nomination. Yet the truth
is so simple and so obvious that
delegates are reluctant to credit it.
are some facts upon which the
reader can base his own conclu
sions:
1. President Wilson talked for an
hour and a half with Homer Cum
mings, Democratic national chairman,
at the. White House three weeks ago
never showed the slightest in
terest in his own political future, nor
did he explain any preference as be
tween candidates.
McAdoo Seeking Health
2. Mr. Cummings-is in constant
touch by wire with the White House
and is realjy the president’s main
channel of communication with this
'convention and if a stampede or
movement for Wilson were to be
started Cummings would know of It.
And all the newspaper talk of a third
term is incomprehensible to Mr.
Cummings.
3. Mr. McAdoo never intended to
be an. active candidate for the nomi
nation but his friends always under
stood that the would accept if draft
ed by, the convention. All • plans
were made for that kind of an ap
proach to the nomination.
4. Mr. McAdoo has been resting
In southern California and spending
as much time as possible out of doors
in an effort to regain his health. He
is is said to have tuberculosis of the
throat.
5. Mr. McAdoo went east a week
ago and when the writer saw him in
Chicago he looked well, but said he
was bound for a quiet summer on
Long Island. He took a deep inter
est in the Republican national con
vention and gave the Impression that
he would welcome a chance to get
into the campaign and fight.
( Two Conclusions
6. Less than a week later Mr. Mc-
Adoo announced his irrevocable de
cision not to allow his name to be
presented to the Democratic national
convention.
That ends the catalogue of facts
and circumstances, but something
happened when McAdoo went east
ward. The writer knows that Mr. Mc-
Adoo didn’t go to Washington and
didn’t consult the White House be
fore he issued his statement. Only
two conclusions would seem plausi
ble, therefore:
Either Mr. McAdoo consulted his
physician, who' absolutely forbade
his entering a campaign, or else Mr.
McAdoo found a personal note sent
to him directly or indirectly by
President Woodrow Wilson telling
him the most obvious thing in the
world, namely, that in view of their
relationship, it would be embarrass
ing to have Mr. McAdoo permit his
name or his candidacy to be pre
sented to the Democratic national
convention.
On the same day Mr. Wilson reit
erates in the public prints what he
told Mr. Cummings three weeks be
fore—that he would not dictate to
the Democratic party on the choice
of a nominee.
McAdoo Forces Up in Air
Woodrow Wilson is a shrewder
politician than most people credit
him with being. He knows that the
Republicans would say he obtained
the nomiantion for his son-in-law or
that the latter won the nomination
through the influence of the Wilson
administration, and he realized that
the only thing to do was to keep
hands off. Then, if the Democrats
x saw fit to nominate McAdoo, it would
be the free and untrammeled choice
of the convention.
So thorough has the hands-off poli
cy been carried out, that when some
leaders y here appealed by telegraph
today to Daniel C. Roper, former
commissioner of internal revenue and
the recognized McAdoo manager, to
come to San Francisco to act as ad
viser to the party irrespective of the
McAdoo situation, a telegram came
back promptly from Mr. Roper say
ing thjat he feared his coming to
San Francisco might be construed
as a reflection upon the sincerity of
Mr. McAdoo’s statement de
clining to be a candidate. So the Mc-
Adoo forces here are literally up in
the air. Many delegates and leaders
insist that they are going through
('with the plan to draft McAdoo for
the nomination. They will find it dif
ficult to do so. as already the Mc-
Adoo strength is disintegrating be
cause of his public statement and
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1920.
American Doughboy Came
Back Home With German
,Scalp—-On His Own Head
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SEARGEANT JOHN E. SMITH and the German scalp which
was grafted to his head by German doctors, afte\he had been scalped
by a shell and taken prisoner.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ta. —If any
Yank got a German scalp in the
late argument it was Sergeant John
E. Smith, who lives here.
Smith not only got the scalp, but
he’s wearing it!
And it’s growing hair!
Smith was on guard in the first
line trenches. Along came a grenade
and blew off his hair and the skin
it grew in. Smith was . captured by
the enemy, and lived eight months
in a German prison camp. German
ALLOT $600,000 TO '
GEORGIA HARBORS
AND WATERWAYS
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.)
BY THEODORE TII.DEB
WASHINGTON, June 23.—-The
army engineers have decided upon
the allocation of the lump sum ap
propriations authorized under the
rivers and harbors bill and the fol
lowing allotments will be made to
harbors and rivers in the Georgia ter
ritory for the next fiscal year:
Savannah harbor, $500,000; Bruns
wick harbor, $70,000; waterway be
tween Baufort, S. C., and St. Johns,
Fla., $56,000; Altaifiaha river Georgia,
$7,000; Oconee river, Georgia, $12,-
000; Ocmulgee river, Georgia, $7,000;
Chattahoochee river, Georgia and Ala
bama, $25,000; Alabama river, Ala
bama, SIB,OOO.
St. Johns river, Florida, Jackson
ville to the ocean, $315,000; Tampa
Hillsboro bays, Florida, $260,000.
Because of the comparatively
small lump sum appropriation carried
in the pending rivers and harbors
bill, only about $12,000,000, some of
the largest projects in the country
necessarily receive Inadequate allot
ments. In distributing the fund, the
army engineers allowed some of the
larger projects sums as follows:
Southwest poss, Mississippi river,
$8,000; Houstan ship channel, $300,-
000; Mobile harbor, $200,080; Missis
sippi river, $900,000; Missouri river,
$2.00,000; Oakland harbor, California,
$200,000; Tennessee river, below Riv
erton, $75,000; Galveston to Texas
City channel, $50,000. «
Officers of Gimbel
Brothers Indicted by
Federal Grand Jury
NEW YORK, June 23. lndic
tments were returned by a federal
grand jury here today against Gimbel
Brothers, Frederick A. Gimbal,
Joseph J. Dowell and Charles D.
Slawter. members of the firm, charg
ing profiteering in men’s clothing
sold by the Gimbel Brothers depart
ment store here. There were 207
counts in the indictments.
Candidate Promises
He Will Even Marry
TOPEKA, Kan., June 23.—John B.
Snow, bachelor farm laborer, who
has filed his declaration as a candi
date against Henry J. Allen for the
Republican nomination for governor
has announced that if he is elected
his first official act will be to get
married. He will appeal to the farm
er voters and to the women in hi
campaign.
Hartwell Child Is
Drowned in Well
HARTWELL, Ga.. June 23.—The
two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Ayers, of Reed Creek, fell into a
well Tuesday afternoon and was
drowned. The child was out in the
yard playing and was missed. When
search was made the little one was
found in the well.
doctors took the scalp from a d.ead
German soldier and grafted it to
Smith’s denuded dome. The scalp
they picked was slightly bald, but
the hair was the same color as
Smith’s.
“I can scratch it and everything,”
says Smith. “She’s all my hair
now.” .
Except for a thin red line, it can’t
be. told where Smith’s head stops
and the German’s begins. American
doctors say it was a good 'job.
ADMINISTRATION
IS IN CHARGE AT
FRISCO - SO FAR
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23. —This
is an administration convention —so
far.
Not only have most of the early ar
rivals been ardent administration
supporters but all the preconvention
machinery and the greater part of
the preconvention activities have
been directed by them.
Such anti-administration rumblings
that -have disturbed the serenity of
the Wilfion camp at the Palace hotel
have come from the outside. And
they have had little more effect than
yesterday’s earthquake at Los An
geles—even including the anti-Wilson
attack made by William F. Mc-
Combs, Wilson’s former campaign
manafter at Chicago.
Most of the leaders on the ground
agree, or at least pretend to agree,
entirely with Homgr Cummings’ char
acterization of the McComb utterance
as a “negligible factor.” In other
words, the president is generally re
garded by the advance representa
tives of the party now in San Fran
cisco as their leader and Mr. Cum
mings as his mouthpiece. .
But there are others on the way—
considerable others—including Wil
liam Jennings Bryan. /
Cow Wrecks Train;
Fireman Is Killed,
Engineer Scalded
GREENVILLE? Ala., June 23.
Sam Malone, negro fireman, was kill
ed and Comer Wilson, engineer on
Louisville and Nashville southbound
passenger train, No. 5, was badly
scalded at 9 o’clock this morning, at
Chapman, Ala., when the train was
wrecked as a result of striking a
cow.
The homes of Malone and Wilson
are in Montgomery. The train struck
a cow and threw her aginst a switch,
causing the switch tracks ;to fly
open. The egine, baggage and mail
cars were derailed. No passengers
were hurt.
/ CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at < 916
Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: “1 had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have parsed
and the attacks have not returned. I
wish every one who suffers from this
_ terrible disease would write R. P. N.
Lepso, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee
Wis., and ask for a bottle of the
same kind of medicine which he gave
me. He has generously promised to
send it prepaid, free to any one who
v. rites him.”—(Advt.)
ECONOMIC EXPERTS.
TO DRAFT PLffl FOR
GERMANJIEPARATION
Allies Will Hold Conference
in Brussels to Work Out
Scheme for Teutonic
Loan
PARIS, June 23.—The latest allies’
conference had passed into history
today having taken any
measures to settle the problems fac
ing the world as a result of the late
war. The question of reparations
was left to economic experts from
the various entente countries, who
will meet early in July to draft pro
posals for submission to the'general
allied conferences to be held at Spa.
These experts will also consider the
questions of disarmament, destruction
of German war material and resump
tion of airplane manufacturing. '
As regards Turkish activities, it
was understood the allies have in
formed Premier Venizelos, of Greece,
that Greek troops will be permitted
to advance from Smyrna to check
aggressions of. the Nationalist forces
under Mustapha Kemal Pasha. More
British warships will be sent so the
Dardanelles.
Plan for German Doan
An international financial confer
ence, to be held shortly at Brussels,
will work out plans for a loan to
aid Germany in her efforts at eco
nomic recovery.
All entente countries will send
ambassadors to Berlin on' July 1 to
replace present representatives, /who
have the status of charges d’affaires.
The Boulogne conference devoted
much discussion to the question of
resumption of trade relations with
Russia. It wag finally agreed that
the present Conferences between Brit
ish representatives and Gregory
Krgssln, at London, would lie con
tinued. without, however, implying
any political recognition of the Mos
cow government.
Premier/ Millerand declared that
while the conference was unanimous
on the question of reduction of the
German army to 100,000 men, delay
would probably be granted the Ber
lin government, as the required re
duction could not be effected by
July 10, as originally requirejl.
French to Police East
The French foreign • office issued
a statement declaring that French
military operations in the Near East
would be confined to policing and
resisting attacks. It was said these
operations would not be developed
into extensive military undertakings.
Amounts of the German indemnity
to be allotted the various allied bel
ligerents were not decided. The orig
inal plan will probably be consider
ably altered. Some solution of the
question of interallied debts will be
sought following refusal of the
United States to recognize the pool
ing plan conceived by the premiers
at the first Hythe conference.
The meeting at Spa will probably
be held July 7, in accordance with
the original schedule.
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M’ADOO RACE
BOBS Ul> AGAIN
DESPITE DENIAL
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.—The
McAdoo candidacy, bearing marks Jf
rough treatment and with the “ir-'
revocable” brick still tied about its
neck, was back from its premature
watery grave today q.nd was meowing
as loudly as ever aboue the Demo
cratic back door.
Every time its tormentors consign
it to death—and they include Wil
liam G. McAdoo, himself—the candi
dacy just naturally turns up again
and its friends and protectors hasti
ly unpack the old pulmotor, shoot
a little ozygen into it and it’s as
good as new.
The situation regarding Mr. Mc-
Adoo and the Democratic presiden
tial nomination varies almost .hour
ly, but so far it has always resolved
itself back to the position that cer
tain 'of the former cabineter’s strong
est admirers will take the bit iff
their teeth and nominate him by
strength.
Each da the outward signs indi
cate more and more plainly that Mr.
McAdoo and his personal friends are
determined that he should neither
acquire the nomination or have it
thrust upon him,
Boper Cancels Beservations
For instance, Daniel C. Roper, who
was to have been drum major for
the McAdoo band wagon here, has
cancelled his hotel reservations, ap
parently accepting his former chief’s
verdict as final.
Politicians who were supporting
various of Mr .McAdoo’s rivals for
the nomination, outwardly are sat
isfied that he is through and that
any organized attempt to put him
over would fail dismally, but pri
vately, many of these same poli
ticians have it figured thus:
Mr. McAdoo is the most astute pol
itician in the country. He realized
that, he would be in the same posi
tion as General Leonard Wood at
Chicago, that is, that all of his op
ponents would unite at the start to
eliminate him. The cause of the
two-thirds rule in Democratic con
ventions, the chances were all in
favOh~Nof his rivals deadlocking the
convention against him and forcing
his withdrawal. In view of this, he
and his chef advisers decided that
the way to defeat this strategy was
to let the other candidates deadlock
themselves, then with the conven
tion impasse, Mr. McAdoo would
come forward as a “compromise can
didate” or as a “dark horse” or what
you will, tipping the convention over
into a landslide.
See Dogic in Plan / «
. All o£ the foregoing, of course, is
the merest surmise on the palt of
persons who refuse to believe Mr.
McAdoo is sincere in his retirement
from the race, but many political
observers see in it the essence of
logic and some of the “wise ones”
were circulating about the lobbies
last night quietly offering even
money on McAdoo’s nomination.
Many of the women delegates have
openly declared themselves in favor
of a third term for President Wil
son and announced they would vote
for him on the first ballot.
Miss Mary Foy, Los Angeles, said
she would do so and thus hoped to
start a strong movement for the
executive.
Obviously, the unblushing candi
dacies that are going the strongest
at present are those of Governor
James Cox, Attorney General Pal
mer and Governor Edwards. Only
the latter two have opened head
quarters here, though Cox boosters
are on the job, and Senator Robert
Owen has been on the ground per
sonally for several days.
Things are slow in getting started
along presidential rotv and apparent
ly Mr. McAdoo and President Wilson
will continue to form the principal
subjects of conversations up to the
opening of the convention Monday.
Norman E. Mack, Buffalo publish
er, has let it be 'known to all that
he is for Governor Smith for the
nomination and believes the entire
New York delegation will side with
him. It has been known for some
time that the New Yorkers, who are
under unit rule planned to cast their
ninety votes for Smith on the first
ballot, but it was assumed this was
only in the nature of a compliment.
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EXPENSESOPPOSED
Milner Named Speaker Pro
Tern. Soft Drink and
Other Taxes Are Proposed
in Measures
A proposal to use the motor ve
hicle “license tax fund to meet the
temporary deficiency in the state
treasury precipitated a vigorous con
‘Teversy at the very first session of
the 1920 general assembly, which
convened at 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning.
The proposal was made by Repre
sentative George Carswell, of Wil
kinson county, in a speech delivered
in the house of representatives. He
denied the statement that has been
made regarding the shortage of funds
In the state treasury, declaring that
the appropriations for 1920 do not
exceed the state’s rev nue. He assert
ed, however, that the tax revnues do
not come into the treasury until fall,
thus making it difficult, if not im
possible, for a large percentage of
the appropriations to be paid to the
various departments and institutions'
of the state. He proposed to use the
motor vehicle license tax fund, which
has already been paid in, to meet the
pressing needs of the tate, replacing
this fund in the fall when the major
portion of the taxes are paid.
Wednesday’s Sessions Short
Mr, Carswell’s suggestion was bit
terly opposed by Representative John
Knight, of Berrien county, who in
sisted that the motor vehicle license
tax law was passed with the prom
ise that the funds so derived would
be applied to the construction of
good roads throughout the state and
for no other purpose. He declared
that the use of this fund, to meet
deficiencies in the treasury ‘would be
a violation of the promise given by
the general assembly, and gave no
tice that he would fight to the bitter
end to prevent any such action at
this session or any other session.
Mr. Knight also declared that the
use of the motor vehicle license tax
fund for any other purpose except
the construction of highways would
mean the absolute failure of any at
tempt to authorize a state bond is
sue for good roads.
It was indicated that this ques
tion will constitute one of the most
important matters to be considered
by the 1920 legislature, and will un
doubtedly arouse the bitterest kind
of controversy.
While the senate transacted no
business of Importance Wednesday
morning, adjourning at 10:10 o’clock
until Thursday, the house remained
in session for about an hour and a
half, electing a speaker pro tem, re-,
ceiving five new members, listening
to an address by Speaker John N.
Holder and receiving about fifty new
bills. Both houses will me-et again
at 10 o’clock, central time, Thursday
morning.
Immediately after being called to
order at 9 o'clock, Atlanta time, by
Speaker Holder, the house proceeded
to the election of a speaker pro tem
John Y. Smith, of Fulton, nominated
L. C. Brown, of Clarke, while A. S.
Anderson, of Jackson, nominated J. »
H. Milner, of Dodge. The vote was
very close, Mr. Milner winning by a
vote of 90 to 75. His election was
made unanimous on a motion by Mr
Brown.
Under the provisions of a resolu
tion by Mr. Neel, of Muscogee, pass
ed unanimously by the house, the
hour of meeting will be 10 o’clock,
central time, during the balance of
the session unless otherwise ordered.
A similar resolution Introduced In the
senate by Senator J. E. T. Bowden, of
the Fifth district, was adopted The
senate resolution fixed its hour of
adjournment at 1 o’clock.
Soft Drink Tax Proposed
Among the bills introduced was a
measure levying a tax of one cent
on all soft drinks selling for 5 cents
each r-nd 1 cent for each nickel or
fraction eof in excess of 5 cents.
Another bill would impose an occu
'pational tax of $lO on dentists, doc
tors, architects, public accountants,
osteopaths and other professional
men, at the same time prohibiting
municipalities or counties from levy
ing occupational taxes.
The Fulton delegation introduced
a bill authorizing the county com
missioners of Fulton county increase
the salaries of employes of the mu
nicipal court of Atlanta not mors
than 25 per cent, such increase to
be made at the will of the com
mission.
The old fight on the motor vehicle
license tax law was opened up again
in the introduction of a bill by Mr.
Knight, of Berrien, appropriating 18
per cent of the motor license fun*
for the use of the state highway
commission and distributing the bal
ance among the counties of the state
on the basis of post road mileage.
Speaker Holder took occasion to
briefly discuss before the house the
questions that will confornt the l«20
legislature, declaring that the ses
sion of 1919 was characterized by
the passage of a great amount of
constructive legislation. He express
ed the hope that the present ses
sion would be as productive of good
results.
Financial Stress
“The financial stringency of the
state of Georgia should be one of
the first matters to claim your at
tention,” said the speaker. “How
ever, I do ndt believe that any ad
ditional tax burdens should be placed
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