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HOS, E. WON
TO ENTER RACE FOR
U. S. SHMTOBSHIP
Thomas E. Watson, of McDuffie
county, has paid his entrance fee
and will make formal announcement
of his candidacy for the United
States senate In the Issue of the
Columbia Sentinel of August 2, ac
cording to advices received by The
Journal from a close friend of Mr.
Watson, who is believed to enjoy his
confidence.
For some weeks Mr. Watson has
beexi looked upon as a probable can
didate and through the columns of
his paper, the Columbia Sentinel,
has been paying his respects to Sen
ator Hoke Smith and Governor Hugh
M. Dorsey, who are expected to be
his opponents in the contest.
“As to the Georgia senatorship,”
says Mr. Watson in the latest edi
tion of the Sentinel, “the situation
is Similar to that which suddenly
came upon us. when Senator Reed,
of Missouri, retired from the presi
dential primary, and left the anti
league men no candidate to vote for;
this was in April.”
Mr. Watson declares that to re
lieve the situation he put up his
name and “53,000 patriots—implaca
ble enemies to the traitors' leap into
European entanglements and everlast
ing wars—voted for me.”
He remarks that a “much smaller
number voted for Senator Smith,
who favored the league provided he
could put salt on its tail with reser
vations.”
“Then came Palmer, he continues,
“Mitchel Parmer, Shoot ’Em or Ship
’Em Palmer; and 48,000 orang-outangs
are said to have voted for this Penn
sylvania Betsy-bug, who in his own
state is a Republican whenever it
suits him.”
His Views on Dorsey
Mr Watson concludes his re
marks Immediately pertinent to ‘the
Georgia Senatorship,” but elsewhere
in the same issue of his paper he
write sunder the caption. “If Dorsey
Gets Into the Senate Race. The
basis of his remarks thereon Is a
recent Atlanta news dispatch to the
Augusta Herald, suggesting that if
Governor Dorsey enters the senate
race “it will be for the purpose of
provoking Thomas E. Watson to en
ter the contest.” . ..
Concerning the statement in
Atlanta dispatch to the Herald that
the “support of Mr. Watson was giy
en to Governor Dorsey (four years
ago) without solicitation., according
to the governor’s friends, Mr. Wat
son remarks:
“The governor's friends—-suppos
ing that he has any—cannot be sup*
nosed to know what passed between
Mr. Hugh Dorsey and Mr, Thomas
E. Watson, before Mr. Dorsey curbed
hi s intention to enter the senatorial
race, and waited awhile to enter that
for governor. • Mr. W atson was never
a t Mr. Dorsey’s house; Mr. Dorsey
was several times at M. Watson s
house. hasn’t been so long ago that
the conference was held at Hickory
Hill in Mr. Watson’s home, where
such men as John Hogp, Ely Cart
iedge, and several others from Mc-
Duffie and Lincoln counties, were
nresent. and heard every word ot
the conference between Mr. Dorsey
and Mr. Watson. They heard the
advice Mr. Watson gave to Mr. Dor
sey and they know that Mr. Dorsey
followed it.” . .
Mr Watson remarks, further, tnar
the men who he says are now try
ing to distort the facts will learn
with surprise that when Mr. Dorsey
became a candidate he submitted his
platform to the Sage of McDuffie for
approval.
“From the very moment he was
elected,” Mr. Watson writes, *he
turned his back on his platform, for
got his promises, betrayed his
friends, and fell into the power of
Clark and Albert Howell."
In this connection Mr. W atson re
marks that “the other day” Governor
Dorsey “appointed his partner, Al
bert Howell, to represent the state
in the matter of the oil inspection
tax.**
Concerning a statement ii. the
news dispatch to tho Augusta Her
«ltt that he fell-put with Governor
because of treatment accord
ed him, Watson, by the Macon con
vention, Mr. Watson says:
“Previous to that convention, it is
true I had kept to myself my opin
ion of the governor and his perfid
ious conduct."
Mr. Watson adds, however, that on
August 1, 1918, he gave a luncheon
at the Kimball House, in Atlanta,
and that Governor Dorsey was
among his invited guests, which is
evidence that he had not fallen out
with the governor up to that time.
’ Says Ballots Were Burned
i The Sage of McDuffie discusses his
race for the congressional nomina
tion in the Tenth district, in which
he alleges the ballots in Wilkinson
county were burned in order to con
summate the theft of the eelction and
rob him of the nomination that he'
had won fairly. He declares that
during his congressional campaign “I'
need not emphasize that the ingrate
Dorsey failed to lift a finger in my
behalf, but on the contrary packed
the Macon convention with his im
placable foes of mine.”
Mr. Watson charges that Gov
ernor Dorsey told Jim Boykin, Hill
Dunaway and John Cullars, of Lln
coln county, that he, Watson, “cuss-
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Strange Discoveries Throw Chicago
In Cloak of Deepest Mystery
CHICAGO. —Lieut. Carl Wanderer,
who less than three weeks ago was
being praised for his bravery in kill
ing an unidentified man who, he
said, had murdered Mrs. Wanderer,
is today in a cell as the principal
figure in what the police called “the
most mysterious murder case Chi
cago has had in years.”
Members of the police homicide
squad, who caused his arrest, said
no charges were pending against
Wanderer, but they had become con
vinced that he knew more about the
murder than he had told, and for
that reason he was being held.
Wanderer’s Story
Early the morning of June 22,
neighbors, aroused by shots in the
vestibule of the Wanderer apart
ment, found the lieutenant with a
pistol in his hand standing over the
bodies of his wife and a roughly
dressed young man. The man was
dead and Mrs. Wanderer was uncon
scious and dying.
Wanderer said that the man, whom
no one has yet identified, had fol-
“Black-Face” Bandits Get $20,000;
Girl Foils 7 Men in Robbery Attempt
CHICAGO.—Twenty thousand dol
lars in bank notes of sl, $2, $5, $lO
and S2O, was the loot obtained by
“black face bandits.” the first of the
type to appear In Chicago, when they
robbed two messengers of the Com
munity State bank recently.
The robbers escaped in a high-pow
ered touring car and the police have
discovered no trace of their where
abouts.
The police, suspecting collusion,
placed the two messengers under
arrest.
NEW YORK—Quick team-work by
Lusitania Can Be Raised; Plan
Devised by French Scientist
PARIS—The liner Lusitania, whose
torpedo-pierced hull now is reposing
on the Atlantic ocean bed seven miles
off the coast of Ireland, can be re
floated and repaired without undue
difficulty, in the opinion of Emile
Bertin, menfber of the French acad
emy of science and an expert in sal
vaging sunken vessels.
“A monster float made of steel
and able to support a weight of 30,-
000 tons could be constructed,” he
writes. “This float could be attached
to the sunken hull by steel ropes
hooked into the vessel’s portholes.
“When the tide goes down the
ropes could be drawn taut and se-
ed him (Dorsey) out,” whenever he
got ready.
“I publicly invited him to name
the time and place of any of these
cussings out,” remarks Mr. Watson.
‘‘He did not reply; he dared not; he
had simply lied—that’s all.
“I asked him to say to the public
whether these ‘cussings out’ took
place before he broke my bread at
the Kimball House luncheon.
‘‘He did not say; he dared not say
he had simply lied.
‘‘l asked him to tell the people
whether I had ‘cused him out’ after
he was my right-hand guest at the
luncheon August 1.
“He did not reply; he could not;
he had simply lied—that’s all.
“But in order that I might be in
the power of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad lawyers—Dorsey,
Brewster & Howell—he carefully
packed rhe Macon convention with
such sweet potatoes as Luther Ros
ser, Bill Simmons, Bill. Burwell.
Enoch- Callaway and H. H. Dean, and
Andrew Cobb; and a bitter soap
stick is Andrew.”
“The Governors of Georgia”
Continuing. Mr. Watson says that
has “alluded to the Messrs. How
ell as the governors of Georgia. So
they are, and have been ever since
Dorsey got it. Everybody knows that
they are’ the governors of Georgia
Everybody knows that the Howell in
fluence prevailed upon Dorsey to
virtually make a present of our state
railroad to the Louisville and Nash
kvil,}e, railroad for ninety-nine years.
‘‘The Howell brothers are not good
financiers; they are excellent spend
ers of other people’s money; they
have caused Hugh Dorsey to so mud
dle and exhaust the finances of the
state of Georgia that one fund has
to be borrowed from another, a tax
for one purpose has to be spent for
another; and there is a busy borrow
ing from Paul to pay Peter, and from
Peter to pay Paul, and the debt trav
els like a squirrel within the whirled
of his cage, making many revolu
tions but no progress.”
In conclusion. Mr. Watson remarks:
“If the Howells want a senator
m their extensive corporation busi
ness, let them run Partner Dorsey.
It won’t worry me in the least.”
Discusses Senator Smith
In the same ijisue of the Sentinel.
Mr. Watson, replying to an inquiry
from a subscriber, has the following
to, say of Senator Smith:
“Senator Smith was governor, and
the legislature ejected him to the
three-year unexpired term of Senator
Steve Clay, who died in office- the
governor refused to let the people
vote on him.
“Governor Smith continued to pre
side as governor for several months,
until he had distributed nearly all
the pie that legitimately fell to his
successor.
“Then, he appointed himself sen
ator; his title was recognized.
“The holding of the governorship
and the senatorship-elect at the
same time was unconstittuional; but
the constitution was not written by
the senator, and therefore he con
siders it gravely defective.
“For instance, he swore to protect,
defend and preserve this constitu
tion, but is willing to put England.
Siam and Japan on top of it, if Sen
ator Lodge’s reservations are tagged
on to it, as you might tag a tin
can to the tail of an enormous dog.”
lowed him and his wife to the ves
tible as they were returning from a
theater, and ordered them to hold
up their hands.
“My wife started to turn on the
light, and he shot her. Then I shot
and killed him,” Wanderer said.
Was Lieutenant’s Pistol
The detectives found a pistol lying
beside the dead man in the vestibule.
They accepted Wanderer’s state
ment and the case seemed closed.
But a careful tracing of the pistol
supposed to have been used by the
unidentified man, showed that Wan
derer had become the owner of the
weapon two weeks before the shoot-
while he had purchased the
other revolver while he was in the
army.
The police also held two relatives
involved in the change of ownership
of the revolver—John Hoffman, the
lieutenant's brother-in-law, and Fred
Wanderer, a cousin. Through the
three men, the police are trying to
get an explanation of the owner
ship of the two pistols.
employes foiled an attempt by seven
automobile bandits to hold up the
Corona, Queens county branch of the
Bank of the Manhattan company re
cently.
More-than $50,000 In cash was left
behind whenthe would-be robbers be
came panic-stricken and fled as a
17-year-old stenographer called the
police on the telephone.
A general alarm was sent to all
towns in Queens, and Corona police
in a commandeered machine gave
chase as thieves fled in their celt,
but they escaped, v . ;
cured. The rising tide then would
llfht the float and with it the sunken
hull from the ocean bed,
“Then the float, with its lead,
could be towed shoreward to a shal
lower point where, as -the hull rests
on the bottom, the operation of tight
ening the cables at low tide'could
be repeated and the vessel raised
again. In this way the hull could be
lifted about four meters each time
and eventually brought to the sur
face.
“The operation would be long, deli
cate and costly, but there is no doubt
about its practicability.”
WOMAN MAKES
GOOD HER THREAT
TO KILL HERSELF
Carrying out a declaration made
i police court early Saturday after
noon that she would kill herself be
fore she would follow Judge George
Johnson’s suggestion that she re
turn to her husband and babies, Mrs.
Chrystal Elizabeth Roberts, tw’enty
two years old. ended her life late
Saturday afternoon by taking poison
while seated on the lawn of the
state capitol.
She leaves two little babies, one
boy, H. G., Jr., three years old, and
one girl, Frances, eighteen months
old. The Roberts had been married
for four years, and had lived to
gether until one week ago at 57 King
street.
Earlier in the afternoon, Mrs. Rob
erts faced Judge Johnson on a charge
of disorderly conduct, the case hav
ing been made against her by her
husband, ¥• G. -Roberts.
However, the judge found the evi
dence insufficient, and dismissed
the case, but ordered Mrs. Roberts
to return to her husband and ba
bies. He turned her over to W. F.
Bell, assistant probation officer,
with instructions that, she be placed
on probation for one year. Mrs.
Roberts emphatically declared that
she would never return to her home.
“11l take care of my babies, Judge,”
she told the recorder, “but I’ll never
return. I'll kill myself first.”
Probation fficec Bell pleaded with
her for sometime, but being unabl*
to make her agree to return home,
gave her a copy of charges to re
turn to his court Tuesday morning.
This was shortly after three
o’clock, and Mrs. Roberts evidently
went from the police station to the
capitol, for in just a little while a
hurry call came to Grady for an
ambulance to be sent to the capitol.
Physicians at Grady did everything
in their power to stave off death, but
their efforts were of no avail and
she died shortly after reaching the
hospital.
Mr. Roberts, who is employed in a
soft drink stand at a local park,
knew nothing of the death of his
wife, until he was taken to the
Grady hospital to identify her. The
minute he saw her shoes, which
were protruding from beneath tne
sheet, with which she was covered,
he seemed to recognize her. He was
prostrated with grief.
Out at the Roberts home, little
H. G., Jr., sick with whooping cough
and eighteen months old Frances
wore in the care of an old negro
mammy, in a little shanty behind the
Roberts’ house. She had been en
gaged, she said, by Mr. Roberts to
look after the children for him.
while he was away at work.
They are pretty children—both
blonde, and unaware of the tragedy
which had entered their home, H.
G., Jr., laughed and talked to the
reporter who visited the home while
little Frances serenely munched on
her- thumb.
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GETS m S3.M
That the office of attorney general
of Georgia pays a salary of $3,000 a
year instead of $5,000 a year, and
will not pay more until the legisla
ture passes over again its act intend
ed to increase the compensation to
the high figure named, was the some
what startling and uneasy discovery
made Saturday by state house statis
cians who delved In the matter.
Colonel George M. Napier, of the
county of DeKalb, and Colonel
George B. Davis, of the county ot
Laurens, both good lawyers and es
timable gentlemen, are candidates for
the office of attorney general with
the understanding that their salary,
if elected, will be $5,000 a year.
Os course, neither gentleman Is
solely interested in the salary of the
office, and neither was in reach or
The Journal for interviewing pur
poses when the distressing facts
were discovered as above, but the
general presumption was that both
would continue in the race for the of
fice despite the failure of the legis
lature to carry out its purpose cf
increasing the salary.
Clifford Walker, now a candidate
for governor, held the office of at
torney general for several years at
a salary of $3,000 a year. A few years
ago- the legislature created the office
of supervisor of county records
at a salary of $1,5000 a year
and provided that the duties of the
same should be discharged by the
attorney general. The effect of this
enactment was to increase the salary
nA. ttorn ® y General Walker from
$3,000 to $4,500. without materially
increasing his duties.
In 1919 the legislature passed two
companon billff introduced by the
members of the house from Walton
county, which is the home county of
Mr. Walker. The first abolished the
office ot supervisor of county records
while the second increased the attor-
U-^A^ enerars salary from $3,000 to
sa,ooo a year.
Effective Last January
. B °th bills provided that they
should beWme effective on January
1, 1920. That is to say, the duties
and salary of the supervisor of
county reccrds should cease and ex
pire on that date, and the increased
compensation of the attorney gener
al should take effect on that date.
But it was found that -there was
a provision of the constitution to
the effect that the salary of no offi
cer should be increased during the
term of office for which he was
elected, and this prevented Mr.
Walker from drawing the increased
salary beginning January 1, 1920,
inasmuch as his term ran over until
the convening of the legislature in
1921. So he was knocked out.
On June 1, 'last, Mr. Walker re
signed to devote his attention en
tirely and exclusively to his cam
paign for governor. Colonel R. A.
Denny, a distinguished Rome law
yer and formerly a member of the
senate of Georgia, was named by
Governor Dorsey to serve the unex
pired term. He took the office with
the expectation that he would be
come the beneficiary of the increased
salary, inasmuch as the constitu
tional provision above stated would
not apply to him. But on investiga
tion it seems to have developed that
he was not eligible, for reasons be
low stated.
There is another provision of the
constitution to the effect that the
salary of constitutional officers —
to-wit: the governor, the secretary
of state, the attorney general, the
comptroller general and the treasur
er—shall not be changed except by
a vote of two-thirds of the entire
membership of the house and sen
ate. Though the constitution does
not specify the salary of these offi
cers, it reqquires the same vote to
change their salaries as it requires
to amend the constitution, but it
does not require a referendum.
Passed by a Majority
Hencp: it was necessary in chang
ing the- salary of the attorney gen
eral from $3,000 to $5,000 to pass
the bill by a two-thirds vote of the
house and the senate. And the point
of this story is that the bill was not
passed by a two-thirds vote, but by
a mere majority. And there lies the
rub.
Attorney General Denny, it appears,
discovered the rub on his very first
pa yday after taking office for the
unexpired term. He did not an
nounce himself as a candidate for
the ensuing full term, but left the
office open to the two candidates
running—Colonels Napier and Davis.
These gentlemen, it appears, were
proceeding merrily along their way,
expecting to draw a salary of $5,000.
when some statistician rudely called
attention to their mistake. Not their
mistake, either, but the legislature’s
mistake in failing to pass the bill
by a two-thirds vote of the house
and senate.
Now that they know it, what is
to be done? This is the question
asked by members of the legislature
and other interested spectators. The
general answer is that the legislature
at the present session will probably
get busy and re-enact the bill by
the requisite majority so that either
candidate, when elected, will draw
the salary he expected to draw, and
so that the state will pay a decent
wage for the services of its princi
pal legal adviser.
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Dorsey Likely to Disapprove
Appropriations in Absence
I of Legislation for Funds
Governor Dorsey ma ydisapprove
any considerable amount of appro
priations which may be passed by the
legislature at the present session un
less the legislature also passes the
legislation necessary to raise more
Such, at least, is the belief of the
leaders of the house and senate who
have discussed the matter with the
governor, and who know his views
concerning the serious financial em
barrassment in which the state is
complicated at present.
As matters now stand, it will take
nearly $2,000,000 more than the
state’s total revenue for 1920 to pay
the appropriations for 1920. This
being the case, Governor Dorsey can
see no use in passing additional ap
propriations which would not and
could not be paid. His belief is that
the legislature should raise more
revenue before spending more money.
Two revenue plans are under ad
visement, as follows:
1. To amend the constitution so as
to remove the maximum limit of five
mills on the state tax rate, and so
as to authorize the governor and
comptroller to levy annually such a
rate of taxation as would be neces
sary to pay the appropriations pass
ed up by the legislature.
2. To amend the constitution so
as to authorize the legislature to im
pose a tax upon incomes, inheritances
and occupations, which taxes at pres
ent are not authorized by constitu
tion, and which would be in the na
ture of a new source of revenue if
they were levied.
Two Plans Considered
These two plans were considered
last week by the special committee
appointed by joint resolution of the
house and senate, to investigate the
state’s financial situation for the
purpose of "ascertaining whether or
not there existed a casual deficiency
in the revenue of the state,” and if
so what steps should be taken to
liquidate the same.
This committee is composed of
Governor Dorsey, Comptroller Gen
eral Wright, State Treasurer Speer,
Secretary of State McLendon, Chair
man Carswell of the house appropria
tions committee. Chairman Allen of
the senate finance committee. Chair
man Arnold of the house ways and
means committee, Chairman Blasin
game of the senate ways and means
committee.
Os course the committee did not
waste time ascertaining “whether or
not there existed a casual deficiency.”
The fact that there does exist a cas
ual deficiency is well known to all.
The house and senate did not create
the committee for the purpose of
getting light on the existence of the
deficiency, but for the pprpose of
getting light on methods of extri
cating the state from the financial
morass into which it is slowly but
surely sinking.
As between the two methods of
solving the problem stated above,
the special committee decided in
favor of the income tax. A bill
embodying this plan of obtaining in
creased revenue is pending already
in the house of representatives. It
has been favorably reported by the
constitutional amendments commit
tee and is ripe for a third reading
in the house, where the main squeeze
comes in passing constitutional
amendments, by reason of the larger
membership of that body.
Bstimaied New Revenue
Chairman Carswell, of the house
appropriations committee, estimates
that an income tax at a moderate
r^G e „ wil * bring to state treasury from
$2,000,000 to $5,000,000 a yea?. This
would be sufficient to liquidate the
deficit and meet the growing needs
of the state’s institutions, depart
ments and pensioners. The last
named item alone is growing at the
rate of saoo,ooo a year, notwith
standing estimates a few years ago,
by legislators who advocated increas
ed pensions, that the increasing
death rate of Confederate soldiers
and their widows would off-set the
annual increase of pensions.
There is a provision in the fed
eral income tax laws allowing
states .which tax incomes to havs
access U the income tax returns of
the fed<»l government. This would
enable The taxing authorities of
Georgia to get without cost a vol
uminous list of individual and cor
porate incomes upon which to mak»
an immediate start in collecting reve
nue. It is believed Chairman Cars
well’s estimate of the revenue which
would be produced by a moderate
income tax rate is based upon in
formation as to the aggregate in
comes of Georgia returned for taxa
tion by the federal government.
It is pointed out that income tax
I has this advantage from a political
standpoint, that whereas an increase
in the ad valorem tax rate would ap
ply to all alike, and would afford
the public an exact barometer upon
legislative appropriations, a- tax up
on incomes would apply in the main
to the rich and well-to-do, who arc
in the minority. Hence it is favored
by the legislators in reference to an
increase in the ad valorem tax.
Scgrated Tax Is Urged
Chairman Carswell, of the house
appropriation committee, favors do
ing away with an ad valorem tax for
state revenue and relying solely
upon an income tax. He does not be
lieve it to be humanly possible for
the state tax commissioners, or even
for a board of commissioners, to
bring about uniformity of tax assess
ments thr'oughout the state. His ar
gument is that land values always
will be assessed according to local
influence, and that personal property
always will escape taxation until
new methods are devised for getting
it on the books, and that the state
should not bother with the compli
cated vexations of an ad valorem tax
machinery almost entirely dependent
upon local tax authorities for its
operation, but should do away with
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government by an income tax.
This further argument is made by
the advocates of an income tax —that
the value of a business or manufac
turing concern cannot be accurate
ly determined by the value of its in
vestment in phyiscal property, but
consists in its earnings. A manu
facturing concern, for example, may
have physical property worth $500,-
000, but have annual earnings of
8500,000. The income tax advocates
argue that the correct method of
taxing such a concern, and all going
is upon its income instead
of upon the value of its physical
property.
Up to the present time the ap
propriations committee of the house,
where all appropriation bills eman
ate, has reported none of the mass
of bills before it, aggregating $2.-
000,000. The committee will meet
next Tuesday afternoon to get down
to business. It has been waiting to
see what progress could be made in
the way of legislation to raise more
revenue. Now that the special com
mittee enumerated above has recom
mended the income tax, the appro
priations committee will likely put
its influence unitedly behind the bill
to push it through the house.
Why Veto Is Likely
Whatever appropriations the com
mittee recommends are likely to be
qualified with the proviso that rev
enue legislation be passed at this
session. This proviso, as a matter
of course, the house and senate can
disregard if they are a mind to. They
dan pass as many appropriations as
they see fit. but any appropriation.--
passed without additional revenue are
nothing but paper. They cannot be
paid. Those already passed cannot
be paid in full, much less additional
ones.
If cue legislature, therefore, sends
down to the governor an armful of
appropriation bills without accom
panying them with a revenue bill, the
governor is quite likely to veto them
all and call an extra session for the
exclusive purpose of reorganizing the
states finances. The red-ink items
on the state treasurer’s ledger al
ready are to omany for the gover
no™S-cornfort ' without adding more.
Thirty-three days of the legisla
tive session are “over the mill,” and
nothing has yet been done to im
prove the state’s finances. Ninety
per cent of the present session, as of
nearly all sessions, has been taken
up with the abolition or re-creation
of county treasurers, the amendment
ot acts establishing- city courts and
county boards of commissioners, the
amendment of city charters and sim
matters - This habitual
waste of legislative sessions in grind
ing small grist has promted the sug
gestion of numerous plans for han
dling local bills in some different
manner. It takes practically as
much time t o pass a bill abolishing l
t ' nty treasurer as to pass a bill
affecting the entire state, with the
exception that local bills are rarely
) f 2‘X er ' debated. But the absence 8f
debate js more than offset by the
JtiDliciity of this class of bills
IC nf S 2 Varm Hke . flies 011 the calern
dar of every session.
The Kig-hway Legislation
The highway program . waits on
the final disposition of the Knight
resolution requiring the state high
way board to prorate the automobile
fund among the counties according
to post road mileage. .The resolu
tion went to a vote in the house
last Thursday afternoon and would
have been passed but for a parlia
mentary tangle which made it neces
sary to postpone final action. The
resolution is scheduled as a special
order in the house next Wednesday
Representative Knight, of Berrien
county, the author of the resolution
threatens to oppose the highway bond
issue bill, which comes close behind
his resolution on the calendar of the
house, unless the highway board is
required to prorate the automobile
fund. Hte says he does not wish it
prorated permanently, but only until
the issuance of highway bonds, at
which time the fund will be applied
to the interest and amortization of
the highway bonds.
His contention is that the coun
ties want the fund prorated in the
meanwhile “as an evidence of good
faith.” Other members of the leg
islature contend that the “people at
home” are clamoring not for a scat
tering here and there of the auto
mobile fund, but for prompt con
struction of a state highway system.
But to satisfy the supporters of
the Knight resolution and push along
the bond issue bill, upon which
hinges the life or death of the en
tire highway program, a majority
of the house seems to have made up
their minds to let it go through.
They figure that the state highway
board will make the most economi
cal use of the fund that will be pos
sible under the circumstances, de
spite the handicap of such a distri
bution, and the one redeeming fea
ture of the Knight resolution, as
they look at it, is that it leaves the
fund in the hands of the board to
expend wherever and in whatever
manner they see fit, just so they pro
rate it among the counties.
Senator Smith Speaks
To Forsyth Audience
FORSYTH. Ga„ July 24. —Senator
Hoke Smith spoke here this after
noon to an audience estimated at
five hundred people. His speech,
about two hours in length, was well
received. He dwelt upon the
achievements of the Democratic
party.
The senator was introduced by
William C. Hill, a prominent bank
er and merchant.
TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1920.
Thief Is Thorough
NEW ORLEANS, La. —Thorough-
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who robbed Rosario Laßocca, grocer.
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