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VOL, XXV. NO. 180
TAXATION TO LEAD
COOLIDGE ADDRESS
ID NEW CONGRESS
White House Expected to
Answer Charges of "Do-
Nothing” Policy Made by
Critics
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.}
(Copyright, 1923.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Presi
dent Coolidge, in his forthcoming
message to congress—he isn't sure
yet whether it will be a personal ad
dress or message—will touch on
every major question before the*
country today.
The president will answer those
critics who say he hasn’t done any
thing or said anything of cosequence
since he took the oath of office. Mr.
Coolidge has been at work for many
weeks on the first important t com
munication which he will make to
the American people, for he realizes
that it will be in a sense his'per
sonal program, his pledge for the
remainder of the Harding term and
also a campaign platform for 1924.
Mr. Coolidge has endeavored to
follow the Harding practice of con
sulting leaders of both houses of
congress—he will even ask them
whether they prefer a personally
delivered, address or a message read,
by a clerk as in the days preceding
the Wilson administration.
Taxes and Foreign Affairs
While taxation is a paramount
issue, not less interesting will be the
president’s discussion of foreign re
lations. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
chairman of the senate foreign re
lations committee, and also the ma
jority leader of the senate, has been
spending a good deal of tin*e with
Mr. Coolidge lately. The general
impression has been that the legis
lative program was being discussed,
but it turns out that Mr. Lodge is
far more interested in what Mr.
Coolidge will have to say on foreign
relations.
Besides the natural inclination of
a president to consult the chairman
of the senate foreign relations com
mittee, Mr. Coolidge has an added
reason for wishing to take Mr.
Lodge into his confidence as the lat
ter is just as much interested in
seeing a Massachusetts man nomi
nated for the next presidential term
as is Mr. Coolidge.
The real point of the discussion
between Mr. Lodge and the presi
dent. of course, concerns the meas
ure of American participation in
European affairs. Germany is on
the verge of collapse. There are
plans already for the feeding of the
• German people. Congress would
have to make the necessary appro
priations.
German Food Hoarded
The department of agriculture
has statistics showing that Germany
has plenty of food on hand, but that
it is in the hands of those who have
hoarded it because they are un
willing to accept worthless paper
money in payment. What the Ger
mans need is not food, but money to
buy their own harvest.
Under the circumstances, what
ever policy the United States gov
ernment may decide upon to assist
in stabilizing conditions in Germany
relates in some measure to the rep
arations commission. It is said the
president feels he can do no better
than to review the recent efforts of
Secretary Hughes to obtain the ap
pointment of an impartial commis
sion to determine what Germany’s
capacity to pay would bo. The re
sponsibility for the failure of that
plan is not on America, but on
France, and since the exchange of
notes and diplomatic conversations
occurred while congress was not in ,
session, it is natural to advise both ■
houses of what has been done.
As for the world court —or rather
the “leagye court" —as Senator ■
Lodge prefers to call it—the pro- j
posa) made by the late President I
Harding and Secretary Hughes is
before the senate foreign relations
committee of the senate. Mr. Lodge
would just as soon let it remain
there indefinitely, as he sees no need
of precipitating party discord at this
time.
Can’t Ignore Court
But Mr. Coolidge cannot very well
ignore the proposal and some ref
erence from him to the effect that it
is before the senate is expected. Mr.
Coolidge is said to be of the opinion ,
that if the senate can frame a sub-;
stitute proposal entirely satisfactory i
to it and also to the other nations j
he would gladly accept the proposal, ■
but that in the absence of such a
constructive action he would not
like to see America adopt a nega
tive attitude toward the present
court of international justice.
In the Cbolidge message undoubt
edly will be a tribute to the late
President Harding, whose death oc
curred since the last congress ad
journed. A further expression of
Mr. Coolidge’s desire to carry out
the Harding policies is expected to
be made.
$50,000 Is Made
On Pimento Peppers
JACKSON, Ga., Nov. 24.—Final
figures show that Butts county this
year shipped 119 cars of pimento pep
pers, compared with twenty-five cars
in 1922. Os the total, eighty-six cars
were ripe peppers, which went to the
canning plant at Franklinton, and
thirty-three cars green peppers for
orthern markets. The pepper crop
netted growers something like
$50,000 trfls year.
j The Weather
FORECAST FOR TUESDAY:
Virginia: Partly cloudy and some
what colder.
North Carolina. South Carolina,
Georgia: Fair and colder.
Florida: Partly cloudy.
Extreme Northwest Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi: Fair and cooler.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair and
cooler-
Louisiana: Fair, colder.
Arkansas: Fair.
Oklahoma, East and West Texas:
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SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY
RIVALED IN MILLION-DOLLAR
WERNER VAULT ROBBERY
Chicago Sleuths Baffled at
Every Turn—Woman With
Suitcases of Loot Slips
Through Net
RY J. P. YODER
(Leased Wine Service So .The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1323.)
CHICAGO, Nov. 25 A Conan
Doyle, before he began communing
with spirits, never conjured up a
more intricate nor melodramatic
case for Sherlock Holmes to solve
than the amazing case of the mil-*
lion-dollar Werner vault robbery
which today is engaging the best
brains of the Chicago detective de
partment.
The case outfictions anything
that was ever written. That state
ment takes in a lot of territory, but
here's the scenario of a crime that
makes the most lurid of them look
drab. i
On October 15 one of the string
of Werner safety deposit storage
houses was robbed. With an
acetylene torch, the most eXpert of
crooks had scorched his way through
several feet of brick and steel from
an adjoining building. Twenty-eight
safety deposit boxes had been open
ed. But only one, according to rent
ers of the 28, had been robbed. In
one of the boxes that had been open
ed was left untouched a roll of thou
sand dollar bills big enough to choke
the proverbial cow. There were 30
of them.
The one box that had been rifled
of a million dollars in jewels, cash
and negotiable securities, belonged
tj the heirs of a famous Chicago
family—the Ehrhardts—and the own
ers told the police that all the se
curities had recently been signed as
transferrable, which made them vir
tually as easy to pass as a gold dol
lar.
Trail Leads to Dentist
For more than a week the police
were completely baffled. Then the
trail led them to the "laboratory” of
Dr. Spencer Brown, a taciturn, mys
terious chemist and dentist, who for
15 years has been the human cul de
sac against which the police have
run in several mysterious robberies
which they never solved. Brown to
day is held in $75,000 bond for a
hearing next Tuesday.
When police went to his town, of
fice to question Brown, they found
one entrance with seven locks on it.
Entering by force they found a suite
fitted with rare Oriental furnishings.
A small hidden door, found and
opened, rang an alarm when swung
on its hinges. A detective, climbing
to the roof, found a secret trap door,
and captured Brown, who was at
tempting to enter that way. Brown
denies knowing anything about the
crime, but two slips of paper found
in this office bore the words “Werft
er Deposit Vaults.”
Police have ripped out walls and
floors in Brown’s office in search of
some of the loot. Their, efforts
were redoubled when $24,500 in se
curities taken in another raid twelve
hours before Brown was arrasted
were found to be a part of the
Werner loot.
They rushed to Antioch, where
Brown’s young and pretty wife lived
in a spacious “bungalow.” She had
left with three suit cases a few
hours before and a woman answer
ing her description had boarded an
airplane with three suit cases. Three
hours later an airplane was wrecked
seventy miles from Arttioch and two
men and a woman crawled from
the wreckage with three suit casas.
got into an automobile and sped
north.
The two men were arrested later.
It was believed the loot was in the
suit cases with which the woman
escaped. The police’ learned noth
ing from the men. They paid fines
of ten dollars each for landing with
out a permit, and •were let go.
Torch Expert Jailed
Meantime, the name of a certain
man kept bobbing up in the case,
and the police searched high and
low for him. Finally, this man. who
has a police record, was found quiet
ly working as a civil service em
ploye in the municipal building. He
is held by the police, who say he is
an expert with the acetylene torch.
Brown, who, according to the po
lice, is “Morarity,” master mind of
Chicago's underworld, has several
times gone bond for, or furnished
alibis for this man, Dick Wilson.
Now into this intricate scenaiio
enters Ralph Sheldon, notorious
beer runner and gunman. Sheldon’s
name was the last word gasped by
Lewis J. Hauschild, a lawyer, shot
presumably by aedident during • a
hunting, trip up state.
Several days after Hauschild’s fu
neral, grapevine information reach
ed the police that Hauschild had
known quite a bit about the Werner
robbery, as attorney for one of the
men implicated. The police began
to look for Sheldon- Donald Lager
strom, who now is held by the police
at Waukegan in connection with
Hauschild’s death, has told two more
or less conflicting stories regarding
Sheldon, who is known to have
been a frequent visitor at Dr.
Brown’s office.
And there the case rests. There
has been robbery of the kind that
i only a master mind can direct, and
' there has been murder. But strange
: to say, .women are not mixed up in
’ it, with’the exception of Dr. Brown's
wife. 1
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WASHINGTON. —Senator Lodge
declares he favors tax reduction,
but it is too early to discuss details.
PHILADELPHIA—Poison liquor
kills five men and sends scores more
to hospitals seriously ill, authorities
announce.
MINNEAPOLIS.—C. T. Jaffray,
Minneapolis banker, is elected presi
dent of Minneapolis, St. Paul and
Sault Ste. Marie railroad.
NEW YORK.—Columbia university
received gifts of $12,728,021 during
the year ending last June 30, Presi
dent Butler reports to the trustees.
CINCINNATI. —Three women pa
tients at Longview hospital for the
insane die after injection of a spe
cific used in the treatment of
paresis.
WASHINGTON. Extension of
American coastwise shipping laws
to Philippines is regarded as inad
visable by President Coolidge, it is
announced.
WASHINGTON. Association
Against Prohibition Amendment an
nounces nation-wide rally of those
opposed to prohibition, to be held in
Wasihngton January 21.
FORT SMITH, Ark.—District No.
21, United Mine Workers of Amer
ica incorporate in constitution a
provision barring members of Ku
Klux Klan from union.
WASHINGTON. Representative
Garrett, Tennessee, Democratic
house leader, declares taxation prob
lem should be approached by cong
ress without partisanship.
PHILADELPHIA. Two terrific
bomb explosions in Spanish and
Italian consulates injure, scores of
persons and damage many houses,
but no one is reported badly injured.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge has boiled down his message to
congress and will mgkg explicit rec
ommendations rather than present
long discussions of his position,
White House advices say.
MINN EAPOLlS.—Modera t« good
looks, good health, moral cleanliness
and optimism are qualities more to
be desired in a husband than , mere
wealth, forty University of Minne
sota co-eds declare.
MANILA. - Governor General
Wood vetoes bill providing for re
mission of land tax penalities which
it is said will be passed over his veto
by legislature, placing matter before
President Coolidge.
DUSSELDORF.—PoIice claim to
have unearthed communist plot for
general armed attack on authorities
in various districts through arrest of
Herr Bladau, leader of Essen unem
ployed.
WASHINGTON. Representative
Longworth, candidate for Republic
an house leader, asks for harmony
among house Republicans, saying
they face the alternative of Demo,
craitc control.
WASHINGTON.—President Cool
idge is said to feel that Muscle Shoals
might properly be disposed of at a
loss to private interests, or operated
by government, in order to secure
cheap fertilizer and nitrates.
OKLAHOMA CITY. —Former Gov
ernor Walton, of Oklahoma. ask’s
immediate trial after indictment on
charges for which he was removed
from office. Ku Klux Klan is open
ly assailed and defended in Okla
homa senate.
NEW YORK. —Serious snow storm
hits northwestern New York state,
western Massachusetts and western
Vermont, blocking the highways in
the Berkshires and cutting off Ad
dirondack cities from wire com
munication temporarily.
WASHINGTON. • Representative
Tinkham, Republican, of Massachu
setts, announces he will introduce
resolution at coming session of
congress calling for investigation of
Anti-Saloon League by special house
committee.
PARIS. Premier Poincare's
friends, heartened by deputies’ big
vote of confidence, contrast his po
litical position with that in Germany,
where downfall of Stresemann gov
ernment is viewed with serious con
cern, especially as to its reaction out?
side Germany.
NEM YORK.—British schooner
Tomako is seized about three miles
beyond three-mile limit off New Jer
sey coast by coast guard cutter
Seneca after four shots were fired
across schooner’s path, forcing her
surrender. William F. McCoy is
arrested, after brief fight, in the
hold, where he was hiding: he had
American bank notes amounting to
SGO;Sd# and $30,000 more was found
in small safe in cabin. McCoy is
known as “rum smuggling king.”
DR. ALBERT TAKES
DUTY OF FORMING
GERMAN CABINET
Talk of U. S. Food Loan to
Germany Is Heard in
Washington—New Reich
Money Fails
BERLIN. Nov. 26.—(8y the Assc
ciated Press-) —The efforts of Dr
Heinrich F. Albert, former minister
of the treasury, to form a new Ger
man cabinet had borne no visible
fruit up to this afternoon. It was
believed that if a ministry should
take office under Dr. Albert’s chan
cellorship it would do more than
mark the transition stage to a dis
solution of the national parliament.
President Ebert’s invitation to Dr
Albert to form a new cabinet cans
ed considerably resentment in na
tionalist quarters, because the presi'
dent did not invite the nationalists
to submit a candidate for the chan
cellorship, for which post they had
the nati alist leader, Dr. Hergt, in
view.
The invitation was extended Dr
Albert Sunday after the members of
the deposed Stresemann ministry
and the various parliamentary lead
ers had informed the president that
the present situation in the reich
stag would prevent the installation
of a coalition government which
would he assured a working ma
jority in the legislative body.
The president recalled Dr. Albert
and prevailed upon him to recon
sider the declination to assume the
chancellorship which he had given
after a consultation with the execu
tive last Friday.
It was hardly expected from the
first, however, that Dr. Albert would
be able to get together a ministr:
which would stand the test of a
reichstag vote, the idea apparently
beinfe that it would serve as a means
of carrying on governmental affairs
until dissolution of the reichstag.
expected in the near future, should
come.
U. S. FOOD CREDITS
CONSIDERED FOR BERLIN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The
possibility that American food cred
its for Germany may be needed to
save that country from complete col
lapse and anarchy is being tnougnt
fully considered by high officials of
the Coolidge administration, it was
learned tonight.
But thus far no concrete credits
plan has been worked out or even
drafted. Secretary of Commerce
Hoover, who headed the American
relief organization during the war,
was reputed to have prepared a Ger
man relief plan, calling for large
food credits to be provided by con
gress. Hoover said tonight no such
plan existed so far as he knew. Nor
has any suggestion come to him,
he said, that this government make
a food loan, or any other sort of
loan to Germany.
President Coolidge was told some
time ago by his advisers that it
might be necessary to ask congress
to authorize money to keep Germany
from starvation and anarchy. The
president has been keeping in touch
with developments in Germany, and
on his behalf, the deep concern of
the administration over the possible
German collapse was expressed at
the White House.
Hoover has announced that the
department of commerce would make
a survey of German food conditions
in December. This would provide
information for this government
should relief measures become nec
essary. Hoover described the food
situation there as “very compli
cated.”
High officials oi the government
are concerned for fear that the gov
ernrpent succeeding that of Chancel
lor Stresemann may be unable to in
sure transport and distribution of
the relatively large food supply in
Germany to those centers of popu
lation which most need it. Failure to
do that would certainly result in a
food revolt against the government,
and would sweep the country into
anarchy, officials 'here fear.
Intoxication in Air
Is Charged to Pilot
By San Antonio Police
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 26.
The first arrest in San Antonio’s
history on a charge of operating an
airplane while intoxicated was filed
Sunday. Sergeant Lloyd Heflin'g,
stationed at Brooks field was arrest
ed by military police after a landing
in which he crashed into an oak tree
in a San Antonio residence section.
Hefling was unhurt and witnesses
say that a. woman leaped from the
plane and escaped before officers ar
rived.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 24.—(8y
'the Associated Press.) —Governor M.
E. Trapp announced today that he
will recommend to the state legisla
ture Monday passage of a law defi
nitely regulating secret organizations
in Oklahoma, and providing for the
making public of membership rolls.
"The people demand an adequate
act along this line, and I am sure
the legislature will give it to them,”
the governor said.
During a conference today with
members of the senate, the governor
declared that in his opinion a list
of members should be available to
every court in the state.
"A defendant in a court action
qualifying the jury to try him could
consult this record to determine if
any man going on the panel-is a
member of secret organization,” Gov
ernor Trapp pointed out.
Next Big Earthquake
Due in S. America,
Noted Scientist Says
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—A pre
diction that the world’s next catas
trophic earthquake will occur ih Cen
tral or South America was made
an address last night by Father Ton
dorff, the seismologist at George
town university, whose observations
gave the world its first news of the
violent disturbance that several
hours later was found to have
wrought vast destruction in Japan.
Father Tondorff declined to estimate
the probable time of the earthquake,
pointing out the difficulty of such an
estimate and declaring that, because
of the range of years it would have
to cover, it would be practically val
ueless. The Japanese catastrophe, he
recalled, was forecast in 1921 t>y the
Imperial Seismological bureau, which
fixed the time within six years, and
at the same time predicted a second
serious disturbance there between
1927 and 19|3.
Juries in Georgia
‘lmproving,’ Dismuke
Tells U. S. Dry Agent
Atlanta. Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building-.
RY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Federal
Prohibition Director F. D. Dismuke,
of Georgia, in a report to Commis
sioner Haynes, says: "Juries for
both of the federal rlistricts of Geor
gia are gradually improving, state
juries also show improvement, es
pecially over cne and tw’o years ago,
when it was impossible to get a
true bill' against any one on a
whisky charge -in certain counties.
“My officers during the past
month obtained over 500 convictions
in the federal and state courts of
Georgia for violations of the prohibi
tion laws. I consider this a splen
did record, taking into consideration
the fact that these officers also per
formed other duties before and after
court hours.
"We get splendid co-operation from
the various law enforcement agen
cies of this state and we seek and
encourage this assistance in every
way possible.”
Fifteenth Victim
Is Attacked by Ax
Fiend m Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM,. Ala., Nov. 25.
Birmingham’s ax murderer to whom
fourteen deaths are attributed in the
last three years was at large again
last night.
John Jiuliana, a coal miner was
struck in the head as he was walk
ing along a dark street here and was
taken to a hospital with a crushed
skull. Physicians said he could
not live. He was i-obbed after the
attack.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, November 27, 1923
TAKES NAME AND PASSPORT
OF DEAD FRIEND TO BECOME
EMBEZZLER IN ARGENTINA
Death Note of Suicide Tells
of Robbing United States
Shipping Board in Buenos
Aires
BUENOS AIRES. Nov. 25.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —A brief note
left by a defalcating accountant
when taking his own life clear
ed the name of anMnnocent man and
bared a story bf assumed identity
reading like a fiction-- plot.
Dispatches told of the suicide of
Jacobo M. Arnof, after discovery that
the local office of the United States
shipping board had been defrauded
of a large sum of money through
manipulation of the books.,
Today a confession was made
public in which the suicide made
known that his real name was Har
ry Wolfe, of New Orleans. He de
cided. before dying, he said, to clear
Arnpf’s name.
Wolfe declared in his confession
that Arnorf, who came from Arkan-
SIX COHGfIESSMEN
STURT MOVEMENT
FOR 'COTTON BLOC'
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—As a
step toward organizing a “cotton
bloc” in congress, six members of
the house from southern states met
today to discuss methods of aiding
the cotton growers. Representatives
Lowrey and Collier, of Mississippi;
Black, Texas; Vinson, Georgia; Wil
son, Louisiana, and Parks, Arkansas,
all Democratas, attended the confer
ence.
Agreement was reached that a de
termined effort should be made to
have the tariff on-calcium arsenate
removed. Such action it was de
clared, would lower the price of boll
weevil poison and enable farmers to
fight the pest more successfully.
Southern members of the house
have been invited by those vVho at
tended today’s meeting to partici
pate in a conference next Friday at
which plans will be made for enact
ment of legislation beneficial to the
cotton grower.
Ludowici Voters to Decide
On Bond Issue of $15,000
LUDOWICI, Ga.. Nov. 24.—An
election will be held here December
5 for the purpose of voting on bonds
amounting to $15,000, for the pur
chase and installation of an electric
light system. On the same date a
new town council will be elected.
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sas, was drowned while canoeing
with him here On November 7, 1920.
Instead of reporting the death to
the police, Wolfe assumed Arnof’s
name and took his passport.
He resembled his dead companion
closed except for a scar on his face,
and he completed the resemblance
by making a similar scar with acid.
His plan was so successful that he
was able to djj,w money regularly
from Arnof’s father without arous
ing suspicion.
He later obtained a position as the
shipping board accountant, and, by
systematic methods, robbed the of
fice of a total of more than 400.000
pesos.
Wolfe said he did it “by handling
the books so that nobody was able
to make head or tails of them.” He
concluded: "I alone am guilty.”
Shipping board officials and the
police express the opinion that the
confession is untrue in respect to
the clai mthat the suicide’s real
name was Wolfe.
They are still of the opinion that
his name was Arnof.
FORD WOULD SHUN
pmuT«.
FRIEND DECLARES
DETROIT, Mich. Nov. 24.—Henry
Ford will be a presidential candidate
it he can run on an independent
ticket and is not bound by any plat
form, Robert R. Pointer, friend of
Ford and one of the leaders of the
Ford for president movement, de
clared today.
Pointer admitted Ford has not en
tered any objections to the movement
to make him president. (
Arrangements are now being made
for the national convention of Ford
for President clubs in Dearborn, De
cember 12.
Ford will be nominated at the con
vention, according to present plans.
No platform, however, will be adopt
ed, Pointer said, because the motor
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on any dotted line.”*
Three hundred delegates, repre
senting forty-two states, are expected
to attend.
Morrison Made President
Os Bank in Moultrie
MOULTRIE, Nov. 24.—R. M.
Morrison, Moultrie capitalist and
widely known in business circles in
south Georgia, has been named
president of the Citizens’ bank, tc
succeed the late W. M. Barber, who
died at his home here a few days
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RESULTS OF EXTRA I
SESSION DOUBTFUL 1
ON NEW MEASURES
Ellis Bill Held Only One With
Chance of Passing—Dead
lock Imminent on Whole
Program
Members of the Georgia general
assembly left Atlanta Saturday en
| tertaining grave doubts that the
I present extra session of the legis
lature will accomplish anything at
all in the way of revenue reform, un
less the session is prolonged for two
o: three weeks more. There is no
possibility of the program being com
pleted this week, as the legislators
do not intend to miss Thanksgiving
dinner at home, and probably will
at ou. n from Wednesday until Mon
day of the week following.
Supporters of x the tax commis
sion’s reform program were sorely
disappointed that a vote on the
Lankford income tax measure was
not reached in the house last week,
but they realized that it would be
suicidal to force a vote during the
absence of Representative A. S-
Bussey, of Crisp county, author of
the Lv.- soy substitute for the Lank
ford measure. Representative Bus
sey has a personal following in the
hou that is large enough to defeat
any measure requiring a two-thirds
vote, if so inclined, and the wo v '"
went out that these followers woulo
resent any effort to prevent the
Crisp representative being heard on
his own measure. Mr, Bussey, who
has been al the bedside of his moth
er, i l Cordele, has stated that he will
be back in his seat on Monday.
Af‘>r the lules committee took ac
tion Friday to set the vote on the
Lankford bill for Tuesday morning,
the house marke' time tv ■ large ex
tent. No afternoon session was held
Friday and none on Saturday.
Speaker Neill agreed to this pro
g.am because no other business can
be transacted until after the income
tax issue is disposed of.
Deadlock Indicated
A.i unofficial poll of the house in
dicates that neither the Lankford
income tax bill nor the Bussey 'sub
stitute can be passed unless the two
factions get together, and ho other
substitute is considered to have a
chance. This situation arises from
the fact that at least forty members
are listed as opposed to any changes
in the present revenue system The
attendance has not exceeded 185 on
any roll call during the present ses
sion, and 138 votes are required to
pt an amendment to the constitu
t’on. Checking off the forty mem
bers who are opposed to tax changes,
it ~’ould take a,. .very, email differ
pii > of opinion over a proposed
. measure to prevent its passage.
The introduction of a. bill provid
ing for an income tax witjiout a con
stitutional amendment, by Repre
sentative Robert C. Ellis, of Tift
county, was regarded in some quar
ters as indicating that the state tax
commission has abandoned hope of
mustering the vote required for a
constitutional amendment, on its
| original tax measures. Mr. Ellis I*
jvi chairman of the state tax com
j mis-.on, and has introduced two of
! the bills the commission is sponsor-
I ing. He offered his statutory/in
| come tax measure as house bill No.
i 52, one week after the other meas
i ures wet j placed on the calendar,
land when a definite cleavage was
already manifest in the' house.
The indications now are that sup
porters of the tax commission pro
gram will rally to the Ellis bill, if
the Lankford measure, as amended
tjy the house, does not pass, and
backers of the Bussey substitute
: fail to put that measure over. The
1 Ellis bill provides for a limited in-
I come tax, a reduction of the' ad
; valorem tax rate from five mills to
; two and a half mills, and the estab
i Lshment of machinery for the cul
i lection of all taxes. It thus carries
I out t <ree' of the recommendations of
the state tv-x commission.
Hope of Kef ormers
As the Ellis bill will not require a
two-thirds vote of the entire enroll
ment of the house, but can be passed
by a bare majority, it is beginning
to take a place as the hope of the
re -nue reformers. Representatives
Elli , Barrett, of Stephens county,
and other well-known lawyers in the
house, insist that an income tax can
be pas d without a constitutional
amendment, and point to the pres
ent taxes assessed against the in
comes of insurance companies, soft
drink manufacturers, and other in
dustrires, in the general tax act
that has been on the books fhr sev-:
eral years.
If some form of income tax is not
passed, it is considered to be im
probable that any other legislation
will be attempted, except an agree
ment on senate' amendments to ths
general tax act alrady passed by
the house, and probably a bill to
give the state the power to compel
the payment of taxes already en
acted. With no additional revenue
provided, free Achool book legisla
tion would be looked upon as a for
lorn hope at the present time.
Indications of a break between the
two branches over the repeal of the
! tax equalization law were increas
i ing toward the week-end. The house
' passed the repeal bill as its firfft
measure, and sept it to the senate
or. Friday, November 16. The sen
ate committee had taken no action
on the bill one week later, and mem-,
hors of the house were asking why.
The same situation developed at the
regular session last summer, when
the house passed q similar bill and
it was never reported out of the
senate committee to which it was
referred. There are many “las7‘
ditchers” in the house who will re
fuse to vote for any new tax law
until the repeal measure.becomes a
law, it is said.
Former fax Collector W
Given 2-Year Sentence
FRANKLIN, Ga., Nov. 23.—Aftei
being out a couple of hours, a jury
found H. B. Hammond, former tax
collector of Heard county, guilty,
and recommended he be given two
to four years. Hammond was in
dicted here at the September term
of court for embezzlement of funds
of Heard county amounting to
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