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ENTRENCHED NEGRO
KILIS 3.WOUNDSS
IB 7-HOUR OHTLE
< DREW, Miss., Dec. 15.—This vil
lage, nestling in the swamps of the
Mississippi delta, awoke from its
slumbers today and counted its dead
—the human toll exacted yesterday
in the spectacular gun battle be
tween Joe Pullen, negro tenant farm
er, and a posse of several hundred
men.
Four men, including the negro, lost
their lives in the battle, which raged
until 1 o’clock this morning, when
Pullen, riddled with bullets, was
captured and broughthere. Nine oth
ers were wounded, three of them
♦perhaps fatally.
The dead:
Joe Pullen, 40, negro tenant farm
er.
W. T. Sanders, 45, his employer.
R. L. Methvin, 55, posseman.
E. O. Hess, 50, posseman.
All of the wounded men were mem
bers of the posse, which battled with
the negro for more than seven hours.
The more seriously wounded are: J.
L. (Bud) Doggett, prominent lum
berman and sportsman of Clarksdale,
cMiss.; A. L. Manning and Kenneth
Blackwood, both farmers.
Storm Negro's “Trench”
Doggett was shot in the region of
the heart, but physicians said he
has a chance to recover. Manning
and Blackwood both were shot in the
‘face and neck. Neither is expected
to live through the day.
Others wounded were:
Luther Hughes, C. A. Hammond,
Bob Stringfellow, J. B. Ratliff, B. A.
Williams and Robert Kirsch.
Pullen was captured at 1 o’clock
this morning, when four members
of the posse braved the negro's fire
and stormed the drainage ditch in
which he had been entrenched for
several hours. Headed by Sheriff
Newt Cartlege, of Clarksdale, the
party set up a machine gun which
had been brought from Clarksdale,
and opened fire on the negro's
stronghold. Fighting desperately to
the end, Pullen returned the fire
with pistols and shotgun until he fell
with twenty bullets in his body. He
4 was brought Zere, where his body
lay in the man street until he died
at 2 o’clock.
Argument Over Debt
The trouble started shortly after
noon yesterday, when Sanders, on
whose place Pullen lived, went to the
latter’s house to collect a debt. An
argument ensued, and the negro shot
Sanders through the heart, killing
him instantly.
, After shooting his employer, Pul- I
len ran into his cabin, armed him
self with a shotgun and fled into
the swamp.
A small posse was quickly formed,
and a systematic search for the
negro was begun. Pullen was sight
ed several times during the after
noon, but each time he proved the
better marksman. One by one, he
dropped his pursuers from ambush.
By tjie time he had reached the
drainage ditch, the negro’s deadly
aim with 'shotgun and pistol had I
brought down eleven members of the
posse, ■which by this time had been
*-increased to several hundred men.
His twelfth victim was “Bud” Dog
gett, who was shot while assisting
Sheriff Cartleg'e in placing the ma
chine gun.
Second Garrett Found
Guilty m the Slaying *
Os Virginia Pastor
CUMBERLAND COURTHOUSE,
• Va., Dec. 15. — (By the Associated
Press) —Larkin C. Garrett was found
guilty of voluntary manslaughter, I
and his punishment fixed at four |
years’ imprisonment by a jury today .
• for his part in the killing last June I
5 of the Rev. E. S. Pierce.-
His brother, Robert O. Garrett, i
jointly indicted with him for the ■
slaying, recently was convicted of '
second degree murder and sentenced I
to five years in the penitentiary. |
Robert O. Garrett now has pend
ing a, motion for a new trial, and a
decision in this matter was expected
'today. However, Judge B. D. White,
presiding, announced he would con
tinue Robert’s case until the next
term of court. This decision was
reached in view of a similar motion
mnde in the Larkin C. Garrett case
immediately after the verdict was
returned.
Tov/n’s Only Barber
Quarantined Just as
He Is Needed Most
STOCKTON, Cal., Dec. 15.—The
only barber in the mining town of
Melones is tinder quarantine for
scarletina, with the result that there
is a tense situation in view of a club
dance, dinner and program tonight.
Miners trooped into town yesterday
p.nd stood about the barber shop in
large numbers, gazing disconsolately
at the quarantine sign displayed on
the door.
“They teach us first aid here,”
one of the miners said, “but the op
eration of a safety razor isn't In the
’curriculum.”
Some of the feminine residents
also were wondering where they
would get their hair bobbed for the ■
festivities. Indications are that
many “roughnecks’’ will attend the
party unless last minute measures
for first aid to the sartorially inclin
ed are found.
35,000 Southern
Baptist Students
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 15.
Over 35,000 students are enrolled in
Ihe Baptist institutions of learning
in the south, according to a survey
that has just been completed by the
education board of the southern
convention, it has been an
nounced at Baptist headquarters
here.
j Os this number, over 2,900 are
ministerial students and over 2,000
other youn; men and women are
volunteers for other definite forms
of Christian service. This gives to
southern baptists the largest num
ber of ministerial students they
have ever had at one time.
There is a total of 119 Baptist in
stitutions in the south, it is report
ed. This number includes 5 theolog
ical seminaries and missionary train
ing schools, 32 senior colleges, 30
junior colleges and 52 academies.
, These institutions have property
valuation of $29,439,710; an endow
ment in the sum of $15,380,251. giv
ing combined assets of 8 11.819,961.
Value of Canadian
Field Crops Given
OTTAWA, Dec. 15.—The total
value of Canada's principal field
crops for 1923 today were estimated
by- the dominion bureau of statistics
.at $892,572,300, as compared with
$962,293,200 in 1922 and $931,863,670
in 1921.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
SELLER’S MARKET, MADE FOR HIM BY NATURE,
WHICH OFFERED CONTROL OF COTTON PRICE,
THROWN AWAY BY UNORGANIZED FARMER
Independent Growers Again
Defeat Law of Supply apd
Demand by Dumping and
Pay a Heavy Penalty
BY EDWIN CAMP
THE diagram herewith is not
a dress pattern. It is a
statistical chart, called a
graph, and it shows a few details
of the course of the present cot
ton market.
It is something more than a
graph, or chart. It partakes of
the character of a sermon. If its
lessons are heeded, it will be
worth hundreds of thousands,
even millions, of dollars to the
people of Georgia. •
On July 31 there was some
doubt as to the amount of Amer
ican cotton that would be pro
duced this year. There still is.
On July 31 there was also
some doubt as to the amount of
American cotton the world would
need in the following twelve
months. There still Is.
But there was one fact about
which there was no doubt. It
was this:
That not enough American cot
ton would or could be produced
to meet a NORMAL demand for
consumption, and maintain a
safe carry-over.
This fact was known to every
cotton merchant, every cotton
spinner in the world.
A “sellers’ nlarket” thus was
created —a market in which
those having cotton were in po
sition to control the situation.
Yet they did no such thing.
The trouble was that these sell
ers were 2,000,000 people, scat
tered from southern Virginia and
southern Missouri, throughout
the southern states, all the way
to Florida and on westward to
the Rio Grande river and the
plains of New Mexico. Os these
2,000,000 people, at least half
were negroes. Os them at least
500,000 were illiterate. Another
half million, or maybe more, were
so unlearned as to have no
knowledge of the fundamental
fdets of the cotton situation.
These 2,000,000 people might
everyone of them, have ob
tained an extraordinarily profit
able price for their cotton, the
produce of their year’s labor.
The money they might have ob
tained would have gone out in
to every channel of commerce.
And everybody' would have bene
fited by such a sound distribu
tion.
A situation had been created
for them, through no workings
of their own, which in degree
of accentuation, had never oc
curred before. As the season
opened, it was known to all
with any knowledge of trade that
a cotton famine impended.
The producers controlled the
market. They held it within the
grasp of their fists.
But they threw it dow’n and
started cutting each other's
throat.
They were unorganized. They
didn’t know the facts. They had
debts that were pressing. They I
were driven by landlord, mer
chant, banker. They were
“skeered.”
There were half a dozen dif
ferent influences that impelled
them to rush pell-mell to mar
ket, all of them strong, yet none
o£ them valid. But the main
trouble was ignorance.
Had the steel mills of the coun
try faced such a situation -in
.heir trade, they’ would nave
known what to do. Had a simi
lar state of affairs existed in oil,
the great companies would have
extracted the profits which they
would have considered to be non
estly and justly theirs. Had any’
set of merchants in any Indus
try gazed upon such a seller's
market, they would have reaped
to the utmost the harvest pro
vided for them by nature and
economics. But the cotton pro
ducers were ignorant, and un
organized.
The chart shows that cn July’
31 middling cotton in New York
was selling at 22.45 cents ;
pound. The markets were
closed September 1-3, but on Sep
tember 4, it brought 25.95. ( n
October 1, it sold at 29.50. On
November 1, it had climbed to
31.25. On December 1, it reached
37.65. In ten days it dropped to
33.70. Two days later it had
risen 2.55 cents to 36.25.
Those figures mean that a bale
of cotton had the following dif
ferent values:
July 31 $112.25
September 4 129.75
October 1 147.50
November 1 156.25
December 1 188.25
December 10 168.50
December 12 181.25
Now, those figures are inter
esting enough, but read them in
the light of the facts which fol- I
low:
Something more than 35 per 1
cent of the cotton produced this
year was sold by growers before
. November 1. This amount is
something more than 3,500,000
bales. It brought to the pro
ducers an average price of about
$135 a bale. Or» December 1 this
cotton was worth $185,500,000 •
more than the producers got
for it.
Wl— got this profit of SSO a
bale on current quotations that
the producers might have got
and put to a sorely needed use?'
Speculators, merchants, mills.
Mills apparently will need
during the year August 1-July
31 a total of 12,000,000 bales of
cotton. Their requirements for
the three months August-Sep- |
tember-October were 3.000,000 I
bales. Yet the producers dumped
onto the market in those three
months 500,000 bales for which I
there was no current need. How |
much higher would the price of
cotton have been to the pro
ducers had they’ offered to the
trade no more than the amount
required for current consump
tion?
In the month of November, to
supply mill needs of 1,000.000
bales, 2.000.000 bales were sold
by producers.
So, in four months producers
dumped 5.500.000 bales when the
spinning demand was for only’
4,000,000 bales.
In December another 1,400,-
000 bales will have been thrown
on the market by’ producers, and
primary’ sales will have totaled • i
6,900,000 bales and consumption
needs 5.000,000 hales.
January’ 1, 1924, will dawn
with 69.1 per cent of the Amer
ican crop out of the hands of
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This graph shows course of price
of middling spot cotton in New York
from July 31 through December 12.
‘ the farmers 50 per cent of it
spun, and 58 per cent of the
year to come.
If the trade requires the spin
ning of 7,000,000 bales dur ng
those remaining seven mcntr.s
| (as it has in the past) where adll
it come from?
I The best authorities say such
an amount of cotton will not ex
ist.
i Os this season's crop, only 3,-
000,000 bales will be in the bands
of farmers; there will be a sur
plus over spinning of 1,900,000
I bales in nands of mills and mer-
I chants, and the normal need for
the seven months will be 7,000,-
000 bales.
It is not the purport of this
discussion to guess what the
price of cotton will be. The pur
port is to show that the ohly
way the farmers can safely and
fairly sell their cotton and get
| a decent'profit out of it is to
I cease to dump it, and cease to
guess at the probable course of
prices, and to sell, through co
operative associations, steadily
during twelve months, feeding
the cotton to the spinners as
i they need it, obtaining an aver
age price in the course of a year,
this price to be fixed by the in
exorable reaction of demand on
supply.
Those farmers who sold 35 per
i cent of the American cotton crop
in three months stabbed the law
of supply and demand in the vi
tals. There was consumptive de
mand for only 3,000,000 bales.
They bid against each other in
| furnishing a supply of 3,500,000.
It is not strange then that cot
| ton which was worth SIBB a bale
on December 1 had brought them
an average of only $135. There
was a consumptive need of 1,-
000,000 bales in November, and
producers bid against each oth-
I er and kept the price from at
taining a true level by furnishing
a supply of two bales to every
i one needed. There will be con
sumptive demand this month for
1,000,000 bales and if they fol
i low the ten-year average pro
ducers will supply 1,400,000 bales
to the trade.
Thus it is that the cotton
farmers selling two bales when
the mills need one, is his own
worst enemy. He has never ob
tained the profits that were his
for the taking. True, he never
had the opportunity up to the
past eighteen months. Till
then he was forced to go it alone,
competing with his neighbor in
one of the most highly special
ized businesses in the world—
that of selling cotton.
At times he has been advised
—and ill-advised, as thousands
know from bitter experience—to
“hold cotton.”
That is buncombe, for several
reasons
T be tirst is that Producers of
<0 to 80 per cent of the crop are
financially unable to hold. They
have mortgages on their crop,
they have landlords to satisfy,
they have debts to pay. Left to
their own resources, you might
as well say to them, “Get rich” .
as to say, “Hold cotton.” 1
Another reason why it is tom
myrot to tell them to hold is that
there is no man in the wide, wide
world who knows what price the J
farmer should hold for. There is t
no set of men who can know. The t
killing of a no-account duke in e
the Balkans will turn the wmrld t
upside down.' An inspired idiot ' t
with a hunch to wear overalls in 11
stead of clothes will precipitate a <
situation that will cause cotton ■ i
to jump 3 cents on the theory a
that everybody will buy overalls, £
and then put cotton on the soapy ,
chutes from 43 cents to 12 cent;. ,
on the theory that nobody will
ever again buy anything.
Look at the chart. Cotton was
j 37.65 cents on December 1. Ten
days later it was 395 points
down. Why did it fall $19.95 a
bale and then in two days rise
$12.75? A lot of opinions have
been printed but if any one of
them or any set of them repre- i
sent exact knowledge, the fact is
not demonstrable. Who could
have predicted such gyrations?
Who then is capable of advising '
a. farmer what price he should ; '
| hold for? Or where is the farm j ‘
er who is capable of deciding the i
question for himself?
Suppose Farmer Jones, highly
intelligent and well informed of
the impending shortage, believes
cotton will sell at forty cents,
and determines in October to
hold for that price. Suppose '
further that he has notes to pay
Thirty-Five Per Cent of Crop
I Sold at Sacrifice Prices in
First Three Months of
Season
on December 10, which will re
quire him to sell by that dsy.
He sees cotton mount steadily,
backing and filling a little, but
gaining week by’ week. Decem
ber 1 comes and the price reaches
37.65. His forty cents looks like
a certainty to him. But cotton
drops on December 2 and keeps
dropping, with minor reactions,
till on the tenth it reaches the
bottom for the movement. Farm
er Jones has to sell his fifty
bales that day. He loses SI,OOO
as compared with yvhat he
might have got nine days be
j fore. He loses S6OO as com
pared with yvhat he might have
got two days later. Yet it might
be thajt he was correct as to
the likelihood of forty-cent cot
ton during the season.
Whatever the course of the
market may be during the rest
I of the year, only those who
have deposited their cotton with
the co-operative association can
be assured that they will get as
much as an average price for
the season. Those who sold for
twenty-five and twenty-six cents,
j even thirty, now realize that
they have lost and lost heavily.
Those that sold for thirty-eight
i cents, it may turn out, were
lucky, but can they be confident
of such good fortune in the fu
ture? Or can they point to it
in the past?
The co-operatives avoid the
dumping seasons when the un
j organized farmers are bidding
the price down in their rush to
sell. They enable the farmer
i to obtain a liberal advance pay
ment (in Georgia this year it
is SIOO a bale), having means
to borrow money at loXv rate of
interest. They enable the farm
mer to have his cotton graded
for him, instead of for the buy
er. They give him many a dollar
that otherwise would go to mid
dle men of various sorts.
When managed well and in ac
cordance with the principles un
der which they are chartered
they take the gamble and the
guess out of selling cotton, gxid
they do it without increasing. :ne
price to the ultimate consuming
public by one penny.
These associations are not
holding concerns. Should they
ever become holding concerns,
they will violate their charters
and become cotton gamblers.
They are organizations for
the sole purpose of selling cot
ton gradually, and in orderly
manner, over a period of twelve
months.
They avoid the “dumping sea
son” for it is physically impos
sible for them to sell during
that period. They then are get
ting members’ cotton into their
keeping, are concentrating it
into warehouses and grouping it
into lots of even grade and
staple.
A start made in this routine
work, they then are in’position
to begin selling and it is their
duty to sell gradually yet stead
ily. They may think! qotton is
too low and that it will go
higher. Yet they cannot be sure
of this, so they sell in accord
ance with the absorptive atti
tude of the market. Should it
be tliat cotton goes higher, they
will have plenty of cotton to
sell at that higher price. Should
cotton go lower, they will have
sold some at the higher level,
thus averaging up for their
members.
What they are in admirable
position to do is to avoid such
a tremendous dip as that shown
m the chart from December
1-10. The price was 37.65 on
December 1, $188.25 a bale. The
price broke the next day and
kept falling, with minor reac
tions, till December 10, jt was I
$19.75 a bale lower. Then in
two days it regained a large
part of that loss. There was
no reason for the co-ops to sell
during that ten-day decline and,
while I have no information on
the subject, I doubt that one
bale was thrown on the market
by the associations during that
period.
The eleven state associations
this' year are handling some
thing less than - one-fifth of the
American crop. They will make
a brilliant showing for their
members just as they did last
year, even with so small a part
of the supply.
Had they controlled one-half
of the American crop this year,
their members would have reap
ed to the utmost the benefit, to
all farmers that lay in a sell
er’s market created by supply
and demand.
As it is, sa*" 1 for a few lucky 1
men, pitifully few they are, only
the members of the co-opera- '
fives will profit by the rise of ’
cotton above 30 cents.
The rest solid when prices
were low and going up. The
co-ops sold little when prices •
were low, sold much when
prices were high and will con- ,
tinue to sell as the spinners i
need staple.
Virginia Postmaster
Sentenced to Prison
RICHMOND. Va., Dec. 15— J. 11.
Johnson, former postmaster at Quin
ton, New Kent county, was sen
tenced to seven months in the fed
eral penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.,
by Judge D. Lawrence Groner in
United States district court here yes
terday after he had been found guilty
of embezzling government funds.
The shortage in Johnson’s accounts,
amounting to $2,385, was made good
and because of this and other exten
uating circumstances the court an
nounced the sentence was made mod
erate.
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MMSEIW
M»mOUT
INCOME TAX ACTION
The Georgia general assembly ad
jonrned sine die at 6:30 o’clock Fri
day night, after an extra session that
had lasted thirty-eight days, without
enacting an in'eome' tax. or other
form of new revenue law. Both
branches gave up after the seventh
conference committee on the Lank
ford income tax had failed to agree,
and the house of representatives de
clined to appoint another confer
ence committee. The results of the
extra session were six bills of general
application.
Within an hour of the time previ
ously set for adjournment, the sen
ate considered a motion to concur
in the house amendments to the
Lankford billl, but voted it down 24
to 18. The senate then took up the
house bill to repeal the tax equaliza
tion law, and defeated that measure
by a vote of 24 to 17.
Through this action of the sen
ate in the final hour of the sesion,
two of the purposes of Governor
Walker’s call for the extra session
were defeated. The chief executive
had made reform of the revenue
laws the main issue before the ex
rtraodinary session, and had bent ev
ery effort both for the adoption of a
new tax act and the repeal of the
tax equalization law.
Governor Walker Silent
Governor Walker declined Friday
night to make any comment on the
results of the extrh. session, declar
ing that the things accomplished and
the things left undone would speak
for themselves. He stated that he
“had made a conscientious effort to
lift the burdens of taxation from the
backs of those who now bear them,
or to at least lighten their loads.”
In the thirty-eight days of the ex
tra session, the legislature put in
more hours of actual work than are
ordinarily spent in a regular session
of fifty days. Speaker Neill told the
members of the house of representa
tives in thanking them for their co
operation.
The house started double ses
sions four days after the extra ses
sion convened, and kept. up both
morning and afternoon meetings un
til the final day. On many occasions
the house remained at work until
after nightfall.
Six Bills Passed
Six general bills were passed by
both houses, after four of them had
gone to- conference committees and
been changed from their original
forms. They were:
1. The general tax act, making
numerous changes in the present law
assessing general and occupational
taxes. Chairman Ennis, of the ways
and means committee of the house,
who steered, the bill through the low
er branch and was on the conference
committee that brought about the
senate’s agreement to it, estimates
that the measure will increase the
revenues of the state materially.
2. The bill of Representative J.
H. Ennis, of Baldwin county, creat
ing a state department of revenue, to
be in charge of a commissioner of
revenue, with authority to appoint
several deputies and clerks. The ex
penses of the department are to be
paid out of penalties assessed against
persons delinquent in special taxes
due the state. The department will
be charged with the enforcement of
collection of all special taxes, such as
cigarette and cigar taxes, inher
itance taxes and occupational taxes.
3. The bill of Senator Stephen
Pace, of Americus, creating a state
auditing department, under the su
pervision of as auditor, at a salary
of $4,000 per annum, and two exam
iners, at salaries of $2,400 each. An
additional allowance of $1,500 for
clerical help was made. This depart
ment is to audit the books of all state
departments and institutions, and to
curb extravagances in expenditures.
x Cigar Tax Perfected
4. The bill of Representative Her
mart*Milner, of Dodge county, per
fecting the cigar and cigarette tax
law by authorizing the appointment
of field deputies to see that the tax
is paid, and permitting the expense
of printing stamps and other inci-1
dentals to be taken out of the pro
ceeds of the tax collections. This
bill was amended in the final hours
of the session, so as to put the col
lection of the tax under the super
vision of the new revenue depart
ment.
5. The house substitute for the
resolution of Senator Beauchamp,
providing for the renewal of the pres
ent school book contract by the state
board of education, without the pres
ent provision that text books shall
have an exchange value of 50 per
cent, and giving county and district
school boards the power to use por
tions of the school funds for the
purchase of text books, to be rented,
loaned or given to pupils. This is
what was known as the free school
book measure, an amended form, and
was included in the governor’s call.
6- The bill of Senator Spence, simi
lar to the Stovall-Holden bill in the
house, giving counties and munici
palities the right to exempt new in
dustries from local taxation for a
period of five years. The purpose
of this measure is to encourage new
enterprises in this state.
Although the extra session cost the
state in the neighborhood of SIOO,OOO,
on the basis of an average expense
of $2,500 per day. many legislators
insist that the money was well spent,
in view of the actual accomplish
ments. This claim is based on the
belief that the new general tax act
will raise much in additional reve
nue. and that the revenue depart
ment will collect thousands of dol
lars in delinquent taxes, while the
auditing department will curb ex
travagance and bring about a budget
system.
Eighth Committee Refused
Chief activity and interest on the
last day of the session centered in
the state senate, where final action
was taken on the Lankford income
tax bill and the house- bill to repeal
the tax equalization, law. The sen
ate first voted to appoint an eighth
conference committee on the Lank
ford bill, and Senators Hodges, Green
and Davis were itnmed as committee
men, but when the house declined to
go further with the conferences, the
senate reconsidered its action.
Senator Adams, of the Forty
seventh district, made the motion
that the senate concur in all the
house amendments to the Lankford
bill, striking out the word “net,” the
set-off clause and the schedule of
exemptions. This motion was de
bated vigorously, but defeated. The
vote was as follows:
Against adoption: Beauchamp, i
Boyd, Chastain, Davis. Ficklin, Gar
lick, Garrison, Gilstrap, Grantham,
Green, Hodges. King. Lankford, Lati
mer, Loftin, Miller. Morgan. Mundy,
Owens, Pace, Parker, Redwine,
Smith, of the Twenty-third: Smith,
of the Thirty-fifth. Total, 24.
For the resolution: Adams, Arnow,
Hamby, Henderson, Horn, Hullender,
Johns, Keith, Kennedy, Kennon, Lit
tle, Mason. ’Moore, McLeod. Phillips,
Stovall, Spence and Whitaker. To
tal. IS.
Those not voting: Cason, Coates,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1923.
Supervising Bishops
In Foreign Countries
To Submit Reports
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 15.
(By the Associated Press.) —Bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, having supervision in for
eign countries, here attending the
semi-annual meeting of the college
of bishops, vzere expected to make
their reports today. Bishop S. R.
Hay, in charge of China; Bishop W.
B. Beauchamp, supervising Belgium,
Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, and
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., in charge
of Africa, Mexico and Cuba, are on
the program.
Dr. H. K. Carroll, Plainfield, Va.,
secretary of the Asbury Memorial
association, announced to the bishops
yesterday that the equestrian statue
of Bishop Francis Asbury, who was
the organizer of American Meth
odism, will be unveiled in Washing
ton in June, provided the church
will advance the $9,000 still needed.
Dr. Carroll asked the bishops to
recommend that the church advance
the sum needed.
It was learned at the conclusion
of yesterday’s session that the ques
tion of heresy in the church and
matters pertaining to efforts now be
ing made to unify the southern and
northern branches of the church
will not be brought! up at this meet
ing. This is contrary to announce
ments at the beginning of the meet
ing that these questions would be
discussed.
It was pointed out that discussion
of these subjects would be more or
less futile, since the college of bish
ops has a purely executive function
and is not vested with legislative
powers.
Lakeland Gets Florida
Baptist Convention
LAKELAND, Fla., Dec. 15.
Lakeland was selected to entertain
the 1924 convention of the Southern
Baptist church. December 9, next at
the closing session of the organiza
tion last night. A June meeting will
be held in Gainesville, it was de
cided.
Discussion of the $75,000,000 fund
drive, and an address by Rev. L.
11. Broughton, of Jacksonville, fea
tured the evening session. Dr. A.
R. Bond, df Birmingham, presented
his report on Christian education.
Dr. C. E. Carroll, of New Orleans,
and Dr. J. McK. Adams, of Louis
ville, reported on Bible schools and
seminaries. The Woman’s Mission
ary union and the church delegates
brought their three-day meetings to
a close last night.
Douglas, Duke, Gillis, Johnson, Pass
more, and Smith, of the Forty-fifth.
Total, 8.
Vote on Equalization
Senator Johns, of the Twenty
seventh district, made the motion
that the tax equalizatioii law be re
pealed. On this motion the vote was
as follows:
For repeal: Senators Arnow, Boyd,
Chastain, Garrison, Gilstrap, Hender
son, Hodges, Hullender, Johns, Keith,
Loftin, Owens, Pace, Passmore, Phil
lips, Redwine, Stovall. Smith, of the
Thirty-fifth, and Whitaker. Total,
18.
Against the motion: Senators Ad
ams, Beauchamp, Davis, Ficklin,
Garlick, Grantham, Green, Hamby,
Horn, Kennedy, Kennon, King, Lank
ford, Latimer, Little, Mason, Miller,
Moore, Morgan, Mundy, McLeod,
Parker and Spence. Total, 24.
Those not voting: Cason, Coates,
Douglas, Duke, Gillis, Johnson,
Smith, of the Forty-fifth, and Smith,
of the Twenty-third. Total, 8.
In the final conference on the
general tax act. the principal change
made in the bill was the elimination
of a clause creating a state boxing
commission.
Representative Simpson, of Lee
county, secured an amendment to
the £ext book bill, requiring school
boards to have books on hand five
days before school terms begin, and
to keep a/supply at all times. The
amendment also eliminated' a 15
per cent allowance to agencies.
Milner Bill Amended
The Milner bill was amended by
a conference committee so as to
place the collection of cigar and
cigarette taxes in the hands of the
department of revenue instead of
the comptroller general, and also to
permit the stamping of cartons in
stead of packages, when cigarettes
are sold by the carton.
The principal bills introduced at
the session that failed of passage
were the. Lankford income tax bill,
the Ellis statutory income tax meas
ure, the budget bill, the classifica
tion tax bill. and the repeal of the
tax equalization tax law. All of
these issues were included in the
governor’s call, and indorsed by
him, while all except the .repeal
measure were recommended by the
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