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THE WEATHER.
For Atlanta and Vicinity—Fair
and slightly wanner tonight and
Tuesday. *
The Atlanta Georgian
AND NEWS
SPOT COTTON.
Liverpool, steady, 6.19; Atlanta. steady,
11*4; New Orion ns, steady, 11%; Sew
York, steady, 11,80; Bnrnnnnh, quiet,
11 1-16; Augusta, Arm, 11 1-16; Mobile,
firm, 11 1-16; Charleston, steady, 10 13-16.
VOL. VI. NO. 102.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1907.
PPTPT?,. In Atlanta..TWO CENTM.
rMJJA-JH. On Trains..FIVE CENTS.
60TH CONGRESS MEETS
“UNCLE HE”
RE-ELECTED TO
Both Houses Adjourn
Until Tuesday
Noon.
MARK OP RESPECT
TO DEAD MEMBERS
John Sharp Williams Takes
Up Leadership of Mi
nority.
Waahlngton, Dec. 2.—Congreia aa-
■embled at noon today. It was Wash
ington’s-'one great ahow day of the
rear. Long before the gavels fell In
he senate and house, a stream of peo
ple coursed down Pennsylvania avenue.
Hied the galleries, and overflowed Into
he corridors—a mast of confusion and
■olor. The procedure In the senate
,vas formal and brief. In the house the
■ntlro membership had to be sworn In,
Speaker Cannon and the other officers
iad to be re-elected, and seats had to
je assigned. _ ,
In the senate Vice President Falr-
3&nks presided, the organization of the
■onate being continuous. Rev. Edward
Everett Hale, the distinguished chap-
aln of the senate, ottered prayer, the
roll was called and the vice president
mnounced a quorum present. The
.wearing In of newly-elected senators
was than taken up, after which Sena
tor Hole, the maater-of-ceremonles,
offered the usual resolution directing
the appointment of a committee to act
ivlth a committee of the house to watt
3pon .President Roosevelt and inform
ilm that congress was asssmbled and
prepared to receive any communica
tion he mlp’-t be pleased to make. The
committee. will not report until tomor-
IW, _
Then the senate was ready to go to
ork. Identical resolutions were adopt.
I by the house. One more resolution
as needed to start the legislative ma-
llnery In the upper body, and tt Axed
Continued on Pape Nine.
toodyear Will
3eorgia-Mis-
ppi Canal.
Washington, Dec. 2.—C, P. Good
year, of Brunswick, Ga., a member of
the Brunswick board of trade, and the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, a dele
gate of the state of Georgia to the riv
ers and harbors congress which meets
here Wednesday, Is In Washington.
Colonel Goodyear has spent thirty
years agitating Improved waterways
In the Southern states. He was re
cently a delegate to the waterways
convention held in Philadelphia.
There will be about 1,000 delegates
present at this week’s session of the
rivers and harbors congress. The pres
ident la Joseph E. Ranedell, member ot
congress from Louisiana. The secretary
la J. T. Ellison, of Cincinnati. Sec
retary Root will open the congress.
Ambassador Jusaarand will make an
address on French canale and Baron
von Sternburg will talk on German In
land navigation. Senator Newlande,
Hon. Theodore Burton, Colonel Good
year and Governor Hoke Smith will
also apeak. About twenty governors
will be present; A 150,000,000 appro
priation Is wanted.
Colonel Goodyear has revived a
project for a canal connecting the
Georgia coast with the Mississippi
liver. The proposed canal would start
at Atlanta and using various small riv
ers In Georgia and Alabama, would
epen 15,000 miles of Interior rlvere to
the Atlantic coast. Some of these riv
ers are navigable now, and the pro-
imsed new waterway would connect
with the Tennessee and Mississippi
rivers.
Race Results.
NEW ORLEAN8—CITY PARK.
First .Race—Aim, 3 to 1, won; Task
Master, » to 5 and 4 to i, second; Night
Mist, 0 to I, 5 to 2 and 6 to 5, third.
Time 1:011-5.
“NOW, GET BUSY BOYS!’
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VICE PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS.
■UNCLE JOE" CANNON.
He Is speaker of the national
luse of representatives.
GEORGIA DELEGATION
ON BIG COMMITTEES
SenatorClayWill Urge
Anti-Liquor Legis
lation.
Waahlngton. Dec. 2.—When congress
opened with the usual formalities this
morning, the members of the various
Southern delegations were all present.
Among the fifteen new members of
the senate, the, two senators from Okla
homa are notable. Thomas P. Gore, one
of them, enjoys the double distinction
of not only being the youngest mem
ber of that august body, being only
37 years old, but is the only blind man
who has ever been a senator of the
United States. Robert L. Owens, the
other Oklahoma senator, is part In
dian.
Among the other Southerners are
the !lr6-eatlng ex-governor. Jeff Da
vis, of Arkansas, and the Addling ex-
govemor of Tennessee, ••Bob" Taylor.
Tomorrow caucus will be held to elect
the Democratic senate lender. Senator
Culberson, of Texas, will probably be
elected.
Bills touching the liquor question
will be Introduced by Senator Clay, of
Georgia, who was re-elected for the
full term at the last session of the
Georgia legislature. One of them will
be Intended to prevent whisky ship
ments Into a "dry” state. Another
will subject shipments of liquor in In
terstate commerce In a state to the po
lice laws of the state.
Congressman Lon Livingston, of the
Atlanta district, will have opposition
for renominating at the expiration of
his present term.
Most of the Georgia members will be
reappointed by Spenker Cannon on the
committees on which they have pre
viously served.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, expects to
again be on the committee of Indian
depredations and Judiciary.
All of the Georgia representatives are
greatly Interested in Jhe inland water
ways congress, which, meets In Wash
ington Wednesday.
HARRY THAW’S
SECOND TRIAL
JANUARY 6, NEXT
New York, Dec. 2.—Justice Dowling
today fixed January 6 ns the date for
the second trial of Harry Thaw for
the murder of Stanford White. This
followed a motion by Diatrlct Attorney
Jerome when the cane wa* called to-
day.
KARL HAU’S DEATH
DECREE COMMUTED
TO LIFE IN PEN
Karlsruhe, Germany. Dec. 2.—The
sentence against Karl Hau for murder
ing his mother-in-law, Frnu Moltter.
has been commuted from death to life
imprisonment.
FATHER AND GIRL
KILLED IN WRECK;
NINE INJURED
Pittsburg. Dec. 2.—Train No. 12 on
the Baltimore ond Ohio, an easthound
express, was wrecked near M art Ins-
burg, W. Va„ today, killing W. U Hoff
man and hla daughter. Nellie. Mne
passengers were Injured.
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C ROOSEVELT REITERATES O
O THIRD TERM DECREE; O
O WON’T RUN AGAIN. O
O O
O Washington, Dec. 2.—“I won’t O
O deviate one single point from the O
O announcement I’ve nlremly. njjyJeJ’, O
O said PresIdeht RooSevelt today to O
O Representative Hlnshaw, of Ne- O
O braska, who called to tell hhn that O
O the people of that state wished O
O dency. This Is the most direct, O
O positive statement that has been O
O made by the president,on the sub- O
O Ject of the third term since his O
O announcement at his election In O
O 1904.
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COAL MINE
Only One Body So Far
Recovered From
Deep Pit.
Fayette City, Pa., Dec. 2.—Fifty men
are in all probability dead In the Na-
oml mine of the United Coal Company,
about two miles from here, according
t<> statements made after a canvass of
the little mining vlllAge at 10 o'clock
tlds morning.
After-damp, which followed the ex
plosion shortly before" 9 o’clock last
night, has prevented the large force of
rescuqrs from reaching the entombed
miners. The fan is still going, but the
after-damp Is so heavy that rescuers
are reeling back every time they enter
the mine.
One rescuer after another has l»een
rendered unconscious by the deadly
fumes, and It probably will be late 1n
the day before the entombed men are
reached. 'The fact that the after-damp
ptevents rescue work. Is taken ns an
Indication that every man In the mine
lias perished.
The work of rescue Is under the au-
pei Intendency of State Mine Inspector
Henry Loutttt.
Wives, sisters, brothers and fathers
of the men In the mine are crowded
about ihe entrance. Many arc in such
a condition thnt they cun not realise
the extent of the calamity.
ACCIDENTAL
Asserts That Mrs. Brad
ley Went to Room
to Kill Self.
LAST PLEA MADE
FOR FRAIL WOMAN
She Snys That SIiq Will Nev
er Tell Her Story
Again.
Washington, Dec. 2.—This is the last
day of the Bradley trial. Before the
day Is done the arguments In the case
will have been completed, the Judge's
charge read and the fate of the frail
little woman charged with murdering
former Senator Arthur Brown will be
In the hands of the men who have pa
tiently listened to the evidence during
three long weeks.
With the arguments of Judge Pow
ers, chief counsel for the prisoner, and
the closing speech of District Attorney
Baker, Judge Stafford will charge the
Jury, arid much depends upon -the In
structions that the y^ing Judge will
give. However, this morning Mrs.
Bradley and her attorneys were confi
dent that the law', shaking through
twelve men, will say: "Go, woman,
and sin no more."
"Whether acquitted or convicted,”
said Mrs. Bradley, “and feeling that I
am the same as 1 am now', a creature
overburdened with a shame too great
to be borne, I would not go on the
stand again to save my neck. I felt
w'hen I was on the stand before that I
had broken all of m.v Ideals. It was
only because my mother told me that
I owed It to my children that I ever
told my story on the witness stand. If
there should be a disagreement of ths
HENRY CLEWS ON THE SITUATION
Here Is what Henry’ Clews, one of the great conservative forces In the
nation's finances, has to say of the situation as he sees It today:
“There Is a distinctly better feeling In the financial situation, due al
most entirely to improvement In the money market, which has been
working out Its own cure. Hoarded currency is being returned; foreign
gold Is pouring Into our coffers; bank reserves arc beginning to rise; the
credit situation Is less strained; call and time money rates are lower, and
redemption of clearing house certificates is already In sight. These symp
toms of relief have fortunately shown themselves even before tho addi
tional currency furnished by the government had become available. They
show' natural and healthy tendencies toward recovery. As a result, w’e
have had a fair rise In the stock market and confidence has been corre
spondingly Improved. It Is quite evident that the corner has now been
turned."
The Vertical Pump at
$133,700 Recom
mended.
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Jury and anotherAriaH will nev f r
the army <iffaift.fi*vef.” * The
Judge Powers' Final Appeal.
Judge Powers made his final appeal
for the life of Mrs. Bradley. He re
ferred to her artistic and literary ten
dencies, her associations with literary*
people, her refined nature, remarkable
Intellect and the intensity of her devo
tion and love.
"The government asks why did not
this woman leave this man? The gov
ernment forgets that, as days passed,
society turned Its back, and nowhere
else could this woman go, except to
the man who placed her where she was.
She became a bondw’oman, knowing her
shame, yet turning always to her mas
ter."
Shooting Accidental.
He said the shooting w’os accidental;
that the woman, distressed beyond all
understanding, went to Brown’s room
to end her oiyn life, a struggle ensued
and Brown was shot. Concluding, he
said:
Now I leave her with you. As you
Judge this woman, may you be Judged
on the day when the quick and the
dead will be summoned, when the final
trump is sounded.’’
EXPECTING CULL
FOR STATEMENTS
Chairman Fowler, of Fi
nance Committee, Says
Reform Must Come.
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New York, Dec. 2.—Officials of na
tional banks here are expecting this
week a call from the comptroller of
the treasury for a statement showing
thefr financial conditions.
This will have the effect, It Is ex
pected, of showing to the depositors
and the public In general the great rush
reserves now’ on hand, acting generally
to allay fear and restore full confi
dence now gradually being evlderfoed.
The report that the secretary of the
treasury will not issue but $23,000,000
of the 3 per cent certificates Is regard
ed generally as a harbinger of good
times In the money market. The secre.
tary will, however, put out the entire
Issue of $50,000,000 Panama canal bonds.
This was decided because of the fact
that the money market had regained its
normal condition.
Chairman Fowler, of the house com-
mltt rt e on banking and currency, has
made an announcement In which he
says remedial legislation is necessary
to prevent a recurrence of the cur
rency stringency when crops are
moved again. He says Inflation must
cease and that the proposition of basing
its issue on bonds Is sheer madness.
He asserts If the present policy' con
tinues there will be real trouble.
Ex-Mayer's House Burns.
Rome, Ga., Dec. 2.—M. J. Crocker,
former mayor of North Rome, suffered
the loss of his house and all Its ron-
_ tents by fire early Saturday morning,
ppOPPOPOOOOPOOPOPOPOPPPPOQ and narrowly escaped with bis Ufa.
P The meeting of the general com- O
P mlttee was enlivened by a word O
P altercation between Frank P. Rice, 0
0 chairman of the water board; 0
0 General Manager Park Woodward O
0 and A. W. Collier, chief engineer. 0
0 The Bethlehem Steel Company 0
0 proposed to make a new* design 0
0 for a pump. P
0 "I can not assume the respon- 0
0 sibility for passing on the design 0
0 for a. pump," stated General Man- 0
0 ager Woodward. P
0 "Then,” stated President Rice, P
0 hotly, "we will get somebody w’ho O
0 will* take some responsibility." P
0 "I can not assume the respon- 0
0 siblltty." Engineer Collier said. O
0 “We will get somebody," re- P
O peated President Rice, "who will P
O assume the responsibility." P
pump question will l»e settled by
council Monday afternoon nud the hid of
the Wlscouslu Engine Company for a
tical triple expansion ptunp will no doubt
be accepted.
The water board and the special council
committee met at 11 o'clock Monday morn
Ing and agreed unanimously to recommeud
the acceptance of the Wlaoonsln company 1
bid. The bid la $122,700. In addition to tbln
the company agrees to Install
Asst. Att’y Gen’l Rus
sell Urges Annulment
by Congress.
Washington. Dec. 2.—If the recom
mendations of Charles W. Russell, as
sistant attorney general, relative' to
peonage, are adopted by congress, nu
merous state laws governing laborers
working on “shares," under verbal or
written contracts to work on farm
lands for money or supplies or other
considerations, will be annulled and
long-standing usages and traditions
completely obliterated.
Assistant Attorney General Russell
was recently In Atlanta to assist In
the prosecution of alleged (peonage
cases, and while In that city took oc
casion to Investigate conditions In the
South regarding the labor problem, es
peci&lly In the rural district*.
"It Is hoped," he says, "that an en
lightened self-interest and the demand
for labor made necessary by the ex
panslon of old industries and the in
troduction of new will lead' to the
amendment or repeal of state laws
BETTER PHI
Labor Men Call on
Council to Raise
Salary.
TYPOS ARE FIRST
TO PASS RESOLUTION
Federation of Trades Take?
tip Campaign in Behalf
of Teachers. ‘ .
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O WHAT ATLANTA TEACHERS 0
O ARE PAID FOR WORK. O
O
O Here Is the salary scale In the O
O itranunnr schools: O
O hirst six months $40.00 O
O Second six months 46.00 O
O Second year 60 00 O
O Third year 62.60 O
O Fourth year 66.00 O
O Fifth year 57,50 O
O Hxth year 00.00 O
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which orothe .chief support at peon*
age 'pfncTtri'**: 4 ' He says:
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Continued on Pago Seven.
HALF MILLION LOSS
IN HOUSTON FIRE
BLOCK DESTROYED
Firemen Unable to Cope
With Flames Which
Spread Rapidly.
Houston, Tex., Dec. 2.—Early today
fire started In the tilock bounded by
Main, Fannin. Congress and Preston
streets. Tho loss is now more than a
half million. The firemen had great
difficulty In getting the flames under
control.
$9,700 COLLECTED
FOR EDUCATION
BY CONFERENCE
By HANSELL BAKER.
Brunswick. Ga„ Dec. 2.-Tnc pass! ns
the characters of ministers of. the
South Georgia Methodist Conference
was continued this morning.
Rev. Sammons, of Brunswick Bap
tist church, made a short address.
Dr. Moore, assistant editor of the
Nashville Christian Advocate, also
addressed the conference.
Bishop Atkins made an address In
dorsing The Advocate fully, amt rec-
tnmended It to the pastors. Mem
bers of the conference arose and pledg.
I themselves to try to Increase the
number of subscrlptlbns to The Ad-
vocate.
The report from the Sunday school
beard was adopted.
The report from the board of educa
tion show’* a rapid growth in Methodist
schools In Georgia. The collection 111
1907 for education was $9,700.
STEAMER ON FIRE;
DOCKS BURNING
IN PHILADELPHIA
The State Lawe.
"In some stales a man who contracts
In writing to work for another for a
specified time, and then makes a ace
ond contract .without .giving notice of
the first contract to the second employ
er. Is guilty of a misdemeanor, and n
person who employs a laborer who ha*
contracted with another employer be
fore the expiration of his term Is de-
Continued on Page 8even.
M'GUGIN TO STA!
FIVE YEARS MORE
Famous Coach to Teach
Two Branches and .
Boss Eleven.
A recommendation that the mayor end
general enuncll appropriate a sntflelent sum
of money to the depnrtment of education
for 1908 to permit nn Increase In the salaries
of the teaehers In tile Atlanta public schools
was embodied In a resolution Introduced at
the meeting of Atlnntn Typographical Union
No. 48 Mimlajr ufternoon. The resolution
wns signed by Jerome Jones. W. I.. Hnv-
good and .1. J. Hobby,II end wss OUnnl-
nionsly adopted by the union.
The resolution declared It to be the sense
of the union that an act of tardy Justh-e
should lie done the teaehers In the schools
and that their salarlea should lie mode com
mensurate with the Increased cost of living.
It sets forth the further fact that the snln-
fbe best teaching talent, and has the effect
of causing women who would make the
most efficient Instructors to seek other
"We do not wish to have It understood
that' the Itonrrt or edncatlon Is responsible
for the low salaries now lielng paid '
ran with the money npproprf
............ is, Will *• “
uo foci that flu* city council should appro
priate it iuin fttifflclent to Justify the board
in paying them more money.
Indebtod to Teacher.
"The labor organizations ore deeply In
terested In this matter, for who Is more
deeply indebted to the school teacher than
the laboring man? These women are wear
ing their lives away In the effort to make
decent, respectable and educated men and
women of your children and mine. I would
not worry with iny children eight hours n
day like they do for anything in the world,
yel they take the raw, ernde material ati<l
work uud worry w'lth It until they make
pretty decent sort of men and women out
of it: and they do It for n mere pittance.
They have no voice In elections, they can’t
and make blin tell „ _ __
for them. And for this reason the Atlanta
Typographical fulon Is going to not Its in
fluence in the efTort to get them an Increase
In salary, s thing which has been granted
ery other city employee except the teach-
Wednesday. Deeenilwr 13. It follows lo full:
Text of Resolution,
Whereas, The salaries of the teachers In
the public schools of the city of Atlanta, in
‘oiiimon with all other city employees, were
reduced some years since st the tlmo of the
reduction of the city tax rate, and
Wlierena, The salaries of all city #m-
rnve been materially Increased In recent
ears, and there has been uo substantial
screase In the pay of the teachers, and
Wherens, 'Ihe cost of living has very
greatly Increased within recent years and
who would make capable, efticleut teachers
to K4*ck other avenues of employment that
offer better remuneration, thereby creating
a comlltlou thnt may redound to the dis
advantage and Injury of our schools:
Wherefore, The premises considered, we,
the tiudersigned citizens of Atlanta, tax
payers, patrons of the public schools of the
city and meiutior* of Atluntn Typographical
fulon No. 48, looking to the best Interest
u* our public schools and Inspired with
th» belief that an urt of tardy Justice
should lie done to the teachers In our
schools, do most respectfully request and
urge the honorable mayor and general coun
cil of the dty of Atlanta fo provide an
approprlntlon to the department of schools
lit the January, ittfi, apportionment sheet
thnt will permit the board of education to
pay to the teachers a Just living wags,
thereby securing the highest teaching talent
now seeking other avetrties of employment
nud maintaining the high standard of escal*
lence our school system has heretofore ab
tallied.
DAN M’GUGIN.
Signed :ih coach for Vanderbilt
for five years—Will also teach in
law school.
Philadelphia, Dec. 2.—The steamer
Montana, of the American line. Is on
fire at her dock and damn have spread
to the dock ahed. Large quantities of
oil are stored on the .dock and all
down-town flye apparatus has been
called to the scene.
Dan McGugin. coach of the Vander
bilt football team since the fall of 1904,
has signed a five-year contract with
Vanderbilt University. That cinches
Dan for the South until the fall of
1913.
In udditlon *to coaching the football
team, Mr. McGugin will teach "Con
stitutional Law and Contracts Base?!
on Engineering Specifications” In the
Vanderbilt University law school and
III open a law office In Nashville.
This announcement will be made to
the Vanderbilt team and students Mon
day night at the hnhquet In honor of
the football team, which will be given
In the big dining room at Klssam hall.
Dan McGugin was born In Tlngley,
Iowa, In 1879 and graduated at Drake
University, De* Moines, Iowa, In 1901.
He then took up law work In the Uni
versity of Michigan, from which col
lege he graduated In 1904.
Mr. McGugin leaves Nashville for
Detroit Tuesday night to wind up his
business there. He will return tc Nash
ville about January 10 and take up hie
work in the law school,
; )
W. L. HAY _ .
J. J. HOBBY.
Superintendent Favors It
a lari cm for the teachers. He said:
ir teachers. If we _
>util greatly aid us In
possible men and women to
dreu. A teacher * “
dreu. A teacher can not afford t<
several years In academic study or
work to-At heraelf for teaching ai
ork for $40 a month. The board o'
on la paying na much now as It
id wl*6 the present appropriation,
•in the leading cities of the Nor
it poaslbly
North, Eaat
and Went the dty councils appropriate as
imuch as fcjpm 25 to 33 per cent of the total
gross tax for edncatlon. and the action*
have but to aak to receive liberal appro
priation*. Atlanta gives but a fraction of
tint proportion to her ochools."
Tit. ......I., nf ulHrloi nalil In AMiitifs Ia
a The omle of Milnrles paM
■■ 1 > •• laborer
paid Is
flntinued on Fans 8tven.