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the weather.
P-Ir warmer Tuesday night.
Wednesday fair. Temperatures
Tuesday (taken at A. K Hawkes
™'s Store): 8 a. m.. 26 degrees;
10 a m, 80 degrees: 12 noon, 64
degrees; 2 p. m. 66 degrees.
The Atlanta
'‘Nothingf Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN’
AND NEWS
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VOL. vn. NO. 193.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAKCH 16, 1909.
PRICE:
IANF0RD WAS CALLED OFF
AFTER HIS RAID ON HOUSE
AND HIS ACTIVITY STOPPED
It Is Now Declared the Board Passed Reso
lution Ordering No More Raids Except
Under the Special Orders of the
Chief of Police.
HE MAY BE NEXT
HEAD OF DETECTIVES
BULLARD MAY LAND’
LANFORD’S OLD PLACE
THE DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
NEWPORT LANFORD—Former detective sergeant and star figure In
police sensation. Said to have been ousted because he would not protect
vice and crime.
$. J. ROBERTS—Ousted as detectjve sergeant after strenuous fight.
He succeeded Newport Lanford and now Lanford Is slated to succeed
him.
CARLOS M. MASON—New chairman of police commission and leader
of the majority. He Is friendly to Newport Lanford, he says, because of
tbe alleged fight on Lanford by gamblers.
OR. ARTHUR H. VAN DYKE—Member, of the police commission mi
nority. His charge that Newport Lanford Is Incompetent has stirred great
sensation In the police department. He opposes tbe reinstatement of Lan
ford. .
HENRY JENNINGS—Chief of police. The question of whether he
will recommend Newport Lanford for sergeant of detectives Is feature of
the police situation. He Is reticent on tbe whole matter.
G. C. BULLARD—Member of detective force being urged by the minor
ity as sergeant of detectives. With him, they hope to beat Newport Lan
ford.
CHARLIE JONES—Declared by former Police Commissioner Sam H.
Venable to have exerted subtle Influence In the conduct of the affairs of the
police department He has no ofilclal connection with the department.
LANFORD’S FRIENDS
TELL SOME HISTORY
The declaration that the police com
mission, at the time Patrolman New
port Lanford was serving as detective
urgeant. officially Interfered with hi*
policy of raiding gamblers; the further
anertlon that ho waa suddenly removed
from duty at Ponce DeLeon park for
dome mysterious reason, and the report
1 that gamblers are now betting that he
will not be reinstated ns dotectlve ser-
S«nt are the-tiew and sensational de-
vslepmente-of Tuesday In the turbulent
police situation';''
Friends of former Sergeant Lanford,
who are advising him, declaro-that the
police commission, several months ggo.
lasted a resolution forbidding any more
raids by the detective department ex
cept by special direction of the chief of
police, thus putting a quietus on the
sggresslveness of the sergeant of de
tectives. Should the Investigation Into
the police department, which now seems
imminent, materialise, the minutes of
the commission meeting will be ten
dered as evidence In an effort to ehow
that the sergeant was hampered In his
campaign against gamblers.
A Raid in Jenkins*st.
This action of tha commission fol-
lowed.'lt Is stated, a raid by detectives
one Sunday on a certain house In Jen-
klna-st. and the confiscation of about
three barrele of beer. At the next meet
ing of the commission after this raid
the matter was brought up and tha
resolution passed.
Friends of Sergeant Lanford eay this
tald had special significance. In con
nection with the charges of former
Commissioner 8am II. Venable that
gamblers were exertlog an Influence
over the police department
The action of the commission took
the matter of raids entirely from the
—rgeant of detectives and left It In the
discretion of the chief.
The removal of Sergeant Lanford
from Ponce DeLeon park took place
•hortly after he had resigned from the
detective department, after charges had
been preferred against him and on ad
vice of his friends. While Lanford and
bis legal counsel decline to be Inter
viewed on this feature of the situation,
the facts, as given out. are these;
Lsnferd Wag Transferred.
ope
JJtred. He was Informed. It le said,
Jb*t he was removed on complaint of
the Ponce DeLeon management.
sergeant Lanford then obtained a
letter, which he now hns In his posses-
Contlnusd on Page Thrte.
BULLARD MAY GET
THAT SERGEANTCY
"I fee| confident that Detective G. C.
Bullard will be the next sergeant of
detectives."
This declaration Is made by Police
Commissioner Arthur H. Van Dyke and
serves to throw new light on the police
situation. This prediction of the defeat
of the effort to reinstate former Ser
geant Newport Lanford Indicates that
the commission minority Is getting busy
and that a hot fight Is brewing.
Whether any attempt Is being made
to compromise the present attained sit
uation by tbe election of Detective Bul
lard Is not known. It Is certain, how
ever, that the minority will fight to a
flnleh (gainst the election of Lanford.
'and Bullard Is being urged because of
the fact that Chief Jennings, at the
time Roberts waa elected sergeant, rec
ommended Bullard as the beef man for
the place.
Put It Up to Chief.
The plan of the minority It to put the
matter up to Chief Jennings again and
ask him to Inform tha commission whom
he regards as the beat man for sergeant.
They say that If This question Is put
squarely up to the chief, they believe
he will again recommend Bullard, '
preference to Lanford.
This will be the test, they say, aa to
whether the chief la to be chief In fact.
It brings up the question:
Will the commission follow the rec
ommendatlon of the chief? 1
"Chief Jennlngy will be asked t<
name the best man for aergeanL” said
Dr. Van Dyke, "and I don't see how he
can do otherwise than recommend De
tectlve Bullard. If he does name Bul
lard. then this will be the test at to
whether the chief It to be the chief In
reality. The commissioners have de
clared that they Intend to follow the
recommendations of the clhef and to
let him be chief, and. If they really,
mean what they say, of course they
will vote for Bullard and he will be
elected. I am in favor of the best man
for the place, and aa the chief has de
clared Bullard to be this man, I am
perfectly willing to vote with the ma
jority for him.
"Chief Jennings can not consistently
and conscientiously recommend Lan
ford. as he has already declared Lan-
FORM UP TO
IF OF 48
Action on Commission
Government Is
Expected.
TAFT URGES CONGRESS TO CUT
OUT OTHER MATTERS AND GET
DOWN TO REVISION OF TARIFF
“ME A CZAR? TOMMYROT!
LAFOLLETTE IS A FAKE!”
—SPEAKER JOE CANNON.
Uncle Joe Says Rules Are Improved By Changes.
Wanted pim to Make a Committee of 15 Czars . %
For Clark and LaFolette to Dominate.
Photo by Edward.*.
G. C. BULLARD. '
’ He Irf minority's choice for ser
geant of detectives to succeed Rob
erts.
F
.When Lanford returned to the ranks - -- - - . . .
of patrolmen he was assigned to duty ford Incompetent and Incapable of han-
at Ponce DeLeon. After Lelng there a idling the detective department, not-
•Wle, he wo* suddenly called Into the -----
station one afternoon anA trans-
nithstandlng what others say to the
contrary. The chief knowe the work
nnd record of his men, and he should
be permitted to say who le the moat
competent man for the place.”
How They Line Up.
In connection with this move to beat
' Continued on Page Three.
“YOU LIE” MEANS FIGHT,
RULES HIGHER COURT
Case Will Not Go To
Jurors Before Wed
nesday.
“On Georgia Soil Calling a Man a” Liar Is Calculated
To Excite Alarm,” Is the Decision of Judge
Arthur Powell. '
To call a man a liar le a breach of
'be peace and In the state of Georgia
means a fight, says the court of appeals
Tuesday, In deciding the case of W. Xt.
Rumssy against \V. A. Bullard and
">hert.
Rumsey had a difficulty with Bullard
sod had him pm undsr a 11*0 peace
. A short while later Bullard and
w “* went to tbo field where Rum-
*"y was working and In the presence of
fsmily Bullard called b|m a liar
•w rataed a stick ae If to Strike him.
n the meantime Bullanl's wife. It was
Otorplsn: Incioisd pleats find
Tit Oaorfita ' °°* * w ’’ * u ' ,,erl I ,tlon 10
T,r T much pleated with The Oeor-
...° 1 poIJcl.i during tie campaign Jut
f. ... B,la * »a «I<* Atlanun. I mm great-
jy IMtrttted tn tit etty. sad enjoy read-
* year paper Immensely.
Tours truly.
... . W. W. POPE.
alleged, stood near with a knife in one
hand and a pistol In her pocket, ready
to assist her husband In case a fight
ensued.
Rumsey then sued to recover the
amount of the peace bond, but the Judge
trying the case held that there had been
no breach of the peace and dismissed
the case.
The court of appeals takes Issue with
the Judge of the lower court and holds
that the action of Bullard did constitute
a breach of the peace.
"To call a man a liar,” says Judge
Arthur Powell's ruling, "and raise a
stick to strike him. If In anger. Is a
menace of violence and is calculated to
excite alarm or to provoke a breach of
the peace. Being to the manor born,
the judges of this court take Judicial
cognisance of the fart thit tn Georgia
to call a man a liar, even without
threatening hint with a stick, most gen
erally means a fight. There may be ex
ceptions to this rule, but they are rare
exotics and find little nourishment on
I Georgia soil nnd under Southern sklc*.
Judgment reversed.”
Nashville, Tenn* March IS.—At
o'clock today It was announced that
Judas Hart would not have his charge
to the Jury In the case against Colonel
D. B. Cooper, Robin J. Cooper and John
D. Sharp, for murdering former Sena
tor E. W. Carmack, ready to deliver be
fore tomorrow.
A crowd had waited In the court room
from early In the morning till the an
nouncement was made at 2 o'clock,
many having brought their lunch with
them.
Judge Hart announced that he would
charge the Jury at 9 o'clock tomorrow
morning. «
Attorneys Not Present,
None of the attorneys In the case ap
peared In the court room this morning
except Charles N. Burch, a kinsman of
Robin Cooper. The attorneys on each
side seemed to be rather certain that
Judge Hart would not be ready with
the charge this morning. They were
rather disappointed, too. It Is said, and
would much have preferred that the
charge could have been given to the
Jury Immediately after the conclusion
of the speech of the attorney general.
The state handed In Its requests early
yesterday to Judge Hart, but the at
torneys for the defense were rather
slow with theirs. It Is expected the
charge will be a lengthy document;
that It will require about two hours to
deliver It. x
* Judge Hart Arrives.
Judge Hart did not enter tbe court
room until about 9:10 o'clock. He came
In with a lot of books under one arm
and n roll of paper* In bis overcoat
pocket. The newspaper men In the
court room made a rush for him. Imme
diately besieging him. Judge Hart
smiled pleasantly at the "pen-pushers"
and said he would like to have a photo
graph of such an assemblage. After
talking to the newspaper men a few
minutes, he dismissed the audience
present with the following message:
Addresses Audience.
“ladles and Gentlemen-pl am glad to
see ro many of you present. 1 am sorry
to have to disappoint you this morning,
but I: lias been Impossible for me to gel
Continued on Page Fifteen.
Steel Works
Refuse Cut
Reading, Pa„ March HL— Delegates
to the eastern district of the Amalga
mated Iron. Steel and Tin Workers' As
sociation held another meeting her* to
day and decided not to accept’ the re
duction In wugei of 12,000 iron workers
recently announced by manufacturers
in tills district.'
Will the charter revision commission
of 49 vote Tuesday nftemoon in favor
'of commission government, vote against
i It or postpone final and definite ac
tion ?
One of these three the committee Is
; certain to do, and there are those who
hold to each view.
The probability Is that the commie-
adopt
a, whl
mendatlon that another sub-cotpmlttee
be appointed to draw- up a commission
government charter, this charter then
to bo considered In detail by the eritlre
membership of tbe body at a later sea
slon.
This preliminary charter will provide
for six commissioners and a mayor, all
elected directly by the people for a term
of two years, and each commissioner
tn be the head of a department and to
be held directly responsible for the
conduct of that department.
The charter, as recommended, will
provide also for the Initiative and the
referendum. It will provide fpr but one
board—the board of education—and
will provide that all city employees be
under civil service, except the comp
troller. whose term of office will be two
years.
Will Recommend It.
It Is now the genera! belief that at a
final vote the charter revision commis
sion will decide to recommend to coun
cil the establishment of commission
government, this recommendation tak
ing the form of a charter providing the
essential features of commission gov-'
ernment.
It Is not Improbable, however, that
the commission ultimately will report a
commission charter to council with the
recommendation that the people be al
lowed to vote upon It, and with the
provision that If the people vote fa
vorably the legislature be requested to
make the necessary change.
Among those who are practically cer
tain to vote for.commission govern
ment aud who arermembera.of the com
mission are E. V. Carter, the chairman;
John TV. Grant. Edgar Watkins.-Mar
tin Amorous. Craig Coflelt), li. Lee
Smith, John K. Murphy, Alex W. Smith
and A. V. Oude. There are many oth
ers, of course.
Mayor Xladdox Monday gave The
Georgian a statement in which be ex
presses an Inclination toward commis
sion government In many of Us esaen
tlal features. -
The charter revision commission of
49 will also Tuesday afternoon hear re
port* from other sub-committees ap
pointed by the chairman. The meeting
will be held at 2:SO o'clock.
Washington, March 18.—Speaker
Cannon, in discussing the action of the
house of representatives yesterday con
cerning the rules when at the wihte
house this morning, said the amend
ments have Improved the rules.
"The house Is virilized because It can
operate the will of the majority. This
talk about the speaker being a esar I*
tommyrot. What they wanted me to do
was tj) make a committee of 16 .rears
to be dominated by Champ Clark and
LaFollette. That fa also tommyrot. La-
Kollette la a fake."
Champ Clark, who called with the
committee from congress to notify the
president that congress Is ready to re
ceive his .message on the tariff, said,
while at the white house;
"I don’t think that the amendments
Improve the rules to any extent. It
shows, tho, that the gang can be beaten
once In a while."
THESE MATES OF FOREST\
MR. AND MRS. RED OAK,
ARE JOINED IN WEDLOCK
Grew Up Together,
and Will Never Be
Separated.
if BE
FURNISHED CLOTHES
Threnteued with the protpert of having to
take charge on April 1 of convlcta without
n stitch of clothing on tbolr backs, tbe au
thorities of aereral counties In the state
Imre appealed t& the prison coinmtulou to
require tbe present conrlct lessees to pro
x*lde tbi» couflcta with clothes when they
are turned over to the counties at the ex
piration of the leaae system.
The request of fte county authorities has
.jet with favor at the hands of tbo com-
tn (as! nn nnd that body has ruled that the
convict lessees must not tnrn over tbs con
victs to the counties as nature made them.
hlemlah.
rlpes without spot or
. ..Tound most of them In rags.
They threw away the rags and bought them
new clottrs, consisting cf u suit of the
regulation couvlct stripe*.
••Now.” rei son the |ea*ees. "we found
them without clothing aud It la uot meet
that we should be required to furnish them
with good raiment upon tbelr departure
HE WAS KILLED
IN OAK MAN WRECK
Here are the only wedded trees In
captivity—they grow almut a quarter
of a mile southwest of the city limits
of Atlanta and are the property of For
rest Adair.
The tree* are red oaka. Near the
base they are about two feet apurt, and
each grows from a separata root. They
grow together-about four and a half
feet from the ground and for about
eight feet are practically one tree, there
being not the slightest line or Indica
tion of the union on the trunk.
Beveral years ago Xtr. Adair, who
wus then having hie grove' thinned out,
drove up In time to see a negro plant...
his ax In qnc of the trees,
r. Adair didn't «*yi “Woodman,
spare that tree I “
Mr. Adair did say: "Hey. you: leave
that tree alone! Cut down all the rest
of them. Blow- up a street car, crack
m .arm Hut just leave that tree
alone, severely, altogether a-lone!"
And he did,
But Xlr. Adair, not satisfied, decided
to put up the sign, which can be Veen!
In the picture. It reads: "
"THE WEDDED TREE8I”
-What God hath Joined together, let
no man put asunder."
'' •-at', the anewer to the wedded!
trees?
.1,1'. Adair waa asked that question. .
'if* tho tendenry of the times," he
sold, "l.fs graft!"
Wall-st. Likes
Taft's Message
New York, March 18.—Wall-st. took
a favorable view of President Taft's
message and showed Its appreciation by
marking prices up to the beat of tho
season at about the time of Its publica
tion. Astonishment waa expressed at
the brevity of the message. At a spe
cial meeting of the board of directors of
the Atchison an Issue of 126,000,000 new
bonds was discussed.
He has taken them under hie
protection and posted a warning.
DIVORCE IS TOO EASY,
SAYS JUDGE ON BENCH
Ex Parte Hearings In Undefended Suits Lead To Abuse.
Make Absent Defendant Out Worse Than Crim
inal—"Before and After.”
New Venezuelan Minister.
Caracas, March 18.—Pedro Ksequii
Rojas hns been appointed minister t»
Washington.
Is thsrt anything yen csold
ass a Want Ad for today?
Both Phones MOO.
"The divorce laws of Ge jrgla ought to
be chanced so that no divorce can be
granted on an ex parte hearing where
the romplalnant le the sole wltneas."
This is the statement of Judge W. D.
I Ellis from the bench in the superior
court Tuesday morning, after finishing
the grind of undefended divorce case*
for the week. Judge Rills seems to
think thnt divorces arc too easy to ob
tain. especially In undefended cases.
"We do not make the law, gentlemen
of the Jurj-.” continued Judge Ellla "We
are tiers to administer It is H ha* been
! nmdr for us. but something ought to be
done. One ninrrlng* out of ever}' twelve
In the United States ends In m divorce.
"A complalnsnt will come Into this
. court and on ex parte hearings, sucli as
'are usual In undefended divorce cases,
will make the defendant out tq be a
vagrant and deserving generally to be
In the penitentiary, and afterwards
when the defendant come* Into court
asking permission to remarry, the whole
nsiiect of the case has changed and the
complainant la the one who ought to be
In the penitentiary. The two cases are
*ns different as tbe before and after pic
ture* of a patent medicine concern.”
Judge Kills stated that hie remark*
from the bench were not to be taken as
condemning the practice of the Jury In
refusing to remove the disabilities of
defendants, 'it Is nothing but right."
he said, "that the defendant be dented
1 ttons. Btich a thing has not been done
In the superior court for a number of
years. An undefended caso usually goes
thru Its regular course of two verdicts
to a successful conclusion.
The Georgia law permits a divorce
only On the verdict of a Jury and then
after two favorable verdict*. It Is one
of the few states that has such re
strictions, but even these, according to
the expressions of Judge Kills, do not
have a very deterrent effect.
m IS PLACED
Washington, hFsrch 16.—Speaker
Uunnon announced this afternoon that
tile committee on* ways and means
would be composed of the following
members: Payne, Dalxell/Hall, Hill of
Connecticut!. Boutell, Need hum, Cal-
derhead, Fonlncy. Gaines of West Vir
ginia. Longworth, Crumpaeker, Clark
of Missouri, Underwood, Granger,
„ . Griggs rtf Georgia, Pou, Ransdell,
!£!L P !!FS'rJl , . n ._ U E!i l '2?I2 Burke, and Broussard.
The put two members voted yester.
i.IATHYARS, GOODMAN,
was one of tn* victims of
ilslon on Loulsvile and Nashville.
-court and shown his right thereto, else
he might go out and seek a fresh vic
tim."
Attention hs* been called recently to
i the entire subject of undefended dl-
- I vorre cases when the jury In the supe-
*rl'ir court on XIonday denied two pell-
day with Fitzgerald for the adoption of
the rule* with amendments. Their ap
pointment on this (onunlttee Is sup
posed to be their reward for having
done ao.
DOES MOW IT
Boy Left Fortune From
the. Standard Oil
Company.
Augusta, Gs h March 16.—Hunt Til-
ford Dickenson, a 9-year-old boy at the
Bon Air Hotel In Augusta has fallen
heir tn 84,000,000 and does not know It,
becuuse his good fortune lias been
withheld from him by his father. A. O.
Dickenson, who says he does not see
the use of telling his son, anil Is rather
fearful that the knowledge he has su, i
nn immense fortune-will spoil the child.
The money was left hhn by Wesley
Hunt Tliford. late vice president of the
Standard Oil Company. He left 65,-
000,000. four-fifths of which go to the
boy now at the Bon Air here, .but Is to
be held In trust and Invested for hint
until he Is 25 years of age.
The new* was received by the bo
fnthei- Monday afternoon.
rOR SAI.K MISCELL/.NEOt
FOR'mAI.K—One set ahMriTT’
Message Remarkable
For Its Extreme
# .
Brevity.
COUNTRY DEMANDS
REVISED TARIFF
Congress Must Consider
Also Question of Rais
ing Revenues. , 4
site* itii •!•* i r*PrTTTT"“tTTT
♦ 4
TARIFF BILL WILL BE 4
PRESENTED WEDNESDAY 4
+ 4
/e Washington, March 16.—Repre- 4
4 (tentative Payne, chairman of the 4
-I- ways and insane committee, an- 4
4 nounced thla morning that the 4
4 tariff bill would not he sent to 4
4* congress today, but would be sent 4
4- tomorrow. The reason for tbo de- 4
•!• lay Is to enable the new Repub- 4
■ llcan member of. the way* and 4
V means committee, who probably 4
] 4 will be appointed thlg afternoon. 4
4 nn opportunity t# look over the 4
4 bill. 4
Washington, March 16.—The follow
ing nftasage on the tariff, which Is re-
markable. for Its brevity and much
shorter than had been anticipated. *■>»
sent to congress by President Taft at
noon today:
"To the eenate and house of repre
sentatives: I have convened the con
gress In this extra session In order to
enable It to give immediate considera
tion to the revision of the Dlngley tariff
act. Conditions affecting production,
manufacture and business generally,
have an changed In the last twelve
year* as to require a readjustment and
revision of the import duties Imposed
by that hct. More than thlp the present
tariff act, with the other sources of
government revenue, does not furnlab
Income enough to pay the authorized
expenditures. By July 1, next, the ex
cess of expenses over receipts for tli*
current fiscal,year will equal 8100,000.-
| oon. -
| "The successful party Ih the late
election Is pledged to a revision of tlic
tariff. The country and the business
community especially expect ft.
Business Readjustment.
"The prospect of changes In the rates
of Import duties always causes a sua-
i pension op halt In business, because of
tli^incertalnty'as to the change to lie
j made and their effect. It Ip, therefore,
; of the highest Importance that the new
bill should be agreed upon nnd passed
with as much speed as possible Con
sistent with It* due and thorough con
sideration. f For these reasons I have
! deemed the present to be an extraordl-
:' nary occasion within the meaning ot
, the constitution, Justifying and requh -
Ing thrf call of ah extra session. In my
Inuugurnl address I stated, tn a sum-
j mary way, the principles upon wlilch,
! In my Judgment, the revlalon of the
tariff should proceed end Indicated at
, least on* new source of revenue that j
might be properly resorted to In order
to avoid a future deficit. It la not nec
essary for me to repeat what I-then
said.
"I venture to suggest that the vital
business interest^ of the country re
quire that the attention of the'con
gress In this session be chiefly devoted
to tho consideration of the* new tariff
bill, nnd that tho less time given in
other subjects of legislation in this ses
sion, the better for the country."