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THE WEATHER. Fair Wednesday night: Thursday probably local ahowera. Temperatures U'ednaday (taken at A. K. Hawke* ro'a atore): 8 a. m„ 76 degreea; 16 a. OT ' S3 degrees; 12 noon. 85 degrees; 2 The Atlanta Georgian "Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN” AND NEWS "Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN” SPOT COTTON. Atlanta, steady;'15)6. Liverpool, Irregu lar; 8.14. New York, quiet; 14.80. Savan nah, quiet; 1 •"* 1 ». Augusta, -inlet; 15 V < la 1 \ ev;f nn, quiet; 1.',- N->rfolk. quiet; lor Houston, steady; 15c. Charleston, nomi nal; 15 S- VOL. IX. NO. 281. HOM E ( 4th ) EDITION ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1911; HOME(4th) EDITION On Trains. FIVE CENTS. GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS ITS ANNUAL GRIND; THIS PROMISES TO BE THE LIVELIEST SESSION IN YEARS NIK TO SAVE Walton County Citizens Want an Investigation Before the General Assembly. HE MAY BE GOVERNOR FOR 60 DAYS ANYWAY JUDGE DEFENDS HIMSELF Governor Declares Brand Ex pressed Opinion That Negro Would Be Lynched. Citizens of WaAton county, repre- ,rating the better element, incensed at the action of the mob tl|at lynched Tom Allen near Social Circle and Rich, ard Watts,, near Monroe, Tuesday, are Hiking of a legislative Investigation because of the failure of civil author ities to request troops to protect the Allen negro, the Watts lynching being directly due to the hanging of Allen. Members of the legislature and state, house officials are also discussing prob able proceedings In the legislature, The action of the Walton- mob Is taken as a serious reflection on the law-abiding element of that county and of the state as a whole. It Is claimed the mob was composed of a reckless element, not only, of Walton county, but reinforced from Morgan, Newton, Oco nee, Jackson and Gwinnett counties, the majority of which are In Judge C. H. Brand’s judicial circuit. Little doubt la fslt that this mat ter will be brought to the attention V the legislature, probably by Repre sentatives W. H. Wood and Joslah Blasengame. of Walton county. 8heriff Defended. I Friends and legal advisers of Sheriff tv. B. Stark, of Walton. county, claim that according to section 1484 of the Georgia code, which was quoted In Governor Joseph *1. Brown's statement on the lynching Tuesday. responsibility for requesting troops to defend a pris oner rests first with the judge of the court, and that It was Judge Brand's duty to request troops, since he knew Allen was' In danger of lynching, If not provided with military protection. They point to a letter written by Governor Brown to Sheriff Stark, last Friday, June 22. In which the following Ian gunge was used: Brand Expected Lynching. "I am further constrained to call your attention to the matter In quae lien because of a conversation I had with Judge Brand last Tuaaday, in which h* axpratsed the opinion that the negro would be lynched if ha and the court are net protected by the military," , Governor Brown'* letter to the sher Iff at the outset was ss follows: ''I sm advised that the negro Tom Allen, confined at present In the Fulton county Jail, will be tried at Monroe on Tuesday next, in view of the action laken at your request and approved by Judge Brand several weeka ago, when It was proposed to try this man. 1 write to ask If a request will again be made for military assistance In preserving law and order and guaranteeing the Process of the court during the nc raalon of this trial." The governor then quoted eectlon 1434. He further atated he had written Judge Brand substantially as he wai "riling to the ahertfr. Put Judge on Notice. In his letter to Judge Brand, the governor used this language, after 'luotlng section 1414 of the code: “As you will note. It Is first made ihe duty of the Judge when ho shall have reasonable cause to apprehend ihe outbreak of any riot, etc., to re port the facts and circumstances to the governor, 'and to request him to rder out such portion of the militia f 'he state as may be necessary to ■oerve the peace,' etc. I write, therefore, to ask If It I* Continued on Leet Page. STATE-WIDE COMMISSION GOVERNMENT BILL IS INTRODUCED IN LEGISLATURE KEEPS HIS OLD PLACE AT HEAD OF THE HOUSE JOHN M. SLATON. His re-election os preeldent of the to governor’s chair should Hoke Smith be elected United States senator. Supporters Say He Will Be Elected Senator on First Ballot. VICTORY NOT CONCEDED Name Will Be Presented When Election Is Reached by Legislature. So that all Georgia cities can take advantage of the much discussed com mission form of government. Senator W. J. Harris, of Cedartown. Introduced a bill In the Georgia senate Wednesday morning which le an exact duplication of the famous Woodrow Wilson munic ipal bill recently made a law In New Jersey. Senator Harris' bill provides that upon Its adoption any Incorporated city or town In Georgia may Inaugurate a form of commission government eub- ject to the provision In the measure, which practically outlines the most ap. proved features of the commission plan as used In Galveston. Det Moines and Lockport. Senator Harris said that he believed that while Atlanta would no doubt place before the legislature a bill to permit this city to vote upon the com mission charter recently framed by the committee of five, the other towns In Georgia should have an equal chance to have commission government without a separate bill being sent to the legisla ture every time a city determined to change Its government. The New Jersey .bill, or the Woodrow OFFICIALS GUILTY Dismissal of Two Men in the State Department Asked For. THEY HOLD HIGH POSITIONS WHAT LEGISLATURE DID ON WEDNESDAY IN THE SENATE. Elected all Its officers and re- + + celved governor's message. + + Received a resolution to adopt + •b a general plan for commission + + government charters. + •h Appointed a committee to con- + + fer with houae committee on In- + + auguratlon of governor. + + Decided to adjourn from Batur- + + day until Wednesday on account of + + the Fourth of July. + + . IN THE HOU8E. + + Elected all Its officers, draw lots + + for seats, and heard message from + + the governor. + + Autorixed a special standing + + committee on commission govern- + + ment charters. + Named committee on Inaugu- + ration of governor. + Wilson measure, ae It le usually styled becauee It was passed at Wilson's be hest, leaves the matter of adoption en tirety within the hands of the various cities and towns, but makes Its outlines obligatory upon the cities who take ad vantage of the act. The bill, according to 8enator Harris. Is an attempt to get upon the statute books a eomnrehenslve plan of commls- elon government so that any city or town may avail Itself of a change In government at any time It becomes dis satisfied with the existing regime. The provisions In the aft differ from Ihe Atlanta charter as framed by the committee of live In many ways. Ths proposed commission charter to be adopted by any town or city In the Continued on Lest Page. Day Portrait Scandal Bobs Up Again at the National Capital. WANT ADS Published by all the Atlanta papers for the week ending June 24,1911, six days to the week: Georgian ;&° 2,645 Journal 2,107 Constitution .... 1,193 On yesterday the Atlan ta papers carried Want Ads as follows: ... % .556 Journal 392 Constitution 191 ■y or unclean advertising. ■i.i. ** ,p AAoae who are out of ■ wm - Tui" desire a better one, 4JEORGIAN prints went ade Abe clateificatlon "Situations wented" free, others clitilfleatlons one cent a word Hoke Smith's name will be presented ae a candidate for the United States senate by hla friends when the election of a successor to Senator Joseph M. Terrell Is reached In the regular order of the legislative business. Hie friends state that If elected, Mr. Smith will resign the governorship and will accept the new office. Hie supporter* who have been quits active In canvassing the situation since their arrival In Atlanta say there le no doubt that the governor-elect will be chosen senator on the first ballot. It has been the belief of the political wiseacres for quite a while that Gov ernor-elect Smith would be the next senator from Georgia, and the press has carried many a story to thta ef fect. The announcement of hie friends Wednesday morning confirms the ru mor so far ae hie receptiveness Is con cerned. The other candidates, however, are not yet disposed to concede Mr. Smith's election slemUg Ten Fashionable Men and Women to Face Grand Jury. Washington, Juna 28.—Recommenda tion that two responsible officials of " i state department be discharged and ere criticism of the loose bookkeep ing methods of the department are striking features of ths report of the sub-committee of the house which In vestlgated the Day portrait scandal. The report was presented today. The officials recommended for dis missal In the $1,600 discrepancy In the portrait voucher case are Thomas Mor- rieon, present disbursing clerk of the department, and William Michael, for- mer chief clerk of the department but now congul at Calcutta. Morrison as disbursing officer paid $2,460 to Michael on a voucher sup posed to pay for a portrait of former Secretary of State Day, now as the justice of the United States supreme court. The artlet, Albert Roaenthal, of Philadelphia, testified that he received only $860 for the painting and Michael had furnlehed no explanation of the disposition of the $1,600 difference, ex cept to ray that It was expended un der the direction of Secretary of Btate John Hay, now dead. The voucher was lost for five years, and found a few weeks ago on the floor of Morrison's office. Morrison testified that the chief clerk of the department frequently pre- .■ouchers and that he paid the AMAZING ARE REVELATIONS Government Said to Have Lost $15,000,000 Thru “Smug gling Syndicate.” New York, June 28e—Ten rich and fashionable men and women, eminent for their •charities' and entertainments. may be summoned before a Federal grand Jury to tell what they know of a "smuggling syndicate," which Is al- ledged to have brought a fortune In jewel*. Paris gown* and bric-a-brac Into this country minus the legal duty. While the society men and women In auestlon have been under survelllandb as a result of revelations brought about by Deputy Surveyor Parr, of this port. It Is not definitely known yet how far their culpability extends. Chief among the ringleaders In this undegrround agency” Is alleged to be the wealthy New Yorker who I* said to have told John R. Collin*, the Nash ville. Tenn., coal m*m and Nathan Al len. the Kenosha, Wts.. capltai'st. bow they could get the fascinating Mrs. Helen Dwelle Jenkins' $JOO.OOO worth of jewels Into this country without paying dulv on them. , -It Is reported that Information has been placed in the hands of Collector Continued en Lest Peg*. •anted voucher* portrait voucher merely as a routine matter. The report says: "The conclusion reached by your committee seems Irresistible that either this *um of $1,600 was Jointly misap propriated by Michael and Morrison or Individually by Michael. "Michael, who 1s now holding the re- tponelble position of consul general at Calcutta, and Morrison, who still holds perhaps the more responsible position of disbursing clerk of the state de- partment, should have long since been removed from office, and even now It Is not too late to remove both of said officials for the good of the | service and the Integrity of pufil flclal*." The report, which la voluminous, goes over the entire portrait mystery, which the committee attempted to clear It say* In part: not finished Its labors, but In view of the fact that even an amount aa email aa $1,000 Is either unaccounted for or accounted for In a most unreaaonable manner, both offi cers still holding responsible position* under Federal authority, It Is deemed wise that this report should be made with the hope that executive authority may relieve the public service." SPECIAUiliEE $1,250,000 HOTEL - NEAR KISTOFFICE Realty Trust Company and J. P. Pound Are Behind the Project. TO HAVE TWELVE FLOORS Old Guard Doesn’t Want South Carolina Governor ’ as a Guest. ALL OTHERS ARE INVITED His Charges Against T. B. Felder Cause of Action of Ancient Organization. New Building Will Occupy Block in Forsyth, Poplar and Luckie-sts. House Adopts McElreath’s Resolution For Its Ap pointment. Commission government Is expected to cut a big figure at this session of the legislature and Walter McEtreath, of Fulton, mad* the first break In the house to prepare for the Inundation of charter, bills. Mr. McElreath's reso lution. which was adopted, provides for an additional committee of eighteen members to handle all charter and (com mission bills of a general nature. This wa* done, Mr. McElreath ex- latned, to keep down much of the work efere the house. The committee was ..intruded by the resolution to prepare a general bill In blanket form for char ters of cities. The munlclpelltles will be grouped tn classes according to tltelr Continued on Last Page, Atlanta Is to have a new $1,260,060 hotel. This Is not guess work or speculation, hut I* assuredly definite. Listen to the details. The hotel will be twelve stories In height. It wifi contain 400 rooms. The lots on which It will stand represent 2600,000 of real estate values. The building will cost $660,000. The fur nishings will represent 1100,060. Add these sums together and there Is a total of $1,260,000. The hotel will have a frontage of 200 feet In Forsyth-at., occupying the en tire west aide of the block between Luckle and Poplar-ata. It will be be tween the new postoffice and the For syth building and on the same side of Foreyth-st. as Chose structure*. Fifty feet of the site nearest Lurkle-at. Is 90 feet deep. The remaining 160 feet la 80 feet In depth. A ten-foot alley runs along the rear, giving exposure from three streets and an alley Governor Cole E. Blease, of South Carolina, will not be Invited to be pres ent *t the Gate City Guard’s greet cfl- ebratlon at Piedmont park next Octo ber. Every' ■ other governor of a state which sec Med from the Union 60 years ■go will be tendered an Invitation. The organisation's decision not to Invite Governor Blease grew out of that official's recent demand on the govern or of Georgia for the person of Thomas B. Felder, a prominent Atlanta attor ney. The Carolina executive preferred chargee of attempted bribery against Mr. Felder, who denounced them a* malicious and a trick of politics. The requisition was refused by Governor Brown after the leading lawyera of Atlanta hod rallied to the defense of their colleague. Blesae then caused to he published an offer of a 1200 reward for the arrest and delivery In South Carolina of Colonel Felder. The old guard of the Gat# City Guard some time ego Instructed Captain Jo seph F. Burke, Its commander, to In vite the governors and military organi sations of all the seceding states to take pari In the fall celebration. After the Bleaae-Felder Incident the guard met again and Instructed Captain Burke to omit the Invitation to Gov ernor Blease. The Carolina troops will b» Invited, however, and a man In touch with the military forces there says the refusal to Invite the governor will not be taken by them aa a reflec tion on their state, and they will accept the Invitation. TO GAVEL IN HOUSE; SLATONIN SENATE Atlantan W£as Not Opposed For Place Which May Mean Governorship. JOHN N. HOLDER. His only opponent for the house speakership has withdrawn, leaving the former speaker unopposed for re-election. FAILTOSCORE POINT Witness They Relied Upon Doesn’t Give Testimony Expected. KNEW NOTHING ON HINES MANY NEW FACES SEEN IN BOTH THE HOUSES Assembly Organizes on Open ing Day and Will Soon Get Down to Work. Never Heard Lumberman Say .Jsorimer’s Election Cost $100,000. Th, hotel projecting an office building for phyal- elans, surgeons end dentists In the same section, besides having engineered other large deal*. Edwin P. Ansley Is acting for the Realty Trust Company. Mr. Pound I* the man who projected the Patten hotel In Chattanooga and the Seminole at Jacksonville, 'both completed and in operation and th* ‘finest hotels in those cities. He head IB ground floor will contain the j the company that rebuilt the Tulane I office, lobbies, cigar and new* I . Hgi stand*, telegraph and telephone booth* end other hotel features, beside* «lx or eight atores and shops. All the upper Doom will be exclusively for hotel pur poses, with neressary banquet and as sembly halls, etc. Th* Men Behind IL The Realty Trust Company, of At lanta, and Jerome B. Pound, of Chatta. nooga, are behind the project. The Realty Trust Company built the For syth theater and office building and la hotel In Nashville and Is completing the new Bristol hotel at Bristol, Tenn.- Va. He Is at the head of the company erecting the Henry IVatterson hotel In Louisville and Is largely Interested In a new hotel under contract at Young*, town, Ohio. He helped to bring about tha organisation of a 1100,oao hotel company to build a new houae at Ma con. his own home. With three hotels built and In operation and three under construction. It I* a safe bet he will put Continued on Lest Pag*. LITTLETON HELPS IN FIGHT FOR COMPULSORY EDUCATION Measure Will Be Introduced Soon in Present Legis lature. Dr. Littleton, who represented Richmond county In the legislature In the session* of Ii09-I$ll, and who was ths author of the Littleton bill for com pulsory education, ragia to Atlanta Wednesday In ths Interest of compul sory education legislation. Altho his two-years light for such a measure waa fruitless. Dr. Littleton •tpi ha* high hopes that the present seaalon will enect legislation which will Ive to the 20,000 Illiterate white chll- ren of Georgia a chance In life. He discussed th* matter Wednesday with a number of the legislators who are In terested In such a measure, and a bill similar to the Littleton blit will he In troduced early In the session. The State Federation of Women's Clubs le squarely behind the compul sory education movement and In co operation with The Georgian has rought for li for two years. There le little doubt that the movement will win this year. DR. J. R. LITTLETON. Washington, June 28/—Rush Culver, a lawyer and lumberman of L’Aneo, Mich., proved a snag for the opponent* of Senator Lorlmer before the Investi gation commltteo today. An effort made to show that he had heard Ed ward Hines say In Marquette, Mich., at the drug store of Shelby B. Jones, n brother-in-law of Culver, that Lnri- mer's election had cost imo.ono, or "a barrel of money," failed completely. Culver, who appeared to he a candid, straightforward witness, said he could recall no such conversation. He had knoa-n Hines for flvo or six years and had had small business dealings with him. Hines Impressed upon him that he wa* a doe* friend of Lorlmer and had aided him In hla electlone. Such aid went so far as to raise campaign funds for Lorlmer. These conversations about the campaign funds related to Lorlmer'* election to the house of rep resentatives end not to the senate, the witness said. He had never talked to Hines about Lorlmer'* election to the senate. He thought that hla brother-in-law, Jonet, had heard Hines speak of helping Lorl mer tn his congressional contests and he erroneously considered It Senator Continued on Last Pag*. pleaIrIrse Judge Newman Refuses Writ of Habeas Corpus For Banker. - LAWYERS WILL APPEAL Court Believes Sentence Would Hold For 10 Years—Rest in Doubt. Unless th* United States circuit court of appeals takes a different view of the case than Judge Newman, Charles W. Morse, former multl-mllllonalre fin ancier. will get ho relief thru the habeas corpus route from serving his flfteen- year sentence In Ihe Federal peniten tiary In Atlanta. Judge Newman denied the applica tion for the writ of habeas corpus Wed nesday morning and Immediately At torney Reuben R. Arnold, who. with Attorney Lamar Hill, la acting for the former banker, took exception to the Judge's decision and announced his de termination to appeal the case to the circuit court of appeals. At 10 o'clock Attorney Arnold began a continuation of the argument which he began last Saturday, and he spoke until 11:20 o'clock. During this hour and a half he made *n eloquent and forceful argument for ths man who once possessed millions and who la now serving what Mr. Arnold declared was practically a life sentence. if* insisted that the sentence. was Continued on Lett Pag*. Another general assembly of Goor- j gla rams Into' existence at ID o'clock Wednesday morning, when tha legisla ture of 1911 'and 1912 was formally convened. The assembly will remain In session for 60 legislative day*. Sleton Elected President. Notwithstanding the fact that J. E. Sheppard, of the Thirteenth district. Araericus, was slated to run a strong race against John M. Slaton, of At lanta, for the presidency of the Georgia senate, hla name was never placed and Slaton was elected by a unanimous vote shortly after the senate convened Wednesday morning. Mr. Slaton's name was placed In nomination by W. S. Morris, of the Eighteenth district. Augusta, and sec onded by E. A. Copeland, of the Nine teenth district, Greensboro. The senate opened Ita session prompt ly at 10 o'clock, and proceeded In the most quiet manner to elect Its officers. Charles Northen, aa predicted, was elected clerk without opposition. Tho election of A. O. Blalock, of ths Twenty.sixth rllrrln. Kn vettevll: \ whose name for president pro tem was "placed by E. A. Copeland, of the Nine teenth district, Greensboro, waa unani mous. Flynn Hargett, of Muacogee, was re- elected messenger of the senate with but slight opposition, receiving 26 votes. Henry Powell, of Dooly, received six votes for th* office. Henry H. Stephens was elected door keeper by a unanimous vote. Ho Is from Coweta county. Holder Is Ro-eleoted. John N. Holder, of Jackson county, was re-elected speaker of the house at 10:80, the vote being 168, which waa unanimous, as no other candidates were placed In nomination. Hon. Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, waa as signed th* honor of making tho nomi nation. which waa quickly seconded by Hon. W. H. Bui-well, of Hancock coun ty, who had withdrawn from the race. Secretary Charles S. Northen of tho last senata, rapped tho upper house to order, while Clerk John T. Bolfeulllet. of the last houae, wielded the gavel In the hall of representatives. Members of tha clergy asked divine guidance Pjr both bodies and than came, the real business. In groups of live and *lx the senators and representatives. In alphabetical order, advanced to the bar of their respective housee and took the oath of office, Justices of the supreme court swearing them In. Election/ nt senate end houae officers were next In order. Elective officers of the senate. In the order of their selection, are: Presi dent, secretary, president pro tem me*, senger and doorkeeper. In the house these officer* are speaker, clerk, speaker pro tem, messenger and door keeper. Secretary Northen and Clerk Bolffeulllet, who have served thru sev eral sessions, were unopposed. Holder Unopposed. Representative W. H. Hopkins, who had been a candidate for speaker of the house, withdrew Tuesday after noon, leaving Speaker John N. Holder, of tho last house, unopposed for re- election. Senator A. O. Blalock, for president pro tem of the senate, wax unopposed. The principal lights have been waged for president of the senata and speaker pro tem of tho house, candidates for the former being Sen ator John M. Slaton, of Atlanta, and Senator J. T. Sheppard, of Americas. The latter office haa been sought by Representative Carl Vinson, of Mll- ledgevllle. and Representative M. C. Tarver, of Dalton. Several candidates have been cam paigning all week for eenate and house messengers end doorkeeper*, the tatter being Confederate veteran*. With election* disposed of. each house will adopt a resolution fo notify the other It Is formally organized and ready for business, and each win send a committee to the governor tn notify him the legislature la In working or der. Capitol Is Crowded. The corridor* of the eapltol won crowded during the morning In advnn of the eeeembllng of the two hou*< numbered In the crowds being th* new eenators and representatives, members of former assemblies, state house officials, politicians from h*r* and there over tho state and many plain rltlzens. Tho visitor* occupied ■eats In the galleries during the open ing c-remnnie*. Attaches of th* eapltol had put ev erything In shipshape for the opening of the seaelon. legislative chambers lobbies and committee room* having been thoroughly renovated, furniture Cleaned end polished and other prepara, tlons made. The legislative machinery l> now in motion and th* mill will continue to grind well Into August There Is mi Continued on Last Page.