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VOL X. NO. 283.
LEGISLATURE
OPENS; PACT
ON TIPPINS
BItLMAOE
Friends and Foes of the Meas
ure Agree to Decide Its
Fate Early.
BELIEVED ACT WILL BE
PASSED, THEN VETOED
i Dozen Absent From Session
This Morning—Slaton, H all
and Holder Present.
With a dozen absentee# and a gen
eral "I wish T were at Baltimore” feel
ing pervading both branches, the two
houses composing the Georgia legisla
ture convened today at 10 o’clock to
take up business where it was left off
last summer. It looked like a rather
dull session ahead, for there were no
officials to elect, no real lights in sight,
except over near-beer, and Joe Hill
Hall is running for governor and there
fore expected to be less apt to start
something every time he sees a good
opportunity.
Clerk John T. Boifenillet. in the
house, and Secretary Charles T. North
en, In the senate, had hardly announced
a, quorum and laid down their rolls be
fore there was a hurry call for the pages,
and new bills by the dozen went up
1 1 the aisles for introduction. Whether
there's any excitement ahead or not,
there will certainly be plenty of new
laws.
No Filibuster On
The Tippins Bill.
The newsiest thing which stirred up
conversation around the Smokers club
was the fact that the friends and foes
of the Tippins bill had got together and
agreed not to filibuster. This was good
news to members who had bills to pass
this session and who remembered the
long-drawn-out fight on the prohibition
law when the filibuster lasted 40 days
and 40 nights, or thereabouts, to the
general disgust of all concerned except
the fllibusterers themselves. It means
, that the bill will be passed or defeated
early in the session without blocking
the way of other legislation.
Leaders representing the prohibition
ists who desire to stop the sale of the
near-beer now sold in Georgia, and
those who would make it even a little
nearer, have agreed to let it go to a
vote. It is the first bill on the house
calendar, has been read' twice and is
ready for passage. It will be taken up
>nn the Monday after the Fourth of
July. Two days will be permitted for
debate, speeches will be limited, the
time divided between opposing sides,
, and the previous question will be called
at a fixed hour.
Think It Will Be
Passed, Then Vetoed.
The house has a clear majority in
favor of the bill, unless some of the
members have backsljdden since last
session. It will probably pass easily
there. The senate is said to count 31
for the bill to 13 against it. But Gov
ernor Brown announced last year that
he would not sign any bill changing
the present prohibition law unless it Is
first submitted to the people for a vote.
This is taken to mean that he will veto
the bill, which must then pass both
houses again by a two-thirds majority.
Whether the sentiment for It can mus-
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SEEK WAITER
AS STEVENS
LIES NEAR
DEATH
Son of Former State Official
Slashed in Quarrel With
Friend.
WOUNDED MAN EXHIBITS
NERVE UNDER OPERATION
Frank McDonald, Accused of
Cutting, Hunted in Vain
by Police.
Robert L. Stevens, son of Colonel O.
B. Stevens, of 304 East Linden avenue,
and one of the best known young men
in the city, lay at the point of death
in Grady hospital today, the police
hunting in vain for Frank McDonald, a
waiter In Durand’s Ed go wood avenue
case, who is accused (ft having stab
bed the youth tn a street fight.
Stevens was taken to the hospital
with a gaping wound extending several
inches across his abdomen. Glen Bul
lard. of College Park, who was with
Stevens, made the accusation against
McDonald, and the police began a city
wide hunt for the waiter, who disap
peared immediately after the cut
ting.
At Grady hospital the physicians said
Stevens had little chanee for life.
Stevens gave a remarkable exhibition
of nerve on the operating table, refus
ing the use of. an anesthetic. He urged
the physicians to keep the affair a se
cret from his parents apd smiled grim
ly as the gaping wound' was sewed to
gether.
According to Bullard’s version of the
shooting, Stevers, McDonald grid three
other young men stopped in a cigar
stand on Pryor street to get some ciga
rettes. Stevens and McDonald got into
a row. No one thought the affair was
at all serious. Stevens displayed a shoe
buttoner as his “weapon” and McDon
ald drew a small pearl-handled pen
knife.
Out on the sidewalk the argument
was renewed and Stevens is said to
have slapped McDonald across the face.
McDonald pulled out. his knife and
slashed Stevens across the abdomen.
The wounded youth, gasping in pain,
ran toward the Black apartments, with
several of the party close behind him.
He dashed up two flights of stairs to
the room of a friend, wUere he fell in a
faint.
Policeman J. D. Kilpatrick stated he
saw McDonald walking back toward
Peachtree street, remarking that “it
was a shame for a friend of his to have
been cut that way.”
Robert Stevens is one of the best
known young men in Atlanta. He is a
graduate of the North Georgia Agricul
tural college, at Dahlonega, and also
prominent in state college circles.
PREACHER RESIGNS
TO BECOME A BREWER
JOHNSTOWN, PA., June 26. —The
Rev. Herman Kauffman has resigned
to become a brewer.
Before he came to America to study
for the ministry and later to accept
the pastorate of one of the largest
churches here, lie was identified with
the brewery business.
The trustees of St. Pauls German
Lutheran church, in Morrellsville, a su
burb of Johnstown, accepted his resig
nation.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1912.
POOR OLD MAN—BY T. E. POWERS
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Judge Compares Old
Lawsuit to Dickens'
Famed Jarndyce Case
Litigation Pending Seventeen
Years at Macon To Be
Ended in Short Time.
MACON. GA., June 36.—-An order was
drawn in the United States court by
Judge Speer today which forecasts the
final settlement of the long-pending
Huff litigation within the next six
months.
Seventeen years ago, W. A. Huff, ex
mayor of Macon, was put in bankruptcy
because he refused to pay a claim for
*I,OOO against him. and by dint of un
usual and persistent appeals he has
prevented the case, from being finally
closed, notwithstanding that the great
er part of his estate was sold years
ago.
The court has had a fund of $90,000
in the bank for three years. The order
drawn today provides for the early pay
ment of all creditors. Interest and court
costs. After the payment of claims and
expenses, the defendant wilj have a
considerable sum, probably as much as
$30,000, coming to him.
In passing the order, Judge Speer
commented that this was one piece of
litigation which could be literally com
pared with Dickens' famous "Jarndyce
versus Jarndyce” case.
OLD PORCH GIVES UP
HIDDEN TREASURE
EASTON. PA., June 2s.—Robert
Peiffer started several days ago to make
altefations to his home and store prop
erty.
In tearing down an old porch a car
penter found an old wallet which had
been hidden under the flooring. The
tvallet contained $2,834 in bills.
The house is about 75 years old and
was occupied for many years by Jacob
Lesh. deceased.
ALFALFA STEW MAY HELP
REDUCE COST OF LIVING
GREELEY. COL., June 26—Hotels in
Greeley are considering the proposal to
supply their guests with an entirely
new dish—alfalfa stew_-
At Missoula. Mont., alfalfa flour has
been turned into palatable bread. The
loaf is somewhat the color of rye,
though darker.
PROBE Os HEALTH
BOARD ISWANTED
Senator Beauchamp Urges the
Legislature to Investigate Dr.
Westmoreland’s Charges.
Shortly after the Georgia senate con
vened today Senator J. C. Beauchamp,
of the Twenty-second district, sprang
a sensation by introducing a resolution
calling Jor an investigation of the
state board of health.
Dr. Beauchamp’s request for a probe
of the health department was based
upon the charges recently made to the
governor against Dr. Roy Harris, sec
retary of the board of health. The al
legations filed W’lth the governor were
made by Dr. Willis Westmoreland, of
Atlanta, former president of the state
board, and charged Dr. Harris with mis
conduct of his official duties.
The health board met and Dr. Har
ris w’gs completely exonerated. Dr.
Beauchamp said today that since the
allegations were made by one as high
In the medical profession as Dr. West
moreland that a complete legislative
probe should be undertaken.
Dr. George Brown, of Atlanta, intro
duced a. similar resolution in the house
calling for an investigation committee
of two from the senate and three from
the house.
PARIS IS THREATENED
WITH A BREAD FAMINE
PARIS. June 26.—Paris is threatened
with a bread famine. The price of
flour is $14.60 a sack, the sacks con
taining 157 kilogrammes, the average
price of which during the last ten years
was only $lO.
The prospect is alarming, because
most of the hatvesting in Prance is
done in the middle of July, so that a
new supply of flour can not be obtained
until August. As the government main
tains custom duties of seven francs on
foreign wheat, and is allowing a re
bate only under conditions difficult of
fulfilment, it is expected that the price
of bread during the next six weeks will
go up 20 per cent.
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Nagging of Wife Caused
Cataracts on His Eyes
And Tight Skin on Back
Pedagogue Author of ‘' Night
mare of Gloom,” However, Is
! Refused Divorce in Reno.
RENO. NEV., June 26.—Although
Waldo Dennis, for many years a school
teacher and at present principal of the
Manierrex school in Chicago, declared
that he was the subject of years of
, scolding on the part of his wife, that
; he was compelled to forsake her bed
i and live in a. separate room for the
last fifteen years: that the nagging
commenced Immediately after they
were married in Chicago 31 years ago,
Judge Thomas E. Moran granted a
non-suit today on Dennis' application
for a divorce from his wife, Ellen W.
Dennis, who is also a school principal,
being In charge of the Waller High
school.
Dennis admitted that he was the au
thor of a book entitled "Nightmare of
Gloom,” based on his years of expe
rience.
Dennis stated that on their wedding
trip his wife commenced complaining;
that she grew wrathy because mos
quitoes bit her. He stated she opened
his letters, cooked steak so that the
smoke annoyed him. scolded and ren
dered his life miserable.
He said it ruined his health, tight
ened the skin on his back, caused cata
racts to come on his eyes, his face to
become pinched. He would go to his
room and offer a prayer to be relieved
of his sufferings. Judge Moran failed
to see extreme cruelty In all this and
dismissed the case
$5,000 SECRETARY FOR
BIRMINGHAM TRADE BODY
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.. June 26—W.
C. Radcliffe, of Detroit, is studying
the local work as secretary of the
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce,
preliminary to succeeding Joseph B.
Rabb, who has held the office for sev
eral years, and who retires next Mon
day. Mr. Babb will take, up general
organization work, his first efforts to
be in Increasing the membership of the
Montgomery Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Radcliffe comes to Birmingham at
a salary of $5,000 per annum
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PEACE IT BALTIMORE;
JAMES IS CHOICE FOR
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN
Second Day’s Session of Democrats
Opens More Auspiciously Than the
First—Clark Still High Man in the
Presidential Race.
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BALTIMORE, June 26. When the second day’s session of
the Democratic national convention began here today at noon
the spirit of fight had almost disappeared and harmony was
again in evidence, much jn contrast with the opening of the
big convention. This spirit of harmony was due in a large
measure to the announcement of the committee of perma
nent organization that Ollie Janies, of Kentucky, who repre
sents the progressive element of the party, had been selected
for permanent chairman of the convention.
Mr. James was backed early
by the combined Clark and Wil
son forces for temporary chair
man, and is also supported by
the Bryan forces.
Three interesting angles showed
themselves when the Democrats start
ed a new day full of memories of the
exciting contest that had the day be
fore reached a milestone in political
history. They were:
The prospect of an earnest fight over
the platform to be presented, with par
ticular reference to the tariff plank.
The many-sided fight for the presi
dential nomination with field running
against Clark and with the present
odds favoring the Missouri champion.
Roosevelt Emissaries
To Bryan Cause Worry.
The reported visit of Francis J. He
ney and Charles R. Crane, emisaries
from the Roosevelt Progressive party,
to William J. Bryan, with the conse
quent rumors that they were seeking
to lead Mr. Bryan into the newly form,
ed third party.
The attempt to win Bryan to the
Roosevelt cause was the sensation of
the lobbies, where the Bryanltes con
gregated. An early report had it that
Heney. the fire-brand representative
who goaded the steam roller party at
Chicago until it hooted him and who
rankled Root until the chairman let fly
a covert threat to restrain his.speech. '
rushed down during the night. With
him came Charles R. Crane, of Chi
cago. who is an ardent Roosevelt sup
porter and one of the main financial
contributors to the Roosevelt fund.
Frankly these elders from the bull '
moose faith were here to proselyte, and
the air was filled with reports that they
had come with authority to talk for
the party of their making and that they
1
were dickering for a recruiting station
in the Bryan army. Mr. Bryan admit
ted he had seen Heney. but refused to i
discuss what was said between them. 1
The presidential situation is best ex
pressed by Delegate John Fletcher, of
Tennessee, who said: (
"While all of this racket is going on i
the friends of all of the candidates are '
busy trying to land their men. The 1
Clark movement stands out most prom-
I
inently, which is both an evidence of j
its strength and of Its weakness. On (
the one hand it shows the Missouri man I
as the strongest man in the field — <
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•Official Program of •
• Baltimore Convention •
• Today. «
• Committee on credentials re- *
• port. «
• Convention permanently organ- •
• ized. •
• Permanent chairman elected. •
• Committee on resolutions re- •
• port, If ready, and platform •
• adopted. •
• June 27. •
• Nominations for president, roll •
• call by states for nominations. •
• Nominating and seconding •
• speeches. •
• Balloting on presidential noml- •
• nations until a nomination is *
• reached. In case of deadlock, ad- •
• Journment until next day. •
• June 28. •
• Vice presidential candidates '»
• nominated. •
• Clearing up of routine bus!- •
• ness. * •
• Adjournment. •
• In order to win the nomination. •
• the successful candidate must, poll •
• at least two-thirds of the total •
• vote. •
• An important item of interest •
• in connection with the nomina- •
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now. On the other hand, it places him
like the high man in a seven-up game
where all of the other players throw
the game to the low man in order to
keep the high man from going out.
That is the best possible explanation
of the Clark status.”
The complex situation has resulted in
the naming of many dark horses.
Among those named in the hotel cor
ridor gossip are Governor Eugene Foss
of Massachusetts; William Randolph
Hearst, William J. Gaynor, of New
York; Representative A. Mitchel Pal
mer. of Pennsylvania; Joseph W. Folk,
of Missouri; Senator Claude A. Swan
son, of Virginia; Mayor Carter H. Har
rison, of Chicago,
The Tammany view of the nomina
tion with Its 90 votes, and the alliance:
that go with it. is expressed in thest
words by Pat E. McCabe, after having
had a talk with Charles F. Murphy:
"The likeliest choice of this conven
tion is Speaker Clark. 1 say this mere
ly as a cold blooded political proposi
tion. based upon the situation as it is.
Surely Wilson was hurt and Clark's
chances enhanced by the defeat of