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THIRD DEFEATFOR
SEN. HOKE SMITH
Senate by 29 to 11 Kills Reso
lution Asking Governor to Re
turn List of Appointees.
p, r t he third and last time'United
states Senator Hoke Smith has lost his
fi K ht before the Georgia senate for con
firmation of his appointments made
while governor.
The Sheppard resolution requesting
Governor Brown to return these ap
-ointments to the senate for considera.
tjon went down In defeat after a bitter
sis it by a vote of 29 to 11 today, when
!t was indefinitely postponed.
The Smith strength, which amounted
t 0 19 votes last year when the senate
jailed time after time to confirm the
Smith appointments, failed to material
ize \t least two senators —Whitehead
and Felker —counted as Smith partisans
during the last session spok?. against
the resolution, and six more flopped
when the vote was taken.
Factional Fight.
Senator Sheppard attempted to keep
his fight on a legal basis, and the
Brown forces, led by Senator Roberts,
adopted this course, but factional poli
ties injected into the debate assumed
proportions that would not down.
if we couldn't get confirmation dur
ing the last session when Hoke Smith
was governor, how could we expect to
it now'.’" said Senator Whitehead, a
Smith supporter, in explaining his vote
against the resolution. Whitehead's re
marks voiced the attitude of mind of
the Smith forces.
Senator Sheppard practically waged
his fight alone. He admitted that his
motion to return the appointments to
Smith on the last night of last session
\ gave him but little fighting chance.
\ Senator Felker. also a Smtih follow
: er in last year's skirmishes, asserted
■ that Governor Smith had taken the ap
pointments with him when he left the
executive office.
Defends Governor.'
'How can we expect Governor Brown
to return us a list of appointments
when the list is not in the governor’s
office. Senator Sheppard has just ad
mitted that all his resolution calls for
is the physical paper containing the
names of Smith's appointees. Govern,
or Brown hasn’t got the it is
Impossible for him to return it to us.”
Senator Roberts provoked a laugh
when he accused Sheppard of having
put himself in a hole by securing a re
turn of the appointments.
"Doesn't Senator Roberts realize that
he voted to send them back?” shouted
Sheppard, jumping to his feet.
“Yes, 1 guess 1 did,” answered Rob
erts; “and 1 was glad to do so to get
rid of these appointments.”
Appointments Smith Made.
The appoitments in question which
were made by Hoke Smith as ad in
terim appointments on August 17. and
have never been confirmed by the sen
ate. are:
S. I'pson, solicitor of city court of
Athens.
P C. King, solicitor of city court of
Fort Gaines.
Joseph E. Pottle, trustee state uni
versity.
Henry 1). McDaniel, trustee state
university.
S Burkhalter, solicitor county court
of i ’linch.
W. A. Milton. judge city court of
Blackshear.
S. F. Memory, solicitor city court of
Blackshear.
J H. McGahee, trustee state univer-
A L. Miller, director Georgia Medi
cal college.
Enoch H. Calloway, director Georgia
Medical college.
John T. West, director of Georgia
Medical college.
'V, a. Lattimer, director Georgia
Medical college.
P. A. Stovall director. Georgia Medi
cal college.
L. c. Hayne, director Georgia Medi
cal college.
Thomas J. Shackleford, judge city
court of Athens.
AMERICAN BUFFALO
REPLACES “LIBERTY”
ON 5-CENT PIECES
W ashington. July 9.—The design
of the five-cent piece which has been
Jintping in the pockets of American
citizens for many years does not coin
cide with the treasury department's
conception of art and it will be changed
In its entirety.
be ret ary MacVeagh has decided to
rep;.. P the Goddess of Liberty on the
face ~f the nickel with a buffalo. The
reverse side of the new coin will con
tain th.> head of an Indian. J. W. Fra
”r. f New York, is making the design
! 'i 'Elaboration with officials of the
’reasury department. All its details
'I. he decided upon at a conference
b-tween Secretary MacVeagh and Mr.
F this week.
boy feeds wageFof
father to guinea pig
' ' "HINGTON, July 9.—A three
fer old Chicago boy got hold of his
Ir ” 1 'i s pocketbook and fed $36 in bills
Other's wages—to hia pet guinea
h’c-. rhe father sent the remnants of
* bigs' meal to President Taft with
I" ul to the government to re
" ’he entire roll. The man is the
support of a big family on $1.75
t' >?t ? bein s the only one in Washing
! now, he wrote to the president,
. ■ -ending them to you."
t • nly small ends of the bills were
lhr> treasury of the United
" ' Il call upon the father to prove
bv th' 'Y l} tbal bills were eaten
y ‘he pigs.
Georgian's Guests Spend Day inCincinnati
SIGHTSEERS A HAPPY FAMILY
Niagara Tourists, Traveling on
Special Train, on First Lap
of Week's* Jaunt.
The Georgian's guests, who took ad
vantage of the offer to see the wonder
ful scenic, beauties of Niagara Fails
and visit Cincinnati, Toronto, Buffalo,
Detroit and other famous cities, free of
post, are now in Cincinnati, making the
first stop for a day. They will leave
late this afternoon for Toronto, and go
from there to the falls.
The grim old Union depot was en
tirely changed yesterday afternoon
when the merry crowd left in the spe
cial train. A throng of those who
could not go said good-bye at the
train, filling the station until the time
for the train to leave. *
“Oh. yes, I’m going: aren’t you?” and
“Yes, I’m going, too!” echoed* among
the greetings of’those who recognized
friends in the party.
From an hour before train time until
the big special pulled out there was a
constant chatter of voices and the met-
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ry laughter of the many women and
girls mingled with the crowd. A dem
ocratic feeling predominated and
friends introduced their friends to oth
ers who were on the trip, so that when
the loud voice of the train caller an
nounced something that sounded like
"Na’ga Fall Trip Speciah” most of the
party were on speaking terms with all
those near them.
Many Women in Party.
“Oh, I'd just give anything if I'd
made arrangements to go, too,” said
Miss Fay Watterson, an Atlanta girl,
who came to the station to see a party
of friends off.
“I didn't realize how much fun it
would be until I saw the kind of people
who are taking the trip.”
“Come on and join us in the picture
on the step," cried a friend while a pno
tographer was waiting to snap a party
on the back of the train.
'TH play ‘make-believe’ once more,”
she answered, and joined the laughing
group entering the Pullman.
There were many women and a num
ber of children in the party. Many of
them from various parts of south
Georgia and several from Alabama and
Florida, where, they say. The Geor
gian's free offer to see Niagara Falls
for the trouble of gathering a few sub
scriptions for the paper created as
much or even more interest than in At
lanta and right around this section.
Many hurried to obtain their own re
served seats in the comfortable Pull
mans, and after they had deposited suit
cases and bundles they leaned out the
ear windows and added their happy
voices to the hundreds that were al
ready ringing in the station.
Wave Good-bye to Friends.
When the final signal was given and
the train pulled out, there was a -volley
of shouts and a caving of handker
chiefs that would have put a "Chautau
qua greeting" to shame. From every
ear window, from the steps and the
observation vestibule white pieces of
linen In the hands of the women and
girls fluttered a good-bye to Atlanta
and their many friends here.
Then the persons whose lot it was to
wish godspeed to the travelers turned
and left the station, expressing the
wish that the.v had tried to be in the
pa rt y
"Oh, we ll do it next year, if we have
THE ATLANTA GTOBdIAN ANT) NEWS.TUESDAY, JULY 9. 1912
an opportunity," were their last words
to each other as they separated at the
depot entrance.
The party is in charge of J. H. Mc-
Farland. representing The Georgian; F.
J. Parmelee, of the C., H. & D. rail
road, over whose lines the greater part
of the trip will be mhde, and R. F.
Bishop, Pullman conductor, who has
been assigned to numbers of the trips
by his compariy and whose record for
providing every convenience for his
patrons is widely known.
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RADIUM CHANGES
GOLOROFGEMS
LONDON, July 9. —-Still another won
derful property of radium has been
placed on record —the property of be
ing able to change the colors of pre
cious and semi-precious stones.
The change is effected merely by
continued exposure to radium salts, and
the stone which gives the best results
are sapphires.
• A young German chemist is said to
have obtained the most wonderful re
sults from this remarkable discovery.
He recently purchased several va
rieties of sapphires, and placed them in
a box with a small quantity of radium
bromide. The astonishing transforma
tion of the stones after only about one
month's exposure to the radium are
described as follows:
Original Color. New Color.
White or uncolored. Topaz like yellow.
Blue Cmerald green.
Violet Sapphire blue.
Wine colored Beautiful ruby.
Inferior dark col-
ored Deep violet.
Scarcely during to credit the evidence
of his eyes, the chemist visited a jew
eler from whom he bought the stones
at an average price of 40 cents per
carat, and asked what the jeweler
would offer for the "new" parcel. The
jeweler, suspecting nothing even after
a close examination, offered $lO per
carat for all the stones, with the ex
ception of the small but exquisite ruby
colored one, for which he said he was
willing to give no less than SIOO a
carat.
A reporter who visited the Salisbury
house officials of the British Radium
<'orporation. The., the owners of the
pitchblend ore rights of the Trenwith
mine, in Cornwall, was shown several
corundums of various colors which
have already been materially changed
from their original hues by a few weeks
contact with a “mall glass tube con
taining fifty milligrams of pure crys
tallized radium bromide.
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At top. some of the jolly young women in The -Georgians’
Niagara Falls party. Baek row, left to right, Miss Susie Do
zier, Columbus; Miss Bertha Reynolds, Atlanta; Miss Mary Do
zier, Columbus: Miss Celeste Cameron. Atlanta. Seated on cow
eateher, Miss Fay Watterson, Atlanta. Below, on left, one of
the fair tourists. Miss Elise Brown, Atlanta, boarding the sp'eeial.
Below, on right. Conductor R. B Elliott and one of the juvenile
members of the party, little Lois Mathews, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. S. Mathews, of Warrenton.
JUDGE COVINGTON
FOR GOVERNOR, IS
ALEXANDER’S HINT
The bitter fight over the Tippins bill
in the- legislature may force the state
wide prohibitionists to bring forth a
gubernatorial candidate for the August
primary.
Hooper Alexander, house leader for
the prohibitionists, gave evidence of
this today when he more than hinted
that Judge W. A. Covington, of Moul
trie might make the race. Rumors
lhat Judge Covington would put his
hat into the ring have been rampant for
a week.
"It may be possible that the people of
Georgia will be forced to elect a gov
ernor who will stand squarely upon a
prohibition platform,” said Alexander
in the course of the debate on the Tip
pins measure.
Representative Alexander intimated
that an effort was being made to get
an out-and-out prohibitionist in the
governor’s race. Judge Covington is
this prohibitionist.
Mr. Busines Mun nr Woman: Aren’t
you on a sharp lookout for competent help
of all kinds? You know that it is good
business policy to get live wires with you.
Let us call your attention to the “Situa
tions Wanted" columns of The Georgian.
Here is where you have a chance to select
the best help that can be had on the mar
ket These people thai advertise can
furnish you the best of references. So,
from now on read the "Situation Wanted"
columns of The Georgia and get the help
that will be of the most service to you.
DRUGGIST’S DELIVERY
BOY MAKES MISTAKE;
WOMAN UNCONSCIOUS
MACON. GA., July 9.—Mrs. Lizzie
Daniels, a widow, living at 224 Water
street, ordered a dose of epsom salts
from her druggist. When the order ar
rived she took an extra large dose. In
ten minutes she was unconscious, and
only the prompt*attention of physicians
saved her life. She is now at the hos
pital in a precarious condition. The
messenger boy gave her a bov of med
icine intended for another person.
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STRIKEBREAKERS IN
TERROR OF MINERS;
MILITIA AID ASKED
CHARLESTON, W. VA„ July 9.
Sheriff S. P. Smith today appealed to
Governor Glasscock to send the militia
to Mucklow where during last night
and early today several hundred strik
ing miners, armed with winchesters,
fired on a house occupied by George
Ellison, a strikebreaker, and his wife.
The couple escaped through the rear.
The house was wrecked.
The strikebreakers, who have taken
the houses of the strikers, are terror
stricken. Deputy sheriffs and mine of
ficials say they have authoritative in
formation that armed miners intend to
invade the mining towns along the
creek and shoot up all the houses occu
pied by the strikebreakers.
MRS. DECKER’S BODY IS
STARTED FOR DENVER
SAN FRANCISCO. July 9.—Follow
ed by a long procession, the casket con
taining the body of Mrs. Sarah Platt
Decker was borne to the railroad sta
tion today and placed aboard a train
for Denver. The casket was covered
with a bank of flowers provided by
delegates to the biennial conference of
the General Federation of A’omen's
clubs.
Miss Hattie Platt, daughter of Mts.
Decker, was a member of the party that
accompanied the body on its way to
Denver. <
SKEETERS KEPT
BACK BY RAINS
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Health Officer Declares Wet
Weather Washed Away the
Eggs of Summer Pests.
Winds are good or ill, according to
the viewpoint of two well-known At
lantans today, whose vocations a’re
much affected by the weather. The re
cent wet weapSer has caused two con
flicting opinions.
Dr. J. P. Kennedy, city health of
ficer and one of the men discussing the
weather, said that the heavy rains had
brought a blessing to Atlanta by wash
ing away all the mosquitoes. While
the mosquito season has arrived, the
mosquitoes have not. Dr. Kennedy ex
plained that the rains washed away
the mosquito eggs before they had time
to hatch, and that, therefore, contrary
to the popular impression, dry and not
wet weather added the pests. He add
ed. however, that if the rain water col
lected in puddles or elsewhere and was
allowed to stand mosquitoes would un
doubtedly be bred
On the other hand, Captain Tom
Donaldson, superintendent of construc
tion for Fulton county, said this had
•been the worst year for construction
work during his 6 years of experience.
He said that the rains not only prek
vented work on many days, but wash
ed away all that had been done.
“The weather has kept things at a
standstill practically all the year," h 0
declared.
M ADVISED ED
RETURN TO KILTS
Englishman Says Modern Attire
of Male Sex Has Reached
Acme of Ugliness.
LONDON, July 9. —Modem fashions
were criticised by J. Grant Ramsay in
a lecture at the Institute of Hygiene
on “Dress and Clothing in Summer.”
Men’s attire, he said, had reached
the acme of ugliness, and the only ex
cuse for It was that It was meant to be
useful rather than ornamental. There
were indications, however, that a re
action toward adornment and color had
begun. There were bright blue ties
and pale pink socks as well as Ham
burg and Tyrolese hats. Even the
feather had appeared and although it
was a tiny one, no one knew to what
length it might grow.
Man, however, required a more sci
entific garment than that now worn.
This might be secured by the adoption
of the kilt. They would find it not
only an attraction, but the best invest
ment they ever had to deal with.
Criticising “the mountainous con
glomeration of every conceivable form
of eccentricity” which women now
wear a.s a head dress, he said there
might be some advantage In having
the sifrishade and hat In partnership,
but the weight was often a real danger
to health. “If," he said, “such a bur
den were placed on the head of the
lower animals, it Is not at all improb
able that we should soon find some hu
mane society taking drastic measures
to put a stop to it.”
HE’S ANXIOUS TO HANG,
BUT LAW JOPPOSES IT
AUSTIN, TEX., July 9.—The famous
Burrell-Oates case at Dallas ha« been
advanced another step toward a final
decision. Oates Is the negro who has
been pleading in vain for several years
to be hanged. He is greatly pleased
over the action which the ijtate court
of criminal appeals has Just takerf* in
affirming the death penalty imposed by
the trial court. All that, now'stands be
tween Oates and the gallows is the re
mote possibility that the court of crim
inal appeals may grant the applica
tion that is to be made for a rehear
ing.
Oates is charged with murdering Sol
Oronoff, a merchant of Dallas, on-the
night of November 30, 1904. He con
fessed, but under the law he could not
be sentenced unless convicted on trial.
Six times he has been tried-and sen
tenced to be hanged, but each time the
verdict was set aside on technical
grounds.
CANDIDATES A-PLENTY
ENTER RACES IN FLOYD
ROME. GA.. July 9.—Candidates for
political plums are rapidly growing in
number.
W. H. Ennis and John W. Bale have
announced for solicitor general from
the Rome judicial district, composed of
Floyd, Walker and Chattooga counties.
W. M. Martin, W. B. Mebane and
John C. Foster have announced for the
legislature, and this week R. H. Wick
er, George R. Anderson, Barry Wright
and G. B. Holder are expected to en
ter this race.
There are nine candidates for board
of revenues and roads. They are C. M.
Young, J. G. Pollock. M. L. Snell,, J.
M. Jones, W. N. Horton, W. J. Walker,
John M. Salmon, W. C. Lovell and J. M.
Yarbrough.
80-YEAR-OLD MAN RUN OVER.
DOUGLAS, GA.,_July 9.—-Josh Hersey,
80 years old, is in a critical condition to
day as the result of having been run over
by a team and heavy hack while crossing
Ward street yesterday afternoon. He
was kicked by one of the horses and one
wheel passed over his body. He is at
the home of his son, J. A. Hersey.
OECLMES NMI
BESTJIPLOMAT
Keystone Congressman Says
Two-Battleship Plan Is the
Greatest Peace Argument.
By MICHAEL DONOHOE,
Congressman From Pennsylvania.
WASHINGTON, July 9.—1 am
strongly of opinion that the congress of
the United States should continue ap
propriations for at least two battle
ships a year. This has been, a well
established policy for some time. I
would hate to see it changed.
If any nation in the world has need
for a great navy it is certainly the
United States. This is an aggressive
country. It is progressive. Our people
are ambitious. There are many rea
sons for jealousies among competing
countries We never are safe from
the danger of international differences.
We have an immense eoast exposure,
besides a number of insular posses
sions to protect. We all hope that oc
casion may never arise for the need of
a great navy, but the need may, and is
apt to arise at any time.
The millennium has not yet arrlvied.
While all nations are striving for an
age of peace, when battleships and big
navies may be useless, that time has
not yet arrived. We all know that
peace may be most effectually secured
through the maintenance of adequate
military and naval equipment.
Danger Lies in Weakness,
I can not believe, that the people of
the country approve a policy of econ
omy that weakens our system of na
tional defense and exposes us to the
dangers of suicidal unpreparedness for
any emergency that might arise. The
Democratic party does not believe in
such economy. The party is striving
to avoid extravagance in the adminis
tration of the government, but It does
believe in the liberal expenditure of
money where wisdom demands it.
The Democrats in the bouse of rep
resentatives believe In the building of
adequate battleships to keep the navy
in fit condition for any emergency, but
they believe that this appropriation
might be saved this year without se
rious damage. The majority so decided
in caucus. Some of us did not agree
with the majority. I do not believe
the decision of the majority wise. It
lays down a precedent that may.'be
dangerous. It establishes a record for
economy that may not be good either
for the party or. the country.
Persuades Where Words Fail.
A strong navy promotes peace. It
inspires respeot from other nations. It
commands recognition. It makes for
dignity. The nation that is well
equipped for war on land and sea Is
safe from International quarrels that
can be handled with diplomacy.
A big navy is the finest diplomat in
the world. It can persuade where
words fail. .
This country is too progressive and
has too many large interests in every
corner of the globe to neglect the ma
chinery that makes for peace. An ad
equate navy Is far more economical
than one war.
The absence of war is no argument
for a reduction in the naval equipment.
War debts a-nd war wreckage are
harder to pay than the building of
warships. Continued peace and the re
speot of nations is worth more than
adequate naval expenditures.
DEATHS AND FUNERALS j
Velma Hopkins.
The body of Velma Hopkins, the three
months-old daughter of Mr and Mrs R.
T. Hopkins, who died early today at th«
residence on Lakewood avenue, is at
Bloomfield-Burkert’s chapel awaiting the
funeral. The Interment will be at Buford,
Ga., tomorrow.
J. E. Thomas.
The funeral of J. E. Thomas, Jr., the
infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Thomaa,
who died last night at the family resi
dence, 22 Wood street, was held this
afternoon at Bloomfield-Burkert’s private
chapel. Interment will be at Lithl*
Springs, Ga.
Henry D. Boyd.
Henry D. Boyd, manager of the Procter
Coal Company, died at his home, 77
Cherokee avenue, at 11 o'clock this morn
ing, after a lingering illness. He is sur
vived by his widow and one daughter,
Louise. No arrangements for services in
Atlanta have yet been made. The body
will be carried to Concord, Tenn., for in
terment.
Mrs. Mary McWilliams.
Mrs. Mary McWilliams. 59 years of age,
died this morning at 10 o'clock at her
home, 290 Waldo street. She is survived
by three sons and three daughters, J. W.
Huey. F. G. McWilliams and M. C. Mc-
Williams; Mrs. G. W. McClain, Mrs. G J.
Long and Mrs. Rose Berry. Funeral
services will be conducted Thursday
morning at 11 o'clock at Clifton church.
The interment will be in the churchyard.
$10,000,000 SUGAR STOCK ,
!S GIVEN TO HAVEMEYER
TRENTON, N. J.. July 9—ln an
opinion filed in the court of chancery in
the suit of Norman D. Hooker and
others against the executor and heirs
of Henry O. Havemeyer. Vice Chancel
lor Stevens holds that $10,000,000 worth
of stock of the National Sugar Refin
ing Company was issued to Havemeyer
without consideration.
Havemeyer come by this stock when
he acquired the stock of the New York
Sugar Refining Company, the National
Sugar Refining Company and the Mol
lenhauer Sugar Refining Company for
$8,250,000, and consolidated the com
panies Into the National Sugar Refining
Company with a capital of $20,000,000
The defendants claimed the acquisi
tion of the th-ee companies and the
combining of them into one gave them
a value far in excess of what was paid
for the companies acquired individual
ly.
The vice chancellor held that, under
the circumstances, this added value, if
any, could not be capitalized to Havu
meyer's benefit.
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