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-A—' J OFFICIAL WEATHER. Showers tonight or tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m„ 73 degrees: 10 a . m.. ?8 degrees: 12 noon. 83 de press: 2 p. m., 84 degrees. VOL. X. NO. 253. HODOR» NEW CENTER OF Bl EASE SCAIDAL Attention Turns From Pardon Charges Against the South Carolina Governor. CONSTABULARY PROBE STATE WIDE THREATENED Expected Refutation nf Pardon Selling Charges Not Forth (i‘minq at Columbia. ' 1 '■ J'■ I . S. July 19. Charges th.'' P ' . henchmen havr been tak ing r >■ ' "ii s-aft from ('harleston i"nr rb-- ' ay shifted attention from me ’ i J":: - selling charges that iavp stir-nil ilit stale the past week "11'1 caused Governor ('ole 1.. Blease' n withhold his promised sensational refutation of the pardon charges and denunciation of those who made them. Th. testimony before the dispensary investigating committee by F. J. B. <i Nelli, a Charleston liquor dealer, yes terday afternoon, turned the tide of South Carolina sensations from the pardon scandal to the blind tiger graft ing affair Today the graft scandal is '"’cupying the spotlight and promises in develop itself into a state-wide probe of the conduct of the state constabulary in dealing with violators of the liquor la n s * halt man Carlisle, of the investi gating committee, today announced that r a few days the committee would again meet to probe the liquor graft charges. Blease Almost, Ignores Charges. Disappointed to an extent was the '' ’"d that packed the Columbia the this afternoon to hear Governor Rlease -take the bide off" Thomas B. P,der ' r) etective E. S. Reed and De- William J. Burns, because of l!lt disclosures and charges made di 'ecly and indirectly against the gov . r 'i.n ast week before the dispensary f'Wstigattng committee at the sessions ■'ngusta. Blease barely mentioned charges, referring to them as Instead, he directed an attack, in T r ‘>' iltilolie terms, against Judge Ira I - Jones, former chief Justice of the “late supreme court, who is opposing governor. He denounced ' 1 " " candidate of .corporations •'nd newspapers and referred to certain '• itor- of the state in unprintable lan- He assailed Jones' record In "'''• 'He from beginning to end and • elated the attacks made on him as " 'nan to which he has given utterance >n other parts of the state. Rm tonight Blease is expected to •ut loose" on Felder. Reed. Burns and member., of the investigating com 'Ttee headed by Senator Carlisle. He “ 'o speak to working people from the ■'tr house 3tppi , and jg sav)nß h)(1 . attack for that audience. Then ' “ expected to reply directly and spe. a,l> lo the pardon-selling charges ' In connection with Reed's trans "iis with Attorney Samuel J. Nleh ' y" f Spartanburg, as recorded in dic 'l’b testimony presented m the • mini! tee I elder Sends Proof Nichols Was Sober >, iq , 1 l,s R. Eelder played another of r, tmp cards today in his fight Governor Cole Blease of South ' "ina when he dispatched to the dis- ■ investigating committee the "f the Atlanta stenographer. S. ' 'llrbaum. to prove that the dleto ?, '-h was not only right when it said ~ E"fols had agreed to got Govern. ~ .’ ,<r <p ll a pardon to Detective ' "i' al-o that Nichols ats so. n n "l drunk and in, ompetrnt „ ■ aid. when h. made the bargain ■‘f-'i if she >’(,j't , nhiifs hotel $ ONLY ONE MORE RAINY DAY. SAY EXPERTS There may be a few of the usual showers tonight and Saturday, according to local weather ex perts who are not in the employ of the govern ment, but early Sunday morning the moon changes and then the good weather comes One aged The Atlanta Georgian us. mini YIELD. SHS hemstto eud Asserts America’s Right to Defend Flag in Interview in London. CALLS PANAMA CANAL DOMESTIC POSSESSION As Such. He Declares Its Regu i lation Can Not Be Submitted to Arbitration. i L(>ND<)N. July 19. Th. London Evening Standard publishes an inter view with William Randolph Hearst under the following intro.imimn, in black face type: Mr. William Ran dolph Hearst, the leading American publicist and former member of con gress. vigorously defends the I'nited States' proposal to gi\. preference to American ships using the Panama ca nal; he also makes’ a forceful plea for reciprocity between ‘‘a.nada and the United States." The articl. proceeds as follows: "Mr. William Randolph Hearst, proprietor of The New York Amer ican and its associated journals, in an interview with one of our rep resentatives today, indicated clearly the opinion In America regarding, the action of the I'nited States senate in proposing to exempt from tolls all American shipping pass ing through the Panama canal. Mr. Hearst believes that as the ca nal may now be considered a do mestic possession' the United States will not enter into arbitra tion on the subject. Mr. Hearst Defines The Question. "I would like to begin by say ing." Mr. Hearst remarked, "that I have been on the water during the time that the mattei of the Panama canal came up before the state de partment and the senate of the United States, and 1 am. therefore, not entirely familiar with every de tail of recent developments. I have noted, however, "hat has appeared in some of the London papers, and I have reason to be somewhat famil iar with the negotiation of the Hay- Pauncefote treaty and substitution of that treaty for the Clayton- Bulwer treaty. As a matter of fact. I had a good deal to do with the change of character of the Hay- Pauneefote treaty. "At the time of its first negotia tion. the treaty, as prepared for presentation to the senate. was practically a repetition of the (’layton-Bulwer treaty in regard to the provisions affecting the canal. It seemed to me that the clauses restricting the freedom of the United States in regard to the canal were improper and I sent Mi. t'rcelman an editor of Th' 1 N'ev Yorlt American. to Washing ton Io fight the adoption of those clauses in arliclos written for my publications. Hearst Fight Revised Treaty. "When Mr. Creelmun leached Washington, he telegraphed to rrte that it would be Impossible to ac complish anything in this direc tion. as the treaty was ready to be passed by the senate. I tele graphed him in reply to oppose the treaty, nevertheless. villi his utmost vigor and J sent him a staff of correspondents and Mi Daven port. our cartoonist ‘at that time, to make the strongest possible fight that could l» made against these interfering clause-. The fight wa- mad' the treaty a pre- I mil \> a ibam|nn p d and the pre rpt Hay I'ami-c fof e tin.il', Centitutsd ne Page Fi“e, Read For Profit—GEORGIAN ANT ADS —Use For Results ATLANTA. (LA.. FRIDAY. -H LY 19. 1912. Mounted Scouts Rouqh Riders at Camp DARING EQUESTRIAN FEATS ANNISTON. ALA., July 19. Today found tbr infantry, suffering rrom an ;n- . Jack of sore feet, most noticeable iij ! the- new uoinpaiijes. which are com- ; posod almost entirely of nv n who have ; ’ • •u:nn| t Pii'' Lefort The ratin'' ! ‘•trenuous inaneuvei* «>f yesterday. i < 1 lowing t'lnsrly noon the h'«ls <»f .» • — ? ' Ou . 'L ■ ...s.< \ sjMMWWnjjT;- >*■ , I r 'is: •A A ■’? S . <-R'’ z U drill Wednesday afternoon, put many of the "rookies to the bad and gate tlm hospital tent, for the time being, the appearance of a chiropodist estab lishment. 'lhe majority of the men. however, have warmed up to the work of the camp, and in spite of their blisl e s fell into line today determined 10 see the day's "battle" through. This was especially true of ibe recruits who are loth to admit that the old-timers have anything the best of them in anv respect. Office's Get Theirs. Had those civilians who aie in the habit of thinking that officers have lit tle lo do in camp been on the scene y.-sterday afternoon their Ideas would have unde'gone a radical levisfon. for while the men lay in their tents and rested after the morning's rather stren uous hiking, the officers were assem bled and marched over several miles of rough ground while regular army of ficers explained to them the fine points of Intrcnchnmnts. Nor were tin- men slow to realize that for once, at least, they had the better of the situation and there was intense satisfaction pic tured in the smiles on their faces as the officers went trooping past. ‘ General Anderson Pleased 'l’h< entire regiment went on a long hike yesterday before the officers were laken out. After five hours of strenu ous woik, the regiment captured a ba - taiion that had intrenched the day p » - clous. Many Atlantans would have hern edified and surpiised t" see tbr fellow- that keep PeachniT and Whit- ■ lia'l -is aline, v.'migmg up wood"'! hill- 01 -klrmi-h o dei tn th. ati.c me t» mention i* n and ta*.v* - in 11, ''H.' f -om th'- -' qt‘ of action i . HOUSE VOTES FOR VIADUCTS ON PRYOR AND CENTRAL AVE.i A grin rai hill, with a local appiica- ! I Hon i(» Atlanta only, was passed b\ [the b< 'isc to(>a\. authorizing ano pro- I viding tiir kga’ mat hinery w hereby the Icit.c proceed to the erection of 'piyoi st reel and ('entra' avenue \ia ducts ac'os< the slated railroad prop erty. A • ornparjb'n bill, also pas-'ed. au thorizes the lowering of the railroad tracks as may he neerssa'y l“i tht accomplishment <»f this work ATLANTA PRISONER ESCAPES GUARD AND LEAPS FROM TRAIN (■h.i>b s L Sos-om.in. an Atlanta man who was being taken from Udioit to l)eLan<l. Kia., in charge of Eloiida of fleets. If; ped from.a moving train tn <ia.v al Adams Park. Ga,. ; little town on the Central near Macon. ID dashed into the wood> hofm* r h»* t ain • on’d be stopped. Soss<»man. who is v anted fm ’ legod forge'v in l/ej 7 aj|j uas locjte-i in Detroit h.v Pinkerton detectives, wh • shadow rd his sweetheart in Jackson ville. X remark of heis that "they’D never e« t (’harlle; he’s in Detroit.’' gave the (lew to his wheieabouts PLEA OF WOMAN TO PREVENT EXECUTION SAVES NEGRO’S LIFE When Mi.- R. N. Hirdemun. wife of Representative Bob' Haldeman, of Jefferson county, awoke Imlay to find ea pentr-rs dismantling the gallows which was to have taken the life of Charles Gibbens, a negru slayer, in the Louisville, G.i.. baseball pick, -he knew that Iter huriy call to her husband to stop the hanging had not been in vain. Upon new evidence submitted to Govirnoi Biown line yesterday after noon Gibbons' (hath s r 'nton< < w . commut'd to life Imp i< mmr-mt and 1 11 • J. ifc -.a county slmii? ".1 noiificr 1 ■ trai dn.'n th" ga'low and call off tlm execution he had s< heduled fui today prophet, who claims 99 per cent of his predictions are true, expressed himself this way: “The moon has spent its last quarter to get full and is tired ot the jag. It will change Sunday and then all will be clear and bright once more.” (<i'iM'”i;i militinnifii at the Au niston army maneuvers are seeinu examples of daring horsemanship by mmnitml scouts of the Seven leenth infantry. Ou the left is W . M. Williams, on the richt Jo seph Viotels. two ol the most fearless of I he scouts. I LOCAL GOLFERS WIN IN FIRST ROUND OF INVITATION TOURNEY The first match play rounds "ere run off ovei the course of the Atlanta Ath letic club this morning The chief in terest centered in tlm first flight. In this: tile winners of the rounds com pleted by 1:3(1 p.m. "ere Smith <’u! lum and R. 11. I-: mgh. of Birmingham, W It Tichenor and G. H Atkisson. of Atlanta, and Scott Probasvo of Ciiat tanooga The winner- continued al match play this afternoon, "hili tin |osm -of llm morning rounds "ere paired for Hie battle in the loser- flights The results of the mat' lies pi-iyeil this morning folio" First Flight. Smith ('ullnni defeated It Riehii.ls by default R H Rrnjgh <|pfr;ijcd I „ \ i nold I 1 up. \\ R ’l'i-lHpoi d-M'.i Ir« I D* I 'ink Holland, by dofaub. Scoi t Pr«»b.i-"> d<>fc:)io(| IL Blan ton. 1-3. < L H Aik 1 son defeated E W I \ . 5-3. Second Flight. !<;. B. ('rawforii ilefdated \V K Wil son. by defaull. It I’. Jone- defeated P. \' Rain- I w Her. 4-2. D. Jemison defeated E. G. Brown. I up (19 holes). K. Martin defeated A A. I'oonari, 7-6 H S. ibles defeated E 11. Rai nett, I up (19 holes). ('. E. Corwin defeated E. J. Holditch. 2-1. 11. P. Ward defeated E T. Winston 3 - 2. Third Flight. P"'iy Adan defeats.| 11 H. Glenn, by default. t J 1.. (Il a\ " d<T a led Ho" 11 r| t'bol m . 4-2 H ' Monte def. ale.! ,t I Raiqr- ,1. b 1 default H. Blink defeated T. B. Paine, 2-1 Governor "Passes Up” A Feast for Beans and Pone at Aunt Martha's While Legislators Celebrate Riv er Opening. Brown Visits Aged Woman. While members of Hie legislature and officials and citizens of Rome were bidding high jinx over the commercial future of the Floyd county metropolis at limd.int upon Hu opening of the Ca toosa Ivor yislcrday. Govmnoi Broun, who was lo have been the guest of honor, was rating snap beans and corn bread with Amu Martha Evans in ('licrokee county, in honm of the wom an's ninciiet b birthday . The chief executive .admitted today that he turned down lhe Rome eele braiioit for tin- simpb country dinner ind "as glad that he had done so. "Do you know." he said, "I met an I old man up the'e Um le Berry Dun- I 1 an. they called him—who had raised a bale of "olton and s<t bushels of corn mi his little farm neat Woodstock with bis own hands, lie was 94 years old." ! W I fit A ■ |■ HI HIB \ A’ w MRS. MORROW FAINTS WHEN COUNSEL ASKS LIBERTY OR GALLOWS (■HH’AGO, July 19. -Mrs. Retu- B. Moriow. chargi'd # with the murder of her inventor husband, fainted in court today. While her attorney. (’. K. Ki b sl«‘in, was pleading for her lit- M< s. Morrow uttered a cr\. 'id to the floo ami lav theie until conscious. Mrs ITi 'D' ick FXistor, her sister, was b-side her in an instant. Court proc* • lings w*’o si.RpendPfl and Mis Morrow was tariied into the ants-room md r’- ' vi\ cd. 'Fla- morning was taken up with Mi. Kibstoin* ai<umeni. ll* demand I ba i th* chib v\ onia n who i at •us •■■’d of ’’ ivint *<hot hu; husband he liberated •»i tha’ b»’ rn the gjllpw It 't t - expected th** raw* would go to ’he jury before night. HI|L HOI I IDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A O Y RE NO HUNDREDS HAVENDT PHD FOR SEWERS Discrimination Which Has Cost Perhaps $50,000 Found in Construction Department, EFFORT TO COLLECT WILL BRING ON A BITTER FIGHT Many Owners Have Had to Meet Stiff Assessment While Others Escaped Levy. The Georgian today present? facts revealing almost unbelievable discrim inations between Atlanta’s property owners by the city in the levy of as sessments for Sewers. ' E Aujhcntic records have been obtained from the chief of construction's office showing that during the last twenty years miles of assessment sewers have been laid without any assessments be ing made against the property own ers The amount due the city on these sewers is estimated to be from $25,000 to $50,000. By a comparison with the rigid law supposed to apply in regard to assess ments, the condition is shown in its true significance. Assessments of 70 cents per running foot are levied against all property owners, no mat ter how poor they are. as >1 Hen on their property. Despite strenuous protests, thousands nf dollars are collected from property owners In all parts of the city. Construction Chief Blamed by Committee. The fact that sewers had been laid in about 50 streets without having any assessments levied against the prop, erty owners has just been discovered by members of the sewer committee of council. The sewer committee changes every yea 1. The chief of construction de partment has the duty of keeping th° assessments straight. And members of the sewer committee place the blame for this state of affairs directly on the const ruction department. W. A. Hansel, acting chief of con struction, explained tin flnassessed sewer matter In this way: Most of the sewers had been laid years ago where there were few houses on the streets. The property own* rs object 'd to paying tthe assessments, so the sew er committee of council at that time re lieved them, ft was provided that they bi- assessed as they were connected with the sewers. Yet the rule of the sewer committee is to assess everyone bordering on a sew et bet'or, any con nections ili'i- allowe;:. Mayor Winn explained todity that the reason so many sewers wire laid with out assessments being levied against property owners was dim to the ruling nf (lie late city attorney, James An derson. Mr. Anderson ruled that an assessment could not be levied for a sower unless there were i|s,> watet ('.m nections In the street. I'ity Attorney James L. May son has ruled that assessments <an be levied whether th' te are water connei tions or not May oi Winn said that the great ninn bet of unassessed sewers were Igld prim to 1905. All water connections have since been made. Sewers in Fifty Streets Not Assessed. Here is the list of unassessed sewer?: Xngie: avenue, Boulevard to branch. Ashby street. Park to Gordon. Alexander street, Marietta to Luckie Armstrong street. Piedmont tn But ler. zYshbv street, Non toss tn West End a venue. South Boulevard. Boulevad tc Glennwood. Berean avenue. Gaskill to Tennille,