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GRACE CASE GOES
IO TRIAL JULY 23
Famous Case Given Preced
ence Over All Others at Next
Term of Court.
M’s. Daisy Opie Grace, charged with
assault, with intent to murder her hus
band. E. H. Grace, on March 5, will be'
the first person under indictment to
fa Judge L. S. Roan in the criminal
division of superior court on July 29.
Her ase was given precedence over all
others by Solicitor General Hugh M.
Dorsey in making up the calendar to
day for the next term of court.
Practically 100 cases are set for hear
ing at this session, and among them are
several older ones than the Grace case,
but its prominence led the officials to
place it first on the list. On account
o f the usual long time of organizing
the court the hearing will hardly be
more than begun on the first day. The
witnesses will be summoned early next
week.
HOLLIS IS AGITATED
BY COMPTROLLER'S
SALARY QUIZ REPLY
Because Mr. Halils, of Taylor, object
ed to the form of the reply sent to she
house today from the office of the
comptroller general, in response to an
inquiry directed from the house, with
respect to the fees and compensation
of that office, the comptroller’s report
was not “received” by the house, but
stands merely as having been read.
Mr. Hollis was agitated visibly when
the report was read, and immediately
rn? c to a question of personal privi
lege, attacking the form of the comp
troller’s reply, and asking the house not
to receive it.
The motion not to receive never was
acted upon. The gentleman from Tay
lor got tangled up so hopelessly as to
his parliamentary status that he yield
ed the floor to Mr, Alexander, of De-
Kalb. from whom he had obtained it,
and the report was not mentioned
again in the day’s proceedings.
The comptroller’s report was in the
shape more of a personal communica
tion to Mr. Hollis than a reply to the
house, and for this reason Mr. Hollis
objected to its reception. He took the
position that the house and not Mr.
Hollis had asked the comptroller for
information concerning his compensa
tion.
Under the report, it wag shown that
the comptroller receives a salary of
Sf.unn per annum and approximately
$7,646.41 in fees, making a .total of
s9.fits.4l, based upon current receipts.
This, the comptroller points out. is
much less than the $30,000 per annum
he has been reported, in some quar
ters, to receive.
LEGISLATORS FAVOR
811 L FOR PENSIONING
GOVERNOR’S WIDOW
The legislature pr- bably will pass
the bill awarding a pt nsion of SSO per
month to the widow of former Gov
ernor Allen D. Candler.
When this bill was up for passage
a few days ago. it was opposed by Joe
Hill Hall and others, on the ground that
it was unconstitutional and should not
be passed until put in proper 'shape.
1 r m motion, it was laid on the table.
Since the hill was up the other day.
Me Hill has reached the conclusion
that his first impression was wrong,
ar i that the bill is constitutional, after
all. and it is now said he will support
It.
she hill provides for the payment of
a pension of SSO per month to widows
• governors who are possessed of
pt perty in an amount less than $1,500.
Ptovded such widow’s are relicts of
governors who served fn the Confed
erate army. The bill can apply only to
Mrs. Candler.
Mrs. Candler, assisted by her daugh
s operating a boarding house in
1,1 nesville. and is in reduced circum
sam os The proposed pension will be
a great aid to her.
PITTSBURG SHIPPING
COAL SOUTH BY BOAT
t PITTSBURG, July 19.—Elev ■en tow
.■cits >n the fifth and sixth pools clear
'day with approximately 2,975,000
" h r -]s O s rr)a | f or fhp g OU ff] River
ii-n are exultant over the somewhat
experience of shipping coal on a
pge in July. There was a stage
bout nine and a half feet at the
P f mt bridge today.
’' i'y rains over the water sheds of
■ eb in and Kiskiininetas rivers,
over th. Monongahela give
■' -hipping stage.
HUGE icebergs and
FLOES DELAY LINERS
I Mt lORK, July 19.—Huge icebergs
an active ice field were encounter,
the steamers Mauretania and
■oil-, which arrived in port today,
’ w progress of both ships was im-
’ ’ for several days while traveling
■’ extreme southern course about
’cues south of Cape Race.
■e Adriatic reports seeing an ice-
Fj' ll -'’ S, 'O feet high and 1,000 feet
'■\y - turning on the Mauretania were
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'l'hard C. Kerens, American am
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monarchists give up
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’ 10 Portuguese monarchists have
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Detective Burns Joins in the Hunt for the Slayer of Gambling King
LATEST FACTS POINT TO THE GUILT OF THE POLICE
“Trail Leads Where I Thought
It Would,” Says New York
District Attorney.
NEW YORK, July 19.—Louis Lib
by and William Shapiro, owners of the
automobile in which the assassins of
Gambler Rosenthal escaped, were
taken to the district attorney’s office
this afternoon. It was reported that
they had made a full confession and
that the arrest of a prominent police
official would soon be made.
A complete exposure of police graft
was promised by county officials today
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The photo-diagram shows the scene of the murder of Herman Rosenthal in New York this week. The view taken is rrom
Broadway at Forty-third street, looking eastward toward Sixth avenue.
as a result of the assassination of Hor
man Rosenthal, the gambler who be
trayed the “system” used by the police
in levying tribute on gamblers.
This promise was accompanied by the
announcement that Detective William
J. Burns who trapped the McNamara
brothers, had been engaged to work
with District Attorney Whitman and
had already taken up the task.
The district attorney, who, from the
moment that Rosenthal was murdered,
has asserted that the police permitted
the crime, today said that the trail
was leading just where he first thought
it would go. In the light of new facts
gained in a secret conference with a
gambler at his own home, the district
attorney is sure that he responsibility
for killing the important witness to
police graft rests with the police them
selves.
“Each bit of evidence,” said Mr.
M hitman, “as it is joined to the others
points more and more clearly In one
Story of the Crime and
The Events Before and After
NEW YORK, July 19.—Here are the
chief points of interest leading up to
the murder of Rosenthal, the gambling
king, and the story of the killing, told
in the logical sequence:
CHAPTER I.
The Motive and the Men.
The story was told District Attorney
■Whitman by a gambler that the mur
der of Rosenthal had been planned at
an outing of the Sam Hall association
last Sunday. The organization went to
Northport. The men were bitter at
Rosenthal because of his "squeals.”
"I heard one gambler say, 'lf Her
man goes too far with this, we’ll have
to get him,”’ said the informant of the
district attorney.
When Rosenthal left the district at
torney after making the exposures he
said he was afraid he would be
killed, not by the gamblers, but by
the police. He said they had got others
and could get him, and for that reason
he wanted to see the district attorney
early the next morning at the district
attorney’s home in Madison Square. It
was accordingly arranged* that the
gambler, accompanied by his wife,
should visit Whitman at 8 o’clock at
Whitman’s apartments.
Furnished Whitman Six Names.
"These six men will tell you how
they have to give up to the police,”
Rosenthal is said to have told Whit
man. naming the men. "They will give
you the names of the police officers who
get the money, who are their collectors,
and how far up in the police depart
ment the graft goes.”
The six names as told since by the
dead gambler’s friend were as follows:
(1) "Dollar John.” whose real name is
Harry Langer, who Is alleged to have
run a gambling house at No. 5 St.
Marks place, which Lieutenant Beck
er raided in spectacular fashion. At
the time "Dollar John” raised the cry
that Becker took $1,500 from the roll
he carried in his pocket, Becker in
reply stated that he found $3,561.65 in
"Dollar John’s" clothes, and that the
money was later returned to him in
the presence of his lawyer, and a re
ceipt was obtained for the amount.
(2) Jack Rose, who boasts of being
a close friend of Lieutenant Becker,
and whose friends say was the man
who loaned Rosenthal $1,500 on a
chattel mortgage to open a gam-
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definite direction. The trail leads where
I thought it would.”
Chief among the items that confirm
the county investigators in their belief
that the responsibility for the Rosen
thal murder rests with the police de
partment are these things:
"Jack" Rose, held for hiring the mur
der automonile for the crime, was a
close friend of Lieutenant Charles A.
Becker, whom Rosenthal claimed to
have been his partner. Rose was
known widely as a collector of graft
for policemen.
Rose was active in getting evidence
for Becker against Rosenthal on the
night before he was murdered.
The police are shown to have cleared
the streets about the hotel just before
the murder.
The police made no successful effort
to catch the murderers, although a
number of policemen were in the imme.
diate Vicinity.
bling house at No. 104 West Forty
fifth street. Rosenthal said Lieutenant
Becker put up the money.
(3) “Abe, the Rebbler,” who runs a
case in lower Second avenue.
(4) J. J. Donahue, an alleged repre
sentative of Lieutenant Becker, who
signed the mortgage, as the man to
whom the money was paid but who
had admitted that he only received $lO
for his signature.
(5) A gambling house employee,
named Hallow, who at one time worked
for “Dollar John" in the St. Marks
place house.
(6) Robert H. Hibbard, formerly a
policeman, now a lawyer at 220 Broad
way, who, Rosenthal said, was the at
torney of Becker in the chattel mort
gage transaction by which Becker ad
vanced $1,500 for the Forty-fifth street
gambling house.
More Names Promised.
“Then there are four more names
which I will give you Monday morn
ing," continued Rosenthal. “I won’t
tell you who they are now, because I
want to see some of them first and
learn how far they will go. They know
a lot about police graft and if they will
come across right you can put the big
gest police grafters behind the bars.”
When Rosenthal left the district at
torney’s office he met a number of run
ners for East Side pool rooms, to which
he Is said to have remarked in a some
what boasting way:
"I’ve got the bunch nailed no\y.
Whitman is going to get hold of the
right people tomorrow, and then the lid
will come off.”
The word went through the gambling
world as quickly as the telegraph could
have carried it. According to one re
port, a meeting was Immediately held
at a case in Second avenue, only three
blocks from the Case Boulevard.
Among those present was one of the
gamblers whose name had been fur
nished District Attorney Whitman by
Rosenthal. With him was a represen
tative of a prominent police official,
whose name has been frequently men
'ioned since Rosenthal attacked the po
’ioe, and the leader of an East Side
gang, which is closely allied with the
gang headed by Montano, which per
petrated the taxicab robbery in Park
place.
At (this meeting the details of this
murder are said to have been discussed
and most of the preparations made.
CHAPTER 11.
The Murder of Rosenthal in
Front of Hotel in Glare of
Lights.
Herman Rosenthal walks eastward
on Forty-tjiird street from Sixth ave
nue until he arrives at the Hotel Met
ropole. He enters the dining room.
Rosenthal beckons Richard Erbe, a
waiter who has served Jtim frequently,
and tells him to bring him a drink —a
“horse’s neck.”
From time to time he glances toward
the open doorway as if awaiting some
one. He is nervous and apparently can
not understand why his expected guests
do not arrive. At half an hour after
midnight, as Erbe tells it. three men
join Rosenthal at the table.
Police Lieutenant William File is sit
ting more than halfway* down the din
ing room from Rosenthal. At the po
liceman’s table, which he occupies al
most nightly, for File Is an ex-sparring
partner of James J. Corbett and likes
the glamor of New York’s night life,
are Miss Artie Hall, a vaudeville sing
er. and another man and woman. Their
table is on the westerly side of the
room, 50 feet from where Rosenthal
sits.
Joined By Three Men.
When Rosenthal is joined by three
men at 12:30 o'clock File recognizes
them. Later in the morning he gives
their names to Inspector Hughes as
Charles O’Day, better known in the
gamblers’ world as "Big Judge” Crow
ley; another man known as "Sandy”
Clemons, and a third as McMahon.
The four men order another round of
drinks. Rosenthal takes ginger ale
Highballs are ordered by his guests.
Anothe ■ round is soon served by Erbe.
For almost an hour and a half the
four men sit there, apparently talking
over Rosenthal's charges that his gam
bling house was financed by a police
lieutenant who is always a sharer in its
profits.
As Rosenthal expounds to his three
listeners what he proposes to tell Dis
trict Attorney Whitman later the sama
morning, a well dressed youth comes
smilingly in the open door, walks di
rectly to Rosenthal’s table, and, as
File tells it to his superiors later in the
day, says:
“Rosenthal, there’s a friend of yours
out on the sidewalk that wants to talk
to you. Come out here, will you?”
Rosenthal calls the waiter, receives
his check for 80 cents, puts a dollar
bill on the table and walks to the door,
way.-
The three guests disappear as if on
signal into the hall.
The messenger halts near the door
for an instant and is joined there by
Rosenthal. Then the two resume their
short walk to the sidewalk. Quickly
the messenger dodges to the west and
fades from the view of those in the din
ing room, who feel the electricity of a
momentous act in the surcharged at
mosphere. All eyes are on Rosenthal
as he walks through the doorway.
One Man Did Shooting.
A light-gray clad figure steps toward
the gambler, a hand that carries a
deadly revolver thrust Into Rosen
thal's face, there Is a savage pull of the
trigger and two bullets go whistling
past Rosenthal’s head.
The gambler turns In dismay. Three
more shots follow one another with
startling rapidity, two of them taking
effect in Rosenthal's head.
The gambler seems to fold into him
self. like an accordeon, and falls slowly
to the sidewalk.
Stage folk and gamblers in the din-
ing room gaze, fascinated, at the spec
tacle, Women scream and some faint.
Police Lieutenant File has seen the
whole affair from his seat down the
room, on the same side of the room as
the doorway where the tragedy was
staged. He runs to the doorway and
sees the figures of four men moving, he
says, to a gray, white-striped touring
car that is clearly waiting for them. He
starts to cross the street to where the
automobile, he declares, is moving
slowly eastward, watting for the four
men who are to escape in it to climb
aboard.
One heavy-set, darkly clad man puts
his hand toward his pistol pocket, File
says, if to threaten the policeman.
File is within 49 feet of the motor car
when, all of its occupants having
climbed in, it shoots toward Sixth ave
nue.
"Jim” Considine, brother of the hotel
proprietor, impresses into service two
frightened waiters and makes them run
for ice and water. Then Considine goes
out to the sidewalk and tries to force
some cold water down the gambler's
throat and clumsily but Samaritanly
sponges off the blood-streaked brow.
Three policemen, In uniform —Lieu-
tenant Edward Frye and Patrolmen
Thomas Madigan and James Lynch—
all of the West Forty-seventh pre
cinct, reach the scene, but quickly de
part in an impressed taxicab in chase
of the mysterious gray touring car de
scribed to them by Lieutenant File.
At 3:05 o’clock, while the sun he was
never to see again is just peeking over
the rooftops to the east and giving a
garish light to the scene, a police pa
trol arrives, two policemen take from
it a stretcher, lift what was Herman
Rosenthal on it, put the stretcher back
into the patrol wagon and drive swift
ly, with clanging bell, to the West For
ty-seventh street station, where Coro
ner Feinberg has told them to take the
body.
CHAPTER HI.
The Chase of the Automobile.
When Lieutenant File returned to
the Metropole after he had fruitlessly
chased the slate-colored touring car
which he saw in the street right after
the shooting, he made the following
statement:
“I ran past the tables between me
and the door, and when I got to the
street I saw four men getting into a
gray touring car, which had white lines
on Its body. One man, a gray-clad,
heavy-set chap, made a motion toward
his hip pocket as if to frighten me
away. I ran toward the automobile,
which was slowly moving eastward, but
which, as soon as the, last man had
climbed into it, speeded up and shot
toward Sixth avenue.
"1 turned to where John Horan, the
driver of taxicab No. 25256, had been
awakened from his sleep on the chauf
feur's seat by the pistol shots, anti told
him to turn his machine around imme
diately and we would follow the tour
ing car. He did so. and I jumped into
tile machine.
"Just then three policemen in uni
form came up and they did not know
me and held me up needlessly while we
lost a lot of time while [ Identified my
self. Then they jumped in the ma
chine, too, and we started after the
gray automobile. We went to Madison
avenue, then north to Fifty-eighth
street, but we never saw the machine,
so we came back here.”
Policeman Thomas Madigan was
some 69 feet from the * Forty-third
street corner, and was walking to For
ty-fourth street to relieve another po
liceman, when he heard the first shot.
"I thought it was an automobile
tire," said Madigan. “Then came an-
Killing of Herman Rosenthal
Marked by Dramatic Fea
tures in Every Phase.
other shot, and then three in rapid suc
cession, like this: X —x —x-x-x. I ran
to the corner of Forty-third street,
where I heard the second shot, and the
shooting ended just as I reached the
corner. I ran over to where I saw a
man on the sidewalk.
"File told me that four men had
driven away in a big gray touring car
and that he did not have its number.
He said we'd have to chase It in an
other machine, and that It had gone
toward Sixth ivenue. But I did not see
any touring car of any kind on the
block, and I got to Forty-third street
about as quickly as a man could. I
never did see that gray automobile File
told me about.
"I got Horan to start his engine and
turn his taxicab around and I jumped
in. in back with Lieutenant Edward
Frye, who had come up, and FHe
jumped on the front seat with the
chauffeur.
"We hit ft up pretty fast eastward on
Forty-third street until just opposite
the Elks club. There a dark-haired
who turned out later to be
Coupe, ran out Into the street and
yelled a number at us. He said 41313.
We said ’thanks.’ and kept on going to
Madison avenue. There a milkman
told us a gray machine had gone very
far up Madison avenue. We went up
to Fifty-eighth street, but we never
saw it.”
CHAPTER IV.
The Slate-Colored Car—lt Has an
Underworld History.
The physical instrument which play
ed an Important part In the assassina
tion Os Herman Rosenthal was a four
cylinder Packard automobile, bearing
the license number ”41313, N. Y.”
It is a slate-colored car, capable of
making about 60 miles an hour.
The car was bought about one and
one-half years ago by Louis Libby, an
old-time member of the Hesper club,
when that institution on Second avenue
was at its height of notorious crimi
nality and Rosenthal was its dominant
factor.
Libby went into the automobile busi
ness when the Hesper club was broken
up by the repeated attacks by the por
lice, and the gambling members were
scattered all over the city.
Libby ran a 24-hour business, and to
accomplish this, joined wjth William
Shapiro, who in various circles is said
to have been a partner, manager or
simply a chauffeur.
The car was kept in the garage at
No. 73 South Washington square. It
was in this same place that Montani,
the chauffeur and promoter of the $25,-
000 taxicab robbery, kept the machine
that was used in the commission of thia
crime.
Car Stand Among Criminals.
Libby, with the consent of property
owners, set up a permanent stand for
his car on the southwest corner of Sec
ond avenue and Tenth street, opposite
the Case Boulevard. •
In a section of Second avenue not far
south of Libby’s stand are resorts fre
quented in daylight and dark by all the
types of men and women which make
up the underworld, and it was from
among this class that Libby and Sha
piro obtained many of their patrons.
Frequently at this season the car has
been put Into commission by men who
have made a winning at some gam°.
pickpockets who have profited by work
on street car lines, depots and crowded
public places, receivers of stolen goods
who have made a profitable disposition
of their wares, women who have robbed
some newly found friend, and those
successful in other lines of criminal
work.
Figured in Other Escapades.
It was a slate-colored car, said to
have been driven by Shapiro, which
carried “Big Jack” Zelig and his as
sociates In the Kid Twist gang into
Chinatown recently when Zelig and his
followers shot up Jack Sirroco's resort
on Chatham square as a preliminary
suggestion of the way in which Sir
roco's cohorts would be treated when
they were found.
It was the same car, driven either by
Shapiro or Libby, which appeared at
the criminal courts building on the day
that Zelig appeared In court for ar
raignment after recovering from a pis
tol shot in the neck afflicted by Louis
Torti. It was crowded with the follow
ers of Zelig, who noisily declared they
would see that no harm came to their
leader
The police stationed in the neighbor
hood drove the car away, and the gang
sters cursed the blue-coated men.
It was known in the underworld that
Libby’s car was always on the job and
teady to go anywhere at any time. Sc.
ft was that on the day that It had beer
decreed that Rosenthal was to die the
men. in seeking a safe and reliable get
away, turned their eyes toward the
sleek-looking car opposite the Case
Boulevard.
Boarded By Prosperous "Sports."
Four well dressed men, who had the
manner of sports with a run of luck in
their favor, boarded the car. in Second
avenue near Tenth street, accordin’- to
the statement made by Libby to ’’fr.
"Whitman, and directed that they be
taken uptown to Forty-third street ano
Broadway.
Libby claims he never saw the men.
and alleges the men were all
strange.s to him. The car, according
to the order of the man who acted as
the spokesman for the band, proceeded
uptown slowly and reached a place on
Broadway, near Forty-third street,
shortly before 2 o'clock, when the order
was given to the chauffeur to stop.
Some of the men alighted.
HEARST DEFENDS
CANAL POSITION
Publisher Tells England That
United States Will Not Yield
in Controversy.
Continued From Page One. .
Without objectionable clauses, was
substituted.
“I state these facts not jn any
spirit of self-aggrandizement, but
simply to make clear that where
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty does
not contain clauses of the Clayton-
Bulwer treaty, it is simply because
of the definite determination of
the state department and the
United States senate, under pres
sure of popular opinion, to exclude
those clauses. Therefore, the ex
clusion of those clauses absolutely
positively means the rejection of
the principle embodied in those
clauses.
"An article in The London Times
says a great deal depends upon the
correct interpretation of the spirit
in which the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty was drawn: that Is to say,
as to how far it perpetuated the
sense of the Clayton-Bulwer con
vention. In view of the above
i facts, it ought to be clear that the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty only per
petuates the sense of the Clayton-
Bulwer convention where it re
peats the words of the Clayton-
Bulwer treaty. When it does not
repeat the words, it is. as I have
said, because of a definite determi
nation to reject the principle.
Moreover, since that time the
United States has acquired the
territory across which the canal is
built, which seems to me to have
considerable bearing upon the sit
uation and further to strengthen
the claims of the United States in
regard to the canal.”
The Montreal Herald says:
"Nothing could be more explicit
than the terms of article 8 of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850.”
Possibly that Is so, but I have en
deavored to make clear that we
are not living under the Clayton-
Bulwer treaty of 1850, but under
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, which
is the treaty substituted for the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, with the
object of eliminating just such
clauses In the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty.
“U. S. Will Not
Submit to Arbitration.”
The backwoods press of Canada,
in the absence of argument, in
dulges in vituperation and accuses
the United States nf bad faith, but
that empty accusation will proba
bly not convince the more judicious
Englishman, nor will it affect the
citizens of the United States nor
the action of the United States
government.
The Montreal Herald further
says:
"It is sought to make the Pana
ma canal a mere domestic posses
sion of the United States. In view
of the substitution of the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty for the Clayton-
Bulwer treaty, and in view of the
acquisition bv the United States of
the territory through which the ca
nal passes, I think the canal can
not better or more accurately be
described than as a 'domestic pos
session’ of the United States. '
"I am Inclined to think that the
United States will not submit to
arbitration any question affecting
their domestic posse.seions.”
"Mr. Hearst's views were next sought
as to the result of the Saskatchewan
elections a day or two ago on the fu
ture of reciprocity. Mr. Hearst was the
foremost and a vigorous advocate of
reciprocity between "Canada and the
United States last year and the elec
tors of Saskatchewan have just re
turned an overwhelming majority of
members in favor of closer trade rela
tions.
"The majority of the Canadians
and a considerable number of citi
zens of the United States were
misled into fear that reciprocity
could, or might, develop some in
jury to one or both countries. It is
inevitable that calmer and more
careful consideration of the ques
tion will convince those Canadians,
and those citizens of the United
States, that an extension of trade
relations, as proposed, can not be
anything but a benefit to both
countries.
“In considering the matter with
out prejudice a citizen of Canada
or a citizen of the United States
must ask: ‘What, after all, does
reciprocity mean?’ and must con
clude that it merely means the ex
tension of markets for the products
of both countries; the opening of
the markets of Canada to the prod
ucts of the United States, and the
opening of the markets of the Unit
ed States to the products of Can
ada.
"Surely England, which is 'con
tinually striving for larger mar
kets for he, products, will be the
last country to deny that increased
markets are a benefit.
"If these increased markets are a
benefit, then both Canada and the
United States will be benefited, but
inasmuch as the markets of the
United States are about ten times
as large as those of Canada, Can
ada ought to be benefited many
times more than the United States.
This view of the mutter is sure to
prevail with all inYelligent Cana
dians eventually."
BILL PROVIDES BONDED
STOREROOMS FOR CROPS
Representative Cabanlss, of Ogle
thnrpe county, introduced a bill in
the house todav providing for a system
of bonded warehouses in Georgia for
the storage of farm products.
This ie a measure in which a num
ber of farmers’ organizations are deep
ly interested, and it is sure to receive
much strong support.
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