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FIGHT TO ABOLISH
JUSTICE GOUHTS
pmoN
Senate Approves the Measure
Sought by Atlanta—State
Auditor Bill Rejected.
Fulton county’s right on the justice
court system partly was won today
when the McElreath constitutional
amendment, already passed by the
house, was approved by the senate.
The amendment provides that the
legislature can abolish the justice court
system in any city of 20,000 population
or over, excepting Savannah. Savan
nah was omitted at its own request,
being enamored of the justice court
regime.
The passage of the amendment indi
cates that the days of justice court in
Atlanta are numbered and the long
tight for a municipal court will be end
ed successfully at the next session of
the legislature.
By a vote of 24 to 2 the senate a sec
ond time approved a measure allowing
newspapers and railroads to exchange
advertising for mileage. This bill,
passed by the legislature last summer,
was approved by the state railroad
commission and subsequently vetoed
by Hoke Smith.
Governor Smith said the measure
was an attempt to repeal the anti-pass
law.
Auditor Bill Rejected.
Senator Harris' bill establishing the
office of state auditor, passed last ses
sion. but vetoed by Governor Smith,
was rejected by the upper house. This
means that the office of state auditor
recommended by Governor Brown in
his annual meesage will not be estab
lished this session. A similar bill In
troduced by Joe Hill Hail is before the
house, but will not pass the senate.
Mr. Wohlwender, of Muscogee, made
a vociferous and strenuous effort to
“steam-roll” the steam-roller commit
tee of the house today, but without suc
cess.
He had made numerous attempts to
have the rules committee put on the
calendar for the house’s consideration
Senator Sheppard’s bill, recently passed
by the senate, which provides that all
officials in Georgia, compensated either
as a whole or in part by fees, shall keep
daily itemized accounts of all fees re
ceived and submit such accounts from
time to time. He begged the house
to order the rules committee to fix the
Sheppard bill as a special order for
August 6, but the house turned an un
heeding ear to all his eloquence.
Kent County Bill Passed.
The house passed, by a vote of 133 to
17, the constitutional amendment of
Mr. Kent, of Montgomery, providing
for the creation of the new county of
Kent, to be composed of about one-half
of the present county of Montgomery,
cut off from the west side, the Oconee
river to be the dividing line.
The constitutional amendment pro
posed by Representative Allen, of Up
son, which seeks to abolish the office
of solicitor general and to substitute
in lieu thereof county prosecuting at
torneys on a strict salary baqjs, came
before the house on a motion to recon
sider and was lost by n vote of 1-19
to 41.
Being a constitutional amendment,
the bill required a two-thirds vote, or
123. This bill was lost on its first hear
ing last week by exactly the same vote.
POWDER WORKS BLOWS
UP; FIVE MEN KILLED
CLEVELAND, OHIO, July 30.—An
explosion at the Austin Powder Works,
in South Brooklyn, shortly before 8
o'clock thia morning killed five work
men and injured a number of others.
The powder plant has a number of
buildings widely separated, but half a
dozen of these were destroyed by the
force of the explosion. The noise of the
blowup was heard at Akron, Youngs
town and other towns within a radius
of 50 miles.
NEW ATLANTA FREIGHT AGENT.
A. D. Post, freight agent of the
Southern railway at Knoxville. Tenn..
Is appointed freight agent for the At
anta terminals, effective August 1.
THE
LIFE
ROPF—
Every dollar you put in the Savings
Bank is but another strand added
to the “Rope” of your life. It
stands to reason that the more rope
you have the greater is your free
dom to grasp the passing opportun
itv. Also in this ease you can never
get to the “End of your Rope.”
Interest is paid on Savings at the
FULTON
NATIONAL BANK
EMPIRE BLDG. MB
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: Here's the Schedule*
: For TX's Convention •
• CHICAGO, July 30.—The pro- •
• gram of the National Progressive •
• party convention, to be held in •
• Chicago next week, was given out •
• today, as follows: •
• Monday, August s—Convention5 —Convention •
• called to order at noon by Medill •
• McCormick. Introduction of ex- •
• Senator Beveridge as temporary •
• chairman. Speech of Beveridge. •
• Appointment of committees. Per- •
• manent organization. Evening •
• session. 8 o'clock. Address by •
• Theodore Roosevelt. •
• Tuesday. August 6—Convention •
• meets at noon. Report of com- •
• mittee on rules and order of bust- •
• ness. Report of committee on ere- •
• dentials. •
• Wednesday. August 7 —Conven- •
• tion meets at noon. Report of com- •
• mittee on resolutions. Nomination •
• of candidates for president and •
• vice president. •
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GOV. WILSON IGNORES
BATTLESHIP ISSUE IN
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
TRENTON. N. J., July 30.—Governor
Wilson came here from Seagirt by au
tomobile today to attend to some Im
portant official business which demand
ed his attention, and also to meet
Louis Nrxon, the former Tammany
leader and shipbuilder; Senator E. D.
Smith, of South Carolina, and Lieuten
ant Governor J. Taylor Elyson, of Vir
ginia.
The governor by night will have dic
tated to his secretaries his speech of
acceptance, which contains about six
thousand words. The speech, it Is un
derstood. deals chiefly with the tariff.
The governor says he is not discussing
the battleship question in it.
The governor will return to Seagirt
tonight and by tomorrow morning
hopes to have typewritten copies of his
speech ready for revision.
It should be in the hands of the print
er in another day.
FIREMEN TURNED HOSE
ON A WOMAN SOCIALIST
TO STOP FIERY SPEECH
TALLAPOOSA, GA.. July 30. -Because
she denounced child labor In cotton mills,
while delivering a speech on Socialism
here last night, Mrs. Kate Richard O'Hara
was drenched to the skin, when the Tal
lapoosa fire department turned the hose
on her and the crowd of 300 gathered in
the street to hear her. As the heavy
stream of water poured Into the crowd
there was a hurried scattering and the
speaking was abruptly brought to a close.
The automobile in which Mrs. O'Hara
was standing, while she spoke, was
flooded.
The drenching came after Mayor C. E.
Pearce, superintendent of the largest cot
ton mill here, had failed In an effort to
have Mrs. O'Hara arrested. He ordered
the town marshal to arrest her for dis
turbing the peace, but the marshal re
fused.
Mrs. O'Hara Is editor of The Rip-Saw.
a Socialistic paper. She is from St. Louis.
She has been in Georgia for some time,
having spoken at Atlanta and other
places in the interest of Socialism. In her
speech here she bitterly arraigned offi
cials of the mills for employing children.
A charge that children in Tallapoosa
mills were working for 30 cents a day,
published in The Chicago World, a So
cialist newspaper, is given by local
Socialists as the reason for the Talla
poosa incident. A. Schwartz, an At
lanta Socialist, said today that the hose
attack on Mrs. O’Hare was a result of
local conditions at Tallapoosa rather
than an assault on Socialism and So
cialists
There Is mote Catarrh In this section of
the country than all other diseases put to
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced It a local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly falling to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitutional
disease and therefore requires constltu
tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, Is the only constitutional
cure on the market. It Is taken internally
in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It
acta directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. They offer one hun
dred dollars for any case it falls to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address:
F. ,1. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
THE ATLANTA GKUKGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 191 Z.
NEW PftHTY INTO
ALL EXCEPT 5
STATES
And in Those the Progressives
Already Control—Convention
Plans Completed.
CHICAGO. July 30.—The national
machinery of the new Progressive par
ty will be set in motion formally dur
ing the present week. On Friday or
Saturday the provisional national com
mittee will meet In Chicago to consider
delegate contests, make up a tempo
rary roll for the convention and do
the other final work incident to the
meeting of the convention Itself.
With the meeting of the committee
the new party will, Its leaders say,
come into being.
A definite plan for the present or
ganization and for the campaign has
been outlined. This will be explained
at the convention.
The plan, as it has been formed, in
cludes the nomination of third party
tickets in al! the states except Cali
fornia, Kansas, Nebraska and North
and South Dakota. In these states the
Progressives control the regular Re
publican machinery and will not sup
port the Republican national ticket.
The second phase of the plan is a
plan to break from the old organiza
tion. In states where the organization
has been captured ft is to be used as an
integral part of the new party.
The third phase is the idea that the
new organization and the new party
must he given permanency, no matter
what the outcome may he in Novem
ber.
Advance Guard On Hand.
The advance guard of the politicians
and newspaper correspondents for the
convention have arrived in Chicago. At
the Congress hotel, .where the head
quarters of the new party are located,
there Is a faint revival of the busy days
that preceded the Republican national
convention Politicians stand in little
groups in the hotel corridors or hurry
to the party headquarters. In the head
quarters the clerks are busy with the
usual convention grind.
More politicians are expected today
and tomorrow, and on Thursday most
of the bigger men of the movement will
arrive. Theodore Roosevelt himself,
head of the new party, is now expected
to get here on Thursday, and from the
minute of his arrival the days will be
busy.
Plans to make his appearance at the
Coliseum impressive have been well
mapped out. His speech, in order not
to conflict with the keynote address of
Albert B. Beveridge, the temporary
chairman, will be delivered at a special
session held on Monday night. This
was decided by the arrangement com
mittee after a careful canvass of the
situation.
Taft’s Picture Missing.
While the former president is speak
ing the faces of other former presi
dents will be‘smiling down upon him.
The arrangement committee had a long
and earnest consultation over the dec
orations. It was decided since this
was to be a new party representing
progressive thinking, that the bigger
leaders of the older parties should be
given a place. It was decided also that.
President Taft’s picture should not be
hung. Those whose portraits will adorn
the walls are George Washington,
Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson,
Andrew Jackson and Alexander Ham
ilton. Roosevelt's picture will also be
given a conspicuous place.
J.M.Higii Company.
REMNANTS
On Sale Beginning at 8:30 Tomorrow
Morning In the Dress Goods
Dep’t-—lst Floor.
VALUES TO 75c YARD
Remnants of Woolen \
Dress Goods to 75c yd . | /agM JOlr
Remnants of Fine Dress I |||||
Linens up to 75c yd . . I QB Iwl
Remnants of Ratine and
Crash up to 85c yd . . . /
Remnants of Fine Dress I Ims wK iSF \< F/fil
Voiles to 75c yard . . . 1
Remnants of French Org- I
andies, Values to 50c yd. ' Sale Begins <lt 8:30
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J FIGHTING HERD OF BULL *
:mooses incorporates:
• SPRINGFIELD, ILL., July 30 •
• “The Fighting Herd of Bull •
• Moose," to be an organization for •
• the furtherance of the candidacy •
• of Colonel Roosevelt, was incor- •
• porated today. Headquarters are •
• Chicago and the incorporators are •
• C. Albert Mead, Albert E. Ob- •
• lander and Edgar E. Bunker. •
• The National Progress Conven- •
• tion association, with Chicago as •
• the principal office, was incorpo- •
• rated today by the secretary of •
• state. •
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FOREIGN RISK FIRMS
FIGHT BILL TO KEEP
FUNDS IN GEORGIA
A hot fight is being waged before the
house judiciary committee over the bill
of Senator Mann, which provides that
all life insurance companies doing
business in this state shall invest at
least 35 per cent of their state premium
income in Georgia securities.
The hearing commenced yesterday
afternoon was continued over until this
afternoon, and it may run over into
Wednesday.
This bill is being supported generally
and vigorously by the Georgia compa
nies, and is being fought with consid
erable bitterness by some out-of-the
state companies.
The bill already has passed the sen
ate. and upon the report of the house
committee depends its ultimate fate.
ARMISTEAD MAKES
REPLY TO ATTACKS
ON THE MANN BILL
Joel F. Armistead, general agent of
the Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, today gave out a statement in
which he vigorously replied to attacks
made on him yesterday at the meeting
of the senate judiciary committee.
Mr. Armistead was criticised by R.
J. Guinn, H. T. Willett and others for
espousing the cause of the Mann bill
now pending, which proposes to force
all foreign life insurance companies to
invest in Georgia 35 per cent of their
premiums from this state.
In his card today he argues that the
results of a similar law in Texas re
sulted only in benefit to the state.
14 LETTERS IN HIS NAME.
HE WANTS SIX TAKEN OFF
ST. LOUIS, July 30.—Louis Kuhlen
engeiken has petitioned the circuit
court to cut six of the fourteen let
ters out of his name, thereby reducing
it to "Engelken."
Louis says the name Is hard to pro
nounce and still harder to spell. When
he speaks it to any one he always has
to spell it once, sometimes twice, he
declares, causing persons to smile and
make sport of him.
This, in the mind of Louis, is suffi
cient reason why his name should be
changed, but a more important one is
the fact that he intends to be married.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING FIXTURES FREE
We are giving away to each purchaser of three
Fixtures one of equal value free.
Buy six, you get two free, etc.
J. E. HUNNICUTT & CO.
53 and 55 N. Broad St.
"Look for the Tile Stone Front.”
REBELWARNEDTO
STOP ms
ON YANKEE
•
United States Tells Orozco Out
rages Must Cease—Madero
Requested to Rush Troops.
WASHINGTON, July 30 —Stung to ac
tion by the repeated raids of Mexican
rebels on American property and the
danger to Americans lives south of the
border, the state department today offi
cially informed General Orozco that at
tacks on Americans must cease at once
or the United Slates will take measures
to prevent their recurrence.
President Madero also was Informed
of conditions in northern Mexico and of
ficially requested to rush troops to the
disturbed regions. The Mexican presi
dent replied that federal soldiers now
are on their way to Casas Grandes and
the vicinity, and he hoped the trouble
there would be ended.
U. S. Sends Tents
For Refugees
WASHINGTON, July 30. One thousand
tents were rushed to El Paso. Tex.,
today by the war department In an effort
to provide suitable shelter for the Amer
ican refugees who are pouring across the
border from northern Mexico. In addi
tion, the department will petition con
gress to make immediately available the
remainder of the Mississippi flund fund.
SIOO,OOO, for rations for the refugees.
These measures were taken following
the receipt of additional dispatches tell
Ing of the arrival of several hundred
homeless Americans today and the proba
bility that a large number of others will
reach El Paso tomorrow.
Secretary of War Stimson discussed the
Mexican question In the cabinet meeting
and the t>resl<lent and his advisers agreed
that something should be done in a short
’line, if congress does not act with suf
ficient speed. It is thought the president
will send a speclaj message on the Mexi
can situation.
Bright Eyes
An active, healthy liver
that never shirks it*
work if reflected in your
eyes which sparkle and
•hine with the joy of life
-watch your eyes in the
mirror and take
Tutt’s Pills
at the first sign of dull*
ness. At your druggist,
sugar coated or plain.
(COMMON ICATED)
JOEL F. ARMISTEAD SAYS
IT IS A "BRAZEN BLUFF”
Joel F. Armistead. general agent of
the Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, made the following statement to
day:
This morning’s issue of The Consti
tution contained an article in which
several statements are made concerning
the insurance investment bill, which is
being heard by the senate ju
diciary committee. This article
also contains a statement con
cerning me. In fairness to myself,
I ask you to permit me to make my
own statement as to my position in the
matter and not he misled by the state
ment of Mr. Guinn or Mr. Anyone Else,
concerning the stand I take.
Mr. Guinn charges me with "brazen”
effort to drive out competition. Mr.
Guinn has got the cart before the
horse. It's a "brazen” bluff on his part
to influence the lawmakers of this state,
by threatening them with ruin if his
and other Eastern companies with
draw. Mr. Guinn, Mr. *WiHet nor
anyone else, has told you why their
companies would withdraw except for
the mere fact that their companies can
not do what they desire in this state,
which is a poor excuse. As to my ef
fort to destroy competition, I will state
that my company has, up to the pres
ent time, written three million of in
surance in this state, and I will further
state that neither Mr. Guinn’s company
nor Mr. Willet's company will write
that much this year. Furthermore,
there are seven (7) life insurance com
panies chartered in Georgia, to say
nothing of the Southern and Western
companies operating in Georgia, many
of which are now operating under the
Robinson laws of Texas. Therefore, 1
will not have the field by myself if
the Eastern companies do wit lid raw. I
had much rather see Southern compa
nies have the business than for our
countless millions to continue to pour
into the coffers of the East.
Mr. Willet states that they invested
in Georgia last year 150 per cent of
their reserve belongings to tills state.
Mr. Willet does not. and will not. state
that his company has Invested in Ge.or
gla securities as much as 75 per cent
of the reserve on insurance ii\„ force
in this state, because he knows that 1
know it Is not so. President Small, of
the Georgia Life Insurance Company,
of Macon, Is misinformed when lie
states that a reciprocal law in other
states would affect our Investments ac
cording to this measure. Suppose oth
er states required Georgia companies
to invest in their securities 35 per cent
of the premium collected in that state.
Wouldn't that leave sis per cent to be
brought over to Georgia and invested
in Georgia securities in addition to in
vesting 100 per cent of the premium
collected in Georgia? Therefore, when
we ask Eastern companies to invest 35
per cent of the amount they collect in
I J-MJIGHCmNY]
Rummage Sale
ON THE THIRD FLOOR TOMOR=
ROW, WEDNESDAY, BEGINNING
AT NINE O’CLOCK j
Small lots, odd lots, broken
sizes of Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear
closed out regardless of cost. No
exchanges, returns, or C. O. Ds. on
these goods.
Ladies’ SI.OO Lingerie Waists,
slightly soiled from handling
25c
Ladies’ $2.95 Messaline Silk Pet
ticoats in almost all colors; also
Messaline Silk Waists, pretty
styles, $3.50 values
SI.OO
Ladies’ fine White Lingerie and
Tailored Waists, priced to $2.00;
Ladies’ new $1.25 Rep and Linene
Skirts, 1912 models,
69c
this state in Georgia securities, we per
mit them to take home 65 per cent to
Invest in home securities. Mr. Guinn
continues to explode that somebody has
got to pay for the six pages of ad
vertisement used in The Journal and
The Georgian. This is true since I
have assured both of these mediums
that they would 'receive my personal
check for same, since my company had
nothing to do with it in the least. I
did not even ask the consent of my
company to express my thoughts to the
people. Mr. Guinn continually Insists
that every tub must stand on its own
bottom, and that my efforts are to de
stroy competition. Then w'hy not his
company, together with other Eastern
companies, do what we are doing and
operate under the same laws that we
operate und< r through preference? It
is a fact that overtures were made last
Thursday night that if we would with
draw this bill they would see to it that
any objectionable feature to the general
insurance bill and the "blue sky law
of Kansas" bill would be stricken. Now
to make my position perfectly clear. I
will state under oath that I have writ
ten every state in the union for their
insurance laws, realizing that our in
surance laws at the present time are in
adequate. Furthermore, I wrote to Kan
sas and obtained a copy of what is
known as the "blue sky law.” I have
urged my friends to pass these bills
if possible. Some of the members of
the Judiciary committee are arpong
those that I ask to support this meas
ure. Now the only objection that I
have to the general insurance bill is
that ft is not nearly strong enough and
does Hot fully protect the policy holders
of this state as it should. By no means
does it afford the protection that the
compulsory deposit law of this state,
which we operate under, affords. Will
Mr. Guinn's company operate under this
same law in its home state? if n' t,
why not? Therefore, if there is any
thing that they can do for us in the
passage of th" general insurance hill
be sure that they made it stronger in
every respect, especially as to Hie pro
tection of its policyholders In litis state.
As to the blue sky law, ft will please
us very much to see it go through, just
as it is.
Tile find appeal of the Eastern com
panies is to its policyholders. As to
their sincerity, let’s see. When they in
vest at lower rates in Northern and
\\ estern securities the reserve which
belongs to Georgia and Southern pol
icyholders, are they doing their duty
and conserving the best interest of
their policyholders in this territory?
In other words, if we will pay them 7
per cent for their money would they
not return better dividends on our pol
icies than by investing for lesj? rate
elsewhere? According to Colonel Ed
gar Watkins' statement that the rate
of interest had advanced, how could the
Eastern companies object to investing
at least 35 per cent of their premium
in Southern securities, providing we
make them, without feeling inclined to
withdraw from our territory? Abso
lutely there is no argument on their
side, and they know it, and the Geor
gians that represent them know it.
Their only recourse is their “brazen"
bluff, as Mr. Guinn puts It.
JOEL Ft ARMISTEAD,
General Agent Cosmopolitan Life In
surance Company.
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