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TIPPINS BILL VETOED
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Showers today and tomorrow.
VOL. X. NO. 263.
BROWN GIVES
DEATH BLOW
TO PLANS
OFDRYS
Rejection of Tippins Bill Con
sidered by Its Friends as
End of Measure.
“PEOPLE, IN ELECTING ME,
EXPRESSED THEIR WILL”
’ Executive Points to Defects in
Act and Cites Condition of
State’s Finances.
Governor Joseph M. Brown vetoed the
Tippins bill today.
The governor, in a lengthy and re
markably frank message tn the house of
representatives, sets forth clearly his
reasons for withholding his approval of
the bill.
He holds that the bill, as passed, was
contrary to the expressed will of the
people, as evidenced in the last guber
natorial camjiaign: that the state's
finances will not warrant the strain put
upon them by the withdrawal of the
near-beer taxes without provision for
their replacement; that the bill strikes
down legitimate and necessary busi
ness; that the proposed law would tend
rather to bring the present prohibition
law into ridicule and contempt than to
make it more effective, and that the
proposed law undertakes to impose up
on the executive powers and duties
dearly intended by the framers of the
constitution for the judicial department.
The governor, in vetoing the Tippins
bill, followed a line of action generally
predicted.
His election was brought about on a
platform exactly suggesting the veto of
this very bill, in the evnt of its pas
sage.
Friends of Bill
Consider It Killed.
According to the friends of the meas
ure, the governor’s veto kills the bill,
as many of those who voted to pass it
will not vote to override the governor.
The veto message is in part as fol
lows:
If the people of Georgia desire
and will enforce any prohibition
law, the above (the existing stat
ute), which remained in full force
in the statute book, would surely
seem sufficient.
This bill which you have just
sent to me I am compelled to dis
approve for the following reasons:
First. In the gubernatorial cam
paign which practically ended De
cember 7, 1911, there was really but
one issue before the people, viz: As
to whether the prohibition laws of
this state should remain as now
written or whether they should be
changed.
There can be. therefore, no doubt
as to the expressed will of the white
voters of Georgia upon the subject
of legislation affecting the manu
facture and sale of intoxicating
liquors; hence, if I should sign this
bill, it would be upon the assump
tion that the minority should rule
in the capitol despite the fact that
it lost at the polls.
There is no propulsive force so
marvelous, yet so compelling, as the
intuition of the people. There is no
greater mandate than their voice as
spoken at the ballot box; and I
will add that the white voters of
this state flnow that this bill was
on your calendar when I made the
pledge above referred to, and they
voted for me with that knowledge.
Hence," I dare not trifle with the
people. The pledge I made is my
compact of honor with them.
Bars Many Articles
Necessary To Health.
But there Is another reason why
this bill should not go on the stat
ute books, viz: It is so drawn that.
In placing under the han that which
it Inferentlally declares is delete
rious to public order, it also strikes
down many articles necessary to
public comfort and health.
The advocates of this bill may
consider that it is heroic to destroy
a beverage even though made aware
of the fact that wltn it they also
destroy the means of alleviating
human suffering, and, at times, sav
ing lives; but the sober thinker will
Continued on Pago Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
Kentucky Troops Try
To Live Down Odium
Os Spanish War Days
General Roger Williams Enforces
Strict Discipline at Anniston
Encampment.
ANNISTON, ALA., July 31—Gen
eral Roger Williams, commanding the
Kentucky militia at Camp Pettus, has
fosbidden the appearance of any Ken
tucky soldier in the city without his
blouse, which must be worn buttoned.
Neither are any of the men permitted
to carry their side arms into the city.
To enforce his orders he has estab
lished provost guards in the city.
General Williams has established the
strictest discipline among the Ken
tuckians. His purpose is to blot out
the odium engendered by the Kentucky
volunteers encamped here during the
Spanish-American war, when there
were frequent shooting affrays and
other disorder.
The general drinking Aip has been
officially tabooed by General Williams
in the camps of the Kentucky regi
ments for the purpose of preserving the
health of the militiamen.
The three Kentucky regiments were
divided into battalions yesterday and
engaged in a sham battle to the noith
west of the city without decisive re
sults. This was preliminary to the
greater battle to occur Friday and Sat
urday on tlie same grounds when the
three Kentucky regiments with a small
body of the regulars, under command
of General Williams, will be pitted
against tlie South Carolina and Ala
bama troops with a majority of the
regulars, in a decisive conflict.
U. S. GIRL LOCKED IN
CRYPT WITH FAMOUS
DEAD FOR HALF HOUR
PARIS. July 31.—Locked for half .an'
hour in the gloomy, chilly crypt of the
Pantheon, with the prospect of-having
to pass tlie entire night surrounded by
some of the illustrious dead of France,
was the experience Miss Margaret
Gove, of New York, has just been
through and which she is not likely to
forget.
With her sister. Miss Helen Gove, and
her uncle. Archie P. Gove, editor of a
paper in Rochester, Minn., and other
visitors, it is related, the young woman
had been over the building, and finally
descended into the crypt. There the
most noteworthy tombs were inspected.
Miss Margaret Gove grew so Interested
that she dropped behind the party, and
it was only when the visit was con
cluded and the door of t he crypt hud
been locked that her absence was no
ticed.
Miss Gove was terrified hew n she
realized her predicament. Other mem
bers of the party effected her rescue.
COMMERCE CHAMBER
FOR EXAMINATION OF
ELEVATOR OPERATORS
Elevator boys in all of the public
buildings in Atlanta will be required to
stand an examination before a city of
ficial and receive licenses before they
are allowed to run an elevator, if the
recommendations of the public safety
committee of the Chamber of Commerce
are carried out by the city council.
The public safety committee of the
Chamber of Commerce was recently or
ganized at tlie suggestion of several
members who believed that there ought
to be some group of men in Atlanta
who would be on the lookout for public
safety. They will recommend in strong
est terms to council tlie passing of an
ordinance requiring elevator boys to be
and licensed, and thus pre
venting tlie hiring of incompetent ones.
In making their report to the executive
committee of the chamber, the fact that
recently several serious accidents in
elevators have been caused by impa
tience and carelessness on the part of
the elevator operators was pointed out.
EUROPeTmUCH ALARMED
BY TURKISH CRISIS
PARIS, July 31. —The chancelleries of
Europe are in a ferment today over the
Turkish crisis and the growing possi
bility of the deposition of Sultan Me
hammed V. A constant stream of dis
patches is being exchanged between the
Austrian and German governments over
the attitude they will take toward Tur
key in the event of the sultan's over
throw, and Russia and England are
equally interested.
quilliaTmTssTnTfour
DAYS. RETURNS; DAZED
After having been missing for four
days from his home at 47 South Gordon
street, J. F. Quillian, 56 years of age.
returned last night, dazed and unable
to tell a connected story of his wan
derings. Mr. Quillian went away Sat
urday morning and it was feared harm
had come to him. He had been In ill
health.
MRS. GRACE WINS AGAIN; HER
LAWYER ESCAPES GRILLING
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TO BURN EFFIGY
OF JUDGE SPEER
MACON. GA., July 31.—Colonel W. A.
Huff, the 81-year-oJH ex-mayor of Ma
son, Is on trial before Judge Emory
Speer, in the United States court, to
day, on the charge of contempt of court,
which resulted from his sensational let
ter to the judge, in which the latter was
charged with misconduct in office and
his Impeachment suggested. An enor
mous crowd surrounds the Federal
building, as only a limited number is
accommodated by the court room.
If Colonel Huff is sentenced to im
prisonment. his friends plan to hold an
indignation meeting tonight in the
county court house, and later to burn
Judge Speer in effigy. Plans to this ef
fect have already been perfected. Col
onel Huff's friends are also going to
appeal to Congressman C. L. Bartlett to
institute Impeachment proceedings in
congress.
Colonel Huff has refused to retract
one line of his charges against Judge
Speer, and -ays, on the contrary, that
he has still more facts to give to the
public at u later date.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 31. 1912.
BIRDS NOW SINGING
RAGTIME, SCIENTIST
SAYS IN A LECTURE
CHICAGO, July 31.—Henry Oldys,
formerly of the United States biologi
cal survey, in a lecture in the Uni
versity of Chicago which is causing
comment today, said that birds are pos.
sewed of an esthetic sense similar to
that of the human being.
"Birds dance in the air, do 'High
land flings’ and the more sedate evolu
tions with the most perfect rhythm,”
said Oldys. "They sing a 'bird rag
time’ and at other times snatches of
song which greatly resemble our grand
opera. There is a blackbird that has a
song almost parallel to a Wagnerian
opera; the robin is best In so-called
popular songs, while the wood thrush
sings a song of four distinct verses.”
The speaker closed with the state
ment that birds sometimes cony from
man. and that man could learn a great
deal by copying from the bird.
GEE! BUT IT IS FINE
TO BE ARRESTED—WHAT?
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PITTSBURG. July 31. For spending
t nine weeks in jail at Juarez. Edward
M. Blatt will receive 525.000 indemnity
from th<j Mexican government.
TURKS IN REVOLT;
SCORES ARE DEAD
PHILLIPPOLIS, BULGARIA, July 31.
A political revolution has broken out In
Constantinople and fighting has been go
ing on for nineteen hours between rival
factions, according to cipher dispatches
received here today.
Scores have been killed in rioting In the
native section of the Ottoman capital.
The rioting factions are led by army of
ficers and this outbreak Is believed to he
the first step in a general revolution
aimed to cause the downfall of the pres
ent sultan.
, The Turkish government is exercising
the strictest censorship over the telegraph
lines, and, therefore, all information that
comes as to the real situation in Constan
tinople lias to be sent In code.
A revolution has been plotted for sev
! oral months by the committee of union
and press, lice executive body of the
, "Young Turks " Leaders have secretly
I sent couriers to the provincial branches
y ordering preparation. for all to be ready
“to abed blood.”
Rosser Declines to Answer Questions
Leading Up to Mysterious Letters
and Is Upheld—Grace Remains at
Sanitarium—Wife May Goon Stand..
Mrs Daisy Grace achieved another important victory today when,
her chief attorney, Luther Rosser, placed upon the stand by the prose
cution, was upheld in declining to answer any questions concerning
his knowledge of the typewriter in the Grace home upon which was
said to have been written the mysterious and sensational “alibi”
letters.
Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey sought to question Mr. Rosser
in an evident effort to prove that there was a typewriter in the Grace
home, and that Mrs. Grace might have written upon it the letters
signed by Grace which told of their happiness and of Grace’s depar
ture and of the “bum - ’ that he took home from the station after
seeing her away. The obvious inference was to connect Mrs. Grace
with these letters through her use of tlie typewriter.
Rosser said:
“I decline to answer any ques
tion concerning the typewriter
because it would be a violation
of confidence with my client.”
The judge upheld the lawyer,
and the prosecution, balked once
more, again delayed its promised
production of the sensational
“alibi” letters, which it says
were forged.
While the trial went on, Eugene Grace
fumed at the Piedmont sanitarium. The
superintendent said he was no worse
this morning than when he came to
Atlanta from Newman two days ago.
and was perfectly able to be taken to
court.
He was kept in the sanitarium await
ing word from his counsel to attend
the trial again.
The prosecution will probably close
Its case today. The defense will be
very brief. The case wil reach the jury
either tonight or early tomorrow, and
the verdict should be known before to
morrow < vening.
Mrs. Grace May
Take Stand Today.
As large a crowd as usual was in
the court room today when the case
opened. More women than on former
days were present, expecting to hear
Mrs. Grace tell her own story on the
stand. Whether or not they will be dis
appointed remains to be seen, for coun
sel for the defense refused to state
when the case opened whether they
would introduce Mrs. Grace or any wit
nesses whatever. They have kept the
state’s counsel absolutely in the dark
as ’< the line of defense.
That the defense has made prepara
tions to introduce witnesses in case
they deem it necessary is indicated by
the fact that Mrs. Martha Ulrich, moth
er of Mrs. Grace, has been put “under
the rule” and excluded from the court
room during the proceedings. Mrs. Ul
rich and Mrs. Louise Wilson, trained
nurse of Mis. Grace, sit in an ante
room near the court chamber all day.
Grace Better,
Says Lawyer.
Lamar Hill, Grace’s personal counsel,
said today that Eugene was better to
day, and was expected to return to
court.
At the opening of court today, Solici
tor Dorsey asked the court to make re
newed effort to secure the presence of
Clarence Hell, subpenaed by the state
us a witness, who is quite ill. It being
agreed that Bell was too ill to be pres
ent. Mr. Dorsey asked that it appear on
the records that he desired Mr. Bell’s
presence to add a certain link to the
chain of evidence.
Louis Wellhouse was the first wit
ness called. He is in the paper busi
ness, and connected with Paul A. Clem
ents, a witness of yesterday.
It was at his mother’s suggestion that
Wellhouse found out who was Mr.
Clements’ attorneys.
Mr. Dorsey desired to swear Luther
Rosser and put him on the stand. Mr.
Rosser objected to being sworn, but was
put on the stand, not on oath.
Another Victory
For Mrs. Grace.
Mr. Rosser declined to answer any
1 questions. He was questioned as to
1 whether he had a Smith Premier type
writer obtained from Paul Clements,
the man who occupied the house at
one time occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
’ Grace. Mr. Rosser claimed immunity
1 from testifying, as one of counsel. Mr.
* Dorsey said he wanted to bring out the
■ fact that the Graces had such a type
s writer, obtained from Clements.
i A sharp colloquy between Dorsey and
Rosser followed. Mr. Rosser, in tin
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witness chair, argued points of law with
the court.
Mr. Rosser escaped questioning upon
the ground that his information was
confidential as between lawyer and
client.
Mrs. Grace Wears
An Old Costume.
Mrs. Grace’s costume, when she put
in her appearance at court this morn
ing. was the same she wore the after
noon she returned to Atlanta from
Philadelphia.
She wore, on that memorable occa
sion, a brown coat suit, brown slippers
and stockings, and a new brown hat
which she purchased in the Quaker city.
When she removed her coat this
morning, the women in the audience
gave a gasp. A marvel in the shape
of a peek-a-boo lace shirtwaist was ex
posed. The lace work was intricate in
its creation. She wore a simple locket
about her neck and diamond- earrings.
CHARLESTON MAYOR
TO TELL GREENVILLE
FOLK ABOUT BLEASE
GREENVILLE. S. C„ July 31,—May
or John P. Grace, of Charleston, has
been invited by a committee of Green
ville citizens to make a political ad
dress In this city, and It Is understood
that he will accept.
In view of the recent break between
the mayor and Governor Cole L. Blease,
following which Mr. Grace has asked
to be released from the governor’s con
fidence, Greenville people are expecting l
to hear something really worth while.
Mayor Grace’s statement has called,
forth from Governor Blease a counter,
statement, in which the latter releases)
him from secrecy, and the mayor de-,
dares he will tell “a tale that wilj
nauseate all the white people of Soutiii
Carolina.”
ANOTHER NEGRO IS
JAILED AT CALHOUN
FOR PLAINVILLE RIOT
CALHOUN, GA., July 31.—A negro,
believed to be one of those escaping
from the section house in which ne
groes barricaded themselves in the re
cent race clash at Plainville, has been,
arrested and lodged in the county jail
heie with the other ten who were cap
tured by the posse which surrounded
the house. The negro came to Calhoun,
and endeavored to get possession of a
shotgun and ammunition. Officers be
lieved he was trying to organize a res
cue party to storm the jail and release
the rioters confined there, so he wa»
Imprisoned.
The situation remains quiet at Plain
ville and in the surrounding country,
and it is iikely that there will be no
further trouble.
HE LEASES BIG HOTEL
FOR ONLY TEN MINUTES
LAKE GEORGE, N. Y., July St.-
John McGlynn, president of the State
Hotel Men’s association, in an inter
view here told of a lease that was
signed by him for the Grand Union
hotel at Saratoga for a term of years
at the Knickerbocker hotel, New York,
on Thursday, July 25, at 12:55 p. n».
At 1:05 p. in., following a speech be
fore the Democratic state committee,
which gave Syracuse the state conven
tion in preference to Saratoga, the,
■ lease was torn up.
’ln other words, the great Grand
Union hotel of Saratoga was leased for
I ten minutes in one of the most unique
■ transactions on record.