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2 OORSEY DENIES SEEKER'S CHARGE Only the Expense of Investiga tion Discussed at Dinner. He Says. Answering th* charges nf Hooper Alexander that th* grand jury's course of action in the Investigation nf locker clubs had been outlined at a confer ence with superior court judges in the Capital t'itv club. Solicitor General Hugh M Dorsey today denied abso lutely that there had been any agree ment reached Mr. Alexander In h speech last' night st a rally In the Lyric thea ter. addr* ss h «•» by Seaborn Wright, the prohibition orator, charged that the judge.-, a committee from tne county commitsOnets. members of the g and jur and the solicitor general, had < onferred on th* locker club prob >m in the <‘aplia t’lty club- ‘unfor tunately ’ Up asspi ted that «« h result of this conference the grand Jury Ir. dieted locker clubs outside the pale and left th* so-called respectable clubs strictly alone Mr. Dorsey de, a ed today that t!.< •‘conference” probably referred to was a dinner given by T K Glenn. forem.;:i nf th* Jury on which be served, at th* Capital City chib. It was learned at that dinner that the solicitor general’s office had no funds for th* prosecutl- n of locker club probe* Glenn Offered to Pay the Expenses. Mr. Glenn then offen d to pay the ox. pentet of an investigation himself and put up the money out of his own pock et and as a result Indictments were brought against a number of (dubs Mr. Glenn himself confirmed the so licitor general’s version of the affair. He declared that the locker club Inves tigation was merely one of the phases of the grand Jury's work discussed. He said that the county commissioners had promised to pay him back tiie money he advanced for the probe, but that he didn't care If he did not rt cover n pen ny. Hl? bill was held up yesterday 1»> the county commissioners. The comjnissloners present at the dinner were 8. B. Turman, H Fl. \\ Palmer and Shelby Smith. The three superior court judges are Kell, Pendleton and Ellis. None of them would discuss the Alexander charges, but it is understood they have . a statement tn reply under eonsidera- Anderson Denies Such Meeting Was Held. General Clifford 1.. .Anderson, mem ber of the county commission, today denied that a meeting such as alluded to by Hooper Alexander last night ever was held. "Shortly before the investigation of the locker clubs several of the commis sioners met with representalves of the grand Jury to decide whether they would allow money for the investiga tion of the ( lulis. This, however, was, 1 think, held at the commissioners’ of fii e in the Throw . r building "I was not present at that meeting, but know that no distinction of class was made among the clubs It was de cided that a careful investigation would be made, and the commissioners agreed to provide a reasonable sum to engage detectives to work on the matter. Tin detectives w<r. ordered to concern themselves with 'locker clubs.' not any especial class or kind.' Mr. Alexander in his speech held Slaton up to scorn L" his alleged fail ure to come out on the so-called issues of the day He wondered how the president of the senate found lime lo give a barbecue if he didn't have time to enter Into a debab Then h* 1 launched into tiie "sensation of the evening.” reading carefully from man uscript. He said in pa t "Therefore, the judges :I , c com manded to sign the chattel only when 'satisfied' that it is within the purview of the law. Armed with this broad power of determination, judges ought not to sign chatters th.it incor porate any group of people w h . ente - tain criminal purposes In seeking th< charter, and if they do so they must make answer to the people and no where else. "The contention of lawyeis that tie Judge is obliged to do so indicates In blindness to which learning may ’ 1 men. It matte: s not w hat the arg .- nient may be. when the conclusion reached involves an absurdity. t • argument is obliged to be wrong T ■ say that the courts are compelled to charter criminals for the < ommission of i rime is an absurdity that the pioj ’. w ill resent, no matter what the lawyer sa y. "The issuing of injunctions to pre vent the city, oi anj ■ >urt Inte feting with criminals is contary to law. This equitable writ has no i i.u c in irimina nrutti rs. ."The excuse now given for this re cent innovation is that properly is are involved. This is another st ange doctrine borrowed I'.om the uisiirpa- v “BE REASONABLE, MUTT, WE ARE ON THE GEORGIAN” Mutt and Jeff have come to The Georgian to stay permanently. Look for them in tomorrow’s paper and every day after that. Jeff will start out by giving his friend Mutt the worst of it. ROCKEFELLER, JR„ AIDS NEW YORK GRAFT PROBE K wS Vi bBSbRSI i L J Blv -<■ f/ A jE ■ ■K; -» \1 1 d . a « Wfflß / \T / " x W/ i \\ z ' jy • r \\ I Vi \ John 1). Rockefeller, Jr„ and his youngest son. Mr. Rocke feller is in the limelight in \'ew York just now, it having come out he has been working through the underworld of the metrop olis for many months securing evidence against the police graft ers. and that he has thus rendered valuable service to District Attorney Whitman, who is now deep in the ferreting out of the workings of the “system.” following the slaying of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler who “squealed.” tions under wltich the Federal courts have of late years invented prece dents to justify them in hampering th" efforts of the states to control the great railroads "The judges have properly ,r ■ ted the grand jury at .all times t -.at the sale <>f liquor by these clubs is unlaw- 1 ful. and that they can not be made lawful by ihe empty mummery of the writings tiny make titelr customers sign. "The March grand jury had this sub ject up for free discussion, and ear nestly sought to find som<> remedy . A conference was held in April between the three Judges, the solicitor general, a committee from the grand jury and a committee from the county commis sioners. As a result of the meeting, measures were set on foot and inves tigations entered upon that were turned over to the next grand Jury and In dictments were found against certain of the so-called illegitimate clubs. The social clubs which call themselves le gitimate. but w hich sell liquor on prac tically the same basis as the others, were not indicted. "The obvious discrimination pro duced some dissatisfaction, and the judges were criticised for having given advice to the grand jury, not in public, which, in efft •-t told them not to indict the social clubs. But Social Clubs Were Not Included. "1 am reilably informed that the judges did not instruct the grand jury to make an exception In favor of tile social clubs and I accept, the assurance that they did not: but tiie assurance (■otiies coupler, with the authoritative statement that they did say in sub stance that t: < xpense of getting evi dence was difficult to meet, the evi dence it ■ if not easy to obtain, and tli.it the jury should begin with the most aggravated eases first. Tl: <t jury did not find tiie indict ment-. but turned over tiie results of its ab.us to the next jury, that did indict one set and did not Indict tin other I take it that the judges did not ini' to! to |..ivi tile impression that tie oiscriinination should be made that was made, but it i« a most unfortunate fait that the conference occurred in the HIE ATLANTA GEORGLYN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9. 1912. Capital City club. "Being compelled, however much I shrink from It. by what 1 regard as a grave condition of lawlessness in this city, to refer to these matters, and to say' that it Is not, In my judgment, a safe or a wholesome thing for the rich and powerful to go unpunished for an offense that less prominent men are in. dieted for. and being told that these 1 facts are being commented on unfavor ably to one of the judges now seeking re-election. I think it only fair to say that, so far as he is concerned, it was the first and only time he was ever in the Capital City club, or any other club of like sort, and that his adversary is. or certainly has been, a full member of the same organization for a long time." Police Don’t Believe Girls Are Debauched "Mt Alexander’s statement regarding tiie debauchery of young gills in the clubs of Atlanta is an exaggeration. 1 am satisfied." said Chief J. L. Beavers, of the Atlanta police force, today, dis cussing Hooper Alexander’s platform announcement. "I have not heard of one such in stance as he cites, if lie lias evidence, it Is his duty as a citizen to bling it to the department. It Is, of course, true that young women go into clubs and drink, and some of them may be under age. In the majority of cases, how ever. they are taken there by their pa rents. "Where the department is able to do it. a close examination of clubs is made There are five clubs in the city, | however, which are protected by in | junction.'’ WESTERN UNION MUST VACATE L. & N. BY DEC. 1 LOUISVILLE, KV.. Aug 4. The Louisville and Nashville railroad has served notice on the Western Union Telegraph Company that its poles and wires must be removed from the L. & N. right 'O' wa> by December 1 or be confiscated hx the railroad. This fol low* the » xpiration of a 2.’»-ycar eon i ract m soi puts QUIETUS ON REVISION President Vetoes Wool Bill Sent to Him a Second Time by Congress. Continued From Page One. of tops and yarns which would result from the rate in the bill now submit ted to me would destroy the effect of the protection to raw wool and at the same time would be at the cost of widespread disaster to the wool comb ing and spinning branches of the indus try. t’nder the rates proposed, such plants could be.continued, if at all, only by writing off most of the investments sit a net loss and by a reduction of , wages. To sum up. then, most of the rates in the submitted bill are so low in themselves that, if enacted into law, the inevitable result would be the irre , trlevable injury to the wool grow Ing Industry, the enforced idleness of much ’of our wool combing and spinning ma chinery and of thousands of looms, and j i he consequent throwing out of employ ment of thousands of workmen, "I can not act upon the assumption I that the controlling majority in either house will refuse to pass a bill of this I kind, if in fact It accomplishes so sub stantial a reduction, merely because members of the opposing party and the executive unite in its approval. I there, fore urge upon congress that it do not adjourn without taking advantage of the plain opportunity thus substantially to reduce unnecessary existing duties. I appeal to congress to reconsider the measure which I now return, without my approval, and to adopt a substitute therefor making substantial reductions below the rates of tiie present act. which the tariff bo.ard shows possible, without destroying any established in dustry or throwing any wage earners out of employment, and which I will I promptly approve.” MILLIONAIRES FREED; OVERSEERS TO FACE CHARGES OF PEONAGE SAVANNAH. GA., Aug. 9.—After an examination before Walter H. Godwin. United States commissioner, which lasted into last night. Jonas Kilpat rick, general manager for E. T. Comer, millionaire planter at .Millhaven, and R. Lee Chew, an overseer on the same place, were bound over under SI,OOO bond each for their appearance before a F'ederal grand jury to answer charges of peonage. Similar charges against E. T. Coiner, owner of the plantation; his brother. J. W. Comer, and Mimgcat Price, another overseer, were dis missed. The Corners were both pres ent, seated witli their attorney. Judge Samuel B. Adams, of this city. Two negroes, Evans Martin and George Smith, who ran away from the Comer plantation, are alleged to have been arrested without a warrant at Bath. S. and returned, after which, it H charged, they weru held and ille gally made to work out the payment f a debt. There was evidence that the negroes were threatened with a whip ping. HIGHER EDUCATION IS INDORSED BY K. OF C. COUNCIL CONVENTION COLORADO SPRINGS. COLO., Aug. 9.—With the selection of Boston as the 1913 convention city and the transac tion of important business routine, the thirtieth annual convention of the Su preme Coum il of Knights of Columbus adjourned. The council adopted a report com mending the establishment of a nation al home at Washington. It is under stood that Ultimately a tuberculosis I home may be established. Resolutions j were passed favoring higher educa- ; tion as embodied in the provisions I governing the endowment fund for the I Catholic University of America located j at Washington. BOYS SWEPT 80 MILES OUT TO SEA IN ROWBOAT ASBURY PARK. N J„ Aug. 9.—1 Swept to sea when their efforts to com- i bat a strong outward current failed, j two Ocean Grove youngsters who had I launched a row boat from the beach i j there yesterday afternoon w ere carried SO miles down the coast and last night 1 were picked up off Barnegat bay. The! boys returned home this morning. The youthful voyagers were Willie Bunting, eleven years old. eon of As sistant Postmaster Herbert B. Bunting, of Ocean Grove, and George Barlow fifteen years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Barlow. Yesterday was the Bunting boy's birthday and the row boat cruise was taken as a part of his celebration. Cant Find Reason for War Prices WHY IS LIVING COST HIGH? Wilmer L. Moore, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, who, after an investigation of retail business, can not • find the solution to the problem of the high cost of living. W. L. Moore, Head of Com merce Chamber. Investigates Retail Stores in Atlanta. Wilmer 1,. Moore, president of the Chamber of Commerce, has been study ing the high cost of living in Atlanta. While Mr. Moore was frank to admit today to a Georgian reporter that the problem which has stumped the states men of the world has thus far stumped him in its local application, he declared that study had convinced him that the plan of department food stores sug • gested by the food investigating com mittee in New York would not work here. ”ln Europe, especially in London, the people have what they call co-operative stores, through which they make most of their purchases at a smaller cost than they would have to pay other dealers, but I do not think the plan would be practicable for Atlanta,” hr said. “Since wo first watched the cost of living begin its steady climb upward years ago. there have been many* plans suggested to bring the prices to their former standard. Recently T have been looking into the Question, but am not ready to suggest a plan. “Retail department stores, buying di rect. receiving direct and selling direc< to the people w ould not. 1 believe, prove a sue* cs« in this city.’’ Here is what your grocer in Atlanta makes: Dairy Products. Uost to Selling Per Cent Retailer. Price, of Profit. Rutter, pound. .. .31 .35 .13 Cheese, poundlS .23 .28 Kggs, dozen2o .22 .10 Vegetables. W. notatoes. lb.. . .022 .03 .30 W. onions, 1b023 .033 .40 Fresh beans, qt.. .02 .05 LSO Cabbage, heado4 .08 .30 Green corn, ear.. .01 .015 50 Carrots, bunch...* .035 .05 .42 Tomatoes, qto7s 10 .33 Celery , buncho7 .10 42 Fruits. Peaches, qtOS jn Apples, poundo22 .05 .43 Fla. oranges, doz. .251 .352 .40 Bananas, dozen.. .085 .10 22 Lemons, dozen... .175 .20 .14 Meats. Tend’l’n steak, lb. .11 .23 1.01 Round steak, lb,. .11 ,20 .99 Shoulder steak, lb. 11 .15 35 Pork chops, 1b... .16 .20 .25 Harn, lbl6 .25 .58 Fish. Halibut, lblo4 .20 92 Trout, IbOS .15 .87 Red snapper, lb.. .10 .125 .25 Bluefish, lblo .15 ’59 Pompano, lb2o .25 .25 Perch, lbo9 .125 '.33 Whitefish, 1b165 .20 .24 Staple Groceries. Sugar, lbos .055 .10 Flour, lbo3 .04 33 Bread, lbo4 .05 .25 Lice, lbos 08 'Jo Coffee, 1b25 .30 .20 Tea. poundlß .35 90 Dried peas, lbos .08 .60 Rolled oats, lb ... .0.23 .042 lb .11 .145 50 Salt mackerel, lb, .14 175 20 Canned Goods Pork and beans... 115 .15 .40 Peas, canl32 20 47 Corn, cano77 .tn .35 C’nd'sed milk, can 08i 10 05 Tomatoes, can.. .08 .10 25 String beans, can 145 20 .32 Salmon, canU .20 31 ALEXANDER AND HIS ALW CLASH DeKalb Prohibition Champion Loses Tilt With His Colleague I Over a Minor Bill. The county of Wheeler, originally : scheduled to be the county of Kent, was given its final and finishing touch in 1 the house today, when the house ac cepted the senate’s amendment chang : ing the name. The amendment was not adopted nor ■ the bill passed without protest. 1 Before the vote was taken, Mr. (took, of Telfair, had the clerk read a per sonal statement in which he vehemently assailed Mr. Kent, the author of the I bill, charging him with misrepresenting ; facts and figures in obtaining the pas • sage of the same, and particularly pro -1 testing against the polities involved. "I submit," said Mr. Cook, “that the legislature lias been deceived in this matter, and that this county should not be created. "I further charge that the demon of polities has crept into the creation of this county: that there was vote trad ing. and for that reason I protest against the passage of this bill, and I want my protest spread upon the house journal. I court investigation and dis pute of what I say." Bill Is Passed, Anyway. Notwithstanding Mr, Cook's attack on Mr. Kent and the bill, it was passed with only one dissenting vote—that of Mr. Cook. Representative Hooper Alexander made an unsuccessful effort on the floor of the house today to defeat a local bill introduced by his colleague from De- Kalb. Mr. Field. This bill provides for the repeal of the town nf Lakeview, and carries a provision for a referendum to the peo ple of the town before the repeal shall become operative. There is no love lost between the two representatives from DeKalb, as every, body in the house knows, and when Mr. Alexander arose to oppose his col league’s bill, there was a general cran ing of necks and a desire to see what would happen. Mr. Alexander made a vehement pro test against the passage of Mr. Field's bill, but after the speech of Mr. Alex ander a vote was taken, and Mr. Field's bill was passed by a vote of 94 to 10. TO DEBATE AT HAZLEHURST. j’ BRUNSWICK, Aug. 9. —Elaborate preparations have been made for the c Walker-Parker congressional debate to v be held at Hazlehurst in Appling coun- e ty tomorrow morning. Colonel Walker will open the debate and after speaking p 45 minutes will be followed by Judge i t ( Darker, who will have the stand an A hour. I n EIIIJODGI ONCENTRfILAND PRYDR VETOED Governor Sees Injury to State’s Property—Urges Considera tion of Plaza Scheme. The governor today vetoed the bill providing for tiie construction of the Pryor street and Central avenue via ducts in Atlanta, and at the same time pointed out benefits to be gained by the erection of the proposed overhead plaza, a project involving many mil lions of dollars. The governor objects to the bill .be cause he thinks it was hastil'' drawn and likely would inflict serious an< irreparable injury to tiie state's prop erty rights in the Western and Atlantic railroad. The governo enters exhaustively into the latter phase of the matter, and de clares that the proposed viaducts should be considered in tlv ir connec tion with other property' to be affected by them, and adds significantly that Atlanta “should grow with the state, and not at the expense of the state.” Tiie executive veto reads in pari as follows: Bill Too Hastily Drawn. This bill seems to have been too hastily drawn to allow such con sideration as would demonstrate whether Its passage w ould or would not seriously damage the state's prop rty known as the Western and Atlantic railroad. If it become a law it will practically close against convenient use two street above named in so far as concerns the access to and egress from the Union passenger station, which is the terminal station for passengers riding over said road.- It is of utmost importance that the state preserve, to as great an extent as lies in iter power, tiie fa cilities whereby the said railroad receives and handles business, and < the enactment into a law of bill number 58 will damage tiie said road many thousands of dollars each month and will seriously im pair the rental value of said road when the present lease expires, and it is advertised for a new lease It is also proper to state that if this become a law will seriously af fect the income of the present les sees of said railroad, and the state should be careful that she does no injustice to those to whom she leases any of her property. The Western and Atlantic railroad is the state’s greatest asset, so far as her ownership of property is concerned, but Georgia’s greatest asset is lie: good faith. This she should neither destrot nor compro mise. Urges Plaza Scheme. I will add that for some time there lias been in contemplation the erection of what is commonly called an overhead plaza, reaching from the eastern side of the For syth street bridge to tiie west? n side of the Washington street via duct. including a terminal building for the railroads on the siie of the present Union station. If this be done it will very greatly enhance the values of all properties contig uous to said plaza and will secure for the state a permanent build ing. which will draw great busi ness for bet railroad, practically in perpetuity. Instead, therefore, of authorizing the building of these bridges, which would be but in the nature of piece-meal improvements, it would be far better that the improvement in the center of the city, which so vitally affects the earning value of the state’s property, should be con sidered and acted upon in its en tirety. It is. of course. t > the interest of Atlanta, as it is of other com munities, that grade crossings should be eliminated to as great an extent as comports with the gen eral interest of the people of the state. But, like all other communi ties, Atlanta should grow with the state, not at the expense of the state. Not Much Chance For Passage. It is of supreme importance that the state protect for all the tax payers the proper earning power of the Western and Atlantic railroad' hence, as the building of the pro posed bridges at each end of the Union station, undei the present conditions, would disastrously af fect it, I am compelled to withhold tny approval of house bill num her 58. Speaking of the veto after it came m todaj Representative Brown o’ F’ulton. said: "I do not think it likely that the bli' can be passed, or that a serious eff.irt w ill be made to pass It, over tiie g<o - ernor’s veto. "He sends in a message of du. , J proval that deserves serious conside a-' 1 tion and I. for one. do not think llt'c i Atlanta wants anything to which 11 T. not entitled."