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3 BULL DIDDS[RS| Fair South Carolinan Lauds Georgia Barbecue USK G. 0. P. TO Sure One Would Reconcile Blease and His Foes Hadley and Cummins Lead Fight for Reorganization of Progres sives and Republicans. CHICAGO. May It.—R#»pr#».*tenta- tlv*« of the Progressive forces of the Republican party meeting In Chi cago to-day voted to auk the Re publican National Committee to call a national convention at aa early a date a« practicable to consider mat ters of party reorganization The resolution was voted through, following Its advocacy by former Governor Herbert S. Hadley, of Mis souri; Senator Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa, and other Progressive lead ers Senator William D. Borah, of Idaho, opposed the resolution. After the resolution was adopted a formal statement was issued by State Senator James S. Trautman. of Kan sas, a member of the program com mittee. The statement follows; Movs Is Explained. At an informal conference of Republicans from eleven States, held in Chicago May 12, 1913, It was voted that it be submitted fco the National Republican Com mittee as the opinion of those present that a national conven tion of the party should be held this year at as early a date as may be practicable for the pur pose of considering the ex pediency of changing the basis of representation at future conven tions so that delegates shall pro portionately represent Republi can voters and not the general population to the end that the will of the members of the party may be more accurately deter mined; also for the purpose of changing the rules relating to delegates and members of the na tional committee so that the pri mary election laws of the various States shall be recognized and have full force, and also for the purpose of making such other changes in the method of con ducting national conventions and campaigns as shall conduce to giving the utmost possible effect to the principles and policies of the jarly. For Reuniting the Party. It was further the opinion that such a convention might prop erly and usefully take any other action desirable to reunite the party and to give assurance that it stands for constructive and progressive activity in the affairs of government to the end that the common welfare may be ad vanced. It was the unanimous belief of those present that the changes suggested should be made forth with and that the National Com mittee be strongly urged to take steps to such an end. Six Republican Senators who op posed the nomination of President Taft last year are attending the con ference, which began yesterday In the Congress Hotel, in the same room where six Governors met and signed letters to Colonel Roosevelt, asking that he become a presidential Candi da. te. Seventy-five other Republicans who favor a reorganization of the party also attended the first session. The Senators are Sherman, Illinois, Cummins and Kenyon, Iowa; Borah, Idaho; Crawford, South Dakota, and Gronna, North Dakota. 8 Officers Ordered To Cavalry School Two Captains and Six Lieutenants Will Report at Fort Ogle thorpe June 10-20. Eight officers of the Second Cavalry Squadron, National Guard of Georgia, were selected Monday by Adjutant General Nash to attend the School for Cavalry Officers of the Organized Militia at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga„ June 10 to 20. They are: Captain W. P. Waite, Troop B, Mc- inlosh. Captain W. K. Young. Troop K, Au gusta. First Lieutenant T. P. Gordon, Troop B. McIntosh. First Lieutenant W, E. Williamson, Troop K. Augusta. First Lieutenant Cecil Neal, Troop F, Gainesville. First Lieutenant H. C, Ashford, Troop L,, Atlanta. Second Lieutenant H. C. Norman Troop B, McIntosh. Second Lieutenant M.. S. Levy, Troop K, Augusta. The officers selected will report 01 the commanding officer of the post the morning of June 10. . DANIELS RETURNS EAST AFTER SAVANNAH VISIT ' SAVANNAH. GA., May 12.—Jose phus Daniels. Secretary of the Now, arrived in Savannah yesterday aftei - noon from Port Royal, completing an inspection of the navy yards on the South Atlantic and Gulf roasts. He left at midnight for Washington via Raleigh. N. his home. Th ■ party was entertained informally in Savan nah. Miss Marie Fisher, of Charles ton, Guest of Honor at Open Air Feast. The famed Georgia barbecue has won another enthusiastic friend. The latest ally is beautiful Miss Marie Fisher, of Charleston, S. C. Miss Fisher was at a barbecue pre pared in her honor at t he Kimball- ville farm of her cousin, Will V. Zimmer, .and it was here she declared that she never had tasted anything so good in her life. "If we could transplant these typi cal Georgia barbecues into South Carolina we would have such an era of good-fellowship there that Gov ernor Blease and all his opponents would become fast friends and we’d have no more of (hose terrible fusses.” So said Miss Fisher as she poised a cleaver preparatory’ to bringing it down upon a particularly juicy piece of meat. For, with white-plumed hat slightly a-tilt and face flushed with happiness, she was entering right into tin- spirit of the occasion and busily assisting in serving. "The nearest we. have to a barbe cue in South Carolina is a fish fry, and that’s no fun at all compared to a Georgia barbecue,” she complained. Miss Fisher is of a wealthy South Carolina family and has been visiting relatives in Atlanta for several weeks. She will return home Thursday. Disastrous Floods Sweeping Scotland Crops Badly Damaged and Much Stock Killed by Waters in Perthshire Section. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PERTH. SCOTLAND. May 12.— Disastrous floods are ravaging the southeastern part M Perthshire, doing extensive damage. A great inland sea. 2 1-2 miles broad, has been formed near Blairgowria on Laeh Erich. Bridges and railroad tracks have been washed away and roads are impassable. Crops have been damaged great 1 y and much live stock has been killed. irussai Bill as Outlined Provides for Emergency Notes Issued Against Commercial Paper. Working on Decree in “Hearst Coal Cases” Additional Suits Against the Trust Will Be Deferred for a Time. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Prepara tions for framing a decree carrying out the Supreme Court's decision in the "Hearst coal cases” have been made by the Department of Justice. The decree, which will cancel the so-called 65 per cent, contracts of the coal carrying railroads and coal companies and terminate the railroad control of the Temple Iron Company, will be submitted to the United States District Court at Philadelphia dur ing the last week of May. While it Is the intention of Attor ney General McReynolds to file more suits against the Coal Trust, attack ing the relationship, direct and indi rect, of coal carrying railroads and coal mining companies by means of both the Sherman Anti-Trust law and the commodities clause of the In terstate Commerce act. it is not like ly that any funner move will be made until the decree in the Temple iron case has been entered. Wife Say# Husband Is Crazy. SAVANNAH—At the instance of I hifc wife. Mrs. Florence Meachum, j. I Homer Meachum, an actor at the • Princess ’Cheater, who attempted to commit suicide by drinking wood ai- j coho!, has been transferred from *h.» j hospital to the jail on a writ of lu nacy. Cafe Manager, Cut By Boy, Near Death Physicians Say Several Days Must Elapse Before Crisis in Gil bert’s Condition Is Past. The condition of Owen Gilbert, manager of Sqherrer’s cafe, who was seriously stabbed Saturday afternoon in a Peachtree Street pool room by Arthur Bridwell, is reported practi cally unchanged. At Grady Hospital, where the wounded man was taken immediately after the affray, it was said his con dition is critical and that It will be several days before they can say if he will survive. Arthur Bridwell. the 18-year-old youth who stabbed Gilbert, following an altercation that’ arose over some remark Gilbert is said to have made about Bridwell’s mother, is being held by the police, charged with assault with intent to murder. SINGING LESSONS BY TELEPHONE IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, May 12.—Steps were taken to-day to stop the practice of using the telephone for instructing pupils in singing and the hearing ot recitations in languages. The dis covery of these uses of telephones was made by a city telephone expert who is helping the Telephone com panies to cut down their expenses in order to increase the wages of girl operators. By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. WASHINGTON, May 12.—The Wil son currency bill will follow swiftly upon the Wilson-Underwood tariff The President has said it, and there will be no failure to do his will. With the tariff bill disposed of by the House, the Chief Executive has set his representatives to work, and by the time the House returns to its regular sessions three weeks hence, it will have for immediate considera tion a bill that will embody the Wil son view of the currency. Senator Robert L. Owen, of Okla homa, is chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, and Carter Glass, of Virginia, will bo the chairman of the House Commit tee as soon as that position is filled. The President expresses full con fidence that ho will be able to press this currency bill to enactment be fore the special session adjourns. He goes the full length of positive speech in declaring it will be a law before tho general session of Congress. He is fully as emphatic about it as he was about the tariff bill. Plan for Regional Banks. Division of the entire country into fifteen clearing house districts, each district to have its own reserve as sociation, or regional bank, is contem plated in currency reform legislation at the present session. President Wilson. Representative Underwood and Representative Car ter Glass, who will be chairman of the Banking and Currency Commit tee of the House, have reached an agreement as to the main features of this proposed legislation. They are to have further conferences to settle the details. In the message to be sent to Con gress shortly after June 1 there will be outlined the general principles of currency reforms he will favor, but will not specify details. No legisla tion for the Federal control of stock exchanges will be sanctioned by the President, although three members of the Banking and Currency Commit tee will strive to have this reform Included In the bill. Glass is opposed to such legislation. The members of the committee who favor Federal control of the Stock Exchange will seek an alliance with radical Republicans on this question and force a vote on it. They are be lieved to be hopelessly in the minor ity. but will rely on the report of the money trust investigating com mittee to sustain them. Features of Reform Plan. The general reform principles agreed to by Underwood and the ’’President include: Establishment of fifteen reserve as sociations, or regional banks under boards of control, the operation of each association to be under the . clearing hou.se system. Each board of control to consist of nine members, three to be of local selection, throe to be designated by the President and three others, one each to represent the Attorney Gen era!, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture. Each association may transact a gen eral banking business under the su pervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. Each association to circulate its notes under prescribed conditions, the basis for these notes to be commer cial securities of a recognized stabil ity as well as Government, State and municipal bonds. All national banks may obtain membership in the associations and such other banks as the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller may prescribe. The allotment of territory to each of these associations will be left in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency. Senators See Free Wool and Sugar Defeat. WASHINGTON, May 12. Sutrar and wool Senators confidently pre dict that these two schedules would not be free on the tariff bill finally passed by the Senate. To-day they said enough Democrats had been lined up to defeat the Underwood program with regard to both these commodities, naming Senators New- lands and Pittman, Nevada; Shafroth, Colorado; Chamberlain. Oregon: Walsh. Montana, and Ransdeil and Thornton, Louisiana, as among those who would vote against free sugar and wool The fight, it was declared, would come on the floor of the Senate, the Underwood bill being scheduled to go through the Senate Finance Commit tee without a change In either of the commodities. It was also expected to-day that changes would be made in tariff rates on cattle, wheat, oats and many other commodities. The Democratic majority believes that, cattle, wheat and oats should be put on the free list. Manufacturers Heard In Secret on Tariff. WASHINGTON, May 12 -Mem bers ot? the Senate Finance Commit tee have had private conferences with representatives of manufacturers on practically all of the 600 paragraphs of the Underwood tariff bill. The privacy that has attended these conferences will be made the subject of Republican attack in the Senate. Republicans continued to assert they will have enough Democratic support to compel the committee to listen to the pleas of manufacturers. Wilson Predicts No Changes in Tariff Bill. WASHINGTON, May 12. —Pit.-:- ident Wilson is not worrying about J the passage of the IJnderwood tariff j bill by the Senhte. He told the mem bers of the "newspaper cabinet” at the semi-weekly meeting to-day there was no "rough water ahead.” as imported from the upper house of Congress and that he anticipated the aooption of the bill in its present form after comparatively little argu ment. Cyclone and Hail Do Damage in France I Vineyards Suffer Loss, Worker* In jured and Aviators Are Dashed to Earth. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIri, May 12.—A terrific cyclone «wept parts of lhe Department of Marne to-day, doing extensive dam age. Following a cloudburst, there was a heavy fall of hall. Many workers In the fields were hurt by being struck by the huge atones. 8e- rious loss was caused to the vine yards. Two aviators, flying near Epernay, ncre blown to earth and suffered In juries which may prove fatal. K. of C. Convention Tuesday. SAVANNAH.—The State Conven tion of the Knights of Columbus will meet here Tuesday morning. The con vention will be In session only one day. Her 'Fatal Beauty’ Costs Actress Job Evelyn Carter Carrington, Too Pretty for Role, Wine 8ult Against Producer. NEW YORK, May 10.—Evelyn Car ter Carrington was "so handsome” she was discharged from the “Firefly The atrical Company and she has a Judg ment of $166 against Arthur Ham- mersteln to prove it. Miss Carrington agreed to assume the character—a widow of uncertain years for $100 a week. She appeared once, then was dropped, and sued for two weeks’ salary minus an advance. "When Miss Carrington was en gaged for the role,” said Mr. Ham merstein on the witness stand, “we thought she could make up to look old, but her loveliness stuck out through the make-up and she attract ed attention from the other charac ters when she was supposed to have only a minor part.” House Begins Task of Naming Committees Preeldent I* Expected to Exprees Preference Regarding Framer* Of Currenoy Meaeure. WABHINOTON, May 12,—With practically tho entire msmborehlp ot thn Holier clamoring for choice ptacfB, the Ways and Mean* Commit tee essayed to-day the gigantic task of making 1 the committee assignments for the Flxty-thlrd Congres*. The Basking and Currency Com mittee, which is to frame the kind ot currency measure wanted by the President, will be among the tlrat committees named by the steering committee. President Wilson him self Is expected to express a prefer- en' ft regarding the formation of this committee There are 56 standing committees in the House, and of these only five hare been organised. see special ad on page 5 WWWWWWWWW RICH & BROS. CO. The Semi-Yearly Disposal of the Famous Royal Society Finished Art Pieces At Just Half Usual Prices Starts to-morrow morning at 8:30. Women who have attended the prrevkrtw sales will need no second-invi tation to share. For tho benefit of others we say that these are the sam ple handworked pieces from which the Royal Society Company took orders. Naturally each piece is finished as perfectly as expert needle workers knew how. The Royal Society Company are now booking orders for Fall, hence they favor us—their target Southern cus tomer—with these Spring samples.. Upward of forty years of fair and honorable dealing with manufacturers and wholesalers brings us many favors hut we count this lot of Royal Society Samples as the BEST. See them in the window; glad to have you con firm our judgment. As shown there are centerpieces, scarfs, squares, pillow tops, baby dresses, towels, pin-cushions, combinations,night gowns and shirt waists. Judge of the variety by the fact that in centerpieces alone there are 22, 25, 27 and 36-inch sizes. The materials are white and brown linens and white nainsooks, for underwear and lingerie, variously embroidered in French, eyele.t and punch work. Ro man cutout work, the new tapestry stitch, etc. Regular prices are $2, $3.00, $4, up to $18 Now just half :Pay $1, $1.50, $2, up to $ 9 (Ready at 8:30 A. Art Needlework, Main Floor, Center-Aisio) f New 50c, 75c & $1 Fabric Gloves Better Reach Out for Them To-morrow We'll Never Have Them to Hand Out Again |*5 a* All the gloves arc spick, span, new. There are lisle gloves, Milanese lisle gloves and Chainoisette gloves. All two-clasp style, in white, black, tan, grey, mode. Full line of sizes in each color. Up to to-day their prices were 50c, 75c and $1. To-morrow the price will be 25c. 25 c AH $1 & $1.50 Fabric Gloves at 59c These are in 16-button length, in same colors and materials as above. All sizes. Sale starts at 9 a. m., with full line of sizes and colors. No phone orders, exchanges, try-ons or approvals. Extra salespeople in attendance. (Main Floor, Left Aisle) B . m I 25c “To-dav is yesterday’s pupil.” So wo learn to-day about gloves what we didn’t know yesterday. We thought other fabric gloves wore as good as Kavser’s. We’re mistaken—hereafter in fabric gloves we shall stock nothing but Kavser’s. In the meantime—what about these other glovesf They’re the identical makes that oth er good merchants are offering to-day at full price. Let them do it—our mind is made up. Starting to-morrow Every Fabric Glove inStock (Save Kayseri) MustGo A Snowdrift of Laces and Embroideries Is Melting Away Under the Spell of May Prices It is fairly snowing laces and embroideries. They’re piled heaping high on the counters, on tables, everywhere. Scissors snipping gaily, women buying freely, compli- • mentary remarks flying—a gay, happy throng sharing the 5 best lace and embroidery bargains we’ve had in many a day. But there will be plenty left for to-morrow, and the day after. Told yesterday how we secured these thousands of yards; to-day we can only re capitulate. I I Prices run like this: ami $1 to $2 allover embroideries floun rings $3 to #5 Shadow, Chantilly and 59c $1.69 69c . 39c $1.25 19c 49c 10c ..$8.05 35r to 50c Cluny laces.... 75c to $1 allover laces.... 15c to 25c Hhadow laces. .. $12.50 to $25 embd. robes. All white robes reduced a third. $3.50 embd. shirtwaist fronts . $1.69 S£ 13e to 20e embroideries - 10c £ (Laces—Main Floor, Right Aisle) i »ich & bbos. cQ.tmrtrttmftftttttm