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•BULL llll 0 0 S E R S Fair Sooth Carolman Lauds Georgia Barbecue
ASK G. 0. P. TO Sure One Would Reconcile Blease and His Foes
Hadley and Cummins Lead Fight
for Reorganization of Progres
sives and Republicans.
f CHICAGO, May 12.~-Repref»enta-
of the Progressive forces of the
Republican party meeting in Chi
cago to-day voted to a«k the Re
publican National Committee to call
a national convention at as early a
dale as practicable to consider mat
ters of party reorganization.
The resolution was voted through,
following its advocacy by former
'fovarnor Herbert 8. Hadley, of Mis
souri; Senator Albert B. Cummins,
of Iowa, and other Progressive lead-
era Senator William D. Borah, of
Idaho, opposed the resolution.
After the resolution was adopted a
formal statement was issued by State
Senator .lames S. Trautman, of Kan
sas, a member of the program com
mittee. The statement follows:
Move la Explained.
At an informal conference of
Republicans from eleven States,
held in Chicago May 12, 1913, it
was voted that it be submitted
in the National Republican Com
mittee as the opinion of those
present that a national conven
tion of the party should he 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
s 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 _>arty.
/ 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
Tt 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
date.
Seventy-five other Republicans who
favor a reorganization of the party
also attended the first session.
The Senators afe $berman, Illinois,
Cummins and Kenyon, Iowa; Borah,
Idaho; Crawford, South Dakota, and
Gronna, North Dakota.
£ Officers Ordered
To Cavalry School
Two Captains and Six Lieutenants
~ WW Report at Fort Ogle
thorpe June 10-20.
, Eight officers-of the Second C&vafry
j*quadron. National Guard of Georgia,
Here selected Monday by Adjutant
'General Nash to attend the. School
tor Cavalry Officers of the Organized
Militia .it Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., June
io to 20. They are:
Captain W. P. Waite, Troop B, Mc
Intosh.
Captain ^V. 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,
j The officer* selected will report t<?
the commanding officer of the po*
the morning of June 10.
Bill as Outlined Provides for
Emergency Notes Issued Against
Commercial Paper,
EAST
DANIELS RETURNS l
AFTER SAVANNAH VISIT
& SAVANNAH. GA., May 12 -Jose
phus Daniels, Secretary of the Navv,
lr< 3?vannal’ yesterday after
noon from Port Royal, completing an
inspection of the navy yards on the
^outh Atlantic and Gulf coasts He
“eft at midnight for Washington via
Raleigh, N. <his homt. The 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 1s beautiful Miss
Marie Fisher, of Charleston, S. C.
Miss Fisher was at a barbecue pre
pared in her honor at the Kimball-
Ville farm of her cousin, Will V.
Zimmer, and It was here she declared
that she never had tasted anything
so good in hfcr life.
“If we could transplant these typi
cal Georgia barbecues into South
Carolina w.e would have such an era
of g.ood-fellowship there that Gov
ernor Blease and all his opponents
would become fast friends and we’d
have no more of those terrible
fusses.”
So sAfd 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
the 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.
i Disastrous Floods
Sweeping Scotland
Crops Badly Damaged and Much
Stock Killed by Waters ir.
Perthshire Section.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PERTH. SCOTLAND. May 12 —
1 Disastrous floods are ravaging the
southeastern part ef Perthshire, doing
1 extensive damage. A great inland
2 1-2 miles broad, has been
formed near Blairgowria on Lach
Erich. Bridges and railroad tracks
have been washed away and roads
are impassable.
Crops have ber-n damaged greatly
and much live stock, has been killed.
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 Supremo Court’s decision in
the "Hearst coal rases” 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 tlm 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 furtner move will be
made until the decree in the Temple
iron case has been entered.
Wife Says Husband Is Crazy.
SAVANNAH.—At the instance of
j his wife, Mrs. Florence Meaehuffi, j.
Homer Meachum, an actor at the
Princess Theater, who attempted ;o
comm ft suicide by drinking wood al
cohol. has been transferred from *h.j
hospital to the jail on a writ of iu-
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 Scherrer’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 (o have made
about Bridwell’s mother, is being hold
by the police, charged with assault
with intent to murder.
SINGING LESSONS BY
TELEPHONE IN CHICAGO
nacy.
CHICAGO, May 12.—Steps were
taken to-day to slop the practice of
using the telephone for instructing
pupils in singing and the hearing of
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 GRAVE6.
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 hill 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 be
the chairman of the House Commit
tee as soon as that position is filled.
The President expresses full con
fidence that he will be able t<» press
this currency bill to enactment be
fore the special session adjourns, lie
goes the full length of positive speech
in declaring it will be a law before
the 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 Ranking 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 he sent to Con
gress shortly after June 1 there will
be outlined the general principles of
currency reforms he will favor, hut
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 ihe bill. Glass is opposed
to such legislation.
The members of the committee who
favor Federal control <>f the Stock
Exchange will seek an alliance with
radical Republicans on this question
and force a vote on it. They arc 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.
Th<* general reform principles
agreed to. by Underwood and the
President include:
Establishment of fifteen reserve as
sociations. dr regional banks under
boards of control, the operation of
each association to be under the
clearing houfife system.
Each board of control to consist of
nine members, three to be of local
selection, three to be designated by
the President and three others, one
each to represent the Attorney Gen
eral, the Secretary of the Treasury
and the Secretary of Agriculture.
Each association may transact a gen
eral hanking 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 he commer
cial securities of a recognized stabil
ity as well as Government, State
end 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 he .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. -Sugar
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 w'ith regard to both these
commodities, naming Senators New-
lands and Pittman, Nevada: Shafroth,
Colorado: Chamberlain, Oregon;
Walsh. Montana, and Ransdell 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 of the Senate Finance Commit
tee have had private conferences with
representatives of manufacturers on
practically all of the 600 paragraphs
of the Underwood taritY hill.
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
supi>ort to compel the committee to
listen to the pleas of manufacturers.
Wilson Predicts No
Changes in Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON. May 12. -Pn
ident Wilson is not worrying about
I the passage of the Underwood tariff
j bill by the Senate. He told the mem-
j hers of the "newspaper cabinet” at
the semi-weekly meeting to-day
there was no "rough water ahead.” »s
if ported from the upper house of
Congress and that he anticipated the
adoption of the bill in its present
form after comparatively little argu
ment.
Cyclone and Hail Do
Damage in France
Vineyards Suffer Loss, Workers In*
Jursd and Aviators Are
Dashed to Earth.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, May 12.—A terrific cyclone
swept purl* of the Department of
Marne to-day, doing extensive dam
age. Following a cloudburst, there
was a heavy fall of hail. Many
workers in the fields ware hurt by
being struck by the huge stones. Se
rious loss was caused to the vine
yards.
Two aviators, flying near Epemay,
were blown to earth and suffered in
juries which may prove fatal.
K. of C. Convention Tuesday.
HAVANNAH.—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. Wins 8ult Against
Producer.
NEW YORK, May 10.— Evelyn Car
ter Carrington was “so handsome*' she
\va* discharged from tho "Firefly The*
atrical Company and she has a Judg
ment of $ 16H ugatnst Arthur Ham*
menteln to prove it.
Mies Carrington agreed to assume
the jharacter—a widow' of uncertain
years—for $100 u week. She appeared
once, then was dropped, and sued for
two weeks’ salary minus an advance.
"When Mies Carrington was en
gaged for the role,” said Mr. Ham-
mersteln on the witness stand, “we
thought she could make up to look
old, but her loveliness stuck out
through the make-up and shs attract
ed attention from the other charac
ters w hen she was supposed to have
only a minor part.”
House Begins Task of
Naming Committees
President Is Expected to Exprsss
Preference Regarding Framers
of Currenoy Measure.
WASHINGTON, May 12,—With
practically the entire membership of
the House clamoring for choice
places, tho Ways and Means Commit
tee essayed to-day the gigantic task
of makilng the committee assignments
for the Sixty-third Congress
The Oanklng and Currency Com
mittee, which Is to frame the kind of
currency measure wanted by the
President, will be among the first
committees named by the steering
committee. President Wilson him
self Is expected to express a prefer
ence regarding the formation of this
committee.
There are 56 standing committees
In the House, and of these only five
have been organized.
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For the 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 largest Southern cus
tomer—with these Spring samples..
Upward of forty years of fair and honorable dealing
with man i if actual's and wholesalers brings us many favors
-but 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
and lingerie, variously embroidered in French, eyelet and punch work. Ro-
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 $:30 A. M., Art Needlework, Main Floor, Cantor Aisle)
New 50c, 75c & $1 Fabric Gloves 25c §
Better Reach Out for Them To-morrow 2:
We'll Never Have Them to Hand Out Again •*
"To-dav is yesterday’s pupil.”
So we learn to-day about gloves what we
didn’t know yesterday.
We thought other fabric gloves were as
good as Kavser’s.
We’re mistaken—hereafter in fabric
gloves we shall stock nothing but Kavser’s.
In the meantime—what about the.se other
gloves ? 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 KayserV) Must Go
All the gloves ere spick, spun, new. There, are lisle glovos, Milanese lisle
gloves and ('Iwunoisette gloves. A11 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 he 25c.
All $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)
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
best lace and embroidery bargains we ve had in many a day.
Rut 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. _
Pricey run like this: >
35c to 50c Oluny luces.......... 19c
75c to $1 allover laces.... 49c
15c to 25c Shadow laces. ...... • • 10c
$12.50 to $25 embd. robes. . $8.95
All white robes reduced a third.
$3.50 embd. shirtwaist fronts . $1.69
13i^ to 20c embroideries 10c
(Laces—Main Floor, Right Aisle)
M. RICH & BROS. CQ.
$1 to $2 all over embroideries and
fl mincings 59c
$:! to $5 Shadow, Chantilly and
Darn luce bauds $1.69
$1.50 to $2.50 lace bauds 69c
50c to 75c lace bouncings 39c
; •■iiiliii. bouncings $1,25