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I .1 •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. SEE SPECIAL AD ON PAGE 5 WWWWWWWWWVkg RICH & BROS. CO. i •i The Semi-Yearly Disposal of the Famous | Royal Society Finished Art Pieces 1 At Just Half Usual Prices 'm 3 untie man rwear cutout Starts to-morrow morning at 8:30. Women who have attended the previous sales will need "no second invi tation to share. 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