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—A TT.. Till*: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, TDESDAY. MAY 20. 1913 DEFEAT IS LIKELY Good Citizens Praise jf}rj muj . His War on Lawlessness Lauded ONLY COfiilEllf •|* • ►!* *1* • v *!'•*!* •!*•*!• Hunt for CobbDynamiters Diligent G.O.P.L Pressure of Other Bills Will Sidetrack issue in Summer Legislative Session. By JAMES B. NEVIN. The apprehension of Georgia bank ers, recently in session in Savannah, tbat their proposed banking reform bill may fail of passage in the *iexl Legislature because of the pressure of other matter probably is well founded. The banking reform bill is volumi nous and cannot get through the Le. talature without mature deliberate both ip committee and on the floor It necessarily will be taken up ■Potior, by section and that means that Ls must be whipped out four times in detail. Rather a long, rough and rug ged road to travel, to he sure. Like the general insurance legis lation effected in the last General Assembly, however, it is highly im portant business, and I egislators will decline to vote for It without knowing exactly what each section provides. The prospect ahead of the banking bill has served to renew the I a Ik <>f providing a. more satisfactory way of disposing* of purely local legisla tion in the future It is local legisla tion invariably that tlec up the two houses and serves to kill through in attention many meritorious general bills. Members will pass their im mediate local legislation, if the rest of the State’s legislation program goes hang! If locaj legislation might he disposed of. particularly where there is no opposition, through some simple leg ialative method. It easily would shvh 50 }>er cent of the General Assembly* time. As it is now, a local measure takes up almost if not quite as much time as the average general measure yet it is a matter of a relatively small importance in separate in stances to the State at large. It takes about as much time to increase the number of county com missioners in Dodge County, for in stance, as it does to amend the game laws, and yet who outside of Dodge County cares a hoot whether that county ha?' three or five county com missioners? y An effort will he made in the next Legislature to simplify the process of local legislation, and many people '■ill sincerely hope that the effort may succeed. * ludge John T. Allen, of Baldwin County. Senator-elect from the twentieth district, passed through At lanta to-day. Judge Allen was in high spirits and expressed himself as entirely sa*. Isfled with the status of his race for the presidency of the next Senate. 1 If the vote were to be taken to* morrow," said he. “1 am sure abso lutely that 1 would he elected, anil, in the beat of good nature, 1 really believe 1 shall be the only candidate before the Senate when the voting takes place next month.” Judge Allen has been described a • the one, mjm in Georgia politics about whom there is absolutely no “lo.«t motion," and somehow the descrip tion seems to fit him snugly. He is one of the very best lawyers in /he State and one of Georgia’s most astute statesmen. The Doited States Supreme Court is expected to hand down soon a de- j cieion in the famous Cureton case from Georgia, that will interest the prohibitionists of the State particu larly. The question involve d is whether I the prohibition laws of Georgia shall be construed similarly to the prohi-| bition law's of Tennessee, the Su preme Courts of the two States be ing of exact opposite opinions as to the point raised Cureton, a Chattanooga soft drink dealer, owned a large distillery near Rising Pawn. Ga He received an or der for whisky in his Chattanooga house, and sent it to his Georgia dis tillery to be filled. The whisky was shipped from Rising Dawn, and Cure ton was arrested on a charge of sell ing whisky, was tried and found guilty, tlie Georgia Supreme Court holding, that the delivery at Rising Fawn to the common carrier was the consummation of a sale. Cureton ap pealed to* the- Doited States Court, claiming protection under the inter state commerce laws. If the Dnitetl States Supreme Court upholds the Georgia Supreme Court, th;. prohibitionists will re gard it as a victor.'. If. on the con trary. the Dnited States Courts take the view as set up in the Tennessee Supreme Court, the ‘dry’' people will feel that they have lost a point The decision is expected shortly. Representative Burwell, of Hancock County, will he the oldest member of the new Legislature in point of continuous service. He has been a member of the General Assembly since 1596 Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb; Byron Row er of Decatur: John M. Slaton, of Fulton, and John N Holder, of Jack- son, all of whom ranked with Mr Burwell in point of continuous ser vice. will be missing from the new House, leaving Burwell the veteran and the dean. The rntleman from Hancock has been in the Legislature almost from the date o his twenty-first birthday. The effort to increase heavily the appropriation for Confederate pen sions in the next Legislature, while likely to arouse much sympathy, probably will have a hard road to travel. There will be few if any members who would not like to see the pen sion increased, and yet there will be many who will be unable to see how it is to be done and meet the other necessary expenses of the State in addition. It is very well known that Legisla tures of lat* years have found it ex tremely difficult to keep the State's outgo within its income, and one of the heaviest items of annual expense is the Confederate pension appro priation. If some statesman is able to show the legislature how the pensions may be increased without greatly embar rassing some of the department* the pensions probably will be increased, j all right Dnless the legislature is 1 shown that, however, the increase is i ^apt to be slight, if anything. j “The State, does not concede that anarchy in any form shall supplant her laws.’’ Orientals May Not Hasten to Answer U. S. Reply to the Alien Bill Protest. WASHINGTON, May 20.—It is la- pans next move, was the only com ment State Department officials would make to-day on the Japanese situa tion The reports vary as t<> th> lime when the Mikado’s statesmen wiil make their reply to the note delivered by Secretary of State Bryan to the Japanese Ambassador yesterday. Some officials expect It within the next three days and others say the Japanese might take prolonged con- IRE PLAYS ™WEEK| REUNITE FtCTIiS Entertaining Bill at For»yth. First nlghters—those afflicted with I the desire to see and hear before any- j body dse—who settled into their accustomed seats Monday night at the Forsyth Theater prepared to en dure at any cost the routine vaude ville, were given several surprises of their young and blase lives before the program was finished. Perhaps the most unusual number of the entertaining bill was John Geiger and his '"talking violin." Mr. Geiger certainly made his violin do everything but speak and after he had put it through its paces, includ ing imitations of almost everything from a "SpizzerlnctuirC to a vvood- saw, his audience had forgotten that he hadn’t made the instrument emit- vocal sounds. For first-row habitues the Dunedin troupe, a bicycle novelty act, com posed of one man and three girls, proved an Interesting feature. The one man ran certainly ride, and the girls are very good to look at, es pecially to the first-row crowd. Other federation, since the Webb act will n*»t | l:<> into effect before August numbers of the bill included Jose Reports of unusual activity in f!u»||hine Dunfee. whose voice, while very way of shipments of supplies to th**jgood, was wrongly • applied in the Presidio of San Francis*co were deni* d caliber of songs she rendered; Nevins at the War Department to-day. i and Krwood, old-timers on Atlanta s Secretary of War Garrison declared dancing stage; Adam and Eve. a i he effort now being made to recruit monkey act especially attractive to the regiments in the Philippines to children; Gallagher and Fields -in a their full strength ha^ been going on comedy act entitled ‘The Battle of for nearly twelve months, end has no j Hay Rum." which proved a winner, relation o. the pr» sent situation be an( j Bradshaw Brothers, who present- tween Japan and the Dnited States. I some amazing new twists and turns in a contortion act. Asiatic L ague Would Deny Orientals Leases. RAN FRANCISCO, May 20.—The executive committee of the Asiatic Constitutional League has begun obtaining signatures to a referendum petition to defeat the anti-alien land law which was signed by Governor Johnson yesterday. The league’s objection to the law is the clause permitting an alien to hold three-year lease. The officials of the league soon will circulate an Ini tiative petition for a law which "’111 exclude Japanese, and Chinese from loth ownership and leaseholds under any conditions. California Only Trying To Save Itself, He Says. NEW YORK.. May 20.—"The people of California have reached a crisis in their affairs. They have to deter mine right now whether California is to be overrun by Asiatics or whether it is to be kept for Californian:?. In three years California will be com pletely overrun Jf the wrong steps are. taken no.w." This statement was made here to day by Benjamin Ide Wheeler, presi dent of the Dniversity of California, as he and Mrs. Wheeler were sailing for Europe. Dr. Wheeler expressed the opinion, though, that there is no danger of actual hostilities between this country and Japan. "The diplomats will be able to bring about a common understand ing." .sapl be. \* the same time he lareq the alien land bill, hnrrljpg “The Deep Purple” Pleases. Patrons of the Atlanta Theater were treated to a new phase of Miss Billy Long’s ability ns leading lady yesterday, when "The Deep Purple. Paul Arm rong and Wilson Mizner’ play, was presented in Atlanta for the first time. The initial performance was at a matinee. Ably assisting Miss Long in her triumph in the portrayal of New York underworld life was Miss Agnes Tins ley Harrison, the popular young At lanta girl, who took the part of the unconscious blackmailer. Th - i ’ey is an interesting one frqm start to finish, and the company ap pears to advantage in it. Mr. Vail, the leading man. does some good work in the part assigned him. Generous applause was accorded the toMpanv for its work by the moderately filled house. Tabloid Musical Comedy at Bijou. Tabloid musical comedy—"A Trip to Joyville" the attraction—got a fine start on Monday at the Bijou. Four big audiences indorsed the great big dime’s worth of entertainment. The show, the theater and the general con ditions all pointed to the fact that tabloid entertainment had caught »•:. in just the fashion the knowing on.s had predicted. "A Trip to Joyville" is an hour and a third of singing, dancing, comedy and music, with some vaudeville in terruptions that are clever. There is a story about a lot of jolly folks going off for a day of frolic; they are pretiy girls, well-groomed youne men and a corps of character comedians who wiil perhaps be found some day in "faster company. A Trip to Joyville" will be present- New Plan Lets Committee Rear range Representation Instead of Calling Convention. WASHINGTON. May 211— Recoin- tnendation that the Republican Na tional Committee readjust the basis of representation in national conven tions, instead of calling a national convention to effect this change, prob ably will be made by the execu tive committee of the national com mittee when it meets here Saturday to take up this question. This was the consensus of opinion to-day. Many members of the committee favor accomplishing the change with out calling a convention. National Chairman’Charles D. Hilles wilDpre- side at the meeting. Members of the executive commit tee are John T. Adams. Iowa; Fred W. Estabrook. New Hampshire; Thomas P Goodrich, Indiana. Thom as A. Marlow, Montana; Alvah H. Martin, Virginia; Thomas K. Neid- ringhaus. Missouri; Samuel M. Per kins. Washington; Newell Sanders, Tennessee; Charles B. Warren. Mb h- igan; Roy O. West, Illinois; Ralph E Williams, Oregon On this committee are three men who were Roosevelt sympathizers at the Chicago convention. They are Neidringhaus. West and Williams. Committeeman Adams, of Iowa, is friendly to the Cummins reorganiza tion plan. "This committee is as progressive as anybody.” said a Republican leader to-day, "and ought to he satisfactory to LaFollette men.” The theory of the Republicans is that the Progressive faction of the party can be brought closer into the fold by merely readjusting represen tation in national conventions. It will be a cheap and convenient way of reuniting the party. TRAIN BANDIT GETS $10,000. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRI CA. May 20. -A lone bandit held up a train on' the line between this city and Capetown to-day and escaped with a pouch containing $10,000. The Kind You lla\<‘ Always Bought Il "< b ® rn « th e signa ture of Chas. II. Fletclier, and has been made under his persona) supervision for over 30 y ears. Allow no on® to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and .Tnst-as-grood ” are hut Experiments, and endanger the health of Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTOR!A Oastoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Props and Soothing' Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cin e Diarrhoea and Wind Colie. It. relit ves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Use For Over 30 Years. THE CENTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY STREET. NEW YORK CITY. mm QeorgiaLm Want Ads Use For Results Both Pfnonnes Japanese from ownership of land in< a( matinee—two.on Saturda California, was just the law of the St a and should be tiovernor Joseph M. Brown. DEATH ENDS TRIAL Reward for Men Who Blew Up Home of Negro Attracts Much Attention. COUNTERFEITER CONVICTED. CHATTANOOGA, TENN, May 20. R. T. Lawing. member of the coun terfeiting gang tried a few days ago, was to-day sentenced in the Federal Court to two years in the Atlanta Penitentiary. He is the fourth pris oner convicted at this term of court to be sent to Atlanta. and twice each night the rest of the week. Bond Registration Closes. COLUMBUS. The registration books for the Dillingham Street bridge bonds have closed with only 456 voters having qualified for the election on June 7. The issue is for $50,000-, it being the third to be voted upon for the bridge. Slain Convict’s Widow Expires While Pushing Suit for His Brother's Insurance. AUGUSTA, C A . May 20 The death of the second plaintiff, while the case was being heard in the City <’ourt of Augusta. to-da\ brought i<* a sudden termination the fifth trial «>f a suit t<» collect at $.X.<>00 m. uraiu * policy on the life of John Moore, who was slain near KeysvIUe in January, 1907 The Fcptita ble Life Assurance Society of the United Slates is the defendant will now result with f to prosecute the suit. Tin four pre-j vious hearings re suite* 1 in mistrials Tom Moore, who several month; ago was killed i\s an escaped convict while from J t he his fugitive with “Old Bill" Mir the f^tH’te Farm at Mllledgevllle. inally brought the suit. He wai l>enefiriar.\ named in the) T>olicj Tom Moore was accused of klllir brother and was given h life sentence In the penitentiary The Supreme Court affirmed it He was serving this when he escaped from the State Farm and met death. Mrs, 1/ouise Moore, as administratrix of the estate of her husband. Tom Moore, continued the insurance suit. To-day. while the case was on trial, j from Washing- | o death of, Mrs Governor Joseph M. Brown’s proc lamation, offering p reward for the apprehension of the Cobb County dy namiters. has attracted a great deal of attention and brought forth many expressions of approval throughout the Stat< The Governor’s uncompromisingly hostile attitude toward all forms of lawlessness has been so persistently demonstrated that there are few if any criminals left in Georgia who do i not know that he means to ehforea the law sternly against them if they violate the same. Not only has he set every agency of the State at work seeking to es tablish the identity of the Cobb Coun ty dynamiters, but he also has of fered substantial rewards for the ap- I prehension of certain lynchers re cently operating in Columbia and *ixih trial j Heard Counties, third plaintiff j As he draws near the end of his term in tin executive office. Gov ernor Brown, instead of weakening in any of his positions against law lessness. seems all the more inclined to emphasize his personal and official I detestation of it. Tht' Governor holds that there are j very many more law-abiding people in Georgia than there are lawbreak ers. and that law-observers are en titled to full and complete protection against the criminal classes. A Better Than Wealth is perfect, health; but to enjoy pood health it is necessary first to pet rid of the minor ailments caused by defect ive or irrepular action of the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels,—ailments which spoil life, dull pleasure, and make all sufferers feel tired or good for nothing. (The Lhfgfrt Sale of Any Med»cirr in th© World) have proved themselves to be the best corrective or pre ventive of these troubles. They insure better feelinps and those who rely upon them soon find themselves so brisk and stronp they are better able to* work and enjoy life. For that reason alone, Bcecham’s Pills are The Favorite Family Medicine Sold everywhere. In boxe«. 10c., 25c. Directions with every box show the wsy to good hexlth. The beautiful lake will be ready for the people Thursday morning. The Park Commissioners have spent sev eral thousand dollars getting the lake in shape for the bathing sea son. The indosure is about three times larger than last year. Hun dreds of streams of pure, freshwater are running into it all the time. HAVE YOU BOUGHT YOUR BATHiNG SUIT ? We have a full slock o! two-piece suits from SI to $3.50, r. Usmli thi jury, a ft r aitorru ?re end fo ing to pn killed Judge Eve had proof on the in king into consid- " i Bu pon- »rior i DRUNK HABIT CAUSES SUICIDE. CHATTANOOGA THNN, May CO Sam Green, of Rossville. Ga com mitted suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Despondency because of intem perance is given as the cause. Excursion. Tallulah Falls. Wednesday, May 21. $1 50. White City Park New Open, BEST JELLICG LUR Steam Coal for the furnace at very iow pric s $4.23 Satisfaction guaranteed on all Coals. BEST JELLICG Nl $4 OO Remember, you can always J * buy good Coal at Meinert’s 50c per ton cheaper. Phorpniir manaft^r. w Mr PHONE 1787 HenryMeinerlCoaiCo. Main Office: S9 South Boulevard :n J £ •% . .5-:.? Cm,/ * . ' ins r * . jyjv •■ ■*>*£« y». Jr* ■>... . • • ■■■ ., '-•v - . ; -23?*- ■*+* - ' We Sell the Famous Old Town Canoes. Prices from $38.00 to $75.00 53 Peachtree 87 Whitehall