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THE A I L/AN LA (LKOW(UAi\ AND NEWS.
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Stand Taken by Bar Association
Does Not Meet With Favor.
Simplification Wanted.
Famous Rail Heads and Lawyers
Attend L. & N, Suit in the
Federal Court Here.
STALL OFFICERS NOTED ALABAMA
REVISE
BATE CASE IS
Parading through the famous Boston Common, Commanders Burke and Fer
ris in the lead.
‘Peace Envoys’ to Reach Atlanta
Wednesday via Savannah.
DR. STOCKS REGAINS PER
FECT HEALTH.
After Long Vacation Returns
to City This Week and Re
sumes Practice June 9th.
My Former Friends and Pa-
= : \ beg to announce that I
res'ume my practice on June 9.
e on seventh floor Atlanta
t Building, 14A Peachtree St
phone Ivy 4292. C. L, Stocks,
From Atlanta Go to Gaines
ville for Ceremonies.
Subdued expressions around the
State Capitol indicate a general de
sire among officeholders for a revision
of the Georgia Constitution of 1877.
The action of the Bar Association at
Warm Springs last week in unani
mously opposing the movement A*
commented on with no great favor.
W. R. Power, warrant secretary »o
the Governor, was outright in hi's ad
vocacy of a constitutional convention.
Referring to the opinion of the Bar
Association, he admitted the time
might not be quite ripe, but said it
was coming, and coming soon.
Phil Cook, Secretary of State, said
some parts of the Constitution un
doubtedly needed changing, but ef
forts in that direction would meet
with opposition.
"The great fear of revision is that
the bars might be let down to the
State treasury," he said, "and re
strictions placed around the expendi
ture of money by tne wisdom of Bob
Toombs might be withdrawn.''
One objection to the Constitution
pointed out by the Secretary of State
was Its lack of simplicity, because of
numerous amendments. The Legisla
ture proposes amendments each year,
which are invariably ratified, he said.
A State treasury official said the
State was twenty years behind in its
fiscal policies, and a constitutional re
vision was the only possible correc
tive. "In handling State funds." he
pointed out. "we are hampered by
laws enacted 35 years ago. Consti
tutional revision is necessary to cor
rect these evils.”
Other "evils" indicated were the
creation of new counties and new city
courts, the multiplication of Judicial
circuits and the present method of
amending the Constitution.
How Would You Like
ToHave‘Caroan-etc,’
NEW YORK, June 3 —Felix M. Ro-
senstiek. a senior at Columbia Uni
versity here, is suffering from caroan-
serinusabmetu, in the opinion of Dr.
G. L. Meyland, physical director of
the university.
Rosenstick. who feared a test in the
swimming pool, which is one of the
requirements for graduation, will not
get his diploma unless he complies.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail
road Company’s fight against the en
forcement of the 2 ^-cent fare or
dered by the Alabama Railroad Com
mission was reopened in the Federal
Chuff 'HiV ‘AtlAftfi ‘Tuesday morning,
•fudge ^YWlYaM *1. t?Aibb/ of Birming-
han}u is,. / p.rq§l<^ng .Iry, the case, while
Judge J5pn .Pardfce and Judge David D.
Shelby, of the Cburt of Appeals, are
sitting with him at his request. The
hearing is on the petition of the
railroad company for a permanent In
junction against enforcing the rate.
Court convened at 10 o’clock, but a
recess was taken shortly afterward
to allow counsel on both sides to in
spect affidavits filed by agreement,
and headway in the case is not ex
pected to be made until afternoon.
The. hearing is expected to last three
or four days.
Notables Are in Attendance.
Among those who arrived in At
lanta this morning to attend the hear
ing is Milton H. Smith, president of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
one of the most aggressive and pic
turesque of great railroad men of
America. With him are H. L. Stone,
general counse 1 ; W. A. Colston, gen
eral solicitor, both from Louisville,
and former Congressman Sidney J.
Bowie, of Birmingham, special coun
sel for the Louisville and Nashville,
the man. who has led the fight of the
railroad company during five years’
litigation.
Other officials of the railroad com
pany are W. A. Russell, general pas
senger traffic: .manager, and A. R.
Smith, third vice president, who is in
direct charge of the passenger traffic
of the road.
Noted Jurists for State.
Representing the State of Alabama
>re Samuel D. Weakley, former Chief
Justice of the Alabama Supreme
Court, and H. (\ Selheimer, both from
Birmingham, who have been in charge
of the State's case since the begin
ning of the litigation; Charles Hen
derson. president of the Alabama
Railroad Commission, and Ft. C.
Brickeli, Attorney General for Ala
bama.
Alabama’s fight for a lower passen
ger rate was started hv former Gov
ernor B. B. Comer. It brought on one
of the most sensational cases the
Federal Court has ever handled in the
South, and there was sharp conflict
between Governor Comer and Fed
eral Judge Jones and Milton H.
Smith.
The railroad company's argument
was opened by Sidney J. Bowie, the
piea being made that the enforcement
of the 2^-cent rate by the State
of Alabama, under orders of the Ala
bama Railroad Commission, is uncon-
I stiutional -in that it affects interstat
I commerce over which the State com
! mission hae no control.
RATE RAISE PLEA HEARD.
WASHINGTON, June 3.—The In-
> terstate Commerce Confmission to
day heard the petition of 52 Eastern
' railroads north of the Potomac and
Ohio for a 5 per cent increase in
1 freight rates.
Colonel Joseph F. Burke, of the Old Guard, and Commander Alexander M. Ferris, of
Kingsley Post, G. A. R.
TO H. CANDLER
State Officials and Large Party
The unveiling of the monument to
Allen D. Candler, Governor of Geor
gia from 1898 to 1904, takes place at
Gainesville Tuesday, the birthday an
niversary of Jefferson Davis. J W
Lindsey, Commissioner of Pensions,
has been named chairman of the com
mittee in charge of the ceremony.
Governor Joseph M. Brown, Gov
ernor-elect John M. Slaton and a
large party wen from Atlanta to at
tend the event. The City Council of
Gainesville and the local camp of
Confederate Veterans and other or
ganizations will take part.
The monument was purchased by
State officials who served in Gov
ernor Candler's two terms. They are:
Adams, Samuel B. Land, Max E.
Altmayer, Samuel kf r J en ’ YY -
, „ ^ Lindsey, J. W.
. D.
Callawayi E. H.
Carswell, G. H.
Dupree, E. F.
Deal. A. M.
Dyer, X>. It.
Dickson, Capers
Dickerson, R. G
DuPont. Augustus
Dillop, .1. A.
Ed wards, Ft. .7.
Eve, William F.
Foute. A. M.
Freeman, A.
Foster, F. C
Fogarty, D.
Griffin, W.
Green. R. E
Grant land,
Howell, Ch
Hughes, D.
Holtzclaw, R. N.
Hitch, C.
Hill, J. T.
Hansell, C.
1 Inman, F
Johnson, F.
Holmes
I King, A. N.
! Kent. W. B
Reece, J. H.
Russell. A. H.
Shepherd, W. S.
Smith, R. L. J.
Shed do n. R. F.
Sheffield, R. H.
Taliaferro, P. R.
Tipton, J. H.
Toombs, W. H.
Tribble, S. J.
YanBuren, J. R.
Yarnedoe, S. M.
Watkins, E. W.
Webb, C. S.
West, A. J.
West. H. F.
Willingham,
Wright
Wright, Boykin
Williams, John T.
Wilkes, Samuel
W.
Woodward, John
C.
Yeomans, M. J.
Nagle. Mary M.
Henderson. Lil
lian T.
Lindsey, Annie F.
COL CJ. SEIDELL,
WAfl VETERAN.DIES
Black, E. R
| Bailey, Mrs. J. W
Baldwin, H. W.,
Sr.
j Bacon, A. O.
* Burger. R. R.
Bush, Isaac A.
Brown, J. Pope
Bower. B. B., Jr.,
Brannen, J. F.
Brown, George T.
Crisp, C. P.
Cox pgton, W. A.
Corker, F. G.
Caatellow, B. T.
Longley, Frank P.
Lowrv, Robert J.
Mitchell, M. G.
Mitchell. R. G.. Jr.
McWhorter. Ham
ilton
Nottingham,
W. D
Nicholson. D. B.
Od >m, Benton
Obear, W. G.
Quincey, J, W.
Post, W. G.
Power, W R.
Reid, H. M.
3 Atlanta Girls Get
Degrees in Virginia
LYNCHBURG. VA„ June 3 - Throe
Atlanta girls will graduate this week
from Randolph-Macon Woman’s Col
lege. They are Miss Ruth Ansley.
Miss Louise Berrien Hamilton and
Miss Lillian Dorothea Lupo. Other
members of the graduating class from
Georgia are Miss Emily Laura Moody,
of Outhbert, and Miss Virginia Ham
ilton Prod, of Oxford.
Those from Alabama who will grad
uate are as follows: Miss Olivia
Nelson Dormnn. Blrminglmm; Miss
Susie Garner, Ozark; Miss Euni-e
Gay. Llneville, and Miss Katehellfc
Kilby, Anniston.
With the return to Atlanta Wed
nesday of members of the Old Guard
battalion, the most memorable event
in the history of that organization—
its second peace mission—will be
brought to a dose.
Dispatches from Washington, D. O.,
Baltimore. Philadelphia, New York\
Boston and other points which were
included in the Old Guard's tour rang
with the plaudits given them by their
Northern entertainers during the two
week. 1 * of their visit.
Perhaps the most memorable of
their receptions was that accorded the
travelers In Boston at the Memorial
Day celebration In that city. The
gray-coated veterans were prominent
n the ceremonies which were held at
the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument.
They* marched with the Edward VV.
Kingsley Post, G. A. R., and with the
Kearsarge naval veterans In the aft
ernoon the Gate City Guard was’pres-
« nt at the annual banquet held at the
American Hout'e.
From Boston the Old Guard went to
Philadelphia, where they reviewed
3,000 high school cadets on parade
and were the guests at numerous
other entertainments.
The battalion returned South via
steamship to Savannah. While In that
city they are the guests of the Georgia
Hussam
Aged Atlanta Attorney Served as pulton Legislator
Secretary to Ale, Stephens Wantg Co b deReviged
When Governor,
Colonel Charles W. Seidell, one of
Atlanta's best known citizens, died at
8:30 o’clock Tuesday morning at his
apartments in the Grand Opera House
building.
Colonel Seidell was 7>orn at Bethle
hem, Pa.. 70 years ago. He came to
Georgia early in life, later serving the
Confederate Army, where he rose to
the rank of colonel.
After the war. Colonel Seidell was
the private secretary to Governor
Alex Stephens. Vice President of the
Confederacy. He was with Joseph E.
Brown as claim agent of the A. and
W. P. Railroad for eleven years, and
practiced law until he retired a few
years ago.
Colonel Seidell is survived by two
sops, Stafford Seidell, of Atlanta, and
Atherton Seidell, of Washington, who
will reach here Wednesday morning.
He was a prominent Mason and a
member of Atlanta Gamp 159, Confed
erate Veterans.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later. Burial will be In the
family vault at Oakland Cerpetory.
SHOT BY A POLICEMAN.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA., June 3.—J.
I W. Gibson, of West Huntsville, after
i shooting a n^gro, w'as shot and seri-
lously wounded by Policeman Wheeler
1 Mitchell.
John V. Smith, Representative-elect
from Fulton County, favors a bill
providing a special commission to go
into the question of improving the
Georgia penal code and reforming
prison conditions.
‘‘I think that a commission should
have the power,” Mr. Smith said
Tuesday, “to suhpena witnesses. It
should go thoroughly into the. penal
laws and the Georgia criminal code,
and should make a report on which a
succeeding Legislature would he able
to base changes and reforms.”
Edna Goodrich Will
Star in ‘Evangeline’
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, June 2.—Miss Edna
Goodrich Intends to star next season
in a version of Longfellow’s “Evan
geline,” dramatized by Tom Broad-
hurst, which Arthur Hopkins will pro
duce in New York. Miss Goodrich
will visit Normandy and Nova Scotia
to get local color.
Sewell Collins has arranged with
the Hippodrome to produce a sketch
on the suffragette question a fortnight
i from now.
Jury Alters Verdict
Style to Fit Evidence
SAVANNAH, GA., June 3.—“We
find no verdict for want of sufficient
evidence,” was the verdict of a jury
in Superior Court In the divorce suit
of Mrs. E. Clair Singletary against C.
R. Singletary, the wife charging hab
itual intoxication and undertaking to
makf* out a case on this ground.
The jury didn’t think the evidence
justified a legal parting of the couple
and so the unusual verdict was fram
ed up. Counsel for the wife withdrew
the proceedings, as that form of ver
dict was not effective.
Turks to Give Allies
60,000 Square Miles
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 3.—Tur
key has begun the evacuation of the
60,000 square miles of territory In Eu
rope which she lost to the Balkan al
lies. A dozen transports left Rodesto,
on the Sea of Marmora, to-day, bear
ing Turkish troops Into Asiatic ports.
Rodesto Is at the western end of the
little strip of land Turkey has been
allowed to retain In Europe.
1" air Atlantans with the Old Guard. Left L> right, Mesdanns M. L. Thrower, Will Hancock
and Frank M. Berry.
COMER ORATOR AT OXFORD.
ANNISTON, ALA.. June 3.—Former
Governor B. B. Comer will be the ora
tor at Oxford Wednesday evening
when the State High School at that
place and the city schools hold com
mencement exercises.
Placing wreaths on the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument on the Boston Common.
Says No Meat Diet
Weakens Will Power
PARIS. June 3.—A vigorous attack
on vegetarianism has just been made
by Prof. Gautier in a Sorbonne lect
ure on the value of various food
stuffs.
“Vegetarianism,” he declared, re
duces the energy, weakens the will
power, and lessens the capacity for
prompt decision.”
Wine Prof. Gautier considered to
be a good Instead of a harmful drink.
OLD GUARD NEARS HOME AFTER MEMORABLE TOUR OF NORTHERN CITIES
RESINOL HEALS
ITCHING ECZEMA
Don't stand that itching eczema
torment one day longer. Go to
the nearest druggist and get a
jar of Resinol Ointment and a
cake of Resinol Soap. Bathe the
eczema patches with Resinol Soap
and hot water, dry, and apply a
little Resinol Ointment. The tor
turing Itching and burning stop
instantly, you no longer have to
dig and scratch, sleep becomes
possible, and healing begins.
Soon the ugly, tormenting erup
tions disappear completely and
for good.
Resinol is not an experiment.
It is a doctor’s prescription which
proved so wonderfully successful
for Bkin troubles that ft has been
used by other doctors all over the
country for eighteen years. No
other treatment for the skin now
before the public can show such a
record of professional approval.
Every druggist sells Resinol Oint
ment and Resinol Soap, but you
can test them at our expense.
Just write to Dept. 41-S, Resinol,
Baltimore, Md. t and we will send
you a generous trial by parcel
post.