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1UJ“j Ai-LiiiiMA UJ^UJililAiN AJS L) iNJ^VVO. LEADERS AGREE TO PUSH BIG F Decks Cleared in House arid Ap-, priation Measure Will Go to Senate This Week. Sidelights on GEORGIA POLITICS V- JAMES B. KEVIN LAGRANGE GREETS IVOR BALKS AT WEEKLY EDITORS DICTOGRAPH CHECK Largest Attendance in 27 Years Refuses to Sign $19 Voucher for at Annual Georgia Press Use of Very Machine That Convention. Trapped Him. TVhen Chairman Wheatley, of the House Appropriations Committee, rails up the general appropriation* bill Wednehday he will ask that it be made a continuing order until It is disposed of in the House and sent to the Senate. The chairman of the Appropriation* Committee has the extraordinary right under the rule* of the House of calling up his bill whenever he pleases, and it must have the right of way. Chairman Wheatley has determined to exercise his right to the limit, and to that end ha* invited and obtained the promise of Speaker Burwell’a earnest and sincere support In putting the bill through. Trying to Push It Along. It is the purpose of Chairman Wheatley and the Speaker to have the general appropriations bill in the hands of the Senate at least by the end of this week, and if they succeed they will have the bill In the. Senate earlier than it has been since the war, and at least ten days earlier than it has been in thirty years When the big bill comes up the House will immediately be resolved in a committee of the whole House, with some member other than the Speaker presiding, as the rules require The chairman of the Committee of the Whole House has not yet been an nounced. but It is likely it will be Mr. McMichael, of Marion, or Mr. Miller, of Bibb. Both are experienced parliamenta rians and either would make a fit and proper person for the work. Both are behind the effort to get the appropria tion bill into the hands of the Gov ernor well in advance of adjournment, as the Governor has requested. General Tax Act Next. The bill carries the constitutional appropriations, statehouse salaries, and the ljke, which can not be changed by the House, In full, and these items will be quickly disposed of The other items will go In in blank, to be filled in by the committee of the whole. Immediately after the general ap propriations bill is disposed of the tax revision bill and the general tax act will come into the House from the Way a and Means Committee, when, at the request of Chairman Aiken, those bills also will be given the right of way. Both should be in the hands of the Senate before the end of next week. Speed Assured in Senate. If this is accomplished, another House record will he smashed. The chairmen of the two big com mittees and the Speaker of the House have been assured by a large major ity of the House that they will be co-operated with in their efforts to expedite legislation. In the Senate President Anderson Is but waiting for the House meas ures in order that he may duplicate there the program of orderly haste to be enacted in the House. He has as surance of co-operation from a pra •- tically solid Senate. Big Damages Asked In Macon Depot Case MACON. July 22.—The special committees appointed to ascertain the amounts of damages claimed by prop erty owners on Cherry Btreet on ac count of the closing of the thorough fare for the building of a union sta tion have submitted their report to the Railroad Commission. The report shows that the proper ty owners want exceedingly large damages, and that It will take either arbitration or court suits to settle most of the claims. Chamberlain Decides Not to Oppose Tariff WASHINGTON, July 22.—That Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, Democrat, does not intend to vote against the tariff bill because it car ries free raw wool and other Item* ob jectionable to the West became ap parent to-day. An examination of the Congression al Record shows that the remark he made in the Senate yesterday that he would not support the bill has been revised out of the official record. Orators within and without the General Assembly, particularly those given to loquacity and frequency of effect, sometimes being more or less hard up for something to say upon the spur of the moment—whatever that !i—now and then jump a-strad dle of the Grand Old Legislature’s grand old neck and dance a hornpipe thereupon! Always the livllent tune to dance by concerns the Legislature's “do- nothing” inclination, and its prone ness to move at a snail’s pace. Par ticularly is this the case when \h<* orator immediately on the Job is “a-gin the government, anyway.” An attack upon the present legis lature that it is too slow may be justified. Maybe it is alow—slower than it ought to be. Maybe legisla tures hught to do everything right off the reel, and debate the matter afterward, if time holds out. Maybe a lot of things—but the only way to Judge one legislature as to its effi ciency is by past legislatures; and in the matter of slowness, laziness. pokeasynes««. or general cussed nrs*. the present Legislature is entitled to be Judged, perhaps. The following things are true, as the records will show*: Never before within the service of any member of the present General Assembly has a general appropriations bill been re ported to the House for action so early as on the twenty-sixth day of its sitting And yet, this Legislature, under the direction of the Chairman of the Ap propriations Committee, will take up that very bill In the whole House to day—the twenty-sixth day of its sit ting! The general tax act will be ready for the House before Saturday night —at least ten days earlier than any general tax act has been reported wdthin a decade or more The various committees have re ported more than 100 bills adversely, and easily as many more favorably. This was made possible by reason of the fart that the committees of both the House and the Senate were ap pointed this year two days earlier than ever before in thirty years. In one recent Legislature, the gten ate had the general tax act exactly FOUR days—this year it will have some fifteen days before adjournment. It is a well-known parliamentary fact, too. that both these bills have the right of way over all other bills at all times. It undoubtedly is true that any Legisia.ure would be able to travel much faster than it does were it not for the fict that local bills require lmost as elaborate handling as gen eral bills, and a reform In this mat ter has been urged for year*. But since that reform never ha3 been ef fected, it hardly seems fair to charge -he present Legislature with giving to these bills more than the time absolutely necessary to their passage. And so, while it may be true that the present Legislature ia no faster than it should be, it is Just as well to remember that the Legislature machine is of an old model, and there fore much out of date, and can not run any faster than it can! When the State takes the speed limit off its Legislature. It naturally will have to provide a machine cap able of making at least a little hit better time than the speed limit, or nothing: will happen by way of re form. The present Legislature may not be a wonder of wonders, but It really la moving along FASTER than usual —and that is the honest truth of It! Mr Payton, of Worth, the hand somest man in the last House, and one of the handsomest men In any House, looked in on the General As sembly to-day to see if it was mov ing along to suit him. Mr. Payton gave it ns his opinion that the present House Is all right, so far as he could see, albeit he neg lected to bring his eyeglasses along and wasn’t committing hlmnelf fin ally. ”1 enjoyed my brief Legislative «a- reer.” said Mr. Payton, “and marie many lasting friendships while it con tinued I take ~reat interest in the work of -the present House, and be lieve it will enact some wholesome legislation. I believe it wants to do the right thing, at least. I have met many new members, and the averag* seem; 1 to run rather high In many ways, however, being a member of the Legislature is more or less a thankless Job, and it often happens that the best and most sincere work ers fall to get the credit they really are entitled to” “Uncle Billy” Wilson, of Gwinetto, another veteran of the last. House, and the prize humorist therein, was talking It over with his former col leagues to-day. “Uncle Billy” declines and refuses to get excited about anything, and al ways takes life as easy as he knows how. He does not look upon a Legis lator’s job as one removing him very far from the ranks' of Just ordinary folks, and therefore he never takes himself too seriously. “I love all the boys, and in the main they are good boys.” said “Un cle Billy.” “If they make mistakes, they generally are mistakes of the head and not of the heart!” LAGRANGE. July 22.—With 75 more delegates attending than at any previous convention, the twenty-sev enth annual session of the Georgia Weekly Press Association opened here this morning. The delegates number 250 and represent 150 papers. The convention assembled in the Mayor Woodward again is refusing to sign checks. From the Police Department has come a voucher for $19 to pay the expense of the very dictograph that entrapped Mayor Woodward, Colonel T. B. Felder and others in the Wil liams House No. 2. Chairman A. R. Colcord. of the Council Police Com- Troup County courthouse. After solo by Miss Ruth Oppenheim, of At- j mittee. hesitated at approving this lanta. and the invocation by the Rev. | voucher and Mayor Woodward scoffs E. B. Vaughn, pastor of the First : at the idea of him signing the check. Baptist Church, LaGrange, Mayor John M. Edmondson and President W. A. Reeves, of the I^aGrange Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the visitors. W. S. Coleman, of The Cedartown Standard, responded. Mrs. John N. Holder read a paper pre pared by her husband, editor of The Jackson Herald, who was unable to attend. The theme was “The In fluence of th© Georgia Press on the Government of the State.“ At 11:50 o’clock the convention delegates left for West Point, where a big barbecue wai tendered this aft ernoon, followed by a reception at the home of W. Trox Bankston, editor of The West Point News. They return to LaGrange this afternoon. Louis E. Wisdom, of Forsyth, who is altogether 22 years of age but not much more. notwithstanding the fact that he looks every day of 17, had trouble with a new doorkeeper in the House of Representatives the other day. Wisdom didn’t know there was a new doorkeeper on the job until, ac companied by two friends of the fe male persuasion, he approached the door during a session for admittance, j “Hey, you, kiddo!” stage-whis pered the doorkeeper, “you can’t get in here!" “The h—um—deuce, I can’t!” said Wisdom, in a loud and commanding tone of voice. “I’m a member of the House! ” “Run along, buddy, and let your pipe go out—you can’t put that over me! If you had claimed to be a page, 300 Pellagra Cases In Flooded Counties JACKSON, MISS.. July 22—The State Board of Health to-day issued a report declaring that more than 300 cases of pellagra have been discovered in Mississippi counties that were over flowed during the spring floods. In Washington County 125 cases were reported. HEADACHES Pains in temples and back of head, nervousness, blurring of vision while aif rl^T mTght 'have* faiiTnlfSTu! °T but a person must be at least twen ty-one to get in here as a member!" replied the doorkeeper, as he pushed Wisdom gently bark Then Wisdom quit arguing, and [ went around to another door with his lady friends, where he stood in | with the doorkeeper, and everything j was all right. When the new doorkeeper found out what he had done, he was much | chagrined and attempted to apolo gize to Wisdom, hut Wisdom is a i good little fellow and wouldn’t stand i for any apologies. He admitted that j he hardly looked the part of a ma ture and experienced statesman, any way, and said he could and did un derstand the situation. If It lust hadn’t been for the | ladies—.' General West Gets Gettysburg Medal A silver medal bearing the inscrip tion ”1863-1913, Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg," the gift of Governor Tener of Pennsylvania has been received by General A. J. West, the Georgia Gettysburg Com missioner. Accompanying the beautiful gift was a letter from Governor Tener in which he expresses his sincere ap preciation for the active interest o< General West In the celebration. The medal has the kneeling figures of two veterans, blue and gray, on one side and <n the leverse side two hands tightly clasped. Also, he explained, he Is not In clined to throw away $5 on an option on an electric feature to the new crematory. He sent the resolution providing this back to Council with out acting on it. The lower branch of Council passed It up again by a vote of 15 to 2. Although Council easily overrode Mayor Woodward the thirty-third time on the tax office merger Issue the bill must be passed by the Leg islature to become effective. 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Twelve pounds is the weight of t he ordinary quarry hammer. Theirs weigh forty-nine pounds in this quarry. One, buying them for the county, said: “Strength is not required to crush stone with these. They come down of their own weight. THE ROCK BREAKS.” YES, AND SO DO MEN! Forty-nine pounds to the hammer! You could scarcely raise one. Consider, then, what you do when you force the man to do that which you could not endure— Lifting this hammer—crushing stone with it when the thermometer registers nearly one hundred degrees! And doing this at the bottom of a funnel-shaped pit of stone into which the sun’s rays pour and beat, enveloping in wave on wave of agoniz ing heat the suffering striped and shackled working men! Friday each minute the heat grew worse. The atmosphere quivered with it. ’ The quarry became a pit of torment. From its depths, to his keeper, the man cried: “I am sick.” The guard replied: “You didn’t say so this morning.” Later the man fell fainting at his work. Stripe-clad, shackled men lifted him tenderly. They carried him out. Through the woods a jolting springless wagon bore the dying man to tne convict camp, where he died. The man had not been condemned to death. He was only a misdemeanor convict. The utmost punishment provide d by your law for him was twelve months in the chaingang, six months in jail and a fine of one thousand dollars. And you had no wish to kill him. BUT THE MAN IS DEAD. Across the ages rings the question of God: 1 “What mean you that you break my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?” Down the centuries comes the voice of Jesus, saying: “Woe unto you, for you load men with burdens grievous to be borne and you yourself touch not the burden with one of your fingers.” Do not deny responsibility for the man’s death. Your laws—our laws—placed him in the convict camp. Your servant, a public official, made him work the day he died. He feared your lash—our lash. God will require of you and of us his blood and the blood of others. 1 The Executive Committee of The Men and Religion Forward Movement