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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, PASSIVE MEXICO POLICY SCORED Sidelights GEORGIA POLITICS Fall's Resolution, Guaranteeing American Citizens’ Rights Abroad, Is Tabled. WASHINGTON, July 23.—The Fall resolution guaranteeing constitutional rights to American citizens abroad and protection to their property, went over without debate when the Sen ate met to-day. This leaves the reso lution tabled and ready for considera tion at any time the author may see fit to again call it up. Fall agreed with members of the Senate that enough publicity has been given the Mexican situation for the present and on motion of Senator Simmons, the tariff bill was made the order of business. Senator Fall made it plain that he was not averse to having his resolu tion referred to the Foreign Relations Committee in accordance with the suggestion of Chairman Bacon of th^t committee. "I feel confident that sufficient pub licity has been given the Mexican situation through debate on this reso lution,” said Senator Fall, “to make it plain that the United States either must revoke the order prohibiting •the exportation of arms into Mexico, or take a determined attitude with re gard to the protection of Americans in Mexico.” Senator Fall said in regard to the Mexican situation that no greater error could be made than a contin uance of the dilatory tactics pursued by the United States in the past. Agreeing with Fall in this view were a large number of Senators in both sides of the chamber. President and Bacon Confer on Mexico. WASHINGTON, July 23 —President Wilson to-day summoned Represen tative Flood, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Senator Bacon, chairman of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee, to the White House to confer on condi tions in Mexico. The delicacy of the present situa tion enforced a policy of secrecy at the White House, but it was asserted that the purpose of to-day’s confer ence was to discuss the advisability of removing the ban from shipments of arms and ammunition to the con stitutionalists in Northern Mexico. General Carranza and other revolu tionists have been pleading for weeks for the removal of this prohibition, claiming that they are entitled to the same privileges accorded to the Ma- derists by President Taft. It is doubtful if any decisive move will be made until after the removal of Ambassador Wilson, but it is prac tically certain that this Government will favor the removal of the prohi bition relative to the shipment of arms to the rebels and then will await developments in -the hope of estab- 1 lishing a stable government in Mex ico. JAMES B.NEVIN The Committee on Constitutional Amendments is* the hardest worked committee at present in the House, but when it has cleared away the new county propositions, which it is try ing manfully to do, it will get a much needed and deserved breathing spell. Mr. Myrick. of Chatham, the chair, man of the committee, is one of the Legislature's really tireless workers, and sits patiently through the most exhaustive hearings, without express ing the slightest desire to cut any body off or shut up the noise. He seems determined to give every new county proposition coming up a "square deal" and a full committee hearing, no matter what happens thereafter in the House. After the new counties are disposed of M however, the work of the Con stitutional Amendments Committee will be by no means at ^n end. There yet is to come up Mr. Edmondson's bill calling for a Constitutional con vention, and while the impression Is that no such bill likely will pass the House at this session, that would by no means stop the Constitutional Amendments Committee from consid ering, and recommending it. one way or the other, to the House. Besides this, there are half dozen other proposed amendments to the Constitution, some of w hich will have aggressive and most influential back ing. All of these Chairman Myrick intends giving a hearing, if time holds out. The only thing that can head off the chairman of Constitutional Amendments Committee in the mat ter of hard work is adjoufnment— and that will not come for twenty-odd days yet. Phil Cook, Secretary of State, is happy! He thinks he Is going to get a new Great Seal of State soon, and that Is what he has been looking for—these many days. For long, long years. Secretar> Cook’s pet grievance—he hasn’t many grievances of any sort—has been that worn-out Great Seal of State, which, despite his best efforts, can hardly be made out on legal documents. Secretary Cook Isn’t at all foolish about great seals of state, either. lie figures that he could have wabbled along without them, had they never been Invented, and he would he. per haps. quite as happy, had he never heard tell of one. Still, if Georgia must have a great seal of state, he opines that it should be one that might be differentiated from other and less important seals, and that without the aid of a 40- horsepower microscope. "Look at this thing, now,” said the Secretary’, exhibiting a specimen of the present great seal’s most deadly work. “Could you tell w hether that Is the great seal of Georgia or the great seal of Kamchatka? I couldn’t, If I didn’t know-. What’s the use hav ing such a great seal?” Nobody could answer that, and so U. S. Prepared to Act on Short Notice. WASHINGTON, July 23.—-Dispatch of a gunboat to Mexican waters, in addition to the four battleships al ready there, the presence of Secretary of War Garrison and General Leonard Wood on the Texap border and the summoning of Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson to Washington are taken to indicate the intention of official circles here that the Mexican situa tion will no longer be allowed by President Wilson to drift. Reports from Chihuahua and Coa- huila indicate the centralization of the Federalist forces in those prov inces and the opening of railroad communication from the capital to the border within a week. Mexico Is Stuffed With Ammunition for U. S. LAREDO, TEXSA, July 23.—A bit ter arraignment of the United States, accusing the Government of foster ing the revolution which resulted in the overthrow’ of President Diaz, and of aiming mortal blows at the liber ty and sovereignty of the weaker Cen tral American nations, In direct con trast to the principles of the Monroe Doctrine, has been published in Span ish and distributed throughout Mex ico. A copy of the document to-day was forwarded to the State Department at Washington. "With the pretext of diffusing civ ilization,” says the document, "they (the United States) send to the limit of the continent all the castoffs, all the excess of population which con gests their cities, and heralds of cul ture and progress, the majority of those who arrive are tramps, broken .bankers, defaulters, pardoned prison ers, the bulls of their cosmopolitan criminals. "These are they w’ho come to us, w’ho, supported by them in obtaining concessions, in founding hanks with out capital, to suck like vampires the blood and the riches of the ingenuous and credulous, noble and confiding people.” The Waters-Plerce Oil Company and the Harriman interests are fiayed for their efforts to establish trusts in oil and railroad properties. The doc ument then says: "We have given them our riches and our confidence, hut we will not give them an atom of our dignity nor an other hand’s breadth of our territory. The people must stand erect at the proper moment, and this now’ has ar rived. They can not annihilate us. International complications will pre vent them. "They would require 100,000 men to invade Mexico, and their triumph, if they triumph, w’ould be over burning fields and mountains of corpses. They would need their entire fleet to block- *de our ports. "This w’ould be very dangerous for them, for there is someone lying in ambush. Mexico is bristling with ri fles and stuffed with ammunition. It would be a horrible war.” everybody listening agreed that the Legislature should, and probably will, pass the present bill of Mr. Nunnally. providing for a new’ great seal. "The best office In Bibb County” will not be the best office after the first of January if a bill proposed by Representative Wallace Miller is passed by the present Legislature. This is the office of Clerk of the City Court, now held by Charles H. Smith, 23 years of age, w ho draws an income of $8,000, collected in fees. Mr. Miller's bill puts the clerk on a salary basis and provides for a salary of $2,400. The clerk is appointed by the judge. who now receives a salary of $3,300, but for whose benefit there has already been a hill introduced, raising the pay to $5,000. The duties of this Clerk of Court are very light, and as he has a well- paid assistant, the office is really a delightful one. It has long been con sidered the choicest office of the county. Professor J. W. Boyd, of Fair- mount, Gordon County, whose elo quent plea for Tate County was suc cessful before the House Committee on Constltiutional Amendments Tues day, is one of the most picturesque men that ever served in the Georgia Legislature. When a member of the State Senate in 1908, he introduced the famous bill abolishing the convict lease system in Georgia, and no man fought for the passage of that measure through both Houses and both committees more aggressively and more effect ively than Boyd. He Is an orator of the old school, with a “hallelujah lick" that reminds one instantly of that other eloquent North Georgian, the late Congress man William H. F'elton. Undoubtedly, it was Boyd’s great effort before the committee on Tuesday that carried the day for Tate. The argument winning the great est favor, perhaps, was that wherein Boyd assured the committee that the creation of Tate would result, by reason of the amalgamation therein of the Republican end of Pickens, in the abolition of one rock-ribbed Republi can county—Pickens—and the crea tion of a new rock-ribbed Democratic county of Tate. It has been years since Pickens sent a Democrat to the Legislature, all because of the Republican end of the county that Boyd proposes to whack off. The Republicans o? Pickens, needless to say, are bitterly opposed to Tate and are fighting it tooth ani nail. The pressing of this partisan point before the committee, however, was effective. Of course. Senator Boyd urged oth er points, such as earnest desire upon the part of the population effected, necessity of location, wealth and LAWMAKERS POT IN TEACHERS' EIX OY MEASURE McMichael Resolution Diverts Legislators’ Salary Fund to Schoolma’ams. $20.85 BALTIMORE AND RETURN VIA SEABOARD. Sold August 1-2-3. Correspond ingly low rates from other points. New Steel Dining Cars, through trains. Unde Trusty Carft Keep You From Owning a Home T RUSTS have no monopoly of the EARTH! There’s a home in this world for EVERYBODY—there's a home for YOU, right here in Atlanta. If you are making "living" wages, then no TRUST—no COMBINATION—no power on earth, except YOURSELF, can keep you from OWNING a home! If you continue to pay RENT on somebody else’s property, then you’ll probably never own a home—but. if you BUY a handsome house and lot, on our DIVIDED PAYMENT PLAN, then you will be the proud owner of a splendid HOME! For $100 down, and as little as $21 a month, we will sell you a house and lot, in CAPITOL VIEW, which is a picturesque residential section, inside of At lanta's city limits—an 18-minute street car ride from the Post- office! We have several brand- new r houses ready for occu pancy! For full information, phone us —or call at our office! IV. D. BE AT IE 20 7 Equitable Bldg. Bell Main 3520 Atlanta Phone. 3520 To pay the members of the Geor gia General Assembly in 1914 In script, payable within six months, and apply the fund set aside for leg islators' salaries to the payment of country school teachers is the pro vision of a resolution Introduced by Representative McMichael, of Marion County, Thursday morning. The res olution would have provided for this at the present session, but for the fact that many members already have drawn their pay. Should the resolution be adopted it would mean that two-thirds of the annual deficit of $100,000 in school teachers' salaries would be made up at once. The daily payroll of the Legislature amounts to from $1,300 to $1,500 a day. The teachers are aw’aiting the pay ment of more than $100,000 on their salaries, past due many months. Script usually is given, but as pay ment is deferred from six io tw’elve months they are forced to discount at from 10 to 50 per cent, if they are not in position to support themselves un til payment of the script is made by the State. McMichael’s resolution is a bit sar castic. referring to the fact that all other employees of the State from the Governor down to the janitors, including the members of the Gen eral Assembly, are paid promptly. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Education. The resolution provides for the payment of cavh to the legislators for actual mileage due the members. PUSHED BY U. S. Promises Aid to Akin’s Drainage Plan A fight for a favorable report on his bill appropriating $5,000 to drain swamp lands in Georgia will be made* by Representative L R. Akin before the Appropriations Committee of the House when the bill comes up for consideration Thursday afternoon. The amount requested Is to be met by an equal amount from the Federal Government. The Government also will furnish engineers and all other details. According to Mr. Akin the Secretary of Agriculture has agreed to all this. TO PROBE SLAYING. COLUMBUS. — When the Law and Equity Court - of Lee County* Alabama, convenes on August 4 the Grand Jury will take up the case of Homer Carmack, charged with en tering the store of J. J. Folk re cently and hacking him to death with a butcher knife. Secretary of Crusaders Urges In determinate Sentence as Best for Convicts. Tate’s abiliiy to take care of itself, hut the big card undoubtedly seems to have been the anti-Republican ar gument before a Democratic commit tee. Tate will gc before the House when It does go v.ith considerable favor be hind it. Eckman’s Alterative FOR THE THROAT AND LUNGS. Eckman’s Alterative is effective in Bronchitis. Asthma. Hay Fever, Throat and Lung Troubles, and in upbuilding the system. Does not contain poisons, opiates or habit forming drugs. For sale by all lead ing druggists. Ask for booklet of cured cases and write to Eckman Laboratory. Philadelphia. Pa., for additional evidence. For sale by all of Jacobs’ Drug Stores. Another gun in the campaign of the bill providing Indeterminate prison sentences, which has been favorably reported by both House and Senate Committees, has been fired by Philip Weltner, secretary of the Prison Re form Association, which is responsible for the hill. "The enactment of the bill will not only improve convict conditions In Georgia," Mr. Weltner declares, "but It will increase the efficiency of the convicts in road building. The in determinate sentence Is based on jus tice and common sense rather than sentiment and mercy; and wherever it has been tried it has tended to em barrass the crook by keeping him in up to the limit, yet holding the door of opportunity open to the occasion al offenders whom kind treatment and hope can reform. "To give a convict a fixed term of Imprisonment means that the law be lieves It can foretell the length of time it will take to discipline him Wrong doing gets the perpetrator In to prison: right doing ought to be His only means of getting out.” SjWWWWWWWWWW Great July Pre-Inventory Sales at WVWi*Y»Y*W»YMV«Y«V| . RICH & BROS. CO. Little bees make the honey, little 44 Want Ads” make the money Read for Profit GEORGIAN “WANT ADS” Use for Results M to i 300 Fine Summer Dresses Half Price Just the thing to wear at the present time, when the sea son is at its height, and certainly a timely opportunity, in deed, to buy them at Half Price. Many very substantial effects make up the 300 imported ratine and heavy linens, fine French linens and voile, Bedford cord and very many novelty materials. Smart French models, plain tailored models, including dark colors that may be worn all through the fall. White and light colors and dozens of exquisite combinations of materials and colors. These are the kind of dresses you’ll find in this sale, and there’re 300 to select from. You’ll not have any trouble finding what you want. All sizes from misses’ 14 to women’s 44—all at Half Price. And, re member, you have two months of summer to benefit by the purchase. *3i - A “ Let-Go” of Fine Linens I Prices Drop to Hatt and Less for This\ Most Extraordinary Clearaway i "Clean Stocks” is our slogan—our rigid Pre-Inventory Policy is not to j carry over any soiled merchandise nor odds and ends. That’s the reason for the finest linens in the South being offered at a frac-; tion of their value. To our certain knowledge no Southern store ever offered linens of such qualities at these J near-half and less-than-half prices. | The left aisle table and counters are heaped high with values. Though the sale is sched-! uled for three days—Thursday, Friday and Saturday—it is plain that the best Bargains will ■ be snapped up Thursday. Selling starts at 8:30 with these unprecedented values. Scalloped Table Cloths j A few odd scalloped cloths that are a little soiled. j Slues are 2x1’ yards, 2 1-4x2 1-4 yards, 2 1-2 x 2 1-2 J prices: $8.50 Scalloped cloths, $4.90. $10.00 Scalloped cloths, $5.90. $12.50 Scalloped cloths, $6.90. $15.00 Scalloped cloths, $8.90. Soiled Table-Cloths! Though these linens need a tubbing, they ] will,emerge with their “bloom” and “finish”! intact. High grade linens; full 100 per cent; flax; honest to the last thread; the grades you ! would gladly buy at full price. Here’s how they go to-jnorrow: $6.50 to $8.50 Cloths atjfi I Sizes are 2x2 yards, 2x2 1-2 yards, a, n - _ 2x11 yards, 2 1-4x2 1-4 yards, 2 l-2x Ha < Uf I 2 1-2 yards. 2 1-2x3 yards. $8, $10 & $12.50 Cloths at Finest Table Linens at Exactly Half Price French table linens—acknowledged the finest in the world. Oddments—only one pat tern of a kind. Two or more patterns, how ever, at the same price: $20 cloth, 2x2 1-2 yards, at $10.00. $25 cloth, 2 1-2x2 i-2 yards, at $12.50. $30 cloth, 2 1-2x3 yards, at $15.00. $25 dozen napkins, 27 in. size, $12.50. Fine Lunch Sets Reautiful qualities of high grade linens. Cloths are hemstitched or scalloped. Dozen napkins to complete eaeh set. Just about a dozen sets iu all. to clear them, we make these pre-inventory prices; $12.50 Linen sets, $6.90. $15.00 Linen sets, $8.50. Napkins in the Sale $2.98 $5 doz., 22 1-2 in. size, values $4 and $4.50. QOdoz., 27-inch size, •UO values $7.50 to $9. doz. 27-inch size, values $10 to $15. $7.98 $5 German Damask 1 QO Lunch Sets Only All linen damask lunch sets in various colored de signs. The cloths are 63xtxt inches, neatly hem stitched. Half dozen 14-iuch napkins complete the set. $4.90 Sizes are 2x2 yards, 2x2 1-2 yards, 2x3 yards, 2x3 1-2 yards, 2 1-4x2 1-4, 2 1-2x2 1-2 yards, 2 1-2x3, 2 1-2x3 1-2 yards. $13.50 to $16.50 Cloths at:* : $9.90=! Extremely fine tablecloths In all sizes up to 2 1-2x4 yards. Pre-Inventory Pencil Pushes Down Prices on Rich’s StSple Black Silks I = Standard $1 and $1.25 Black Silks atf 59c I 4S Rich’s black silks in a sale. And at an average half price! It is almost as if a grocer sold sugar at half. For Rich’s black silks «2 are as staple and as standard. You can choose from soft, lustrous black LOUISINE; the fashionable black FAILLE I FRANCAIS; the gracious ever-wearing GROSGRAIN; a magnificent MOURNING SILK; the ' 5»J beautiful SATIN RENGALINE. Widths range from 20 to 27 inches. Regularly $1.00 and j $1.25 a yard; to-morrow at 59c. § Prices on $1.00 to $2.00 Silks Slashed to! ————— — —— ————— —————————— ! £ You will be astonished at the values; the quantities; the varieties; the lovely $1.00 to $2.00 silks that are offered at 49c. You have choice of 42-inch all-silk chiffons; flowered silks, odd silks; 27-inch chiffon taffetas in changeables and solid colors; novelty silks, including many de sirable weaves and patterns. Lengths from 3 to 30 yards. Not a yard worth less than $1.00; most of them formerly priced at $1.50 to $2.50. Choice 49c. for 85c to $1.50 Silks— 49c : 55c are spot-proof foulards, in choice patterns and favored colors. The $1.50 silks are Dolly Madison patterns, pretty floral designs, new this season. for $1.00 Messallnes— choice of our entire stock of $1 yard-wide Messa- lines, except black or white. I 79c $1.19 for $1.50 silk and wool Poplins — the beauty of silk wedded to the strength of wool. Soft and sheer, with classic grace. Leading shades of navy and Copenhagen, also black and brown. 42 inches wide. rt Q for 59c Silk Foulards— navy grounds, with neat pin and polka dots. 23 in. d* 1 QQ for $1.75 to $3.50 l.«5»7 Crepe de Chines— Includes our entire stock of $1.75 Crepe de Chines in full pieces, except black or white, and all $2 to $3.50 Crepe de Chines in dress lengths. rtf- for 50c to 85c silks— solid color messallnes and wash silks and short lengths of staple and novelty silks. The yard, 25c. (Silk Annej<—Main Floor, Left) 3 I » ■ s $iooo $12.50 $1500 $18.50 $20.00 $25.00 $30.00 $35-oo $40.00 DrCvSses * Dresses Dresses Dresses Dresses Dresses Dresses Dresses Dresses $ $ $ 5.00 6.25 7.50 9.25 $10.00 $12.50 $15.00 $17.50 $20.00 J. P. Allen & Co. 51 and 53 Whitehall To Sell These Stockings Quickly, We Have Slashed the Prices A Parasol Sale at Nothing wrong with the stockings, save that they are odd lots and broken lines that we won’t in voice. So we empty the boxes and group the dif ferent lots on three tables at 29c, 49e and 59e. Stockings are variously of lisle and silk lisle, lace and embroidered. Black, tan and a few white and colors. All sizes at each price. $1.98 <2 ' * 29c; values to 50c. 49c; values to 75c. 59c; values to $1.25. (Main Floor, Right) Choose any summer parasol in s t o c k, , whether its former price was $2.50, $3, $3.50 or $4, at $1.98. Something like four score in all, in solid ] colors; Roman stripes; solid colors with floral | or Persian borders; plaids and other fancies. Novelty and regulation shapes. Leading colors and combinations. Select the parasol ] you like—there’s a saving of about half at $1.98. (Main Floor, Right) r Half Price Sale Toys, Games, Etc. Final outclearing Friday and Saturday of all kinds of dolls, doll bug gies, children’s furniture, toys, vehicles and games. Most of the articles are at half price; some even less than half. (Toy Annex—Main Floor, Right) Y i M. RICH & BROS. CO. 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