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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
FRANK SPENDS HALF HOUR STUDYING PENCIL FACTORY MODEL
Wife and Mother Kiss Prisoner as Trial Opens Upon Its Third Week
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EXPERT TIES STAND
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Frank and C. E. Ersenbach Friday afternoon in which Frank
said he would try to get his work in shape in time to go to the
baseball game on the following day.
It was the implication of the
Solicitor that Frank had hurried
through with his work Saturday
morning and, as a matter of fact,
had it completed or nearly com
pleted before the afternoon.
Finishing with this line of ques
tioning, the Solicitor began an attack
on the time element which the de
fence has introduced in the trial.
Dorsey questioned Schiff at length
as to the accuracy of the clock in the
office floor, with the apparent inten
tion of arguing that when Monteen
Stover came into the factory and saw
the clock hands pointing to 12:05
o’clock, the correct time really might
have been 12:12 or 12:15 after Mary
Phagan entered the factory and went
to Frank’s office. Schiff maintained
that the clock always was kept on
time by W. and A. yard whistles.
Mrs. Frank at Office.
On the redirect examination Schiff
said that the financial sheet always
was made up Saturday afternoon,
and never in the morning. He said
the correspondence and entering and
acknowledgment of orders always
were taken care of in the forenoon.
Attorney Arnold also brought out
the testimony that Frank’s wife fre
quently came to the factory Saturday
afternoons to help her husband in
stenographic work.
Schiff explained keeping Jim Con
ley in the employ in the factory after
discovering his unreliability by say
ing that it was difficult to teach new
negroes the work. He denied that he
ever had tried to discharge Conley
and that Frank had prevented it.
Frank’s Aunt in Court.
Mrs. Jacob Selig. aunt of Leo
Frank, was the third woman visitor
of his family to the court Monday
morning She had a seat near the
prisoner and his mother and wife.
Before court convened Frank asked
permission to examine the paper mod
el of the National Pencil Company
that had been offered in evidence by
the defense. He spent some SO min
utes closely examining this model.
Frank was in court early. His wife
and mother came In and kissed him,
taking seats on either side of him.
It was reported around the court
room that the Jury would be taken to
visit the National Pencil Company
building. Attorney Reuben Arnold for
the defense said *hat he personally
would be very glad for the Jury to
make the examination. Solicitor Dor •
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scy said he did not know whether be
would consent.
Just before Schiff was recalled to
the stand Mr. Arnold announced that
Miss Hattie Hall, stenographer for
Montag Brothers, who was at the
factory Saturday, April 26, to take
some dictation from Frank, probably
would be the next witness. Solicitor
Dorsey resumed hiB cross-examina
tion of Schiff
Schiff’s "Darta" Puzzles Dorsey.
Q. Mr. Schiff, of course you don’t
know to your personal knowledge that
this finance sheet wan made up on
Saturday?—A. It couldn’t hav e been
made up before.
Q. Why?—A. I had not accumu
lated the "darta” (data) Friday, as I
always did. •
Q. The what?—A. The data (pro
nouncing it as though it were
"darta.”)
Mr. Arnold Interrupted: "He means
data.” *
Mr. Dorsey raid he didn't know
whether Schiff meant data or some
sort of sheet he was accustomed to
making out.
Q Couldn’t you take the data gath
ered by Miss Eula May Flowers and
the others and have gotten up this
sheet?—A. I think I might have.
Frank Not an Expert, He Says.
Q. You haven't made up one since
Frank left?—A. No; simply because
wo have not had time.
Q. Don’t you consider him an ex
pert?—A. I do not.
Q Go ahead and tell me what he
would have to know.—A. The slat
record.
Q. Is that here?—A. No.
Q. Can you get me a slat record?—
A. Yes.
Q. Well you got one and bring It
back here. Now, is the slat record
more complicated than this forelady’s
report?—A. It is a great long sheet.
Dorsey Questions Sharply.
Q. Tell me the truth. Is it more
complicated?—A. I am telling you the
truth. Mr. Dorsey.
Q. Well, doesn't he Just take the
total from all the reports?—A. No, he
has to do some figuring and other
work.
Q. Well, what else?—A. He has to
get the tipping record and several
others.
Q. Do you moan to tell me, then, that
the totals in these reports and the
body of the report are not the same
handwriting?—A. I do.
Q. Now this financial sheet? Do
you rrrean to tell me It is all in the
same handwriting?—A. It certainly is.
Q. You are sure of it?—A. Yes.
Could Have Done It in Two Hours.
Q. Now, entering all these eleven
orders and this financial sheet, was
that all Frank had to do that Satur
day?—A. All I can think of.
Q. Do you know that it was done
Saturday?—A. No, but it was not done
Friday, and he did not work on it
then.
Q. When did you see this work?—A.
Sometime Monday or Tuesday.
Q. Now, could Frank have done this
work between 8:30 and 10:30 o’clock
that morning?—A. Yes, if he was not
interrupted.
Q. Well, didn’t you tell us Saturday
that Frank could do that work in one
and one-half hours?—A. I did not.
Q. Well, all the work you know
that was done there Saturday was
the financial*sheet and entering those
orders?—A. So far as I know
Orders in Frank’s Writing.
Q Were you paid off April 26?—
No.
Q. Was Frank?—A. No.
Q. Now, are you quite sure Frank
entered those orders?—A. They are
in his handwriting.
Q. Now, it took about two minutes
to put down these things and a min
ute to add them over?—A. Yes.
Q. Will you look there and tell me
whether there is an entry on April
26 for $2 advanced Arthur White?—•
A. It iR not on this book; it is on
the time book.
Q Who entered it?—A. Mr. Frank.
Q. Have you got the receipt for $2?
—A. I can get it.
Q. Who made note of that on the
record?—A. Mr. Frank did. I entered
it on the time book the following
week.
Mr. Arnold interrupted. "You had
| better make a note of these various
things Mr. Dorsey wants," he said.
No Record of Orders.
"I know exactly what he wants."
replied Schiff. Dorsey continued the
examination.
Q Ts there any record on this
financial sheet of the orders you said
came in on Saturday?—A No.
Q. You told Mr Arnold there was?
A. I told him that as a rule there
was.
Q. But there is no record here?—
A. I was telling Mr. Arnold what Mr.
Frank did on Saturday. I don’t see
any place on the financial sheet for It.
Q. Now tell this Jury what there
Is to show that these orders did not
come In before Saturday, April 26.—■
A. They were not there Friday night.
I had looked through the files.
Q. Was there any reason why the
sheet had to be at Montag’s Monday?
•—A. It was our custom.
Q. Mr. Frank was a man who al
ways stuck to his business? He
would never go away unless his busi
ness was up?—A. Yes.
Q. Mr. Schiff, didn’t you swear be
fore the Coroner that it would take
two hours and thirty minutes to get
up the data and make up the sheet?—
A. I may have misunderstood the
question. I say now that it would
have taken from two and one-half
to three hours.
Frank Fatter Than He It.
Q. If he had an engagement and
wanted to speed up. couldn’t he do It
within two and one-half hours?—
A. Not and make it look the same.
Q. Is Frank a faster man than you?
—A. Yes. He is a faster man on a
financial sheet.
Q. Didn’t you swear before the
Coroner that Frank could have gotten
the sheet up thirty minutes quicker
than you?—A. I could not have speci
fied any time. I have never made up
the sheet.
Q. Then you deny this statement
before the Coroner?—A. No, I didn’t
deny it. It is not in my exact lan
guage.
Q. How long did you say it would
take Frank to balance the $69 in petty
cash?—A. That is hard to say. I
think I said before the Coroner that
it woud have taken from one to one
and one-half hours.
Q. How do you remember where
you wore last Thanksgiving?—A. One
thing I intended to do was to go to
Athens to attend a football game. It
snowed. The B’Nai Brith had an
affair that night. I helped Mr. Frank
carry some packages there.
Q. Do you mean to tell the Jury that
you recall every Saturday?—A. I re
call that I have never missed a day
since my vacation.
Tells of Thanksgiving Day.
Q. Do you know what time you left
the factory tt)at Thanksgiving Day?
—A. Yes; I left with FYank at 12:30.
He went home.
Q. Do you know whether he went
back that afternoon?—A. Yes; a
friend who wa* with him told me
w here he was.
Q. Then from your knowledge you
do not know whether he went back
or not?—A. No.
Q Now, how do you recall that Hel
en 4forguson came there Friday?—A.
I Just remember it.
Q. Well, who else came?—The wit
ness enumerated fifteen other em
ployees.
Q. Can you tell me who came the
Saturday before?—A No; I had an
Idea in looking up and refreshing my
memory as to that day.
Q. Now. that sheet had to be made
up by Monday. Why was that data
not ready Friday night?—A. I don’t
know.
Q. How were the pay envelopes
numbered?—A. One to two hundred.
Q. Where was the number? A
That varied. The office boy had no
regular place for it.
Questioned About Basement.
Q. Now, this place where the chute
is located is pretty dark, and few
people go there?—A. Yes.
Q It is one of the most remote
spots in the basement?—A. Yes.
Q.^This place down there is not
used?—A. Yes; we put schlich down
there to keep it cool.
, Ht 7 ° ften d0 you down
there —A. Every two or three days.
Q. Now, you saw that place where
the blood was?—A. In the metai
room?
Q Yes. A.—Yes, I saw it.
Q Did you notice anything aboul
it?—A. I; was under something white
that looked like a compound.
Q. Was it smeared?—\ No. it
looked like other spots in the factory.
Q. When did you notice the door
leading from the chute?—A. I came
up there two or three daiys after the
murder, and it was open.
Q. You are sure of it?—A. Yes.
Never Lost a Day.
Q. Now, you told Mr. Arnold that
you were at the factory May 31. How
do you recall that?—A. For the simple
reason that I have never lost a day.
Q. Well, did you mean by that that
you were there that Saturday after
noon after 12:30?—A. Yes.
Q. You didn’t consider it losing
time, then, if you left Saturday after
noon?—A. I certainly did. 1 remained
there at work.
Q. Then you do say you were there
that Saturday afternoon?—A. Yes.
Q. Was that cla^k always right?—
A Usually it was on time.
Q. Who set it?—A. Holloway, I
think.
Q. Who saw that it was right?—A.
1 don’t know.
Q. How do you set that clock?—A.
I set it. Holloway sometimes wind*
it up.
Q. Is it correct? Does it ever get
five minutes fast?—A. Whenever l
looked at it it was on time.
Q. What did you set it by?—A. A
watch or whistle.
Q. You employ reliable people ai
the pencil factory? You don't keep
those who lie and are untrustworthy-
—A. Some of them are not.
The defense objected to thl> ques
tion and was sustained.
Q When did you discuss the
worthlessness of Jim Conley?—A, A
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PINKERTON MAN WHO
TESTIFIES FOR FRANK
MEXICO CITIf IS
W. D. McWorth, Pinkerton man, who will testify to finding
bludgeon and part of a pay envelope behind radiator on first floor
of factory. The defense will offer the “finds’’ to the jury without
making any great claims for their importance or genuineness.
long time n^o. About the first time
I ever spoke to him.
Q. And you continued to keep him?
—A. We moved him from the elevator
to the fourth floor.
Q. Whom did you tell he was worth
less?—A. It was talked to me.
Q. By w’hom?—A. Schiff named a
long list of employees who had com
plained about Conley borrowing mon
ey and being worthless.
Q. Didn’t you complain to Frank
about him, and did Frank overrule
you?—A. Mr. Frank is not over me.
Q. Did you have the authority to
fire Jim Conley?—A. I did.
Q. If he was so worthless, why
didn’t you fire him?—A. It was so
hard to get a negro who knew any
thing about the work.
Q. And you kept him there for two
years?—A. He was in the chaingang
two or three times.
Saw Conley on Chaingang.
Q. How do you know?—A. I saw
him once working on Forsyth street
in front of the factory.
Q. You swear that he was on the
chaingang two or three times?—A.
Women came to me once or twice to
get money to pay him out.
Q. Out of what?—A. The chaingang
or the calaboose. I am not versed in
those things.
Q. Why did you swear he was on
the chaingang three times?
Arnold interrupted: "Your honor, I
object. He doesn't cross-examine a
•witness. He Just quarrels with him.
The best evidence of Conley’s stock
ade career is the record.”
Dorsey—I have got the record, and
I am going to introduce it. That is
why I want to pin this witness down.
Judge Roan ruied the witness must
answer the question, but the witness
should not be any more explicit.
Knew Conley Could Write.
Q. If any of these books got down
into the basement, they went into
the trash, didn’t they?—A. Yes.
Q. Now, these other books?—A.
They w r ere kept all ov^r the place.
We gave them to the negroes.
Q. Just who did you give them to?
—A. I gave one to Jim Conley. He
wanted to write home.
Q. Then you knew he could write?
—A. Yes.
Q. Didn’t you knew his home was
right here?—A. I did not.
Q. What did these negroes do with
these pads when you gave them to
them?—A. They got on the elevator
and went to the basement to write.
Q. How did they get light?—A. In
front of the boiler.
Q. Did you ever see Conley there?
—A. Yes.
Q. Now, Frank was very anxious to
have the Pinkertons at work?—A.
Yes.
Q. When did you report Conley’s
strange action to the Pinkertons or
the police?—A. I don’t recall.
Q. Did you report it to Mr. Frank?
He was anxious to have the murderer
caught?—A. I think so.
Arnold Balks at Hurrying.
Q. Now, where would a person have
to stand on the fourth floor to see
the office floor?—A. He could not.
Q. Where were Denham and White
on the fourth floor?—A. I was told
Q. Then don’t bother. Were you at
the factory whep detectives made
certain experiments with the eleva
tor?—A. Yes.
Arnold then took the witness on
the redirect examination.
Judge Roan said: “Hurry up, Mr
Arnold.” ^
Rosser spoke up: "Your honor, time
should not be considered. A man's
life is at stake.”
Judge Roan: "Go ahead.”
Q. Was that sheet usually made up
in the morning or afternoon?—A
Afternoon.
Q. Now, is it not a fact that Frank
is interrupted almost constantly by
salesmen or employees who have
some adjustment of their pay envel
ope to request?—A. Yes, quite a few
interruptions.
Q. Do you not change your opinion
that it would take one and on^-half
hours to fill out these requisitions and
enter the orders?—A. I do not. It
would take about that time.
Q. When was this made up?—A. In
the morning.
Mor© About Financial Sheet.
Q. Was the financial sheet ever
made up in the morning?—A. No.
Q. Do you change your opinion that
it would take two and one-half to
three hours to make up the financial
sheet?—A. I do not.
Q. What length of time would you
say he worked there Saturday?—A.
My original estimate—six hours
Q. Is this financial sheet of April 26
any different from the reports of
three months previous?—A. It Is not.
Q. Mr. Dorsey asked you whether
these initials. "H. Hof April 26
did not mean the last work that was
done on that sheet? That it might
have been entered two or three days
before? Now, what does it really
mean?—A. Nothing, really. Those
initials and that date would have been
there if it had been entered Satur-
Huerta Expected to Accede to the
Peace Proposals Brought by
Special Envoy of U S.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO (VTY, Aug. 11.—With
John Lind, special diplomatic envoy
from the United States, safely arriv
ing in the capital, the first real step
in President Wilson’s program for the
pacification of Mexico so as to njake
intervention unnecessary was taken
today when Mr. Lind turned over to
Nelson O’Shaughnessy, Charge d’Af-
faires of the United States Embassy,
a note from President Huerta so that
it might be handed to the Mexican
Government through the regular dip
lomatic channels.
However, a supplementary mes
sage, explaining Mr. Lind’s presence
here and assuring President Huerta
of the peaceful nature of his visit
probably will be tendered personally
by Mr. Lind to the Mexican execu
tive.
Although no hostile demonstration
attended the arrival here late last
night of Mr. Lind from Vera Cruz,
nevertheless there was an undercur
rent of feeling which caused at
taches of the United States Embassy
to warn Mr. Lind to be on guard for
his life.
Lind Offered Special Guard.
Out of common courtesy the mu
nicipal authorities at the behest of
President Huerta, offered to place
secret police at the disposal of the
special envoy for his own safety.
Huerta’s next move in the diplo
matic contest with the United States
will be awaited with keen interest to
day. Those who have believed all
along that the Mexican President has
been carrying on a monumental bluff
in his defense of the United States
look now for him to crumple up and
accede to proposals which are brought
here by th e American envoy for the
pacification of the country.
It was reported that Huerta was
ready to accede to every proposal
made by President Wilson through
Mr. Lind on condition that the State
Department at Washington promised
to recognize the Mexican regime of
ficially later.
On the other hand Huerta’s radical
advisers are counseling him to make
his next protest against "outside in
terference’’ an ultimatum containing
the demand that Mr. Lind be recalled
without delay.
Curious Seek Sight of Lind.
Curious crowds gathered in front of
the United States Embassy building
to get a glimpse of the one-armed
special envoy. Tales of Mr. Lind’s
aggressiveness had preceded him here.
Mr. Lind is accompanied by Mrs.
Lind, Dr. William Bayard Hale, a spe
cial investigator of the Department of
Justice, and William Canada, United
States Consul at Vera Cruz. That Mr.
Lind expects his visit to be short was
shown by the fact that he brought
very little baggage, unless more is to
be sent here from Vera Cruz later.
Asked for an expression, Mr. Lind
replied:
"Any message from me is for official
ears only.”
N. A. Jennings, an American, the
Mexican correspondent of the Hearst
papers, and Marvin Fee, another
man, were arrested Just as the Lind
party entered this city.
day, regardless of the date it was
acknowledged by Miss Hall.
Dorsey Objects to Slur.
Q. Now, Mr. Schiff (I am going to
call him Mister. I am not as fa
miliar with him as Mr. Dorsey seems
to be. He calls him "Schiff” all the
time), you say the murder caused you
to remember paying off Helen Fer
guson on Friday?—I said that.
Dorsey objected.
Judge Roan sustained the objection.
Mr. Arnold put the question in a
different form, and received the same
answer.
Q. Mr. Schiff, this diagram (point
ing to the prosecution’s diagram of
the factory) does not show the open
ings into the Clark woodenware de
partment, does it?—A. It does not.
Q. Mr. Schiff, it is rather unpleas
ant to fire a negro and then have to
hire a new one and teach him the
\Vork, is it?—A. It is.
Hooper interrupted: "Your honor,
if he is not leading this witness, I
do not know what you would call it.”
Judge Roan sustained the objection,
and Mr. Arnold again changed his
question.
Didn’t Know of Detectives’ Hunt.
Q. Mr. Schiff, you didn’t know the
detectives were trying to find out if
C6nley could write?—A. Not for some
time.
Q. Mr. Schiff, did Mr. Dorsey sub-
pena you to come to his office, and
did you know you didn’t have to go?
—A. Yes; I was subpenaed—he tele
phoned me.
Q. Do you know where the sacks in
which you keep the cotton were kept?
—A. Just outside the metal room.
Q. Were there any empty sacks
there?—A. I don’t know. We never
keep empty ones there except for a
fw hours after they are empty.
Dorsey took the witness on the re-
cross-examination.
REAL SNAKE KILLING.
DUBLIN.—W. L. Moye and N. T.
Gay killed 42 moccasins in a hole in
Land Branch. Laurens County, one of
them being more than five feet in
lengUfc ^
4 Atlantans on Hike
Across the Smokies
Bound for a two weeks’ hike through
the Great Smoky Mountains, four At
lanta young men are en route to-day
to Franklin, N. C., the terminus of
the Taliillah Falls Railway. The
hikers are Tillou H. Forbes, of the
Northwestern Life Insurance Coin-
pany; Elliot Cheatem, of the law firm
of Batchelor & Cheatem; C. J. King,
of the Associated Press, and Will Fort,
of Mount Airy.
From Franklin the young men will
start their tramp. They plan to walk
through the mountains of North Caro
lina to the West Virginia line, and
will return by way of Lake Toxaway
and the Highlands. They will carry
their own camp outfit and spend the
entire time In the open air.
New Balkan League
Leaves Bulgars Out
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BUCHAREST, Aug. 11.—Instead of
being broken up by the second Bal
kan war, the Balkan league, which
formerly included Bulgaria, Servia,
Greece and Montenegro, will probab
ly be continued in force, with Rou-
mania taking the place of Bulgaria.
Telegrams received to-day from Bel
grade, Athens and Cettinje indicated
that the governments at those seats
favored the project.
Owing to Bulgaria’s disinclination
to accept defeat at the hands of her
former allies, the resumption* of hos
tilities at a later date is accepted as
a foregone conclusion.
SLATON URGES
TAX REFORMS
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Assembly Faces Possibility of
N ght Sessions to Finish Re
quired Legislation.
Continued From Pago 1.
Gibbons Is Certain
Suffrage Will Come
CHICAGO. Aug. 11.—“I am weary,”
said Cardinal Gibbons, when inter
viewed here. "I am growing old and
these trips are trifle hard on me.
"Personally I do not believe in wom
en voting,” he answered in reply to
a question. "The Church has not
passed on the subject I have the
old-fashioned idea about woman and
the home. I think women would bet
ter make good mothers than good
politicians. But suffrage is certain to
come to women.”
Steeplejack’s Wife
Stops a Good Show
CHICAGO. Aug. 11.—Steeplejack
Edmond Von Kaenel lost a $100 wager
to-day. He bet with a friend that he
could slide head-first down a pair of
ropes from the eighth floor of the
Reaper Building to the ground. He
trid and the ropes failed to work
properly. Hundreds of startled per
sons in the loop district saw the man
high In the air change his position
and slide down the ropes feet fore
most.
Von Kaenel said he would try again
for the $100. Mrs. Doris Von Kaenel
said he shouldn’t. He didn’t.
Dan Hatfield, Slayer,
Begins Life Sentence
DALTON, Aug. 11.—Dan Hatfield,
given a life sentence for the murder
of Will Parrish, to-day began his
term on the Whitfield County chain
gang.
Hatfield shot and killed Will Par
rish in North Dalton on the night of
July 12. The jury brought in a Ver
dict of guilty of murder, without,
recommendation tc mercy, but the
court passed the life sentence in view
of the fact that all the evidence was
circumstantial.
Isidor Straus Left
Estate of $4,565,000
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Isidor
Straus, merchant and philanthropist,
who lost his life in the Titanic dis
aster left an estate valued at $4,565,-
000.
His wife. Mrs. Ida Straus, who
perished with him rather than be
saved, left an estate of $325,000.
The six children of the Titanic vic
tims arfe the sole heirs of the two
estates.
night sessions of the House last week,
but each time they were lost in &
maze of motions that turned the ef
forts into a joke. It is probable that a
motion for a night session of the
House last Friday night, made by ♦
Slater of Bryan, would have prevailed
had not Picquet of Richmond poked
fun at the motion and offered as a
substitute that the House convene at
12:30 and remain in session until
daybreak.
Tax Fight in Prospect.
A resumption of the fight for tax
reform, defeated in the House by the
forces of Sheppard of Sumter and
Stovall of Elbert, is expected to en
liven the closing days of the session.
After a battle that has been more or
less in evidence throughout the entire
session, and which has had an effect
on practically all measures intro
duced, the House passed what is
known as the Sheppard substitute <o
the original Lipscomb and Ways and
Means Committee bill.
The substitute is regarded as ab
solutely useless so far as reforming
the taxation system of the State is
concerned, and it is considered obtain
that it will be defeated in the Senate.
The Senate committee in charge, of
the bill already has prepared a sub
stitute to the Sheppard bill, which
provides for a State Tax Commission
er instead of only the county boards
of the Sheppard bill.
This substitute, when it comes back
to the House, is expected to precipi
tate a fight as great or even greater
than that which developed over the
original bill. It is generally under
stood that the forces of Mr. Sheppard
and Mr. Stovall will fight to the limit
any attempt to pass a real tax revi
sion measure, and friends of the Sen
ate substitute are just as determined
that it shall pass.
The House during the closing days
of the session also will have an op
portunity to pass two administration
measures which were defeated last
week by the "dry-anti-tax reform
combine.” Fullbright of Burke secured
on Friday a reconsideration of the ac
tion of the House in defeating the
two bills, which provide for consti
tutional amendments limiting the
school levy to 2 1-2 mills and the pen
sion levy to 1 1-2 mills, and it is the 1
intention of the Rules Committee to
place them on the calendar for con
sideration before the close of the ses
sion.
Committee to Rush Bills.
Akin of Glenn, chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee and a
member of the Rules Committee, said $
Saturday that the committee will en- 1
deavor to have them ready for the
House either Monday or Tuesday.
With the backbone of the combine
broken through the efforts of Speak
er Burwell, who has been trying
throughout the session to put through
a program of constructive legislation,
indications are that the amendments
will pass and that the people will have
an opportunity to vote upon them at
the next election. The amendment
bills require a two-thirds vote to pass,
and lacked only sixteen votes of ob
taining the majority when they were
defeated. Many of the members of
the House have gone to Speaker Bur-
well and assured him that they will
reverse their vote when the bills are
brought up again for consideration.
It is understood that efforts will
also be made to obtain a reconsidera
tion of the action of the House in de
feating Governor Slaton’s bills pro
viding for an extra tax levy in 1915
and 1916. and it is thought if the
efforts are successful, this bill also
will pass.
The three bills* have been introduced
into the Senate, and it is probable
that they will be passed simultaneous
ly by both branches of ihe Legisla
ture.
Whether any more efforts will be
made to bring out the Hixon-Searcy
bill, which occasioned one of the most
bitter fights of the session in the
House last week, is not known.
May Grant New Trial
To Hawkins’ Slayer
GAINESVILLE. Aug. 11—It is said
that Bartow Cantrell, one of the
three persons found guilty and sen
tenced for the murder of Arthur •
Hawkins in Hall County, may be
granted a new trial. He confessed to j
the actual killing, declaring that his
older brother, James Cantrell, di
rected him and that he feared bodily
injury if he did not do as directed.
Cantrell is only t6 years of age.
iSEQUEL TO
! LOVE FOR DOLL
>
Maternal Instinct Greatly Developed by Teach
ing Children to Love Their Doll*.
Florida Bankers on
Auto Tour Visit Here
i
Two automobiles eonti ining six !
prominent Florida bankerr on vaca- *
tion touring Georgia, Tennessee and i
South Carolina stopped off in Atlanta j
Monday morning and registered at the
Ansley.
They are T. C. Taliaferro W. M.
Taliaferro. C. P. Taliaferro,’ Martin
Banks Witham, Tod F. Glllett, G. E.
Tafts and W. E. Hunt. All of tht
men are interested in Atlanta real
estate.
SEABOARD OFFICIAL HERE.
W. H. Williams, superintendent of
the telegraph service of the Seaboard
Air Line, arrived in Atlanta Monday
in his private car to inspect the At
lanta Division, i
The little child'll doll la mother to the
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pass, the doll fade* Into the petals of a June {
rose, to evolrc the most wondroua of all trans- <
formations. <
And now comes a more serious period when (
the joy of real motherhood should be as tran
quil as best effort can provide.
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There will be no pain, none of that nausea
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You will find Mother's Friend on sale at
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use It regularly as directed. Write to-day to
Bradfleld Regulator Company. 185 I-a mar Build
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