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6 A TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, C,A„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1913. Act for Equalization of Taxes Is Regarded of Supreme Impor tance, Meaning Millions of Add ed Revenue to Ga. Each Year. Measure Was Passed Only After One of Most Dramatic Fights General Assembly Has Known. Will Revolutionize System. The 1913 session of the General As sembly of Georgia, which adjourned Thursday night, passed more than three hundred bills. Of these more than 250 were local bills, designed to relieve conditions existlnfi in indi vidual counties, and not operative in any other county. The remaining ones were general bills and local bills of general application. Practically all of the measures have been engrossed and went to Governor Slaton’s office, and need only the sig nature of the Chief Executive of the State to become laws. Governor Slaton has already signed some of the more important bills. He signed the Lipscomb-Miller-Anderson tax bill, to be known as the Lips comb act, within a day after it passed the House, and Friday he signed the bill giving mothers equal right*' with fathers to the custody of minor children. Other bills received the official O. K. Saturday, but the great majority of them will not be signed until the coming week. Of the 50 or more general bills that passed both branches of the Legislature, 18 nr* of Importance, and their effect will be generally felt throughout tbe State. Govwr-irr Praises Work. They ha*** been praised by Gover nor Slaton. Speaker Burwell, of the House, and President Andernon, of the Senate, as comprising one of the b?st Legislatures the State has had since the Civil War. They have passed five tax measures that will revolutionize the taxation s>stem of the State, and add millions to the revenues; they have raised the stand ard of physicians in the State and oentrnlized the control of prnetioijw doctors; they have heard the plea of Georgia mothers and enacted a law that places her on a par with the father and recognizes her ability to care for her own child; they have established a home to care for the wayward girls of the State, and they have shown their friendship to the cause of higher education by passing an appropriation bill that carries large sums for the maintenance of the educational institutions of the State. By far the most important measure passed by the House is the bill creat ing the office of State Tax Commis sioner and county boards of tax as sessors This law has been charac terized by veteran members of the House and Senate and by legislative experts as the best measure that has Cures Blood Poison Wonderful New Vegetable Discovery. a« Proved by Wauerman Test, Cure* at Home the’ Blood Poison That Causes Ul cers, Copper Spots. Mucous Patches, etc. ree to You How to Cure Yourself Quick ly. Absolutely, Safely, Without Mercu ry, Iodide or Other Mineral Polsona. It doesn’t matter how had your case t blood |>otson. no matter in what stage, can cure you quickly, completely, per manently with the wonderful, pure, egetable Obhac Treatment. It has rev- The Wonderful and Prompt Results of Vegetable Obbac. Off in Canoe on 7,000-Mile +•+ -!-•+ +••!• Couple to Make Record Cruise if +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Argonauts to Visit the South Mr. and Mrs. Walter Green, who have Island to ernise to New Orleans and bark started from Staten in a canoe. Important Bills Made Laws by 1913 Legislature Here are the mo ft important hills that passed both house* of the (General Assembly, and which become lawm upon receiving the signature of the Governor: To provide for a State Tax Com missioner and County Boards of Tax Assessors. A “blue sky” measure, to regu late the sale of stocks and bonds. To allow freight train* to run on Sunday. To increase the occupation tax on corporations. To place a special tax on bot tling works. The general appropriation bill. To provide an inheritance tax. To regulate the practice of medicine and raise the standard of physicians. To create a new charter for the city of Atlanta. To create municipal courts in Atlanta and abolish the Justice courts. To provide an additional Supe rior Court judge for the Atlanta Circuit. To provide for the permanent registration of voters. To establish and maintain a Home for Wayward Girls. To enable judges to grant char ters in vacation. To create a Western & Atlantic Commission to investiaate the re lease of the State Road. To give the mother equal rights with the father in the custody of minor children. To provide a tax of $5 on auto mobiles. To create a commission to in vestigate the advisability of the State publishing its own school books. To allow trial judges to place persons convicted of misdemean ors on probation, and to provide county probation officers. To provide for the popular elec tion of United States Senators. ^ Tz P P f -is# dUtlonized tl t treatment of bioou poi son. 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Ill me by return mail, absolute - . how to cure myself quick ' unpletely at home of blood 1 the wonderful vegetabh bbar. also free book, proofs of etc City been passed in Georgia in 50 years. It will revolutionise the taxation system of the State, and conservative estimates place the amount of reve nue It will add to the funds of the State at $1,000,000 a year, sufficient to clear the State of debt and allow plenty of money to conduct the bust-i ness of tile Empire State of the South in a manner commensurate with her importance. Four other tax bills that will bring | In large sums, though the amounts can hardly be estimated until the laws are tried, were passed—the au tomobile tax bill, th > inheritance tax bill, the special tax on bottling works and .the occupation tax on corpora tions. Inheritance Tax Important. The inheritance tax alone is expect ed to bring into the treasury hun dreds of thousands of dollars. The' bill' providing for the State Tax Commissioner developed the hardest tight. Opponents of tax re form in the House, where the bill was first introduced by Lipscomb of Clarke County, led by Sheppard of Sumter and Stovall of Elbert Coun ty, succeeded in defeating the origi nal bill and securing the passage of what was known as the Sheppard substitute. providing for county boards of equalization only. This measure went to the senate, where It was defeated and the substitute pre pared that eventually became a law. by Senators Miller and Anderson. Ten Senate substitute, v 1th its provisions for a State Tax Commissioner and the county boards of assessors, came back to the House during the last days of the session. The fight that developed was on-* of the most thrilling and dramatic the House has ever seen During the time the bill was under considera tion by the Senate, tax reform i em bers of the House had converted many of their original enemies. Ef forts to destroy the b 4, l by substitut ing amendments were defeated, and the bill was brought to a vote during the latter part of last week. To Shaker Burwell. of Hancock County, belongs the credit for the passage of the bill. From the time the original Lipscomb bill was intro duced he worked hard to get the hill through, and when the Senate substi tute came to a vote, and Henderson of Jones County, a staunch friend of tax revision, tied up the vote after a thrilling ride to the Capitol In an auto, Speaker Burwell made th' measure a law by casting his vote m favor of it. Features of Tax Bill. The bill is modeled after similar laws that are now on the statute books of a number of Northern States, where it has worked satis factorily. Its main provisions are as follows; It creates the office of State Tax Commissioner at $2,500 a year, and County Boards of Assessors. The Tax Receivers of the counties shall open their books February 1 and close them May 1. In ten days after the books are closed the Tax Receivers shall pre sent the returns to the county boards. The county board is to be composed of three member.-, appointed by the Board of County Commissioners or the Ordinary. Tiie county board must examine the tax returns and equalize thorn. The taxpayer, if dissatisfied with the decision of the county board, can ask for reconsideration and arbitra tion. The differences shall be adjust ed by three arbitrators. The county boards shall complete their work by July 1. Tlie fc?tate Tax Commissioner shall carefully examine all tax returns sub mitted by the county boards and rec ommond deceases or increases. Ti\(- State riTax Ooinmiss.oner shall carefully instigate all taxation ques- Recently Elected Congressmen Have Hard Time Telling Why District Doesnt Profit. By JONATHAN WINFIELD. WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.—The new members of the House—there are ap proximately 160 of them—are begin ning to find out something about the intricacies of legislation at Washing ton. and just now they are busy ex plaining away a bunch of campaign promises. The new member isn’t get ting anywhere with pet legislation and he is a sorely distressed indi vidual. Nearly 7,000 bills and resolutions have been introduced in the House of Representatives since President Wil son called^ the Sixty-third Congress Into extra session early in April About one in a hundred have received consideration, and the ratio bids fair to be maintained during the remain der of the extra session owing to a rule of the Democratic caucus which binds the House committees not to report out legislation before the regu lar session, which begins in Novem ber. In consequence of this unexpected caucus rule, the new member who came to Congress leaving many prom ises behind is up against it. His hands are tied; he may introduce bills and resolutions to his heart’s content, but they won’t get anywhere for months, and perhaps not then. It is embarrassing to make explanations, especially when a statesman beat out some other fellow by promising big things for the district. All Have Horde of Bills. The average new member, as soon t^s he reaches the House chamber, walks up to the bill basket and drops therein a bill providing that the town of Jonesville shall have a $25,000 post- office. He follows this with a dozen or so bills proposing that certain wor thy pensioners in his district shall have their annual pensions increase! Then he comes along with the crying complaint that the little Bf 1 River needs about $50,000 or $100,000 to im prove navigation In order that the towns of Squash Center and Hickory Hollow- may have increased transpor tation facilities. Congressman Newcomer then pass ed the word along to the newspaper ... *- ' Ilf IS FACED BrCDARLTON Young American Travels in Steer age, but Is Confident of an Early Acquittal. Continued From Page 1. Autos Are Barred By Canadian Island Residents of Prince Edward Will Not Allow Machines to Enter Province. son of Paul Charlton, law adviser of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and former President Taft's classmate at Yale. He has stood by his son through all the fight against extradition. Extradition Fight Bogins. The fight began the day after the confession appeared. It seemed at first that the young man surely must iro back to Italy to face trial, and every legal step was taken against it. His friends, led by his father, took the position that he could not be extradited, because Italy had always refused, under the extradition treaty of 1868, to return Italian subjects to the United States to answer for crimes committed here. They lost this fight, when Italy made a request for the prisoner. The fight was resumed, and Charlton’s fa ther entered the insanity plea, in a habeas corpus suit. Losing this in the lower court, the father appealed to the Supreme Court, in which, about a month ago, the opinion of Justice Lurton was handed down, to the effect that Charlton was subject to extradition. Officers arrived in the United States from Italy last week to take Charlton back for trial. Conflicting Yeports have been spread regarding the young man’s health, certain phy sicians contending that he is the vic tim of pulmonary tuberculosis and others that he is in perfect health. Newspaper reports, written by men who have seen him, say that he ap pears healthy. He has been allowed an unusual degree of freedom while being held in the Hudson County jail, being permitted to take walks, auto mobile drives and two hours of ex ercise each day. Sometimes he was taken to picture shows. Charlton Expects Acquittal. Charlton is cheerful. He has ex pressed the opinion that he will be acquitted in spite of the evidence against him, and has told his father and mother and other friends as well that he will be back home* for Christ mas dinner. The trial will be held in Milan some time early in the fall. Appeals have been made to Secre tary of State Bryan, and an attempt even has been made to reach the ear of President Wilson to present the extradition of the young man. His father has stopped at nothing to save his son. But all attempts have proved fruitless. Secretary Bryan. Judge » harlton’s personal friend of long standing, has expressed his sympathy, but declared that 'it was impossible for him to do anything for the son. The plans for the defense will take the form of an inquisition to bring out the moral and mental traits of the murdered woman, besides the consideration of Charlton’s sanity. Attorneys will try to show that there was great provocation for the killing. It is hoped in this that the sen tence of Charlton will not be the short-living death at solitary confine ment in an Italian dungeon, but a more tempered punishment. WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.—"It seems strange in these days when automo biles are seen on every street, on every country road that there ^should be one section on the American con tinent where these vehicles are posi tively prohibited,” said R. A. Dewey, of Toronto. “Recently the Canadian Parliament enacted legislation to permit the use of self-propelling carriages in the Province of Prince Edward Island, but it is by no means certain that the legislation will be effective. There is every indication that the law will never be put in force because a pleb- l iscite on the question was taken throughout the island when the an- | nual district school meetings were | held. “The returns that have come thus far indicate that the farmers are i strenuously opposed to allowing auto mobiles on Prince Edward Island. ! More than 90 per cent of the popula- j tion voted no on th.- proposition, and in Home of these places the vote in the negative was unanimous. Husband Who Got Message of Her Death Overjoyed to See Her Alight From Train Wealthy Father at Last Finds Daughter Search of 38 Years Ends In Aston ishment for His Policeman Son-in-Law. POTTSVILLE. PA., Aug. 16.—-An thony Lloyd, a policeman, living on $65 a month, was surprised when John Strause, aged 76. walked into his home and embraced Mrs. Lloyd, who turns out to be his only child, lost to him for more than 38 years. Strause is worth $200,000 and lives in Laramie City. Many years ago. after he returned from service in the Seventh Pennsyl vania Cavalry of the Civil War, he placed his daughter. Emma, in the charge of relatives and went West. Though wealthy, he was unable to find any trace of her until his sudden meeting. PASTOR SHEDS HIS COLLAR. GRANITE CITY. Aug. 16.—A new pace has been set by the Rev. W. W. Brown, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Granite City, who tells the men to come without collar or neck ties and with sleeves rolled up if that will conduce to their c ymfort. He promises to do likewise. CHICAGO, Aug 16.—Heinrich Dietz became the happiest man in Chicago yesterday, and his condition in this respect is likely to be chronic. It all happened in a few seconds. From the depths of woe Mr. Dietz was raised to an ecstatic Joy that almost took his breath away. Dietz is a Russian who came to this country about a year ago, and earned money slowly and saved It un til h6 could rent and fumiah a amall apartment at No. 629 Hartland court. Then he saved some more and sent a steamship ticket to his wife. She embarked for America. Dietz ex pected her to arrive here yesterday. On Thursday night K. W. Kempf, the ticket agent at No. 120 North La Salle street, handed Dietz a telegram from Philadelphia reading: “Your wife Eva died to-day—on 9:40 B. and O. Comm’s Immigration.” That message dropped a somber curtain on Dietz’s happiness. To cap his misery, he had almost no money. Kempf in sympathy lent him $10 and gave him a note to P. Hursen, an un dertaker. Hursen read the note, then returned, the $10 to Dietz and sent a hearse with him to the La Salle street depot. Dietz was mournfully watching the train when suddenly he saw a plump, rosy cheeked young woman leave it. With a shout he sprang forward and Mr and Mrs. Dietz were clasped in each other’s arms. Mrs. Dietz had sent a telegram as her husband had requested, but the operator hod written "died” instead of “arrived.” RECEIVES FORTUNE IN OLD AGE AFTER LIFE OF DENIAL INDEPENDENCE, OREG., Aug. IS. After years of toll and broken health and a continuous struggle in courts, James A. Simmons, of this city, has received $17,000. FARM SEEDS We shall take pleasure in quoting current prices at any time on re quest, or shall fill all orders intrusted to us at lowest existing prices at the time the order is received. We have just received our New Crop Seeds of Crimson Clover. Alfalfa Clover, Dwarf Essex Rape, Hairy Winter Vetch, Georgia Rye and Grasses. Let us hear from you. McMillan bros. seed co. ‘Arch” Bell Phone 3076. 12 S. BROAD STREET THE BRIDGE BLOCK, ‘Bob” Atlanta 593. Nance Believed Mad When He Slew Wife W-’JXMtVOQO Yearning to See Dixie and West Prompts Young Pair to Make Hazardous Journey. NEW YORK. Aug. 16 —“We have never been South,” said Mrs. \\ alter Green half to herself. There was yearning in her tone. “Nor West,” said Walter Green, who heard her. They sat In their canoe as it drifted with the tide, their faces turned away from their Staten Island home, to ward the South. Mrs. Green looked at her husband with a quick inspiration. "Let’s go." she said, eagerly. And so they planned within a few minutes the 7,000-mile canoe trip on which they started yesterday and which will take them not only South, but West, revealing to them the grandeur of the Mississippi. the warmth of the Gulf Coast and the I stretch of the Atlantic Ocean. The two young persons, enthusiastic ea rn* ' ** both of them, and inveterate campers, will he away from their home for ten months or more in the course of the journey. Will Call on Wuson. They started up the Hudson River, going on the first stage of the „ourn»y to Yonkers. Thence they will go through the Erie Canal to Buffalo, through Lake Erie to Ashtabula, then to Beaver Canal and Rochester, Pa. From there they will go up the Ohio to Pittsburg, down the Ohio to Cairo, up the Mississippi to St. Louis, down the Mississippi to New Orleans, across the Gulf of Mexico and along the coast to St. James City, Fla., through tlons and recommend laws to the General Assembly. The Tax Commissioner shall visit annually all the counties of the State and investigate conditions. If the county board is dissatisfied with the decision of the State Tax Commissioner upon its returns, it may appeal for arbitration, to be conduct ed the same as when a taxpayer ap peals to the county board. Governor Slaton already has ap pointed a State Tax Commissioner. Judge J. C. Hart, and the formation of the county boards probably will be begun at once. The law becomes op erative January 1. 1914. j The medical practices act abolishes | the old system of a separate board for i I each school of medicine, and creates j ja Joint boaYd to pass upon the physi- j Uians who apply for permission to. j practice in Georgia. The bill for the establishment of a | home for wayward girls, to be known | as the Georgia Industrial Home for ; Girls, carries with it an approprm- I tion of $»*♦.»“ »0. The original bill car- 1 I Tied a $30,000 appropriation, but was the Everglades and a rivet or two ts Palm Beach, up Indian River to Jack sonville. along the Atlantic coast to Chesapeake Bay, up to Washington to call on President Wilson and pre sent a letter from Mayor Gay nor. Last they will go by canal to Delaware River. Raritan Canal an river to New York Bay and home. A crowd cheered the gay young couple at their start. A party of suffragettes, admirers of Mrs. Green for her daring, presented her with a "Votes for Women” pennant, which her craft wiP ! The life-saving crew of Clifton, t Greens’ home, gave them a pennant, which also be came a part of the equipment. Light Equipment Carried. In order to make the canoe as light as possible, they took only four boxes containing provisions, camp equlp- page and clothing, and two large duffel hags containing a small cir cular tent and" bedding. All was covered with canvas, which will ne used as floor of the tent It is the intention of the couple to put into a city, town or village each night, pitch their tent and sleep for eight hours. When the stores they carry run out, they will get new sup plies at the places where they will stop. The Greens are anticipating with the greatest eagerness the portion >f their trip that will take them to the South, about the gulf and the South Atlantic coast. cut $10,000 in the House and $10,000 more in the Senate. Though the Legislature passed many measures that are recognized as good, there were many other good bills that failed to get through. Many of them, however, were held over until the next session for various reasons, and may be passed then. Among them were a number of child labor bills, measures designed to remedy work ing conditions, the vital statistics bill, compulsory education bill, and others. In addition to aiding in the tight for tax reform, in which they were strong factors, the Fulton County delegation—Blackburn. Smith and Cochran—succeeded in getting through three bills that directly af fect Atlanta. They are a bill creat ing a new charter for the city, a bill establishing municipal courts, and a bill providing an additional Superior Court judge for the Atlanta Circuit. The three Fulton County men. Black burn and Smith especially, were rec ognized as being among the lead ers in the House and yrcre in the forefront in the fight fojft all the re- Aorni legislation that waft passed. correspondent representing the home paper that he has introduced the fore going bill and will push it to an early passage. The people back home are duly elated and begin to get glad that they retired the former Congressman and sent so active a successor in his place. in a short time the new member drops around to the committee to which his various pet kind bills have been referred. Without desiring to appear too solicitous, he gently in quires when he may expect the com mittee to get together and take up the pressing need of his district. The chairman, with equal gentleness, breaks the news that it will be abso lutely impossible to do anything foi the present. Caucus Rules Forbid. In the first place, says the chair man, a quorum of the committee isn’t in town. In the second place, the caucus has forbidden the report of anything except currency, tariff re form and pressing appropriations bills or resolutions at this session. The new member is absolutely unable to see the justice of such a mandate, even though he may have been a member of the caucus. He thought the rule would apply to the other fel low, not himeslf. There is genera' woe and lamentation. It is the same old story, told over in about 50 different ways. Each new ny?mber has a peculiar complaint to make and peculiar local needs to sat isfy. There is nothing doing, however, and the recruit statesman is told that he will have to wait until the regular session rolls around. Relatives Declare He Was Mentally Unbalanced When He Left Knoxville Friday. KNOXVILLE, Aug. 16.—George R. Nance is believed by his wife’s rel atives in Knoxville to have been in sane when he killed her in a hotel j at Hamlet, N. C., yesterday. They | recite incidents connected with Ms former residence in this city that j cause them to suspect he was men- ■ tally unbalanced. At one time Nance left home an 111 his wife did not know of his where abouts until she received a cablegram from him in Liverpool. England. Soon thereafter he came here and they re mained until they went to Greenville, S. C., last March, where his wife was manager of a sanitarium operated by a company with hospitals in various cities. For four years she was head of this company's hospital at Los An geles. Her last station had been at Chattanooga, where her local rela tives thought she was yesterday. Mrs. Nance was born in Sweet water. Tenn., and had many relatives over East Tennessee. She married Nance in Alexandria, Va.. nine years ago, and they had no children. Mrs. J. T. Steele, of Jacksonville. Fla.; Mrs. B. T. Baker, of Alexandria, Va.; Mrs. Jerry Reagan, of Portland, Oreg., and Mrs. J. A. McCampbell, of Friends- ville, Tenn., are her sisters. FASTEST GROWING DENTAL BUSINESS IN ATLANTA WMY 9 Because Public Confidence fI (1 I i i s completely established— because every claim is made good. Whitlaw, the Only Dentist Who Says: ‘‘If It Hurts, Don’t Pay Me.” WHITLAW PRICES RUN AS LOW AS: Porcelain Crowns .... $3 Gold Crowns $4 Bridge Work $4 Plates (Gold Dust, Rubber) ...$5 And remember, if it hurts, it doesn't cost you anything. i§ C DR. 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