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HEAR ST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1013.
Autos Are Barred
By Canadian Island
Residents of Prince Edward Will Nst
Allow Machines to Enter
Province.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.—“It seems
strange In these days when automo
biles are seen on every street, on
every country road ♦hat 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
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
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Green, who have started from Staten
Island to cruise to New Orleans and back in a canoe.
Husband Who Got Message of
Her Death Overjoyed to See
Her Alight From Train
Recently Elected Congressmen
Have Hard Time Telling Why
District Doesnt Profit.
Young American Travels in Steer
age, but Is Confident of an
Early Acquittal.
Important Bills
Made Laws by
1913 Legislature
Act for Equalization of Taxes Is
Regarded of Supreme Impor
tance, Meaning Millions of Add
ed Revenue to Ga. Each Year.
CHICAGO, Augr. 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 he could rent and furnUrh a small
apartment at No. 629 Hartland court.
Then he saved some more and sent
a steamshiD ticket to his wife. She
for America.
Continued From Page 1,
WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.—The new
members of the House—there are ap
proximately 150 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
as 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 posl-
offlce. He follows this with a dozen
or so bills proposing that certain wor
thy pensioners in his district shall
have their annual pensions increased.
Then he comes along with the crying
complaint, that the little Be i 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
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 tight against extradition.
Extradition Fight Begins.
The fight began the day after the
confession appeared. It seemed at
first that the young man surely must
go 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
Here arc the most important
hillh that passed both houses of
the General Assembly, and which
become, lawn upon receiving the
signature of the Governor:
To provide for a State Tax Com
missioner and CourKy Boards of
Tax Assessors.
A “blue sky” measure, to regu
late the sale of stocks and bonds.
To allow freight trains to run
on Sunday.
To increase the occupation tax
on corporations.
To place a speciai 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 Investigate 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.
Measure Was Passed Only After
One of Most Dramatic Fights
General Assembly Has Known.
Will Revolutionize System.
, 101 immaic uiai uic lawucio a*'
I strenuously opposed to_allowlng auto
Prince
mobiles on Prince Edward Island.
More than 90 per cent of the popula
tion voted no on th.^ proposition, and
in some of these places the vote in
the negative was unanimous.
Wealthy Father at
Last Finds Daughter
embarked for America. Dietz ex
pected her to arrive here yesterday.
On Thursday night K. W. Kempt,
the ticket agent at No. 120 North La
Salle street, handed Dietz & telegram
from Philadelphia reading:
“Your wife Eva died to-day—on
9:40 B. and O. Comm’s Immigration.”
That qiessage 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 had written "^ied” instead
of “arrived.”
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 existlnfl in indi
vidual counties, and not operative in
Miry other county. The remaining
ones were general bills and local bills
of general application.
Practically all of the measures have
been engrossed and sent 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
Legiglature, 19 are of importance, and
their effect will be generally felt
throughout the State.
Governor Praise* Work.
They ha*** been praised by Gover
nor Slaton Speaker Burwell, of the
House, and President Anderson, of
the Senate, as comprising one of the
b2Ft Legislatures the State has had
since the Civil War. They have
passed five tax measures that will
revolutionize the taxation sjstem of
the State, and add millions to the
revenue*; they have raised the stand
ard of physicians in the State and
centralized the control of practicing
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 hill 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 a Ad Senate and by legislative
experts as the best measure that has
Search of 38 Years Ends In Aston
ishment for His Policeman
Son-In-Law.
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 hack for trial. Conflicting
reports 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 fold 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. Bfit all attempts have proved
fruitless. Secretary Bryan. Judge
i 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
♦he murdered woman, besides the
consideration of Charlton’s sanity.
Attorneys w r ill try to show that there
was great provocation for the killing.
It 1$ 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.
POTTSVILLE. PA., Aug. 16.—An-
| thony Lloyd, a policeman, living on
$65 a month,
! John Strause, aged
was surprised when
w 1 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-
j 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.
RECEIVES FORTUNE IN OLD
AGE AFTER LIFE OF DENIAL
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 roiled up if that
will conduce to their comfort. He
promises to do likewise.
INDEPENDENCE, OREG., Aug. 16.
After years of toll and broken health
and a continuous struggle in courts,
James A. Simmons, of this city, has
received $17,000.
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.
been passed In Georgia In 50 years.
It will revolutionize 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
dear the State of debt and allow'
plenty of money to conduct the busi
ness of the 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
('an 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 Ta
McMillan bros. seed co.
‘Arch" 12 S. BROAD STREET “Bob”
THE BRIDGE BLOCK,
Atlanta 593.
Bell Phone 3076.
Nance Believed Mad
When He Slew Wife
Because Public Confidence
is completely established—
:ry claim is made good.
Important.
The Inheritance tax alone is expect
ed to bring into the treasury hun
dreds of thousand** of dollars.
The bill providing for the Stat<
Tax Commissioner developed th»
hardest fight. Opponents of tax re
form in the House, where the bill wui
first introduced by Lipscomb o
Clfirke County, led by Hheppard o
Sumter and Stovall of Elbert Coun
ty, succeeded in defeating the origl
nal bill and securing the passage o
what was known as the Sheppart
substitute, providing for count
boards of equalization only. Thl
Relatives Declare He Was Mentally
Unbalahced When He Left
Knoxville Friday.
Cures
Blood
Poison
because
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
at Hamlet, N. C., yesterday. They
recite Incidents connected with nis
former residence in this city that
cause them to suspect he was men
tally unbalanced.
At one time Nance left home an 1
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,
Yearning to See Dixie and West Prompts Young
Pair to Make Hazardous Journey.
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 td do anything for
the present.
Caucus Rules Forbid.
In the first place, says the chair
man, a quorum of the committee isn’t
in town. Ip 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 general
woe and lamentation.
It is the same old story, told over in
about 50 different ways. Each new
member 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.
—“We have 1 the Everglades and a river or two to
drs. Walter | Palm Beach, up Indian River to Jack-
There was sonville, along the Atlantic coast to
Chesapeake Bay, up to Washington
Iter Green, to call on President Wilson and pre
sent a letter from Mayor Gaynor. Last
as it drifted they will go by canal to Delaware
urned away River, Raritan Canal an river to
home, to- New York Bay and home.
A crowd cheered the gay -young
ier husband couple at their start. A party of
suffragettes, admirers of Mrs. Green
prly. for her daring, presented her with a
ithin a few "Votes for Women’’ pennant, which
noe trip on her craft wiP l. The life-saving
»terday and crew of Clifton, t. Greens’ home,
only South, gave them a pennant, which also be-
them the came a part of the equipment,
sslppi, the Light Equipment Carried,
ist and the In order to make the canoe as light
Yeean. The as possible, they took only four boxes
ustastic ca- containing provisions, camp equlp-
i Inveterate page and clothing, and two large
'from their duffel bags containing a small clr-
more in the cular tent and bedding. All was
covered with canvas, which will oe
ion. used as floor of the tent,
idson River. It is the intention of the couple to
th€<tourn?y put into a city, town or village each
py will go night, pitch their tent and sleep for
to Buffalo, eight hours. When the stores they
tabula, then carry run out, they will get new sup-
chester. Pa. plies at the places where they will
up the Ohio stop.
ilo to Cairo. The Greens are anticipating with
Louis, down the greatest eagerness the portion »f
leans, across their trip that will take them to the
1 along th* South, about the gulf and the South
^a., through Atlantic coast.
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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
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Chattanooga, where her local rela
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Mrs. Nance whs born in Sweet
water, Tenn., and had many relatives
over East Tennessee. She married
Nance in Alexandria, Va.. nine years
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Jones County, a staunch friend of tax
revision, tied up the vote after i
thrilling ride to the Capitol in an
auto. Speaker Burwell made th’
measure a law by casting his vote in
favor of it.
Features of Tax Bill.
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follows:
It creates —
Commissioner at $2,500 a year, and
Countv 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 members, appointed by the
Board of County Commissioners or
the Ordinary.
The county board must examine the
tax returns and equalize them.
The taxpayer, if dissatisfied with
the decision of the county board, can j
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.
The State Tax Commissioner shall
carefully examine all tax returns sub
mitted by the countv boards and rec J
ommend decreases or increases.
The Stn;# Tax Ccmmtss.oner shall ! . ..
carefully investigate all taxation ques- • ried
tlons and recommend laws to tne
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.
The medical practices act abolishes
the old system of a separate board for
each school of medicine, and creates
a joint board to pass upon the physi
cian^ who apply for permission to
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 appropria
tion of $10, n '*0. The original bill car-
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VACATION IN MOUNTAINS
HOOD RIVER. OREG., Aug. 16 —
W. W. Dakin, who owns the largest
apiary here, left for his vacation in I
the forest reserves above Parkdale.
Mr. Dakin took two hives of bees to
the mountains to gather honey from
fireweed in the burned-over regions.
"I am going to try for some of the
prizes offered at the State fair,” said
Mr. Dakin.
The Savoy Cafe has been remodeled, and is now fully
equipped with the best and most up-to-date equipment in the
South. It is clean, wholesome and inviting. Everything
spotless and sanitary. A meal or lunch here is a real delight.
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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-
' feet Atlanta. They are a bill creat-
j ing a new’ charter for the city, a bill
! establishing municipal courts, and a
i bill providing an additional Superior
Court judge for the Atlanta Circuit,
i The three Fulton County men. Black-
! burn and Smith especially, were ree-
■ ognized as being among the lead-
I ers in the House, and were in the
i forefront in the fight fgr ail the re-
a $30,UU0 appropriation, but was form legislation that wgs passed.
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