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TFIE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
BILLI0N-D0LLAR DEMAND MADE ON U. S. CONGRESS
REGULAR SESSION ‘American Venus’ Wedded to Art
NOW UNDER WAY Ray Beveridge Gets Her Divorce
FAIRFAX HARRISON
HEADS SOUTHERN
Ambitious Program Is Mapped Out
by the Lawmaking Body at
Washington.
\\ ASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The ex-
traordinary session of the Sixty-third
t angress ended at noon to-day and
the first regular session at once be
gan. The House had already con-
luded its work of the old session,
hut the Senate held & 15-minute ex
ecutive session during the forenoon,
adjourning from 10:55 to 11:55.
At the executive session the Sen
ators confirmed fen postmasters, but
they failed to act on more than 100
appointments which President Wil
son had made. To secure their con
tinuation the President will have to
send them to the Senate again. The
list of appointees who failed to se
cure confirmation included Henry M
Plndell, of Illinois, who was named
tor Ambassador to Russia; Alex
Sv\c*»k. of Oregon, who was appointed
Minister to Siam; fifty-five postmas
ter- several secretaries to embassies
and secretaries to legations.
There was little of ceremony about
ushering in of the session at which
President Wilson will carry to a con
clusion his campaign for currency re
form and also work fur other impor
tant legislation.
Ambitious Prograi . Ahead.
President Wilson will read his
message at a joint session at 1 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon.
Although the program had not ffe m
definitely formulated, members looked
forward to tackling one of the most
ambitious legislative tasks that any
* orgress in a long time has attempt
ed. Here are so:_e of the subjects
the new Congress vill take up:
Final action on the currency bill.
Anti-trust legiblation.
Rural credits.
Naval program.
Passage of a dozen appropriation
bil’s.
Train safety and safety on the
ocean.
Regulation of the shipping trust.
Final action on the reports of lobby
Investigating committees.
The cost of living problem.
Legislation to protect women work
ers.
Big Appropriation Increase.
The new Congress is railed upon
to appropriate over a billion dollars
for the running **xi enses of the gov
ernment for the coming fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1914, and ending
June 30, 1915. Estimates of the cost
of keeping the governmental machin
ery in motion transmitted by Secre
tary of the Treasury McAdoo to
Speaker Champ Clark, aggregate the
grand total of $1,108,681,777.02.
Appropriations made by Congress
at the last regular session totaled
II 074.305,869 73. The increase is
therefore $34,375,907.29.
The greatest increase in the gov
ernment's expenses the coming year
will be in the Postoffice Department,
which asks $306,953,117, as against
appropriations last year of $285,441,-
271. Increases are the general order
in all the departments of the gov-
•*rnm*»nt, although the pension bud
get the coming year is expected to
show a notable decrease. Last year
Congress appropriated $180,300,000
for pensions, while the estimates for
the coming fiscal year are $169,150,-
000. or a decrease of about $11,-
000.000.
For increased efficiency in the col
lection of statistics as to the cotton
production, a greatI3 increased ap
propriation is asked Last year the
sum of $354,000 was appropriated for
this purpose The coming year Sec
retary Red field estimates $925,000 will
be neded.
Rivers and harbors estimates in
clude Savannah, Ga., $250,000; Ala
bama River, Ala., $100,000; Black
Warrior and Tombigee Rivers,
Via, $500,000: Gulfport, Miss., har
hor. $85,000; Southwest Pass, Missis
sippi River, $400,000. Mississippi River
(from Head of Passes to mouth of
the Ohio), $6,000,000; Mississippi
River (from mouth of Ohio to Min
neapolis), $2,670,000.
PROBING OIL CONCERN.
A 1ST IN. TEXAS, Dec. 1.—An inves
tigation of the Texas Company, the big
oii concern formerly headed by John W. I
Oates and Charles G. Gates, for alleged 1
violation of the anti-trust laws is being i
made by the Attorney General’s depart
mem following the submission of evi
dence by J. R. Sharp.
Suit for forfeiture and penalties prob
ably will be filed by the State shortly.
Rav Bcvpridftp. who says shp is “wpdded to art" lias just!
won a suit in London for the annulment of her marriage.
Persistent Wooer Captures Stage Beauty, but
Fails to Hold Her Long.
LONDON. Dec. 1.—Because she in
sists on being ‘ wedded to her art” and
not to a man, Ray Beveridge, known
as the American Venus,” a sister of
Kuhne Beveridge, the sculptress, has
obtained an annulment of her mar
riage to Madison Seliger. a wealthy
merchant of Madison, Wis.
The young w oman met Seliger when
she was appearing on the stage In
New York. When he courted her she
told him:
“I am wedded to my art. I do not
want a husband.”
But Seliger was persistent. Miss
Beverdige came to London. He fol
lowed her here and convinced her
that she could b£’“wedded to her art”
and likewise to him. So they were
married on April 20, 1912, at the Sa
voy Hotel.
Seliger's argument did not bold
good, however, he says. His wife
devoted all of her time to appearing
in public, and, finally, it is said, she
told Seliger she did not care to have
a husband. Then she brought suit for
an annulment, but the Chancery Court
threw the case out,
Another action was brought in the
Divorce Court, which granted the ap
peal. The young woman is a grand
daughter of former Governor Bever
idge, of Illinois.
He Succeeds the Late W. W. Fin
ley—Is Familiar With the
Road’s Needs.
-NEW. YORK. Dec. 1—Fairfax
Harrison, president of the Chicago,
Indianapolis and Louisville Railway,
was to-day elected president of the
Southern Railway to succeed the late
President W. W. Finley. He was
chosen at a special meeting of the
Board of Directors in this city.
Mr. Harrison was also elected head
of the Mobile and Ohio, the Ala
bama Great Southern Railway and
the Virginia and Southwestern Rail
way companies in place of Mr, Fin-
I ley-
Harrison's election had been gen-
| erally forecast He is well acquainted
I with the problems confronting the
road and an optimistic believer in the
} future of the South. Confidential
friends say he lias ambitious plans for
expansion of the road. The appoint-
I merit to the presidency becomes ef-
j fective to-morrow.
Francis Burton Harrison, New
| York Congressman, recently appoint
ed to be Governor of the Philippines,
is his brother. Finley's successor is
a Virginian by birth. His father wa*
secretary to Jefferson Davis during
ttie days of the Confederacy.
44 Years Old and Yale Man.
Mr. Harrison was born in 1869 and
was graduated from Yale with the
A. R degree in 1890, and from Co
lumbia with the A. M. degree in 1891
He was admitted to the bar in New
York in 1892 and continued the prac
tice of law in this city until 1896,
when he entered the services of the
Southern Railway in the legal depart
ment as solicitor. In 1903 he was
made assistant to the president, and
1906 became vice president, which
position he held until 1910, when he
resigned on being elected president
of the Chicago. Indianapolis and
Louisville. However, he continued as
a director of the Southern Railway, so
that his service with the parent com
pany has been uninterrupted.
Finley's Trusted Adviser.
Mr. Harrison was one of Mr. Fin
ley's closest and most trusted advi
sers, and is thoroughly in sympathy
with the policies which made Mr
Finley's administration so success
ful, both for the Southern Railway
and the territory served by its lines.
Though Mr. Harrison entered the
service of the Southern in the legal
department, his experience Iu*s not
been confined to that branch of the
service. He has given much study
to financial, traffic and operating
problems and is intimately acquaint
ed with conditions on the Southern
Railway and throughout the section
which it traverses.
VERDICT HITS TRUST.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The fight
of the so-called Book Trust to main
tain arbitrary sale prices on copy
righted books culminated to-day in a
decision in the Supreme Court, in
which the court held against the trust.
The main question at issue was as to
whether the trust should have a
“copyright” monopoly in the sale of
such books.
PRINCE MAY ATTEND.
LONDON, Dec. 7.—A suggestion
that the Prince of Wales should at
tend the official opening of the Pan
ama (’anal is under consideration by
King George, it is reported, to offset
the ill feeling caused by the refusal
of England to participate in the
Panama-Pacific Exposition at San
Francisco.
STATE LAW IS O. K.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The Su
preme Court of the United States to-
I day decided that the Kentucky law
taxing credit companies $100 annual -
| ly was constitutional and therefore
I is not an interference with the In-
J terstate Commerce Commission regu
lations.
CAN TAX BANK STOCK.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1—The Su
preme Court of the United States to
day decided that the city of New
York has the right to tax bank stock
owned by banks of other States.
The question was brought before
the court by the Amoskeag Savings
Bank, of Manchester, N. H.
STEEL PLATES CAUSE DEATH.
ROCHESTER, IND., Dec. 1.—Syl
vester Spohn died In the hospital
here last night of tetanus. He fell
a week ago and broke his leg.
Surgeons set his leg, using steel
plates which were screwed into the
bone. Infection followed and Spohn
died in terrible agony.
HIS ASHES SCATTERED.
NEW YORK. Dec. L—The ashes of
Charles W Presley, a wealthy con-
u-aotor. were scattered to the wind hi
from the Brooklyn bridge
Presley had requested this action
BankHead’sDaughter Wilson Is Forced to
Chooses Job as Cook Abandon Canal Trip
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APPLETON, WTS., Dec. 1.—Eliz
abeth Erb, daughter of the president
of the First National Bank, who dis
appeared suddenly last spring, has
written from Montreal that she went
away because she was tired of teach
ing school and Is living in the home
of a family of consequence in Mon
treal as cook and upper housemaid.
FREED FOR KILLING.
LOUISVILR. KY , Dec.. 1.—W. M
Langley, of Grayson Springs. Ky.. who
killed John Picks In less than one min
ute after he had laid eyes on him for the
first time, was acquitted to-day on the
ground of self-defense.
lAngtey said he saw Picks abusing his
wife on the street, warned him to stop
and *bo* him when Picks started to
draw a pistol.
LONE BANDIT BUSY.
CHICAGO. Deo. L—A lone bandit
bravtng daylight and the chance of en
countering a dozen railroad men to-
Aay entered the station of the Lake
Sfcnce In South Chicago, tied and gagged
•h* \geu* and escaped vrith
WASHINGTON, pec. L—President j
Wilson to-day had to abandon all
idea of visiting the Panama Canal
Zone during the holidays. He will
take no vacation unless the Senate
passes the currency bill before
Christmas.
FIGHT OVER CRAWFORD WILL.
An attack on the test made by Dr. I
H. F. Harris, State Chemist, upon the j
body of Joshua B. Crawford was made
by Dr. J M. MeCandless, an analytical j
chemist, in a statement of interroga
tories submitted in the hearing of the |
famous Crawford will controversy. runijvjv efldoc
Monday morning when the cast wa9 wf ASV of good faith and to
resumed before Auditor James L. An- j help coyer parkin*, postage, etc . and a full H op
derson, after a long delay on acoount bt by m “ l »"*»'*
of the Frank trial. ! "" * Fr „ T ,. dw .
MANY HUNTERS KILLEQ.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—One hundred and
thirty-five lives were sacrificed to the 1
sport of hunting In the United States i
and 146 men were seriously wounded, ac
cording to figures compiled to-day. The
him+lnfir season »ndod last midnight
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