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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1906.
PRTrT?. *0 Atlanta TWO CENTS.
JTIllVjJ!,: 0n Train, FIVE CENTS.
ROOSEVELT REITERATES THREAT
TO USE FEDERAL MACHINERY TO
PROTECT JAPS IN UNITED STA TES
Furnishes Coirgress
With Report of Sec.
Metcalf.
JAPANESE STONED
BY YOUNG TOUGHS.
Boycott Against Restaurant
Keepers Called off When
Money Was Paid.
Washington, Dec. IS.—The president
sent a special message to the congress
today. In It he upholds with Vigor the
attitude taken by him In his annual
message and the attitude taken by Sec
retary Metcalf In his report to the
president on the Japanese situation In
San Francisco.
In his report, which accompanies the
message, Mr. Metcalf upholds the con
tentions of the Japanese almost In
every respect, and fully so as regards
the main points Involved.
The president calls "especial atten
tion to the contludlng sentence of Sec
retary Metcalfs report," which Is
follows:
Metcalfs Report Covert Cass.
"All considerations which may move
a nation, every consideration of duty
In the preservation of our treaty obli
gations, every consideration prompted
by fifty years or more of close friend
ship with the empire of Japan, would
unite In demanding, It seems to me, of
the United States government and all
Its people, the fullest protection and
the highest consideration for the sub
jects of Japan.”
Not only Is Mr. Metcalfs report e?.
haustlve, but he has reinforced with a
great mass of documentary evidence In
the shape of letters and records and
liberal quotations from both American
and Japanese papers of the coast. He
gives a complete and descriptive list
of the Japanese pupils In the San
Francisco schools; letters of distin
guished Japanese who were assaulted
in the streets of San Francisco; let.
ters of the state and city officials, etc.
His investigations were made during
.he first part of November and his re
port Is dated November 21. It gives a
complete'history of the whole trouble
and n thorough exposition of Its causes.
President Praises Report.
The president says Mr, Metcalfs re
port deals with three matters of con
troversy—first, the exclusion of the
Jananese children from the San Fran
cisco schools; second, the boycotting of
Japanese restaurants, and, third, acts
of violence committed against the Jap
anese.
He calls attention to the "small
number of Japunese children who at
tend school, and to the fact that owing
to their being scattered throughout the
city the requirement for them all to
go to one special school Is Impossible
of fulfillment and means that they can
not have school facilities." He says
there would be no objection whatever
to excluding from the schools uny Jap
anese on the score of age. It Is ob
viously not desirable that young men
should go to school with children, and
the only point Is the exclusion of chil
dren themselves, he says.
“The government,” says the presi
dent, "has already directed that suit
be brought to test the constitutionality
of the act In question; but my very
earnest hope is that such suit will not
he necessary, and that as a matter of
comity the cltlxens of San Francisco
"111 refuse to deprive these young Jap
anese children of education and will
permit them to go to the-schools.
Threat of Big Stick.
"The question as to the violence
against the Japanese Is most ndmlra-
bly put by Secretary Metcalf, and I
have nothing to add to his statement.
I am entirely confident that, as Secre
tary Metcalf says, the overwhelming
sentiment of the Mate of -California Is
for law and order and for the protec-
HARRIMAN & OIL TRUST
OUST MORGAN AND HILL
FROM CONTROL OF ROAD
Wins Victory by Most
• Surprising
Coup.
HE TURNS TABLES
ON OLD ENEMY
Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Goes to “Wiz
ard of North.”
BRYCE TO SUCCEED
Chicago, Dec. 18.—Bdward H. Har-
rlman today, with the Standard Oil,
controls the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroad, wresting victory from
J. Pierpont Morgan and J. J. jam, by
one of the most effective coups ex
ecuted in financial warfare, a coup
similar to that by which Hill threw
him out of the Northern Pacific In the
Christmas season of 1901.
Hill threw Harrlman out of the own
ership of the Northern Pacific Just
about Christmas time.
Harrlman now remembers the occa
sion and the season by ousting Hill and
Morgan from the St. Paul, Just when
they thought they had him beaten to a
standstill.
Hill executed his flank movement
then by retiring the preferred stock it
the Northern Pacific In which Harri-
man's control centered.
Harrlman and his friends checked
Hill by Issuing $100,000,000 stock In
crease to holders of the preferred stock
of the St. Paul themselves.
For more than a month, guarded
closely, the secret work has been go
ing on—the buying by the Hill-Morgan
clique of St. Paul In the hope of get
ting control and turning the Pacific
coast extension southward Into Harrl
man territory.
IS DEFENSE OF
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BUILD ME SCHOOLS;
ISSUE BONDS TO PAY,
REPORT OF COMMITTEE
Expert Testifies That
Prisoner Was
Insane.
MRS. COMSTOCK
TELLS HER STORY
Trial for Attempted Assault
Begins Tuesday
Morning.
James Bryce, the famous English
author and statesman, Is regarded
as most likely to succeed Sir Mor
timer Durand • as British ambas
sador to the United States.
Mr. Bryce Is a Scotch-Irishman
and Is at present chief secretary
for Ireland. He is best known on
this side of the Atlantic as the
author of the "American Common
wealth” and other well-known
books.
JURY COULD NOT AGREE;
MISTRIAL IN THOMAS
CASE WAS DECLARED
Jury Dismissed and
New Trial Must
Follow.
and property. Both the chief of police
and the acting mayor of San Francisco
assured Secretary Metcalf that every
thin" possible would be done to pro-
tec t the Japanese In tbQ city.
“I authorized and directed Secretary
Metcalf to state that It there was fall-
to protect persons and property,
then the entire power of the Federal
r overnment within the limits of the
constitution would be used promptly
and vigorously to enforce the observ
ance of our treaty, the supreme law
of the land, which treaty guaranteed to
Japanese residents every where In the
Union full and perfect protection for
their persons and property; and to this
end everything in my power would be
done, and all the forces of the United
States, both civil and military, which I
could lawfully employ, would be em
ployed/*
Mr. Metcalfs report follows, being
*uhstantlaily complete, the only mat
ter of any moment omitted being the
detailed statements of the Japanese,
u ’ho reported that they had been as-
*4ulted in the streets of San Fran
cisco. There are nineteen of these de
tailed statements, all agreeing in the
m *ln particulars.
Mr. Metcalf ssys that for several
>T‘‘ra the board of education of San
r runcisco has been considering the ad
visability of establishing separate
■chools for Chinese, Japanese and Ko-
fean children, and on May 6, 1905, and
° n October 11, 1906, passed resolutions
0r J*.ring that the Orientals be sent to
SJ.* , school. The board's action, he
thinks, was Influenced by the activity
? r the Japanese and Korean Exclusion
league.
t-esgue Petitions Board.
The league petitioned the board to
provide separate schools for the Mnn-
f‘nlan children of San Francisco. At
time these children, numbering 93,
r-ngfng in age from 7 to 20, were
A mistrial was the result of the Jury’s
night-long deliberations In, tho case of
Albert L. Thomas, charged with assault
with intent to murder Dr. William Caw-
hern, In the criminal branch of the
superior court Monday and Tuesday.
The Jury retired late Monday after
noon and had not reached a verdict on
Tuesday morning. At 10:45 the Jury
foreman announced that they had not
been able to reach a verdict and Judge
Bonn ordered a mistrial declared. An
other trial must follow.
One member of the Jury stated nfter
the Jury was dismissed that the twelve
men hud stood ten for acquittal and
for conviction.
Thomas on 8tand.
Thomas took tho stand shortly after
2 o’clock Monday afternoon. Judge
Roan told the prisoner he could rgnke
any statement about the case he saw'
fit, and the prisoner produced a
lengthy manuscript. He read, his en
tire statement, glancing up from the
pages every few minutes to look the
Jury square In the eyes and emphasize
his declarations with gestures.
Thomas made many charges against
Dr. Caw'hern. He said a neighbor told
him Mrs. Thomas said:
“The very sound of Dr. Cawhern’s
footsteps is music to my ears.”
“When Dr. Cawhern was within
few feet of me, the day of the shoot
ing,’’ said the prisoner, ”he threw his
hand to his hip pocket. I fired In self-
defense. Dr. Cawhern Is a vile In
truder and he violated the confidence I
placed In him us a physician.”
Dr. Cawhern Denies.
Solicitor 1 General Hill put Dr. Caw
hern on the stand to rebut the prison
er’s statements.
”1 never had my arm about Mrs.
Thomas In my life,” he declared, ”and
I never kissed her. It’s all bosh.”
At 3 o’clock all of the evidence was
with the Jury. Solicitor General Hill
made a short opening speech for tho
state, after which Madison Bell took
up the urgument for his client.
Mr. Bell declared thut the home was
the most sacred thing In the world and
an had the right to protect It. Dr.
Cawhern, he said, had wrecked the
prisoner's homo and the prisoner shot
him on thut account.
Solicitor General Hill. In his closing
argument, said the defense had at
first relied on the argument that Thom
Charged by the state with attempted
criminal assault on Mrs. Carrie Com
stock and by his own attorneys with
being a lunatic and a degenerate, R. 15.
Turnage, aged about 28 years, was put
on trial In the criminal branch of the
superior court Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Comstock was In court and tes
tified. She was exceedingly weak and
gave considerable of her testimony In
gasps. Standing up at one time, under
the excitement of the nd^tlon of the
terrible assault, she sank back In her
chair and was unable to talk for a few
seconds. Her husband. C. D. Corn-
stock, knelt by her side when she was
on the stand.
Turnage watched the lawyers with
much interest. During most of the
trial his mouth hung open. He moved
his feet frequently and fingered his hat
nervously.
The mother, sister, father and broth
er of the prisoner were In the court
room and testified in his behalf.
Father and son. Solicitor General
Hill an(l Attorney Harvey Hill, reprt
sent the state In the case. The pris
oner is defended by his old school mate,
Attorney Madison Bell, and Attorney
Bolding.
The evidence waa begun shortly aft
er 9:80 o’clock. Mrs. Comstock took
the stand for the state.
Mrs. Comatorfk Weak.
Mrs. Comstock was very weak and
had to be assisted to the stand by her
husband. He knelt by her side and
Georgian’s Demand
For Buildings Is In
dorsed.
CHAIRMAN DRAPER
SUBMITS REPORT
Greater Facilities for the
Schools Are Needed
Badly.
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slclan had wrecked his home. That
they saw this was no excuse was
sho\tn by the fact that they then
brought up the claim that Dr. Cawhern
threw his hand to his h|p- pocket. He
said the evidence showed that even
after Thomas claimed Dr. Cawhern
hud wrecked his home, the defendant
hud recommended the physician to a
friend who had asked his advice about
doctors.
SEIZED GUARD’S GUN,
LIBERA TED PRISONERS;
ALL FLED TOGETHER
tfpeclal to The Georgian.
Decatur, Ala., Dec. 18.—Four prisoner*
escaped from the Jail In New Decatur
this morulug.
Sidney Htorer, colored, who was serv
ing u sentence of sixteen years for gum-
tiling, robbery and other charges, took
Jailor Henry iTentl^’s revolver away from
him and demanded I’rentlee to stand
■side, which be did.
Prentice's wife appeared op the scene
and Stover, with the pistol In his hand,
the four ew-aptnl. Stover took the Jailer's
gun with him.
The others who got awny were Bud Dlx-
sou. colored; Pete Van Layer and Fred
Carter, the two latter white. These were
iu for thirteen days each for vagrancy.
Stover has escaped from Jail here twice,
and It was said that he had $50 In cash
‘ person, and for some reusou this
Glowed film fo keep this money lu
his possession.
Continued on Page Fivs.
POSTOFFICE DYNAMITED
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held her arm w'htle she testified.
Mrs. Comstock closed her eyes In
horror when she beheld Turnage. She
steadied herself by catching the arms
of the chair In which she pointed at
the prisoner and declared
“I was hit in the head by that man
there.”
She then became too w'eak to talk for
about a minute.
Mrs. Comstock stated she W'ent to
Turnage’s house, Jones avenue, near
Edwards street, to canvass for Plan-
teno.
“That man there met me at the door.
He said, 'Good morning/ In a polite
wmy, and I asked for the ludy of tho
house. He told me she was In and took
me to n back room to wait for her. He
came in a few' minutes after and looked
surprised, as he said the lady of tho
house was not In. He went Into the
yard to see If he could find her. When
he came back I began demonstrating
the good of the article I was canvass
ing."
Mrs. Comstock stopped suddenly and
her head fell back ngainst her chair.
"I’m so weak,” she said.
"Was Very Polite."
Mrs. Comstock said Turnage was
very polite und gentlemanly up to this
time. She was surprised tho iady of
the house’ did not come In sooner and
got up to leave. As she started out
Into the hall, Turnage grabbed her and
strangled her.
" hollered. 'Oh! oh! oh!’” said Mrs.
Comstock. . "He said If I did not husn
he would choke mo to death. I fell
back. Ho thought I was unconscious.
He loosened hls hands from my throat
Just us a mother would from her tend
er habo.
“When his hands were drawn across
my face the dear Lord told ine What to
do. I caught one of hls Angers In my
mouth and bit as hard as I could. Ho
yelled and pulled. I held on and he
Jerked iny teeth loose. He hit me In
the nose and I had to let loose hU
Anger. He dragged me a few feet,
stood up,” and hero Mrs. Comstock
Jumped to her feet In her excitement,
“and I said, ’Oh, good sir, why do you
treat me that way?* He cursed mo
and a momeat later rushed at me with
a pitcher. Ho said, T told you I would
kill you/ He knocked me dowh with
the pitcher, then declared, 'Now, I
guess you’ll lay there.’ He left.
The dear Lord gave me strength to
get to the door. I was weak. How I
got through the door and out In the
The problem: More schools to
relieve the congestion of pupils.
The solution: A bond issue for
the purpose of building the
schools.
That is the substance of a report
which was submitted Monday aft'
ernoon by Chairman W. W. Dra
per, of the council committee on
schools.
In this report Chairman Draper
points out some excellent work
that has been accomplished by his
committee during the past two
years, but he also recites t^ie fact
that the attendance has increased
greatly, and had there been more
accommodations, he says, this at
tendance would probably have in
creased two or three thousand
more.
The report puts the matter of
more schools directly up to coun
cil. Here it is:
Committse’s Report.
"Tho Honorable Mayor and General
Council:
"I be* to submit to you my report aa
chairman of tho council commlttoo on
schools (or tho past two years.
"We have 22 white grammar schools
and six colored grammar schools, all of
which are overcrowded for want of
room.
•We have one OIrla’ High School In
very flourishing condition, and Us
progress should be satisfactory In every
particular.
"The Boys- High School has increas.
ed In numbers and Is making good
progress along the line of general lm-
provement.
"We have made during the year
1905 and 1900 the following additions
to the school facilities:
"We have completed the Tenth Street
school and also built the Pryor Street
school, both of which are of a very
permanent character, being very com
fortable and doubtless (without de
stroyed by Are or otherwise) will be
standing fifty years hence.
"We have added six rooms to the
Girls’ High School, bought. Storm 1
School, six rooms, and added twp
rooms; added four rooms to the Davis
Street school: two rooms to the Grant
Park school, and one to Formwalt.
With all these there Is a great deficien
cy of accommodations for the great In
crease from year to year of children
making applications for attendance on
the schools. ,
“We had, in 1905, an enrollment
of 14,570, and in 1906 to date,
15,359. Had we have had facili
ties, there is no doubt thnt the en
rollment would have be#n from
two to three thousand more,
my judgment, there is no way of
meeting this urgent demand, ox
cept that the city issue ' school
bonds. A great city, like ours,
growing as we are, ean well af
ford to pay 4 per cent interest on
permanent improvements that will
add to the taxable property many
times over the interest that may
accrue.
In the schoof board, also the general
believe that It would be hnrd to
Improve the character and efficiency of
the many teachers secured by the
board.
'Respectfully submitted,
"W. W. DRAPER. Chairman.’
A. B. & A. Railroad to
Buy New Engines
and Cars.
CM REBELS
Continued on Pago Fivo.
Official* of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic are preparing to let
contract for rolling stock calling for an
expenditure of about 1900,000. Presi
dent Harry Atkins® returned at noon
Tuesday from New York, where he had
been In the Interest of the steamship
line from New York to Brunswick and
Havana.
It Is understood that the contracts to
he let this week will call for the early
delivery of twenty-five passenger and
switching locomotives, averaging In
cost about $15,000 each. The big en
glnee will be of the latest type now be
Ing used In modern railroad service;
built for speed and reliability, and are
expected to arrive In time for the
establishment of schedules over the
Atlanta and Brunswick divisions over
the road's own rails.
The contract will also Include 300
freight cars, flat, box and gondolas,
averaging about 80,000 pounds. The
road will go In for a good slice of the
business out of the coal and Iron die.
trict about Birmingham and complete
preparations are being made In ad
vance. Along with the Intention of
maintaining schedules, the officials will
endeavor to prevent a scarcity of
freight cars on their line. Quite a
number of railroad equipment and sup
ply men are In the city for the purpose
of submitting bids and the competition
will be lively.
Says They Were in
“an Undesciplined
Horde.”
Washington, Dec. 18.—Juit why the
American government felt compelled to
Intervene In Cuban affair* lam fall Is
made clear with remarkable frankness
by Secretary Taft In the section of hls
annual report which deals exclusively
with Cuba. Nearly, all of the Inside
correspondence between the president
at Oyster Bay and the secretary at
Havana, the publication of which at
that time would have created a world
sensation, Is now made public for the
first time.
In this correspondence Is clearly
shown that the secretary of war was
at hls wits’ end in hls attempt
bring about peace In the Island. The
president was kept well posted from
day to day algo at last threw up hls
hands, when It was found that Palma
was determined to resign and mode It
necessary that the United States take
hol'd and establish a provisional gov
ernment.
When the secretary’s patience with
Palma and hls cabinet had become
exhausted he cabled this sardonic mes
sage to the president:
“In their characteristic way Palma
and Moderates will now take away
their dolls and not play.”
Finally on September 28. he cabled
the president that the situation was
honeless and a provisional govern
ment should be proclaimed at once.
At first the president was averse to it.
Broxton, Ga., Dec. 18.—At 2 o'clock this morning burglars
broke into the postoffice here, blew the safe open, and together with
th postoffice books, secured $200worth of stamps and over $290 in
cash. *
There is no clew to the burglars.
OF COURSE, THE GEORGIAN WILL
To the Editor of The Georgian:
In the month of May The Atlanta Oeorglnn wax kind enough to publlih an editorial entitled, "An Ap
peal From t.’louded Minds," which wax an appeal for contribution! to the Georgia State Sanitarium Library,
which I am happy to say brought us many contribution* of valuable books, mngailne*. papers, etc. It speaks
well for The Atlanta Georgian that the editorial-appeal was copied In many papers of the state, nnd Influenced
distant papers to place the library on Its "complimentary" list, such as The Brooklyn Dallv Eagle. The Elec
trical Age, The Electrical World, The Technical World Magaxlne. The Forum, etc, which come to the library
aa donations.
In addition to the eloquent editorial of the Hon. John Temple Graves, you placed The Georgian on our
"complimentary" list. The wrapper does not say for how long a time, as the wrapper of the above papers and
tnagaslnes do for the year 1*07. We therefore respectfully request that the time be extended, or the -renewal’’
be made for the year 1907, and have the address changed from ”N. Maddox’’ to "Library Georgia State Sanita
rium," for ft has sometimes been placed In mall for my family In town, whereas, I am out two mile* front Mil-
ledgevtllc. Very truly yours,
K. MADDOX Librarian.
Milledgevtlle, Go.
He Only Wishes Free
Exercise of Public
Worship.
NOTE OF PROTEST
ALREADY PREPARED
Spain, in View of Develop
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Rome, Italy, Dec. 18.—The Vatican Is
waiting the enforcement of the laws
regarding public worship In France be
fore taking further action. If the law
allows sacred functions to be held un
conditionally In the churches and does
not exact any declaration, the Vatican
will be satisfied.
The pope only wishes the free exer
cise of public worship, ax religion will
flourish provided the government does
not persecute It. A prelate said that
It seemed strange that since the Vati
can was disposed to be satisfied with
so little that the government docs not
come to a solution of It.
He hinted at the possibility of a re
conciliation If France returned the se
questrated archives to the holy sec with
mild apology, but auch procedure
Is not likely. Unless a modus vlvendl
reached, the situation will rtmaln
unchanged.
The note of proteet addressed to the
powers against the seizure of archives
of the nunciature has not been pre
pared, and no decision will be talon
before the government’s Intentions -ire
fully known. The Spanish government
has notified the Vatican that If It ob
jects to taking charge at present of
the archives of the papal nunclaturu
at Paris, owing to the rupture of diplo
matic relations between France and the
vatlcnn, Spain would have accepted the
task If requested by the Vatican to do
so. when the papal nuncio at Paris,
Mgr. Lorenxelll, was recalled, as Frau- a
then could not have mode any objec
tion.
But, after the expulsion of Mgr. Mon-
taglnl, the secretary of the nunciature,
and the search of the archives, such
a step as taking charge of tho papal
Interests In France must be regarded
as hostile to the French govommont,
which would be contrary to the policy
of the Spanish government
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TRAINS COLLIDE;
TVVO MEN DEAD
Terre Haute, Ind, Dec. 18.—A head-
on collision between two freight trains
on the Vandalla railroad at Rossvllle
today killed Engineer J. F. Ross and
Brakeman Fred Miller.
as Palma was too plainly endeavoring
to force- such a situation upon the
United States.
Secretary Taft shivered at the pros
pective consequences when the presi
dent cabled that In hls opinion It
seemed, doubtful whether un-i.-r th-
Platt amendment the resignation of
the regular government would not
amount to substituting the Insurrec
tionary party as the government da
facto.
'The even remote possibility sug
gested In your telegram that un-ti-r
any possible hypothesis the Platt
amendment may require the present
Insurrectionary force to be treated aa
a government de facto, makes ma
shiver at the consequences,” he re
plied. "It Is not a government with
any of Its characteristics, but only sn
undisciplined horde of men under par
tisan leaders.”
At the Instance of tbe president tha
secretary, by investigating, found that
no Americans except tbe restless colo
ny on the Isle of Pines were furnish
ing funds to the revolutionists.
