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VOL XVI.
VETS HOLD REUNION
Georgia Division in Annual
Meeting at Augusta.
GIVEN ROYAL WELCOME
Grizzied Heroes of the Gray Listen to
Eulogistic Addresses and Are
Wrought Up to High Pitch
of Enthusiasm.
The annual reunion of the Georgia
division of the United Confederate
Veterans began Tuesday morning in
Augusta. It is estimated that a thou
sand veterans of the lost cause were
gathered in the city, which extended
to them a royal welcome. The first
session was held in the ; Richmond
county court house.
The convention was called to order
at 10 o’clock by General West. After
routine business,. Major William M.
Pun bar introduced Judge Henry C.
Hammond, who made - ani eloquent ad
dress of welcome on behalf of -he Con
federate Veterans and the Sons and
Daughters of the Confederacy resident
at Augusta.
lie was followed by Governor Hoke
Smith. The response to the address
of welcome was made by General A.
J. West. •' '
Among the elections for suborgan
izations held duritfg the day were the
following: J. Gideon Morris- of Mari
etta was elected to the command of
the North Georgia'Brigade for the com
ing yeay. 1 - ;
\V. W. Hurlburt was elected to the
command of the west Georgia division
for the coming year. r :
Brigadier General McTntyre of Sa
vannah was, elected brigade comman
der of the south Georgia division. The
east Georgia brigade postponed its
election until Wednesday.
At the business session the following
resolutions on pensions were unani
mously adopted after the regular rules
had been suspended:
“Whereas, the general assembly of
the state of Georgia passed an act
to provide how and in what way pen
sions due to the confederate soldiers
by the state under existing laws shall
tx paid and for other purposes, ap
proved August 22, 1907, copy hereto
attached, and
“Whereas, said act provided for the
payment of pensions quarterly com
ni< ncing on the first day of March,
1908, and, *
“Whereas, said act will cause great
inconvenience and expense to hun
dreds of confederate veterans and
widows and much unnecessary labor
and time upon the several ordinaries
of the state, therefore be it - • •
“Resolved, by the United Confeder
ate Veterans assembled, That the gen
eral assembly be and is hereby er.Vn
estly requested to repeal said aci. at
the next session in June,.-1908:”
A smoker Friday night at the Com
mercial Club was enjoyed by hundreds
of the old veterans. 1 ' -
The palatial rooms of the club were
thrown open to the visitors, and for
two hours they enjoyed the best and
widest hospitality that Augusta can
afford.
Governor Smith addressed the boys
in gray and was cheered to the echo.
Governor Ansel of South Carolina,
with members of his staff, had just ar
rived in the city, and, after a short
time spent in the Albion hotel, was
escorted by the chairman of the recep
tion committee to the Commercial Club.
There he met Governor Smith, and,
surrounded by the brave wearers of
the gray, spent two pleasant hours in
informal conversatibn reminiscent of
the days of the sixties.
The First Artillery band, from
Charleston, was present, and rendered
several concert selections, while the
veterans threw formality to the winds
a nd enjoyed themselves to thd utmost.
ihe Georgia division, United Sons
°i Confederate Veterans,, met in an
nual session Tuesday afternoon at the
county courthouse.
CALEB POWERS FACES JURY. ’
For Fourth Time He Answers to Com
iicity in Goebel’s Murder.
F °r the fourth time Caleb Powers
Is on trial at Georgetown, Scott coun
ty. Kentucky, for alleged complicity
* n the assassination of Senator Goebel,
democratic aspirant for the governor-
Hhl P of Kentucky in 1900. Goebel was
sh( Jt January 30, 1900, dying February
3. 1800, from the wounds.
T he fatal bullet is alleged .to have
conn> from' the office of Caleb Powers,
*ho was then secretary of state.
LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE
® e 9ins Extra Session in Baton Rougn
With New Laws Reported.
Corporation reform began its prog
r* Ss through the extra session of the’
Louisiana general assembly Tuesday,
w hen the proposed new laws were fa*
vorabiy reported to the state senate.
Expulsion from the state of foreign •
. Cor l>oraiions which carry state cases to
the federal courts, and increased pow- ,
for the state railroad commission, (
* ere the measures reported.
DADE COUNTY SENTINEL
WAR TO THE VERY HILT
To Be Waged by Labor Federation
Against Edict of National Manufac
turers’ Association.
That there will be a war to the knife
between the American Federation of
Labor and the National Association of
Manufacturers was evidenced Tuesday
at the session of the federation in Nor
folk, Va.
The federation already has taken the
aggressive by looking to the establish
ment of a fund to fight the manufac
turers through its executive council.
The allegation is that undue pressure
is being brought to bear by the manu
facturers of the country against or
ganized labor, to the detriment of the
latter. . The manufacturers combat
this.
In a statement by the federation,
James Van Cleave, president of the
National Association of Manufacturers,
maintains that the object of the asso
ciation is to put labor organizations
on a basis whereby they may be held
responsible for their contracts, and
instances the pending court proceed
ings in New York of the Typothetae
against the pressmen for the recovery
of damages caused by the alleged
breaking of contracts by the press
men.
On the issue made by Mr. Gompers,
in seeking funds to fight the . suit
brought by Mr. Van Cleave, as presi
dent of the Buck Stove and Range com
pany of St. Louis against President
Gompers and the federation’s execu
tive council, the association comes out
fiatfooted with the statement that it
“will fight the boycott and the black
list to a finish.”
During the day the federation took
aggressive steps toward the establish
ment of a universal eight-hour work
ing day in America, and began action
looking to ways and means for the rak
ing of a tremendous fund to fight the
present war that its executive council
reported had been begun through the
Manufacturers’ Association, with an
available fund- of $1,500,000 on hand
by the latter against organized labor,
with particular aim by the manufac
turers’ association against the efforts
of the American Federation of Labor
of the conditions of the working class
es and “wealth producers” of the coun
try.
The federation authorized President
Gompers to appoint special committees
for the consideration of both of these
questions, the committees to report
during the present sessions.
EXTREME PENALTY GIVEN.
Embezzling Postmaster and Registry
Clerk Hard Hit by Judge.
James M. Ragan, former postmas
ter of Anniston, Alabama, and Frank
Roberts, former registry clerk in the
Anniston postoffice, were carried before
Judge Oscar R. Hundley in the Uni
ted States district court Tuesday after
noon and, after entering pleas of guil
ty, were sentenced as follows:
Ragan, five years in the Atlanta pen
itentiary and to pay a fine of $43,600;
Roberts, eighteen months in the At
lanta penitentiary and to pay a fine
of $4,328. The amount of Ragan’s em
bezzlement was $3,022.81. Roberts*
embezzlement was $lB4.
Both made short statements and
pleaded for mercy. Judge Hundley
stated in Ragan’s case that since he
has been judge he has never given the
extreme penalty, but that he would
have to do so in this case.
MONEY, OF MINERS STOLEN.
Wage Checks and Currency Amounting
to $22,0C0 Missing from Stage Coach.
Checks and currency to the amount
of $22,000, intended to pay the wage3
of the Carbon Coal and Coke compa
ny’s miners at Cokedale, Colorado,were
lost or stolen Tuesday while in transit
in a stage from the Lonsdale railroad
station to the camp, a distance of only
two miles. Charles Macomber, driver
of the stage, was arrested on suspi
cion, but he declares he knows nothing
about the theft.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE FAVORED
And Whfte Slave Traffic Condemned
by National W. C_. T. U.
The Women’s "Christian Temperance
Union ato Nashville Tuesday njorning
declared unanimously for woman suf
frage; adopted a resolution favoring
the same standard of morals for both
men and women; 1 condemned the white
slave traffic and came out strong, as
usual, on prohibition and total absti
nence.
The old officers were re-elected,with
the. exception of Mrs. Seberry, secre
tary of the Y branch, who declined to
stand for re-election.
FOR DISCOUNTING CERTIFICATES
Montgomery Merchants Stand Chance
of Being Prosecuted.
Mayor Teague of Montgomery, Ala.,
has directed the police to arrest and
proseoute business men who are said
to be discounting clearing house cer
tificates issued by the banks. The may
or denounces the practice as fraudulent
and points out that it is a violation of
the law regulating money brokers.
BANKS DOING BEST
New York Institutions Hard
at Work to Aid South.
CURRENCY BEING SHIPPED
Demand i3 Being Met to Utmost Abil
ity—Gotten Movement, However, is
Seriously Checked by Lack of
Small Bills. •
The leading New York banks were
exerting themselves actively Friday to
meet the demands of their country cor
respondents and depositors for curren
cy. They declare that the suggestions
made from several western sources
that they are not meeting legitimate
demands are unfounded and that they
are, on the contrary, taking
practicable measure to aid the west
and south. One of these large banks,
with several thousand correspondents,
has depleted its reserves by about a
quarter during the last few weeks to
supply currency where it is most
needed and has made large shipments
to banks in San Antonio, Galveston,
Memphis, Mobile, Atlanta and other
southern points.
The country banks have been allow
ed to draw down their balances to a
point which affords, in many cases,
hardly more than enough to meet the
drafts sold in the ordinary course of
business. They have bought paper
for rediscount to their New York cor
respondents in large amounts and the
principai difficulty of the New York
banks has come from the demand for
currency to be shipped against the
balance creaW by these rediscounts.
As these rediscounts have been ac
commodations and have not brought a
cent of currency to the discounting
banks, they do not feel that they should
be called on ‘to supply the currency
in small amounts under such condi
tions, It is not usual except in spe
cial cases to ship all that is asked,
but about one.half is usually shipped,
the proportion varying, according to
the cash strength of the bank calling
for coin or as the demand is for le
gitimate purposes. Special favor is
shown to the small interior banks,
where there is no clearing house, be
cause it is realized that they are not
in a position to count upon co-opera
tion and the use of clearing house
tificates, as in the case of communities
having a number of strong institu
tions.
It is admitted that the cotton move
ment is seriously checked by the lack
of small bills and silver to pay the
small growers and by the inability of
the southern banks to handle the im
mense volume of business accumulat
ing at southern points.
The aid that is being rendered to
the situation is indicated by the fact
that the total engagements of gold
have now reached $40,000,000. The
total was materially increased Friday
by the announcement of several pur
chases which had not heretofore been
made public. Of the amount engaged,
$21,311,000 has already arrived, inclu
ding $12,361,150 brought by the Lusi
tania Friday morning. This gold will
afford the basis of nearly $200,000,000
in loans and will materially assist the
New York banks’ efforts to meet the
pressure for currency.
The fact that practically $60,000,-
000 In currency disapeared from the
New York banks within a week, as
indicated by the last bank statement, (
is considered sufficient evidence that
New York is doing its best.' The to
tal drain of last week is computed
upon the basis of an actual loss in
cash of about $30,000,000 in facq of
the fact that $50,000,000 of public mon
ey had been poured into the New York
banks. It is not possible to determine
what proportion of this $60,000,000
went west and what proportion went
into hoards in New York.
SIX DiE IN HOTEL FIRE.
Victims Were All Employees of the
House— Caused by Explosion,
i; At toast six lives were lost in a
fire that badly damaged the Hotel
Garde in New Haven, Conn., early Mon
day morning, and several others were
injured. The dead were employes of
the hotel. It is believed that all of
th guests escaped.
The fire followed a mysterious ex
plosion on the fifth floor, where the
servants’ quarters were located.
MAY PROSECUTE BANKERS.
Reports Current of Possible Criminal
Proceedings in Gotham.
A New York special of Friday says:
Reports that criminal prosecutions as
a result of conditions disclosed by the
present banking situation in this city
are imminent have gained wide circu
latlon in local financial circles.
TRENTON. GA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1907.
TAFT IN HIS GLORY.
Secretary's Carriage Was Drawn by
Filipino School Boys on His Tri
umphant Departure.
The departure of Secretary of War
Taft from Manila on the cruiser Rain
bow for Vladivostok Saturday was at
tended by a remarkable demonstration
on the part of the Filipinos. The
horses were withdrawn from the car
riage in which were seated Mr, and
Mrs. Taft, and it was pulled by Manila
schoolboys from the luneta to the
dock through cheering crowds of citi
zens.
Mr. Taft started from the residence
of Governor General Smith at 8 o’clock
Saturday morning. He reviewed the
long military, civic and school parade
on the luneta at 9, making a brief
address in which he thanked the peo
ple for their reception, praised the
course of the assembly and express
ed his confidence in the future of the
island.
Mr. Taft and party embarked at
11:30 and sailed at 11:50, the launch
on which they were being escorted
down the bay by a flotilla of harbor
launches with military and civic offi
cials on board to the Rainbow, where
they said their last goodbyes.
In an Interview with a representa
tive of the Associated Press before
his departure Mr. Taft said:
“I feel deeply grateful for the re
ception and entertainment given me by
the people of Philippines. It far ex
ceeds in its 'warmth and spontaneity
anything I expected, and I cannot suf
ficiently express my gratitude and sat
isfaction.
“The condition of affairs of the Phil
ippine government is most satisfac
tory and, taken throughout, the prog
ress m.ade during the past two years
is remarkable.
‘‘From the first I had full confidence
in the legislative assembly, a confi
dence which has been justified by its
actions. So far it has taken a conserv
ative form, and I have no doubt ft
will continue its useful, patriotic and
diligent course. I have yet to see
or hear, a single member who does
not apparently feel a full sense of the
responsibility of his duties towards his
constituents and country, and I am
sure that conservatism,.,rather than
radicalism, will continue to mark the
official conduct of this body.
“I leave the Philippines with renew
ed confidence in the future of the
islands. What I have seen and heard
on this trip has confirmed by opinions
on the subject which I had previously
formed and Rave frequently ex
pressed.”
DEATH CLAIMS EDITOR ESTILL.
Veteran Georgia Newspaper Man and
Noted Citizen Passes Away.
Colonel John H. Estill, editor of the
Savannah Morning News, and one ol
the most prominent men in Georgia,
died Saturday night.
Colonel Estill had been ill for sev
eral months, suffering much from heart
trouble. A long time last summer his
life was despaired of, but he rallied
and went north, where he apparently
completely recovered his health. He re
turned to Savannah two months ago
and again resumed charge of his busi
ness. Late in October last he was
again attacked by the same malady
from which he had recently suffered,
and which finally caused his death.
Colonel Estill was known through
out Georgia as a newspaper editor and
in the last gubernatorial campaign was
a candidate for governor.
He has for many years been prom
inent in the commercial and social life
of Savannah and south Georgia.
Colonel Estill was a native of
Charleston, S. C., born October 28,
1840, He was named for John Ed
ward Holbrook, the celebrated neut
ralist of South Carolina and a friend
of William Estill, his father.
William Estill was a bookbinder
and printer. In 1851 he removed his
family to Savannah and there the son
began at the age of eleven years to
set type, in the course of time pass
ing through all the grades of a print
ing office.
His success in life was due to bis
own,, unaided efforts. He began life
at the bottom of the ladder and work
ed his way to the top.
At the conclusion of the war, in
which he served until severely wound
ed, he purchased an interest in the
Savannah Morning News. Within a
year he had secured entire control
of the paper. This he retained until
his death. As an evidence of the es
teem in which he was held by the
newspapers of the state, he was hon
ord by his contemporaries with the of
fice of president of the Georgia Press
Association for 20 years.
MORE BRITISH GOLD SECURED.
United States Buys All Available Yel
low Metal in London.
A London special says: The United
States secured practically the whole
of the 600,000 pounds sterling in gold
available Monday in the open market.
An additional engagement of $500,000
gold for import was announced. This
tire total engagements to date
s&3vgßo,Qo’o.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY.
Georgia Cullings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
To Rebuild Car Plant.
At a joint meeting of the creditors
md directors of the South Atlantic
Car and Manufacturing company, held
In Way cross, arrangements were per
fected v,’hereby the plant which was
partly consumed by fire recently, will
be rebuilt at once.
* * *
Postmasters Get Leave of Absence.
A Washington dispatch says: Post
masters of Georgia, of the first, sec
ond and third classes, have been grant
ed a leave of absence, not exceeding
five days, to attend a meeting of post
masters of the presidential class of
Georgia to be held at Macon, Novem
ber 25 and 26, 1907. At that meet
ing a Georgia State Association of
Postmasters will be organized.
* * *
Pomeroy ■ Succeeds Anderson.
Major E. E. Pomeroy, commanding
one of the battalions of the fifth in
fantry, Georgia state troops, is select
ed to head that regiment as the re
sult of votes polled at the armory
in Atlanta. Major Pomeroy’s promo
tion will serve to fill the vacancy cre
ated by the promotion of Colonel Clif
ford Anderson, who was recently com
missioned brigadier general of the*
state militia.
- * * *
Peonage Case Falls Through.
The federal grand jury adjourned
at Athens without taking up the charge
of peonage against James M. Smith,
the big Oglethorpe county farmer. The
government did not submit the case
to the grand jury.
Colonel Smith was bound over a few
weeks since on this charge, and it is
believed that the failure of the gov
ernment to put the case to the grand
jury for investigation means an aban
donment of the prosecution.
* * *
No License in Locker Tax.
In a letter written to Tax Collector
T. F. Thompson of Chatham county,
Comptroller General Wright declares
that the SSOO tax imposed upon clubs
having lockers in no sense of the word
is to be construed as a license to sell
liquor, but simply as an occupation
tax.
He writes: “You will therefore re
ceipt for this tax as an occupation
tax, and designate the same in your
returns. This in nowise has even the
semblance of a license by the state for*
the conduct of the business. ’
* * *
College Appropriation Held Up. ,
The commissioners of roads and
reveneus of Pike county, at their No
vember meeting, were served with an*
order signed by Judge E. J. Reagan on
the petition of a number of citizens
of the county restraining them from
paying to the sixth district agricultural
college, located in Barnesville, the $5,-
000 which the Pike county grand jury
recently recommended should be paid.
The treasurer of the county was also
.served with a copy of.the order. Judge
Reagan set a hearing for the matter at
McDonough for November 18, at which
time it will be fought out. The col
lege is scheduled to open on January 8.
♦ * *
“Dog Fall” in Land Dispute.
Secretary of State Phil Cook has
announced his decision in regard to
the disputed county line between
Johnson and Laurens counties, giving
. the land in dispute, some 500 acres, to
Johnson county. This laud was sup
posed by many to belong to Laurens
county, but the decision of the secre
tary of the state merely sustains the
survey recently made by Captain L. M,
Roberts.
By running the line out, however,
Laurens county is given some 900
acres, which, before this time, was
supposed to belong to Johnson county,
so the matter is about, equalized at the
finish.
The dispute was brought up by rea
son of a homicide, which took place
on the contested- territory. Both coun
ties claimed the prisoner, and con
tended that each had the right to try
the case.
** * .
Memorial Shaft Broken.
A granite shaft, which was, being
erected at Decatur, in memory of the
confederate dead, was broken by a fall
while workmen were engaged in hoist
ing it into place. The slipping of a
rope caused the shaft to topple over,
and the fall broke it in half.
The shaft, which cost $2,500, was
bought by the DeKalb County Confed
erate Memorial Association, and the
unveiling exercises were to have taken
place on November 9. Anew shaft will
be secured, and the date for the un
veiling exercises, will be postponed un
til some day,- probably in April. The
shaft was being erected by the But
ler Marble company of Marietta, and
that will make anew one
free of cost.
* .* *
Agricultural Exposition Planned.
If the plan of a number of prominent
agriculturalists is carried out by the
Georgia State Agricultural Society, the
agricultural premiums for the annual
Georgia state fair, which win probably
be again held In Atlanta next year,
will be divided among the three sec
tions of the state, north, south and
middle Georgia.
There is the keenest rivalry between
these three sections and plan would
decide the competition. It would also
do away with the contest among the
different counties and the awarding of
nine premiums among as many coun
ties.
If the fair is held in Atlanta next
year, as in all probability it will be,
every effort will be made to make a
'still greater success as an agricultural
exposition. The fair this season was
the biggest agricultural display ever
given In the state’s history.
* * *
Government Experts at Work.
Quietly and successfully government
experts, assigned to Georgia by the
United States agricultural department,
are mingling with the farmers of the
state, giving them instructions in for
estry, dairy work, seed selection, cul
ture methods, crop rotation, road build
ing and soil survey.
There has been so little raid of this
work in the newspapers that Georgians
living in the cities of the state have
hardly been aware of the movement,
but the farmers in many sections have
already felt the good effects,” for the
number of experts placed in the state
by the government has increased so
rapidly that there are now in thj
neighborhood of forty men engaged ijfl
this work. *
• * *
Plans for Cotton School Complete.
No movement has been started along
educational lines in Georgia during
the past decade that has attracted
more attention than the proposed cot
ton school that is to be held in Athens
for ten days, beginning January 6,
1908, and under the auspices of the
State College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts at Athens.
The object of this school is to help
all the farmers get much useful in
formation at a minimum cost.
There will be no entrance examina
tions, and any person over sixteen
years of age can enter the school. The
registration fee will be SI.OO and the
incidental expenses necessitated by the
school work need not be more than
SI.OO. Tire cost of” taking the work
will therefore be confined to railroad
fare and board and lodging, which
means that the school is virtually free
to every student of Georgia.
The course of instruction pro vided in
the cotton school is as follows:
Ten lectures on the soil.
Ten lectures on fertilizers.
Five lectures on the cotton plant.
Five lectures on seed selection.
Five lectures on cotton insects.
Five lectures on feeding cotton by
products.
Five' lectures on cotton machinery.
Ten demonstrations on cotton grad
ing.
The cotton grading feature of the
School will be emphasized above every
other. Two hours or more each after
noon will be dovoted to the work.
.Moreover, every farmer who become?
thoroughly acquainted with the grading
of cotton puts himself in a strong, de
fensive position, a position which will
not only enable him to improve the
grade of cotton raised on his farm be
cause of his knowledge of the subject,
but to obtain a fair price for his crop
as well.
WHEELS.”
To Dissiminate Agricultural Education
in Various Sections of Georgia.
Dr. A. M. Soule, president of the
SIO,OOO agricultural college located at
the State University in Athens, Ga.,
has just held a conference with the
general passenger agents of the vari
ous railroads of the state with regard
to securing v,a special train, in which
he proposes to put an “agricultural
college on wheels.” The conference
was held in the office of the railroad
commission, at which there were pres
nt: W. H. Tayloe, of the Southern;
W. J. Craig, of the Atlantic Coast Line;
C. E. Harmon, of the Western and At
lantic; J. C. Haile, of the Central;
S. F. Parrott, of the Georgia, Southern
and Florida; A. G. Jackson, of the
Georgia; C. D. Boyd, of the Louisville
and Nashville; J. P. Billups, of the At
lanta and West Point. y
At this conference the railroad men
looked with favor upon the project and
stated that they would let him know
within the next few days how soon he
could get this train. The train is to
be composed of two baggage cars, to
be used as exhibit cars two day coach
es, to be used as lecture rooms. This
train will go to the various cities and
towns of Georgia, where the good ef
fects of an agricultural education will
be shown in the exhibit cars and a lec
ture on practical agriculture will be de
livered in the lecture cats.
Dr. Soule states that he will give es
pecial attention to the science of cattle
raising in Georgia, believing that there
! s a great field for this industry in the
state. Ha is a warm advocate for the
use of cotton seed meal as a feed stuff,
and in his lectures he will speak upon
this feed in his cattle raising plan.
The exact date for this “agricultural
college on wheels” to start its itinerary
will be announced later.
IN SPECIAL SESM
The Legislature of®
Convenes in Mo nr®
M\
INSTRUCTIONS
:>■ e s s.• j C S1 a. e; T' : t if *
roads is Pararro jri ”B
a Fling at
Lou'sviHe and N®
i A t i,i' ", S M '
rial session at Moutg >m
In his message Governor G®H
sisted that the control and rejSBHH
of the railroads by the .tatjfl
question more important
ing of rates or any other a®
it involves the question of
of the state to control its i:iK®BHB|
fairs.
The message goes on to
President Smith of the Louisville
Nashville has held out against the Ala®
bama laws, while others have put thei®
in, has defied the state and its peoj®
by conducting a lobby at the
and openly admitting that his
has influenced legislation in the
has called the governors of Alabam^
(nd Georgia populistic, has raised rates
vernight in defiance of state laws,
nd has generally refused to
the right of the slate to make kutfß
plying to transporta’mn
That the Alabama rate oaws®®Hfl
confiscatory is evideue- <!, the SuHHj
says, by the fact that they '
other nearby states and
able. Financial troubles have
grown out of the laws made to control
corporations, but the rascality of the
high financiers, and the producer of the
cotton of the south is now coming to
save the country from panic. The
Louisville and Nashville railroad is
charged with manipulating to prevent
use of waterways, to make rules
handling coal, demurrage and freight
that are arbitrary, and generally to
control the state to the hurt of the
people.
Laws are for. the
pre'servation of the forests, regulation
of the sale of cocaine, lowering excess
baggage charges and providing that
city officers may ride on street cars
on passes.
The first day of the extra session
was productive of a large number of
prohibition bills, amongst them one for
a constitutional amendment to elim
inate the right to make and sell liquors
from the organic law. This last was
presented by Chairman Ballard of the
temperance committee' in the house.
A number of railroad bills were in
troduced in the senate. Mr. Hayes had
one to allow street railways to issue
passes to certain city officials. Mr.
■Wilson one to prevent dscrimination
OTi the part of railroads, and Mr. Lusk
one to prevent, carriers from charging
a higher rate for traffic than the stat
utes allow.
Half a dozen bills for prohibition
were presented in the house and one in
the senate. It was agreed that mat
ters not mentioned in the call for the
session could be taken up and passed
if two-thirds of the members voted
on them for final passage.
Milton Smith Replies.
Milton H. Smith, president of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, on
Thursday night made a reply to t’no
message of Governor Comer, In ref
erence to his road and himself.
“Permit me to call your attention to
some of the many erroneous state
ments contained in your message,”
says Mr. Smith. The letter is address
ed to the governor.
It is denied that railroads have tried
to influence legislation. It is asked
if the state right to take proper
ty of and not give
the defen the relief that they
have in the courts. He charges the
governor with many errors, and says
that “by disseminating sucß misin
formation you have secured prefer
ment.” g
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COTTON DECREASE SHOWN j
In Census Bureau’s Report of Bale*
Ginned to November Ist 1
At Washington Friday, the
•bureau issued its bulletin showi’®
total cotton crop of this year's
ginned up to November Ist to jH
167,000 bales, as compared
906,395 bales for 1906. In the
putation round bales are
half bales.
There were 26,155 ginneries B®®|j
ation, as compared with
1906.
ALL THE TIME THEY W/M
Is Given Railroads in
cuss Legislative Measur®^M
Over the protest of ScmaflHnfiHß
Lank the Alabama senate ®pf’lplf|
ru commo :®^fl®Ts:
voted Friday to give the *®®S®®
much .tinitr as they like toJB
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every Frid^B
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as it was brought®®
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on guard, and a portdH
placed aero 3 the BB
where the gold
served to keep back^H
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front of the Central hi
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trouble between
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