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VOL. XVI.
OKLAHOMA NOW ON
New State Admitted to Union
With Simple Ceremony.
TEDDY SIGNS DOCUMENT
Governor Haskell Takes the Oath and
Begins Administration—People
Celebrate Advent Into
the Union.
Anew star, the forty-sixth, was add
ed to the American flag Saturday by
he admission formally to the union of
the* state of Oklahoma. President
Roosevelt at 10:16 a. m. signed the
proclamation admitting the territories
of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Jointly as one of the American states.
Little formality attended the ceremony
which meant so much to the 1,500,000
people of the two territories. In ap
pending his signature to the proclama
tion. the president used a pen formed
from a quill plucked from the wing of
an American eagle.
The pen will be deposited with the
Oklahoma Historical Society.
When he had finished his signature
the president picked up a small blotter,
with which he blotted his name, and,
looking up, proclaimed:
"Oklahoma is a,state." '
The signing ajid . the incidents con
nected therewith occupied but one min
ute, and at their conclusion the pres
ident bowed himsedf back into his pri
vate office with the remark:
■‘Good morning, gentlemen."
The slight delay from the original
plan of having the proclamation signed
at exactly 10 o’clock is explained sim
ply by the statement that the presi
dent was occupied with his mail up to
the time he actually signed the docu
ment. Xo significance is attached to
the sixteen minutes delay.
Governor Haskell Inaugurated.
A special from Guthrie, Okla., says:
With impressive ceremonies befitting
the birth of the new state of Oklahoma,
the paths of office, were administered
to Governor Charles 11. Haskell and
other state officers a few minutes be
fore roon Saturday. The oath wa®
given by Leslie Nib lack, a. newspaper
man. The ceremonies took place on
the steps of tbe Carnegie library, theru
being no state building in Guthrie. Fol
lowing prayer by a clergyman, the
proclamation of President Roosevelt,
admitting Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory into the union was read by Chas.
Fitson, secretary, of Oklahoma terri
torv. ,
A band of Cherokee Indians then
P'ayed “The Star Spangled Banner."
Governor Haskell walked forward to
the center of the platform, where he
was met by Mr. Niblack, and took the
formal oath with uplifted hand. Turn
ing to the crowd that closed in from
every direction. Governor Haskell deliv
ered the inaugural address.
Governor Haskell’s speech was vehe
ment. He denounced “the combina
tions that have fattened by unrestrict
ed robbery of our people,” declared
in favor of prison sentences for of
fending corporation officers and an
nounced that the liquor prohibition
law would be rigidly enforced.
When he had finished the governor
announced the appointment of Robert
L. Owens of Muskogee and Thomas P.
Gore of Lawton as United States . sen
ators. • ; V ; ■'
A parade was then formed and march
ed to a park on the outskirts of the
city, whore an immense crowd waited
to begin an Indian barbecue, a feature
suggested by Governor Haskell.
lii one of the carriages in the parade
’"< l re the chiefs of the five civilized
t'ibes. with the exception of Maty
Tiger, who was recently seriously in
jured. '
The governor’s first official act was
to order the county attorney at Bart
lettsville to take steps to prevent th
Standard Oil cojnpany from complet
es a natural gas pipe line across thsj
border to Kansas, it being the policy
°f Oklahoma to prevent the exporta
tion of gas.
There being a legal to
the hour when prohibition took effect,
whether at noon or midnight, Governor
Haskell ordered that saloons be per
mitted to remain open until midnight.
The retiring officials of Oklahoma
territory took no part in the inaug
uration. Governor Franz was invited,
hut declined, owing to personal differ
ences with Governor Haskell. The
other retiring officers were npt in
vited because one of them, E. P. tylc
f’abe, deputy territorial auditor, is a
negro, and the new administration
the color line sharply.
MONMOUTH COLLEGE BURNS.
Main Building of Big Institution in
Illinois Reduced to Ashes.
Fire which is said to have started
•from a defect in the flue in tlie garret
destroyed the main building of Mon
mouth college at Monmouth, 111., early
Thursday morning, causing a loss esti
mated at $40,000. Orvtl Dean, a tele
phone lineman, was killed by falling
walla.
DADE COUNTY SENTINEL
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THE RIGHT TO BOYCOTT
Is Being Strenuously Fought Before
District Supreme Court by the
Manufacturers’ Association.
A Washington special says: Objec
tions to the jurisdiction of the court
by the defense and a vivid outlining of
the machinery of boycott by the plain
tiff, through their respective counsel,
were the features in the argument
Tuesday on the application in the su
preme court of the District of Colum
bia, of the Buck Stove and Range com
pany of St. Louis, for a temporary in
junction against the continuance of
a boycott of its products by the Amer
ican Federation of Labor. The whole
theory of the defense is that the right
to boycott or strike is legal for indi
vldnals and therefore legal for combi
nations.
Mr. J. J. Darlington, counsel for the
Buck Stove and Range company, de
clared that the case was the most im
portant litigation of the kind for a
third of a century, the boycott cases
hitherto tried having been merely lo
cal in application. He pointed out that
the case is that of two million adult
men engaged in mechanic arts who
were banded together to act as one
man in withholding their own patron
age and that of all friends and sym
pathizers from a single industrial en
terprise, the business of which they
desire to crush and destroy, unless
thirty-five metal polishers out of 750
.employees of the Buck Stove and
Range company are permitted to de
cide the number of hours any of them
should work.
Mr. Darlington argued that 1,999,965
of the men engaged in this boycott
have no personal concern with the
hours of labor of the thirty-five metal
polishers, but have simply banded' to
gether under agreement to attack any
employer who refuses to allow his em
ployees to dictate his mode of busi
ness. If the right to wtihhold patron
age is legal for an individual, Mr. Dar
lington pointed out that since an indi
vidual may refuse to sell to any per
son, with or without motive he may
combine with any number of the per
sons for the same purpose. Therefore,
he contended the vast combination-now
before the court might refuse to em
ploy a single person selected as a vic
tim, that it might refuse to deal witl
him or any on£ who deals with him or
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to sell him anything, even the necessi
ties of life or to pa.tronize any per
_son who might have business inter
course with him.
ONLY AS INDIVIDUALS
Will the Louisville Street Railway Cos.
Treat With Strikers.
The Louisville Railway company
Tuesday evening issued a reply to a
proposition by the striking union em
ployees for a resumption of work on
the old basis with an arbitration agree
ment added to, the former agreement,
stated that it would not treat with
any committee representing the strik
ers, but the company would eonsidei
the applications of any of the old em
ployees for work as individuals.
WATERWAYS QUESTION
Discussed by Mobile Basin and Ten
nessee River Association.
- The Mobile Basin and Tennessee
River Association, representing the
states of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia
and Florida, convened in Birmingham,
Ala., Tuesday with a large represen
tation from each of the four states
present.
VIOLATED NEW DRUG LAW.
Cases Made in Atlanta Against Doctor
and Prescription Clerk.
Evidence brought out in two cases
in the recorder’s court at Atlanta led
to cases being made against A. R.
Munn, prescription clerk for the Whit
aker-Coursey Drug company, and a Dr.
King, on the charge of violating r Xhe
l?tw regulating the sale of cocaine, mor
phine and other like drugs.
RUSSIANS WELCOME TAFT.
Secretary of War and Party Reach
Vladivostok Safely.
Secretary of War Taft arrived at
Vladivostok, Russia, at noon Satur
day.
When the American vessels entered
the Golden Horn they were met by
the Russian gunboat detailed to es
cort them up the harbor. Salutes were
exchangedwith the land batteries.
Secretary Taft hopes to reach St
Petersburg at noon of December 3,
and he say3 he must leave not latei
than December 5. Taft’s audience ol
the czar will probably be on the 4th,
8TO&M WARNINGS ISSUED.
Gulf Coast Was Prepared to Stand
Prospective Heavy Gale.
The gulf coast was prepared Tuesday
night to stand a heavy storm, warn
ings having been sent out from Wash
ington. At the navy yard in Pensa
cola extra cables and anchors were
put out by all war vessels to save them
from a repetition of the disaster in
September, 1906.
ALABAMA GOES DRY
Senate Follows House Lead
in Passing Prohibition Bill.
COMPROMISE A FEATURE
Women and Children Literally Took
Charge and Scene Unprecedented
in History of Ancient Capi
tol Were Enacted.
Unprecedented scenes were enacted
in the Alabama senate chamber at
Montgomery Tuesday, when the statu
tory prohibition bill passed. Women
and children thronged corridor and
gallery, and even usurped the floor it
self, pushing tfrb senators from their
seats and giving vent to their enthu
siasm. by shouts and cheers that echoed
and re-echoed through the
ing. *
Senators who opposed the bill were
hissed down when they arose to speak
against the measure, and Lieutenant
Governor Gray, the presiding officer of
the senate, was forced to reprove the
spectators.
The statutory prohibition bill, which
was passed, was in the nature of a
compromise between the antis and the
prohibitionists; the antis seeing the
handwriting on the wall, agreed to
give up the flglit, provided the time
was extended to January 1, 1909, when
the sale of whisky will be forbidden
in the state of Alabama,
On concurrence by the house of
the senate’s action, Governor Comer
will approve the bill, and it is under
stood that a movement has already
been started by the state Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union to make
the signing of the bill a very formal
occasion. The program is now being
arranged.
_ A feature of the be
tween the antis and the prohibition
ists was that the antis will not op
pose the bill to appropriate the sum
of |5,000 annually to the governor to
see that the bill is enforced.
The amended bill was passed thirty
two to two, Senators Spragins of Mad
ison and Hamner- of DeKalb voting
against it. -
The bill passed does not interfere
with Jefferson county, in which Bir
mingham is situated and other coun
ties in which prohibition becomes ef
fective January 1, 1908, but the lo
cal option election called in Montgom
ery next month is abandoned, and no
other local option elections will be
allowed.
Seldom in the history of a state have
the people of its capital and those
within reaching distance, so to speak,
of the capital, been so wrought up.
Mobile, Selma, Birmingham, Montgom
ery and dozens of smaller towns had
sent workers to the capitol on one
side or the other and early in the
morning the lobbies were filled with
women and children to begin the
campaign of influence.
It having been reported that Mobile
was sending a carload of women to
lobby against prohibition, representa
tives of the same sex from Montgom
ery, Birmingham and Selma made a
grand rush early and took every avail
able bit of seating capacity in the
gallery before the Gulf City crowd
even had their breakfast. In this way
the opposition to. the measure wa3
early put to great disadvantage, es
pecially as the overflow of the work
ers for the bill filled the lobbies as
well. Strategetically the first advan
tage was with the friends bf the meas
ure.
In the downstairs lobby children stood
with ribbon badges which they offered
to and pinned on those who entered
the building. They were lettered, “Pro
hibition .for all Alabama.” As soon
as a man or woman'reached the sec
ond story vestibule without one of (
these evidences of prohibition senti
ment, he or she was > pounced upon
and hauled lltther and thither until
recognized for one side or the other.
Members of the upper house were be
sieged with appeals to support the bill,
the workers for this side being on the
ground in time to get in the first
licks.
While the speaking was going on
there were cheers after cheers and
handclapping at every point. When
the vote was announced with only two
votes against, it, the assembly broke
out with “Praise God from Whom All
Blessings Flow, - ’ the sounds reberbe
rating through the old building until
hundreds of throats took it up.
TAFT RESUMES JOURNEY.
Secretary and Party Leave Vladivostok
for St. Petersburg.
War Secretary Taft and party left
Vladivostok, Russia, at 2 o’clock Tues
day afternoon for St. Petersburg. He
was,, escorted to the train by a large
party of naval and military officers,
and rigid precautions for his safety
were taken by order of the government.
TRENTON. GA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1907.
TO END MONEY FAMINE
Government Somes to Rescue With
Treasury Notes and Canal Bonds
to Extent of $150,000,000.
A Washington special says: Secre
tary Cortelyou Sunday night made tho
important announcement that as a
means of affording relief to the finan
cial situation, the treasury would issue
$50,000,000 of Panama bonds and SIOO,-
000,000 certificates of indebtedness, or
so much thereof as may be necessary.
The certificates will run for one year
and will bear 3 per cent Interest.
The secretary’s action in coming to
the relief of the financial situation
meets with President Roosevelt's
hearty approval, and Hie plan is the
outcome of the sevejijkwhite house
conferences which held with
in the past few days when the financial
situation was under consideration. ?
Secretary Cortelyou says that the
Panama bonds will afford most sub
stantial relief, as the law provides
that they may be used as a basis for
additional national bank circulation.
He also states that the proceeds from
the sale of the certificates can be made
directly available at points where the
need is most urgent, and especially for
the movement of the crops, which he
says, “if properly accelerated will give
the greatest relief and result in the
most immediate financial returns.” The
secretary calls attention to the at
tractiveness of the bonds and certifi
cates as absolutely safe investments.
Secretary Cortelyou adds that these
relief measures will enable him to
meet public expenditures without with
drawing for that purpose any appre
ciable amount of the public moneys
now deposited in national banks all
throughout the country. Two treasury
circulars, one inviting proposals for
the issue of bonds and the other ask
ing for certificates, will be sent out
under date of November 18.
In his letter to Secretary Cortelyou,
approving the treasury plans, Presi
dent Roosevelt states that he has been
assured that the leaders in congress
have under consideration a currency
measure “which will meet in perma
nent fashion the needs of the situation,
and which I believe will be passed at
an early date after congress convenes,
two weeks hence."
WOMEN OPPOSE PfeOHtßltloß.'
Five Thousand Residents of Mobile
Ala., Sign Monster Petition.
Five thousand women of Mobile,
Ala., representing the women of social
position, wealth and leaders in church
endeavor, headed by Mrs. Augusta Ev
ans Wilson, the southern authoress,
signed a monster petition to be pre
sented to the state senate urging that
no statutory prohibition bill be passed.
The business men and school teach
ers also petitioned the board of edu
cation for holidays for the purpose of
permitting the teachers to go to Mont
gomery in a body and plead against
the passage of statutory bills.
DEPUTY SHERIFF IS HELD
For Myrder of Woman in a Birming
ham, Ala., Hotel.
Maud Parsons, a woman of about 23
years of age, was shot and killed just
before midnight Saturday night, at
the Victoria hotel in Birmingham, Ala.,
and John Dagmer, a deputy sheriff,
is held, charged with the crime.
There were no eye-witnesses to the
tragedy, but Dagmer was heard to say’
several times early in the evening that
he was hunting the woman to shoot
her. He claims she took his pistol
frem him and killed herself.
BLAZE IN BAY ST. LOUIS ,
Wipes Out Property Valued at Two
Hundred Thousand.
Fire which'started in. Bay St. Louis,
Miss , shortly
day morning was swejtt by a high gulf
wind through the town, burning to the
ground everything in its path and caus
ing a damage of about $200,000. - ■
WANTS TO BE “DRAFTED.”
Bryan Reiterates That He Will Not
Volunteer for Presidency.
William Jennings Bryan addressed
the members of the Jackson Club at
a banquet in Lafayette, Ind., Monday
night. Seven hundred plates were pro
vided. In addition probably 2,500 were
present.
Mr. Bryan said, after serving in two
campaigns he did not. feel like volun
teering again, although he would ac
cept the presidential nomination in
1908 if “drafted.”
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TEN DOLLARS A SHARE
;>
16 Quarterly Dividend Ordered by the
Standard Oil Company.
The directors of the Standard Oil
company, at a. meeting in New York
Friday declared a quarterly dividend
of $lO per share on the capital stock.
This Is the same amount that was de
clared in the corresponding quarter
last year. The dividend is payable on
November 26th.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY.
Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
To Vote on SIOO,OOO Bond Issue.
The commissioners of Ben Hill county
have ordered an election on December
20 for the purpose of voting upon the
issuing of county bonds to the amount
of $100,000; $65,000 to be used for a
new court house, $15,000 for a jail and
$20,000 for roads and bridges.
There is no doubt but that the people
will endorse this action of the officials
Et the polls. Action at this time was
taken upon the recommendation of the
last grand jury.
* * *
Statesboro Gets Station.
A letter received in Statesboro from
the agricultural department at Wash
ington officially confirms the action of
.Che government expert who visited the
section some time ago and recommenc
ed that a corn and cotton experiment
station be established.
The station is to be conducted by ex
perts from the United States depart
ment of agriculture. It is to be
located on a part of the First district
agricultural school property, about one
mile fiom town.
Wo r k on College Buildings Stopped
At the recent meeting in Carrollton
of the board of trustees of the fourth
district agricultural college suspension
of the work on the buildings was or
dered.
This step was found to be necessary,
and was unanimously agreed upon by
the trustees, in view of the decision of
the superior court that county funds
are not applicable to this school. Suit
was made by taxpayers of the county
some time ago to prevent the collection
of a special tax for the construction of
these buildings, and the decision hand
ed down in favor of the taxpayers has
made it necessary to discontinue work,
and accordingly the opening of tin
school will be indefinitely postponed,
* * *
FTr.ley Sheds Little Light.
President Finley of the Southern
Railway, in his long letter to the
railroad commission, states that the
Southern sold the Central of Georgia
to Oakleigh Thorne and Marsdc-n J.
Perry on June 2G; that it was a bona
fide fan suction and so far'&s the South
ern is concerned its connection is at
an end.
It is stated that President J. F.
Hanson of the Central called upon the
commission on November Bth and ask
ed for an extension of time in which
to file with the commission documen
tary evidence and statements called
for by the commission and his request
was granted.
* * *
Division Affirms Sentence.
Because^ there is a division among
the six associate justices of the su
preme court of Georgia in the case of
James S. Yates of Decatur county, sen
tenced to serve a life term in the pen,
following his conviction for murder,
this sentence stands affirmed and no
new trial will be given him.
Three judges on a side split the
court. Three hold that the judge in
charging the jury so stated the case as
to mistake the defendant's contention
and calculated to lead the jury to be
lieve that the defendant had admitted
that the homicide was an unlawful act;
The law in cases of this kind is to the
effect that the decision of the lower
court must stand affirmed. This de
nies him anew trial, and, in conse
quence, he must serve the balance of
his days in the pen.
* .* *
On Dollar-for-Dollar Basis.
In a letter addressed to H. E. Har
man, president of the Southeastern
Trade Press Association, Chairman Mc-
Lendon? speaking for the commission,
declares: “It was not the purpose of
the order of the commission in ques
tion, nor has this board authority# to
prohibit newspapers or any other par
ty frohr entering into contracts with
railroad companies.” This is in regard
to newspaper advertising contracts.
Continuing, he writes: “The purpose of
this order is to prevent the issuance
by railroad companies of transportation
except upon a strict doliar-for-dollaf
basis.”
This letter would seem to settle the
question whether a newspaper has a
right to exchange advertising for trans- ,
portation, and the commission holds
that tliis can be done when carried
out on a strict business basis.
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Comptroller General Restrained.
Unden the application of the West
ern Union Telqgrapty company, Judge
Newman‘•of the United States circuit
court for the ncft’thern district of Geor
gia, at Atlanta, has granted a rule
nisi enjoining He®*,Will ! am A. Wright
as comptroller general of Georgia
from certifying or taking any steps
toward the collection of any franchise
taxes against the Western Union Tel
egraph companv/ln Georgia setting the
main case for hearing on Wednesday,
November 27, 1907, at Atlanta.
The complaint alleges, in substance,
that the telegraph company operated
in Georgia under and by virtue of the
pest reads aet of congress passed in
1866, and that in accepting the pro
vsions of the federal act the company
became obligated to handle all govern
ment dispatches by preferred service
and at reduced rates, to be fixed arbi
trarily by the postmaster general of
thr- United States "knd became bound
to surrender its entire lines, system
and property to the government at any
tim- on a basis provided by the act.
In return, the bill alleges, the gov
ernment guarantees to the telegraph
company the right to construct, main
tain and operate lines of telegraph In
am! through the various states of the
uplon, without improper interference.
Further on the bill attacks the consti
tuionality of the entire franchise tax
act passed by the Georgia legislature in
the year 1902, and asks that said act
. be decreed null and void.
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Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Smith has issued the fol
lowing Thanksgiving Day proclama
tion :
“The people of Georgia have again
approached the season when, in ac
cordance* with time-honored custom,
the governor issues his proclamation
setting aside a day of prayer and
thanksgiving for the blessings which
Almighty God has so bountifully be
stowed upon us.
“This duty is not performed in a
perfunctory spirit.
“We are so signally blessed that ev
ery day should find our hearts filled
with reverent gratitude, and we slMuld
hold Thanksgiving Day in
gard and fittingly observe it, reSWn
bering in the midst of our own good
things the less fortunate of our people,
so that every heart may rejoice in
this festival of the harvest time.
“We live In the enlightenement of the
highest Christian civilization, with the
ciiurch bells of a thousand spires call
ing us to worship God, each according
to the dictates of his own conscience.
We are at peace with all the world
and no strife disturbs the tranquility
of our state. No famine brings hun
ger and starvation; no shock of earth
quake lays waste; no floods desolate;
no pestilence scourges. Bountiful
Providence has filled our barns and
plenty has showered her blessings ev
erywhere.
“What more could a people ask than
has been vouchsafed to Georgia? Caji
we not, then, with the deepest grati
tude to the Giver of 'All Good Things,
lift our hearts with thankfulness and
ask Him, ‘lest we forget,’ to guard us
against pride, vainglory, selfisfiness
and ingratitude?
“Fololwing the custof of my hon
ored predecessors, I, Hoke Smith, gov
ernor of Georgia, do hereby set apart
and proclaim Thursday, the 28th day
of the present mouth of November, a
day for general thanksgiving and
prayer, and I recommend that on that
day the people, as far as they can do
so, shall cease from all their daily
labors and in their homes and in their
houses of worship shall ponder upon
the many blessings which they have
received, give thanks to God and
that they may not become unmindful
of His goodness and mercy.
“In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the executive - department to be at
tached. , ; ' t, V
“Done at the capitol, in the city of
Atlanta, this the 14th day of Novem
her, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand nine hundred and seven, and of
the independence of the United States
of America the one hundred and thir
ty-second.
“HGKE SMITH, Governor."
HEARST LOSES HIS FIGHT.
Recount Bill Declared Void by New
York Court of Appeals.
The New York state court of.appeal.;
at Albany Tuesday decided that the
bill passed at tire last! session of the
legislature .providing-for a reepunt of
the votes cast at thb mayoraijy elec
tion in* New York city in November,
1905, is unconstitutional. The contest
was instituted on behalf of William G*
Hearst to unseat Maytir'Mcfjlellah qjy
the ground of fraud the. rounthry
if the votes, The decision Mas/'niniu
mous. ff
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SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
J-i
Of Agriculturart Commissioners in Con
vention at Columbia, S. C.
The ninth annual convention of . tne
Southern Association?of Commissioners
of Agricultui-e and Agricultural Work
ers began in Columbia, S. C.,' on Tues
day afternoon.
The meeting was called to order by
the president, Commissioner E. J. Wat
son of South Carolina.- He introduced
Governor Ansel, who delivered a ring
ing address of welcome, in which he
stressed the vital importance of agri
culture for the south!
AGENT STROBHAR ARRAIGNED.
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Stands Charged With Embezzling
$7,500 from Atlantic Coast Line.
The case of the State vs. J. N. Strob
har, formerly agent of the Atlantic
Coast Line at Gainesville, Fla., was
called Monday. Strobhar is charged
with embezzlement of the company’s
' fund3 aggregating $7,500.
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Richmond county and Augusta woi®
have bewen the favored ones in tfl
Georgia Railroad and
pany case, and Savannah
county in the Cential ®
case.
The suit lias been in so 9w&®g9l
the ]ast five yi ars It w:nf1f19999
in the fed ral court
man, and the decision wen®®nFit
the state; it was taken to the epurt of
appeals and again the state lost, and
on a certioriari carried to the supreme
court of the United States, where the
state won it. It was brought again
into the state court and carried
through the supreme court of Georgia,
whore the state won it, to the United
States supreme, court, from whence the
decision came.
Comptroller General Wright was dis
appointed to learn of the reversal of
the Georgia supreme court by the Uni
ted States court. He was unable to
tell why one case should have been
finally decided and another sent hack
to the state courts for further pro
ceedings. Judging from the dispatch
from Washington he was of the opin
ion that the state had lost absolutely
in the Georgia railroad case, while in
in the case of the Central of Georgia,
arbitration between the state and the
railway will result.
The details of the decision are tohl
in the following dispatch from Wash
ington:
“The case of the Georgia Railroad
company against the tax authorities of
Georgia and of Fulton county, in that
state, involving the right of the state
to collect back taxes on the stock o
the Western Railway of Alabama, a
foreign corporation, was decided today
"by tlie supreme court of the United
States against the state.
vi'tThe taxes, which it is sought to col
lect, run back to 1895, and the com
pany alleged not only that they were
excessive, but that they were discrim
inative, because no such proceeding has
been undertaken against any othgji
road, the legal contention being tl®
was a denial of equal protection
der the law. The opinion was l>y J®
tics Day,
“Justice Day also delivered the opi®
ion. of the court in the case of |® :
.Central of Georgia Railway
Vs. William A. Wright, comptro®
general of Georgia, and John W. N®BB
sheriff of Fulton county. Georgi® ’
favor or the company, thus r> v< H9i
in both cases the decisions of
pieme court of Georgia. j®
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t" r< A
Ksilw i , of Mabama
further . MUi'li a tod
•IHUM.UV it the - fll
possession of tlv i1 *
pany of New York by M
In id !o seen ’>■ tin' paymenß
(toO worth of bonds, but J |mH®|
court hold that as he substantT®
beneficial ownership of the st® y
in Georgia it is liable to
that state.” j®
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