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MONDAY, MAY 10. President Urges Amending of Foraker Bill For Porto Ricans In Special Message Presi dent Taft Says Island Will Be Without Support A'jf’ter June Thirteenth. For the want of a quorum the house londay took no action on the presi nt’s message recommending a nedial legislatiiVi for the island of •to Rico. resident Taft today sent to con s is a special message recommend tf legislation at the present extra jssion, amending the Foraker act un ,ir which Porto Rico is governed. The president directs the attention of congress to affairs on the island laying particular stress on what he terms “a situation of unusual grav ity'’ developed through the failure of the legislative assembly of Porto Rico to pass the usual appropriation bills, leaving the island without sup port after June 30 next. Porto Ricans Ungrateful Porto Ricans have forgotten the generosity on the United States, the president says, in the desire of cer tain of the islands political leaders for power, and he adds that the pres ent situation indicates that the Uni ted States has gone too fast in the ex tension of political power to the Porto Ricans He concludes that the ab solute power of appropriation should be taken away from “those who have shown themselves too irresponsible to enjoy it” The president suggests to congres.s the wisdom of submitting to the ap propriation committees the question of qualifying some of the provisions of the fundamental act (as to the re spective jurisdictions of the executiv council and the legislative assembly But no action of this kind, the presi dent says, should be begun until the Foraker act be amended so that when the legislative assembly shall adjourn without making the appro priation necessary to carry on the government, sums equal to the ap propriations made in the previous year for the respective purposes shall be available for the current recenues, and shali be drawn by the warrant of the auditor of the treas urer anr countersigned by the gov ernor Such a provision applies to the legislatures of the Philippines and Hawaii and “it has in these two countries any misuse of the power of appropriation” The president reviews the estab lishment of the present government for Porto Rico by the Foraker act. He says the statute directing how the expenses of the government are to be provided leaves some doubt whethei this function is not committed solely to the executive council but in prac tice the legislative assembly has ap propriated for all the expenses other than for salaries, fixed by congress, and the president adds, “it is too late to reverse that construction.” Don't Pull Together. } The president says that ever since the institution of the present assemb ly the house of delegates has uniform ly held up the appropriation bills un til the last minute of the regular ses sion and has sought to use the power to do so as a means of compelling the concurrence of the executive council in legislation Which the house desired. In the last regular legisla tive assembly the attitude of th( executive council in refusing to pas bills led the house of delegates to re fuse to pass the necessary appropria tion bills. Mr. Taft discusses the acts of the legislature and of the council in detail and says the facts recited demon strate the willingness of the represen tatives of the people in the house of delegates to subvert the government in order to secure the pasage of cer tain legislation. The question whether the proposed legislation should be enacted into law was left by the fundamental act to the joint action of the executiv< council and the house of delegates as the legislative assembly. The housi of delegates says the president, pro poses itself to secure this legislation without respect to the opposition ot the executive council, “or else to pull down the government.” Delegates Too Powerful. This growing spirit shows that too great power has been vested in the delegates. The message prosents an exhaustive economic review of con ditions on th island, its trade aV» iu> wealth, its improved educational fact lities. Prosperity Abounds. It points out that "there never was a time in the history of the island when the average prosperity of the Porto Ricans has been higher, his op portunity greater his liberty in thought and action more secure,’’ For the first time in its history, Porto Rico, he says, is living under laws enacted by its own legislature. The president points out that if the Porto Ricans desire a change in the form of the Poraker act this is a matter of congerssional considera tion, dependent on the effect of such a change on the real political pro gress on the Island, such a change, he says, should be sought, in an os derly way and not brought to the at tention of congress by "paralyzing the arm of the existing government.’’ Action Not Surprising. The president says that the fact of the Porto Ricans forgetting the gen erosity of this government “should not be an occasion for surprise, nor in dealing with a whole people can it be made the basis of a charge if ingratitude.” “When we with the consent of the peopb >of Porto Rico assumed guard ianship over them and the guidance of their destinies we must have been conscious that a people that had en oved so little opportunity for equ ation could not be expected safely ,or themselves to exercise the full power of self-government and the present development is only an indi cation that we have gone somewhat too fast in the extension of political power to them for their own good. Charge Recommended. “The change recommended may not immediately convice those control ling the house of delegates of the mistake they have made in the ex tremity to which they have been wil ling to resort for political purposes but in the long run it will secure more on careful and responsible exercise of the power they have. “There is not the slightest evidence that there has been on the part of the governor or of any member of the executive council a disposition to usurpauthority or to withhold ap proval of such legislation as was for the best interests of the island or a lack of sympathy with the best as pirations of the Porto Rican people.” BEARING- PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS DBA RING, Ga.—Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Neal and Mrs. Fannie Reeves visited Mr. and Mrs. George Neal for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. James and Mas ter Morgan visited Mr. James Mor gan's family near Headstall Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Billie Culpepper have moved from Thomson to Dearing and will make their home here. Mrs. J. P. Harris with Mr. Jimmie and Masters Hollis and Jack Harris, visited Mr. and Mrs. Bunion Bradshaw last Friday. Mr. John B. Bradshaw had the mis fortune to loose one of his mules Sun day, this is a bad loss at this season. Messrs Grady Johnson, Robt. Mor gan ; and Miss Florence Harris at tended church at Boneviile Sunday last. Tnere was a “Children Day” ser vice at Bonesvtlle Sunday, a good dinner and splendid exercises by the children. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bradshaw and little Miss Louise, were here Sunday Mr. A. M. Bailey from White Oak, attended church here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Printup left on the early train Monday morning to Brunswick, where they go to visit Dr. and Mrs. T. P. Reville, from there they will visit Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Phillips at Fender, Ga. Mrs. Phillips was Miss Chappeleor before marriage and is well known in Augusta, is a neice of Mrs. C. E. Bridges and Mrs. O. G. Gunter, Mr. and Mrs. Printup will be away about 10 days or two weeks. BATESBURG NEWS BATESBURG, S.C.—Hon. Geo. Bell Timmerman is in Jacksonville, Fla. for a few days. Dr. and Mrs. D. B. Hall, of Aiken are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Watson. Mrs. D. B. Buchanan has returned to her home at Jonesboro, N. C., after a very pleasant visit to Mre. T. B Kernaghan. Mrs. B. B. Jones, of Edgefield, is spending some time with capt and Mrs. U. X. Gunter. Mrs. L. W. Holstein, of Sally is visiting in town. Mrs. W. A. Crouch is spending a few dayß with relatives at Wards. Rev. W. T. Hundley has returned from an extended visit to Rome and Augusta, Georgia. Mrs. E. G. Pou, of Wards, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Godie. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Neal of Atlanta are spending a few days with their daughter, Mrs. Fred E. Cullum. Miss Ruth Cooner and Miss East ling, of Trenton, were the week-end guests of Mrs. N. Rogers Bayly. Capt. M. S. Gunter of Lenoir, N. C., is on a visit to friends and rela tives In town. Mr. J. E. Dean, of Atlanta, Ga., is visiting friends here. Miss Freeda Rutland has returned to her duties at the Colege for Wo men in Columbia, S. C. Miss Rejinah Bartley, of Wards, is spending sometimes in Batesburg. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Haltiwanger and children passed through town Sunday on their way from a visit to Pelioo to their home at Lexington, S. C. Rev. E. K. Hardin, Conference Mis sionary Evangelist, preached an able sermon to a large and appreciative audience at the Methodist church Sunday morning at eleven o’oclock. Mr. Hardin is well-known here having been born and raised In Batesburg, and his many friends here are proud of the high mark he is making in the ministerial world. MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE. “Those apples you sent up," said Bit kins, “were not half bad.” “I'm glad you liked them,’ rejoined the grocer, cheerfully. “Yes,” continued Bllklns, *only about a third of them were bad.” HER DISCOVERY. A fair maid from the city saw a queer thing on a tree; she said: "Oh, ain't It pretty! Whatever c?Th it be?" With a stick she poked it —toher beauty's ruin ation: for, alas! it proved to be a hor net's habitation.—Exchange. George—Do you believe the woman ever lived who could truly say to her lover that he was the first man she had ever kissed? Madge—Yes; Eve. —Judge, SUMMERVILLE TO FIGHT fICAiSVST ANNEXATION Rumored that a Fund is Being Raised to Oppose City’s Plan to Take the Village in. Commissioner Wingfield is making a plat that will show the proposed line of corporate limit extension. It will he ready by Wednesday, in all prob ability, and the city extension com mittee plans to meet, on the evening of that day, to go over the may thor oughly. With it as a guide they will proceed to the task of drafting a bill for introduction at the next session of the general assembly. Under the provisions of the Geor gia law, a/y city may arbitrarily an nex adjacent suburbs or settlements without submitting the matter to a vote of tho citizens concerned It has been very plainly understood, all along, that opposition to the incorpo ration of Summerville would develope in the village, when the matter came to a definite issue, and it is more or less apparent, therefore, that the pas sage of a bill in the general assembly was resorted to as a more favorable expedient than the submission of the proposition to a vote on the Hill. It is given out, from an authorita tive source, that no effort will be spared by the opposition leaders in Summerville to defeat the bill in the legislature. In fact, it is rumored that a very stubborn fight will be made, and that a fund is already started to defray the expenses of the campaign. Tlfe Village of Summerville has already taken steps to incorporate a large tract of land to the southwest of the Hill, known as "Hill Crest,” which was recently laid off in build ing lots, and considerably improved. It is thought that other areas will also be annexed by the village, and many regard this as a move on the part of the town to defeat Augusta’s plan of annexation. MEMORIAL BAY AT BATESBURG TUESDAY Excellent Program Has Been Aranged for the Oc casion. Special to The Herald. BATESBURG. 8. C.-—Memorial Day will be observed in Batesburg on Tuesday, May 11th. The veterans of Camp O'Connor, as sisted by the Daughters of the Con federacy, have arranged the following program: 1 — 10:30 a. m.—Prayor. 2 Song—By school children. 3 Address on Behalf of Daughters —By Mrs. Fred E. Cullum. 4 Duet —Piano and cornet. 5 Address —By Hon. M. E. Smith. B—SongB—Song and Vocal quartet. 7 Address on Behalf of Sons—By Capt. Wm. M. Carter. 8— Music —By band. 9 Recitation of Original song—By Rev. Joab Edwards. 10 — Song—By School children. 11— Announcemen ts. 12— Music—By band. 13 — Dinner. HARD WORLD TO HIT. Gunner—“Cogger has given up his au tomobiles and caught the airship serer." Guyer—" How long do you think he will be bent on going up?’ Gunner—“Oh, until he gets bent com ing down.”—Exchange. %LL I SUPPOSE. TOO FELLOWS i ) SURE.! SUPPOSE! ' WILL BE. AROUND THE USUAL. r~> ( WE OINE AT the £*& HWE SUPPUH SOAHUS FOR WITH ME. > LOAD t>ERHINSON - ( PERHAPS IT'S A'PHONE CALL • LOAD PEP HN SON-j LORD IS AT OuH TABLE ~ / f~''?3Bs^tWfrTi r l m J ,o j—> \ f gScJ* if W&h&Sff I—o THE AUGUSTA arranging for OPENING OF EWT Anti-Tuberculosis Cam paign to Begin in Earnest Tuesday Evening, 44444444444444 O « ♦ MONDAY'S PROGRAM. 4 ♦ Clubs and societies, schools 4 4 and churches are today being 4 ♦ invited to appoint committees to 4 4- Co-operate with Ihe exhibition 4 4 management and to select spe- 4 4 cial “days” or “visiting hours” 4 4 at the exhibition. 4 4 5 p. m.—Committee Confer- 4 4 ence, Armory. 4 4 6 p. m. —City Union of King’s 4 4 Daughters, Dr. Houston and Di- 4 4 rector Routzahn. 4 4 8 p. m.—Paine College, Public 4 ♦ Stereopticon Address. 4 4 Tusday. 4 4 12:45 p. m.—C. and W. C. R. 4! 4 R. Shops. 4 4 2p. m.—Hain's Normal and In- 4 4 dustrial School, Illustrated Ses- 4 4 sion. 4 4 sp. m.—Chamber of Commerce 4 4 Meeting. 4 8 p. m.—Merchants’ Associa- 4 4 tion, Chamber of Commerce. 4 4 8 p. m.—lnaugural Session. 4 4 the Armory, 4 4 Chairman—Judge W. F. Eve. 4 4 Speakers—Mr. Boykin Wright, 4 4 T. E. Oertel. 4 4 Topic, “The Aims of the Tu 4 4 bercuiosis Crusade." 4 4 Stereopticon Address Direc- 4 4 tor E. G. Routzahn, National As- 4 4 soclation for the Study and Pre- 4 4 vention of Tuberculosis. 4 4 9:15 p. m.—Tour of Exhibits, 4 ♦ Mr. A. C. Hunt. 4 4 "Prevention is Better Than 4 4 Cure.” 4 4 si 444444444444 4 44 “Countless millions upon uncounted millions of minute objoots ulterly in visible to the unlaid eye make neces sary the Tuberculosis Exhibition, for which such extensive preparations are now under way, and in which the Chamber of Commerce is so much in terested, "according to Secretary E. S. Johnson. “One does not need to be a physician to know that hundreds of these little objects could be gath ered on a pencil point, and yet we would not know they wera there. We would be unable to find them at all.” Bacteria and Microbes. “These tiny objects—bacteria, or microbes, or germs, as they are vari ously styled—developed so numerous ly in the human body under favorable conditions, that they produce what we know as tuberculosis or consump tion. To combat these unaccountable foes of the human body, an interna tional campaign is being waged. The International Anti-Tuberculosis Asso ciation, with headquarters in Berlin, is supplemented by national organ izations in Great Britain, Germany, Japan and other countries, including the association in this country, of which former Presidents Roosevelt and Cleveland were vice presidents. “The American national association conducts as one of its activities the American Tuberculosis Exhibition, which is now located in this city.” Some of the exhibits soon to be seen in Augusta, will set forth meth ods employed in large cities foe the education of the community concern ing predisposing conditions; the real nature of tuberculosis and rules ev ery consumptive person ought to fol low in order (hat he may avoid spreading the contagion. The most. Important feature of the exl/bltion will be the emphasis placed upon the means of prevention. Personal Prevention. "Personal prevention by right liv- DELEGATES LEAVE FOR WENT! Richmond County Baptist Churches Will Be Well Represented at Louis ville. ' Tho biggest Baptist gathering in the world will assemble in Louisville, Ky., next Wednesday and Richmond county will be well represented. From Augusta the following minis ters and church workers have been delegated: Rev. J. Ashby Jones, pastor of the First Baptist church Rev. O. P. Gilbert, pastor of the sec- I ond Baptist church; Rev. Charles M. | Wilkinson; Rev. Thomas Walker. 1 pastor of Woodlawn Baptist church; 1 Rev. and Mrs. H. L. S. Toomor; I Misses lx'ssie Tommtns and Pearl ] Hair. Rev. ,T. B. Holley, Mrs. U. B. Frost and Mrs. C. E. Miller, of Hephzibah, will attend the convention, and oth er delegates will probnbly go from Richmond county. The Southern Baptist convention is an annual event, which brings to gether large delegations from the en tire South. ALDRICH REBUKES MAN FROM INDIANA WASHINGTON.—In a tilt between Senators Aldrich and Beveridge when consideration of the tariff bill was re sumed today Senator Aldrich said: “I have given thirty years to n consideration of these matters and while I may not have tho ability of the Senator from Indiana, yet such as I have I have brought to Ihis question, and if the senator will give a fraction of the time to a considera tion of these matters that I have given lie will serve his constituency and country better than by proclaim ing to everybody his lack of informa tion.” DRUGGISTS AND DOCTORS TO MEET The Richmond County Medical so ciety will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday night. Dr. W. S. Elkin, Jr., of Atlanta, will be present and make an address. The druggists of the city who are also asked 1o be present at the meeting, which has for its pur pose the bringing of the doctors ami druggists of the city Into closer touch with each other. Dr. Robert H. Land, Jr., will deliver an address pin PharnmcaullcaJ Fads, Mr, Au gustus Stothart, will make an ad dress on the Relations of the Doctor and the Druggist. Ing and working under right condi tions will receive first consideration. Then, the possibility of those who al ready have consumption being so taken care of, that they will no longer be a menace to the community will be given considerable attention, You see that it Is all eminently practical and related to actual conditions and real needs.” Not alone from the offices of the exhibition go out the red marked sta tionery, hut from the offices of mem bers of the various committees and other influential citizens who are using these letter heads in such of their correspondence as will faclll tate the spread of the common In terest In the local end of the oattle against, consumption. Additional sup plies of this stationery are sent out upon application to the office in the armory. All members of the general com mittee and sub-committees are in vited to be at tho armory this even ing at. 5 o’clock for an inspection of the preparations and the settlement of some Important details prepara tory to the opening Tuesday night. The Hallroom Boys SAT FERD,i’YE A SCHEME. WHAfT3 THE USE OF OMMC WITH A HEAL LORO IF PEOPLE ARE NOT WT£E TO {rlE r FACT. LETS ADVERTISE AN WE'LL <qET COLDHASH TO BT JOVE ,1 UIUST HAVE l&rr iiy AOCHET-OOOH HOtiE IN siRTHTt lo^cTT yußtm3oT/6uYfT ? . PERrtINSON I'LL S IT WOULD RE BETT UU~i t POCKET . HAVE TOO KNOW. S j —r/> TOU bONT MEAN TO jyQ THISUTTIEJ WCyJ J <T - * : ~'lf AIKEN PERSONAL NEWS AIKEN, S. C. —Messrs. M. R. John son and J. A. Johnson, of Windsor, attended the school meeting at the court, house Saturday morning. Mr. John Vernon is putting the court house and grounds in flue con dition for the Odd Fellows convention which meets here next Wednesday and Thursuay. Mr. Oscar L. Weeks, of White Pond, was in the city Saturday on business. Mr. L. 11. Morris of the Bridge Creek, is furnishing the Aiken with very fine strawberries. Mrs. Dr. Fllmore Moore, of Mount morene, attended the school Improve ment meeting here Saturday. Prof, lextbn tutor of the children ot Dr. Moore's outdoor camp, also was pres ent. Mr. James Courtney, son of Hon. J. Cal Courtney, of Kitchings Mill section, is reported very ill at his home. Misses Ireno Green and Fannie- Kennedy expect (o visit friends in the Millbrook section this week. Miss Mamie Swearingen, of Gran ilevilie, lias returned from a visit to friends here. Mrs. W. S. Garden and her daugh ter, Miss Allie May, from the Rooky Spring section, was in tho city Sat urday. Mrs, J. Cal Courtney has returned home after a short visit to her broth er, ex-Judge Luther Weeks, of near Aiken. Dr. James A. Stothart, of Rsvnn nah, paid ills old home town. Granite ville, a short visit recently. His friends were pleased to welcome him home after his long absence. Miss Beulah Ergle, of Graniteville, was elected a delegate from the Re bocea Odd Fellow Lodge, to attend the Odd Fellows eon vision which meets here next week. THF. ’T’TjT.TCfV* !» TP'WT’.T*At GATHER IN ATLANTA International Convention of the Order of Railway Telegraphers Opens on Monday Night. ATLANTA, Ga. Several hundreds of delegates were In attendance when the Inter-National convention of the Order Railway Telegraphers opened here Monday. The forenoon and af ternoon session were executive. The formal opening will take place Mon day. PROOF. “Music Ih the food of love” Wo know It. from the tinth above; Whero newly wedded couple# atiiy— The phonograph# run night and day. Save Some of the Money That You “Save!” If you could place a specltl purse, or deposit In a special fund, ail of tho moneys savod In the course of a year because of your reading and answering ads., you'd be surprised at the sum total. The pennies and dimes on groceries, table supplies; the dolinrs saved on clothes, furniture, furnishings, objects of art, china, silverware—all, In u year's course, would mount to a tidy sum, Indeed. Why don’t you try the experiment—for a few weeks—-of AC TUALLY BETTING ASIDE the amounts saved In your purchases on account of your study of the ads? Then Invest. In something you have long needed —and say: “Here Is something I’ve boupght with money ACTUALLY, not theoretically, HAVEDI” You will find that all of Ihis advice wo have been giving you about reading and urißworeing Herald ads. has been sound, business-like advice. And you will let tho Herald nils, take a real part In your buying and your selling hereafter-—which will he a fortunate circum stance for you, and for Augusta in which you live. HELLO COLOHASH'DO US A FAVOR ■ THE <qAME_|STHIS • VMt’ftt O*NIN«i WTTH LORO PERKIN SON AT THE ST-SOAIWS TO NIWT.ANb Wl WANT THE PEOPLE STRING AROUND TO KNOW THAT WE’RE. SO HIGHLY HONOR ED.'PHONE \ ABOUT 7-30. YOUniQHT SURE’ < C?K k ASH HIH IF HE'S v „ ~ / 5 ’ ■ ■■ ■■ 11 -■-.»» - .11 !■ Hi n>Ar HALL ROOtiTl 'BEATS!) J A_LWATSJ A MwW PAGE SEVEN MU. MUTT BETS Wl MILL Mr. Thomas Barrett, Jr., of Augusta, has secured control of the Peoples Cotton Mill, at Montgomery, Ala., and reorganized the company. He was elected president; his son, Mr. Frank Barrett, was elected vice president; Mr. L. P. DeVaughan, of this city, was appointed general manager. The name of the mill will be chang ed. It will bo known in the future as the Montala Manufacturing com pany, the name being formed of the first four letters of the word Mont gomery, coupled with the uhbrev la lion for Alabama. Mrs. C. C. Catt Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the Wo man Suffrage Alliance, who is taking a prominent part in the great Suffrage Congress in session in Lon don. AT THE NIGHT BCHOOL Teacher—Give me an example of what is meant by "masterly inactiv ity!” Boy With tho Prognathous Face—A baseball pitcher delayin' a game so it'll have to be called on account o’ darkness.” —Chicago Tribune. Little Willie “Say, pa, la It true that any boy born In tho United States may Pennine president?" Pa—"Yo», my son—-and if he's born In Ohio he probably will.” —Exchange.
