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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1909)
THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 224. mill BILL PASSED; SENATORS VOTE 544.500 INCREASE More Money Allowed To Institutions For Higher Education. Deaf and Dumb School Favored. COMMON SCHOOL FUND DEBATED After Many Objections In crease As Provided For By House Was Allowed To Go Through. ATLANTA, Ga.—The senate Wed nesday passed the general appropria tions bill with increases aggregating $44,500 over the aggregate total of the bill as passed by the house. None but the committee amend ments were adopted, and all others offered on the floor of the senate, in cluding those which attempted to cut down the common school fund, w r ere voted down. An effort made to have the appoint ment of pages transferred from the messenger to the president of the sen ate, brought on a sharp debate in which Senator Burwell said he want ed to avoid any scandal in the sen ate. The effort to change the method however, failed. Increases. The Increases put in the bill by the senate were as follows; Georgia school for the deaf $7,500 additional; University of Georgia $5, 000 additional; State Normal school $12,000 additional; Teeh SIO,OOO addi tional and State of College of Agri culture SIO,OOO additional. Only one change was made in the appropriations to the executive de partment and this was an appropria tion sufficient to give the clerk to the attorney general his increased sal ary, now authorized by the legisla ture to be SI,BOO, beginning with Au gust, 1909. The usual amounts appropriated to the judical department were adopted without change. Under the head of appropriations to. the legislative department quite a tie bate was stirred up over a commit tee amendments providing that in future the pages of the senate should be appointed by the president of the senate instead of the messenger who nas been making these appointments for the last eight or ten years. Senators Harrell and Womble op posed the resolution, declaring that the president did not want the ap pointment. of pages, and that it ought to be left with the messenger who controlled the pages. Senator Harrell declared it would put the matter in politics to put these appointments in the hands of the president. He meant no reflection, he said, on the present (Continued on back page.) PURE FOOD CONVENTION if HOLD NEXT MEET IN GEORGIA ATLANTA, Ga.—Georgia is to be well represented at the annual con vention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy depart ments, which is to be held at Denver, Colo., August 24th to the 27th. State Chemist R. E. Stallings and Pure Food Inspector P. A. Methvin are to represent Georgia at this meeting, and both are on the program for ad dresses. Dr. Stallings leaves for the west on Thursday, going by his home in Penn sylvania and will be joined in Chicago on the 20th by Pure Food Inspector Methvin, and together they will make the trip to Denver. These represen tatives will make an effort to have the convention meet next year in At lanta. Thy carry with them an offi cial invitation from Governor Jos. M. Brown, Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson, Mayor of Atlanta R. P. Maddox, President of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Asa G. Cand ler, President Fielding Wallace of the Cotton Seed Crushers’ association of Georgia, and other organizations in terested in the food and dairy indus tries of this state. Both Dr. Stallings and Inspector Methvin will talk in regard to the operation of the pure food law in Georgia and what it has done toward improving the standard of food and feed stuffs in 'this state. Cotton seed meal, accepted as the best and cheapest cattle feed on the market, has come into its own in this state under the operation of 'the Georgia pure food law, and as a re sult more interest is being taken in dairying and cattle raising here than ever before. It is believed that if this conven tion meets in Georgia next year re newed efforts will be given to these industries, which mean so muen to the planters of this state. The Weather ?or Augusta and Vicinity: Showers tonight and Friday. For Georgia and South Carolina: Showers tonight or Friday. Cloudiness, prevailed largely over the AV'fral And. eastern portions of the i Zj :On belt Wednesday morning and showers have occurred in all dis tricts except Oklahoma. Rain has fallen also in the Ohio Valley, about the Lake region, in Min nesr/.0. N- rtb Dakota, Nebraska and . touatl;. over the Central and £- Rock; mountain country. Cool weather prevails north and east of the Ohio river while tempera ture changes over tne remaining sec tions have been irregular and unim pertant- WHAT HAS BEEN DONE BY GEORGIA'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY The present session of the Georgia legislature has been not ed for the lack of general bills of importance which have suc ceeded in passing both houses. Among the general bills that have passed both houses are the following; To elect county school com missioners by the people. To create a board of osteo pathy. To prohibit the use of trading stamps. To require fire insurance com panies to pay S2OO license in lieu of all other fees. To make February 12 Georgia day. The house and senate have both sustained the action of Gov ernor Smith in suspending S. G. McLendon. IUTOMOBILE TAX DROPPEBBTSEKATE ATLANTA, Ga. —The senate reced ed from its amendments to the gen eral tgx act increasing the tax on pistol dealers to SIOO, increasing the tax to $2 on female dogs, putting a tax of $5 on each person owning an automobile and reducing the tax of Gypsies. This finally disposed of the fore going taxes, leaving the tax on pistol dealers at $25, on dogs $1 for each dog regardless of sex, no tax at all on owners of automobiles and fixing the Gypsy tax at SSO on each Gypsy in each county, which practically out laws Gypsies from the state. The following bills were passed by 'the senate at the night session: By Mr. Lewis of Hancock—To pro vide for a commission to repqrt on a revision of the judicial circuits of the state. Resolutions providing for commit tees to visit the School for the Deaf and Academy for the Blind during vacation. By Mr. Anderson of Chatham —To give Chatham county authority to reg ulate drainage; also a bill to amend the act relative to the establishment of a county convict camp; also a bill 'to permit the city of Savannah to es tablish a tuberculosis sanitarium. Amendment Urged. In urging that the senate insists upon its amendment requiring that the governor, attorney general and 'treasurer shall approve this purchase of Chattanooga lfind before it is final ly .made, Senator Longley said; “I’m not willing to risk Mr. Alex ander’s judgment about It. It may be good and it may be bad; I know it’s had in many things.” Senator Slater opposed receding this purchase is 'too important to make without full investigation. On the motion to insist upon the amendment the vote was a tie—l 6 to 16—and President Sla'ton voted for the motion, saying: "The senate insists upon its amend ment.” ill MAY STOP T. M.O. A. GAME Special to The Herald. CHARLESTON, S. C.—The Augusta excursionists arrived here on time and are spending the day pleasantly. The weather is warm and a thunder storm and rain are probable for the afternoon. The team is making head quarters at the Y. M. C. A. building and is receiving attention from the members. IS CAROLINA ALREADY DRY AND ELECTION NDT NEEDED? Special to The Herald. COLUMBIA. S. C.—The injunction case which Attorneys Grace and Hol man of Charleston brought against the election commissioners of that county w-ith a view to unsetting the dispensary elections particularly there and generally over the state, was argued in the supreme court Thursday by ex-Speaker of the House M. L. Smith and State Senator Hu ger Sinkler of Charleston for the re spondents and Messrs. Grace and Hol man for the petitioners. It Is sought to upset not all of the near-prohibi tion act passed by the last legisla ture but only so much of it as pro vides for the elections, leaving the other part which puts state-wide pro hibition in effect temporarily. Carolina Dry? In other words, if the petitioners get all they ask for, South Csj-oiina will have a state of state-wide pro hibition without any elections. Mr. Smith, who was chosen by the gov ernor to represent the state in the absence of Attorney Genera! Lyon, on account of his being one of the pro hibition floor leaders in the last house of representatives, says he is AUGUSTA, GEORGI A, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 12, 1909. STSTE ASYLUM WILL BE PROBED BY COMMITTEE Joint Committee From General Assembly Will Look Into Alleged Ir regularities of Institution SPIRITED DEBATE ON THE SUBJECT Baldwin Representative Defended Institution and Management. Charges Not Well Founded, He Says. ATLANTA, Ga.—ln view- of the sen sational charges against the manage ment of tne Georgia State sanitarium at Milledgeville, contained in the of ficial report of the investigating com mittee recently given out by Governor Brown, the house Wednesday passed a resolution by Mr. Henderson, of Ir win, calling for an investigation by a joint committee of the general as sembly to further look into these al leged irregularities. The senate pass ed the resolution -without, debate, thus making investigation sure. A rather spirited debate marked the discussion of the resolution, which was favorably reported by the rules committee at the night session of the house. Mr. Halt, of Bibb, "There is no power in heaven or earth that can whip that crowd down there. 1 know what 1 am talking about. I was down there on an Investigating com mittee. We found a man who was ab solutely unworthy, in a position of re sponsibility, where he had charge of the disbursement of large sums ot money. We recommended his removal. Nothing further was heard of it until the state convention met in Macon and the same man was put on the state executive committee by this re form crowd.” .Defends Asylum, Mr. Vinson, of Baldwin, entered a vigorous defense of the institution and its management. He said that Ihe special committee that considered the Dunnington charges came to the conclusion that the charges were not well founded. He said the commit tee had gone beyond these charges and made criticisms upon the gene ral management of the institution. He took the position that these crttictsms of the special committee were not justifiable, and stated that as the rep resentative of the people of that coun ty he wished to enter an emphatic protest. He said the institutions was one of the most economically managed Insti tutions ot its kind in the United States that there were no grounds for criticism as to the management, and he resented the attack made on the attendants. He said the special committee had recommended an increase in pay tor the sanitarium attendants, and re minded the house that this was torn of the things he .had Insisted upon as being necessary to keep the sani tarium up to the highest standard of efficiency. Mr. Tuggle, of Troup, insisted that conditions a* the asylum were most serious and an attempt was on foot to whitewash the report. Rising to a question of personal privilege. Mr. Vinson denied vigorous ly that he would be a party to such a scheme. He characterized Mr. Tug gle’s statement as absolutely false. Mr. Lewis, of Hancock, defended the committee appointed by Governor Smith. He could not remember the names of the members of the com mittee, hut he knew they were all right. DUNNINGTON DID NOT GO TO ATLANTA Representative Wallace B. Pierce, who returned to the city Thursday morning staled that the story publish ed by an Atlanta paper to the effect that R. E. Dunnirigton, the former in mate of the asylum who escaped from his home here, called to see the gov ernor was untrue. Mr. Pierce says that Mr. Tlim, the governor’s secretary, knows Dunning ton well, and says that it was not Dunnington who came to see the gov ernor. This fact is further substan tiated by Sheriff Jno. W. Clark, saw a post card dated from Greenville, S. C., from Dunnington to his parent, on the day he was supposed to have been in Atlanta. satisfied th e prohibitionists over the state generally do not want prohibi tion by any such highfalutin tech nical method and he will fight zeal ously. It Is expected that the decision of the court will be announced some time Thursday night. Injunction Temporary. When Chief Justice Jones signed the temporary injunction order in Charleston a few days ago the hopes of those people over the state who wished to bring about the state ot affairs sought i n the petition, was greatly buoyed up and that side has been confident of victory, but the case has never been considered here as likely to interfere with the coming elections or to in any way affect the situation. In other words it will be the greatest sort of surprise if the supremo court does not dismiss the petition in its entirety. However, It is admitted by the friends of prohi bition that the act has a great many defects in it, and it is conceded that a few more blunders and it would have been all up with the prohibition program. HARRY K. THAW IS INSANE, DECIDES JUSTICE MILLS WHITE PLAINS, N, Y.—The state of New York won a complete victory over Harry K. Thaw, when Justice Isaac N. Mills decided that the slayer of Stanford White is still insane, and sent him back to the criminal insane asylum at Matteawan. Not one of the many conten tions made by Thaw during his recent hearing were sustained. He is, however, somewhat better off than before because Justice Mills, in his decision, suggestes—and suggestion amounts practically to orders—that Thaw at Matteawan be restored to tl.e privileges he enjoyed during the first three months of his stay there, and that his mother be allowed all possible privileges and be treated with every consideration when she calls to see him. Thaw took the decision coolly. In the formal decision Justice Mills dismissed the writ of habeas corpus and remanded Thaw to Matteawan In concluding that Thaw is now insane the court gives first importance to his family and childhood history. Thaw evidently made a bad im pression on the judge by his actions both on and off the stand. The court said it was more convinced by the testimony of alienists called by the state than by that of the prisoner's experts. Thaw read the court's decision without comment until he came to the following sentence; "If those beliefs constituted delusions in his mind when he committed homicide, they are the same now,” “That’s not so,” he said, and marked the lines with his pencil. TEXT OF PRICE AMENDMENT WHICH BECOMES STATE LAW REGULATING SALE OF BEER The Price amendment to the Alex ander nea.’-beer legislation and which has been passed by House and Sen ate is with amendments as follows: "Section 7. Be it further enact ed by the authority aforesaid, That every person, firm or corporation manufacturing within the limits of this state any beverage or drink or liquor in imitation of or intended as a substitute for beer, ale, wine, whis key or other alcoholic spirituous o: malt liquors shall obtain a license so to do from the ordinary of the county wherein such business Is carried on, and shall pay for said license the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each calendar year or part thereof for each place of business. "Second. And that every person, firm or corporation who shall main tain a supply depot, warehouse, dis tributing office or other place of business within this state where such beverages, drinks or liquors referred to irwthe first paragraph of this sec tion are kept, for sale or distribution or are sold in wholesale quantities, that is to say, in quantities of more khan five gallons, and that eaclt and every agent, or representative of each separate non-resident manufacturer, manufacturing firm or manufacturing corporation of any such beverages, drinks or liquors, and each person, firm or corporation handling the pro duct. of such non-resident manufac turer, manufacturing firm or corpora tion, keeping for sale or for distri bution or handling and selling any such drinks or beverages in this state in wholesale quantities as afore said shall obtain a license so to do from the ordinary of the county wherein such supply depot, ware house, distributing office or other place of business by wholesale, and shall pay for said license the sum ot one thousand dollars for each calen dar year or part thereof for such place of wholesale business in this state. The Haid agents or represen tatives of non-resident manufacturers of such beverages and persons hand ling and selling by wholesale the product of such non resident manu facturing persons, firms or corpora tions shall obtain and pay for a sepa rate license for each separate non resident persons, firm or corporation represented by them or whose pro duce is handled by them in wholesale quantities S3OO for Retailers. "Third, And that evqry person, firm ot corporation who shall sell or offer for sale In quantities of less than five gallons any such beverages, drinks or liquors referred to in the first paragraph of this section, shall first obtain a license cp to do from the ordinary of the county wherein such business Is carried on, and sh.ill pay for said license the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) for each cal endar year or part thereof l’or each place of business; provided, that no ordinary shall issue any license lo any person, firm or corporation to do or carry on such business outside of, nor shall any such license be con slrued, to give authority to any per son, firm or corporation to do or car ry on any such business outside of the corporate limits of any Incoroorab ed city, town or village In this state. Provided that no such lie (ns* shall be issued to any person to do nr carryon any such business in towns or cities of less than 2,500 inhabi tants. "Provided further, That no ex-Con federate veteran shall at any time he allowed to do such bu..!ness or engage In the sale of near-beer in this state without first, complying with the li cense laws of this state; and provld ed further that no ex-Ccmfederate vet eran shall tie permitted to engage In the sale of near-beer in any munici pality In this state without, flrsi obtaining the permission of the pro per authorities of such municipality. ' Fourth, No person whomsoever shall be exempt from the duty of ob taining such license* and paying said license fees required In the first three paragraphs of this section. And that nothing in this section shall ever he held, taken or construed to authorize the sale of any beverage, drink or II quor now prohibited by law. Fifth, That all such imitations of or substitutes for beer, ale, wine, whiskey or othei alcoholic, spirituous or malt liquors sold iri any such places shall have stamped plainly on the vessels containing such liquid the name of the manufacturer thereof. Penalty For Violation. Sixth, That, any person who shall carry on any business named in either of the first three paragraphs of tills section, without having first, obtained the license or licenses in this section required, and paid therefor as provided for by this section, shall tie guilty of a misdemeanor, and pun ished accordingly. Seventh, Any person who shall sell, or furnish, keep or give away un/er color of the license herein required, any liquor, drink or beverage prohi bited by law, shall, In addftlon to any penalty which he may otherwise be liable to, forfeit said license, or being' in the employment of any per son holding such license; and any per- DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. PIE lEKBIIIT TO NEAR-BEER BILL WAS ADOPTED BY THE BOUSE Multitude Interested in Outcome of the Measure Crowded Hall Where Ses sion Was Held. RESULT OF VOTES WAS CLOSE TO THE LAST Representatives Explained Their Votes in Short Speeches. Excitement wa3 Intense to the End. Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, Ga. -Long before the hour for reconvening at 8 o’clock for the closing session, ihe house of rep resentatives was a huge magnet, which attracted all kinds and condi tions and people with (he avowed pro hibitionist and the friends of near beer greatly In the majority. These latter were feverishly buttonholing . embers and talking to them In stage whispers. As the hands of the clock neared 8 o’clock the si tin tion was Hooper Alexander, clad in a linen suit., palm leaf in hand wns here, there and everywhere, .). Randolph Anderson, similarly dressed, was ner vously inhaling cigarette smoke and exhaling it In great white clouds as lie Hugged the doubtful ones and marshaled "them to his rescue. Sena tor Price, smiling, took things easy hut, forgot for once to crack jokes. He talked earnestly. Near beer pro prietors and owners of brewery stock ining over the rails and chewed on the ends of cigars, until they resem bled small umbrellas. Finally vari ous routine matters disposed of the house got to the Price amendment af ter It was amended that, the senate could not be budged. The roll call was tong and tedious. Representa tive after representative rose to ex plain his vote. Tabloid eloquence It. was—-speeches being limited to three minutes—but to those anxious to learn the result, these three mlnuw seemed many hours. The house was hot as a pepper mil! and the forensic display did not tend to cool things. At last the W's were reached and scores of men who had been keeping the vote began to forecast the result. It. was a driving finish. The price amendment had won by the vote of 81 to 77. The Alexander section had lost, two votes and the Price substi tute had gained four. BROWN WILL LEVY TAXTO STRENGTHEN STATE TREASURY Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, Ga. -Governor Brown will, In the next few days, assess the maximum tax levy of five mills allowed under the constitution of tho state. This was made Imperative by the fact that the treasury Is In a dilapidated state and there were com paratively few Increases of Impor tance In the general tax act. son holding such license who shall knowingly employ any person ho dis qualified shall forfeit his license, and be in like manner disqualified. Eighth, That the ordinary collect ing the license fees required by this section shall account for and pay over to the treasury of the state all moneys collected under the provis ions of this section, I«sh a license fee of $2.50 for* Issuing said license, and the license fee herein allowed to he the full compensation for all service* Incident to the registering of names of persons to whom licenses are is sued, collecting and remitting the net amounts to the state treasury as pro vided for in this section. And the ordinary shell make monthly reports to the comptroller general, and month ly remittances to the state treasury, furnishing In said reports tne names and places of business of all p«.- soris, firms or corporations to whom licenses have been Issued under the provision of this section. Any ordl nary who falki to make the reports or to make remittances as required by this section Bhall forfeit ail com missions herein allowed. THE effect of advertising lasts far beyond the week, month or even year in which it appears. Many a business is a money-maker to-day on Advertising done years ago —on accumulated prestige. PROBABLY WILL ABOLISH BLAB BEER SALOONS Representative Pierce Says Legislators are Tired of Way Present Law ie Being Violated. Representative Wallace B. Plores returned to the city Thursday morn ing from Atlanta. Mr. Pierce was the only Richmond oounty legislator to return to the city. Dr. J. L. Little ton has gone to Griffin, Ga., and Mr. Sam. F. Garlington will remain In At lanta for several days. Mr. Pierce talks very interestingly of the ses sion and of the bills that, referred to matters locally. The now near beer law passed Wed nesday night, according to Mr. Pierce, should not have been paased. Mr. Pierce was one of the leaders of the opposition, not that lie is in favor of whiskey but he thinks that If the peo ple are not satisfied with the presont bill, they should pass a law doing away entirely with near beer. As Mr. Pierce, puts It, public sentiment would have to be built up to obey the old noar beer law, and by foster ing (be new law, the sentiment that has been built is only torn down. If the same dealers and manufact urers In Richmond county take out licenses next year to sell near beet under the new law, the revenue of the state, will be Increased from Rich mond county, alone, $10,300 more than this year. Up to date 1« 1909, 8,7 retail dealers have taken out lic enses at, S2OO each, and three whole salers, and one manufacturer took out license at SSOO each. This made a total for 1909 of $18,600. The retail license has been Increased to S3OO, and the wholesalers to SI,OOO, so the fund for the same number of license In 1010 will be $28,900. Mr. Pierce believes that If the pro hibition law aa openly violated be tween now and the next sesalon of the legislature, that the legislature will pass a bill entirely closing the near beer saloons, and the locker clubs. He aays that, there Is little doubt of such a hill, as the legisla tors! have come to the place, where they are tired of the way things are going. Mr. Pierce says that a good many prohibitionists In the htbuse voted against Ihe new bill on account of the fact that. It. was Incorporated in the general tax act, which Is supposed to be a revenue measure only. Mr. Pierce says that when the xnafr ter of changing the law first oame up, Mr. Anderson of Chatham stated on the floor of the house that if any at tempt was made to change the pro hibition law, ho would organize a fil ibuster and fight It. out until the end of the session. Mr. Alexander, of De- Kalb, knowing that Mr. Anderson would carry his threat Into execution, incorporated the bill in the general tux act. Mr. Pierce stated that, at the next session of the honae he Is going to make an effort to again bring up the bill for the annexation of Summer ville and adjoining territory to Au gusta Tho hill was tabled, and can be put on the calender of the house at any time. Mr. Plorce says there was a good deal of trading done on the bill but after be and Mr. Darling ton hnd made every effort to hare the bill go to the second reading, they asked that It ho tabled. Mr. Pierce said he regretted the failure of the pension bill to pass, but that It would be taken up at the find part of the next session. MR WILSON AND MIS* RANSEY IN RUNAWAY While driving, about three mile* beyond Belvedere, Thursday morning, Mr. W. I. Wilson, Jr., and MUe P D. Ran soy wore thrown out when their horse ran away, and severely shaken up. The horse became fright ened and ran, breaking the shaft of the buggy. When the horse wai caught he could not be used, as the buggy was too badly broken. The trip back to tho city was made on the cars.
