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THE AUGUSTA-• DAILY' HERALD VOLUME XV., No. 7. GRANT FEDERAL CHARTERS TO COMBINATIONS AND PROTECT THEM FROM STATE INTERFERENCE, SAYS PRESIDENT TAFT. IN SPECIAL MESSAGE WITS COURT OF COMMERCE TO BEFORMED Makes Recommendations to Insure a More Com plete Control of Rail roads by the Government WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Taft Friday sent to congress his long delayed and much discussed message on inter-state commerce and anti trust legislation. In it he strikes at the existence of holding corporations, by which major trusts control their subsidiaries, and at the watering or corporation stock. To insure the more complete control of railroads by the government, he demands the forma tion of a court of commerce, to com prise five judges, having power to act as a court of appeals from the rul ings of the inter-state commerce commission. The president dips into railroad em ployes' safety, also, urging new feat ures of the liability ,law. WANTS POWER CENTRALIZED State control of corporations is vig orously attacked; the president charges it with the responsibility fen many corporation abuses, and he takes a firm stand for centralized power. He demaiii- that railroads be for bidden 1o control their competitors and would give the inter-stata com merce commission sweeping increases in power. Declaring distinction between good (Continued on Page 3.) RUHDR OF MORGAN'S DEATH Hi TAFT’S MESSAGE IDF STOCKS TAKE DECIDED SLUMP Railroad and Industrial Shares Suffered Most. Death Rumor Started Because Morgan’s Of fices Were Closed. NEW Y’ORK —There was a decided slump in the stock market Friday as soon as Wall street got the presi dent’s message. The decrease was principally in railroad and industrial shares, because of the wholesale new legislation recommended affecting them. Southern Pacific dropped from 137 5-8 to 135 7-8. Steel fell from 88 to 86 7-8. The bear sentiments seemed to greatly preponderate. The decline was not violent, however, and there was difference of opinion as to wether the selling was hurting or helping the market. A wild report J. P. Morgan had died suddenly was circulated in the street just bfltore the message was received, and it unsettled the market to a great extent. The report was due to the fact that the offices of J. P. Mor gan & Co., at Wall and Broad Sts., were closed from 11 to 12 o’clock be cause of the death of Mr. Robertson, a member of the firm. While speculators were trying to run down the Morgan rumor, the pres ident’s message came along. There was some division of opinion as to whether the Morgan rumor or the message brought about the drop. BOARD OF EDUCATION ANNUAL MEETING Bth At the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Education of Richmond county which will be held at the Tub man High school, Saturday at 10 a. m., the annual reports for the year from the various officers will be read. All the new members will attend the meeting and officers for the ensuing year will be appointed. The commis sioners in the city will remain the same as last year, but there will be some changes In the representation from the rrjj-al districts as a result of the recent 3: ion. V ... THE WEATHER Condition, favor fair, colder weather in this section tonight and fair Saturday. LI FOLLETTE ON PRESIDENT Says Taft Made Bad Be ginning, and Has People Dissatisfied. Declares People Are Waiting. MADISON, Wis.—A signed state ment. by Senator LaFollette in the is sue of his magazine to appear Satur day will definitely commit the sena tor to opposition of President Taft ivh never he compromises on pro gressive policies. The statement says in part; “March fourth, President Roosevelt committed the groat work of his ad ministration, finished and unfinished, to his successor. President Taft formed a new cabinet, some of whom had not been in sympathy with that work. He aided in the election of Cannon as speaker of the house of representatives. “Cannon, Aldrich and their associate . became his close advisers on legisla tion. It was a bad beginning. It has borne bitter fruit in tariff revis ion upward, with advancing prices al ready productive of popular revolt. It has brought upon the- administration in its first year charges against the secretary of the interior in ejonnec tion with coal land steals of a mag nitude unparalleled in the history of public plundering. The people are not satisfied with the tariff legisla tion. They are shocked at the charges made fn the Alaskan coal scandal. They have not lost faith yet. They are still waiting, hoping. "But the people of the country are (Continued on Market Page.) ADVISERS ARE SUMMONED TD MEET it TAFT WASHINGTON, D. C.—At 3 o'clock Friday afternoon President Taft sum moned soma of his closest advisers, among them Senator Root, Secretary of State Konx, Attorney General Wickersham, Postmaster General Hitchcock and Secretary of the Navy Meyer, Secretary of Treasury Mac Veagh, and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, for the purpose, it is believed, of considering the Balllnger-Pinchot situation, which has become so much more acute since the reading of Mr. Pinchot’s letter in the senate by Sen ator Dolllver Thursday. The confer ence was still in session at a quarter before 4 o’clock. Secretary Nagel was absent, being in St. Louis, and Secretary Ballinger was absent, it is believed, for reasons of delicacy. DISPENSARY FUNDS ADE CAUSING CONTROVERSY COLUMBIA, S. C.—War to the knife and knife to the hilt Is about to be precipitated over how the two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollar fund turned In the state treas ury by the dispensary commission is to be spent. Comptroller General Jones Is proceeding Friday to distrib ute to the schools, first making up the deficiency to the weak schools and af ter that to the counties on the basis of their enrollment. Members of the legislature and oth ers hold the contending money should go to the new supreme court buiuding, the public debt or the new asylum plant. It is expected they will have Comptroller Jones enjoined, which will probably tie up the funds until after the legislature adjourns. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1910. CHIEF PIIGHOT IT RESIGN HIS FORESTRY JOB It is Declared He Violated Order of Taft by Giving Cut Information to Dol liver. WASHINGTON, D. C.—“ls not Chief Forester Pinchot in contempt of ' court’ is the question asked Friday; also, what punishment is to be in flicted? The contempt lies in the violation of President Taft’s order of last November for bidding 1 heads of bureaus to furnish senators or mem bers with official information, such in formation to come only from heads of j the departments. The ready response of forestery ser vice officials to Senator Dolliver’s re- I quest for facts relative to the Glavis ' charges against Seen tary Ballinger is j regarded by many as confirmation of , the “back from Elba’’ stories that of | late have been freely circulated by the “Roosveltites,” as the progressives are termed by the regulars. Friends of the administration say Friday that they cannot see how Mr. Pinchot can expect to continue to retain his office after the disclosures in th-s Dolliver letter. Senator Hale, much to the surprise of the senate has appeared in the role of defender of the administration in this case. He criticised Pinchot for writing the letter to Senator Dol liver in violation of the president’s order, but when the story about the president’s order forbidding subor dinates to furnish departmental in formation to congressmen was first made public the Maine senator was quick to speak his mind and criti cised the order. It has been made clear that the line in the senate between the adherents of Ballinger and Pinchot will be sharply drawn and the progressives no doubt will be found lined up in support of the chief forester. The “resignation” of Mr. Pinchot, volun tary or otherwise, it was said Friday, may be looked for at any time in tho near future. HI TICKETS StLLIIS UPIDLY LOS ANGELES, Cal.—-The sale of aviation tickets has started with a rush, over six hundred of the 1,000 boxes being disposed of for the en tire ten day’s exhibition. The first purchaser of an airship on the Pacific coast, for purposes of pleasure and sport is Col. Frank H. Johnson, a member of Gov. Gillett’s staff, and he will receive his new toy some time today when it arrives from the East. The craft is a Cur tiss biplane. It is said life ’insurance companies have cancelled $84,000 worth of policies on Mr. Johnson’s life in view of hi 3 proposed experi ments. The local committee state positive ly three is do possibility of doubt about Paul ham the Fonch aviato, and Glenn H. Curtiss, the American flying. Wilbur Wright has telegraphed the local committee asking if they would be willing to secure a license cover ing the meet here on all machines un der the Wright patents for a lump sum. “WHY AN OFFICER OF THE LAW FAILED” Dr. Wilkinson to Preack Strong Sermon Sunday Night. Fifth of Series on Civic Righteousness. "Why an officer of the law failed,” will be the subject of the fifth of a series of sermons on Civic Righteous ness, which will be delivered by the Rev. Richard Wilkinson at St. James church next Sunday night. The preacher states that the sermon will not he as lengthy as the ones that he has previously de livered and will not be over an hour in length. As has been the case In the past It Is expected that a large congrega tion will be present next Sunday even ing. GREATER ATLANTA ATLANTA, Ga.—Judge Ellis of the superior court Thursday afternoon, denied the injunction of the South Atlanta citizens and Greater Atlanta will be come a fact. PAPA DE JANON CHARGES CONSPIRACY SAYS DAUGHTER IS HIDDEN FROM HIM i .i J*; ■, \ _ Latest photographs of Miss Roberta Buist de Janon, the seventeen'year-old heiress to $10,000,000, who eloped from Philadelphia recently with Ferdinand Cohen, a waiter who used to bring her her meals in the fash ionable Bellevue-Stratford hotel. Although there is ample evidence that the girl was infatuated with Cohen, as indicated by a number of letters she wrote him, nevertheless suspicion increases that she is now being held a prisoner in New York until her relatives shall be worried into offering a large sum of money for her return. Cohen is nearly fifty years of age. Miss de Janon had always been carefully guarded from the possibility of fall ing in love indiscriminately. Her grandfather, Robert Buist, had confidence in Cohen, and thus the girl was en abled to meet and talk with him without hindrance. Her grandfather has suffered a severe attack of heart trouble because of worry over the affair. PIuLADELPHIA, ra.—Ferdinand rle Janon, father of Roberta do Jnnon, the ?10,000,000 heiress who disappeared from Philadelphia with Frederick Cohen, a waiter, declared today that he believed a conspiracy was on foot to hide his daugh ter from him. Investigations today gave no confirma tion of the announcement made into yes terday by intimate friends of Robert Buist, grandfather of Roberta, lhat the girl had been found. Bulst would neith er affir nor deny these reports lo news paper men, hut at 1 o’clock this morning he said over the long distance telephone to do Janon, who is in N'-w York: “No, no. no!” I haven’t found her. I haven’t found any trace of her.-' NEW YORK—The attitude assumed by millionaire Buist in the hunt for hi: granddaughter has brought about a fam ily quarrel. The father of Roberta said to day that he was goii.g t»> retain a lawyer, go to Philadelphia and Insist upon finding out just what Buist had learned concerning the whereabouts of his daughter. “F'om what l have bee n able . o learn o* KoiieiU' S absence,” sail de Janon. *1 UNCONSCIOUS ONE HUNDRED DAYS. PITTSBURG. —Mrs. Kate Men delsohn, 31 years old, who has been unconscious 100 days, is slowly dying. Physician study ing the case where unable to diagnose the nature of the dis ease. CONFERENCE DATES HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED Presiding Elder Fraser Will Bo Busy With Methodist Churches For Next Week. Rev. B. F. Fraser, presiding elder of Augusta district, M. E. Church, South, announces the following dates for the first quarterly conference In the churches under his charge: Woodlawn, Friday Jan. 7, 8 p. m. St. John’s church, Monday Jan. 10. Asbury, Wednesday Jan. 12. St. James, Thursday Jan. 13. Broadway, Friday Jan. 14. Ail officials of the various churches are expected to be present on these dates, prepared to meet the require ments of church discipline. SEC. E. S. JOHNSON PREPARING REPORT Secretary E. S. Johnson Ih busy preparing a schedule of building stn tistics of the city of Augusta for the use of the government. The request for this information comes from the geological bureau of the department of the interior. General Weather Conditions WASHINGTON. The southern storm during the last 24 hours moved rapidly northeastward from Alabama, and this morning Is over southern New England. Jt has been followed by a marked change to colder weather east of the Mississippi river, and a cold wave In the east gulf states and the Interior of tl.o South Atlantic states. ain firmly c»n meed ihnt R r «h- ,,, .i dV not elope with this waiter because she had and tender feeling for him. but that sh* was lured away through a plot on the part of an enemy of mine, and that tills enemy is keeping her in hiding. Enter the Musician “To explain why 1 believe this it will be necessary to go back Into several years. When my wife was alive one of her friends was a musician. 'Phis music ian was the only enemy l ever had In the world. 1 despised him and he de spised me. We still despise eacli other. “I have learned enough to convince me that this musician was the man who called at the hotel Bayard in this city and engaged quarters for Roberta ami this man Cohen. Why should he do this? Because he would give anything in the world to bring misery upon me. He stood in the way of a reconciliation between me and my wife, all hough Plie abhorred him. “Thl* musician was seen loitering about the Believuo-Ht rat ford hold in Philadelphia a week before Roberta, dis appeared. He was seen there the day before she left. I do not care to give ‘Taft Stabs System’s Deviltry To Heart,” Says Thos. W. Lawson BOSTON, Mass.—Thomas W. LaW son has the following advertisement commenting on President Taft’s mes sage in the morning papers here: PRESIDENT’S MMS SAG 10. SYSTEMS (>1 JITIIARY. Our president has heard the C. Q. D. of the republic and has answered it, like a Roosevelt. Every friend of the absent one, (•very red bloded hater of mushroom dollar halos, in eongn hh and out, will promptly apply to President Taft for enlistment papers, and every mother’s son of a recruit will stick until the president has treed his possum. Inter-state —anti-trust federal Incor poration—each and all (If the Wash ington synopsis guesses of the mes sage are correct) arc bullets that go straight to the heart of the system’s deviltries. If what President Taft recommends is done, 1 will stake my here-and hereafter salvation that the system’s future will be that of an electrocuted sapling pawing on its . way through Niagara Falls. The light is now on—for the system will fight like a sulphur magnate in hell -but the president must win When I have read the message I will review In detail in a series es advertised articles its effects on the stock market. In the meantime all the Roosevelt vets —Oil per cent of the American people—should toss their bonnets to President Taft with a fervent "At last, oh, Lord, at last!" P. fi.—The owners of the system trust stocks should lay in plenty of nil paper paste, for they wont be able to put their certificates to any other use after Washington fight starts. AJI good "coppers’’ and I Ike-sit The weather during Friday and Sat urday east of tile Mississippi river will be generally fair, except that there will be snow In northern New England Friday night. The temperature will fall decidedly In the Atlantic states Friday night, I with a cold wave south of Pennsyl -1 van la to and Including northern and central Florida. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. out the man’s name at Ibis time. The police are watching him. Min hatred for me. is such that. I believe he would go to any length to injure me." Father l« Suspicious. ’Pile father was then asked if he be lieved his daughter had been located, as reported yesterday. “That is exactly what I want to find out.’’ he replied. “When 1 was first hi formed of this report I was overjoyed. I did not sleep any last night, because all my energies wore directed toward verify ing the report. At 4 o’clock this morn ing I telephoned Mr. Buist. lie gave me a short answer. I then telephoned to Mr. Earle, a friend of his. From Mr. Earle I failed to get a satisfactory an swer. “Then f telephoned to FUlpt. O'Henry of the Phlla police. He would not tel! me anything definite. “Now. I propose to retain n lawyer and go to Philadelphia today and Insist upon finding out just, what the police havi accomplished In their search. As the father of Roberta 1 urn entitled to know this. I do not feel that I am being treated right.** unted stocks which can take advant age of federal Incorporation should In crease In price value an hundred per cent for there certainly will be lively times once Investors start changing cars. (Signed) THOMAS W. LAWSON. BUSINESS LICENSES NOW BEING PAID Mr. Harry Morris, City Treasurer and Collector announces that the city business licenses, now due, are not being paid up as fast as they should. The last day on which the licenses can be paid without a penal ty is the 15th of January and Mr. Morris Is anxious to avoid the usual rush on that date. Good Advertising Well Backed Up By Salesmanship and Store Service. Lay out your advertising appropria tion, ami when you lay It out, don’t bo stingy with It, it's going to coma back to you with Interest compounded. Right after you have taken stock, If you have any old goods on hand, have a pood rousing clearance sale and get rid of the old things, the don’t-mov ers, they occupy valuable apace that you will need for your new Roods when they come In. Fast year you probably bought so little that you did n't tiave all the Roods the people wanted when they did visit your store. Plan tills year to have the things the people want and when they want them. Plan to change your windows at least once a week, twin: a week, three times a wi • k Is even better. The first of the year you and your help get together. Tell your help what you wunt to do, tell them you're planning bigger things for 1910 and that you can only accomplish bigger things through their combined aid. Lot them feel that you are to a cer tain extent dependent upon their ef forts, that the greater their efforts the greater your business success und the M lO QUEEN IF GREECEBRIVE FIRE IN ME King Led Firefighters When Tntoi Palace Was Doomed to Destruction by Flames. ATHENS. —Queen Olga Friday 1s the heroine of Greece. Her cour age and that of King George, at tho Tatol palace tiro was so marked that public opinion has swung strongly in favor of the royal family, and the campaign that has been waged for the abdication of the king has re ceived, it is believed, a severe set back. When dawn broke Friday the Tatoi palace was still smouldering. Inves tigation however, showed that tho loss would be less than was at first sup posed. Although Insufficient water and inadequate apparatus handi capped the five fighters, whom the king himself led, the flames did tho greatest damage to the apartments of the ladies in waiting, and the servants rooms on tho upper floor. When the queen saw that the rooms of her ladies in waiting wore doomed, she urged tho firemen on to save trinkets asked for by those in her train. The sailors from tho Russian and the British warships in Phalerum Bay Friday returned from the palace to their ships. It is believed# that insurance will cover the loss. Much furniture and all state documents, it is said, were saved. Bin ISSOGIU MEETIM Jill. 11 Hon. A. G. Powell to Mnke Address. Bik Banquet at Bon Air Hotel. At the annual meeting of the Augusta Bar MBKOeiatinri, which will be held next Tuesday the annual address will bo de livered by tin* Hun. A. U. Powell, Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Tho A i lent a Juris t will be Hie guest of honor at a banquet which will be nerved ut the Bon Air and will bo a bonded by over 7T> numbers of the legal profession. In having Judge Powell with them on the occasion of their minimi meeting the Augusta lawyers feel are truly for tunate. Judge Powell is recognised throughout the South us being one of the leading authorities in this section and his opinions are quoted in scores of courts. An election of officers for the ensuing year will be made by tho Augusta Bap association. The following are among the present officers, President, MaJ. J. (!. C. Black, Secretary, Geo. T. Jackson and Treasurer, Bryson T. Crone. —— | DR. OERTEL GOING TO STATE CONVENTION Augusta will be represented at the State Anti-Tuberculosis society conven tion in Atlanta on Monday January 17, by Dr. T. E. Oertel. The best means of disseminating in formation about the dangers of tubercu losis, will be one of the chief papers and discussion contained In an interesting program. In addition to this paper, papers will bo rend and addresses made by prominent men who are well Informed on the fight being made against the disease. Reports on the success of the great work of fighting the fearful dis* ease in various places will be made. success of your business means their success. Start the new year with a full de termination to have everything and everybody about your store pulling together. It Is one thing to attract people to your store with a well written adver tisement, unite another thing to sell them and still unite another thing to assure yourself of their return. It’s one thing to advertise intelligently, unite another tiling to "back up” that advertising. Your announcement may attract and he read, tin- argument presented and values offered attract the readers to your store, but how about the tak ing care of those same people, when they reach your store. Your advertisement speaks in glow ing terms of the good uuallty, style, and attractiveness of your goods, It tells of a store service unequalled elsewhere, of courteous and painstak ing salespeople and low prices. What, think you, will people who are attracted to your store think whes tiny read this announcement, come to your store and find tilings not as rep resented? —(From “Liuck Shot.")
