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A BIG MAJORITY
FOR RATIFICATION
Senate Approves the Hay-
Pauncefote Treaty.
VOTE WAS SEVENTY-TWO TO SIX
.Is First Move toward Building of
Isthmian Canal—Amendments
Voted Down.
Monday the senate ratified the Hay-
Pauncefote canal treaty by a decisivo
vote of 72 to 6. The vote was reached
dir.a few minutes before 5 o’clock after
almost five hours’ discussion behind
closed doors. There were no sensa¬
tional incidents during this entire
time. The debate was confined exclu¬
sively to a discussion of the merits of
the agreement and the policy of its
provisions. The principal speech of
the day was made by Senator Teller in
opposition to the treaty, and he was
followed in rapid succession by twelve
or fifteen other senators, who spoke
briefly either for or against the mo¬
tion to ratify.
Those voting against ratification are:
Bacon, Blackburn, Culberson, Mallory,
Teller, Tillman—6.
Bailey paired with Depew and El¬
kins. Rawlins paired with Hanna and
Sewell.
Those who did not vote and for
whom no pairs were announced are
Daniel, Jones, of Nevada, Patterson
and Quay.
Amendments Voted Down.
There was an eceptionally full sen¬
ate when the time arrived for a vote,
but the certainty of ratification had be¬
come so apparent that there was com¬
paratively little interest in the pro¬
ceedings. The votes on the amend¬
ment succeeded each other quickly.
Before the vote on the treaty was
taken two amendments were offered
and voted down. One was by
Culberson and was to insert the Davis
fortification amendment of the
session. This was defeated, 15 to 62,
the affirmative votes being cast by
Senators Bacon, Bate, Berry, Black¬
burn, Carmack, Culberson, Dubois,
Heiifeld, McLaurin. of Mississippi, Mal¬
lory, Money, Simmons, Taliaferro,
man and Vest.
Senator Bacon then offered an
amendment striking out the preamble
in the reference to the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty the words “without impairing
the general principle of neutralization
established in article 8 of that conven¬
tion,” also the following words in ar¬
ticle 2, relating to the purchase of
stock: “Subject to the provisions of
the present treaty;” also all of article
3, relating to the neutralization of the
canal; also all of article 4 declaring
against change of territorial sovereign¬
ty. All this was embodied in one
amendment and defeated, 18 to 60,
the affirmative votes being cast by
Senators Bacon, Bate, Berry, Black¬
burn, Carmack, Clark of Montana,
Clay, Culberson, Dubois, Harris, Heit-
f eflS, McLaurin of Mississippi, Mallory,
Money, Simmons, Taliaferro, Teller
and Tillman.
RESOLUTION OF THANKS
To Schley and His Officers and Men
Presented In Senate.
An echo of the verdict of the court
of inquiry in the case of Rear Admiral
Schley was heard in the senate Mon¬
day when Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, in¬
troduced a resolution extending the
thanks of congress and of the Ameri¬
can people to Admiral Schley and the
officers and men under his command
during the battle of July 3, 1898, off the
harbor of Santiago, Cuba. In submit¬
ting the resolution, Mr. Jones made no
statement and it was referred without
comment to the committee on naval
affairs.
Low 'l akes Oath of Office.
Seth Low took the oath of office as
mayor of New York in the supreme
court of the state Monday. Mr. Low
will assume office at noon on Janua¬
ry L
TWO MORE INDICTMENTS.
Post and Hnrgman are Also Charged
With Defrauding People.
In the United States court Monday
at Jacksonville, Fla., the grand jury re-
turned true bills in the case of the
United States against C.,C. Post and
Charles F. Burgman, who, with the
former’s wife, Helen Wilmans-Post, are
charged with defrauding persons by
representing to cure all kinds- of dis¬
ease by mental science, or mind cure.
Fifteen indictments in all have been
filed against the defendants, and the
case is now ready for trial, whenever
Judge Locke shall set a date for the
.same to be called.
FILIPINO TREACHERY
Is Commented Upon by General
Chaffee in Courtmartial Re¬
port to War Department.
General Chaffee, military governor of
the Philippines, in a review of one of
a number -of courtmartial cases in the
islands the records of which have been
received at the war department, makes
the following statement:
“History affords no parallel of a
whole people thus practically turning
war traitors and in the genius of no
other people was ever found such mas¬
terful powers of secrecy and dissimula¬
tion; but it is needless to say that no
powerful state was ever erected or
ever can be erected on such immoral
and unenlightened foundations.”
The case which brought forth this
comment from eneral Chaffee was
one wherein seven natives were tried
jointly on the charge of murder. The
accused were soldiers in the insurgent
army and after defeat by the Ameri¬
can army in the field abandoned even
the show of open opposition, such as
half of the uniformed guerrilla bands
make, and took up their residence at
Tay Tay, in Luzon, a place protected
by an American garrison.
Then, following tne proclaimed pol¬
icy of the insurgent chiefs, they pro¬
ceeded to organize secretly a bolo
band. When authorization had been
given to establish civil government the
band came forward under the leader¬
ship of a resident and padre and were
elected municipal officers of Tay Tay.
In all lawful matters they served with
the appearance of loyalty to the Ameri¬
can government, while at the same
time they labored secretly and dili¬
gently in the interests of the insurrec¬
tion. This dual form of government,
says General Chaffee, existed every¬
where in strongly garrisoned cities
like Manila, as well as the smallest
barrio. The municipal officers of Tay
Tay next entered upon a series of mur¬
ders and continued their deadly work
until the growing number of myste¬
rious disappearances led to the discov¬
ery of the perpetrators by the Ameri¬
can authorities.
“One undeniable truth,” says Gener¬
al Chaffee, “stands out in this case
as in hundreds of like cases of murder
—that the average native of these is¬
lands has not more than the merest
rudimentary conception of his individ¬
ual rights and duties as a man; and
no one knows this so well as the wily
chiefs who use him for their nefarious
purposes.”
Six of the seven natives were sen¬
tenced to be hanged, but General Chaf¬
fee commuted the sentence of three of
them to imprisonment at hard labor
for life.
Priest Member of the Gang,
The seventh native, Leonardo de Po-
soy, a regularly ordained priest', asked
for and was granted a separate trial.
At this trial De Posoy, who was held
to be the chief aggressor in the Tay
Tay trouble, took advantage of the
loophole which appeared to be afforded
by his position as priest by contending
that while the participators in the
wholesale murders in Tay Tay would
confess the same at confessional, he
was compelled by his sacred office co
keep silence. General Chaffee pro¬
nounced this defense of no value, say¬
ing that the “confessional does not lay
upon any priest or layman the obliga¬
tion of suppressing knowledge of
crimes being committed by third par¬
ties the consummation of which could
have been prevented without violating
the secrecy of the confessional.”
AGREEMENT NOT SIGNED.
Street. Railway Consolidation Scheme
N. In Atlanta Fails.
An Atlanta dispatch says: At the
eleventh hour a misunderstanding
tween the special committee c« coun¬
ell and H. M. Atkinson caused a hitch
in the terms of the agreement looking
to the consolidation of the properties
of the Atlanta Railway and Power
Company, the Atlanta Rapid Transit
Company and the Georgia Electric
Light Company.
It was generally understood that the
terms had been agreed to by all par-
ties concerned, hut it developed that
Mr. Atkinson declined to sign the
agreement.
TEACHERS MADE HAPPY.
Georgia Pedagogues Deceive Part of
Long Due Compensation.
Georgia school teachers will receive
$300,000 from the state this week. The
warrants are being drawn by State
School Commissioner Glenn, and as
as they are signed by the gover-
nor and the comptroller the checks
will be sent out.
The payment which is to be made
will be for the third month. The state
is some nine months behind in giving
the teachers their money, and there
will no douhe be general rejoicing
the pedagogues
Georgia.’.Cullings
Brief Bat Interesting Summary
of Happenings in the State.
Representative Henderson Dies.
Hon. James R. Henderson, represen¬
tative in the Georgia legislature from
Forsyth county, died the past week at
his home seven miles southwest of
Cummings. Mr. Henderson had been
ill for the past three weeks with pneu¬
monia and fever.
Want Renewal of Charter.
The Atlanta and Alabama Railway
Company has filed with Secretary of
State Phil-Cook an application for the
renewal of its charter for a period of
thirty years. The application was filed
by the majority stockholders, The
road has never been built.
To Boom Cane Industry.
A Washington special says: Secre¬
tary of Agriculture Wilson will ask
congress to co-operate with him to¬
ward the development of the can sugar
industry in Georgia by making appro¬
priations for certain experiment sta¬
tions which he ^desires to establish.
As soon as the committee on agri¬
culture of the senate and house get
down to work, the secretary of agricul¬
ture will send to them reports of Dr.
Wiley, of his department, who has
been making investigations into the
sugar possibilities in southern Geor
gia. Dr. Wiley has returned firm in
the belief that this industry can be
very profitably developed.
Much Good Is Expected.
The various delegates who attended
the “Good Roads” convention in At¬
lanta were greatly enthused over the
subject and the permanent organiza¬
tion which followed as a result of the
meeting is expected to accomplish
great results in that direction.
The organization of the convention
was recommended by the committee
on permanent organization to be the
organization of the state. While repre¬
sentatives of the National Good Roads
Association who came with the South¬
ern’s good roads special have laid
great stress upon the benefits to be de¬
rived from seeing the demonstrations
in practical road building which have
been given on the Soldiers’ home road,
still the main purpose of the conven¬
tion was to interest the people of the
state in the question of good roads.
An Instructive Volume.
An interesting volume is that writ-
ten by Colonel O. B. Stevens and Cap¬
tain R. F. Wright and issued by the
Georgia department of agriculture. The
book, the title of which is “Georgia:
Historical and Industrial,” contains a
wealth of interesting information
about the state, its history and abund¬
ant resources. And the authors have
handled their material in such a clever
manner as to hold the reader’s close
attention from the first page to the
last.
The book contains nearly a thousand
pages and Is quite a formidable vol¬
ume. Handsome half-tone pictures,
colored plates and maps are liberally
interspersed between its pages and
lend additional interest to the text. As
the title implies, the work is a history
of the state and its industrial re¬
sources and possibilities.
Dewey’s Verdict Sufficient.
The opinion of prominent Georgians,
regardless of political lines, is strik¬
ingly uniform in the direction that Ad¬
miral Dewey alone has returned a ver¬
dict satisfactory to the American peo¬
ple.
Among some of the opinions bearing
on the verdict is the following from
Governor Candler:
“It looks like a political verdict. The
way they have of trying to control a
naval campaign from the Washington
office is superlative folly. I believe
that Admiral Schley acted throughout
in accordance with what he thought
was best. He went to Cuba to destroy
the Spanish fleet and he accomplished
what he went for. If he had not acted
according to his own judgment, he
might not have achieved the same re
suit.”
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Courts Must Decide.
Saturday Governor Candler signed
the resolution by Senator Howell di¬
recting the state treasurer to transfer
$325,800 from the public property fund
*° interest account and to pay it
out as interest on the bonded debt for
1902.
Under this resolution the state treas¬
urer is directed to make the transfer
within one day. He will refuse to do
this and Attorney General J. M. Ter-
rell will, by direction of the governor,
file a mandamus suit in the superior
court of Fulton county asking that the
treasurer be ordered to act in’ accord-
an ce with the requirements of the res-
olution.
No matter which way the question
; s determined in the superior court.
the case will be appealed to the su
preme court at once. A quick decision
is expected from that court, and it is
believed the matter will be determined
by January 1. if not before. The in¬
terest on the bonded debt, or the great
er part of it, will be due at that time,
and Governor Candler is anxious to
have the question settled then.
Ex-Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley,
of the supreme court, will represent
Treasurer Park. He will be assited by
Orrville A. Park, of Macon. The attor
ney general will appear for the state.
The proceedings will be somewhat
similar to those in the other suit
brought against the treasurer which
involved the temporary use of the pub¬
lic property fund to pay the salaries
of the school teachers of the state.
There is a general Belief that the ac¬
tion of the courts will be favorable to
the use of this fund to pay the interest.
As has already been stated, a great
deal depends on such action. Without
the use of this fund to pay the interest
on the bonded debt, it will be impossi¬
ble to pay the pensions of any of the
indigent widows, and only a small por¬
tion of -the salaries of the school teach¬
ers for next year can be paid when due
The indigent soldiers’ pensions also de¬
pend considerably on the outcome in
this case since the additional $02,500
appropriated by the legislature to pay
them will not be available unless the
fund can be used.
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Work of the Legislature.
The general assembly which has
just adjourned did not pass more than
fifteen or twenty general bills, and
very few of these were of special im-
portance.
Among the first measures in inter¬
est which went through the legislature
there is the Howell resolution pro¬
viding for the payment of the interest
on the bonded debt for 1902 out of the
public property fund after the case has
been passed on by the supreme court,
the Atlanta depot bill, the fertilizer
bill and the appropriation bills.
The fertilizer bill by Mr. Jordan, of
Jasper, is considered one of the most
important measures to the farming in¬
terests that went through the legisla¬
ture. This measure raises the stand¬
ard of commercial fertilizers to be
sold in the state so that no fertilizers
can be sold hereafter with less than 12
per cent of free phosphoric acid or
plant food. The percentage under the
present law is 10 per cent. The bill
does away with the lowest grade of
fertilizers, and provides for only two
grades in the future, standard and
high. It also makes provision for
the more careful inspection of fertiliz¬
ers and the manner in which they shall
be sold.
The important appropriation bills
which went through include the Sol¬
diers’ home bill appropriating the $19,-
500 insurance money for the rebuilding
of the home and $15,000 for mainte¬
nance and equipment next year; the
r ill appropriating $20,000 for the sup¬
port of the state militia during the
coming year; the resolution appropri-
ating $62,500 to make up the deficiency
in the amount to be paid for indigent
soldiers’ pensions; the resolution ap-
propriating $11,000 to make up a defi
ciency in the contingent fund and $5,-
780 to supply the deficiency in Iasi
year’s pension fund.
The foregoing are the general bills
of greatest Importance that were
passed. There were a dozen or more
others, but most of them simply reme-
dy certain defects in present laws, in-
stead of providing entirely new stat-
utes
The house and senate passed be-
tween 200 and 300 local bills of all
kinds, many of which have already
been signed by the governor and the
communities affected are now acting
under them.
Several important measures before
the general assembly failed because
the business cf the general assembly
was not pushed forward rapidlf
enough. The most important of these,
perhaps, was the bill providing for a
number of constitutional amendments
Eight amendments to the constitu
tion, all of which were considered of
great importance, were adopted by the
senate for submission to the people,
but this bill failed in the house be¬
cause it was not reached until the last
day of the session, and there were not
enough members present to pass it
even if there had been no opposition.
It requires 117 votes in the house to
submit a constitutional amendment to
the people, and when this measure was
reached there were only 96 members
present.
Four Fools Go Hence Together.
Two young women and two young
men were found dead Tuesday night in
rooms at a boarding house in Colum¬
bus, Ohio, and evidence points to a
quadruple suicide, deliberately plan¬
ned.
Marble Mills Resume Operations.
The Tennessee and Georgia marble
mills have resumed running as the re-
suit of a big cut in freight rates to
Louisville and Cincinnati.
NEWS SUMMARY
Si Paramount Events of the
^ Paraphrazed. Day Briefly and Suocintly
—An unexpected hitch in the agree¬
ment between the Atlanta, Ga., council
committee and H. M. Atkinson delays
the consolidation of the public utility
properties of the city.
—Governor Candler disapproved a
number of measures passed by the
Georgia general assembly.
—It is reliably reported that Deputy
Collector W. E. Crockett, of Gaines¬
ville, Ga., will be appointed to succeed
H. A. Rucker as collector of internal
revenue for Georgia.
—Arthur Price, the negro murderer
of Mrs. R. J. Rowland in Macon, was
convicted in the Bibb superior court
Thursday and sentenced by Judge Fel¬
ton to hang on Jahuary 10th.
—A submarine electrical lighting ap¬
paratus sent from New York by Nel¬
lie Cropsey’s uncle, has reached Eliza¬
beth City, N. C., and will be used in
the search of the missing girl’s body.
—Reporting on conditions in the
Philippines, General Chaffee makes the
statement that the natives profess loy¬
alty to the United States in order that
they may the more easily murder
American troops.
—With their bodies suspended high
in the air, nine men were cooked to
death and three fearfully burned by
molten metal at a Pittsburg, Pa., fur¬
nace Thursday. The accident was
caused by an explosion.
—President Roosevelt has elected J.
R. A. Crossland, a negro republican of
Missouri, for minister to Lioeria.
—Marconi, speaking at a banquet at
St. Johns, N. F., stated that when his
wireless system is perfected messages
can be sent across the ocean for one
cent a word.
—The British war office claims to
have secured a letter written by Gen
eral DeLarey, the Boer leader, in
which the latter states that he cannot
hold out longer than January 1.
—The meat exporters of the United
States are greatly alarmed by the new
German regulation in regard to inspec¬
tion.
—Terms of agreement looking to con¬
solidation of the properties of the At¬
lanta Railway and Power Company,
the Atlanta Rapid Transit Company
and the Georgia Electric Light Com¬
pany were agreed upon Wednesday
and will go before council.
—Sheriff Anderson, of Newton coun¬
ty, Ga., is appointed deputy warden of
the Atlanta federal prison. Dr. Swann,
cf Wedowee, Ala., is penitentiary phy¬
sician.
—D. A. Belden, of Aurora, Ills., will
assume charge on January 1 as execu-
tive head of the combined street rail-
ways of Atlan ta-
—Wednesday Captain D. G. Purse,
of Savannah, and J. T. Wells, of Guy-
ton, G a -, shipped thirty-six 1-gallon
cans of Georgia cane syrup to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and other prominent
government officers in Washington.
—The monument at Andersonville,
Ga., erected by the state of Ohio to the
memory of the soldiers of that state,
was dedicated Wednesday. Governor
Nash and others spoke,
•—The commission controlling crop
pests at Raleigh, N. C., has made an in¬
vestigation of the Amos Owens Cherry
Tree Company, of Henrietta, N. C.,
and gives reasons for believing the
latter a fraud,
—The Webster county jury at Madi-
sonville, Ky., Wednesday indicted
President Wood, Vice President Barna-
by and W. B. Kissinger, of the United
Mine Workers of America, as acces-
sories before the fact for willful mur-
^er.
—The house has passed the Philip¬
pine tariff bill. The vote was not a
strict party one, three Louisiana demo¬
crats voting for the measure and a few
republicans opposing.
—The official organ of President
Castro declares that Venezuela will re¬
sist any attempt to coercion made by
Germany.
—The general committee appointed
to maintain peace between capital and
labor has been organized by electing
Mark Hanna chairman.
—Hon. H. A. Jenkins, former speak¬
er of the Georgia house of representa¬
tives, died at his home in Eatonton
Tuesday after an illness of several
weeks.
—The report of the Philippine com¬
mission states that peace practically
reigns in the entire archipelago, only
five provinces being disturbed by in¬
surgents.
—An Asiatic association has been
formed by Germans which will attempt
to brealc the American cotton mo/opo-
ly in the orient.
—Suits were dismissed in the Geor-
gia supreme court Tuesday ar, a result
of destruction of mail in recent Cen-
tral railroad wreck.