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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.” * 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. * 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.