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DEMOCRATS WILL REVISE
TARIFF IN EXTRA SESSION
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS TO DE¬
TERMINE UPON PERSONNEL
OF ALL COMMITTEES.
THE PROGRAM IS OUTLINED
Three Courses of Tariff Procedure
Are Being Considered by Demo,
cratic Committee.
Washington.—The tariff program of
the Sixty-second congress was taken
up for action along with selection of
committees at a meeting of the Dem¬
ocratic members of the ways and
means committee of the next house.
The committee will meet from day
to day until the work before it is
completed.
Democratic leaders of the house
plan for the committee, or rather its
Democratic members to determine on
the Democratic personnel of all the
committees of the next congress and
to outline a tariff procedure.
The Republicans will select their
members of the committees and Dem¬
ocrats insist that when the names are
handed in they must have beeu ap¬
proved by a Republican caucus. All
the big committees of the next house
will have twenty-one members, four¬
teen Democrats and seven Republi¬
cans.
Three courses of tariff procedure
will be considered. First, tho tariff
revision legislation and then ✓ reci¬
procity; second, reciprocity, and then
tariff revision legislation; third, tar¬
iff revision legislation incorporating
the reciprocity bill as a part tnereof.
Speaker-to-Be Champ Clark. Mr.
Underwood and others prominent in
the party councils say there is no
«.»ibt whatever of reciprocity legisla¬
tion passing the house at an extra
**|!8sion, despite rumors that have
come to the house that certain sena¬
tors have asserted their belief that
the house would not again pass sued
legislation.
TEXANS MOB NEGROES.
Negro Moving Picture Show Started
Trouble in Fort Worth.
Fort Worth, Texas.—For three
hours a mob of a thousand or more
men and boys had full possession of
the downtown section of the city,
during which time many negroes were
roughly handled, scores of others
were chased until they eluded the
mob or found places of refuge, and
hundreds of dollars' worth of dam¬
age was done to buildings occupied
by negroes.
The trouble started when a picture
show for negroes exclusively opened
its doors. Almost immediately after
the mob began to gather. Then a vol¬
ley of rocks and bricks was hurled
into the buildings, wrecking the place
and scattering its occupants.
Finishing here, the mob began a
systematic hunt for negroes. Sweep¬
ing through Main, Houston and Com¬
merce streets, the principal business
thoroughfares of the city, the rioters
invaded every place where a negro
was seen, and if the lucky darky was
not fortunate enough to outrun his
pursuers, he was set upon and
beaten. In one or two instances pro¬
prietors of the places stormed held
the mob at bay, but it generally was
pet interfered with.
During the height of the trouble
the excitement was added to by the
incidental shooting and killing of a
negro porter by a bartenders in an
uptown saloon.
To Probe Match Trust.
Washington.—The house adopted a
joint resolution looking to an investi-
gation of the so-called match trust.
The resolution is the result of the
recent recommendation of President
Taft that the use of white phosphorus
matches be prohibited because of the
injurious effect upon employees in
match factories and the disclosures
following a brief inquiry by the com¬
mittee on ways and means.
Population Figures.
Washington.—Population statistics
of the thirteenth census, announced
included:
Place. 1910. 1900.
Troy, Ala. . . . . 4,961 o
Bridgeport, Ala. . . . 2,125 co
Scottsboro, Ala. , . . 1,018 o
Taft Using Patronage Whip.
I Washington.—President Taft, by in-
, ference, was charged with using his
j appointive powers to intimidate the
members of congress. The inferred
charge was made in a speech by Sen¬
ator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon, and
until recent trouble over an Oregon
appointment, the intimate friends and
golfing companion of the executive.
iThe surprising thing was that, al¬
though all of the senators construed
his remarks as an attack upon the
president, not a word was uttgred in
limy.
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Which Will Be Admitted First?
NO FREIGHT RATE ADVANCE.
Commerce Commission Refuses to
Grant Increase in Rates
on Railroads.
Washington.—The interstate com¬
merce commission refused to grant
increased freight rates on both East¬
ern and Western railroads. Proposed,
advances in class freight rates in of¬
ficial classification territory, aggregat¬
ing among all the railways in the ter¬
ritory approximately $27,000,000 a
year, were disapproved by the com¬
mission.
This is a sweeping victory for the
shippers. The commission instructs
the Eastern and Western roads to
withdraw the proposed tariff increase.
If such action is not taken by March
10, 1911, the commission will further
suspend the rates for a term of three
years.
In the Southwestern rate cases the
railroads are allowed a substantial in¬
crease in rates on any commodity.
In allowing these increases the
Southwestern roads the commission
takes the ground that they are per
mitted because Southwestern roads
have not prospered in proportion to
their business and revenues, compar¬
ed with the Western and Eastern
icads.
New York.—The shippers’ victory '
over Eastern and Western railroads
in decision of the interstate commerce
commission enjoining increased rates,
was the axis about which the finan¬
cial world swung both here and also
abroad, and was responsible for a
period of demoralization on the New
York Stock exchange.
Chicago.—Railroad officials In Chi¬
cago made no effort to hide their dis¬
appointment at the ruling of the in¬
terstate commerce commission, which
denies them the right to increase
their freight rates.
President William A. Gardner of the
Chicago and Northwestern was au¬
thority for the statement that the
commerce the commission's end of the decision fight. “We did j
not mean
will keep right on trying to secure
permission to increase rates," he an¬
nounced. "Railroad earnings are not
keeping pace with expenditures, and
an increase in the near future is ab-
oslutely essential.”
FIRE SWEPT FLORIDA TOWN.
Two Hundred Thousand Dollar Loss
at White Springs, Fla. •
Jacksonville, Fla.—White Springs,
a resort city on the Suwanee river,
was practically destroyed by fire
which started in the Baptist parson¬
age and spread rapidly through the
business district.
A total of 28 structures, a majority
of them mercantile establishments,
and including four large hotels, were
destroyed before the flames burnt out.
A very high wind was blowing at
the time and the fire spread with such
rapidity that the guests of one of the
hotels were threatened and several
slightly burned before they could pos¬
sibly reach a place of safety.
The residents and visitors of White
Springs were panic-stricken and it was
with difficulty that shelter was found.
Many left for adjacent cities to get
accommodations. The damage is con¬
servatively placed near two hundred
thousand dollars.
May Choose Death Medium.
Reno, Nev.—Condemned men in Ne¬
vada will have their choice of death
by hanging, shooting or poison if a
new law is approved, Hydrocyanic
acid is the poison alternative mention¬
ed. One drop on the end of the
tongue is sufficient to produce in¬
stant death. The measure provides
that at the time of the sentencing
the condemned man may choose his
way to die. If by poison he Is to
be supplied by the prison physician
with enough to cause instant death
and Is to be instructed in its use.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY.
TREATY RATIFIED
CONFIRMS NEW AGREE-
MENT WITH THE NIPPONESE
GOVERNMENT.
Labor Situation in the West Will
Not Be Menaced by the New
T reaty.
Washington.—The new Japanese
treaty of trade and navigation was
ratified by the senate. While the ap
prehension of Western senators that
the treaty might let down the bars
to coolie labor was not entirely re¬
moved, these senators contented
themselves with expressing their so¬
licitude, they interposed no objection
to ratification.
The action of this government Id
promptly confirming the new agree¬
ment is expected to do more to prove
the feeling of cordiality this country
has for Japanese than anything that
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THOMAS J. O’BRIEN.
Ambassador to Japan.
has been done for many years. It
is regarded as a manifestation of
highest confidence in the advanced
civilization of that nation. The effect
will be to permit Japan to enter at
once upon a reorganization of its fis¬
cal system and the making of Dew
tariffs with all nations.
Japan’s treaties with other powers
are to expire July 17, next. That with
the United States by reason of its
later ratification, would have contin¬
ued until the same date a year later
Tokio, Japan.—Ambassador O’Brien
and Count Komura, the Japanese for¬
secretary, have exchanged con¬
on the ratification of the
between the United States and
There are not lacking evidences
that the highest officials and the en¬
press of this country, as well as
the general public, are deeply stirred
the early acceptance by the Amer¬
government of Japan’s assur¬
that she desires a continuation
friendly relations which have al-
Harem Skirt Shocks New York,
New York City.—Brooklyn bridge
its record as a scene of dare¬
exploits. A suicide or profes¬
bridge jumper never thrilled
throng of bridge promenaders
than did the appearance of a
young blonde on the great
She was attired in the
harem skirt—the first of the mil¬
of New York women publicly
venture the new affectation of
clothes, which has stirred con¬
cities to riot. It nearly came
that on the Brooklyn bridge.
GEORGIA PEACH CROP
DAMAGED 30 PER CENT
WARMER WEATHER BRINGS JOY
TO FRUIT GROWERS OF
GEORGIA.
WIDELY VARYING OPINIONS
In Many Localities It Is Believed That
Estimates of Damages Ara
Overestimated.
—Atlanta.
With estimates of damage ranging
from practically none to total destruc¬
tion, reports from every section of
Georgia indicate that the state’s peach
crop has been damaged approximately
30 per cent, as a whole by the recent
cold period.
From many sections of the state,
reports are to the effect that no dam¬
age has resulted.
In those sections where the trees
are backward in blooming, the dam¬
age appears to be comparatively
slight.
From other localities a very pessi¬
mistic view is taken, reports from a
dozen counties indicating total de¬
struction.
Opinion differs widely among grow¬
ers in almost every locality as to the
extent of the damage.
Another striking feature is, that ad¬
joining countries or sections make
widely divergent reports as to the
damage wrought by the cold.
A summary of the reports indicates
that Georgia is assured a crop of
peachea of fair size if further cold
does not affect the crop.
Many growers believe that, from a
commercial point of view, the damage
to the crop by the cold will be a
blessing, as that portion which re¬
mains on the trees will mature into
perfect fruit and command top prices.
Comprehensive reports receive indi¬
cate that the crop of south and mid¬
dle Georgia has weathered the cold
invasion with an average loss of
blooming buds amounting to between
15 and 20 plr cent.
The darkest reports come from
Americus, where it is estimated by
growers that the frost killed half the
bloom.
Even this will leave a fair yield.
Marshalville, Fort Valley and other
points in the heart of the peach-pro¬
ducing section have come through
with comparatively flying colors.
Rumph of Marshallville estimates
only 15 per cent. loss.
The Hale orchards of Fort Valley
report a maximum of 25 per cent,
loss of the early bloom, which latter
is only about 25 per cent, of the en¬
tire crop.
Reynolds, Nutler and further south
report no damage.
Barnesville estimates 25 per cent.
Many conservative orchardists be¬
lieve that first reports are altogether
uncertain, and that they are apt to
be exaggerated. It takes a hard
freeze extending over a period of sev¬
eral days, a well-known grower states,
to kill the entire Georgia crop. Be¬
lief is entertained that with the warm
sunshine of the next few days much
of the gloom now felt will disappear.
Earnings of Georgia Railroads.
According to figures compiled by
the railroad commission the net earn¬
ings of railroads in Georgia for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1910,
show an increase of more than $2,-
700,000, as compared with the pre¬
ceding year. The net earnings of all
the roads for the past year totals $13,-
833,340.20, as compared with the net
earnings of $11,144,969 for the previ¬
ous year. The gross earnings of ail
the roads for the year ending June
30, 1910, totaled $44,171,668.14, the op-
prating expenses were $30,367,657.63.
For the preceding year the gross
earnings were $39,506,099.83, while the
operating expenses were $28,391,-
817.46.
A few of the short lines of the
state showed a total deficit of $29,-
327.78, but several of them showed
a marked increase in "earnings. Among
these are the Wadiey Southern, 90
miles long, which shows an Increase
of $100.23 per mile in net earnings,
and the Tallulah Falls road, 43 miles
in length, which has increased its net
earnings from $116.39 per mile in 1909
to $839.47 in 1910, an Increase of
$723.08 per mile.
Senator Terrell Leave* Hospital.
Senator Terrell was removed from
the hospital in Washington, D. C.,
where he has been confined for over
two weeks, or since his sudden at¬
tack of cerebral hemorrhage, to his
apartments in the Hotel Cochran.
The senator’s condition is reported
to he much improved, and ho even
expects to be able to attend a ses¬
sion of the senate before adjourn¬
ment, March 4. He sees several vis¬
itors each day, and had a long inter¬
view with his secretary, J. G. Perry,
on business matters.
VOL. XV. NO. 19.
Money for Georgia.
.
The sundry civil bill reported to
national house of representatives
many items for Georgia.
Authorization is contained in the
for the exchange and conveyance
the new Federal building site in the
of Augusta, bounded by Walker
Telfair and Jackson streets, to
city, and to pay the city a bonus
exceeding $16,000; provided, how
that the city shall purchase the
Federal building and site al
fair market value.
Other items are:
Barnesville, aoquisition of site, $5,
000 .
Cordele, site and completion of post/
office building, $52,500.
Dublin, site and completion of post
office, $41,000.
Griffin, completion of building, $20,«
000 .
LaGrange, site and completion o\
building, $30,000.
Newnan, completion of building.
$7,300.
Quitmah, commencement of build*
ing, $10,000.
Rome, completion of building, $12,
000 .
Statesboro, acquisition of site, $7,-
500.
Thomasville, site and commence¬
ment of building, $14,000.
Waycross, additional land and to
complete building, $10,000.
For the United States pentitentiary
at Atlanta the sum of $158,080 is ap¬
propriated for maintenance. For con¬
tinuing the construction of the pen!
tentiary and the wall around same,
$75,000. The salary of the steward
and storekeeper has been cut from
$1,200 to $900. The appropriations
committee abolished the positions ol
one cook and one baker, $720 per
year each, and added a new item, a
head cook, $1,000. The salaries ol
the remaining officials and employes
of the penitentiary are continued at
the present figure.
Governor’s Tick Medicine Popular.
Governor Brown’s interview on the
cattle tick, has aroused widespread
interest throughout Georgia and ad¬
joining states.
In discussing the best methods of
ridding the country of this pest, the
governor told of a simple remedy
which he has employed with marvel¬
ous success on his farm in Cherokee
county, one application of which pnti
the tick immediately out of commisi
sion.
Since the interview was published
the governor has received dozens ol
letters from cattle raisers who are
interested in the destruction of the
cattle tick, and who desire further de¬
tails concerning the formula for the
tick-eradicating annihilator.
Governor Brown has referred the
inquirers to his tenant in Cherokee
county, and the prospects are that
his remedy will soon be in general
use„
Numerous Delinquents.
Secretary of State Phil Cook recent^
ly jacked up about twelve hundred|
corporations, state and foreign, that
had failed to register for 1910 and
send in the necessary 60 cents there
for.
Notices were prepared and mailed
out to all. The secretary stated that
the law allowed him to visit a fins
of $50 for such delinquencies, bul
that if the matter were given immedi¬
ate attention he would let them off
with double the usual registration
fee. As a result of these notices reg¬
istrations are rolling into the secret
tary’s office in large numbers.
Groves Allowed to Pay Fine.
Following the recommendation ot
the prison commission, Governor
Brown issued an order allowing W,
C. Groves of Macon to pay a fine ot
$250 in lieu of serving a sentence ot
four months on the chaingang for an
alleged violation of the state prohi¬
bition law.
Groves’ original sentence was a line
of $750 and four months in the chain
gang, so that the action of the gov¬
ernor makes his total fine $1,000 with¬
out any jail sentence.
Groves Is a prominent citizen of
Bibb county, and strong pressure was
brought to bear to secure relief from
the jail sentence. It has been pend¬
ing before the commission and the
governor for several weeks, and is
said to have caused a great political
upheaval In Macon and Bibb county.
Population of Georgia Cities,
The census bureau announced the
population of the following Georgia
towns;
1910. 1900
Butler. . . . 705 707
Ella ville. . . , 672 474
Jeffersonville . . 740 410
Knoxville . . . . 211 300
Lumpkin . . . 1,190 1,470
Marshalville . . . 1,082 879
Montezuma , . 1,630 903
Oglethorpe . . . 924 545
Roberta . . . 227 252
Rochelle . . , 860 793
Smithville , . 574 597
Unadilla . . . . 1,003 524
Greensboro . , 2,120 1,511
Eight of the thirteen show substan¬
tial increases, while five show losses,
Lumpkin being the only one with a
material slump, It declining mom
than 300.
THE PANAMA CANAL
WILL BE FORTIFIED
HOUSE VOTES OVERWHELMING¬
LY IN FAVOR OF PROTECTING
ISTHMIAN WATERWAY.
THREE MILLION IS GIVEN
Action Settles Question, as Senate
Favors Measure by More Than
2 to 1 Vote.
Washington.—The house of repre¬
sentatives voted overwhelmingly in
favor of the policy of fortifying the
Panama canal and appropriated $3,-
000,000 to begin the work, the total
cost of which has been estimated at
$ 12 , 000 , 000 .
The action of the house practically
settles the question of fortification,
for the sentiment in the senate is
said to be more than 2 to 1 in favor
of protecting the Isthmian waterway
by sea-coast batteries.
The real test in the house came on
an amendment proposed by Represen¬
tative Tawney of Minnesota, chairman
of the committee on appropriations.
Mr. Tawney has been opposed to for¬
tifying the canal from the first, and
made a forceful speech against that
poiicy near the close of the debate.
He then offered an amendment which
provided that no part of the money
set aside for fortification should be
used until the president of the Unit¬
ed States had attempted to negotiate
treaties with all of the leading mari¬
time nations guaranteeing the neutral¬
ity and international protection of the
canal.
When General Keifer had concluded
bis speech against fortification, which 1
followed the general line of an ex¬
tended address he made to the house
on the subject several weeks ago, he
made a point of order against the
appropriation for fortification,
Representative Mann of Illinois was
Six thousand American troops wilh
man the fortifications which will
guard the great Panama canal from
foreign invasion if the plans now be¬
ing perfected by the wav department
are adopted.
The troops to comprise the garri-,
sons of the forts will be four regi¬
ments of infantry, one squadron of
cavalry, three batteries of field artil¬
lery and twelve companies of coast
artillery.
A permanent garrison will be es-.
tablislied at Culebra, the highest!
point on the route of the canal. From'
[his point facilities will be perfected}
for the rapid transportation of troopsi
by railway to any point which mayl
be threatened by an enemy. The coast}
artillery garrison will be at Mira-}
(lores. ,
The distribution of the troops the) 1’**
this manner is calculated to be
best method to prevent a sudden;
dash by a landing party or raiding'
force from an enemy’s fleet having
as its object the destruction of any 1
of the great locks of the canal.
FARMING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Will Give Suf-,
fragettes Farm Education.
New York.—Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont
announces that she will open within 1
a short time a school for teaching
girls to farm. A class of twenty fac-,
lory girls—all suffragists—will be in-;-
structed in the art of agriculture uponj
Mrs. Belmont's 200 acres at Hemp-'
stead, L. I. Truck farming will be
the specialty, and when the young
women have gathered their crops
they will drive to the city and learn
bow to sell them.
All this and more Is In Mrs. Bel¬
mont’s plan, which she declares is the
beginning of a social revolution which
will make w,oman man's peer in alt
lines of endeavor. According to pres¬
ent plans, the young women will bet
taught how to plow fields, sow seeds,
bed-down horses, feed pigs, milk cows
and make butter, rake hay and raise
chickens. Not a man will be on the
premises.
The girls will receive wages while
learning. It is intended to make the
place self-supporting and ultimately
to enlarge the class. Mrs. Belmont
also announced that she was working
on the details of a plan in connection
with the suffrage farm to enable her
“farmerettes’’ to become owners ot
tiny farms from a half acre up.
$130,000 Worth of Jewels Stolen.
New York.—-Mrs. Maldwin Drum¬
mond, formerly Mrs. Marshal Field,
Ir., of Chicago, was robbed of a for¬
tune in jewels aboard a trans-Atlantic
Uner. Diamonds, pearls and other
gems to the value of approximately
$130,000 disappeared mysteriously
from her stateroom. A wireless mes¬
sage sent from the Amerika as she
neared port summoned detectives t
down the bay in a tug. They learned
from Mrs. Drummond details of the
theft. But not a trace of the Jewels
was found. i