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CORPORATION TAX
IS CONSTITUTIONAL
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
HANDS DOWN DECISION UP¬
HOLDING TAFT MEASURE.
JUSTICES WERE UNANIMOUS
Came as Adjunct to the Payne-Aldrich
Tariff Law—Adds $25,000,000
Revenue.
Washington.—The Supreme court
banded down a decision upholding the
constitutionality of the corporation
tax law. The decision was read by
Justice Day.
The decision establishing the con¬
stitutionality of the corporation tax
measure will add $25,000,000 annually
to the revenues of the United States.
The corporation tax has been in force
ever kince it was enacted as an ad
junct of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
and the United States treasury depart¬
ment has been allowed to retain its
collections made under the measure
subject to the decision of the Supreme
court upon tile bill’s validity.
Tiie decision was sweeping in every
detail every objection being overruled.
The decision as handed down by Jus¬
tice Day ruled that the corporation tax
is not a direct tax on personal or real
property of corporations, but that it Is
purely au excise tax, levied by author-
ity of congress, on the corporations
for the right of doing business, th“
same as a revenue tax is levied on
liquor dealers.
The tax is held not to be an income
tax, but an excise tax, and, the opin¬
ion states, failed clearly within the
province and authority of congress
The opinion was also that the tax Is
rmt a direct tax on shareholders, thus
overthrowing the chief claims of its
fdes The decision holds, as regards
corporations doing an interstate busi¬
ness, that the United States has a
right to levy the 1 per cent, tax on
these, as well as on interstate corpo¬
rations and can tax all business In a
state excepting internal functions of
a state government itself.
ALLAYING MEXICAN FEARS.
United States Assures Mexico of Good
Intentions.
New York.—The Mexican ambassa
dor here and the Mexican minister
of finance received assurances from
Washington which convinced them
that there is sincere co-operation be¬
tween the administration of President
Taft and that of President Diaz.. It
is not professed that all tension has
been slackened, and while American
troops remain in force on the Mexi¬
can border, it is admitted that some
tension will continue, but the edge of
apprehension was appreciably blunted
by two capital pieces of new3.
First in importance was a long tele
gram to Ambassador de la Barra, from
the state department at Washington,
announcing that the United Stales
warships assigned to patrol duty on
the Pacific and Gulf coasts of Mexico
had been ordered to call at Mexican
ports only for coal and then to with¬
draw promptly.
This action is deeply reassuring to
Senor Limantour. In a recent inter¬
view he said that he could only con¬
sider the presence of American nien-
of-war in Mexican waters so far dis¬
tant from their base at Galveston as
part of an unnecessary effort to im¬
press on Mexico the power of the
United States. His personal protest
was promptly followed by official rep¬
resentations and he expressed him¬
self <as "very much gratified that the
request of his government had been
so promptly granted.”
The second development was the
publication here of an authorized in
terview with Jacob M. Dickinson, the
secretary of war, in which he denied
that this government contemplated in¬
tervention, or that orders had been
issued to mobilize a second army
corps on the frontier. A rumor to
that effect, originating in Galveston,
had grown during the day, but Gen.
Leonard Wood, in Wzohington, added
his denials to those of Secretary Dick¬
inson.
Senor Limantour made a positive
denial of the reports that he had been
conferring with Maderos and their as¬
sociates here, with the view of bring¬
ing about a cessation of hostilities
No Mules for War.
Kansas City, Mo.—Horse and mule
men are watching the military move¬
ments with the closest interest for
commercial interests. Prices are “war
high,” and have been for three years.
■It would puzzle the country to get
mules and horses to carry on a war,”
said one of the biggest -mule traders.
’The stock is not to be had at any
price. There never ha3 been a time
when good stuff is as scarce as it is
now. We could not begin to outfit the
army with remounts at the present
time,”
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A WAR QF EXTERMINATION
Diaz Will Put Down Insurrections by
Showing No Quarter to
Rebels.
Mexico City.—Thoroughly aroused
by the spread of brigandage and van-
dalism incident to the revolution led
b y b y Francisco I. Madero, and deter-
m , ned t0 protect prope rtyfi the Diaz
government will begin to wage against
the lawless element a pitiless war ol
extermination.
Resurrecting a provision of the
Mexican OoiWtution not used for 15
years, and acting under its authority
the government will set aside for six
monlh s certa)n Personal guarantees,
Teen those detected in the act ot
robbery, of raiding and any
form of train wrecking, of cutting tel¬
egraph or telephone wires or even of
removing a spike from the railioad
track or throwing a stone at a tiain,
will be summarily shot by those mak¬
ing the arrest.
El Paso, Texas.—Cut off from food
supplies for the last three weeks, 25,-
000 inhabitants of the beleaguered
city of Chihuhua face famine. Insur-
rectos have surrounded the city. At¬
tempts by the Federal soldiers to dash
outside to forage have failed. The
insurrectos invariably drive hack tue
foraging expeditions before they have
proceeded any distance from the city
limits.
Hundreds of women in Chihuhua,
fearing starvation, have taken their
children from the bottled-up town, and
now bands of them are roaming the
country.
El Paso, Texas.—Conditions bor
dering on panic reign almost through¬
out northern Mexico.,
Stirred by the belief that the revo
lutionary movement has reached a
critical stage, the insurrectos in the
states of Chihuahua and Sonora are
reported to have resumed activity in
tearing up railroads and telegraph
wires.
Numerous town, according to re¬
ports, are under siege by the insurrec-
tos, and thousands of women aud
children cut off from food supplier
are rendered helpless.
News reached here of a fight at
Agua Prieta on the border across the
river from Douglas, Ariz. Five hun¬
dred insurrectos attacked 300 Federal
troops, but were repulsed with a total
of thirty-five dead and wounded on
both sides.
The fighting was short and the in-
surreetos, armed only with rifles, soon
scattered under the fire of a machine
gun.
What is believed to be a reliable
report of the casualties at Casas Gran-
des say that fifteen Americans were
killed and seventeen Americans ewre
taken prisoners.
Thomasville, Ga.—A letter has just
been received by Mr. R. W. Whiddon
of this city from his daughter, Mrs.
Max Wright, who, with her husband,
a Georgian, is now in Mexico City.
Mrs. Wright states that her brother,
Mr. Henry Whiddon, had been trying
to return to the United States, he be¬
ing also a resident of Mexico, but be
was stopped before reaching the bor¬
der and ordered to return to Mexico
Mrs. Wright would, of course, be glad
to leave, but can find no way of get¬
ting across the border.
Canauu rovers Reciprocity.
Ottawa, Ont.—That the reciprocity
agreement with the United States will
be confirmed by parliament as soon
as it is possible to reach a vote was
the decision reached by the liberal
supporters of the government in a
caucus behind closed doors. Sir Wll-
fred Laurier and the other members
of the government were present, and
were commended for the agreement
The Liberal reciprocity bolters stated
that while they were against the
agreement, they were loyal on all oth-.
er issues.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY.
TELLS SOUTH HOW TO FARM
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
GIVES SOUND ADVICE TO
COMMERCIAL CONGRESS.
Boys of South Are Showing Their
Elders That Corn Can Be
Profitably Grown.
Atlanta.—The methods and prog¬
ress of the work of cattle tick eradi¬
cation consumed much of the discus¬
sion by Secretary Wilson, when ne de¬
livered his address at the Southern
Commercial Congress on "The Agri¬
cultural obligation of the South.” Ha
said;
“The government has recognized the
importance of this work, aud this year
the department of agriculture was giv¬
en $250,000 for the work and counties
and states have given $175,'000, which
will go a long way and do much good.
“Your lands are becoming more val¬
uable each year,” he continued, “and
if you keep up your courage your
lands will bring $100 per acre. I say
if you keep up your courage; to tel)
the truth, l never knew the time when
you were not courageous."
In speaking of the dairy industry,
Secretary Wilson said that less than
two per cent, of the cheese consumed
in the South was manufactured here
He said that much of the butter and
other dairy products was shipped into
the South.
The subject of peaches and the dis-
eases which cost the crop large
amounts occupied its share of the sec¬
retary’s time. He told of the depart
ment’s efforts to give instruction to
the peach growers so that they would
know how to check the ravages of a
fruit disease and save many dollars
When the subject of cotton was
reached Secretary Wilson lingered for
some time, going into the subject ol
the boll weevil, black root and otner
setbacks to the crop.
Mr. Wilson told of how money had
been made from peanuts where the
boll weevil held sway and prevented
the planters from making much on
the cotton crop. He said that the pea¬
nut oil could be made a profitable
product.
Pasturage was a theme which he
gave a most interesting discourse on.
Hd told of the various crops of grass
for pasturage and for hay, and cited
the benefits to be derived from such
crops, and the enormous profits to
the grower.
Cereals were given his attention for
a while, after which he took up the
discussion of Florida fruits and told
of the new varieties being made and
how experiments were panning out.
A compliment ot worth was paid
to the boys’ corn clubs of the South
as the secretary reached the subject
of corn raising. He said that it took
the boys of the South to show their
elders that corn could be grown to a
great profit in- the South. He told of
one lad whose father wouldn't allow
him to have a horse or mule to culti¬
vate his acre of corn to enter a con
test, so the little fellow took his goat
and harnessed it to a plow and actu¬
ally cultivated an acre of corn.
No Leuuersnip tor Bailey.
Columbia, S. C.—Senator Tillman
says the Democratic leadership in the
senate ought to be conferred on Bai¬
ley, for whose ability he has consid¬
erable admiration, but there is a co¬
terie in the upper house which is Jeal
ous of the Texan, and it Is not like
ly that the honor will go to him. It
may be that Culberson will again be
the Democratic leader. Senator Till¬
man says there is nothing new in a
tarifl fight, and as bis health requires
attention, he may not return to Wash¬
ington for the extra session.
EXPERTS SAY THE PEST WILL
APPEAR AT ALBANY OC¬
TOBER 1, 1912.
WILL LAND NEAR ALBANY
Weevil Is Now Crossing Alabama,
Advancing in a Fan-Shaped
Area.
That the boll weevil will strike
Georgia g , p probably ooab y at at a a point point near ueai Al- Al
any, at least by October X, 1912, is
the OP,. .on ot Frank A. OU., ..or.-
tary of the charmber of commerce of
Raleigh, N. C., viho has just complet¬
ed a 10,000-mile investigation tour
through the South and Soutliwost. His
trip carried him through northern
Mexico, through the arid boll weevil
districts of Texas and through Loui¬
siana and Mississippi, where the pests
by their ravages have devastated so
much fine cotton land.
Mr. Olds, while in Texas, and also
while in Louisiana, made experiments
with the weevil, such as subjecting
the insect to heat and cold and water,
and he finds that it is affected only
by the latter and by it only slightly.
He says that the vanguard of the
boll weevil army has already reached
Alabama and is advancing in a fan
shape area, proceeding toward south
ern and central Georgia.
Secretary Olds’ tour was made for
the express purpose of ascertaining
just what the cotton growers of the
South Atlantic states may apprehend
from the boll weevil, and the above
are the conclusions reached by him as
the result of his investigation.
Georgia Leads in Good Roads.
That the state of Georgia is recog¬
nized as the foremost leader of the
entire South in building good roads
was expressed in resolutions adopted
by the good roads section of the
Southern Commercial congress, In
the absence of Hon. Leonard Tufts of
Pinehurst, N. C., president of tile Cap¬
ital Highway association, who is ill,
Maj. W. W. Crosby of Baltimore, state
highway commissioner, presided. H.
B. Varner, editor of Southern Good
Roads and of the Dispatch at Lexing¬
ton, N. C., was made secretary, ,1.
E. Pennypgcker of Washington, secre¬
tary of the American Association for
Highway Improvement, was named as
chairmkn of the committee, which
then framed the following resolutions.
They were adopted unanimously:
1. We favor state aid, supervision
and maintenance in the improvement
of main traveled roads, for under this
system the burden of cost is more
equally distributed, skilled supervision
is insured and actual construction and
permanent maintenance provided for
2. We favor the payment of all road
taxos in cash as far as possible, and
wo point to the absolute failure ol
the statute labor system after more
than a century of thorough trial as an
unanswerable argument in favor of
cash taxes.
3. We urge the general use of con¬
vict labor throughout the South in the
construction and maintenance of roads
and tho preparation of road materials.
In all cases where convicts have been
utilized in this way excellent results
have followed. Georgia leads all the
Southern states in percentage of roads
improved during the past six years,
largely through the use of state con¬
victs in road construction.
4. We favor a revision of road laws
In each state to the end that simplic¬
ity or ganization, definite lines of re¬
sponsibility and uniform rights and re¬
quirements may be assured.
5. We favor intercounty and inter
state correlation of road improvement
so that such improvement may be con¬
tinuous and practical. To this end we
favor the organization of popular and
semi-official inter-county and inter¬
state bodies to work out plans and
policies.’’
Evangelists Predict Judgment Day.
A party of New York state travel
ing evangelists have entered Georgia,
preaching the close approach of tne
judgment day. Three of them landed
(n Atlanta. They distributed over fif¬
teen thousand tracts, beginning at the
top of the page with the well-known
cid question , ‘‘If you die tonight,
would you awake to find yourself in
heaven or in hell?” These preachers
propose to hold a series of mass meet¬
ings here to prepare Atlanta, which
they call the modern Sodoin, for the
trump of doom. They are distributing
their tracts among negroes as well as
white people, and the negroes are be¬
ginning to pray more than usual.
These preachers do not set an exact
date for the resurrection, but believe
that it will come within the next few
mouths. To this fact they attribute
the unsuaul phenomena of blooming
buds and flowers on trees and shrubs
earlier than usual in the year.
VOL. XV. XO.
Election Agitates Politicians
The extra session of congress
the elimination, it is said, ol
William G. Brantley
from the race for the United States
Up to th4 time that the extra ses
sion was decided on it was practical
ly certain that Mr. Brantley would
be in the race; not, it is said, thai
he proposed to make an active fight
on Senator Joseph M. Terrell, but
Senator Terrell failing for any cause
to land the pium, he thought he would
have a good chance to gather it in
But an extra session of congress
means that Mr. Brantley will practi-
cally have to remain in Washington
to assist in the organization of th«
new ways and means committee ol
the house of which he is a prominenl
member.
™ s will give him no time for figure
ing . campaign for the senate )r
a
connection with which there is said
to be some i, ard WO rk to bo done by
„„„„„ „„ w enler „ „ tM1 .
date; and as evidence of which it is
said that Railroad Commissioner C.
Murphey Candler, who will carry the
Hoke Smith banner in this race, is
now doing some of the hardest politi-
cal work of his life, although he has
not as yet made his formal announce-
ment.
it is quite well understood, how¬
ever, that Mr. Candler is to be the
candidate of the Hoke Smtih faction;
that Iloke Smith will support him and
that at the proper time Congressman
T. W. Hardwick of the Tenth will
withdraw in Candler’s favor, It is
also anticipated that Judge W. A. Cov¬
ington of Moultrie, likewise of the
Hoke Smith camp, will get out of Mr.
Candler’s way.
Senator Terrell has recovered from
his recent attack to an extent beyond
the hopes of his friend3. Along with
this improvement in his condition
comes the announcement that Sena
tor Terrell is positively in the racs
to stay.
It looks more and more, therefore
as if things are shaping themselves
inevitably for a race between Cand
ler, on the Hoke Smith side, and Ter
rell as the exponent of the othei
“school of political thought” in Geor-
gia.
Augusta’s Rifle Range.
Augusta will have a first class rifle
range some time this year, if the plans
of Adjutant General Scott do not gc
amiss. Augusta is the only import
ant point in the state without its rifle
range for the national guard, and Gen¬
eral Scott Is more than anxious to
see one set up there. Savannah, Ma¬
con and Atlanta all have fine, large
ranges, owned by the organization
and the wish is to have one in Augus
ta in keeping with the others. Gen
eral Scott is very much pleased that
the bill to pay members of the Na
tional Guard has passed the house.
The real trouble was in that body, and
he feels reasonably sure that the bill
will pass the senate, thereby becom¬
ing a law. This bill provides pay to
a limited extent for both officers and
enlisted men in the National Guard
organizations. The enlisted men are
required to attend at least twenty
drills a year before any pay is re¬
ceived at all. After that they receive
pay at the rate of 50 cents per drill
up to 20 per cent, of the amount re
ceived by the enlisted, private in the
regular army. General Scott says the
measure will increase the efficiency
of the National Guard very material¬
ly, and serve to eliminate the misfits
Rifle practice is also one of the strict
requirements. The service does not
want men who can’t shoot and bit for
a fair average of times. All who fall
below a certain percentage are drop
ped from the service. He says tli«
marksmanship of the guard is steadily
improving,
Maccabees in Convention.
The first quadrennial state conven¬
tion of the Knights of Maccabees ol
the World was held at Maccabee tem¬
ple. Reports from tents all over Geor¬
gia showed the order in a flourishing
condition, Hoke Smith welcomed
them to Atlanta, and the supreme
commander, D. P. Markey, respond¬
ed. Doctor Ellenwood delivered the
invocation. The following state offi¬
cers were elected in the afternoon :
State commander, A. C. Hamrick of
Savannah; state past commander,
Delegate Emrich of Columbus; state
sergeant, Delegate Pinson of Atlanta;
state chaplain, Delegate M. Estes ol
Americus; state master at arms, Del¬
egate Haupt of Savannah; state sen¬
tinel, Delegate Hendrickson ol Mil-
lodgeville. Savannah was given the
next convention, which will assemble
in 1915.
Perry.—Perry is now without tele
graphic communication with the out
side world, the Western Union Tele
graph company, which operates its
line over the right-of-way of the Cen¬
tral of Georgia Railway company’s
route, having discontinued their office,
torn out their equipment aud shipped
it to Atlanta. There has been no
railroad wire here since last Septem¬
ber, this having been discontinued al
that time. The people are indignant
at this treatment, and have filed com¬
plaint with the railroad commission.
384,088 PERSONS IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE
27TH ANNUAL REPORT MADE BY
GOVERNMENT CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION.
EFFECTIVENESS INCREASING
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Over 40,000 Persons Were Appointed
Through Examinations During
the Year.
Taft has
made public the twe nty-seventh an-’
uual report of the civii service eom-
nission The rennrt states that the
ncreasina effectiveness of ,„T the puMli; merit
conviction that it is indispensable to
iconomy and efficiency in government
;al affairs. It is shown that the ex-
imination system tends to lessen the
number of employees required un-
* er S jmjj ar conditions by raising the
standard of efficiency and at the same
:ime facilitates the extension of gov-
srumental activities to new fields bv
furnishing the best practicable means
af testing qualifications for scientific,
lechnical aud professional work,
The report shows 384,088 persons in
the executive civil service, 222,273 ot
whom are In the competitive classt-
fled service.
Includings transfers, promotions and
reinstatements, there were, according
to bbe report, 43,585 persons appointed
-through examination in the Federal
service during the year, while trans-
f ers and reinstatements without ex-
amination to the Federal service and
appointments through examination to
the Philippine service and to unskilled-
labor positions brings the number up-
to 2 02.
It - a ahown tha t the large number
of e i erks in Washington required for
the recent census were readily sup-.
plied through the examination sys<
f em -
CHILD LABOR CONFERENCE
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planned to Prombit Children Appear*
ing on Stage.
Birmingham, Ala.—The seventh an
nual session of the National Child
Labor Conference was ended with a*
meeting at which the principal speak*
ers were Dr. Felix Adler of New Yor'i
and Miss Jane Addams of Chicago.!
This session of the conference was 1
voted the greatest in the history of
the movement.
The work of tho conference, In;
.vhich Col. Theodore Roosevelt and
other men and women of national
prominence assisted, was directed'
mainly towards securing uniform child
labor laws. A vigorous plan was pro¬
posed also for prohibiting child labor
on the stage.
The sessions of the conference have
attracted vast numbers of the people
of Alabama, among whom the nation¬
al child labor movement originated,
and a widespread interest has been
revived.
MRS. HAYES^ACQUITTED.
North Carolina Woman Freed After
a Dramatic Trial.
Wilmington, N. C.—As the finale to
a sensational trial in the superior
CO urt at Whltevllle, N. C., the jury re¬
turned a verdict of not guilty both as
to Mrs. Rosa Hayes, charged with be-
j ng the principal in the killing of Rob-
er t m. Floyd, a medical student ot
Charleston, 9. C., on the night of Fed.
ruary 4, and as to her husband Neill
*M. Hayes, charged with being an ac¬
cessory before the fact.
Lloyd Hayes, a younger brother of
Neill Hayes, also charged with being
an accessory, was discharged earlier
In the week on a nolle prosse. Mrs.
Hayes admitted the killing of Floyd,
but pleaded that she shot in defense
of her honor.
Working for Currency Reform.
Washington.—Plans for the reform
c£ the currency laws will be prose¬
cuted with a great deal of vigor by
the members of the national monetary
commission during the summer and-'
fall. A campaign of education will b«
started within a few weeks, in the
hope of creating sentiment in favor /
of a bill which probably will be in¬
troduced in both branches of congress
when the regular session is convened
next December.
Avalanche Buries Thirty Men.
Virginia, Mina.—Five hundred thou
rand tons of iron ore, rock, earth, ice
and snow slid down upon and buried
thirty track layers working in th«
Norman Open Pit mine. Only four
escaped the avalanche, and three, ot
.hese are in a hospital suffering of
njuries that may prove fatal. The
place that, was an open pit Is now al¬
most a plain of rock, ore and earth,
with here and there parts of a body
in sight. An army of men with shov¬
els worked desperately to recover the
bodies. 1