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HOT WEATHER IS PROVING TOO
MUCH FOR THE SOLONS IN
WASHINGTON.
MAY FINISH BY JUNE 15
It is Expected That the Reciprocity
Bill Will Be Passed Within the
Next Month.
Washington.—Although the special
session of congres is but little more
than a month old, talk of adjourn¬
ment has already become general. Re¬
publicans in both branches have been
hinting that a recess during the hot
weather would not interfere with leg¬
islation, while many Democrats in the
house are beginning to believe they
will be through with all they care to
enact of their legislative program
within another month.
High temperature experienced in
Washington servetl to stimulate in the
Democratic representatives more in¬
terest in the summer resort matters
tnan in tariff questions. For several
days they have been considering the
possibility of getting through for the
/ summer by June 15.
SECRETARY DICKINSON QUITS
Henry L. Stinson of New York New
Secretary of War.
Washington.—Secretary of War Ja¬
cob McGavocck Dickinson of Tennes¬
see, the Democratic member of Pres¬
ident Taft’s cabinet, has resigned, and
Henry L. Stimson of New York, re¬
cently defeated Republican candidate
for governor of that state, has been
given the war portfolio.
In the letters exchanged between
the president and Mr. Dickinson, no
reason other than that of pressing
private affairs is given for the sec¬
retary’s retirement.
•Mr. Diekiuson will go to his 'Ten¬
nessee home immediately upon the
qualification of his successor. He ex¬
pects to devote his attention to busi¬
ness and will not return to the prac¬
tice of law in which he was. engaged
FORMER WAR SECRETARY
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HENRY L. STIMSON.
when President Taft appointed him
secretary of war in March, 1909.
Coincident with Mr. Dickinson’s re¬
tirement came the announcement of
the appointment of C. S. Millington
of Herkimer, N. Y., to be assistant
treasurer of the United States in New
York. Mr. Stimson was the Roosevelt
candidate for governor, while Mr. Mil¬
lington was a former member of the
jiouse from the Twenty-seventh close friend New of
York district and is a
Vice President Sherman. In the two
appointments official Washington
lound food for speculation and many
politicians thought they saw therein
the first step qf the administration to
straighten out the tangled skein
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HOW RACES VIEW PREJUDICE
EXPERTS OF MANY PEOPLES
GIVE THEIR VIEWS AS TO
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
Race Leaders Contribute to a Sympo¬
sium Prepared by New York
Unitarian Club.
New York.—Race prejudice is view¬
ed from many angles by representa¬
tives of several peoples in a sympo¬
sium prepared by the Unitarian Club
of this city.
M. Honda, editor of a Japanese
newspaper, declares that “if the pres¬
sure of a few thousand Japanese
threaten your country, it does not
speak well .for your civilization. The
best way to kill race prejudice is not
to speak of it or pay any attention
to it." • . - ■ • - *' '
“If we Jews," says Dr. De Sota
Pool, “have any feeling against the
Christian it is because you do not live
up to the teachings of Jesus."
As for the Italians, Prof. Alberto
Peconini, director of the Italian-Amer-
ican Civic League, says:
“The chief reason of prejudice to
the Italian in the United States is
because a certain type of criminals
have been advertised. Yet there is
less percentage of crime among the
Italians than among the other races.”
Dr. Booker T. Washington, for the
negroes, declares that “race prejudice
in the South is growing less every
day.”
MADERO NAMES HIS CABINET
Provisional Capital of Mexico Estab¬
lished at Juarez.
Juarez, Mexico.—Mexico’s provis¬
ional government became an estab¬
lished fact with the naming of a cab¬
inet by Francisco L. Madero, Jr., the
president of the provisional govern¬
ment, and with the establishment of
a capital at the captured city of Jua-
lez. The cabinet follows:
Dr. Vasquez Gomez, minister of for¬
eign relations.
Gustavo Madero, minister of
finance.
Venustiana Carranza, minister <of
war.
Frederico Gonzales Garza, minister
cf the interior.
Pino Suarez, minister of justice.
Juan Sanchez Azeona, secretary to
the president.
Secretary of War Carranza will
have charge of the railways and tele¬
graph, and his first act was to grant
permission for the repair of the
Mexico Northwestern railroad. A gang
of men immediately set to work on
the torn roadbed south of Juarez.
Gonzales Garza will have charge of
tile mail service, and Secretary of the
Treasury Gustavo Madero will direct
the affairs of the custom house.
That the insurrecto army is more
than an armed mob was shown in
the complete absence of looting and
of intoxication and the quickness with
which the shattered city was cleared
of its dead and wounded. The em¬
bargo against visitors was removed,
and curious sightseers in thousands
poured across the bridges leading
from Ela Paso.
White Slave Story.
Atlanta, Ga.—A particularly har¬
rowing story of alleged white slave
traffic is told here by Nellie Lewis,
a pretty 17-year-old girl, who says
her home is in Winston-Salem, N. C.
The girl dedarees that she has been
carried from city to city for Ihe past
several weeks by H. M. Burt of South
Carolina and Oassie Cobb of Winston-
Salem. She says that the couple
have kept her in a state of bondage.
In the various cities she was made
to lead a life of shame to support
the man and woman.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY.
ALMOST PERFECT
PHYSICAL CONDITION OF W. <9. A.
RY. IS FINE ACCORDING TO
COMMISSIONER CANDLER.
PROPERTY WELL CARED FOR
No Railroad in the State Shows Up
Better Than Western and
Atlantic.
—Atlanta.
j|. Railroad Commissioner C. Murphy
Candler is authority for the state¬
ment that the physical condition of
the state road, now under lease of
.the Louisville and Nashville, is well
t tjigh perfect.
WILL FIGHT BOLL- WEEVIL
Grocers Will Use Their influence With
Farmers Urging the Planting of
Early Cotton.
Atlanta.—Declaring that the 4
sale grocers of the South have had
nothing to do with the "high cost of
living," H. A. Forchheimer of Mobile,
Ala., vigorously defended J e the ^ South- ^
era Wholesale Grocers’ Association, In
a paper which proved to be the fea-
ture of the convention of that body,
Which is now holding its twentieth an-
nual „ . convention , in this city. At . ,, the
same meeting lion, T. G. Hudson, com-
niissioner of agriculture of Georgia,
enlisted the help of those present
against the further encroachment
the boll weevil, which he characterize
ed as the most serious economic prob4
lem with which the South iq. cob
fronted. : “ 1
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Mr. Forchheimer began his paper
by repudiating the attacks made by
certain papers of the South charging
the members of the Southern Whole¬
sale Grocers' Association with boost¬
ing the prices of provisions when the
pioducer was selling them at the usual
cost.
“This is a malicious falsehood,” he
said. “We have had nothing more
to do with the high cost of food prod¬
ucts than we have had to do with the
high cost of other commodities. As 1
analyze matters, the high prices that
have prevailed have been due to four
causes—the tariff, trusts, drastic leg¬
islation and the well-known Americaii
extravagance.”
Resolutions against the parcels
post act now before congress were
unanimously passed by the Southern
Wholesale Grocers’ Association. This
matter was considered so urgent that
unanimous consent was given to the
proposal to consider it by the body
at large instead of having it pass first
through the usual channels of the
resolution and the legislative commit¬
tees.
GERMANS NAME OFFICERS
Next Saengerfest Goes to Jacksonville,
Florida.
Atlanta.—The German Saengerfest
came to a close with a ball in Taft
hall. The meeting of the German so¬
cieties of the South Atlanta League
has been a great success, and the visit¬
ors and the citizens of Atlanta have
enjoyed the affair more than they
have any similar occasion of the kind
that has taken place in the city in a
long while.
The convention at the Turn Verein
hall, after transacting routine busi¬
ness, selected the following officers:
Honorary president, C. II. Toussaint,
Savannah; president, F. H. Hanne,
Jacksonville; secretary, Fred Bach¬
man, Jacksonville; treasurer, C.
Brickwedel, Jacksonville; attorney,
John D. Cappelmann, Charleston; first
vice president, J. H. Moellering, Sa¬
vannah; seond vice president, G. Mau,
Atlanta; third vice president, G. Ste-
cher, Tampa; fourth vice president,
A. Morgenstern, Charleston; fifth vice
president, Th. Winter, Brunswick, Ga.
It was unanimously agreed to hold
the next Saengerfest at Jacksonville,
probably in April of next year.
Bail Is Denied McNamara.
Los Angeles.—The application ol
John J. McNamara, for the fixing of
hail on the charge of dynamiting was
disallowed by Superior Judge Bord-
well without prejudice and with leave
to renew it at any time.
Washington.—The American Feder¬
ation of Labor issued an appeal for
funds for the defense of the McNam¬
ara brothers, in jail in Los Angeles
for dynamiting. The appeal for funds
states that the accused labor leaders
are in jail as a result of a “vindictive
spirit ot persecution.’’
During the present week Commis¬
sioner Candler had occasion to go to
-the upper part of the state to inspect
a depot at Hooker in Dade county.
% order to get there he had to pass
through Chattanooga. In order to note
the condition of the Western and At¬
Commissioner Candler rode
Gil the rear of the train both going
to and returning from Chattanooga.
iW’hile Commissioner Candler will
no written or formal report to
the commission regarding his inspec-
lion and views concerning the state
Property, he will tell his fellow
twnmissioners about it at some eatly
UKieting in an in f orma i way.
. -.. The physical condition of the Wes-
tern and Atlantic is well nigh per-
feci," said Commissioner Candler in
^cussing the matter. “I wish to say
I have seen no road in the state in
ni) , var j ou8 trips over many of them
i n such good condition generally as
this property of the state’s. I think
tW| people of the state should kuow
|o*tJK }U>? by e11 the their lessees, property who is deserve being kept the
commendation tor doing so.
fh 011 pays a very high tiibute to
McCollum of Atlanta, superin¬
tendent, and declares that it is his
belief that ‘much of the credit for
the splendid condition of the road is
due lo the efficiency of Major McCol-
huh."
This semi-official statement from
one of the most conservative mem-
hers of the railroad commission will
go far toward correcting the idea ob¬
taining in some quarters that the les¬
sees are allowing the state road to
run down, particularly as the ques¬
tion of another lease must come up
soon.
School Levy Act Decision.
The first decision affecting the act
of August 13, 1910, which authorized
municipalities to levy and collect a
special tax for the support and main
tenance of public school, was decided
by the supreme court.
Brunswick held an election under
this act and t o-thlrda of the voters
favored the levy of one-tenth of one
per cent, for the maintenance and
support of the public schools of that
city.
The mayor and city authorities
were proceeding to collect this tax,
when A. S. Deaver, a tax payer,
sought an injunction to prevent it.
The judge granted the injunction,
lidding that the act was inapplicable
to Brunswick, The supreme court re¬
versed this decision and declared that
the judge was in error to grant the
Prior to the passage of this special
act municipalities had the right to
levy a school tax, but could not do
SO without the enactment of meas-
ures providing machinery for so do¬
ing. In order to remove this difficul¬
ty the general assembly passed a gen¬
eral measure, which gave cities the
right to make the levy when two¬
thirds of the registered voters record¬
ed themselves favorable to the plan.
State Farm Is Prosperous.
R. E. Davison, chairman of the pris-
on commission, has returned from a
trip of inspection to the state prison
farm at Milledgeville.
“The work on the new prison build¬
ing is progressing rapidly," said tHe
chairman, “and we will have it com¬
pleted and ready for occupancy by the
first of August.
“The farm is in splendid condition,
and Superintendent Burke is getting
things in shape for planting the
crops. We expect a larger harvest
this year than we have ever had, and
it seems that in every particular the
farm is to have one of the most suc¬
cessful years in its history."
Weevil Threatens Georgia
An insect, believed to be the boll
weevil or an equally destructive pest,
has appeared in Tattnall county, and
is destroying the cotton crops in the
vicinity of Claxton, Ga. Prof. L. O.
Howard of the Federal bureau of en¬
tomology, in Washington, lias been
furnished with several bottles, contain¬
ing specimens of the insect. He hopes
to classify the bug shortly, and imme¬
diately the Federal department of ag-
VOL. XV. XO. 30.
will co-operate with the
Georgia state agricultural authorities
in trying to exterminate the pest.
Representative Charles G. Edwards
of the First district conferred with
Entomologist Howard with reference
to the insects, and urged upon him
the necessity of speedy action if the
cotton crop of Georgia is to be saved
Professor Howard agreed to co-operate
with State Entomologist Lee Worsham
of Georgia, and it is not unlikely that
experts from the department of agri¬
culture will proceed immediately tc
Tattnall county to enlist in the fighl
against the bug,
J. M. S. Conyers of Tattnall county
who supplied the Federal entomologist
with specimens of the bug, states in
his letter:
“The farmers say that at the rate
these insects have Worked in this im¬
mediate vicinity it will not take them
a great while to destroy the entire
cotton crop in this section of Georgia
"Several healthy fields of cotton
have already been destroyed by the
bugs, and many of the farmers have
abandoned them. The insects bore
into the middle of the cotton stalks,
which soon die and break off.”
It is regarded as unfortunate that
the classification of the insects is un¬
known. It is sincerely hoped that i*
is not the boll weevil, but from the
information at hand the experts fear
that it may prove to be a new pest
equally as destructive as the Mexican
insect.
McLendon Wants Senatorship.
S. G. McLendon, former chairman ol
the Georgia railroad commission, an¬
nounces his candidacy for the United
States senate in the declaration print¬
ed below.
Mr. McLendon does not specify a
preference as between election of sen
ators by direct vote or by the legisla¬
ture. The inference has been public¬
ly stated that he is indifferent on that
point.
Following is Mr. McLendon’s an¬
nouncement:
"I believe the people desire an open
and dignified discussion of those great
.questions which most nearly affect
tlieir material well-being, and which
are wholly are partly subject to public
control. I believe they desire as their
representative in the senate that man
whose knowledge of the Constitution
aud .history of our country qualifies
him to discharge the duties of the of¬
fice in a manner creditable to himself
and his constituents. 1 believe they de¬
sire and need one whose knowledge of
transportation, the tariff and a world
commerce, equips him for an intelli¬
gent discussion, protection and pro¬
motion of the highest and best inter¬
ests of this country on these subjects,
i have a desire to discuss these things
before sober-minded men with all the
decorum their importance demands,
and all the propriety of speech good
taste could suggest. 1 believe a ma¬
jority of the people of Georgia will
approve my views, for I shall proclaim
the protective policies and principles
of Jefferson and Madison and Monroe.
“I am therefore a candidate for the
senate. If I have not ‘misunderstand¬
ing of the times to know what Israel
ought to do,’ my public utterances will
disclose this fact. I ask the people to
hear ine, not for my cause, but for
theirs; for I shall speak on lines more
to establish the truth and advance the
welfare of my country than to win a
personal triumph."
Following the announcement of his
candidacy for the United States sen¬
ate, S, G. BcLendon has submitted to
Governor-elect Hoke Smith a chal¬
lenge for a series of joint debates in
case the governor aspires to the sen¬
atorial office himself.
Mr. McLendon has already invited
Senator Terrell and W. A. Covington
to join him in a series of joint dis¬
cussions.
Wright May Be Candidate.
According to rumor current at the
capitoi, Comptroller General William
A. Wright will very probably be a can¬
didate for governor in case the result
of the senatorial election by the legis¬
lature should cause a vacancy in the
gubernatorial office.
When asked about the rumor, Gen¬
eral Wright declared that it was news
to him that he would be a candidate
for the office, or that he had even
considered it. It was reported, how¬
ever, that several of General Wright’s
friends will urge him to enter the
race for the office of governor.
Weevil Cowpea Variety.
Dr. E. L. Worsham, sttae entomolo¬
gist, is daily in receipt of letters from
south Georgia and oftentimes speci¬
mens of the insect, which Is just now
doing damage to young cotton, which,
many fear, is the boll weevil, but
which he has recognized as the cowpea
pod weevil. This weevil, while it is
doing some damage to the growing
cotton, is not so destructive and dam¬
aging as the boll weevil and only lasts
a few days when it does appear. The
first notice of its advent came from-
Cordeie; a second notice came from
Claxton and still others arrived later.
Doctor Worsham states that cowpea
pod weevil generally attacks a field
which the year before had been plant¬
ed with cowpeas, aud the insects were
left there, then, but this does not al
ways follow.
TAFI DISAPPOINTED
OPINION OF THE COURT IN DI-
RECT OPPPOSITION TO VIEWS
EXPRESSED BY TAFT.
WHY HARLAN DISSENTED
Opinion Seems to Be That the Cour<
Reversed Itself in the Standard
Oil Decision.
Washington.—Governmental Wash¬
ington in all its branch—legislative,
executive and judicial—gave over tha
greater part of a day to a discussion
of the Supreme court’s disposition of
the Standard Oil case.
While there was much gratification
in administration circles over the or¬
der for the dissolution of the giant cor¬
poration, which had been declared “an
unreasonable combination and monop¬
oly in restraint of trade, there un¬
questionably was also some misgiving
as to the interpretation of the anti¬
trust law giving to courts tile right
to determine whether or not a monop¬
oly was “reasonable’’ and declaring a
“reasonable” monopoly not to be in
controvention of the statute.
President Taft, who a little more
than a year ago, in a special message
to congress declared that under Su¬
preme court precedents there could be
no such things as “reasonable” and
“unreasonable” restraints of trade, or
in other words “good trusts” and “bad
trusts,’’ was said to have been rather
keenly disapointed that the court
should have seen fit to revrese itsell
in this important matter.
President Taft's message was freely
quoted about the capitoi, and tha
seeming similarity of his views to tha
expressed view by Associate Justice
Harlan in his dissenting opinion, at¬
tracted renewed attention to Justice
Harlan’s position as outlined in his
statement to the court.
Justice Harlan held that his brother
judges had no right to usurp the func¬
tion of the legislative branch of the
gofernment^by writing into tills stat¬
ute a differentiation between “reason¬
able" and “unreasonable.” He de*'
Glared that congress had resisted all
appeals to so amend the act, and that
there was every reason to believe that
.such an amendment never could be
put through the legislative branch.
Justice Harlan declined to be a par¬
ty to such a reversal and hence his
dissenting opinion. He denounced as
“the most alarming tendency of the
day” the tendency to judicial legisla¬
tion. Men of power, he said, always
were trying to get the court to do
what congress would not.
A $50,000,000 BOND ISSUE
For Expenditures on Account of the
Panama Canal.
Washington.—Secretary MacVeagh
invited popular subscription to a $50,-
000,000 issue of government bonds to
reimburse the treasury general fund
for expenditure on account of the Pan¬
ama canal.
Treasury officials expect the loan
will be larg ly oversubscribed, and in
distributing the new securities, the
government's announced intention is
to to smaller
The new securities will be at 3 per
cent, interest, payable quarterly; will
be free from all national, state or mu¬
nicipal taxation, and will be in denom¬
inations of $100, $500 and $1,000. They
will be dated June 1, 1911, and will be
payable in fifty years.
By provision of law the new bonds
will not be available to national banks
as the basis of circulation. Inasmuch
as they are the first the United States
ever has issued with such a restric¬
tion, much interest is attached to the
price they will bring. According to
the law, they cannot be sold at less
than par.
Inasmuch as the postal savings bank
law fixes the par value of a postal
bank bond bearing 2 1-2 per cent, in¬
terest at $100, it is agreed that 3 per
cent. Panama canal bonds must bring
more than par. How much more is con¬
jecture, The estimates range from
slightly above par to 103.
Checks and postal orders will be ac¬
cepted for the new bonds—something
which never has been done before. Al¬
though the Issue is designed for pri¬
vate bankers, national banks which
bid for the bonds will be allowed to
deposit them as seccurity for govern¬
ment deposits.
Solons Sought Bribes.
Columbus, Ohio.-—Senator Edgar T.
Crawford and Representative A. Clark
Lowry, Republicans, and Representa¬
tive Owen J. Evans, Democrat, were
indicted by the grand jury for bribe
soliciting. Crawford is elleged to have
asked $200 from W. H. Cook, secre¬
tary of the Ohio Butchers and Gro¬
cers' association, in connection with
trading stamp legislation. Evans is
alleged to have solicited a bribe of
$650 from the Stark-Tuscarawas brew¬
eries for his vote on one of the city
local option bills.