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The Georgia Record. VOL I. PROHIBITION BILL PASSED In the Georgia House of Representatives By a Vote of Ninety-three to sixty=five. MEASURE GOES TO SENATE Should the Bill Become a Law the Whisky Traffic Will Be Driven Totally From the State. The Willingham prohibition bill was passed by the Georgia house of repre sentatives Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 93 to 65. It was with only a margin of five votes that the bill passed, but it had been expected that the contest would be a close one, and the friends of the measure were rejoiced at its success. Eighty-' ight votes were required for the constitutional majority. When the result was announced by Speaker Little, the galleries went wild, women clapped their hands in approval, while the men threw aloft their hats and shouted for joy. On the floor of the house the advo cates of the measure were hardly more restrained than their visiting friends in the galleries. They gave their desk tops such a rattle as had not been heard for years, and then in large numbers gathered around Mr. Willingham, who had led the success ful fight for his bill, to congratulate him at the outcome. And in the midst of this rejoicing the opponents of the measure were at tempting to derive a grain of comfort from the fact that the bill had yet to go to the senate, where they hoped and believed it would meet its death. The bill as it passed was exactly as Mr. Willingham and his friends! wanted it. Every amendment that was offered from other sources was de feated. TEXT OF THE BILL AS AMENDED AND PASSED. Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen eral assembly of the state of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the manufacture, ’ the sale, the keeping for sale, the giv ing away to induce trade, or for any valuable consideration, or the furnish ing at any public place, of intoxicat ing liquors, fermented or distillsd, are hereby prohibited or declared unlaw ful, except as hereinafter provided. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person I convicted of violating any of the pro-; visions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished as pre scribed in section 1039 of the code. ’ Sec. 3. Bo it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall apply both to individuals and cor porations and to all clubs or organi zations in which intoxicating liquors are furnished, at any place by sueh club or organization or any commit tee or agents thereof in consideration of membership, initiation or standing fee in such organization. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any place at which liquors are kept for sale, given away, furnished or sold in viola tion of the provisions of this act is hereby declared a nuisance; and any citizen may apply to the judge of the superior court for au injunction to re strain the same. Sec. 5. Bo it further enacted, That in any proceedings under this act, whether prosecutions or for injunction, the payment by the defendant of the United States revenue tax as a dealer in intoxicating liquors, whether fer mented or distilled, or the holding of a receipt for such tax, shall be prime facie evidence that such person is guilty of violation of the provisions of this act; and the original books or a certified copy from the entry in the books of the United States revenue collector showing the payment or pa rol evidence as to the contents of said books or the evidence as'to the con tents of any receipt given therefor shall be } rima facie evidence in any prosecution or proceeding. Section 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all mu nicipal corporations in this state are hereby vested with jurisdiction and authority to arrest and prosecute and punish all persons violating the pro- ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ,25, 1899. visions of this act as to keeping liquor for sale. This statute being in the ex ercise of the police power of this state and intended to secure public order, it is hereby declared that the keeping of liquor for sale within the limits of any municipal corporation shall be a municipal offenfce;and any prosecution of conviction under any city ordinance passsed for the purpose of punishing violations of this act, shall not consti tute a bar to the prosecution in the courts of record of this state for the same offense. .Section 7. Be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the pro visions of this act shall not apply to repeal nor affect existing laws regu lating the manufacture and sale of do mestic wines in the state. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority afoi esaid, That the provis ions of this act, as to prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicating liquors, shall not apply to those counties where such manufacture is now prohibited by law, and the provisions of this act as to prohibiting the sale of intoxicat ing liquors shall not apply to those counties where such sale is now pro hibited by law, but if for any reason the law now controlling the manufac ture or sale should be repealed or be come inoperative in any county, then the provisions of this act as to the pro hibition of such manufacture or sale shall immediately become operative in such county. Provided, That nothing herein con tained shall prevent licensed druggists from selling or furnishing pure alco hol for medicinal, art, scientific and mechanical purposes. Provided, further, That the provis ions of this act shall not become oper ative until June 1, 1900. Sec. 9. Be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. WOMEN ORGANIZE. The Wheeler-K.ee Movement Is Given a Great Inipetm. A meeting-of the women who wish to honor Major General Joseph Wheeler and Major Genera! Fitzhugh Lee was held in Chicago Tuesday. Those interested in the project have organized themselves into an associa tion called the Lee and Wheeler move-, ment and have elected officers as fol lows: President—Miss Anna Maria de Beck. Secretary—Miss Louise Abbot. At this meeting the “Wheeler and Lee Movement” gained a great impe tus. Letters were sent out during the day to the members of congress asking them to use their influence in getting appointments for Wheeler and Lee as major generals of the regular army. During the session also there were read a number of letters from women and men in other states and cities and the letters were invariably accompa nied with contributions of material amount. SENATOR HAYWARD WORSE. Paralysis Is Extending: and His Condl dition Becomes More Alarming. A special from Nebraska City, Neb., says: Senator Hayward gradually grows worse. He had a bad night last night and his condition during the day has shown no improvement. The paralysis is again extending nud there are evidences that it has affected the bladder. What is still more discouraging, the brain lesion is becoming more pronounced. The patient’s mind is cloudy and the attending physician is very much discouraged. DISTILLERY EXPLOSION. Engineer's Head Blown From Body—Other Persons Injured. By the explosion of a boiler in a whisky distillery at Traveler’s Rest, S. C., one man was killed, another severely injured, and the building wrecked. Nick Williams was the col ored engineer. His head w r as blown elean off and his body otherwise muti lated, while Mathew Keeler, one of the proprietors, was perhaps fatally scalded. KICK AGAINST DEWEY Transferring Title to Gift Home Causes a Loul Protest. SENSATIONAL RUMORS ARE AFLOAT One of Them Is That the Admiral Fears a Breach of Frojnise Ditm- age Suit. A Washington special says: With the actual transfer of the gift house of Admiral Dewey to Mrs. Dewey the indignation has broken into open dime. There is no attempt to hide the deep resentment felt at the capi tal. This is evidenced by the fact that the most conservative papers in the city have opened their columns for attacks upon the admiral. Some of the contributors have written indig nant letters to the house committee demanding a return of their money, while others have written to the ad miral himself. The Evening Star decries the mat ter and underneath the news of the transfer gives considerable space on the front page to protests. One of these, which is signed, says that the contrib utors hud reason to think that the home would go to the admiral’s son, George Dewey, and uot to a brand new wife taken in his old age. There are many odd and sensational rumors flying about the city. One report printed Tuesday morn ing has it that the transfer was made to preserve the house, as Admiral Dewey fears a suit for breach of prom ise will be instituted against him by a lady employed Ju.th reau of equip ment, of which thojadmiral was the head before he was assigned to the charge of the Asiatic squadron in 1897. It is stated upon what appears to be reliable authority that an engagement of marriage existed between the two at the time of the admiral’s departure from this country more than two years ago. There is deep regret mingled with the indignation, but no one as yet has felt called upon to defend his course, and even his best friends feel that he has shown bad taste in the matter, to say the least. PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION, Announcing the Death of Vice President Hobart at Patter son, N. J. Tuesday. President McKinley issued the fol lowing proclamation on the death of Vice President Hobart: To the People of the United States: Garrett Augustus Hobart, vice presi dent of the United States, died at his home in Paterson, N. J., at 8:30 o’clock this morning. In him the nation has lost one of its most illustrious citizens and one of its most faithful servants. His participation in the business life and the law making body of his native state was marked by unswerving fidel ity and by a high order of talents and attainments and his too brief career as vice president of the United States and president of the senate exhibited the loftiest qualities of upright and sagacious statesmanship. In the world of affairs he had few equals among his contemporaries. His private character was gentle and no ble. He will long be mourned by his frends as a man of singular purity and attractiveness whose sweetness of dis position won all hearts while his ele vated purposes, his unbending integ rity and whole-hearted devotion to the public good deserved and acquired universal respect and esteem. In sorrowing testimony of the loss which has fallen upon the country, I direct on the day of the funeral the executive offices of the United States shalled be closed and all stations of the army and navy shall display the national flag at half mast and that the representatives of the United States in foreign countries shall pay appro priate tribute to the illustrious dead for a period of 30 days. Done at the City of Washington, this the 21st of November, in the year of our Lord. 1899, and of the Inde pendence of the United States, the one hundred and twenty-fourth. (Signed.) William M’Kinley. By the President: (Signed.) John Hay, Secretary of State. SCHLEY GETS ORDERS. Secretary Long Lets the Admiral Go Without Ordering a Court of Inquiry. A Washington special says: The secretary of the navy has decided to let Admiral Schley start for his cruise without asking for an investigation for himself or ordering a court of inquiry for Admiral Schley. His orders to sail were signed Mon day, and they were sent to him at once. The bureau of navigation had collected every newspaper clipping which had anything to say against Secretary Long, especially the signed articles of Agnus and McClure. Through a clipping agency it had collected a goodly number of attacks on Long, when that official came home, the effort being to have it appear that Admiral Schley had instigated the at tacks on the secretary. The secretary went ever the whole matter Monday morning, and when he had seen every one and heard the worst he refused to either ask for an investigation himself or order a courtmartial of Schley. Secretary Long gave out the above facts himself, and acknowledged that great pressure had been brought to bear on him to order a court of inquiry. There is much feeling over the matter. DEMOCRAT* CONCEDE. They Are Convinced That Returns In Kentucky Favor Taylor. A special from Frankfort, Ky., says: The Democratic state campaign com mittee concedes that Taylor has a majority on the face of the returns, but bases a hope of the election of the Democratic ticket on throwing out the vote of Louisville on account of the alleged interference of the state mili t'lwd er ,Tohu,«*en. < 'nd Knes eoqnti where it is charged tissue ballots were used. The Kentucky election law plainly provides for a secret ballot, and the Republicans admit they are not as well fortified in the defense of their inter ests in the Johnson and Knox county cases as might be, but do not credit to any extent the Democratic claim re garding Louisville. In fact, they as sert that should Louisville be thrown out on ths pretext claimed, they have the assurance that Governor Bradley will back them up in resistance, which they say is already fully planned. The Goebel managers announce they will not take an appeal from the decision of Judge Jones, at Glasgow, where 1,190 Nelson county votes, erroneously certainly for W. P. Tay lor, were ordered counted for W. S. Taylor. In this state of the case the vote of Jefferson, Knox and Johnston counties must be wiped out to give Goebel a majority, but his managers, it is believed, are collecting evidence of alleged fraud in various Republican counties and on this will ask the state election board to throw out those counties. MOB WAS SCATTERED. Sheriff** Rogge Protected Prisoner Tn Covington Jail. There was considerable excitement in Covington, Ga., Monday night when seventy-five or a hundred masked men rode to Sheriff Anderson’s house and demanded the keys of the jail for the purpose of getting a young man by the name of Collins, who had been locked up by the sheriff to prevent his being lynched by the enraged people at Porterdale mills. Collins had met a young woman by the name of Kurgas at Mitchell’s springs, who lives at Porterdale mills, and made indecent proposals to her. She resented the insult and, as soon as she could, informed her relatives of the young man’s impudence. It was but a few minutes before a crowd of excited men gathered and they went in pursuit of Collins, but officers caught the fellow before the Porter dale people got him and lodged him in jail at Covington. Rumors reached Covington early in the night that a mob would visit the city and storm the jail and the sheriff summoned a posse of six men, well armed and stationed them inside the walls. When the mob approached the jail the posse opened fire and the mob retreated in all directions, for the re turn fire was a great surprise. One man of the mob was shot, but was carried off. He was within a few feet of the jail fence when the officers fired and was seen to reel and fall to his knees. Two of his crowd carried him off. NO. 22. FACETIOUS BOYNTON His Speech at Chickamauga Re- J plete With Sensation. ARRAIGNS LATTER DAY VOLUNTEERS’ Compares Them With the Veterans of 61- Ridicules the Recent Spanish- American War. The exercises of dedicating the 107 monuments and markers of the state of Illinois on the battlefields sur rounding the city of Chat'anooga were held Thursday at Orchard Knob, the site of one of the principal memorial shafts and famous during the civil war as the headquarters of General Grant. Among the visitors were Senator Cullom, Governor Tanner and staff, Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans. General H. V. Boynton, rep resenting the secretary of war, and a large delegation from the confederate camp of Chattanooga. Major Charles A. Connelly delivered, the speech presenting the monuments to the governor of Illinois on behalf of the Illinois commissioners. Governor John B. Tanner, of Illi nois, received the monuments and in turn presented them to the govern ment. General H. V. Boynton, chairman of the national park commission, in receiving the monuments, said in part: “The citizens of any state, or of any nation, might well be proud to stand on this historic spot, with the right to stand here as the military associate of General Grant, participants with him each in his appointed rank in that miracle or military Listc.ry.JJio ntory ing of Missionary Ridge. First, to ward this point, and then from this point he derected that series or mem orable battles which have given Chat tanooga a world-wide fame. “What of the soldiers who won the battles which these monuments com memorate and the great captains who commanded them? Did General Grant spend his time about the commissary stores in the capacity of a pure food commissioner? Did he send his staff officers throughout the limits of his command to gather evidence to prove that the war department did not know more than a thing or two about war? Did he fill the press of the land with interviews criticising everyihing and everybody but himself? When he tel egraphed General Thomas from Louis ville to hold Chattanooga, did Thomas reply, ‘We are out of the proper brand of meat, and it can’t be done,’ or did he reply, ‘We will hold the town till we starve?' Did General Thomas and his general officers send a round robin to Washington concerning the condi tion of their stomachs, their temper ature and their pulse, and promptly furnish a copy of it to the press? “And what of the soldiers who serv ed under General Thomas? They went about the streets of Chattanooga and the horse and mule corrals, pick ing up kernels and scattered corn. They gathered about the refuse heaps of the commissary stores where moldy bread was thrown, whittled off the mold, and filled their haversacks with the crumbs; and when interrupted by the play of the seige guns, they would look up at the smoking summit of Lookout and exclaim: ‘lf these ra tinons hold, Mr. Johnny Reb, we’ll get you yet. ’ “The monuments which Illinois here dedicates are to such officers and men. Let the small, but the loud persistent crowd of grumblers of the national guard in the war with Spain, who filled the land with their baseless groanings, take notice of the kind of soldiers which'an American state de lights to honor. “And those who fought against these iron men were soldiers of a like mold. When union veterans gather, that fact should never be forgotten, and ever be held as a matter of pride, since, together, they fix the universal and undisputed standard of American pluck, endurance and heroism on the field of battle. “This great park, embracing seven battlefields, is being established with absolute impartiality as a military ob ject lesson and an illustration of the powers of the American soldier in bat tle. More than a thousand historical tablets attest this impartiality. The like of it was never seen before in any land.”