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The Miller County Liberal.
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• f SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
I President Would Protect Corpor
ations from State Interference.
MODIFIES TBAFFIC IDEAS
Taft Would Prevent National Combines
From Acquiring Stock of Competitors
Except by Consent.
Washington, D. C President Taft’s
* special message, dealing with amend-
I ments to the interstate commerce
laws, looking to a more effective fed
eral supervision of railroads, and con
veying- ijis Recommendations for the
passage of a federal incorporation
■ det, Was transmitted to congress and
-jßau. read in the house, the senate not be-
Ing in session.
KThe message followed closely the
forecasts that have been made from
TS® time to time and in the suggested
W' legislation as to railroads, embodies
.ME * all of the suggestions that the presi
.J? dent has made from time to time in
Mis speeches on the subject.
I Mr. Taft suggests no changes in
tie Sherman anti-trust law at this
/ tWiie. The anti-trust feature of the
niessage deals solely with the sub
' ject of federal charters. The presi
dent thinks that an opportunity
should be given the big industrial
combinations to bring their business
once more into the "zone of lawful
ness’’ by taking out a federal char
ter under certain prescribed condi
tions before it becomes necessary to
proceed against every great corpora
tion about which there is a breadth
X of suspicion.
Duty and Purpose.
“It is the duty and the purpose of
the executive," say the message, to
direct an investigation by the depart-
of justice through the grand
jury or otherwise into the history, or
ganization and purpose of ali the in
dustrial companies with respect to
which there is any reasonable ground 1
for suspicion that they have ’been or
ganized for a purpose and are con
ducting business on a plan which is :
in violation of the anti-trust law.” i
Such a wholesale investigation and :
possible prosecution, the president
points out, "would result in serious
disturbances and produce a halt in
our present prosperity that will cause
suffering and strained circumstances
among the innocent many tor the
faults of the guilty few.
“The question which 1 wish in this 1
message to bring clearly to the con- <
tideration and discussion ot 'ongJjMjSs
ig whether, in order to
jljssible bu -im ss danger,
Cannot be c H< by which lliWßr t
» '’■ess conibit . may be <®|
. -A. JKoans, , Vi 1 ' at lilla "J|i ?
- -r
Tf.v organization amuext* nt of their fitWe
into one /within the lines of
KiShe law under/ federal control and
'securing compliance
with the. antit.-rust statutes.
Conditions Made.
The conditions upon which federal
charters are to be granted under the
president’s recommendations are
these- The issue of stock to be an
amount equal only to the cash paid in
on the stock, or if stock be issued
for property, then at a fair valuation,
ascertained under approval and super
vision of federal authority atte full
and- complete disclosure ot all the
facts appertaining to the value ot
property and the interest in it to the
persons to which the stock is to be
taking federal char
ters are to be prohibited from ac
quiring and holding stock in othei
corporations, except for special rea
sons upon approval by the P
federal authorities, Bull reports ot
operations are to be made to the
department of commerce and laboi
at Regular intervals. The federal in
corporation is to be voluntary, but tin
president feels that most ot the coi
porations will be glad of the oppor
tunity to reform their business meth
ods if given this opportunity. Other
wise the department ot justice will
investigate them. Nothing in the ted
eral charters is to exempt any cor
poration from prosecution for vio.a
/ tions of the anti-trust law.
• In that portion of his message deal-
's— ing with changes of the interstate
j commerce laws the president recom
mends: . , _ ,
Special Court.
The establishment of a
States court of commerce ot five
judges to hear and determine appeals
from the interstate commerce commis
sion the only appeal from this court
lying in the United States supreme
C °The commission is to be relieved
prosecuting cases in the courts,
this 1 duty being placed in the depart
mThe°co?iimiss e ion to ne empowered
to hold up new rates or classifications
to railroads until an inquiry can be
WOMAN BALKEDJLYNUIERS.
Mrs. Andell Drove Mob Away from f
Victim. ]
Kenosha, Wis.—Mrs. Andell, wife of ,
a boarding bouse keeper at .Ira ,
l akes armed with a shotgun, is re- 1
ported to have cowed a mob of men
and to have cut the rope with which
Sam Roberts, a cook at the ice-cut
ting camp, had been swung to a ratt
er in an ice house. She cut down
, the man just in time to save him
' from strangulation, according to the
details of the attempted lynching.
Roberts, it is reported, was the
victim of a tierce controversy between
unTon and non-union ice cutters at
Twin Lakes, which resulted in the
discharge of a number of union men.
TO SEEK SOOTH PULE.
England Promises SIOO,OOO of the
$200,000 Needed.
London, England. —The Scott ex
pedition in search of the South Pole,
is now assured, the government hat
ing promised SIOO,OOO toward the
$200,000 which is the estimated ex
expedition will set forth in
Tnlv The activity among the Amer
ican' arctic explorers proved a con
vincing factor which determined the
government to assist.
I made as to their reasonableness. If
found to be unreasonable, the com
mission may forbid the increase.
Shippers to be given the choice of
established routes on through freight.
Prohibits Stock Buying.
From and after tne passage of the
amendments, it is provided that no
railroad shall acquire any stock or
interest in a competing line, except
that where a road already owns 50
per cent or more of the stock of an
other road, it may complete the pur
chase of all the stock. Also in cases
where one road is operating another
under a lease of more than 25 years
duration, it shall have a right to ac
quire the demised road. Allowing this
acquisition of stock doaj not exempt
any road from proseifi i under the
anti-trust law.
Stock must be issued at par value
for money paid in or for properties
or services, rates at full value, un
der an inquiry by the federal author
ity, who shall supervise all stock and
bond issues.
$2(13,562,383 FOSTAL KEVENUL
In Receipts Postal Department Rank
ed Only by Treasury.
Washington, D. C.—As a business
institution, the postoffice department,
next to the United States treasury,
is the greatest in the government.
According to figures submitted by
Charles P. Grandfield, the first assist
ant postmaster general, for the fis
cal year ended June 30, 1909, just
made public, in his annual report,
the gross revenue of the postal serv
ice reached the enormous total or
$203,562,383, an increase of $12,083,-
720, or 6.31 per cent over the pre
ceding year. There were 7,202 pres
idential postotlices on July 1, 1909.
Os this number 398 were first class,
an increase of 14; 1,707 were second
class, an increase of 112, and 5,097
were third class, an increase of 230.
The total increase in the number ot
presidential offices was 356.
There were 1,444 postoltlces estab
lished during the year and 2,064 were
discontinued, leaving a total of 60,144
postofflees in operation on June 30,
1909. During the year 1,626 postmas
ters were appointed as presidential
offices. At fourth class offices 9,161
postmasters were appointed.
SEEKING FARM FOR MORSE
President Taft Will Be Asked to Re
lease Banker.
Portland, Maine. —A campaign to
save Chas. W. Morse, the banker now
serving 15 years in the Atlanta fed
eral prison, was started here, and pe
rigons to President raft asking for an
pardon are being cir
■hu Tae petitions d< dare Morse
gSS? his debts, that popular de
i.is coin ictioii, that
Mfno intentional wronj, and
-1W- Mse was penalty -W'*' .
Richmond, Va. Petit/ons tor n
absolute pardon for Charles V.
Morse,Athe New York financier, now
serving a sentence of fifteen years
in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
for violation of the national banking
laws, are being circulated by friends
and kinsmen of Morse here. they
were sent by Mrs. Morse and Morse s
secretary. Morse's grandmother was
Miss Virginia Roberts of Chesterfield
county. The petition states tnat
Morse's violation of the law was tech
nical only.
RAGMAN LEFI SbO,BSD.
Miser Had Large Sum of Money in
Safety Deposit Vault.
St. Louis, Mo.—A fortune of $60.-
000 in good securities awaits the heirs
of Jeremiah Moynihan, an aged
miser ragman who died here.
Apparently in destitute circum
stances, Moynihan was to have been
buried in the potter s field, but the
public administrator found a key to
a safety deposit vault in his effects.
The safety box contained bonds
worth $60,000.
LAR GEST fTnANCIALTRANSAGTION.
U. S. Treasurer McClung Gives Re
ceipts for $1,260,134,946.88 2-3.
Washington, D. C. —What is said to
'be the largest financial transaction in
the world’s history occurred here, it
consisted in the giving of a-receipt
• for $1,260,134,946.88 2-3 by bee Mc
! Clung, the treasurer of the Lnited
States, to Charles H. Treat, who re
tired from that office, and is an ac
knowledgment of the money and se
-1 curities in the office as of November
’ 1. The practice is a customary one
; with the change of the treasurers.
t Taft Going to Alaska.
Washington, D. C. —President 1 aft
1 is looking forward to a trip to Alas
ka late in the coining spring. He
plans to go to the far northwestern
territory immediately after the ad
-1 journment of congress and before go
s ing to Beverly for the late summer
e and fall.
New italiaiTAmbassador.
Berne.—The Marquis Cusani Con
.i, vu 11 fl Q
falioneri, who, for three years has i
held the post of Italian minister to
Switzerland, has been notified ot lik
appointment as ambassador to the I
United States in succession to Bai on
Mayor Des Blanches.
Census Killing.
Washington, □. C.—Census Director
Durand has decided to extend from ■
January 25 to January 31 the time
in which persons desiring places as
census enumerators may tile their ,
applications on blanks furnished by
the census supervisors. the test of
applicants will be made on February
5, as previously announced.
Pensions For Aged U. S. Clerks.
Washington, D. C. —Efforts are to
be made by congress to pass a law
providing compulsory retirement and |
permitting a pension for superannuat- •
ed government employees. Secretary
MacVeagli has instructed Herbert D. ■
Brown of his department to draw up
a plan. The secretary is understood
to have the support of President Taft.
Mr Brown’s tentative plan, it is said,
contemplates a pension fund that will
be provided entirely by the working
clerks.
COLQUITT, GA., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12. 1910.
UTE JEWS Mitl S.
General.
Complete skepticism as to the ex
istence of canals on Mars was dis
played by prominent astronomers at j
the meeting recently at London of I
the British Astronomical association. I
Hale’s Mount Wilson photographs j
were exhibited on lantern slides, and-I
were pronounced the best yet seen.
They showed no signs of the canals
and were said to vindicate the belief
that the supposed canals were merely
an effect on the eye of collections ot
dark spots.
Passengers arriving in New Or
ienas from Colon declare a corpora
tion backed by Wall street money
and known as the Mandingo Darien
company has been organized to dig ‘
an air line sea level canal across I
Panama, fifty miles soutu of the big
United States ditch. The Coion rep- I
resentative of the company is Cap
tain Thornton Bonneville of Newport !
News, Va. He asserts that his cor- I
poration is assured that a sea level I
canal, twenty-nine miles in length,
can be constructed for slß,ooti,uou.
This amount has been pledged .Work
on the new canal will be begun early
in the year.
Owing to prevalence ot Texas fe
ver among southern cattle, a procla
mation was issued by Governor De
neen of Illinois prohibiting importa
tion into Illinois of cattle from Cali
fornia, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Mis
sippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia and Florida between February 1
and November 1, 1910, unless the cat
tle are accompanied ' by certificates
from the inspector of the L'nited
States bureau of animal industry that
they are free from fever.
Washington.
The Italian ministry has announc
ed its determination to lay down
four battleships of the Dreadnought i
class in 1911 in the government
yards, besides three scout vessels.
The Christmas drawing of the Cu- i
ban national lottery resulted in the
sale of only eighteen thousand tick- I
ets out of a total of thirty thousand, i
It was expected to raise $9110,000 it I
all had been sold. ’ The capital prize :
was won by’ a group of bricklayers.
With the sanction of Mrs. Taft, {
the “400" of New York will be In- i
creased to the "One Thousand,” to I
include the aristocratic sets of Phil- |
adelphia, Washington and New York. I
Mrs. Taft is said to be the origma- j
tor of the movement, and she cer- [
tainly is in favor of it. Rank, birth i
and wealth will all be counted in the I
new social scale. The old plan ot
selling rank in society will be aban- j
doned.
Newspaper compilations of mob
lawjs invoking during Au : nasi,
that there ”re seventy
more than in any year
Thesea^.“x’y< i ,agams: Hie 1
/' 11 Ji welve
ia>—-2"
states Ind" New Mexico.
lynchings north of the Ohio jMver’i®
were those during the Cairo, 111., race
riots. B# states the lynch record is
as follows: Texas, 13; Georgia, 12;
Florida, 8- Louisiana, 7;\ Mississippi,
4- Alabama, 8; Oklahoma-, 5; Ken-I
tucky 4- South Carolina, 3; Arkan- I
sas, 3- Illinois, 2; New Mexico, 2;
Missouri, 1; West Virginia, 1.
Tuberculosis stands at the head of
the diseases which afflict the Indians,
according to the aunual report of tae
commissioner of Indian affairs. 1 hree
hundred and three government
schools were conducted during the
past fiscal year, an increase ot twen
ty-two. Almost all ot the Christian
denominations in the United States
have missions in the Indian country, 1
the report cites, adding that the In- |
dian office co-operates effectively -
with each. I
The statue of General Robert E. |
Lee in confederate uniform, recently i
put in position in Statuary hall of
the capitol, will remain there at least j
for the present. When the opposi
tion to accepting the statue made j
itself manifest on the part of former
soldiers of the union service it was
announced that if the statue was not
I accepted and it was removed from
the hall Virginia would withdraw ;
I the companion piece, the figure of
Washington.
The immigrants’ lack of confidence
in the safety and security of private ,
financial institutions of the United
States is officially declared to be the i
chief reason for the sending of mil
. I lions of dollars by postal money or-
■ ! ders from the United States to tor
. eign countries each year. Auditor
Chance of the postoffice department
points to this as an indication of
what might be accomplished through
the establishment of postal savings
■ banks. The stupendous total of $640,-
■ 640 817, representing the surplus
- earnings of foreign and commercial
1 enterprises of the United States, lias
’ ' been sent abroad since 1890. A total
•i of $76,622,629 was sent abroad by
" foreign workmen in 1909.
From the British government Can
ada has now purchased the cruiser
. i Rainboy for $920,000, to be used as
=! a training ship in Pacific waters,
while other vessels to constitute a i
Canadian navy are being purchased
lor constructed. This will be one of
; the leading questions before the Ca
nadian parliament which meets soon.
Washington’s cackling hens and
crowing roosters have found refuge
behind ermine robes and with all j
sorts of insomnia-producing sounds ■
i may hereafter drown the cries ot all ;
protestants. The edict of the health
authorities banishing fowls to the
! silent retreats of the country was |
1 declared by Judge Mullowney in po- I
j lice court to be “too ridiculous to
permit of judicial notice.
A scheme by which its promoters
made $ 4,000 in one month without
any working capital, though claiming
a paid-in capital stock of $150,000, is
I charged in indictments returned
I against Joseph A. McNulty, James
' Richmond, alias Herbert S. Braman,
i and Henry Von Vleet, all of Buffalo,
I N Y for operating “the civic ser
vice institute.” The men are alleg-
I ed to have used the mails to defraud,
i The “institute” advertised for repre-
I sentatives, but required of them a
I SSOO subscription to the capital stock
| of the company.
[HIGH UM OF LIVING
Senator Elkins Says We Are
Livinfj! Extravagantly.
cdngrel to investigate
Wages ’ andjßjcomes Have Not Kept
Pace V. lb the Advance in the
NiLessities of Life.
Washing .<1 D. C.—" The cost of
living is < ripping wages and in
i’ bl mgs want and
■ to hi Kinumber of
< tha® ’ cb-if®-:. at
' not getting JVper rood and clothing,
■ and that clHh'n cannot be sent to
school and I® either an education
. ■ tile founißw of an education, and
I that civilization is being
These not from a social
istic 1 from multi-million
aire Senator® A’nen B. Elkins ot
West Virginia® ‘airman of the sen
ate committee) -m interstate com
merce. Sena® Elkins has introduc
ed a resob’tiH for an investigation
into the qL |fl of increased, prices
of the necli <®i of lite and the cost
therefore p Bg 990.
The oldkJßli> in the senate and
the house sympathy with an
inquiry of tlMfcrt. A great outside
pressure is beWjbrought on this con
gress to get SLe real facts.
Senator ElkiEis one ot'JJie weal
thiest men in ■pgregij/ 'fffid a‘£reat
force in tne senate. He employs
thousands of n e n in his enterprises
in West Virgin'- and/ a resolution ot
I this character r »9img from him has
I created a sensAbm here.
; “Food, shelter and clothing are the
I three absolute essentials ot' every
| family, as shel -r includes rents and
fuel," said Sendo 1, Elldns. "The cost
jof all this has tv’in d alarmingly."
"They are a’su.itivy fundamental
Ito comfort and 1< u It is not to be
1 wondered at tha . 1 people are con
j cerned about co - ' ions. 1 hear from
it . constantly. A '• complain to me
' that wages are n - . -v. .ling pace, and
.that their families ire in straits u
consequence. Yet far as my own
■ business is conce -’d, the returns
j from it are not st It as to warrant,
j me in putting up ages.
"What is to Ik - i o in such a sit
[ nation? I look up it as the func
tion of state mign ip—or whatever
j you may call itt— ien it is clearly
perceived that ai tfcister is threaten
it tin whole |l Aj' n 80,0bi>,n i
j people, to atteqv>*«| do wiuit can be
I done to afford 1 ■edy. As to the.
| increased cost A,. *ig. congress at
leas ind mil ’ »L/>f tha, pauses
k f
eau- ' I .’ini\ ■ - WM.-. 1 --
Fi - -in' I lung.
ag ' - .'ravagancKHß
rife. I I e.\pansioiH|
.A- ' • ■
these facts
“We mu **own ships, and
we must ■ >,-’ o s- more economical
ways of iivi i,..?
•The country (is being settled up so
: fast and the population is growing so
rapid ■ espe -ia|lly tie urban popula
tion—that we tire reaching a state
where agricultural production is test
ed by the denial ds <jt our own peopb
Nations do not exchange gold: they
i exchange commodities. Our consump
tion of wheat is uji to the limit ol
production and \we have practically
ceased exporting 1 ) . <« course, we send
abroad cotton to the value of $900,-
(100 or more, but we pay out $200,-
; 000,000 a year to foreign ship owners.
American tourists take one hundred
1 million dollars abrtoad every year.
They spend much of it in luxury a.
I extravagance. Laborers send back to
the old country -vm-y year $100,000.-
; 000. We send $50,000,000 out ot the
i of the country every year for Christ-
■ mas presents. Altogether we pay
out in one way and another m ac
tual money which goes abroad, about
$500,000,000 a year In ten years this
means $5,000,000,1' 0.
"This decline is doubtless one ot
the causes of tIU Increasing cost ot
living and the failure of wages to
keep pace and thfre are many con
' tributary causes. Jiy resolution pro
vides for an inquiry into the question
how far the trusts and monopolies
! have caused the present conditions.
! I do not know to, what extent they
; have done so.
■ 't he American people are
■ly extravagant, ive must learn to
■ get more out of bur farms, and to
contract fewer depts and find more
! ways of paying tdem. 1 have intro
duced this resolution because 1 feel
I that here is a situation that abso
lutely demands the attention of con-
■ gress. 1 want a thorough and impar-
I tial investigation hat will go to the
(root of the wliol; matter. I don t
see how things am go on as they
I are, and I believe that it is our to
Operative duty to Lok into the tacts.
GIRI. CRIM iES HERSELF.
1 Italian Girl Was Seized by Religious
> I Mfmia.
Home, Italy.—A, servant girl m Tu
rin zecame posstbsed recently ol a
religious mania. The woman who
employed her foil id her crucified.
The girl after lacing thorns m her
hair and inliictim a severe wound on
I her chest, nailed ler feet and her left
hand to the boa ds of her bed and
spent the night suffering tortures.
When discovc red,-she was uncon
scious. She was taken to a hospital
i in a critical cor.flition.
i She said that out of love tor Jesus
i she voluntarily crucified herself. Her
reason she said, was that she wished
to share Jesus' sufferings.
§I3,OO9jOOjRAGRICULTURE.
Farm Department of Government
Gets Large Appropriation.
Washington, D. C. —The house com
mittee on agrici ture will give the
agricultural dept tment ot the gov-
Xient approxii ately 513,000,000 to
run it during the oming year, accord
ing to the estimt b of the subcommit
tee of that body which has finished
work on considi ation of the bill.
Secretary Wilsoi was heard finally.
The appeal' is ab it the same as last
year.
j LUi lOV PRICE ALVANCES.
Attempt to Break the Market Proved
Disastrous.
> New York City.—The recovery in
the cotton market became almost as
excited and sensational as the break
earlier in the week.
, Reports of very strong southern
- spot markets seemed to convince the
J traders that the collapse in futures
had been chiefly the result of specu
t lative conditions, and claims that the
spinners were in the market on the
dec ine tended to restore bullish con
fide nee.
March contracts sold at 15.70 and
f May at 15.95, representing a recovery
of over $3.25 a bale.
New York City.—“ Cotton has de
, dined in the last few days, ’ said a
. li’i,' .- cpttpr, trader here, "because we
" believe Jack Frost has been and is
j ' fighting on the side of a great yield
jI of cotton from the southern states
. , next, summer.”
, I That was the explanation given of
’ the recent pounding of the cotton
market by a prominent dealer noted
for his long vision and clear head.
t she theory was discussed on the floor
of the exchange and in brokers of
fices and a surprising per > ntage ot
well-informed and conservative trad
’ ers hold that it explained the violent
. fluctuations of the last forty-eight
hours.
Talks with a number of reputable
! and level-headed traders developed an
J extremely picturesque and unique sto
, ry in this direction.
They point out that nature has both
plowed and fertilized the soil of the
cotton belt through the two recent un
precedented freezes. The first freeze,
in December, was unusually early,
and made the ground solid for a
depth of several inches, and, in the
thaw, kneaded and manipulated aud
ventilated and pulverized it as it has
not been in years.
Hardly had the first freeze worn
off before the present one set in. it
has duplicated the process, creasing
and wrinkling and furrowing and
‘spading" the earth .with a thorough
ness not even approached bj human
means.
As a result, the soil of the cotton
belt has been revitalized in a maimer
not approximated since the civil war,
and the traders here expect a big
yield next summer.
Another factor they reckon is the
choking off of the boll weevil, at least
minimizing his ravages as well as the
destruction or lessening of other crop
pests.
They argue, therefore, that nature
is working at both ends, and that an
enormous crop will not have to deal
witli the hosts of insect enemies, tor
which allowance had to be made in
the past.
The hear dealers are principally
afarid I 'z southern farmers will learn
these f.W-ts amrf do some "discoupt
tug" on libcir vtwl Look.. .- tjy
011 nt E’ , T- i. art
raalltfisllsl 11 '' ln,lv ' rs their 1
MBcoimee'mns. urging them I
fiii-ts upou farmeis
■rs’ organizations, to the end
■Kx down the aenmer and di
tae ble; ings. an,d not
the l/rost may
realized. , ~
Spitfliers from America and Europe
have 1 ueen buying heavily, attracted
by the slightly lower price, thus prov
ing that they realize prices are on a
permanently high level, and that the
best they can do is to temporally de
press the market by speculative flur
ries.
ARMY TO USE COTTON SACKS.
War Department Grants Request ot
the Texas Farmers.
San Antonio, Texas.—Hereafter all
supplies tar the subsistence depart
ment ot the army, where sacks are
used for covering will be. wrapped in
cotton sacks on the inside, and, if
possible, cotton sacks will be used
for outside covering.
The promulgation of this order by
the war department was made at the
suggestion of Texas farmers, who
sent a delegation to Washington.
Hugs Sell For $9.
Chicago, lll.—The $9 hog arrived
at the Union tSock Yards here. Ex
cept for a short period in 1882 when
swine sold at $9.35 per hundredweight
the $9 hog has not. been seen here
since the civil war.
Intense cold impending and the
hesitation of producers to market
li.ogs are the primal causes of the
advance.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Edward Payson Watson, the veter
an pedestrian, announced that he will
make one more transcontinental
walk, and that he will go from ocean
to ocean, this time within 100
days. Watson will start from Los
Angeles at 4 o’clock p. m. Februar.,
1 and wttl be due in New York May
28 His hike from New York to San
Francisco early last summer took
one hundred and live days, but on
that journey he encountered unfa
forable weather.
Declaring that he cannot afford "to
meet every man or woman who de
sired to have a public discussion’
with him on the subject, Thomas E.
i timoa thp nnnulist
Watson, several times tne popunsi
nominee for president of the United
States, in a letter to Atlanta church
men declines to accept their chal
lenge to meet William T. Ellis, a
Philadelphia newspaper man, in joint
debate on the subject of foreign mis
sions. Mr. Watson, however, says
that he will be glad to meet \\ illiam
Jennings Bryan and debate the ques
tion with him. In the letter Mr. Wat
son declares that his position on the
subject is misunderstood. That he is
not opposed to the principle of for
eign missions in its entirety, but is
opposed to the present methods
Professor Hergezell, aviator and
friend of Zeppelin, who was sent by
Emperor William to Jamaica to study
trade winds and the temperature of
altitudes in and near the tropics, re
ports that at an altitude of ten thous
sand meters he found the air of tne
tropics colder than that of the Arc-
■ tic regions at the same height. Ot
■ n’ne balloons sent up with instru
ments for these tests, four were lost
in the Carribbean sea. The professor
■ intimated that he would make an air
: test for an expedition to the north
pole two years hence.
d PMBT IS DISMISSED
n President Removes Head of the
■s Forestry Service.
k
; TAFTS PATIENCE EXHAUSTED
is
*’ Pinchot’s Letter to Senator Dolliver Was
e More Than the President
1- Could Stand.
d Washington, D. C.—Gifford Pinchot,
y chief forester and intimate friend ot
I heodore Roosevelt, was dismissed
?- from the service of the United States
a by President lal't for insubordination.
® Associate Forester Overton W. Brice
d aud Assistant Law Officer. Alexander
s C. Shaw, Pinchot’s immediate assist
ants in the forestry bureau, followed
f their chief out of the government
a einploy.
j Thoroughly indignant over the ac
. tion of Mr. Pinchot in inducing Sena
r tor Dolliver to read a letter from him
- in the senate, President Taft would
f listen to no advice that the foresters
violation of executive orders be over
l looked pending the inquiry soon to
t be undertaken by congress. He de- I
dared ths dignity of the office he had
j been chosen by the people to till was ■
i being attacked and he would be un-1
. faithful to his trust if he submitted I
longer.
, Mr. Taft undoubtedly realizes fully
. what the dismissal of Forester Pin
. chot means in a political way. He
. has been convinced for some time
, that the so-called "insurgents" and
other critics of his administration had
enlisted the services of Mr. Pinchot
and practically were defying him to
separate .Mr. Pinchot from his office.
The latter’s letter, without doubt, was
written with the direct purpose of
“putting it squarely up to the presi
dent."
The president sought to avoid the
threatened war as long as be could
but declared that patience had ceased i
to be a virtue.
In the house of representatives I
Speaker Cannon lost his first fight to i
the "insurgents," who, combining I
with tire democrats caused to be
adopted an amendment to the Ballin
ger-Pinchot inquiry resolution, so as
to take from the speaker the power
to appoint the house members of the
joint special committee of investiga
tion. The margin of victory was a
narrow one of three votes, but the
immrgeuts and democrats alike are
jubilant.
Aft. Gen. Wickersham’s Report.
Washington, D. C.—The report of .
Attorney Gem » Wick< :- liani on his
investigation oXtiio chargi . made by 1
L. R. Glavis against Secretary of
the interior Balliijger wajs transmit-
1 ‘ iyi. -j :
’ a Onipletv Ixoueration
I Mr. A-’k-kersTiant’s feli |w cabinet
i mber iffrto the charges from which
the Ballinger Pinchot row started, but
io chiefly remarkable for its treat
ment* of Glavis, who Is Hayed with a
severity seldom equaled in public doc
jrtift'nts. I'he report also aims a
'shaft, at Chief Forester Pincuot, the
friend aud appointee i* .of Theodore
Roosevelt, (wnotte rhe
affair is declared to have been, an
necessary. 1 1
$1,500,000,000 Involved.
Glavis charged that Secretary Bal
linger aided the government’s foes in
the fight over the Cunningham Alas
kan coal claims, which are generally
believed to be desired by the Gug
genheim interests.
It has been estimated that $1,500,-
000,00 is involved by t.ie precedent
this case will establish, and the case
itself.
Charges Sensational.
The Glavis charges were the most
sensational in the shower ot accusa
tions that uas marked the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy. Glavis was for
merly inspector of the general land
office, and chief of the held division.
He bad in charge the investigation ot
the Cunningham affair, lie was re
moved some time ago by Secretary
Ballinger.
Glavis charged, officially and in in
formal statements and writings, that
certain influences were at work in an
attempt to rush the hearing of the
Cunningham claims case before the
government was ready to adequately
defend its side.
Pinchot Answers Wickersham.
Washington, D. C—The Balllnger-
Pinchot controversy was made doubly
intense by the reading in the senate
of a letter addressed by Mr. Pinchot
to Senator Dolliver, in which the
course was adopted oy L. B. Glavis,
with the assistance of Messrs. Price
and Shaw, of the bureau of forestry,
was warmly approved. In this com
munication the chief forester not only
upheld the criticism ot Secretary Bal
linger, but suggested that the presi
dent himself had been mis'alien in
the facts when he removed from the
public service Mr. Glavis.
In the senate Mr. Pinchot’s letter
caused a genuine sensation.
GHICAtiO FOOD Mfill.
Cold Weather Makes Living Expen- *
sive in Chicago.
C.hicaoo. 111.—if present climatic
unicagu, m. —n piwvui.
conditions continue and prices of food
products make many more gains, the
question of living in Chicago will be [
a problem to many.
Following is a list ot commodities |
which have been most affected by
cold weather and resulting increases
in costs:
Pork chops, per pound, 18 to 20c.
Spare ribs, per pound, 15c.
Salt pork, per pound, 20 to 22c.
Chickens, per pound, 20 to 22c.
Eggs, per dozen, 42 to 48c.
Potatoes, per bushel, 80 to 90c.
Oyster, per gallon, $1.40 to $1.60-
PANAMA CANAL WORK PRAISED.
Senators Say System of Administra
tion is Excellent.
Washington, D. C. Construction
work on the Panama canal is not
only proceeding splendidly, but the
system of administration is excellent,
in spite of the criticism directed to
it. This is the consensus of opinion
of the senatorial committee which re
turned to Washington, alter a visit of
1 inspection to the canal. In the party
were Senators Oliver, Penrose, Car
ter, Dixon, Heyburn and Clark.
NO. 22.
I NEAR BEER BECISION
Penalty For Violation of State
Laws Still in Force.
I OPIONION OF ATR. GEN. HART
s
, No License Can Be Issued to Sell Near
Beer Outside Towns With Lear
Than 2,500 Inhabitants.
II Atlanta, Ga.—According to an opin
-1 ion furnished to Comptroller Gener
al . al W. A. Wright by Attorney General
,T John C. liart, the viola-
• 11 of tm> state laws lating the
. sale of near beer still sticks, and
[ anyone who attempts to run counter
. to them may find himself doing time
1 i for a misdemeanor.
A member of the general assembly
j recently raised the point that inas
; much as the near beer section of the
I general tax act of 1910 carried no
i penalty with it. it would be impossi
| ble for any person to open a near
I beer place at any point in the state
| outside of cities and towns ot 2,500
I inhabitants without subjecting him
self to punishment therefor.
Directly and positively to the con
| trary, asserts Judge Hart. For the
| penalty’ section of the near beer act
of September, 1903, is still in force,
not having been repealed by the near
beer section of the new general tax
act.
Also, Judge Hart holds that no
license Can be issued to sell near
beer outside the limits of incorpor
ated cities or towns of 2,500- inhabi
tants or more according to the fast
census, under any circumstances.
SENATOR tLAF ILL
Enters Atlanta Sanitarium and Will
Take Rest Cure.
Atlanta, Ga—Senator A. S. Clay,
accompanied by his son, came to At
j lanta from his Marietta home and
i went to a sanitarium where he will
> remain for some time for rest and
I treatment.
Senator Clay has been in ill health
for some time, and as he has not re
covered as rapidly as his family and
friends thought he should, they be
came considerably worlred about him.
It is said to be Senator Clay's pur
pose to follow his rest here with, a
course ot treatment at Johns Hop
kins, and temporarily give up ufn la
bors until his health is better esuii;-
lished.
Senator Clay has always been a
: hard worker, and that is belli red ; j
I have much to do with his pres< at
i condition.
His friends believe tl: w-- the
proper rest and treatme’ . c -cov-
1.-’ -Z- .
this earnest hope for I recov-
ery will be everywhere ei led.
jia nni) iih\>
<p<j,uut) LibLAdt.
Increase at Griffin P. Ail Dealers
Out of Bug! ' ss.
Griffin, Ga The Jtjuncil fixed
the license fee at $5,069, and the five
local dealers have refused to renew
licenses.
lh» c .< vI (jjp cit y council was
not unexpected. jj ear p eer deal
ers here have made a r>t h „ „ a >
io have the fee’remain Tnv* *
their efforts were in vain. When
council met it was readily seen that
their minds were made up, and, with
out any discussion, the new license
ordinance was raised to $5,000.
There is talk of establishing a
large saloon, a combine of the pres
ent five saloons. If such is done,
council will again raise the license.
SPLENDID SUNTtRCOUNTYROAD.
Highway From Americus to Plains
Has Been Completed.
Americus, Ga—Sumter county will
so<ju possess a splendid highway to
Andersonville, twelve miles from
Americus. With the completion of
the superb road of twelve miles con
necting Americus and the flourishing
town of Plains, the entire convict
force of a hundred men will be con
centrated upon the Andersonville
road, which will cost the county, per
haps, $20,000.
Tiie road to Plains, just complet
ed and officially opened has been in
process of construction five months
and cost probably $30,000, including
one steel bridge. It is a fine addi
tion to Sumter county's net-work of
magnificent highways, surpassed by
those of no other county in Georgia.
LAmmjjRNED.
Inglehurst, in Twiggs County, De
stroyed by Fire.
Jeffersonville, Fla—-Inglehurst, the
ante-bellum home of the Wimbeilys,
in Twiggs county, has, been burned.
This means the. passing of another
central Georgia noted for
rnffierations tor its unlimited, hospi
tality. It was the ancestral home ot
Minter Wimberly of Macon; Mrs. R.
! O. Campbell,, Miss Clara Wimberly,
- Mrs. Isolene Robbins, of Selma, Ala.,
I and the late Dr. Warren Wimberly.
After toe civil war it was occupied
I by their father, Captain Fred D. Wim
i b'erly. Prior to the war Twiggs coun-
I ty was one of the most aristocratic
I communities in the state and num
! bered among its families the T ravers,
Colquitts. Wimberlys, Slappeys’ Solo
mons, Bunns, Glovers and Faulks. In
fact, it might be said that the coun
ty was owned by these families, each
□f which had its establishment com- .
mensurate with the customs of that
day. ,
Inglehurst was conspicuous archi
tecturally, representing the true co
lonial type.
HOOJFwOaM CONiftREMGE.
To Be Hel* ‘n Atlanta January 13
and 19.
1 Atlanta, Ga.—lt has been decided
to hold the sessions ot the Hookworm
! Conference, conducted under the aus-
J pices of the Atlanta Chamber of Com-
J merce, in the ball room of the New
. Kimball, on January 18 and 19.
t The Rockefeller commission, ap
• pointed under the donation of John
- D. Rockefeller, will be in attendance
upon this conference. The full pro
gram for this interesting meeting has
been outlined.