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- THE MESSAGE READ
- Only Feature of Second Day's
R, A X .
Session of Congress.
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A LENGTHY DOCUMENT
~ Two Hours and a Quarter Consumed in
Its Reading and Attention
e Was Fairly Well
; i Maintained.
_ The annual message of President
Roosevelt waz read Tuesday in both
houses of congress, and practically no
business was attempted by either par
_ ty beyond listening to the message.
The galleries of the senate ahd the
house were crowded at the beginning
of the session of each body, but as
~ the reading progressed the attendance
diminished somewhat.
; In the main, however, it was well
maintained until the last sentence of
the document had fallen from the lips
. of the official readers. Senators and
members were supplied with printed
copies- of the message and many of
them following the reading clerks with
scupulous care. The reading consumed
about two and a quarter nours in each
of the houses.
The house did not follow up the
. jead of Monday in the matter of in
troduction of many bills, but some
measure were presented. In the sen
ate so far no bills have been intro
duced, but there is scarcely a senator
whose desk is not well covered with
these 'documents. *
~ Speaker Cannon treated the house to
~ a slight surprise in announcing the
membership of the committee on bank
ing and currency. This advance forma
tlon of that committee led to the con
clusion on the part of many that it
~ was his intention to press financial
legislation, but those who are close
to the speakers say that his only
prrpose wa sto afford a depository for
petitions and letters bearing upon the
currency question. |
Poth the house and senate adjournzd
after conclusion of the reading of the
, mesgage. The adjournment was until
Thursday. ‘
Mr. Gore and Mr. Owen, the two gen
tletqgn chosen by primary election to
représent the new state of Oklahoma
in the senate, appeared cn the floor of
the senate and occcupied the seats
set apart for them, for some time, ls
tening to the president’'s message. This
was a plain extension of what is
_ known as senatorial courtesy, inasmuch
" as mneither senator has yet been le
gally elected to serve in the senate.
Before the reading of the president’s
message, Speaker Cannon announced
that he had received a communication
that ordinarily he would refer to a
committee, after the organization of
the house, but he thought it so im
___portant he would have it read at once.
_The paper proved to be a telegram
from the Oklahoma legislature to the
house of representatives:
“Oklahoma’s first state legislature,”
it stated, “just organized by the fond
reality of local self-government, sends
greeting to the sixtieth congress of the
greatest nation on earth and conveys
to her sister states a message of prog
ress and prosperity and loyal devo
tion to the union and the common
good.”
The speaker himself read this mes
" sage in an impressive manner, and as
he concluded the house broke into ap.
plause.
BONANZA FOR SAFE BLOWERS.
Second Robbery in Four Days in South
Carolina Town.*
Safe-crackers blew the safe and
cleaned out the postoffice at Pelzer,
S. C., the big mill town Monday night.
This is the second safe blowing in that
neighborhood within four days. 1t is
not known how much money the gang
got on this occasion, but it is under
stood they cleaned up the office.
GRAHAMS ARE SENTENCED.
Naval Stores Operators Denied New
Trial in Peonage Case.
Thomas and J. B, Graham, prominent
naval stores operators of south Alaba
ma, convicted in the United States
court at Pemsacola, Fla., after trials on
charges of peonage, were denied a new
trial Saturday. ot
Thomas Graham was sentenced to
serve thirteen months in the federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga., and to pay a
fine of SSOO. J. B. Graham was sen
{ence to six months in jail and given
. a fine of SSOO.
JIM CROW CAR BILLS
Introduced in Both Houses of Legisia
-5 ture of Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma legislature did not
Jose time in bringing to light jim crow
bills. A measure of that nature was
introduced in each house Tuesday. In
the house it was the first bill pro
posed in the senate the fourth.
LITIGATION IN ALABAMA
Wil Be Subject of Conference to Be
Held Shortly Between Governor -
Comer and State’s Attorneys.
Argument on the restraining order
issued by Judge Thomas G. Jones at
.Montgomery upon bills filed by the
Louisville and Nashville and allied
lines and made returnable, December
2, has been postponed and attorneys
for the state granted further time.
A conference will be held between
attorneys for the state in the pending
litigation and Governor Comer. At this
conference a day will be determined
upon at which the arguments will be
made.. This will be on some ray be
tween December 15 and 20. Attorney
General Garber, Judge S. D. Weakley
and Horace Stingfellow of counsel for
the state held a conference in Mont
gomery Friday over the pending litiga
tion. After their confefence Attorney
General Garber called on Judge Jones
and asked that the state be given fur
ther time, as it could not properly
make an answer in the short time al
lotted. This was granted and the uu
derstanding was reached that the re
straining order and the hearing of the
supplemental bills would come up for
argument on some day between De
cember 15 and 20.
Governor Comer returned to Mont
gomery Friday night from’ his hunting
trip. He positively declined to dis
cuss the litigation, saying that he had
not communicated with his office and
had not read the newspapers in four
‘days.
When Governor Comer reached the
city he was besieged by reporters. He
said he could not discuss the order of
Judge Jones because he did not know
anything about it. He had been hunt
ing, and had not even read the papers.
Until he could see the attorneys for
the state he could not sty what course
the state would pursue. .
FORAKER TO OPPOSE TAFT.
Ohio Fire-Alarm Senator to Enter Cora
test for the Presidency.
A Washington dispatch says: Sena
tor J. B. Foraker made it clearly
known Friday that he will contest the
Ohio delegation to the republican na
tional convention with Mr. Taft. This
decision is contained in a letter to
Conrad J. Mattern, vice president of
the Ohio Republican League, who for
,warded Mr. Foraker a copy of resolu
tions adopted by the advisory and ex
ecutive committee of the league in
dorsing Mr. Foraker for the senato:-‘
ship and for the presidential nomiua
tion.
Senator Foraker says he is gratifigd
by the indorsement of the committee
at this time, because it is a flat Muke
to the suggestion that the office of
United States senator is not to be strip
ped of all the real honor atiached to
it by making its incumbent a mere
agent to register the decrees of some
body else. On this point Foraker
says:
“I d@o mot want to even appear to be
a candidate for two offices at the
eame fime, and therefore forego the
double honor proposed and with heart
felt appreciation accept the support
for the presidential candidacy which
the committee has so generously ten
dered.”
FOR PUBLISHING RACE TIPS
New Orleans Newspapers May Be In
' dicted by Grand Jury.
Following a crusade started against
racing in New Orleans, Federal Judge
Sanders, in his charge to the United
States grand jury, Friday, called at
-tention to newspapers publishing “tips”
on races, and said that if they were
/paid for it they should be indicted
and prosecuted.
By publishing this matter and send
ing it tkrough the mails, the newspa
'pers are guilty of furthering plaas for
the obtaining of money und:r false pre
tenses, he declared.
SEIiZED GOODS RELEASED.
Tobacco Company Gives Bond for Over
/ Eight Million Cigarettes.
Bond covering their value at $7,272,
having been given for the release of
8,750,000 cigarettes for export to Lon
don and Singapore, seized at New
York, fox;the alleged violation of the
anti-trust laws, the United States mar
ghal is directed by decree of Federal
Judge Waddill received from Rich.
mond, Va., to release the seizures upon
order of the British-American Tobac
co company.
COSTLY BLAZE IN HOUSTON.
Whole Block in Texas City Wiped Out
By Fire.
Early Monday morning fire started
in the block bounded by Main, Fannin,
Congress and Preston streets at Hous:
ton, Texas. The loss is more than a
half million. The firemen had great
difficulty in getting the flames undef
control. Bvery building in the block
was destroyed. e
SIX MONTHS' TRIAL
Os the New Passenger Rates
Must Be Given By Central,
NO INJUNCTION GRANTED
Judge Newman’s Decision in Famous
Case Leaves Matter Still Open.
Governor Cannot Be Made Par
ty to the Suit.
Judge Newmann of the United States
district court, at Atlanta, Saturday
night, filed with Clerk Fuller his de
cree in the petition of the Central of
Georgia railroad against the Georgila
Railroad Commigsion, S. G. McLendon,
H. W. Hill, et al., for an injunction
against the order of the railroad com
mission putting into effect circular
334.
The petiteon is neither denied nor
granted, Judge Newman declaring it
advisable to allow the conditions now
obtaining to continue for six months’
time from September 2, during which
the problem at issue may solve itself
i{o the satisfaction of both parties.
On June 7 last the Georgia railread
commission promulgated circular 334.
That circular provided that local pas
senger rates, then 3 cents a mile,
should be reduced on the Central to
9 1-2 cents a mile, the order to become
effective on September 2, 1907. The
same circular affected other lines than
the Central in the state.
Request to amend the bill by making
the governor and the secretary of the
railroad commigsion parties defendant
caused a fixed hearing to be deferred.
When the case wasg finally submit
ted during the early part of October to
Judge Neéwman, it had been argued
fully and at length by some of the
most distinguished lawyers in the
south. It was then up to Judge New
man to either grant or deny the peti
tion. He did neither. He determined
that time was the essential feature.
Time would determine whether or not
the rate fixed by the commission was
sufficient.
Paying a compliment to the attorneys
on both sides, Judge Newman says that
“the entire case has been argued with
thoroughness and very great ability.
The argument has been worthy of the
very important issues involved.” In
disposing of the amendment making
the governor a party to the suit, Judge
Mewman bages his ruling ‘“upon the
proposition that to do go would make
ythe proceedings a suit against the state
of Georgia in violation of the eleventh
amendment to the constitution of the
United States.” '
In formulating his opinion, Judge
Newman makes frequent reference to
cases more or less similar which have
gone through the federal courts, and
in each reference finds solid endorse
ment for his ruling. &
Judge Newman’s opinion may be
briefly summarized in its essential
points as follows:
1. He holds that the governor cane
not be made a party to the suit.
2. He does not think that the attor
ney general may be made a proper par
ty to the suit, and, so far as he is
concerned, sustains the demurrer of
the state’s counsel.
3. He holds that there is no doubt
that the railroad commission is subject
to injunction in the orders that it may
issue. :
4. The special attorney of the rail
road commission is not a necessary
party to.the suit, but he may be a
proper party to the suit. 4
6. The fact that the commission has
put an order into effect does not pre
vent an injunction being taken against
it.
7. The claim of the roads’ attorneys
that enormous losses would result from
the order remaining in effect is not,
holds the court, well pleaded, bscause,
as the opinion states, this is a mere
conjecture.
8. In this connection Judge Newman
suggests that the only way of determin
ing whether or not the rates are con
fiscatory is by trial, and he sugges.s
six months as a period of time in
which to try the rules. However, he
suggests if on(’ January Ist next the
attorneys vish. to resume a hearing
of their bill foi* a hearing of their bill
for injuncticn ‘he will hear them.
10. In dealjag with the facts alleged
in the case, Judge Newman considers
solely the allegations of the road as
get forth in the bill, and does not un
dertake to decide the facts for him
self, in this opinion.
11. He withholds decision on the
nierits of the case.
THAW TRIAL POSTPONED,
Rotten Case Will Be Aired Again at
New York January 6.
A New York special says the sec
ond trial of Harry K. Thaw on the
charge of killing Stanford White was
postponed Monday until January 6.
The court ordered that a special panel
of 250 talesmen be summoned for the
selection of the jury.
WILKINSON'S VO;HWE_NPF "QAI‘,.._E.A %
GEORGlA—Wilkinson County.
Under and by virtue of a levy made
by J. M. Burke, former sheriff of Wil
kingson county, dated December 11th,
1901, of a superior court fi. fa., in fa
vor of Mrs. Josie Hall vs. R. C. Hall,
I will sell before the court house door
in Irwinton, Wilkinson county, Geor
gla, on the first Tuesday in December
next, the following described land to
wit: y
Five hundred and twelve . (512) acres
of land, more or less, one hundred and
eleven (111) acres of which lie on the
east side of the road leading from
Irwinton to Red Level Church, and
pbounded as follows: On north by lands
of H. A. Hall, east by lands of Dave
Horne and W. A. Hall, south by lands
of Martha Adams and west by lands
formerly owned by Mrs. Jennie Miller;
the remaining four hundred and one
(401) acres of said tract of land lying
on the west side of said road, oun
which is situated the dwelling house,
barn, gin house and three t&mant hous
es® bounded on east by lands of H.
A. Hall, on south by lands formeriy
owned by Mrs. Jennie Miller, on west
by lands of A. J. Knight and on the
north by lands of R. A. Burney, deceas
ed; said tract of five hundred and
twelve (512) aceres lying in the third
‘district of Wilkinson county, Georgia,
'and known as the part of the “L. \A.
iHall" place near Red Level Church,
drawn by R. C. Hall in the division of
the land belonging to the estate of
L. A. Hall, deceased. The foregoing
boundaries given as of the date of said
levy of December 11th, 1901. Levied
on as the property of R. C. Hall, th2
defendant, who has since departed this
life and sold as the property of his
estate to satisfy the aforementioned
fi. fa. This November sth, 1907.
J. L. BYINGTON,
ts Sheriff W. Co., Ga.
GEORGlA—Wilkinson County.
By virtue of an order from the court
of ordinary of said county, will be sold
before the court house door in Irwin
ton on first Tuesday in December, 1907,
during the legal sale hours to the high
est bidder for cash the following real
estate: Two hundred and two and
one-half acres land, more or less,
known as the Alexander Stucky home
place bounded by lands of Joel A.
Smith, J. B. Stucky, Mrs. Winniford
Sheflield and W. W. Smith; said I#d
is in High Hill district, said county,
and is sold as the estate of Alexander
Stucky fcir the purpose of distribution.
R. 3. - STUCKY,
Administrator Estate Alexander
Stucky. if
GEORGlA—Wilkinson County.
A E. Burney, administrator on estate
R. L. McNair, deceased, having filed
his petition for discharge, notice is
hereby given that said petition will be
passed upon by court of ordinary in
said county to be held on first Mon
day in Becember, 1907.
This November 4th, 1907.
ts J. E. BUTLER, Ordinary.
GEORGlA—Wilkinson County. |
By virtue of an order granted by
the ordinary of said county, I will seil
before the court house door in the
town of Irwinton during legal sale
hours to the highest bidder for cash
on the first Tuesday in December next
one dwelling house and lot in the town
of Danville, said county, situated on
the east side of the M. D. & S. rail
road, adjoining the town lots and
known'as the home J. T. Holloway,
Sr. Sold for payment of debts and.
distribution among heirs. |
This November 4th, 1907.
JAS. W. HOLLOWAY, |
Administrator of W. J. Holloway.
GEORGlA—Wilkinson County. .
By virtue of an order granted by
the ordinary of Wilkinson county ?
to the portion owned by Hughes, Ben
nie, Berta, Rosa, Julia and Gladyg Hol
loway, and by virtue of an order grant
ed by the ordinary of Laurens county
as to the portion of Emmett Holloway,
we will sell before the court hous®
door in the town of Irwinton ¢<ring
legal sale hours to the highest Mfider,
for cash, on the first Tuesday in De
cember next, one dwelling house and
" two lots situated in the county of Wil
kinson and in the town of Danville, be
ing the property set apart to the widow
and minors of W. J. Holloway as a
twelve-month support, and being where
they formerly resided. Scld for the
purpose of support, education and main
tenance of said minors.
This November 4th, 1907. ‘
JAMES W. HOLLOWAY, |
Guardian for Hughes, Bennie, Berta,
Rosa and Julia Holloway.
0. L. ANDERSON,
Guardian for Emmett Holloway,
MRS. W. J. HOLLOWAY,
tt Guardian for @ladys Holloway.
GEORGlA—Wilkinson County.
Lucy C. Gilbert, having made appli
cation in due form to me to be ap
pointed permanent administrator upon
the estate of &&. E. Carleton, late of
said county, notice is hereby given
that ’said application will be heard at
the regular term of the court of or
dig\ary for said county to be held
on first Monday in January, 1908.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this December 2, 1907. 1l
ts J. E. BUTLER, Ordinary.
Offers Unexcelled Service @
For rates, routes and schedules or any-other informa
tion, address, -
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g G. R. PETTIT,
Traveling Passenger Agent, Tlacon, Qa.
408 MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GA.
OUR LARGE STOCK OF
Fall and Winter Shoes
HAVE ARRIVED, AND WE ARE BETTER PREPARED TO SUPPLY
YOUR WANTS IN THE SHOE LINE THAN EVER BEFORE. yVE WANT
YCUR TRADE. AND DON’T FORGET
‘s X - 79
We Save You Money
. ON EVERY PAIR YOU BUY.
UNION SAMPLE SHOE STORE.
If You Want Best Returns Send or
1 Ship Your Cotton to
C. B. Willi
. B. Willingham,
MACON, , - . GEORGIA.
R e
406 3rd St. 406 3rd St.
“Removal: Discomnt Sal™
AGloVal- DISCONNL dalg
ON ACCOUNT OF HAVING TO MOVE FROM OUR PRESENT STORE BY
rieeaame s CARNUARY ISBT, QOOB ii i o
WE NOW OFFER TO OUR CUSTOMEg AND THE PU‘BL.lc IN GENE.
RAL TEN PER CENT DISCOUNT ON i* MERCHANDISE IN STOCK
AND TWENTY PER CENT DISCOUNT ON ALL CLOTHING, OVERCOATS
AND PANTS. AFTER JANUARY FIRST, 1908, WE WILL BE FOUND AT
416 AND 418 THIRD STREET.
THIS IS A BONA FIDE OFFER AND WE GUARANTEE PRICES A§ AD
VERTISED.
THE K. B. 60.,
- L. D. STRONG, Mgr.
CORRECT CLOTHIERS.
Pfi' Frames, Pictures, Art Goods,
£ :
Paints, Brushes, Etc.
WE CARRY AT ALL TI‘MES A LARGE LINE OF PICTURES AND FRAMES
~—PRICES RAN(QNG FROM 50c TO $25.00. WE HAVE THE LARGEST
STOCK OF FRAME MOLDING IN THE SOUTH, WE RESFECTFULLY
SOLICIT MAIL ORDERS. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
The W. L. Williams Art Co.,
167 COTTON AVENUE, MACON, GEORGIA.,
f 10-10-07-2-m
The 8. R. P. GD... . .
S HOES
= )
IT MATTERS NOT WHETHER YOU ARE DOING THE ROUGHEST
WORK OR COURTING THE SWEETEST GIRL IN THE SEVEN SBTATES
WE HAVE THE SHOE JUST SUITING THE OCCASION.
RENFROE-ELLIS-PERMENTER COMPANY,
563 CHERRY STREET, CORNER THIRD, . . . . .. . . . MACON, GA.
TN A s Rl e T g e L
Scientific Horseshoeing.
| HAVE OPENED A BLACKSMITH SHOP ON WEST HANCOCK STREET,
OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. | WILL GIVE MY TIME AND ATTEN
TION TO SHOEING HORSES, MULES, ETC. ALL MY WORK GUARAN
TEED AT REASONABLE PRICES. YOURS FOR BUSINESS,
M. C. BRIDGES,
Milledgeville, = = Georgia.
