Irwinton bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 1894-1911, January 29, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XIV. NO. 14. DEFINITE MILITIA POLICY ^liver Acts on Suggestion By National Board. TO increase Its efficiency Recommendations Made By the National Militia Board Are Designed to Help Soldiers. Washington, D. C. —As the repre sentative of the war department, As sistant Secretary Oliver has acted up on a number of recommendations made by the national militia board, designed to inciease the efficiency of the organized militia. The recom mendation for detail of the non-eom missioned officers of the army for duty with the organized militia was approved, conditioned upon the set tlement of the question of the right pay the expense for quarters, heat, ■light, medical attendance and travel ing expenses out of the federal ap propriations for the militia. Approval was give nto the recom । mendatlons for a second series of in fections, with the view to reporting on the organization, armament and discipline (instruction) of the organ ized militia; for a system of corre spondence schools for the militia; ana the issue of horses for militia field artillery, to be charged against fed eral appropriations. 'Mr. Oliver disapproved recommenda tions for the allowance of pay and traveling expenses of officers of the militia engaged in giving instruction in rifle practice, or on continuous duty at rifle ranges, on the ground that such payments are not author ized by law. Adoption of cap and collar insignia to Identify the wearer as a member of the first line of the national forces, etc., was approved, with the proviso, however that the time is not yet ripe for the adoption of such insignia. The ■Recommendation for an allowance for ammunition cases, bandoleers and clips is still under consideration. in its report the national militia board said it regarded as of very great importance the question of the ^adoption of a definite military policy Tor the United States, with particular reference to a complete co-ordination of effort between the regular army and the organized militia, and » com bined organization of the two ^ranch es of the first line of defense. Gen eral Oliver said that this matter is already under consideration by the general staff. The militia board ex pressed its approval of the bill pend ing in congress, providing for an ad dition of 612 officers to the regular army and said that the organized mi litia will make every effort to secure its passage. 12,667,231 BALES GINNED. Census Bureau Report on the Cotton Crop Issued. Washington, D. C.—There were 12,- 667,231 running bales of cotton ginn ed from the growth of 1908 to Jan uary 16 last, against 10,339,651 bales a year ago, according to the census bureau report. The report counts round as half bales and excludes lin ters It includes 232,521 round bales »for 19UO; 188,037 for 1908 and 90,406 sea island bales for 1909, and 80,190 for 1908. The total bales ginned in 1907* up to January 16 was 179,199 bales, representing 93.8 per cent of the crop of that year, and of the 1908 .crop 93.5 per cent was ginned by Jan- r uary 16. , The report shows bales ginned and number of ginneries operated res pectively by states as follows: Alabama, 1,317,266 and 3,477. Arkansas, 931,540 and 2,115. Florida, 68,578 and 254. Georgia, 1,951,740 and 4|458. Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico, 1,787 and 6. Louisiana, 458,723 and 1,696. Mississippi, 1,551,265 and 3,476. Missouri, 55,182 and 78. North Carolina, 661,618 and 2,756. Oklahoma, 612,618 and 984. South Carolina, 1,193,520 and 3,229. Tennessee, 321,677 and 649. Texas, 3,529,426 and 4,148. Virginia, 12,614 and 115. Distribution of sea island cotton for 1908 by states is: Florida, 34,007, Georgia, 43,244; South Carolina, 13,- $ The corrected statistics of the Quantity of cotton ginned this season to January 1, are 12,465,298 bales. AMERICAN^™ * Naval officers in Conflict with the French Police Officers. Marseilles, France. —A party of American officers came into conflict with the police officers and one of the Americans was taken to the police Son, where, it is alleged, after a violent scene, the officer was sub lected to violent treatment. 3 Rear Admiral Wainwright has pro tested to the authorities against the action of the police, and the case will be investigated. Wholesale and Retail DEALERS Jnmntim SulleittL IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GA:, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29,1909. TO SAVE COUNTRY’S RESERVES. Report of the Committee on Conserva tion Sent to Congress. Washington, D. C. —President Roose velt has transmitted to congress the report of the commission of conserv ation of the national resources. He gives it the sweeping designa tion of “the first Inventory of its nat ural resources ever made by any na tion.” Every recommendation Is cor dially indorsed, he stresses the duty of the national posterity and the com mon sense side of the conservatism; and recommends that $50,000 be ap propriated to perpetuate the work of the commission, since the present re port may be viewed as only a tenta tive survey of the nation’s assets. Opening with the declaration that “the duty of man to man, on which the integrity of nations must rest, is no higher than the duty of each gen eration to the next, the report refers to the marvelous mineral, land, for est and water resources of the coun try, and the manner in which they have been prodigally wasted. The awakening of the public to the importance of conservation is viv idly pictured. The report cites present wasteful methods of treating al lour resources, and declares that in their conserva tion “our dual system of government, state and federal, should be brought into harmonious co-operation and col laboration.” MUST POST RATES? Interstate Commerce Commission Modifies Regulations. Washington, D. C. — Regulations were Issued by the interstate com merce commission in modification of the requirements of the act to regu late commerce with respect to ex press companies. The companies are given the option of complying strict ly with the law or accepting the mod ification suggested by the commis sion. The regulations, in brief, require the companies to afford to express shippers every reasonable opportuni ty to know what the tariffs are and to give them facilities through post ing tariffs in the stations and the sup,- plying of files of tariffs by agents that will enable the shippers to know in advance just what any offered shipment may cost. These files must be accessible at all times to shippers so that no misunderstanding may arise over the tariffs. By the terms of the order compliance is required not later than July 1, 1909. A similar order affecting the Pull man company and other sleeping car companies also was issued by the commission^ REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA In Tottering State According to Re ports Received in Washington. Washington, D. C. — President Roosevelt has transmitted to con gress, with his approval, a letter from Secretary of State Root, asking that authority be given for the appoint ment of a commission of three Amer icans to go to Liberia and assist that republic in strengthening its hold on the reins of government. The presi dent, in his endorsement of the prposltlon, asks for an appropriation of $20,000 for the payment of the expenses of the commission. Mr. Root says that the condition of Liberia is really serious. The forty or fifty thousand civilized negroes, mostly descendants of colonists from the United States, find it especially difficult to control the native tribes, Childlabor Conference. Chicago, Ill.—“ Keep the child out of the factory.” This was the con sensus of sentiment at the opening of the fifth annual national child la bor conference? The plight of the poor child who is taken from school to become the support of parents, the unnatural and unhealthful surround ings of a child in the factories of the big cities and in the cotton mills of the south, were all described by so cial workers of national repute, as an argument for more legislative protec tion for children. Didn’t Like “Rebel Tell.” Augusta, Ga.—The Taft banquet here was a grand success. John D. Rockefeller attended and wee hav ing a rare old time until one of the guests proceeded to give the "rebel yell” on any and all occasions. At first the Standard Oil magnate laughed, and then became peevish and glanced ferociously at the man who heeded him not. Japanese Praise Roosevelt. Tokio, Japan. —Japan is singing the praises of President Roosevelt again as a result of his protest against the proposed anti-Japaneses legislation in California. Leading Japaneses be lieve the president’s second interfer ence will bring to an end adverse leg islation and that it never again will be brought up. Robinson Hardware Company. WANT GEORGIA TRADE Jacksonville, Fla., People Are Urging Naval Stores Bill. TOOMER AIDING FLORIDA Taliaferro Bill, It Is Said, Will Divert Naval Stores Traffic From Savannah to Jacksonville. Washington, D. C. —The bill to pro vide for federal inspection of naval stores was urged for adoption by a delegation from Jacksonville, which appeared before a subcommittee of the interstate commerce commission of the house. The Floridians have been in Washington for some time working zealously for the passage of this measure. The Savannah dele gation, which was here to appear at the hearing .before the senate com mittee have gone, but the supporters of the bill remained on the scene, and have continued the fight vigorously. A bill similar to the bill introduced by Senator Taliaferro in the senate was introduced in the house by Mr. Sparkman. Its passage is being urg ed at both ends of the capitol. While on the surface it provides for federal inspection, its real purpose is to di vert from Savannah to Jacksonville the tremendous naval stores products now handled through the Georgia port. The principal speaker at the hear ing was W. M. Toomer of Jackson ville, formerly of Waycross, Ga. The delegation was accompanied by Rep resentative Frank Clark of the Jack sonville district. The greatest interest is being shown in this bill throughout the pine belt, The naval stores industry amounts to nearly $30,090,600 a year. GIANT STEAMERS CRASH. White Star Liner Republic and Ital ian Liner Florida in Collision. New York City.—The palatial ocean steamship Republic of the White Star Line which was In collision witn the Italian liner Florida, off Nantucket, Mass., went down while she was be ing towed to this city. No one was lost. Her passengers had been trans ferred to the steamship Baltic. The Republic was in tow of the rev enue cutter Gresham and the derelict destroyer Seneca, proceeding to New York. On board was Captain Sealby, with a volunteer crew of fifty. The crew was taken off .by the Gresham, which stood by until she sank be neath the waves. The Florida steamed slowly to New York, convoyed by the American liner New York. That there was loss of life attend ing the collision was not known until some time after the accident. The wireless which has had its great trial and proved Its utility, brought the news that Mrs. Eugene Lynch of Bos ton and W. J. Mooney of Langdon, N. D„ had been killed, and Mrs. M. M. Murphy of Grand Forks, N. D., and Eugene Lynch of Boston, injured. It was reported, further, that four mem bers of the Florida’s crew had met death. , The bodies of the dead and injured were transferred to the Baltic. JEFF DAVIS’ BODYGUARD Answers Last Roll Call —Was Pris oner in Washington. Atlanta, Ga. —Robin W. Cauble, a Confederate veteran and one of Pres ident Jefferson Davis, bodyguards, is dead at his home in this city. Mr. Cauble was aged 73 years, and was a native of Charlotte, N. C., where he resided for twenty-five years. Mr. Cauble enlisted with the Con federate army when the war began. He was transferred from the army to the navy yards of the Confeder acy where he was a pattern-maker and’ machinist for two and a half years. Near the close of the war he became one of Jefferson Davis body guards- and, when the president was captured in Irwin county, at the sur render, by the Yankees, Cauble was placed under arrest also, and was taken with President Davis to Wash ington and thrown in prison. He made a fine record as a soldier and did much for the south as a skill ed pattern-maker in the navy yards, and was proud of the honor of being the president’s protector. TAFT HAS SAILED. President-Elect Leaves ot; t ie Cruiser North Carolina. Charleston, S. C—After a round of entertainments by ■ his friends in Charleston, President-elect Taft sail ed from this port on the United States cruiser North Carolina for the Isthmus of Panama. Mr. Taft had no statement to make regarding the conferences which he held here with Senator Philander C. Knox and Frank H. Hitchcock, both of whom arrived here, in response to telegrams from Mt. Taft, requesting them to meet him in Charleston. UNCLE SAM’S PAY ROLL Expenses for Next Year Will Break All Former Recorde. Washington, D. C. — When Uncie Sam cast up his accounts preparato ry to stock-taking after the holidays and began business for the year 19v9 he found that he had a most expen. sive establishment in the three branches of his government —execu- tive, legislative and judicial. Some idea of what the people will be called upon to expend during the year may be had from the bill making appropriation for the three brancu es of the government that have just been named. For the compensation of the sena tors of the United States there wul be required for the next year $690,- | 600, and for mileage they will also receive an additional $47,660, not in cluding any of its various officers »n any way. Capitol police will cost the people $77,956, while they are preserving the lives of senators and representatives. To pay the members of the house of representatives for their services there must be expended a total of $2,986,666, and for mileage they will receive an additional $154,666. Just now the president is receiving $56,666 a year for his services, and his official family is an expensive one to maintain, and is made up as follows: One secretary, $6,606; two assistant secretaries $3,606 each; two executive clerks, one at $4,666 and one at 4,566; sixteen clerks and door keepers, at $36,606; nine messengers, a chief steward, to look after the gas tronomical wants of the president’s family, watchmen, laborers, etc., cost ing approximately $16,606. In addition to this the president’s stable comes in for an extra appropri ation if needed, as well as the execu tive library, and for these purposes an additional $25,666 that the nation’s lawmakers have provided sometimes come in handy. After the wants of the legislative branch of our big government ma chinery are provided for and the ex ecutive taken care of, it must not be forgotten that there is still anoth ery and very important division —the United States supreme court. In or der that the chief justice and his eight associates, who are called upon to decide the big legal questions of the day may be properly considered in a financial way the lawmakers put them down at $13,666 and $12,506 a year, respectively. Then there are 29 circuit courts, the judges of which receive $7,666 each: 84 district courts with a salary of $6,666 for each of the judges; the district court for Ha waii, $5,666. These are just a few of the biggest items in Uncle Sam’s expense account from year to year, which may be said to be fixed charges, Inasmuch as no account is taken of the various ap propriations that may- be made by congress from time to time —for in stance as a $56,066,666 river and har bor bill, or an $86,066,666 public building bill or similar measures In addition to this t^ere are all the big cabinet places, the head of which receive $12,666 a year for their serv ices, their assistants $5,606, and so on down the line. LOCATED BY A TEAPOT. How American Consulate at Messina Was Found. Washington, D. C. —It was by a battered teapot, the property of Mrs. Cheney, wife of the American consul 1 at Messina, at the time of the recent ! earthquake, both of whom lost their lives, that Stuart K. Lupton, vice con sul at Messina, succeeded, on the morning of the catastrophe, in fixing ! the location of the American consul- i In a letter to the state department, Mr. Lupton says that immediately af ter the terrible shock he started for (the consulate. j “X had not proceeded more than aO 'yards when I found myself walking jin water up to my knees in a place (where it should have been eight feet above the water level,” he says. “At I the place where I supposed the con ■ sulate to be there was nothing but a heap of ruins, iron beams, splmter -led wood, bricks and stone in hapless confusion. I was not sure of the i spot and climbed over the ruins to see if I could find anything familiar, i Finally I came across a battered tea (pot which I recognized as the prop ! ertv of Mrs. Cheney, and, remember 'ing the spot where it had stood, was able to get my bearings.” 75 BABIESIiIV^AHY. Foundlings From New York Distrib uted in New Orleans. New Orleans, La. —A carload of babies was distributed in New Or leans The precious freight came from the New York Foundling and Orphan asylum. Scores of foster pa rents were waiting at the station to claim the little ones for whom they had previously applied. MODEL LIQUOR LICENSE Asks for Regulation But Not Pro hibition of Whiskey. WHAT MAYOR ROSE THINKS Denounces Intemperance, the Saloon Loafer and the Unprincipled Keeper of Dives. Louisville, Ky. — Denunciation of prohibition as insincere and fallaci ous gave way to a taking of the sense of the delegates to the second annual convention of the National Model License League upon the ques tion of regulating properly ths liquor trade of the country. This eensus resulted in the approval of one of the strongest sets of resolutions along the line of self-government advanced by tradesmen of any particular in the United States. The resolutions were adopted with great enthusiasm by the several hun dred delegates from all parts of the United States who are attending the convention. The principal address of the day was delivered by Mayor David A. Rose of Milwaukee. In introducing him, President Gilmore of the league caus ed something of a sensation by stat ing that among the men who had been invited to the convention were many ministers, all of whom endors ed tne purposes and methods of the league, but said they were afraid to come as they might be misunder stood. “We will consede absolutely,” said Mr. Rose, “that if prohibition in fact prohibits; if it operates to promote ; the well-being of the people; if in i truth it is elevating to society and ( is beneficial to humanity, then prac tical considerations should be set aside. Whatever the result to vest ed interests might be, whatever loss it might produce, all should be sac rificed in the interest of the general welfare, just as the buildings may be blown up or razed to prevent the spread of the conflagration. But, if the opposite of these is true, then not only should prohibition be re fused as an ethical proposition, but questions of investment of capital, business profits, employment of labor, consumption and markets for farm products, municipal, state and federal revenue and the many other elements so inseparably connected with them, should weigh in the balance in favor of the other remedy. “But we cannot reject prohibition as the remedy unless we can offer something better, and with the think ing, the query- is, What shall it be ? "My experience as the official head of a'city of 466,666 inhabitants for ten years’ as well as my observation of the conduct of other large cities, wet and dry, and the study and in vestigation I have prosecuted to gain the fullest information upon the sub ject, teaches me to begin to believe that regulation is the remedy. The following rules were suggest ed by Mayor Rose: “License should never be granted to an unworthy person. "License should never be granted to keepers of illegal places or to per sons who could permit open or secret gambling. , , “Minors should be excluded from sa loons, and sales to minors should be prohibited. “Habitual drunkards should be de nied.” . ~ He also said that loungers should not be allowed in a saloon. LEGILATORJDICfED. immune from Arrest Under South Carolina Laws. Columbia, S. C. —Granted immunity from arrest by the constitution of the state during the sessions of the leg islature except on charges of felony or breach of the peace, Joshua W. Ashley, prominent as a member of the lower house, who was indicted by the federal grand jury, in session here, on a peonage charge, continues to occupy his seat in the house. Mi. Ashley savs he is not worried in the least by the action of the grand jury, attributing the indictment to spite work of some of his enemies. Mr Ashlev is perhaps the most wealthy member of the lower house, and District Attorney Cochrane says he is not in the least apprehensive that he will attempt to evade arrest. FREeTrEsHhECKSARY. Senator Tillman Alarmed at Possibil ity of Success in Libel Cases. Washington, D. C.— Declaring that -no patriot can contemplate, without areat alarm, the possibility of the president’s success” in the Panama libel cases, now being investigated by the grand jury in this city ana iii New York, Senator Tillman of South Carolina, in a statement, sound ed a strong note of warning on tne question of the freedom ot the Amer ican press. SI.OO a Year. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. The receivers of the Seaboard Air Line railroad in Norfolk, have awarded contracts for rolling stock aggregating about $966,666. The Chinese harbor boat Samstul fired two shots at the British steam er Chenpo for fouling a wood raft. This angered Captain Lewington, of the Chenpo, who, arming himself with a revolver, bearded the Samstul in a small boat, arrested the com manding officer and turned him over to the captain of the British gun boat Robin. The occurrence is now ■being investigated by the captain of the Robin and the British consul. A serious “no rent” campaign has begun in Tipperary, Ireland, owing to the refusal of the landlords of sev eral estates to sell land to the ten ants under the land purchase act of 1963. The judge, in issuing decrees against thirty-six recalcitrant tenants, said that the landlord was making a mistake in not selling the lands, as it would involve all the old troubles of evictions and martyrdom to ten ants. The priests and the public gen erally are supporting the tenants strongly and are raising funds for their defense. The struggle promises to be severe. In an effort to stem the increasing number of ^“affinities and make mar tial infidelity a thing to be shunned by both husbands and wives,” Sena tor Dennis J. Harte of New York is to introduce a bill in the state legis lature providing a twenty-year pen alty for such offense. An increase in the number of moonshine whiskey stills destroyed in Alabama, Florida and Georgia dur ing the past six months, as compared with any previous six mbaths, was reported by the United States inter nal revenue department at Atlanta, Ga. Three hundred and ninety-seven illicit stills were destroyed in the three states and about two thousand gallons of whiskey seized. Eighty per cent of the stills destroyed were in Georgia. New York will furnish the bath tub to be used by President-elect Taft on his trip to Panama. It was made especially to accommodate Mr. Taft. Efforts were rqade to secure the tub in Norfolk, Va., but there w’as none to be had of the required capac ity and New York was appealed to. The tub is to be installed on the cruiser North Carolina. Washington. The collection and publication by the director of the census of statis tics of stock of baled cotton in the United States, to be summarized as November 1, December 1, January 1 and March 1, in addition to the cot ton reports, is proposed in a joint resolution presented in the house by Representative Lever of «outh Caro lina. Lydia Kamekaha Liliuokalanl, former queen of the Hawaiian Is lands, who is in Washington making an appeal to congress for compensa tion for the crown lands which she lost when the islands were annexed to the United States, said in an in terview that although fifteen years had passed since she yielded her au thority over the kingdom to avert bloodshed, she yet believes congress will make some reparation for her great financial loss. General James Allen, chief signal officer of the United States army; Major George O. Squire and Lieuten ant Lahn appeared before the sub committee on ordnance and fortifica tions. General Allen has asked for $566,666 with which to carry on the aeronautic branch of the signal corps service. The erection of a monument in Washington to the memory of Abra ham Lincoln is recommended in a resolution introduced by Senator Dick of Ohio. The monument it is provided, shall “be worthy of his great fame, his service to humanity and to his country and fittingly com memorate the grandeur of character, the nobility of life and epoch-making career.” The Italian relief fund of the Amer ican Red Cross Society has passed the $906,666 mark. In reporting the naval appropria tion bill to the house the committee on naval affairs fixed the amount needed for the maintenance of the naval service during the fiscal year 1910 at $135,662,888, as compared with the $122,662,485, the present ap propriation. A remonstrance against a further increase of the United States navy signed by two hundred and twenty four clergymen of various denomina tions in Boston, Mass., was received bv congress. It is the belief of the ministers that naval preparations have grown so enormously as to be come a distressing burden upon the richest nations and an actual me nace to the peace of the world. DUBLIN, GEORGIA.