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-> . . >\i ? '? '-V T 1 " ; ~'i'. V ' "t v. ' SCHEME DISCLOSED \ Bryan Says He Has Lifted Lid of Teddy's Policy. ATTACKS RECENT SPEECH President is Accused of Hankering After Centralization of Power and Proposing National Incorporation of Railroads, Etc. v' > ??. William Jennigs Bryan, in comment> Ing on President Roosevelt's speech, in Lincoln, Neb., Saturuday nigh:, said: "The president has at last disclosed ! his scheme for centralization at which he has hinted in former speeches. In his address he .proposes the national incorporation of railroads and o her corporations engaged in interstate commerce. "Here is the secret. It is cut at last The states are annoying the corporations and the corporations demand federal protection from state legislation. The president thinks that action must be pressing as regards those corporations which, because they are * common carriers, exercise a quasi public function. "The states have been enacting 2cent laws and laws reducing freight .rates, and the railroad managers demand that the/ shall be relieved from further fear of such legislation. The president's ideas make him an easy victim, and he yields to the entreaties of the railroads. "If it was the public he sought to protect he would recommend federal remedies which would not interfere with state remedies, but it is the railroads and not the public that demand the removal of authority to Washington. The democrats can be depended upon to oppose with all their might i this movement toward centralization. If any democrat wavers, his constituents should lock into his business re lotions and see whether he is under | obligations to the railroads. i "A Hamiltonian republican like the president may honorably think that the larther the movement is removed from the people, the better it will be, but a Jeffersonian democrat does not. ."It is very doubtful whether the republican congressmen from the west will dare to support the presidents proposition, but if an attempt is made to put such a measuure through con>; gress the democrats will stand a gcod chance of retiring every western republican who votes for It. Let the democrats present an unbroken front on mis vitai TO SUE CENTRAL DIRECTORY. Bonholders Don't Like the Way They Have Been Treated. Saturday morning the third income & Central railroad bondholders in Sa| vam>i received telegraphic inquit s ^ies from Lazard Frerers. a French firm on Wall street, New York, advising them that the firm would go into court. They proposed to contest in a if legal way the decision of the directors withholding the dividends on the four millions, of third income. This firm called on the Savannah bondholders to know if they could be i assured of their co-operation in such a suit An affirmative answer wa3 sent y at once. TO COVER TREASURY SHORTAGE Grafting Was Done by Pennsylvania Officials, Says Shumaker. Jamss M. Shumaker, former superintendent of nublic buildings and - _ grounds at Harrisburg, Pa., who is implicated by the reports of the capitol investigation commission, has declared he will make a full confession of aLi he knows in connection with the capitol scandal. He claims that the manip(ulation of the funds was engineered by a high official of the state to cover i ' up a shortage in the state treasury. ENGINE CREW MEET DEATH. Ms ' ' *? c\: > Boiler Exploded, Killing the Engineer. Fireman and Brakeman. An engine on the Central railway blew up about 4 o'clock Sunday morn^ ing, near Raccoon, Ga., killing three men. SB? Engineer Will B. Hutchings, Fire man, John Borders ana israiv^uinu Aitliur' Weicher, colored, who were on the engine, were killed. I/; The cause of the explosion is not known. yV' ; EASY JOB FOR ROBBERS, Bank Safe Opened by Some One Who Knew the Combination. Robbers broke into the People's bank at Wiggins, Miss., a small sawmill town, 25 miles south of Hattiesburg, at an early hour Friday morning, and secured $1,400, the entire contents of ; the safe. The safe was apparently ; opened by some one who knew tie : combination. i .f ' v-"v-V:v t'V?: v. , . . \ ' -' ' , .v -v;*^r-' . | ALABAMA STANDING PAT. ! State Will Have Nothing to Do With | Proceedings Before Judge Jones and His Federal Court. Ia a sensational statement made SatJ urday to the United States court for I the middle district cf Alabama, in Montgomery, Jadge Thomas G. Jones Presiding, Attorney General A. M. .Garber said that he did not appear ia answer to the application for a I blanket injunction by the Louisville and Nashville for the reason that the court, in an elaborate opinion, had already given its views of the case, and to make any effort at all would, he felt, be futile. Ke said that this opinion had beer, sent in r.amplilet form all 'over the state, one of them having reached him at his office. The incident arose over the effort of the Louisville and Nashville to have a blanket injunction issued restraining the solicitors and sheriffs of the < state from indicting or prosecuting for violation of laws now restrained by the federal court. Saturday had been set down by Judge Thomas G. Jones . of the federal court for sheriffs and snUeir.ors rn renlv also for the attorney I general to make answer, the state, in ! a sense, having been made a party to I the proceedings. Attornev General Garber said that, % * i in exercising the discretion granted to the attorney general and railroad commission in the summons served upon them, that the attorney general and j the counsel for the state had decided not to appear, and that they had j reached the conclusion because the court had within a day or two after 1 granting the restraining order, issued an elaborate opinion on the case before counsel for the stale had been given an opportunity to argue the questions involved in the case. The attorney general declared that, so far as he knew,; this action b Judge Jones was unprecedented. j Having made his statement, Colonel Garber asked to be excused from further attendance upon the court, which request was granted by Judge Jones, 1 and tlie attorney general immediately 1 left the court room. 1 More time being asked by some of the solicitors, Judge Jones held up 1 the hearing for some days, during 1 which time he extended the order 1 made several days ago, which is in ' itself a restraint. 1 Later in the day Judge Jones as- 1 sured a delegation of railroad men who called on him at his office that 1 they would be protected from indig- ' nities on the part of state officers and if arrested by any of them for failure ' to observe state railroad laws under ' restraint by the federal court parties making arrests will be at once arrest- 1 ed and severely punished. FOUR KILLED; THIRTY INJURED. ] Two Heavily Loaded Excursion ! J Trains Crash Together. Four persons were killed and thirty more or less injured when a westbound ' St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train Saturday and eastbcund pas- ' senger, both loaded heavily with ex- ' cursionists, collided head-on near Sa- 1 puipa, Indian Teritor?. The wreck is said to have been due , to the failure of the dispatcher at Sa- ' pulpa to issue an order to the eastbound train to take the siding at Red Fork. < ERRING GIRL IN BAD PLIGHT. 1 * < Miss Whaley Who Eloped With Parson j Cooke is Heard From. I I Deserted and about to become a mother is the terrible situation of Floretta Whaley, the 17-year-old heiress who eloped last April from Hempstead, L. I., with the Rev. Jere Kencde Cooke, then rector of the exclusive St. George church, to which August Belmont and other rich New Yorkers belong. The whereabouts of Cooke is unknown. 3RYAN IN HIS FOURTH WRECK. Nebraskan is Shaken Up While on His ? Way to Chautauqua. As Wiiliam Jennings Bryan adjusted his necktie and brushed the cin- . ders from his trousers, after emerging from a wreck nsar 3elvidere, 111., "Wednesday, he reflectively murmured, ' four.'* Then drawing his diary, he noted , down the location and the date, with these words: '"Fourth time a wreck . has occurred on my various journeys to speak at the Rockford Chautauqua. . Where is the silver lining?" I . NEW HEAD FOR ASYLUM. Dr. Jones Succeeds Late Dr. Powell of I Georgia State Sanitarium. Dr. M. M. Jones, who has been connected with the institution for a number of years as second assistant phy- f sioian, was elected by the trustees on j Thursday as superintendent of Geor- ^ gia state sanitarium at Milledgsville to succeed the late Dr. T. 0. Powell. | 3 V THE SOLID SOUTH Urged to Climb Into Republican Band Wagon by Taft. IS UNDER BLACK SHADOW War Secretary and Presidential Candidate Opens Republican State Campaign in Kentucky at Lexington. With a discussion of the race problem and of general political issues, and with an appeal to Kentuckians and other southern men to come to the aid of the republican party in support of those principles, which he believed they favored, Secretary of War Taft, Thursday, orened the republican state campaign in Kentucky at Lexington. Calling attention to what he called the south's lack of representation, in the councils of the nation, he declared that this was true "because one single issue lias made it the perpetual tail of the democratic party, so that, however small the northern head it wags th2t tail. X UV3 OV/UHX 1IC4.0 L 1JL1 IWH.U L^C JilUU j ows of ail issue tiiat circumstance ought long ago to have removed from political controversy to bind it solidly to the democratic party, no matter what principles or candidates that party has adopted." He calied attention to the prosperity of Kentucky, its developing industries and agricultural wealth, and expressed the belief that Iventuckians who favored a protective tariff had blindly voted the democratic ticket because of the feeling of the race issue. Then, taking up the race question, he said: "I am not a pessimist with respect to the rac? question. I am convinced that it is .working itself out, and I am convinced that nothing has so much contributed to its gradual solution as the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.'' After mentioning the various means of disfranchising voters, declaring that such laws were proper if applied'with equal fairness to both white and black, tie expressed the hope that the colored citizens, under the leadership of such men as Booker T. Washington, would become respected business men of communities in which they live. The secretary continued: "And when they exercise independence of judgment in respect to political issues we may be sure that gradually the right to vote will be accorded them, and they will exercise a far j more useful influence as intilligent and solid members of the community for the benefit of their race than the ignorant membe.'i of their race would tiave exercised had they been allowed Lg vote. In this way through devious ways, which cannot be justified or approved, we may still reach a result Ihat will square with the requirement af the federal constitution, and will give to the negro every political and economic right, and will confer great benefit upon the colored race. "The negro is necessary to the south as a laborer, skilled and unskilled. Were the negro to be withdrawn from :he south, the difficulties agriculture would labor under can nardly be overstated. The negro is an American, he las no other country than this and :an have no other country than this, md when called upon to dfsnd it lays down his life with the same freelorn that the white man sacrifices his. [t is our duty to see to it that his path is made as easy as we can and :hat his progress is as incessant as proper encourgtment can make it. His aest friends?the one that can do most iOr Him ana me oue in mmv reepevia fvho sympathizes wtih him most?is svho sympathizes with him most?is :he southern white man."' PENSION FUND PROPOSED 3y International Typographical Union for Disabled Members. The Internationa! Typographical Union adjourned at Hot Springs Saturday. What is regarded as the most im portant feature of the entire conven tion was the adoption of a resolutior approving and referring to a referen j dum vote of the subordinate unions J the proposition to levy an as3essmem to provide a 'Pension fund for disabled members over sixty years of age anj who have been members for not leas than twenty years. RAISULI HOLDS HIS OWN. I Bandit Likewise Holds His Captive In j a Contest at Arms. Information lias reached the state iepartmerit at Washington bv cable to th? effect that the bandit Raisuli ias completely defeated the large torce sent against him by the Saltan Df Morocco in an effort to iccure the release of Cuid Sir Henry MacLean. " ' ' Vav,s"r*_*. i v.-.' Vvv'--. * -- ... - - ... . COMPROMISE IsToFFERED By Georgia Railroads Anent Passenger Rates?Ask Two and a Half-Cent Basis on Larger Lines. According to representatives of important interests very close to the railroads, the lines in Georgia will make no fight against the order of the state railroad commission making reduced passenger rates effective September 2d, but will offer a compromise proposition instead, asking for the establishment of a fla: 2 1-2 cent a mile uab 15 UIl tllC lai^cr lamuauo, u uul upon all liDes. This proposition is said to have been studiously considered by practically all the executive officers of the different roads operating in the state. A meeting 'behind closed doors has been held in Atlanta. One of the officials pres- ; ent laconically remarked that the Alabama situation was being discussed. Notwithstanding the report that the Georgia rate reductions were not finally disposed of, it is known that, according to the Present plans, no fight will be made against the reductions. The rumors that have constantly increased in their circulation prescribe tbe following method of proceedure by the railroads: The suggestion that the new commission, which will be organized by the last of the week, revoke the proposed graduated rates ordered by tbe nresent commission, and establish, in stead, a flat 2 1-2-cent a mile scale, { has been made. This scale to be ef- ! fective upoif all the larger railroads, ! including the Central of Georgia, the Southern railway, the Western and Atlantic, the Atlanta and West Point. ! Ihe Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard j | Air Line, the Georgia railroad, the j Georgia Southern and Florida, the | Charleston and Western Carolina, the j Louisville and Nashville and the Ma- j con, Dublin and Savannah. It is not known whether the smaller lines will be a party to the 2 1-2-cent basis or not, but it is possible that they will continue to operate upon a 3-cent or more bases, as theyf could not be affected any more under the compromise scale than the proposed rates of the present commission. Although the Louisville and Nash ville and the Macon, Dublin and Savannah lines are classified at 3 cents a mile, under th? proposed rates effective September 2d, it has been pointed out that owing to their connections with some of the larger roads they will be placed under the 2 1-2-cent a mile basis. The larger roads connected with i these interests, so it is said, will be willing to sacrifice the possibilities of the 3-cent a mile basis so as to place' the roads upon the same footing for i convenience of arranging the tariffs ! as well as the profit of the patrons. Although the Western and Atlantic railroad would be in class "A," the two cents a mil?' class, and the Louisville and Nashville in class "D," at three cents a mile, the Western and Atlantic is virtually a Lcuiaviile and Nashville interest, and under a rate of 2 1-2-cent a mile basis, the Western and Atlantic would b? raised to that; basis and the Louisville.and Nashville lowered a cent a mile. The Macon, Dublin and Savannah would operate under the three-cent a mile scale under the 'proposed rates, but the Seaboard Air Line which operates the M. D. and S., is in class "C" at 2 1-2 cents a. mile, and the Cat basis would place them both under the same tariffs. If the smaller roads are not able to operate under a 2 1-2-cent a mile basis it is not probable that the larger roads will ask for any reduction as the establishment of the compromise rate will nor affect them. The principal rtason that is said to . govern the roads is the alleged discriminations that the rates make when two parallel lines are placed in differ- J ent classes. | CAN SPEND EXTRA MONEY. Rush Work on Canal Will Continue Without Hindrance. A careful examination of the law governing the construction of the Pan. ama canal shows that the president io authorized to grant the request of the isthmian canal commission for permission to create a deffciency cf $_\000,000 during the current fiscal year to meet the requirements of the engineer department for an enlarged scale of operations. I ] EXPLOSION MANGLES SIX. | Boiler of Coal Barge Gave Way,Wreaking Death and Destruction. A boiler on the coal barge Patter- j son, which usually plies betwten New I York and Boston, exploded Friday at J Lang's Decks, in Hoboken, killing the j . engineer and six other men. The . boat had been lying at the Acks sey- eral days and preparations were being j , mads to get unut-r j 1 M&gM &d ) ; * . knew organization" i Of Georgia State Railroad I Commission is Effected. ! NEW MEMBERS SELECTED ' j Callaway of LaGrange 3rd H i I Iyer of , Atlanta Make the Full Quota of Five Members ? McLendon Elected zt Chairman. Georgia's new railroad commission j was completed Monday Uy the appoint- !' inent of two additional members, or- j ganized by the election of a chairman i and other officers, and is now ready ; i , for business. j' Announcement was made during the } morning of the appointment of Fuller j E. Callaway of LaGrange and Judge i George Hillyer of Atlanta as the two j new members of the commission. Mr. Callaway is a well known merchant. banker and cotton mill man of i^aGrange, who has male remarkable success in the business world. Judge Hillyer is a well known Atlanta lawyer, now retired.' Both are able men, ! and will undoubtedly give the people good service on the board. Both Commissioners Callaway and Hillyer were swcrn in by the governor immediately after their apointment were announced by him, and their commissions were issued. The new commission, as reorganized. is composed as follows: Hon. S. G. McLenden of Thomasvills chairman. Mr. McLendon was appointed in place of Commissioner Jo ser;h M Brown, who was susDended by order of the governor. Hon. H. Warner Hill of Greenville. ' Hon. 0. B. Stevens of Cornelia. Hon. Fuller E. C:?.;away of LaGrange. Hon. George Hillyer 01 Atlanta. Judge James K. Rmes of Atlanta, ' attorney. George F. Montgomery of Marietta, secretary. In accordance with the request of Governor Smith a meeting of the new , commission for organization had been called by Secretary Montgomery for neon. The board was called together with , all members present at that hour by , the retiring chairman, tf. Warner Hill. Judge Hines. the attorney to the commission, could not be present, owing to a previous court engagement, but will be with the commission at it3 ^ next meeting. The commission proceeded first to , the election of a chairman. Commissioner McLendon was nominated for fhie hv Commirsinner Stevens and was unanimously elected. Later in the meeting George F. Montgomery, secretary to the board was unanimously re-elected to that portion under the new commission. It was decided to leave th? selection of a stenographer to tiie commission to Chairman McLendvn for the reason that the stenographer will principally serve the chairman, who will be in the , office daily. The selection of a rate expert, as ( provided for in the new act, wa3 left over for the present, but v/ill probably | be taken up at Friday's meeting. While the new commission took no formal action upon any subject at its organization meeting, considerable important work was discussed. . When the new railroad commission got through with its preliminary work . of organization it adjourned until Fri- , day morning. , Subsequently it learned that certain railroads wished to be heard upon the , question of a modification of the pas- , senger rate order passed by the old j I commission to go into effect Septem- j ber 2. In order to accord tJiis hearing, the j commission decided to hold a meeting j Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. A number of railroacs, Particularly the Atlanta and West Point and the Western' and Atlantic, which werj put j in the 2-cent class, and the Georgia j railroad ana the Atlantic Coast Line, ! which were put in the 2 1-4-cent class, I are anxious to have the commission j , modify its order so as to put in a fiat ! * rare of 2 1-2 cents on ai! the principal I j railroad systems of the state. The reason for this request grows i out of a desire for uniformity and. it J , is stated, the 2 1-2-cent roads desire i * the change made for the reason that j at points where they compete with the j roads of the lower rate, they would : ^ have to charge the lower rate also. , ! TO AGREE ON WAGE SCALE. i I - I Mill Owners and Operatives at Fall ^ River Will Hold Conference. I An important meeting of cotton mail- ! 1 ^ Lifacturers and operatives will be held ' j in Fall River, Mass., to endeavor to t settle a difference which has arisen. T Phe operatives demanded a fixed stan- t iard of length cf every piecs of goods c woven as a basis for wages. i c ' i' iv>..v ..i.'.-r-'X'V - i BOTH SIDES WINNERS j From View Point of Both Striking TeU egraphers ar.d Officials of the Two Companies. 3. J. Small, president of the Commercial Union of Telegraphers, arrived . in New York frein the west Sunday. He was met at the station by a large delegation of striking telegraphers. In the afternoon he attended a meeting of the striking telegraphers and made a brief address in which he detailed the general situation, refraining from discussing loc^l conditions. Mr. Small gave out an optimistic statement regarding general strike conditions, in which he said: "We have fully 80 per cent of ail the , M commercial telegraphers in the United States on strike. This applies to small and large cities. Thousands of one-man offices are closed and the keys to the doors are in the possession of city of- J ficials to be turned over to the inspec- tors of the company when they arrive. "We have started to raise a large r fund?two of them, in fact. One of these is for the benefit of the strikers and the other to be expended in favor " o? government control of the telegraph , " lines. Although the call for funds has > only been out a few days, many remit- ,v|| tances were received before I left Chi- ' "Nothing has been published about arbitration but the cry from coaht to * coast is 'no arbitration.'" In the face of the statement by the x y^SH president of the striking union, both rJg the Western Union and the Postal telesraph companies emphasize their declaration that the situation 13 improving .ffaW daily and that, barring a few unimpor- -Jjtant towns, conditions are gradually . j getting better and assuming a normal condition. They announced that they v are handling all the business offered Once more Belvidere Brooks, super- | v| Lntendent of the eastsrn division of ' \ ^ the Western Union, asserts that the strike is over as far as his company "The strikers are whipped to a fin- /|| ish," Brooks said. "If'they do not y know they are whipped they will knodr it soon. We will run our own Job . -: here, without dictation from any one ;^$j| or any union." The telegraph companies are say- . " ing little and improving their service. . The following contract of the Postal Telegraph Company, just issued, is in- , dicative of its policy, and means not only that there will be no union re- y'Jgn cognition, but that even a committee from the ranks of the strikers will not be treated with. -I hereby agree, if given employ merit by the Postal Telegraph-Cable company, to render full and fsdthful f| service at all times refraining from ' ':j ?.l! agitation and interference with the company's business; and I further ;'jj? lgree that I will work carefully and Sj ivell with every operator be he union The foregoing applies to every appli- ' . % :ation for employment in every Postal )ffice in the country. While the Wes;ern nion has not adopted any form )f contract, it is requiring each operitor to make application for work. $ ] DAUGHTER OF DAVIS INSULTED. .\'j?gB Mrs. Hayes Objected to Old ProcUma- ' tion and It Was Taken Down. When Mrs. Margaret Howell Jeffer-~ XJai'os Hanorhtpr of the JsBi ><JU i^ans iia; president of the Confederacy, learned . JS :hat a me'mbsr of the fighting Fifeenth Pennsylvania cavalry, attend- . ng the reunion at Colorado Springs /M lad hung on the walls of the Antlers ' iB lotel a ccpv of the old proclamation jffering a reward of $300,000 for the irrest of her father and othtr Confedirate leaders for alleged complicity 4|j|H n the assassination o? President Lincoln, she immediately raised a protest o General Palm-r. Before her protest V-Jj|l lad been received, however, General B ?almer had heard of the proclamation ;nd ordered that it be taken down, ' CASH FOR CANAL WORK. .jw The President Approves Colonel Goethal's Request. The president has aprpoved Colonel }oethal's request to continue expendiures in excess of the pro rata allowed or the construction of the Panama ca lal for the present fiscal year on ac- -;j| :ount of present necessities and uncreseen developments since the estinates were submitted. Congress will be requested at the text session to make an appropriation . o cover th^ deficiency, which is plac* d at eight millions. TUG GOES TO BOTTOM. Vas Rammed by British Steamer. Five Believed Drowned. j The tug Geory of \.?:imingtoa, Del., vas sunk in a collisich with the Britsh steamer Banstable Monday night in - j hr Pa'.apsie river. Five men are beieved to have lost their lives. Six of he survivors clambered up the side if the steamer by means of the anhor chain.