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YHIBTY-BEVENTH TEAM
GAVELS FALL AT NOON TODAY
AND SIXTY FOURTH CONGRESS
HAS BEGUN ON LONG GRINDS
The Democratic Majority Made
Champ Clark’s Election in The
House Certain
DEMOCRATS MUSTER 229
IN THE LOWER BRANCH
Familiar Faces Are Gone From The
Senate While Well Known
Characters Come In
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.—Con
gress re-assembled at noon today.
They soon adjourned and sent a com
mittee to notify President Wilson.
Speaker Champ Clark was re-elect
ed. The senate re-elected Senator
Clarke, of Arkansas, as president pro
tempore.
Tuesday President Wilson will de
liver his address at a joint session.
The session is expected to be historic.
WASHINGTON, D .C., Dec. Con
gress is in session again after a nine
months’ recess. Both houses reas
sembled today, marking the beginning
of the Sixty-fourth Congress.
Much important business faces t he
members. Since the gavels last fell
in the two houses, many momentous
Questions have arisen. Overshadow
ing all others, are tnose caused by the
European war, but they do not com
pose the entire program. In addition
to the questions of national defense
and revenues, which fall naturally un
der the general head of preparedness,
the merchant marine and rural cred
its legislation promise to command
much attention. Many investigations,
centering mainly about war problems
are to be inaugurated, and an inter
esting fight will ensue in the senate
over the proposed cloture rule.
The first business before the house
today was the election of a speaker.
South Trimble, the clerk, called the
tody to order. Members then pro
ceeded to the election of the speaker.
The democratic majority made the re
election of Champ Clark, of Missouri,
» foregone conclusion. Representa
tive Mann, of Illinois, the republican
candidate for speaker, was the choice
of the republicans for their leader.
Democrats Number 229.
Two hundred and twenty-nine demo
crats, 197 republicans, 6 progressives,
1 socialist, 1 independent, and a va
cancy compose the new house. The
dozen or more republicans of the "old
guard” who went down in defeat three
years ago only to be returned to the
lower house over democratic oppon
ents last fall, formed an interesting
group. Joseph G. Cannon, former
speaker of the house, and now well
on toward 80 years of age, stood out
prominently. If he finishes his pres
ent term in congress, he will have
served forty years in that body, eight
years as speaker. Other republicans
who remained at home during the last
congress to re-appear today were
Nicholas Longworth, of Ohio; Wil
liam B. McKinley, W. A. Rodenberg,
William W. Wilson, George E. Moss,
Jchn A. Sterling and Charles E. Ful
ler, of Illinois; Ebeneezer Hill, o f
Connecticut; Cyrus A. Sulloway, of
New Hampshire, and Benjamin F.
Focht, of Pennsylvania; Meyer Lon
don, the first socialist elected to con
gress from New York, attracted much
attention.
Senate proceedings always are more
quiet than those in the house. As
striking as the return of old faces to
the house was the absence of famil
iar countenances in the senate.
Familiar Faces Gone.
Senators Root, of New York; Bur-
tt, of Ohio; Bristow, of Kansas;
Crawford, of South Dakota; Perkins,
of California, and Stephenson, of Wis
consin, were missing from the repub
lican side, emocratic ranks missed
Thornton, of Louisiana; White, of
Alabama, and Camden, of Kentucky.
The first business was swearing in the
ned senators. Most of them already
are well known in political circles.
Among the republicans cam Jeames
W. Wadsworth, of New York, succes
sor to Root, who attracted attention
as the youthful speaker of the New
York assembly; Charles Curtis, of
Kansas, who succeeds Bristow, and
Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, who
succeeds Burton.
Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama,
former minority leader of the house,
led the new democrats. Other demo
crats who took the oath were James
D. Phelan, of California; J. C. W.
Beckham, of Kentucky; Robert F.
Broussard, of Louisiana; Edwin S.
Johnson, of South Dakota, and Paul
C. Hustings, of Wisconsin. The sen
ate now stands: Democrats, 56; re
publicans 40.
Tomorrow shortly after noon the
house and senate will sit in joint ses
sion in the hall of the house to hear
President Wilson deliver his annual
address.
Crisp en Preparedness.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6—On
the topic of preparedness, Congress
man Charles. R. Crisp, of the Third
Georgia district, made a statement to
newspaper men here. He said:
"I am pursuing a watchful waiting
attitude in regard to increasing the
army and navy. I favor a reasonable
increase in the navy, that will make it
adequate for protection. I also be
lieve in having a splendidly trained
personnel in the army, and what may
be considered ample provisions in
munitions and equipment. We can
put an army in the field in sixty o r
ninety days, if. we have the officers to
train them and the material to supply
them. But you cannot increase the
navy very materially inside of two or
three years.”
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Dr. John F. Anderson.
Because Uncle Sam does not pay
salaries sufficient to hold able scien
tists he is losing them like the many
naval officers who have gone to muni
tion plants. This is Dr. John F. An
derson ,late director of the hygienic
labratory of the public health Serv
in e. There he received a salary of
$4,500.
One of the largest chemical con
cerns in the United States, which has
its main plant at New Brunswick, N.
J., wanted him, and an offer of $25,000
a year was made. He could not re
sist, so he has left the service of the
United States.
MUTINOUS CHINA
CREW DISAPPEAR
WITH LOSS LIFE
SHANGHAI, Dec. 6. —The mutinous
crew of the Chinese cruiser Chao-Ho
abandoned the vessel after it was
bombarded and set it afire.
Rebel bands who attacked the arse
nal at midnight were repulsed, and
the authorities appear io have com
plete control. Three of the mutineers
were killed, five were wounded.
Thirty or forty rebels attacked the
police station, armed with rifles and
bombs. Three bombs exploded, one
policeman was killed and three were
wounded. Regular troops appeared
and the rebels disappeared.
It was learned today that the crew
of the cruiser did not mutiny, but
were overpowered by forty rebels who
boarded the cruiser from a launch,
which put out from foreign conces
sions yesterday afternoon. They cov
ered the crew with revolvers, and
forced them to open fire on other war
ships and the arsenal.
The officer threw the keys to the
six and four-inch gun magazines over
board. making it impossible to use the
heavier guns.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 6, 1915
DREAM IT HOTEL
111 AMERICUS IS
I SIH REALITY
With the vivid recollection of a
dream which he had in Americus Sat
urday night while sleeping at the Ho-
I tel Windsor uppermost in their minds,
111. A. Jones and A. V. Jones, of tA
■ lanta, two brothers, sped out of
Americus Sunday morning, only to
have the dream made a tragic reality
at a point two miles from Pelham.
H. A. Jones was killed instantly
when the large Haynes automobile
he was driving collided with a calf,
turned turtle and caught on fire. *
A. V. Jones stated after the accident
that at th e Windsor hotel in Ameri
cus, where he and his brother spent
Saturday night, he had a dream that
his brother would be killed today in
his machine. So clear was this dream,
be said, that he could distinguish his
brothers’ body as it lay under the
w reck of a car. He was so disturbed
lie warned his brother against speed
ing, though he little thought that his
premonition would be actually ful
filled.
The two young men, each driving a
Haynes car, axrlved in Americus
Saturday night, and their fast driving
about the city was the reason for
cases to be made against ♦hem by the
police for speeding. They were fined
$7.50 each, and upon payment left the
city Sunday morning, only to have one
of th 6 brothers come to his death in
the horrible accident.
Story of Accident.
PELHAM, Ga., Dec. 6.—H. A. Jones,
age 22, of Atlanta, was instantly kill
ed two miles north of here Sunday
when the large Haynes car he was
driving hit a calf, turned turtle and
then was consumed in a huge fire.
A burst of speed in order to over
take a machine a mile ahead beng
diiven by his brother, is believed to
have been the direct cause of Jones’
death.
Jones was a brother of Ernest
Jones, an assistant mechanic on the
staff of the Haynes companj’ branch
office in Atlanta. He was not an at- '
tache of the concern, but went with I
bis brother to drive one of two ma
chines being sent to Thomasville.
A few miles from the spot where
he met his death, according to advices
from the coroner, the brother outsped
the man who w r as killed, and was at
least a mile ahead of him when the
brother undertook to overtake him.
The machine, colliding with an ani- ■
mal, turned turtle, pinning the driver J
underneath.
WEATHER REPORT. *
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CITIZENS MEET
ON LAST CALL IN
RIILHDID PUN
J. S. Morion, secretary of the Geor-I
gia Lumber company, who is build- (
ing the new railroad from Flint river
to Hawknsville, Ga., was in Americus
fl is morning and had a conference
with Secretary-Manager Hyman rela
tive to the new railroad that his firm
«
is building.
Mr. Morton gave the Sheffield Com
pany a chance to bid upon 10,000
pounds of bolts to be used on the
bridge over the Flint river. He stated
that he preferred to give all this busi
ness to Americus merchants, if it was
possible to do so.
The committee on this railroad, com
posed of Crawford Wheatley, Frank P.
Harrold, Geo. R. Ellis, Neon Buchan
an, W. M. Jones, Lee G. Council, J.
Elmore Poole, John W. Shiver, Frank
Lanier and Frank Cheffield, have been
notified to meet Mr. Morton at the
Chamber of Commerce tonight at 8
o’clock.
At this meeting Mr. Morton will
treat with the committee for the last
time, and stated this morning that he
would not come to Americus again,
unless something tangible is done at
tonight’s meeting. He also stated that
his people were going right along with
the work, and that he had placed his
engineers on th e Sumter county side
of the river, in the 28th district this
morning, and that they would go ac
tively to work surveying the right-of
way out three miles from the river
and stop. The timbers for the bridge
are nearly all completed, and as soon
as they are ready, the bridge will be
built at once.
It is hoped the full membership of
the committee will meet promptly at
8 p. m. at the Chamber of Commerce
and that something definite will be
done to give Americus this new roa.i.
BANKERS MEE TFOR
TALKS ON
NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 6.—The
Cotton States Bankers’ conference.
opened here today and will continue
through tomorrow. The problems
confronting the body are the planting,
itorlng, marketing and financing of
the cotton crop.
About two hundred bankers are
here from the various Southern
states. The organization of a perma
nent association will be undertaken.
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EMPTY STOCKING FUND IS
6ROWIN6. BUI HAVE YOU
6IVEN TO THE CAUSE?
Upward the Empty Stocking Fund
5s going.
But have you helped it along
Is it your thoughtuflness and your
money which is assisting in the great
work during this glad season?
If it is not, drop by and add tg
the Empty Stocking Fun 1.
The Associated Charities have made I
many homes merry during this sea- :
son of the year, and every cent added .
to the fund helps the poor—not the
Associated Charities nor this paper.
FRANCE HAVE ND
PEACE UNTIL THE
LOST RETURNED
PARIS, Dee. 6. —France will not
make peace until Alsace and Lor
raine are won, Belgium and Serbia re
stored and “German imperialism and
Prussian militarism are put beyond
the posßOffrility of resurrection.” Al
bert, under secretary of war, said yes
terday
The declaraltion attracted wide
spread attention ,as it is one of the
first statements from a responsible
cabinet official concerning the atti
tude of the government regarding
peace.
1917 Class at Colors.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 6. —An imperial
ukase has been Issued ordering the
enrollment of the class of 1917 in
1916.
Report From London.
LONDON, Dec. 6. — is yet n >
solution of the Balkan problem.
Russians have not yet left their ow n
territory.
Rumania is still wavering.
The Greek situation is undeveloped.
Latest reports from Athens say that
both the Entente Powers and the
Greek government are holding their
ground, neither being willing to give
in to the other.
An official Athens communication
says that the Greek press does not
represent the views of the Hellenic
gevernment.
Premier Skouloudis again conferred
with King Constantine yesterday. The
.king afterwards received the French
minister.
Bulgaria announces further Serbian
1 i-.rsuit through Albanian territory.
The retreat there is said to have as
sumed the character of precipitate
fight along the Belini-Drini river to
wards Scutari.
Farther north the Austrians report
that the Montenegrins are fighting on
their frontier and have been repulsed
after violent fighting.
GERMANS CHARGED
WITH MURDER NOW
NEW YORK, Dec. 6 —Five additional
indictments were returned against
Robert Fay, Walter Scholz, Max Brei
tling. Dr. Robert Kienzel, Engelbert
Bronkhorst, Paul Daeche, all charged
with conspiracy to commit murder,
commit assault with deadly weapons,
to destroy ships. The previous in
dictments merely charged them witli
attempting to destroy ships.
Christmas is almost here.
The ladies of the Associated Chari
ties wish to provide for this money as
soon as possible.
So drop by and give your sura to the
fund.
Previously subscribed $9.00
tittle Lucius 2.00
Sara Barnett 2'l
Mildred Emily Barnett 10
Mrs. Albert Brady 1.00
Total $12.35
CIXY
OVER BILLION IS
ASKED TO KEEP 0.
S. FORGE GOING
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.—Esti
mates for the most elaborate program
of expenditures ever asked of an
American congress in times of peace
were submitted togay, proposing a to
tal outlay of $1,285,857,808, or $l7O,- .
853,614 more than was appropriated
last year. The great Increase is al
most wholly due to the administration
plans for military preparedness. More
than $116,000,000 of the total is for
direct expenditures on the army and
ravy, with millions more to be used
in coast defense and other fortifica
tion work. By establishments, the
amounts asked were:
Legislature 7,573,372
Executive 30,807,505
Judicial 1,368,500
Agriculture 24,159,089
Foreign Intercourse.. 5,426,699
Military .... .... 152,354,259
Naval 211,518,074
Indian Affairs 10,175,036
Pensions 160,565,000
Panama Canal 27,535,469
Public Works 104,644,689
Postal Service 316,364,879
Miscellaneous 98,290,563
Permanent Appropria
tions 135,074,673
The postal service is deductible
from tlie total, because its receipts are
turned back to the treasury. That
leaves $969,492, 929 as the actual to
tal of appropriations congress is ask
ed to make, or $167,853,401 more than
| lust year.
Not a single establishment of the
government has asked for less than
was given last year. Many requests
wcr e made for increases because of
c'evelopments of the war in Europe.
Tlie state department asked for
many increases, including $142,000 for
I additional clerical force in the de
pt, rtment; $25,000 additional for the
salaries of charges de affairs, and $25,-
000 for transportation and subsist
ence, and $200,000 instead of the $75,-
000 asked before, to enable the presi
dent to meet unforeseen emergencies
arising in the dimpomatic and consu
lar service.
A large item in the treasury de
partment's increases is $2,200,000 for
collecting the income tax, an increase
of $1,000,000 over last year, which
among other things, will be used to
hire 485 deputy collectors at $1,600
per year, compared with 127 collectors
in 1915. The department wants $50.-
C'Oo to enforce the cotton futures ac’.
The department of commerce aske 1
for manj- increases for gathering in
formation at home and abroad on
commerce, industry and manufacture.
Among the items included are $250,-
000 to promite and develop the com
riercial interests of the United States
and SIOO,OOO to be devoted to the
same ends with particular reference
to South and Central America. For
commercial attaches abroad $225,000
instead of SIOO,OOO was asked; and
SIOO,OOO was asked in place of $50,000
to investigate the cost of production
ai d distribution of all articles which
are or may bg made the subject of ta
riff legislation, with special reference
to the prices paid domestic and for
eign markets, affecting the American
products, “together with all fasts that
may be necessary in fixing import du
ties or aiding officers of the govern
ment in the administration of its cus
toms laws.” Tlie same department
asked $50,000 to use in collecting sta
tistics of internal commerce, and SSO.
000 to investigate foreign markets for
agricultural, mineral and forest prod
ucts. An echo of the Eastland steam
ship disaster is heard in a request for
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