The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-23
PLAN ALL WRONG
RAILROAD COMMISSION WANTS TO
ARBITRATE VALUES
so AS TO GET UNIFORMITY.
A FIXED COMMISSION SHOULD
REPRESENT THE STATE.

Suggestions Along the Line of VAL
untion of Corporation Property
for Tax Returns Made by the
Railroad Commission in Its An
nuaI RepOrt-State officials Do Not
Regard North Georgia Cabbage
Worms as Such Monsters.
Atlanta, Oct. 22.-The Railroad Com
mission, in its annual report, just made
to Gov. Terrell, offers some interesting
suggestions with reference to the arbi-
tration of corporation tax returns. 1t
is readily recalled with what difficulties
the arbitrations recently held were sur
rounded.
The commission says under the pres
ent system, where a different arbitra-
ton board is appointed in each case,
it is impossible to secure uniformity in
taxation, which is required under the
constitution 1 is suggested that in
the event the General Assembly desires
TO retain the services of the members
or the commission in these arbitrations,
each case be referred to that body as
a whole for determination. The report
| advances the idea that there should be
some fixed commission which should
handle all of these cases. In no other
way, 1t is declared, can uniformity be
had.
Cabbage Worms Not Deadly.
The report from Gainesville of the
| existence of a cabbage snake or worm.
which has caused widespread destruc-
| tiOD of tha "a bla ua ,ro,, 90 .......z
| the vegetable so that deaths have re-
suited from eating it, caused no little
comment at the Department or Agri-
culture to-day. State Chemist ]. NJ.
McChandless SAYS the report that he
had examined the worm and pro-
nounced it poisonous is unfounded and
untrue. The matter has never been
referred to him in any shape.
One of the worms was sent to the
! department and was turned over to
State Entomologist Newell He pro-
nounced it an EEL worm" or hair
| worm, parasite similar in character
| to the tape worm 1t might act as a
| parasite in the stomach, he said, but
there was no reason to presume that it
| could in any way cause death.
| Specimens of the insect have been
sent to Washington for Investigation
and analysis. In the meantime the
people of North Georgia have scratch
| ed cabbage off their bill of fare, and
even Atlantans have ceased to eat the
| vegetable. The story has at least pro-
duced a considerable scare.
Convict Murders Another.
| The Prison Commissioner has re-
| ceived a report of the murder of Hen
| ry Tucker, convict, in the camp of
| the Canda Lumber Company, in
| Worth county, by Ned Jack Fergu-
son, life convict in the same camp,
on the night of Oct. 90. Tucker was
| stabbed with a knife by Ferguson and
died almost Immediately.
There appeared to have been no
| reasonable motive for the killing, and
the coroners jury declared it murder.
| Tucker was serving a fifteen-year SEN
| tence for horse stealing, having been
sentenced in Sumter county last year.
Ferguson is serving a life sentence for
murder from Talbot county. He will
be tried for murder in Worth county
| Superior Court.
This is the second murder that has
occurred in the penitentiary within the
last year. Less than year ago Char
lie Phillips, a life convict, killed an
other convict named Davis, in the
Dade county camp. Phillips was
hanged.
Reauisition Granted.
Gov Terrell to-day granted the
requisition from South Carolina for
w. C. Williams of Augusta, wanted in
that state for bigamy. AS Williams is
wanted on a felony charge, the Gov
ernor declined to hold him in Georgia
for trial for a misdemeanor.