The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-20
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
ARE THERE PENSION FRAUDS?
LINDSEY THINKS THERE ARE, BUT
HARD TO LOCATE.

Fulton County Grand Jury May
Look Into the Matter of state Pen
sion Payments to Confederate
demonstrating Held in Inter
est of the Movement for "a Gordon
MOnumcnt-HOt Answer Expected
from the Book Commission.
Atlanta, Jan. 9-Commissioner of
Pensions John w. Lindsey denied to-
day that he had asked the grand jury
of Fulton or any other county to in
vestigate the pension rolls of such
county on the ground of extensive
abuses, as was published in an after
noon paper.
The law makes such investigation
the duty of the grand jury. Commits
sioner Lindsey said, but usually they
wait until the last minutes, and the
investigation accomplishes nothing
practical. Commissioner Lindsey said
the Grand Jury Committee had called
on him and he had furnished all in
formation in his power, but he did not
know that it would result in any find
ings. He has no doubt that abuses ex-
list, but it is d difficult matter to To-
cate them.
Commissioner Lindsey will begin to-
morrow paying pensions for 1904. This
week the 1,030 pensioners in Fulton
county VIII be paid, and they will re-
celVe total of more than $4,000.
G. T.. Turner Killed.
Charles e. Turner of this city a
conductor on the Seaboard Air Line,
was killed this morning in a wreck
near lrondale, Ala, by the overturn-
ing of a car. Information as to the
wreck is meager. Mr.. Turner is sur
vived by a wife and one child.
Book Commission VIII Reply.
The State School Book Commission,
at an informal conference to-day, de-
cided to issue statement in reply to
the charges which have been made
and published in certain newspapers
of the state relative to the manner of
letting the contracts for text books
under the uniformity law. The COM
mission will meet tomorrow morning,
when the reply will be formally adopt
ed and given out for publication.
1t is understood the line of it will
! be to show that the commission sim
! ply secured cheaper prices for the
books which have been best recon-
mended than those at which they
were offered in the bidding. Members
| of the commission have been much
stirred up over the charges, and it is
likely the reply will be warm one.
For the Gordon Monument.
! Following the exercises at the Capi-
! tol to-day in honor of the birthday of
! Gen. Robert e. Lee, there was a
| brief meeting, at which a committee
/ of 100 veterans was appointed to take
charge of the preliminary arrange
| ments for raising a fund for a. suit
m LOT TAt-.
| Il. Gordon. Judge w. L.. Calhoun,
formerly president of Soldiers Home,
was made chairman of this commit
tee. He called a meeting for to-mor-
row, at which time central commit.
tee will be selected to take active
! charge of the work. At the meeting
appropriate resolutions were adopted
relating to the death of Gen. Gordon
The orator of the day was Hon. James
l.. Mayson, Atlanta's city attorney.
Paid Reward for Joyner.
Gov Terrell to-day paid a reward
of 800 to Thomas r. Easterling, sher-
iff of Manatee county, Fla, for the
apprehension of H. c. Joyner, who
was convicted of manslaughter in
Wayne county, and sentenced to serve
term of twenty years in the peni-
tentiary.
Presbyterians Meet.
Inc Specldl HTeSDyIeTlan conference
to consider the question Of consolidat-
ing the Columbia Theological Seminary
at Columbia, s. c., and the Southwest
ern Presbyterian University at Clarkes-
vile. Tenn. in a large university in
Atlanta, opened at the Central Pres
byterian Church In this city tonight.
There were present three representa-
tives each from the synods of South
Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Tennessee,
A 1at a nd MfCgicCt
The facts and figures in regard to the
S25S, 900 subscribed in Atlanta toward
the endowment fund of the proposed
university, were laid before the con-
ference by Hoke Smith and s. M. In
man of this city. The conference then
adjourned to attend dinner at the
Kimball House, the discussions to be
resumed tomorrow morning.
MnrHInndera Dine.