The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-19
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
SULLY SAYS PLANT COTTON.
FAMOUS BULL NO ADVOCATE OF,
REDUCED ACREAGE.


for Crop of 1I,5OO,OOO Bales.
within IA Year or Two 12,OOO,OOO
Bales Will Scarcely supply 1t.
Payment of Georgia Veterans
Pensions IL to Begin-BOOk Conn
missions Explanation.
Atlanta, Jan. 1S.-Daniel ]. sully.
the millionaire cotton buyer of New
York and New Orleans, passed through
Atlanta to-day en- route to New York.
Mr.. Sully reiterated the statements
made in his recent speech in New Or
leans.
There is a demand now for a crop
of ll,500,0U0 bales" he said, land with
in year or two 100000 bales will
scarcely supply it. The consumers are
now fighting off I4-cent cotton Just as
they were 9-cent cotton two years ago,
but it is bound to come. The South is
the only place where it can be raised,
and the farmers ought to plant it,
Mr.. Sully said he had not. up to the
present time. done anything in the
stock market. but expects to upon his
return to New York. My friends have
urged me to take an interest in the
stock market" he said, land upon my
return l shall take steps to do So
shall acquire seat on the Stock Ex-
! change, and in a quiet way keep
abreast of the situation"
Pensions for Veterans.
The payment of pensions to Confed-
crate Veterans will begin on Wednes-
| day Jan. 20. Three days of this week
| will be devoted to the payment Of the
| l,030 pensioners in Fulton county, aft
| er which the other counties i'm the state
! will be taken up in turn. Chatham
county veterans will be paid early in
| February.
Money for the Teachers.
Gov Terrell to-day signed a treas
my warrant for about S65OOOO for pay
ments to the school teachers of the
| state. state Treasurer Park will make
out the checks tomorrow. and they
will be mailed the following day to the
respective counties.
Arrested for Murder.
j. b. Patterson. young white man,
is under arrest here on a charge of
murder in Habersham county. Pat
terson is charged with having killed
Warner Loudermilk because the latter
sinners, friends of Patterson and it is
said Patterson was given a quart of
whisky as The price of the crime. Pat
terson denies that he committed the
crime, but admits he is wanted for
| moonshining. He will be taken back
| to Habersham for trial.
Gets out of the Legislature.
Gov. Terrell to-day received the
resignation Of j. d. Watson of Nc
Duffie county as member of the
! Legislature. The resignation was ac-
! cepted, and new election will be or
dered Young Watson, who is a son
of Thomas T.. Watson, the author
| gives business reasons as the cause of
his resignation.
Talking of the Charges.
Members of the State School Book
| Commission were busily engaged to-
day in discussing the recent charges.
which have been preferred principally
| by the Augusta Chronicle regarding
! the letting of contracts for uniform
J text books in the public schools of the
( state. Controller General Wright and
at least two other members of the
commission are anxious to make pref
! ty warm reply while the Governor
] does not think any reply is necessary.
! 1t is likely, however, that there will
be a meeting of the commission with
in the next few days and a statement
| issued.
The alleged, undated supplemental
| bid on readers came as result of a
demand made by the commission for
a lower price. The commission rejected
all bids for Third, Fourth and Fifth
readers. except that of the American
| Book Company. This company was
! then asked if it would lower its price
on these readers to figures fixed by the
commission. If 1T did not do so, it was
told it's bid would also be rejected.
The lower price was granted, and the
company was asked to put it i'm writ
ing, which was done. The result was
that the commission secured the books
which it desired for the schools at a
lower rate than that at which they
were offered on the second bidding.
This and other facts will be brought
out in the statement, which will proba-
bly, be made the latter part of this
week.
The Monument to Gordon.
At the conclusion of the exercises to-
morrow at the Capitol, in honor of the
| birthday of Gen. Robert Z. Lee, steps
will be taken looking to the appoint
ment of a general committee to begin
the work of raising fund for a suit
! able memorial to Gen. John B. Cor
don. From this general committee
will be appointed a central commit
| tee, of which it is stated Judge w.
l.. Calhoun, formerly president of the
! Confederate Soldiers Home, will be
chairman. IT is stated steps will be
taken at the coming meeting of the
| General Assembly to have the birth
Gay of Gen. Gordon made state holt
day.
Presbyterian University Plan.
Twenty-one commissioners, repre-
senting seven synOds of the Presbyter-
ian Church, win meet at the Central
Presbyterian Church in Atlanta to-
morrow night to discuss the feasibility
Of moving the Southern Presbyterian
college of GAINESVILLE, Tenn. and the
Columbia Theological seminary at Co
lumbia, s. c., to this city and merg-
ing the two in one university to be
built with the $250,000 already SUBJ
scribed by the people of Atlanta.