The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-04
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
REP. MADDOX WILL RETIRE.
HIS HEALTH PREVENTS HIS Of
FERING FOR CONGRESS AGAIN.

His Physicians Have Warned Judge
Maddox That He should Seek
some More EquabIe Climate Than
Washington-He Leaves the Race
In the seventh to Gordon Lee.
North Carolina Bond Decision
Does Not Render Georgia officials
Uneasy az to Georgia Bonds I'm
Question.
Atlanta, Feb. 3.-Judge ]. w.
Maddox, congressman from the Seventh
district, gave out card to-day
while in Atlanta on the way to his
home at Rome, announcing his re-
tirement from the race to succeed
himself.
Judge Maddox states in his card
that his health is such that it will
be impossible for him to continue to
devote the time and attention neces-
sary, not alone to the race, but to his
congressional duties. He has suf-
fered severly from neuralgia
and rheumatism and his physi-
clans have warned him that
unless he sought more equable
climate than Washington he could not
expect to live much longer. Judge
Maddox says under the circumstances
his duty to his family and himself
demands that he shall not remain in
the race. He announced last spring
that he would run. and he issues this
card now to let the voters of the
hu a has
changed his mind regarding the mat
ter.
Judge Maddox will have served II
years in Congress with the expiration
of his present term. His retirement
leaves Senator Gordon Lee of the
Forty-fourth district the prominent
candidate in the race and it seems the
only one as yet 1t is stated, however,
that there will be others.
Not Uneasy About Georgia bonds
State officials are not in the least I'M
easy as the result of the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in
the case of South Dakota against North
Carolina, in which it is held that one
state holding the bonds of another may
sue and recover on them. 1t has been
suggested that some such step might
be taken with regard to the repudiated
Georgia bonds held by Henry Clews
and others. While these bonds were
repudated, Georgia did not repudiate
debt, because the bonds were not only
fraudulent, but the conditions upon
which they were issued, one of them
being the building of the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad, were never COM
piled with. Controller General Wright
says this fact alone would have invali
dated these bonds in any court, if it
had not already been done by the Leg
islature and the constitutional conven-
tion of 1877.
Speaking of the decision, Gov. Terrell
said to-day:
Judging from the report of the de-
cision in the press, dispatch, l do not
think it will in any way affect Geor-
gia. The question in the North Caro-
lima case was not purely a question of
state sovereignty. There the state was
part owner of a railroad and the bonds
involved in the suit were secured by
mortgage upon the railroad. In addi-
ton to this point, IL seems the bonds in
question were never repudiated by the
state. but an offer of compromise was
made which was accepted by most of
the holders of the bonds. In the case
of Georgia bonds the question of state
sovereignty pure and simple is pre-
scented, strengthened by the fact that
the bonds were repudiated and pro-
nounced illegal and null and void be-
cause of fraud in the issuance of same"
McGIashan TO Gather Information.
At meeting of the roster commits
sion held to-day in the Office of Gov.
Terrell it was decided to have the
agents already named make thor
ough canvass of several counties of
the state for the purpose of gathering
all the information possible regarding
those who enlisted for service from
those counties in the Civil War Gen.
p. A. McGlashan has been appointed
for this purpose in Chatham county.
and blank rosters will be sent him at
once.
Hon. M. A. Hardin. who has been
working on the state rosters, has
found skeleton records at the Capitol
OF sixty regiments of infantry. eight
troops of cavalry, three batteries of
artillery and five regiments of state re-
serves. He found no records of any
Georgia militia, and the records of six
infantry regiments, six cavalry troops
and eight batteries of artillery are stiu
lacking.
A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES