The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-26
MANY CONFEDERATE
 SOLDIERS DYING
Georgia Pension Commissioner
 Can Pay All Claims
NEW BUTTON IS ADOPTED
Appropriate Design Selected for the Southern Cotton convention-Other News of ktlanta-charity
 Workers Have Clash.

Atlanta, February 25.-(special l-Pen- sion Commissioner J. W. Lindsey an- nounced today that he expected to com plete the payment of pensions by the latter part of next week, which Is con sideraby earlier than was expected be- cause the pension commissioner was con- fined to sick room for q period of three weeks He stil has nearly s200GO0 on hand to pay out, most of which will be paid through Comptroller General w. A. Wright and Secretary of State Phil Cook, acting as agents for pensioners in several of the counties.
 "I am very much gratiied to be able to state, said Commissioner Lindsey to- day, that the deficit in the pension fund is not going to be anything like the amount 1 had anticipated. When l pre- pared the rolls the latter part of last year, the indications were that with fund of $S60000 there would 3e deficit of about s2h000. And this would have been the case but for the fact that the death rate in many of the counties has been considerably larger than l had ex- pected from past experience.
 Ut is a sad thing, of course, to see the old veterans dying off so rapidly, but 1t Is the one thing that must be.
 This reduction in the deficit will make it possible to pay the pensions of prac- tically all who are on the pension rolls, and I do not think that there will be needed more than 5000 to $5000 more to finish up the wholo list. I don't know just how 1t can be done, but shall see the governor and ascertain if sorae ar engagement cannot be made to get the necessary amount to pay off all claims without waiting for a session of the leg islature to make special appropriation"
 Button Is Adopted.
 The Southern Cotton association has adopted an official button, which will be gotten up and distributed under the dlrec- ton of Dickson Armstrong, a lawyer of Flba. who has formed a company for the purpose. In the center of the button will appear a bale of cotton with tho letters "S. C. Az Above the cotton bale will be this: Tn unity there will be strength" Beneath the cotton bale will appear: ''25 per cent reducticn-we will do it' These buttons will be sold for small price throughout the cotton territory, and 90 per cent of tha receipt for such sales will be paid to the Southern Cotton assooa- tion for running expenses.
 Another Montgomery County Fraud.
 Secretary Of State Phil Cook gave out little story today apropos of fraudulent land grants, which he said he had not gwen to Ine aaperS DelOfe because ne never thought about 1t. Several months ago man came into his office and stat ed that he had come from Los Angeles, | Cal He said he had traded $S000 worth of city property and a sheep ranch with 2000 sheep to a party for a grant to 10,000 acres of land In Montgomery county,
 The California man took the fraudu- lent Georgia grant in good faith, came l to Georgia with his wife and two chill l fo county to seek out his land. There he | found no such land as was mentioned in the grant. He came to Atlanta and found on investigation in Secretary Cooks office that the grant was fraudulent and not worth the paper Ii was written on.
 Getting his belongings together he moved his family back to California and prosecuted the man who had traded him Georgia land he did not own. The cali- fornia courts sent here and had Score tary Cook furnish replies to interroga- tories, and he was offered full expenses to go out there and testify, but he could not do this
 A few days ago Mr. Cook received a letter from the man who was so swim dled stating that the party who perpe- trated the fraud had been convicted and sentenced to ten years Imprisonment.
 Secretary Cook did not preserve the correspondence and could not give the names.
 Hobson Works on Governors. Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, for merly an officer in the United States | navy Is seeking to enlist the interest of | the governors of states in his efforts to | get Congress to make large appropria- tion for the navy.
 Governor Terrell today received a .taa ttn., fas,. | Hobson urging him to use his efforts with the Georgia delegation In Congress to this end. He declared that the stua- tion in the far east emphasizes the great | need for a stronger American navy, and urged the governor to talk for a s6o,000, 900 appropriation. The letter made 1t plain that Captain Hobson is In similar cor | respondence wit, the governors of other | states
 Governor Terrell has always favored a strong navy as a guarantee of peace. Now that the Panama canal Is to he built he thinks the south generally will be more than ever in favor of building up the | navy.
 clash in Charity Organization. There were stirring scenes in the city hall meeting today before the Atlanta Charity association was finally organized and the constitution adopted,
 The trouble was caused by Dr. Len O. | Broughton of the Baptist tabernacle who | sought to secure the adoption of an | amendment to the constitution so as to make the name the Al.anta Christian Charity association, the effect of which | would have been to shut out from par | ticipation the Jews and perhaps also the | Unitarans, Dr. Broughton made a stir ring speech in favor of his amendment, and held that the association should be formed in the name or nim who was | the author of all charity.
 This brought forth several warm re- | sponses from Forrest Adair, Rev. pr. | Marx, the Jewish rabbi, and Rev II. l.. | Crumley, who held that any public char l ity association should be wholly nom sectarian and free from any religious l prejudices. Dr. Marx stated he had been | invited to the meeting on the idea that 1 the association was to be wholly non sectarian, and he was glad to go into | 1t on that basis. He said any such as- sociation which proposed to exclude his people would also have excluded Jesus | Christ himself. Dr. Broughton replied briefly to the criticisms which were made | upon his attitude and when the vote was taken his amendment to the consti- tuition was overwhelmingly defeated. | Only about half dozen voted with Dr. | Broughton. When this action was taken, Dr. Broughton left the hall with evident I indignation, The Jews of Atlanta have | taken most prominent part in charity | work at all times, particularly during the severe weather and in doing so they have disregarded creed, sect and religion. | The constitution was then adopted and | ina assOciation was organized ar.ipipa I.